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Psychographics: What They Are & How Marketers Use Them

  • June 13, 2022
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  • Meg Rivera
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Are you convinced that understanding your consumer personas is a good idea?

We sincerely hope so. If not, it’s just a guess. You can market to your clients much more successfully if you know who they are, where they are, what they like, and what they dislike.

You can learn about your consumer in a variety of ways, including quantitative and qualitative methods, as well as passive and active methods. Demographics and psychographics are two categories of client data that are frequently used in market research.

Psychographics are frequently overlooked. They can, however, be quite valuable.

What are psychographics in marketing?

Your target market’s psychographics is their attitudes, interests, personality, values, opinions, and way of life. Psychographics are extremely useful in marketing, but they can also be used in opinion research, forecasting, and other types of social research.

Interests, activities, and opinions (IAO variables) are the primary focus of psychographics. They try to figure out an audience’s views and emotions, not just their age and gender.

Psychographics vs. Demographics: What’s the Difference?

Demographic data, as opposed to psychographic data, is concerned with the structure of a population—factors such as age, race, sex, and income. Demographics are used for policy creation and economic research in a wide range of fields, including education, government, industry, and so on.

It’s useful to know your audience’s demographics and which groups make the ideal clients for your business, even at a micro-level, especially when you’re ramping up ad expenditure.

Neither data type should be used by itself. In addition to firmographic data, you can evaluate psychographic data about demographic, regional, or behavioral data. This is very significant for account-based marketing.

Why psychographics are important

What’s the big deal about psychographics in marketing (apart from the fact that it sounds cool)?

Essentially, you can structure and prioritize information if you understand how customers buy and compare products in your category:

You can better connect your marketing messaging with their deepest held beliefs if you know what they believe.

You can dismiss those notifications and remove them from your site if you know what they don’t care about.

You’ll know where to find them if you know what they read.

And it goes on and on.

People buy for a variety of reasons, according to psychographics. They aid in the creation of powerful user personas. They assist you in crafting the perfect message and placing it in the appropriate location. They’re less objective and clean, but they’re quite valuable for marketers.

There are three different forms of psychographics.

Interests, actions, and opinions are the three primary forms of psychographics. You can also break that down into subcategories. (Attitudes differ slightly from opinions, and lifestyle and behavior differ slightly from activities.)

But let’s focus on the key three.

How to Make Psychographics Work for You

The problem with psychographics, at least in the past, has been that it has been perceived as less actionable (and more difficult to acquire) than demographic data.

The internet has made psychographics more actionable and accessible.

Create a user persona using a combination of demographic and psychographic information. Sure, you’d like to know their general age, wage range, and geographical area. These factors make it possible to target clients on a more detailed level.

Psychographics, on the other hand, can assist you with messaging, persuasion, and creativity.

Designing landing pages for important personas is considerably easier with psychographic data. You’re doing less guesswork when crafting messages and designs for a specific person than you would if you followed standard best practices.

Psychographics are useful not only for messaging and creativity but also for keyword targeting. You may not only craft the perfect message, but you can also employ psychographic targeting to put it in front of the appropriate individuals at the right time.

Psychographic Profiling

A psychographic profile is a unique description of an individual’s or group’s attitudes, habits, and interests. It’s a set of consumer beliefs and behaviors that indicate who would be the most interested in your company’s offering.

Psychographic profiling can be quite useful since customers often make decisions based on psychographic factors such as personal preferences or values. Understanding your audience’s psychological characteristics can help you enhance your outreach and advertising style, allowing you to develop a more emotionally attractive brand overall.

Based on what we know about the ideal customer for a nutritional counselor, let’s develop a very basic demographic and psychographic profile.

Psychographic Factors

Personality traits, lifestyle, social status, habits, behaviors, and interests are examples of psychographic elements. Each of these psychological elements has a significant impact on a customer’s behavior. You can then segment your audience based on their psychographic composition using these characteristics.

Personality Characteristics – A person’s personality characteristics influence how they interact with the world. People in your target demographic are likely to share some personality traits that you might adapt your marketing strategy to.

Lifestyle- Lifestyle psychographics tell the tale of a person’s perception of themselves in society. Relationships, employment, and other key life choices can all influence this component.

Although there are no formal social classes in the United States, customers often divide themselves into lower, medium, and upper classes and make purchasing decisions based on these classifications.

Habits – A person’s everyday habits are psychographic characteristics to which they have gotten accustomed. Because habits are difficult to break, marketers take them into account when crafting campaigns and commercials.

Behaviors – A behavioral psychographic element is how a person acts. A person’s buying patterns, product consumption, and even the frequency with which they purchase a product all reveal their behaviors.

Interests – This psychographic variable can have an impact on how a person engages with a business. Interests differ from one individual to the next, but the target audience will often share common interests that can be woven into marketing efforts to elicit a certain response.

Psychographic segmentation, like behavioral segmentation, divides people into categories based on more personal or idiosyncratic characteristics.

For example, if you want to segment your audience based on lifestyle, you’ll need to determine whether your consumers are in school, working full-time jobs, participating in energetic activities, or leading a predominantly sedentary lifestyle.

Your marketing campaigns will benefit from psychographics.

Knowing the psychographic profile of your potential buyer might help you appeal to them individually. You’ll pick a better marketing channel, generate better imagery, or use better language to assist your buyer see themselves using your goods. As a consequence, you’ll create more qualified leads than you ever imagined, boosting the return on investment from your marketing efforts.

Conclusion

Not only for messaging strategy and emotional targeting in your ads and on your website but also for how and where you recruit clients, psychographics are crucial.

Advanced ad targeting and even on-site personalization are making it easier to obtain good psychographic data and put it to use. Given your ability to test communications at scale, it’s no longer a guessing game if it works.

Psychographics assist you in getting to know your customer. And having a deeper understanding of your customer improves your marketing.

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