Latest / What is Business Development? / Episode 114: How to Attract 5 Types of Consumers
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- 0:03Speaker 1: Welcome to the Business Development Podcast, brought to you by
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- 0:20Speaker 2: Hello BD pros, and welcome to the Global Business Development
- 0:25Speaker 2: Association podcast called What is Business Development? Now? Let me
- 0:31Speaker 2: ask you. Have you ever felt deep in your gut
- 0:33Speaker 2: that people should be choosing you, but for some invisible
- 0:37Speaker 2: reason they don't. Well, we're going to talk about that
- 0:41Speaker 2: today with our guest, author of a fantastic book I'm reading,
- 0:45Speaker 2: and he's going to walk us through how we can
- 0:49Speaker 2: get into a position where people choose us. Now, if
- 0:54Speaker 2: you want people to choose you for your next business
- 0:59Speaker 2: development role, then maybe give some thought to getting this book,
- 1:03Speaker 2: the Business Development Body of Knowledge, And this book is
- 1:07Speaker 2: available on Amazon and you can read the book and
- 1:11Speaker 2: then take the Business Development Professional Certification exam at the
- 1:17Speaker 2: Business Development Association website that's Gbdassociation dot org. Okay, so
- 1:25Speaker 2: let's talk a little bit about this book today. This
- 1:28Speaker 2: is It's five Types of Consumers, Who they are and
- 1:33Speaker 2: how to attract them by Ralph Carrasco. And Ralph's going
- 1:37Speaker 2: to be joining us today. But let me tell you
- 1:39Speaker 2: a little bit about what the book is about. Now,
- 1:43Speaker 2: there are five types of consumers who can quietly control
- 1:47Speaker 2: every yes, no, and maybe before you ever open your mouth.
- 1:52Speaker 2: And once you see them, everything starts to change fast.
- 1:55Speaker 2: Your message finally lands like a missile instead of a
- 1:58Speaker 2: background noise or online present, and starts pulling in folks
- 2:02Speaker 2: instead of pushing people away. Your confidence skyrockets because you're
- 2:05Speaker 2: no longer guessing your ideal. Consumers start choosing you automatically,
- 2:11Speaker 2: even over cheaper, faster options. Wow, well that sounds like
- 2:14Speaker 2: a lot. And we're going to talk to our guest
- 2:18Speaker 2: author today, Ralph Carrasco. He's the founder and a consumer
- 2:23Speaker 2: psychology strategist, the first one we've had on the show,
- 2:27Speaker 2: but he's our second Navy veteran, so it's always great
- 2:30Speaker 2: to have a sailor back on the call. And Ralph
- 2:35Speaker 2: has a long history of helping luxury brands treat them
- 2:39Speaker 2: like assets and treat consumers instead of transactional, just treat
- 2:45Speaker 2: them the best way possible. And his consumer psychology firm
- 2:51Speaker 2: partners with premium brands to transform passive buyers into active advocates. Well,
- 2:56Speaker 2: we always like to talk about turning our process and
- 3:00Speaker 2: customers into active activists and advocates for it. Because as
- 3:06Speaker 2: we define business development, the textbook definition that you will
- 3:11Speaker 2: find in the Business Development Body of Knowledge is business
- 3:15Speaker 2: development is customer and community advocacy that creates corporate growth. So,
- 3:21Speaker 2: Ralph Carrasco, welcome to the show. Let's talk about how
- 3:24Speaker 2: we can build some advocates for our brand.
- 3:28Speaker 3: Thank you, Tony. I appreciate you having me on and
- 3:31Speaker 3: I've been looking forward to this interview for quite a
- 3:34Speaker 3: while now.
- 3:36Speaker 2: Yeah, well, Ralph, so I mean, let me ask you
- 3:38Speaker 2: the question I always ask other folks that join on
- 3:40Speaker 2: the call. How did you enter this fascinating field of
- 3:44Speaker 2: consumer psychology and business development?
