Two of the most disruptive technologies in the last decade have combined to create a customer experience challenge – or opportunity – depending on how you look at it and how prepared your brand is. The SoMoLo (Social-Mobile-Local) customer demands a real-time customer experience, consulting their smartphone and social media to make purchasing, brand loyalty and influencing decisions at every turn.
Consider these 2012 stats from Epathica:
- At least half of consumers with smartphones have searched for online reviews about a retailer on location.
- 55 percent of smartphone owners report that they have used their devices to check and compare prices while shopping.
- Nearly three-quarters of consumers use Facebook to make retail or restaurant decisions, while half of consumers have tried a new brand due to a social media recommendation.
- One in 10 smartphone owners have written a review on a website or social media platform while in-store.
This featured infographic by Parature’s Rachel Begeman provides a detailed profile of the SoMoLo customer, a customer we’ll all be seeing much, much more of in the near future:
