Industry Analysis: The First Step to
Profile Your Customers

What Industrial Analysis is and How it Helps Businesses Target Customers

There are three main components of industry analysis: general industry attractiveness, core elements that determine a business’s success within the industry, and the prime industry forces at work. This acumen is the trampoline from which companies can leap into better marketing strategies for their customers.

• Past Trends Analyzing historical industry trends provides insights about previously successful trends and how these trends became successful. This supports current and future strategy development based on the successful results of past accomplishments,strategies, and business cycles of organizations within the same industry.
• Supply and Demand Mechanics Analyzing supply and demand offers insights into price-quantity curves and market equilibrium, factors that can help companies better respond to changes in demand.
• Cultural Trends Determining the industry impacts of cultural patterns and shifts, such as sustainable products and services, or customized experiences, can have huge effects on buying and selling in different parts of the world, and influence global brand perception.
• Competitor Insights Learning what your competitors are doing, who their customer base is, how they are spending, and reacting to changes in industry and market environments, is key to understanding competitive industry scenarios and gaining an edge.
• Future Industry Outlook Predicting future industry outcomes based on historical data and accurate analysis of markets per industry influences marketing strategies in the coming years and helps companies anticipate likely challenges.

Industry Analysis Supports Precise Customer Profiling to Close the Gaps

Industrial analysis closes knowledge gaps with insight into exactly how industry conditions impact your ability to provide value to customers, which starts your journey towards accurate customer profiling.

• Purchasing Behaviors Understanding how customers feel about options they have when purchasing products or services, customer shopping patterns, and what determines their influences.
• Industry Demographics Identifying industry-specific demographics of your consumer base, such as age or location, offers insight into specific populations, which helps businesses identify and market to the needs of particular communities.
• Targeted Interests Gaining knowledge about what your customers want to buy and why they want to buy it, gives you the upper hand in focusing on highly specified interests for increased sales opportunities, like niche product experiences.
• Socioeconomic This includes consumer income, education, or job, all contributing factors in helping to further profile customers and create appropriate pricing models and advertising campaigns.

How to Conduct Industry Analysis to Realign Marketing Campaigns Through Customer Profiling

Conducting an effective industry analysis enables businesses to assess their position compared to other industry participants and use key differences to realign their marketing campaigns to their advantage through customer profiling.

• Identify Industry Start with a correct identification of sector, industry, sub-industries, and market segments within specific industries. There may be subtle differences in these classifications, but they can have major implications on a company’s ability to develop lucrative marketing strategies.
• Examine Demand-Supply These are primary governing factors within a market, and it’s crucial to examine demand-supply scenarios for specific industries through analysis of historical trends and forecasting of future perspectives. This can generate pricing structures development, or customer attracting marketing strategies.
• Examine Competitive Scenarios Next is examining entry barriers, supplier position, substitution threats, buyer position, and rivalry. This aids in discovering your company’s industry position, strengths and weaknesses, and what aspects of your products or services need adjustment to better compete in the industry and market.
• Identify Recent Developments The next step is analyzing macro-level industry developments, including recent industry innovations, sector valuations, and global comparative valuations. This helps pinpoint factors like whether value is outperforming growth in your industry, which impacts product development strategies.
• Examine Industry Dynamics Next is analyzing industry dynamics: how your industry has evolved over time, and the drivers behind this. This is extremely varied depending on industry; certain industries have fast product turnovers versus high degrees of capital expenditure.
• Correlating Key Factors With all of this information, you can understand, and correlate key factors related to customers. Such as building strategies for retaining valuable customers, adapting offerings to customer needs, attracting new customers, and perpetuating value propositions.

Specialized Industry Analysis

Research Optimus (ROP) is a market research and competitor analysis service specialist that offers industry analysis as a specialized service, applying predictive analytic capabilities to help companies forecast industry growth direction and gain market advantage. Businesses that need to reposition their marketing objectives to generate customer value turn to us for data-backed insights that drive strategy development.