- 3:46Speaker 3: Writ large, candidly, shortest answer necessity. So my foundation in
- 3:56Speaker 3: business development was candidly structured during my time in the
- 4:02Speaker 3: US military. I found that, you know, under pressure, you
- 4:09Speaker 3: have to be able to act quickly and decisively in
- 4:14Speaker 3: order to accomplish the mission. From there, there's multiple variables
- 4:20Speaker 3: that go into it. You know, First and foremost, I
- 4:24Speaker 3: tell every new individual entering the military that eighty five
- 4:29Speaker 3: percent of success is showing up on time with the clean,
- 4:34Speaker 3: crisp uniform. From that point, when I exited in twenty ten,
- 4:42Speaker 3: I actually purchased a franchise, and so from that point
- 4:48Speaker 3: I felt as though that it was important to really
- 4:52Speaker 3: develop skills for veterans' active duty my counterparts to help
- 5:00Speaker 3: really cut the learning curve. So I've since twenty ten,
- 5:04Speaker 3: sixteen years ago, I've really been on a journey to
- 5:09Speaker 3: do that votary working with nonprofits, other business leaders in
- 5:16Speaker 3: the community in which I'm in. It's been really interesting
- 5:20Speaker 3: to see how business development on a relationship basis is
- 5:26Speaker 3: so much more powerful than, as you just mentioned, being
- 5:29Speaker 3: just a transaction situation. And this is what is the
- 5:35Speaker 3: foundation of the book Five Types of Consumers for me,
- 5:39Speaker 3: because you know, when decisions are clear, execution is just
- 5:45Speaker 3: that much faster.
- 5:48Speaker 2: Yeah, it is. And thank you for kind of walking
- 5:51Speaker 2: us through that origin story your service in the Navy,
- 5:55Speaker 2: and thank you for your service, by the.
- 5:56Speaker 3: Way, welcome. I appreciate. I appreciate that.
- 6:01Speaker 2: And you know what's great is you continue that journey
- 6:05Speaker 2: of service service to business developers that are out there
- 6:10Speaker 2: to help them learn, whether they're entrepreneurs or whether they're
- 6:13Speaker 2: actually in a business development role, to succeed with the
- 6:18Speaker 2: information that you've created. So let's talk about your book here,
- 6:21Speaker 2: and let's start with the number one tactic from your book,
- 6:24Speaker 2: the key takeaway that you want people to understand.
- 6:29Speaker 3: So for me, when I was done with my franchise
- 6:36Speaker 3: contract in twenty seventeen, I became a consultant and had
- 6:40Speaker 3: been working through and insight of that world with law
- 6:45Speaker 3: firms as you mentioned, luxury brands, auto dealerships, service businesses.
- 6:50Speaker 3: And then in twenty twenty one, I got my real
- 6:53Speaker 3: estate salesperson's license. From that point I used it to
- 6:57Speaker 3: help people buy and sell businesses. The number one thing
- 7:02Speaker 3: that I found is that when businesses have poor digital
- 7:09Speaker 3: structure or poor online materials, for someone to look at
- 7:16Speaker 3: the sale of the business or the buyer looking to
- 7:19Speaker 3: purchase a business took that much longer because they don't
- 7:22Speaker 3: know how to develop that stuff necessarily. And so what
- 7:27Speaker 3: we would do is we would actually work with them
- 7:31Speaker 3: ahead of time before entering market, or when they were
- 7:34Speaker 3: ready to enter the market, we would structure quickly to
- 7:38Speaker 3: help capture some revenue and then from that point help
- 7:42Speaker 3: a new buyer come into the fold. Because the biggest
- 7:46Speaker 3: thing is is you have to diagnose who the buyer
- 7:50Speaker 3: is before engagement. Everyone just wants to throw everything at
- 7:56Speaker 3: the wall. Right, you have people saying post one hundred
- 8:00Speaker 3: times a day, do fifteen tiktoks and Instagram reels and
- 8:05Speaker 3: all of this, and all of that, but the biggest,
- 8:09Speaker 3: the biggest thing that I always bring to people's attention.
