Who’s behind this site?

This ecommerce blog is lovingly brought to you by Linda Bustos and Jason Billingsley of Elastic Path Software: The ecommerce software that helps retailers sell more and work less.

Need advice? Contact Us or Visit Elastic Path »

Get New Posts Delivered to You
I Know I Should Be A/B Testing
But…
  • Free Webinar with Bryan Eisenberg,
    FutureNow, Inc.
  • September 11th 2008 - 9am PT
  • Sign Up to Attend! (limited space)

Using Buzzillions to Brainstorm Personas

To follow up on yesterday’s post on using customer reviews to improve product descriptions, which recommends you use Buzzillions‘ Review Snapshot feature to scan the pros, cons and best uses of products as reported by customers…

Buzzillions has another cool feature you can use to brainstorm customer personas.

Simply navigate to a product category that you carry, and check out the “See Reviews From These Types of Users” box.

Examples:

Golf

Retail Store Supplies

GPS Devices

To get inside your persona’s head, you can scan reviews and pick out the ones written by type of customer (unfortunately you can’t just view reviews by customer type once you click through, rather you see all the reviews):

You can then apply your customer insight to product pages, email campaigns, buyer guides and other marketing activities.

*Want more information on personas? Check out FutureNow’s GrokDotCom and the Invesp blog, or check out our webinars 7 Simple Ways to Improve Your Holiday Conversion Rate and Jon Stewart or Oprah: What’s Your Website Personality?

Like This Article?

Get New Posts Delivered to You

Comments

  1. June 6th, 2008

    Once again, great tip! Where does this seemingly infinite supply of knowledge come from? :)

Leave a comment

Sites linking to this article

  1. “Using Buzzillions to Brainstorm Personas” on June 13, 2008