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In-Ear Insights: Product Market Fit and the Ideal Customer Profile
In this episode of In-Ear Insights, the Trust Insights podcast, Katie and Chris discuss how to use the power of Ideal Customer Profiles (ICPs) to achieve product market fit and accelerate your marketing success. You’ll learn practical strategies for leveraging ICPs to validate your product ideas, ensuring you are building solutions your target audience truly desires. Discover the dangers of relying solely on your intuition as a marketer and how ICPs can provide invaluable, unbiased feedback, leading to increased revenue and engagement. Don’t miss out on the insights shared in this episode as Katie and Chris delve into the future of marketing with AI.
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Christopher S. Penn – 00:00
In this week’s In Ear Insights, marketing and marketers—and I certainly hold myself to my hand is up for this—tend to be a little self-centered. We tend to think, “Here’s what we think the customer wants.” And there is some precedent for that. Steve Jobs is famously quoted as saying, “I know what the customer wants, even if they don’t.” Henry Ford was famous for saying, “If we’d asked the customer what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” So there is that aspect to it. But on the other hand, there is also the voice of the customer. And now, in today’s era, we have more data about the customer than we have ever had before.
Christopher S. Penn – 00:39
So, Katie, when we’re thinking about how you balance what you see as sort of the vision of the product, the service, the company as a leader with what the customer says they want and the voice of the customer, how do you find that balance?
Katie Robbert – 00:55
Well, it’s an interesting conversation because what we’re really talking about is innovation versus solution. And sometimes they’re not the same thing. So, Thomas Edison needed to create these inventions, but nobody was necessarily knowing that these were problems. He was just like, “Let me see what this does. Let me see what this does.” Much like his famous last words were probably like, “What does this button do?”
And so, you need those experimental mindsets, those visionaries, those innovators to keep sort of pushing what’s possible. But that doesn’t always translate into, “Okay, I’m sitting here at my computer every day. Do I need—” I’m just going to make this up completely—
Katie Robbert – 01:49
“Like a teleportation device that brings down a robot that actually serves me like a single serving of coffee that I didn’t e
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In this episode of In-Ear Insights, the Trust Insights podcast, Katie and Chris discuss how to use the power of Ideal Customer Profiles (ICPs) to achieve product market fit and accelerate your marketing success. You’ll learn practical strategies for leveraging ICPs to validate your product ideas, ensuring you are building solutions your target audience truly desires. Discover the dangers of relying solely on your intuition as a marketer and how ICPs can provide invaluable, unbiased feedback, leading to increased revenue and engagement. Don’t miss out on the insights shared in this episode as Katie and Chris delve into the future of marketing with AI.
Watch the video here:
Can’t see anything? Watch it on YouTube here.
Listen to the audio here:
https://traffic.libsyn.com/inearinsights/tipodcast-product-market-fit-ideal-customer-profile.mp3
Download the MP3 audio here.
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Machine-Generated Transcript
What follows is an AI-generated transcript. The transcript may contain errors and is not a substitute for listening to the episode.
Christopher S. Penn – 00:00
In this week’s In Ear Insights, marketing and marketers—and I certainly hold myself to my hand is up for this—tend to be a little self-centered. We tend to think, “Here’s what we think the customer wants.” And there is some precedent for that. Steve Jobs is famously quoted as saying, “I know what the customer wants, even if they don’t.” Henry Ford was famous for saying, “If we’d asked the customer what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” So there is that aspect to it. But on the other hand, there is also the voice of the customer. And now, in today’s era, we have more data about the customer than we have ever had before.
Christopher S. Penn – 00:39
So, Katie, when we’re thinking about how you balance what you see as sort of the vision of the product, the service, the company as a leader with what the customer says they want and the voice of the customer, how do you find that balance?
Katie Robbert – 00:55
Well, it’s an interesting conversation because what we’re really talking about is innovation versus solution. And sometimes they’re not the same thing. So, Thomas Edison needed to create these inventions, but nobody was necessarily knowing that these were problems. He was just like, “Let me see what this does. Let me see what this does.” Much like his famous last words were probably like, “What does this button do?”
And so, you need those experimental mindsets, those visionaries, those innovators to keep sort of pushing what’s possible. But that doesn’t always translate into, “Okay, I’m sitting here at my computer every day. Do I need—” I’m just going to make this up completely—
Katie Robbert – 01:49
“Like a teleportation device that brings down a robot that actually serves me like a single serving of coffee that I didn’t e
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