{"id":152860,"date":"2023-03-11T07:00:30","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T07:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/startups.co.uk\/?p=152860"},"modified":"2023-03-11T16:39:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T16:39:34","slug":"rule-of-seven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/startups.co.uk\/guides\/rule-of-seven\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rule of 7: increasing customer interactions in the digital age"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The long-established Rule of 7 tells marketers how they might maintain contact and visibility with clients to earn their trust and business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When it comes to marketing, persistence pays off. That&rsquo;s not to say that you should badger your customers, potential or established &ndash; gentle reminders are all you need.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now that people are exposed to so many ideas, brands and products, the rule states that they need to see or hear from your company around seven times before it &lsquo;sticks&rsquo; with them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, this concept has been around since the 1930s &ndash; and things have moved on considerably since then. How relevant is the Rule of 7 now that so much of what potential customers consume is online?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this article, we&rsquo;ll take a look at how the Rule of 7 marketing principle has been affected by the digital revolution, and how new businesses can still make it work for them with the right, strategic application<\/span>[\/vc_column_text]<\/p><div class=\"jumplinks-content\">\n <h3 class=\"jumplinks-content-title\">\n This article will cover: <\/h3>\n <ul class=\"jumplinks-content-list\">\n <li class=\"jumplinks-content-item\">\n <a class=\"jumplinks-content-link jumplink-anchor\" href=\"#link-what-is-the-rule-of-7\">What is the Rule of 7?<\/a>\n <\/li>\n <li class=\"jumplinks-content-item\">\n <a class=\"jumplinks-content-link jumplink-anchor\" href=\"#link-how-has-the-rule-of-7-adapted-to-the-digital-age\">How has the Rule of 7 adapted to the digital age?<\/a>\n <\/li>\n <li class=\"jumplinks-content-item\">\n <a class=\"jumplinks-content-link jumplink-anchor\" href=\"#link-how-many-ways-are-there-for-a-customer-to-interact-with-a-brand\">How many ways are there for a customer to interact with a brand?<\/a>\n <\/li>\n <li class=\"jumplinks-content-item\">\n <a class=\"jumplinks-content-link jumplink-anchor\" href=\"#link-how-can-my-business-increase-its-visibility\">How can my business increase its visibility?<\/a>\n <\/li>\n <li class=\"jumplinks-content-item\">\n <a class=\"jumplinks-content-link jumplink-anchor\" href=\"#link-conclusion\">Conclusion<\/a>\n <\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]<div class=\"jumplink-anchor-section\">\n <div class=\"jumplink-anchor-pointer\" id=\"link-what-is-the-rule-of-7\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n[vc_column_text]\n<h2>What is the Rule of 7?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Rule of 7 is a marketing method by which businesses aim to expose consumers to a product, program or service seven times.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Quite simply, the idea is that a certain level of familiarity and trust must be established before a consumer will purchase a product. especially when it comes at a higher price.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The number seven is not set in stone, of course. It&rsquo;s more of an acknowledgment that serious &ndash; and potentially repeat &ndash; clients require information, including feedback from other customers, to inspire them sufficiently to part with their money. It&rsquo;s about exposure and access to information.<\/span><b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The concept was first conceived of during the early days of the Golden Age of Hollywood, when film execs were trying to lure audiences to cinemas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Visibility, they discovered, was key &ndash; and it&rsquo;s no different today. Whether customers see an advertisement, a mention on a social media platform, a review on a customer experience website, or a product being used by an influential figure &ndash; all of these materials are sending a subliminal message that the brand is worth the customer&rsquo;s attention.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seven seconds is also said to be vital to the length of time a company has to make a first impression on consumers.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Inevitably, the digital age means that we are exposed to more visuals, more information, more sales pitches and more hype than ever before. Markets are saturated. People, scrolling furiously through their social media feeds, complain of feeling overwhelmed by the amount of mental &lsquo;clutter&rsquo; they are exposed to.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All this means that visuals are especially important to the Rule of 7 &ndash; you need to win over customers in just seven seconds to be able to stand out from the crowd.&nbsp;<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]<\/p><div class=\"jumplink-anchor-section\">\n <div class=\"jumplink-anchor-pointer\" id=\"link-how-has-the-rule-of-7-adapted-to-the-digital-age\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n[vc_column_text]\n<h2>How has the Rule of 7 adapted to the digital age?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It&rsquo;s safe to say that, when it comes to numbers, firms now have many more ways to make their brand visible to audiences.