- 8:13Speaker 3: Those videos are great. Yes, they create engagement, but if
- 8:17Speaker 3: your digital property right, the places that people look at
- 8:21Speaker 3: your business first, if that is not an alignment, you
- 8:26Speaker 3: just waste it all your time.
- 8:27Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, you know it's important that. And we've had
- 8:31Speaker 2: so many guests come on the show and they start
- 8:34Speaker 2: off with this as their number one tactic. Identify your
- 8:38Speaker 2: ideal customer profile. Who are they, what do they think,
- 8:43Speaker 2: what do they need? Where do they congregate? Where are
- 8:47Speaker 2: they online? And I like what you're saying. It's take
- 8:52Speaker 2: an assessment of who your customer is and then identify
- 8:56Speaker 2: those digital properties where they are, where are they consuming content?
- 9:01Speaker 2: You know, if you are in a you know, business
- 9:04Speaker 2: to business type demographic, then it's probably something like LinkedIn
- 9:10Speaker 2: or some other channel. It's probably not on some other
- 9:14Speaker 2: channels that may be more consumer retail oriented. So that's
- 9:19Speaker 2: a that's a very powerful lesson. So tactic number one,
- 9:22Speaker 2: identify your ICP and the digital properties, the digital environments
- 9:27Speaker 2: where they hang out.
- 9:28Speaker 3: Is that right, yes, sir?
- 9:30Speaker 2: Okay, great, let's jump into tactic and key takeaway number
- 9:34Speaker 2: two from your book, Ralph.
- 9:36Speaker 3: So the thing that I really identified was as a whole,
- 9:41Speaker 3: I look at you know, marketing or business development as
- 9:45Speaker 3: like a mountain, and so from that point, at the
- 9:49Speaker 3: base layer, the foundation, you have to make sure that
- 9:53Speaker 3: everything is in alignment for that sequence. How many times
- 9:58Speaker 3: have you gone to go to a business, especially on
- 10:01Speaker 3: a holiday weekend, and you think, oh, they're open, but
- 10:05Speaker 3: yet they're closed, and you're mad and frustrated because you
- 10:08Speaker 3: spent that time driving there, you ended up, you know,
- 10:13Speaker 3: getting jazzed up thinking in your head what you were
- 10:15Speaker 3: going to order, and from that point you just assumed
- 10:19Speaker 3: that they were open because they took hold of that information.
- 10:25Speaker 3: It is so powerful to ensure that you are making
- 10:30Speaker 3: those foundational pivot points for consumers as smooth as possible,
- 10:37Speaker 3: because if there is any friction, that is how you
- 10:40Speaker 3: start getting those negative reviews or people frustrated with you,
- 10:45Speaker 3: to the point that you could spend I mean decades
- 10:50Speaker 3: working with somebody and if all of a sudden they
- 10:53Speaker 3: need you or they want you at a key specific
- 10:55Speaker 3: time and they think that you're open and you're not,
- 10:58Speaker 3: and then that creates that friction and then all of
- 11:02Speaker 3: a sudden that turns into them not calling you or worse,
- 11:06Speaker 3: leaving a negative review. And the biggest part of that
- 11:11Speaker 3: is Tony. Less than five percent of people actually describe
- 11:15Speaker 3: their experience about a business online, and that is why
- 11:20Speaker 3: it is so important to ensure that those items are
- 11:23Speaker 3: dialed in, because the last thing you want is someone
- 11:27Speaker 3: just to go on you know, your Google or your
- 11:32Speaker 3: Yelp or other site and leave a one star and
- 11:37Speaker 3: something along the lines of they should update their hours
- 11:41Speaker 3: of operation because they're closed today, just because they're mad
- 11:44Speaker 3: and they're emotional, not you know, discounting everything that you've
- 11:48Speaker 3: done for all of those years.
