mramsey1
Dec 23, 20031 min
Church of the Customer: Understanding customer evangelist behavior
Your customer evangelists are typically Internet junkies, too. Putting your best foot forward online is essential to winning the hearts and minds of frequent-forwarders.
That’s among the findings of recent work by Washingtonpost.com and RoperASW, which tracks the 10% of the population that shapes the attitudes and behaviors of the other 90%. Roper calls them “influentials.”
Other findings include:
* 77% of influentials have Internet access, compared to 50% of the general population.
* 67% of online influentials are asked for or forward advice and information about products and services.
* Online influentials who forward advice about product and services do so to an average of 5-20 people.
In a B-to-B study, researchers found that:
* 77% of business decision makers recommended the Internet as the best place to discover new products or companies.