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">From old-school magazine advertisements, billboards and TV and radio commercials, there&rsquo;s now the addition of social media platforms such as Instagram and Twitter, as well as email campaigns. This means that it&rsquo;s possible to engage with a customer in multiple ways &ndash; and thus many more than seven times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Digitisation also gives greater access to insights. Marketers are now able to target audiences via SEO (search engine optimisation). They can also measure the success of a campaign via KPIs (Key Performance Indicators), ROI (return on investment) and CLV (Customer Lifetime Value).&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Firms can also take advantage of social media to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/startups.co.uk\/project-management-software\/free-competitor-analysis-templates\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">perform competitor analysis<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on rivals&rsquo; pages, answering questions like: what do your competitors&rsquo; social media pages look like? How much customer engagement is there? Is there a correlation between their &lsquo;follower&rsquo; numbers and the numbers of likes and comments on their posts, or are their followers largely inactive?&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tools like<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brandwatch.com\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brandwatch<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> enable you to actively monitor social media conversations taking place around certain brands and industries, providing valuable awareness for your own endeavours.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All this data gives marketers the opportunity to figure out what&rsquo;s working well, where money can be saved &ndash; and where more can be spent.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]<\/p><div class=\"jumplink-anchor-section\">\n <div class=\"jumplink-anchor-pointer\" id=\"link-how-many-ways-are-there-for-a-customer-to-interact-with-a-brand\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n[vc_column_text]\n<h2>How many ways are there for a customer to interact with a brand?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How long is a piece of string? In this day and age, there are innumerable ways for a customer to interact with a brand &ndash; and vice versa. Here are the top ten ways in which consumers interact with a brand today:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reading a review &ndash; whether professional (a newspaper) or customer-based (for example, TripAdvisor)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seeing an advertisement on TV, in a magazine or on a billboard or bus\/ bus shelter<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seeing the brand mentioned in an article<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hearing someone mention the brand<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Noticing the brand in an online search<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seeing someone on social media endorse the brand<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Noticing the brand exhibiting at a convention or similar event<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seeing a pop-up ad when online<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Taking a call from a company representative<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Receiving a promotional offer, whether by post or email<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-152862 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/images.startups.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Top-ways-customers-interact-with-companies.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"706\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.startups.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Top-ways-customers-interact-with-companies.png 706w, https:\/\/images.startups.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Top-ways-customers-interact-with-companies-480x360.png 480w, https:\/\/images.startups.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Top-ways-customers-interact-with-companies-640x480.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 100vw, 706px\">[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]<\/p><div class=\"jumplink-anchor-section\">\n <div class=\"jumplink-anchor-pointer\" id=\"link-how-can-my-business-increase-its-visibility\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n[vc_column_text]\n<h2>How can my business increase its visibility?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Rule of 7 has proved its worth over the years, and just because the channels available to marketers are so much more plentiful than they used to be, this doesn&rsquo;t mean that the rule has become obsolete. It&rsquo;s still a useful basic structure from which to work when a business is getting off the ground, and one that can be adapted as the business expands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here are our top seven tips for implementing the Rule of 7 in your own business:&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. <\/strong><b>Know your client base<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Who is your target customer? Where are they most likely to spend their real life or virtual time and thus be exposed to your brand? Create buyer personas that outline the demographic you&rsquo;re targeting, as well as what their wants, needs and means are. This involves researching your customers and the client bases of your competitors and evaluating how your products and price points meet those wants and needs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>2. <\/strong><b>Make a plan<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now that you have a mental image of your customer, you should have a better idea of where they are likely to be exposed to mentions of your product. You should be better acquainted with which social media platforms they use; which websites they frequent; what types of events they attend and which media they read or watch. Based on this information, you should be able to determine how to improve brand&nbsp; visibility and generate more sales.