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4 Steps to Understanding Customer Data

by: Allen Graves
2 min read

What is Customer Data?

Customer data can uncover essential information that restaurant professionals can utilize to create better management and marketing decisions. Bloom Intelligence can expose daily foot traffic, first-time visitors, average dwell time, popular visit times, dwell time by hour, first-time visitor return rates, average customer repeat rates, gender distribution, and much more.

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What is Marketing Data?

Marketing should only begin after acquiring customer data. A successful marketing campaign requires a thorough understanding of customer bases, behavior, activity, and opportunities. Examples of marketing data built into Bloom Intelligence’s all-in-one platform includes email opens, emails delivered, emails bounced (not successfully delivered), clicks within emails, clicks within WiFi landing pages, unsubscribes, and more. WiFi landing pages can uncover this data and can trigger automated personalized campaigns based on age, gender, zip code, and more.

Why Collect Data?

Let’s face it. Customers have almost unending dining choices.

For food and beverage professionals, it’s critical to:

  • Stand out against the competition.
  • Create a data-driven management plan.
  • Acquire new customers.
  • Increase customer loyalty.
  • Understand who customers are and what they like.

In the past year, many restaurants have learned that the digital era is here to stay. More importantly, evolution is no longer a choice. It is a necessity.

However, today there are unending data acquisition choices available for restaurants. It’s imperative to cut through the red tape to cut costs and find an all-in-one data acquisition, management, and marketing solution.

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Step One: Analyze

Data tells a story. When analyzing data, interpreting the story behind the numbers is critical. For example, when traffic is down one day and increases the next, it could be due to outside traffic from a local event versus a marketing campaign.

Step Two: Understanding

After analyzing data, understanding why these data points exist is essential. For example, maybe customer reviews have increased after running an automated feedback loop campaign.

Step Three: Evaluate

Evaluate possible improvements. For example, if customer reviews have increased after running an automated feedback loop campaign in one location, it might make sense to activate the campaign in other locations, as well.

Step Four: Apply

When applying data campaigns or organizational improvements, it’s essential to continue to track these data. What performs well in one location might fail in other places. Frequently find ways to use data and improve results.

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Data acquisition is the process of obtaining data from a variety of sources. Interpreting these data is possibly the most critical component of data acquisition.

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Restaurant Marketing FAQs

What is Restaurant Marketing?

Restaurant marketing is the process of getting people to visit your restaurants. Restaurant marketing creates loyalty, provides data to research, analytics, and allows restaurants to gain a better understanding of their ideal customer profile. It utilizes all customer channels: guest WiFi, website, social, rating sites, mobile apps, email, text, and advertising.

Learn More About Restaurant Marketing Here

What is WiFi Marketing?

WiFi marketing is a marketing technique that uses guest WiFi to collect & clean customer data such as names, emails, phone numbers, customer behavior, and demographics. This data is used to personalize marketing campaigns to increase customer loyalty, build online reviews, and save at-risk customers. The performance of every campaign can be tracked down to the tangible ROI of a customer walking back in your door.

Learn More About WiFi Marketing Here

What is Restaurant Reputation Management?

Restaurant reputation management is the process for restaurants to manage customer feedback and creating systems to improve customer experiences, passively build positive online reviews, and save at-risk customers. It is a very important aspect of running a successful restaurant business.

Learn More About Restaurant Reputation Management Here

How Does Bloom Identify and Bring Back Lost Customers?

Bloom Intelligence uses machine learning to identify at-risk customers. When one is recognized, the system will send them a message with an incentive to get them to return and re-establish their visit pattern. Bloom users are seeing up to 37% of churning customers return.

Learn More About Saving At-Risk Customers Here

SAVE TIME, INCREASE CUSTOMER LIFETIME VALUES, CREATE NEW CUSTOMERS

What our happy customers
are saying

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Robert Sanderson

“Bloom Intelligence really is a step ahead in terms of marketing software and metrics. Their product is reliable, fast and innovative and has helped the company I work for really grow.”

John Marchetti

“Working with Bloom Intelligence has been amazing. They assist you every step of the way and work with you hand in hand to make sure you are optimizing your advertising potential. We are excited to use this tool to help learn more about our customers so that we can personally engage with them and understand our strengths/weaknesses.”

Ariel Ramirez

“In these challenging times, it has been a pleasure working with Bloom Intelligence to help facilitate our service offering to our clients. They were extremely responsive and provided support to mitigate risk and minimize revenue loss. Great partner!”

Stefan Kim

“We’re extremely pleased with the wealth of customer data that we’re able to gather, at a very attractive price.  In addition, we’re able to communicate our new product promotions by using  the landing page as a digital billboard.  A “no-brainer” for anyone working with limited Marketing $$.”

Bob Cross, Vice President of Operations

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