- 11:51Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, Ralph, people talk so much about
- 11:54Speaker 2: customer experience, but what we're talking about here is the
- 11:56Speaker 2: prospect experience. Yes, customer experience is absolutely critical. I'm not
- 12:00Speaker 2: trying to diminish that, but the prospect experience is also critical.
- 12:05Speaker 2: And actually studies have shown that the prospect experience has
- 12:09Speaker 2: more to do with customer retention. Retention this means they've
- 12:12Speaker 2: already become You've already converted them, They've become a customer.
- 12:16Speaker 2: This is yours down the road. How you made them
- 12:18Speaker 2: feel in the initial phases of the customer journey during
- 12:24Speaker 2: the activation phase, between the time that marketing caught their
- 12:28Speaker 2: attention to the time that they were converted into a
- 12:31Speaker 2: client in the conversion phase. That activation phase is more
- 12:35Speaker 2: important in their decision process to stay with your company
- 12:39Speaker 2: later on. And so I really like how you emphasize
- 12:41Speaker 2: the fact that you have to really smooth out that
- 12:44Speaker 2: entire prospecting prospect development process during the activation phase. And folks,
- 12:51Speaker 2: Ralph and I were joking together as two former sailors
- 12:54Speaker 2: about how in the Navy we were so process oriented.
- 12:58Speaker 2: We have checklists for pretty much everything. And so walking
- 13:02Speaker 2: through the process, put yourself in the shoes of your prospect.
- 13:06Speaker 2: Have that empathy to say, Okay, how are they feeling
- 13:09Speaker 2: at this point? Is there too much friction? Can we
- 13:12Speaker 2: eliminate some of that friction? What can we do to
- 13:15Speaker 2: make it so easy? Where is that easy button in
- 13:17Speaker 2: the prospecting process? Okay, Ralph, that's a super powerful uh
- 13:23Speaker 2: takeaway from your book? What's number three?
- 13:26Speaker 3: So with all of that, and to your point. I
- 13:30Speaker 3: really emphasize and focus on engineering that trust before that
- 13:38Speaker 3: conversion point because many times where business is and especially
- 13:45Speaker 3: local business, I am a huge advocate for local business
- 13:50Speaker 3: nationally in America and globally around the world because the
- 13:55Speaker 3: biggest elephant in the room is Google. It is a
- 13:59Speaker 3: globe behemoth and if your business is not listed on
- 14:04Speaker 3: Google around the world, you're lost everywhere from the Middle
- 14:11Speaker 3: East to Hong Kong, Tokyo, Sydney, Kuala Lumpur. It is
- 14:17Speaker 3: important that your Google profile is dialed in and that
- 14:22Speaker 3: is why everything must be engineered, just like in the military,
- 14:28Speaker 3: by engineering your success, by taking a concentrate role on
- 14:35Speaker 3: what does your logo look like, is it memorable, what
- 14:38Speaker 3: are your brand colors? What is the vibe that you
- 14:41Speaker 3: give off? How do you engage with the consumer? Because
- 14:48Speaker 3: business owners, right and Tony, you know the statistics about
- 14:53Speaker 3: the failure rate of businesses, and the biggest component is
- 14:58Speaker 3: you'll know you'll have somebody save up two hundred and
- 15:01Speaker 3: fifty thousand, five hundred thousand dollars to open or launch
- 15:05Speaker 3: a business, and they get meticulous down to the tenant improvements,
- 15:10Speaker 3: making sure the logo, the website, the food everything is
- 15:14Speaker 3: beautiful when you walk into the building or the business.