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>3. <\/strong><b>Set up a remarketing plan<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It&rsquo;s one thing for a prospective customer to visit your website; it&rsquo;s another thing for them to click through to another page. By activating a remarketing (or retargeting, as it is also known) plan, you can bring your brand back to the attention of someone who&rsquo;s previously shown some interest, however brief, in your brand. Doing this via Google, LinkedIn and Facebook is low cost, and requires minimal effort on your part.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>4. <\/b><b>Put your digital prospecting channels in motion<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Digital prospecting is all about attracting new audiences who are likely to convert to customers. Now that you are familiar with your buyer persona, you can create and activate a plan to develop your market and reach new customers within that persona.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>5. <\/strong><b>Ensure that your plan takes the entire buyer lifecycle into consideration<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The buyer lifecycle starts with lack of awareness (of the product), to being interested in the product, to becoming a first-time customer. Once a sale has been made, the aim is to encourage the customer to become a repeat or regular customer, and finally to become active advocates of the brand. Make sure that your content marketing plan covers this entire lifecycle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>6. Promote your content via social channels<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You should already be getting some SEO visibility via the content you&rsquo;ve created but you should also amplify this content on various channels via a combination of paid, owned and organic techniques. A good content amplification strategy should inspire potential customers to read and share your content, getting you more impressions, engagement, more traffic and, ultimately, more leads resulting in more conversions and thus more revenue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><b>7. Invest time in lead nurturing<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nurture campaigns are most commonly conducted via emails which are sent to your audience to educate them about your product or to inform them of a special offer. Their purpose is to motivate customers, no matter what stage of the buying cycle they&rsquo;re at, to take more of interest in your product, or to actively buy it, recommend it, or opt-in to mailouts. Making a customer feel &lsquo;seen&rsquo; by and important to a brand has a massive impact on lead generation &lsquo;sticking&rsquo; and converting to actual sales.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-152865 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/images.startups.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/SU-RO7-1.png\" alt=\"Infographic displaying the top seven ways for businesses to increase customer interactions\" width=\"800\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.startups.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/SU-RO7-1.png 800w, https:\/\/images.startups.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/SU-RO7-1-480x1200.png 480w, https:\/\/images.startups.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/SU-RO7-1-640x1600.png 640w, https:\/\/images.startups.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/SU-RO7-1-768x1920.png 768w, https:\/\/images.startups.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/SU-RO7-1-614x1536.png 614w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]<\/p><div class=\"jumplink-anchor-section\">\n <div class=\"jumplink-anchor-pointer\" id=\"link-conclusion\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n[vc_column_text]\n<h2>Conclusion<\/h2>\n<p>As we&rsquo;ve seen, the Rule of 7, despite having been around for almost a century, has continuing relevance in today&rsquo;s marketing landscape.<\/p>\n<p>The principle can be adapted to just about any marketing strategy in just about any industry. In fact, with the number of channels available to marketers these days &ndash; as well as changes in how, why and where customers buy &ndash; the opportunities for harnessing the Rule of 7 and making it work for you are almost endless.<\/p>\n<p>And, since the digital age is bound to continue growing and adapting, these opportunities will also expand &ndash; meaning even bigger sales numbers, strengthened buyer loyalty, and more valuable customer relationships.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The long-established Rule of 7 tells marketers how they might maintain contact and visibility with clients to earn their trust and business. When it comes to marketing, persistence pays off. That&rsquo;s not to say that you should badger your customers, potential or established &ndash; gentle reminders are all you need. 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