6 Benefits Brand Tracking Brings To Your Business


So, you most likely have heard about brand tracking, haven’t you? Well, if not, then brand tracking is constantly measuring your brand’s health, meaning that you are analyzing how consumers are using your product and what kind of impression they receive when your brand is mentioned.

Something many brand managers and businesses, in general, fail to do is to accurately track brand activity, failing to assess how well a brand campaign is performing, and so on. However, that doesn’t have to be the case with your business. Brand tracking can be easier than ever if done right.

Well, don’t go anywhere because, in this article, we will find out the top benefits you can use to take advantage of brand tracking fully.

6 Brand tracking benefits you can use for your business

1. Improves your marketing performance

Brand trackingOpens in a new tab. is an excellent way of allowing you to target your audience better. For instance, likes, dislikes, demographics- will enable you to know more about your audience, and when you know more, it means you can get more personal. Brand monitoring grants you access to personalization on a whole new level.

Moreover, here are a few ways it helps you improve your marketing performanceOpens in a new tab.:

  • Listen to your customers: the best marketer listens to their customers and sees their needs and interests. So what is the easiest way to find out? It’s to listen to what they discuss the most!
  • Know your target audience: you can’t get your marketing right if you don’t know who you are doing the marketing for. To identify your target audience and pay close attention to the demographics concerning your industry.
  • Hang around where your customers are most active: What do we mean by this? Stay active on social media platforms where your target audience is present. For example, consider using it more and engage more on Facebook than on other social platforms if it’s on Facebook. Moreover, you can do this by monitoring the conversations of your customers.
  • Monitoring marketing trends: If you are in a giant marketplace, you’d want to continuously stay updated with what is trending in the market and even who your competitor is.
  • Work with influencers: There are many social media influencers on the web, and it’d be a huge mistake not to consider working with them. Influencers are separated into different categories- micro, average, and macro. Hence, they are industry experts and can help you maximize your results in your campaigns.

2. Positively impacts future decision making

Brand tracking can uplift several activities you are performing. It gives brands the ability to deliver personalized messages to their audience and emotionally connect with them on a whole new level. It brings a high level of marketing to your campaigns and influences them long-term and even in product development.

Its ability to accurately determine an audience’s perception of your brand makes it valuable to use in your business. For example, if you’re doing something that negatively affects your audience’s perception, you need to change your approach. Likewise, if you see that your tracking results are increasing, continue doing what you are doing.

Over time, when you see that you are adjusting your strategy according to the insights you have gathered, you will realize that your audience has a positive perspective about your product or service.

Furthermore, in the long-term, when you are using reliable methods in your marketing, you’ll have a competitive advantage over your competitors. But, of course, this can only happen if you take negative perceptions from your consumers seriously and consistently adjust to changes. Moreover, it informs you whether you should continue your brand support or not. In short, when your methodology isn’t producing reliable results, it might lead to consequences in the future.

3. Allows you to track KPIs

Brand tracking makes it easy to track KPIs. But what kind of KPIs are we talking about?

There are even some brand tracking tools that allow you to customize KPI tracking and thus, make it possible for organizations to monitor the key metrics that are most important for their marketing strategy. Hence, when brand managers have these insights, it makes it easier for them to communicate with their target audiences and effectively promote brand campaigns.

  • Creates customer-centric products

As good as you may be in marketing, you can’t succeed if your product is poor in quality. Customers don’t want to deal with a low-quality product, and since they are the ones paying, they most likely will turn to your competitors when this happens.

Customers have the power to read and write reviews about your product. Unfortunately, a bad review can be enough to cause others to abandon your product too. However, feedback is vital to creating a high-quality product and is essential for brand tracking. Therefore, you need to collect product feedback to deliver better quality and monitor your results. Here are a few ways you can benefit from product monitoring:

  • Live feedback: an important factor regarding your product. Customers will always identify problems before you do, and the best thing you can do is listen to their live feedback continuously.
  • Monitor demographics: this includes localizing your product and services. However, this counts if you are operating in multiple countries worldwide. Product localization enters a whole new level of personalization and shouldn’t be disregarded when you enter new markets.
  • Competitor analysis: you can’t ever do better than your competitors if you don’t know their next step. Understanding what your target audience thinks about your competitors is always essential.
  • Track product features: to do this, you need to gather customer insights.

4. Allows you to incorporate DIY surveys

DIY surveysOpens in a new tab. such as SurveyMonkey or any other survey are easy and cheap to track your brand performance. It may be more difficult for the brand manager to write and set up surveys independently. However, insightful data can be gathered through DIY surveys.

However, many brand managers won’t succeed in conducting the proper surveys to provide insightful answers. Why so? It’s all because they ask the wrong questions. Data isn’t as helpful when you have less control over the questions you ask, especially if they aren’t correctly customized.

Brand tracking includes setting up DIY surveys, and brand managers who aren’t sure about asking insightful questions can consider using Opens in a new tab.brand tracking softwareOpens in a new tab..

  • Increases sales

When brand monitoring is carried out successfully, and you provide a customer-centric product, it’ll directly affect the number of salesOpens in a new tab. you make. Your product quality will always speak for itself, and when the quality is there, your sales team will naturally be doing good.

Additionally, brand monitoring can be used to generate leads and increase closing with the following methods:

  • Engage with your customers: Whenever a customer makes a decision, it can be pretty helpful to assist them.
  • Connect with resellers: many resellers are trying to find companies who offer outstanding products, and this is your chance to provide them with yours. After all, you can get some slick deals out of this.
  • Convert competitor’s customers into yours: there are unhappy customers everywhere you go, and this can certainly be the case with your competitors. If you are doing something more than your competitors, there will be customers who will come to you after they have been upset with their customers.
  • Research sales opportunities: before customers buy a product, they’ll discuss it. The best thing you can do is research these discussions being made and act on these opportunities.

Wrapping it up

Well, that’s all for this article. These were our six benefits that brand tracking brings to your business. As we mentioned before, many companies don’t take brand tracking that seriously, but this is one common mistake. Brand tracking lets you know how your customer perceives your product and company; overall, it will enable you to deliver a whole new level of personalization to their table.

Above all, don’t forget to collect product feedback from your audience. Remember, customers will identify issues before you ever do. Then, when you fix them, it’ll keep your customers happy and increase the value you provide for them. Finally, don’t forget to pay close attention to what your competitors are doing; they might be looking at your next steps more than you think.  

Even your competitors will have unhappy customers, and when they see how you treat your customers, they won’t think twice about coming to you. This is what brand tracking does, it helps you stand out from your competitors and enhance your performance rate!

Steve Todd

Steve Todd, founder of Open Sourced Workplace and is a recognized thought leader in workplace strategy and the future of work. With a passion for work from anywhere, Steve has successfully implemented transformative strategies that enhance productivity and employee satisfaction. Through Open Sourced Workplace, he fosters collaboration among HR, facilities management, technology, and real estate professionals, providing valuable insights and resources. As a speaker and contributor to various publications, Steve remains dedicated to staying at the forefront of workplace innovation, helping organizations thrive in today's dynamic work environment.

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