- 15:17Speaker 3: There's a beautiful sign, there's graphics on the door, maybe
- 15:21Speaker 3: on the napkin, it may be on the attire, but
- 15:25Speaker 3: they disregard the very first place that any consumer looks,
- 15:31Speaker 3: and that's right here. And they're neglecting to engineer the
- 15:35Speaker 3: most important aspect because most people aren't going to drive
- 15:39Speaker 3: by your business and give you a consideration whether they
- 15:42Speaker 3: see a billboard, a marketing flyer, an advertisement, They're going
- 15:46Speaker 3: to look you up online first, and if you haven't
- 15:49Speaker 3: engineered yourself, just like the beauty of USS Kitti Hawk, right,
- 15:56Speaker 3: how these aircraft carriers, these multi billion dollar vessels are
- 16:02Speaker 3: engineered to the smallest component. You have to do that
- 16:06Speaker 3: with your business. And if you don't, well that's when
- 16:10Speaker 3: you let the internet trolls take hold and then that
- 16:13Speaker 3: five percent starts swaying the other ninety five percent because
- 16:18Speaker 3: you didn't make it an active priority for your success.
- 16:24Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know, you have to work on the
- 16:26Speaker 2: visibility piece. You have to be prominent and then ensuring
- 16:30Speaker 2: that the process from awareness into the activation phase into
- 16:36Speaker 2: the prospect development phase, that that piece is there too. Right,
- 16:39Speaker 2: So you're kind you're kind of engineering all of this
- 16:43Speaker 2: from step one to step two to step three. Now
- 16:48Speaker 2: before we get to the summary of the top three
- 16:50Speaker 2: takeaways from your book, Ralph, And again, folks, if you're listening,
- 16:54Speaker 2: I'm showing a cover of Ralph's book. It's five types
- 16:57Speaker 2: of consumers? Who are they? And how to attract them? Now, Ralph,
- 17:02Speaker 2: can you give us a little hint about who these
- 17:05Speaker 2: five different consumers are. I don't want you to give
- 17:08Speaker 2: too much away from your book because I know there's
- 17:11Speaker 2: a lot in there, but can you share a little
- 17:13Speaker 2: bit of who these magical consumers are?
- 17:17Speaker 3: Yeah? So, the biggest component is that the writing style
- 17:22Speaker 3: of the book is as if it was a standard
- 17:25Speaker 3: operating procedure from the military. I wrote it in very
- 17:30Speaker 3: plain language so it's easy to consume and also reads
- 17:34Speaker 3: kind of like a manual. So then that way people
- 17:37Speaker 3: actually want to read it, have success and go back
- 17:41Speaker 3: to it, and then use it as a resource guide.
- 17:46Speaker 3: As far as the consumer types, I'll do it quick
- 17:50Speaker 3: because I've got it pretty much mastered down. Is where
- 17:53Speaker 3: first and foremost you have that coupon clipper or that
- 17:56Speaker 3: price sensitive shopper. Then you do the star counter. They
- 18:03Speaker 3: look at who has the most five star reviews, and
- 18:06Speaker 3: from that point, how high is the rating, and then
- 18:09Speaker 3: they'll choose that business. Then you have the socials. The
- 18:14Speaker 3: socials will look at who has the most reviews, who
- 18:17Speaker 3: has the best rating. But then they want to see
- 18:20Speaker 3: the imagery because the human mind processes images sixty thousand
- 18:24Speaker 3: times faster than text. Well, then right after that it
- 18:29Speaker 3: rolls into what I call the researcher. You won them
- 18:34Speaker 3: with this, with the amount of reviews you have, You
- 18:36Speaker 3: got great photos. Now I want to know a little
- 18:39Speaker 3: bit more, Right, what's the process? Like who are you?
- 18:43Speaker 3: Are you licensed? Like do you have gluten free options?
- 18:46Speaker 3: Are you able to help me on the weekends? Right?
- 18:48Speaker 3: Are you available if I got a question about my
- 18:51Speaker 3: legal matter? Right? Like they you want to know the
- 18:56Speaker 3: nuts and bolts. And then the very last one, the
- 18:58Speaker 3: thumb right or the chin I call them, is the librarian,
- 19:03Speaker 3: because the librarian will research every scrap of DNA on
- 19:06Speaker 3: you before they make a decision, because they might have
- 19:09Speaker 3: been burned, they might have had a bad experience, they
- 19:13Speaker 3: may just not trust people. They may be a baby
- 19:15Speaker 3: boomer who candidly they're using the Internet to make decisions.
- 19:20Speaker 3: Now faster than any other demographic. And from that point
- 19:24Speaker 3: they are able to bring all of their resources together
- 19:28Speaker 3: to make the best decision because they are your long
- 19:31Speaker 3: term super advocates. So that's them in a nutshell. And
- 19:36Speaker 3: then in the beginning, I have what I call peer thinking,
- 19:40Speaker 3: which is a mindset shift on how to incorporate all
- 19:44Speaker 3: of this combined with IID activity, which is the force
- 19:49Speaker 3: multiplier from that mindset shift.
- 19:53Speaker 2: So yeah, well, you always have to throw in a
- 19:55Speaker 2: very good acronym if you're speaking in military talk, right,
- 20:00Speaker 2: I'm glass you threw that one in there. Folks, you're
- 20:03Speaker 2: gonna have to get yourself a copy of Ralph's books
- 20:06Speaker 2: to figure out what that acronym actually means. But again,
- 20:10Speaker 2: it's the five types of consumers, who they are, how
- 20:14Speaker 2: to attract them by Ralph Carrasco, US Navy veteran. It's
- 20:17Speaker 2: available on Amazon. Ralph, if I could let me just
- 20:21Speaker 2: summarize what we talked about today, the top three takeaways
- 20:24Speaker 2: from your book. Number one is understand your ICP and
- 20:30Speaker 2: know the digital places where they congregate and speak to
- 20:35Speaker 2: them there. The second key takeaway is really fine tuning
- 20:41Speaker 2: that prospect development experience, that activation phase where they identify
- 20:48Speaker 2: a need. And now these five different types of consumer
- 20:52Speaker 2: archetypes are starting to evaluate your brand and you are
- 20:57Speaker 2: nurturing them and building trust. It has to be perfect.
- 21:01Speaker 2: And then the third key takeaway is really that handoff
- 21:06Speaker 2: between the marketing and business development, the brand awareness phase
- 21:11Speaker 2: to the activation phase. You have to have simple things
- 21:17Speaker 2: like your presence on Google search engine. You should also
- 21:22Speaker 2: come up in various other search engines. These are the
- 21:26Speaker 2: fine details to make sure that you are present in
- 21:30Speaker 2: the marketplace so that your consumers, your ideal customer can
- 21:35Speaker 2: find you, engage with you, and buy from you. Ralph,
- 21:39Speaker 2: did I miss anything in the summary?
- 21:41Speaker 3: You got it covered, sir? Sound good?
- 21:44Speaker 2: Yeah well, thank you and Ralph, how can folks follow
- 21:47Speaker 2: your work connect with you.
- 21:51Speaker 3: So they can check out our publishing company and Precision
- 21:55Speaker 3: dot Com Five Types of Consumers dot Com as well
- 22:01Speaker 3: is available and then people can also just find us
- 22:05Speaker 3: at Carrasco dot Consulting where we offer our insights to
- 22:12Speaker 3: local business owners, regional business owners, global business owners working
- 22:18Speaker 3: with franchises as well as multinational corporations.
- 22:24Speaker 2: Yeah well, Ralph, thank you for everything that you do
- 22:28Speaker 2: for the profession and folks reach out to Ralph. He's
- 22:32Speaker 2: a great shipmate. When you have a question a need,
- 22:35Speaker 2: he'll welcome you aboard and help you down down the pathway.
- 22:41Speaker 2: And Ralph, thank you so much for sharing your insights
- 22:43Speaker 2: with us today. Sharing your book again, folks, one more time.
- 22:46Speaker 2: It's five Types of Consumers, Who they are and how
- 22:49Speaker 2: to Attract them by Ralph Carrasco. It's available on Amazon.
- 22:54Speaker 2: Ralph Carrasco, thank you for joining us on the show today.
- 22:58Speaker 3: Thank you, Tony, I appreciate your time. I'm in the inclusion.
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