Effective Demand

 
 

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What is Effective Demand?

Definition: in marketing, Effective Demand is the set of all the people who are looking for a product/service or a solution to their problem/desire at a given time.

When intercepting new potential customers, the first question you have to ask you is: “Is there anyone already looking for the product/service I am selling or the problem that my product/service can solve?

 Domanda Consapevole | Manuel Faè

Spreading the concept of Effective Demand

I have analyzed over the years the concepts of Effective Demand and Latent Demand to systematize them inside the ConnectionFunnel®, together with my friend and colleague Alessandro Sportelli.

The ConnectionFunnel® is a working method developed in 15 years that we use to elaborate the best web marketing strategies for any company or professional. The method is always the same — it is the declination of the strategy that is different and depends on the analysis of the buying process of your target. 

If you want to know more about the ConnectionFunnel® Method, click here.

In 2016, we collected and further analyzed the concepts of Effective Demand and Latent Demand within the book “Il Succo del Web Marketing” (published by Libreria Strategica). The aim of the book is to make entrepreneurs aware of a complex world — that of web marketing — which is not always easy to understand. Strategic web marketing is an opportunity to be seized, but first of all you need to understand the basics.

Since 2018, “Domanda Consapevole” (Effective Demand) is a registered trademark of WMI srl.

Click here to visit the official site of “Domanda Consapevole”.

Specific, Commercial and Informative Effective Demand

Speaking of Effective Demand, we refer to active users who, in the search for a product/service or a solution to a problem, express an intention, i.e. carry out a conscious action in response to a stimulus.

The Effective Demand can be of 3 types:

  1. Specific Effective Demand (or REFERENCE): indicates the set of all the people who directly search for the specific name of the product/service, the brand or the name of the company, or the name of the person/professional because they have a Reference (for example, they have already heard about it, someone has given them that specific name, they have seen an advertisement on Facebook and then have searched for the name on a search engine, they have seen the product/service on a flyer, etc.).
    Domanda Consapevole Specifica Il RIFERIMENTO nel processo d'acquisto | Manuel Faè
    Therefore, these are (potential) customers who are looking for our product/service. So, we need to be found!

    It is important to take care of your own direct and indirect positioning (direct — website, Facebook page, YouTube channel, Google My Business, etc.; indirect —  other people’s websites/e-commerce, review sites, comparators, etc.). The goal is to make sure that the user comes to us, any result he or she clicks.

    Intercepting those who are looking directly for us is obviously important because it often leads directly to the sale.

    Connection Funnel Riferimento o Domanda Consapevole Specifica | Manuel Faè

  2. General Commercial Effective Demand: indicates the set of all the people who are directly looking for a product/service as a solution to their problem/desire at a given time. Your product/service may be just the solution they are looking for.
    Remember: when a user has an urgent problem, he or she wants to know the solution as soon as possible and wants to find the elements that will allow him or her to solve it. For this reason, it is important to be found at the very moment the user is looking for us. At this stage, it is very likely that the most useful content to use is commercial content (although the definition always depends on an accurate analysis of the buying process of your target).ConnectionFunnel Domanda Consapevole Commerciale | Manuel Faè
  3. General Informative Effective Demand: indicates all the people who are looking for information about a problem/desire at a given time without knowing the solution yet. In this case, the production of specific content (we are talking about information content) is fundamental. If by analyzing the buying process of your customers, you realize that, before going on to the purchase, they inform themselves and try to understand if your product/service can really represent the solution to their problem/desire, creating specific content could make you a point of reference in that particular area. Moreover, you will create confidence in you and therefore increase the chances of being chosen.Connection Funnel Domanda Consapevole Informativa | Manuel Faè

Intercepting Effective Demand

In digital marketing, intercepting Effective Demand means implementing various actions that allow us to identify who is already looking for our product/service or the problem it can solve.

The first question you have to ask yourself is: “Are people looking for my product/service or the problems it can solve?”. This will help you assess, among other things, the importance of your site’s ranking on search engines. Positioning only makes sense if there are people looking for that specific product/service or the problems it can solve.

Speaking of specific contents, these should be produced with the aim of positioning them on search engines that people use to search online.

Being placed on search engines for searches related to your product/service or the problem that this solves means being found by users at the right time, that is when they are looking for what you sell.

N.B. if for your industry there are also specialized portals used by your potential customers as search engines, you have to take them into account and evaluate if and how important it is that you are also among the results of those portals (for example: Amazon, Booking, TripAdvisor, Immobiliare .it, Trovaprezzi, ecc).

 

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What is the difference between Effective Demand and Latent Demand?

You can intercept two types of demand: Effective Demand and Latent Demand.

Latent Demand is the exact opposite of Effective Demand, i.e. it refers to that set of people who are not directly looking for a product/service at a given time, but may need or be interested in it based on personal characteristics (profession, problems, tastes, hobbies, etc.). In this case, we can define the attitude of the potential customer as passive.

However, it is important to underline that stimulating the Latent Demand can give rise to a new Effective Demand. After discovering us — on Facebook, Instagram or on a flyer, etc.), the user can express interest in our product/service and start searching for it on search engines.

This also happens as a result of the actions of other people: if a friend of mine buys a product, I could start to be interested in that product too and start looking for it to get some information or to buy it.

If you want to learn more about the concept of Latent Demand, click here.

Recommended Books

 
 
Manuel Faè Il Succo del We Marketing Libro

Il Succo del Web Marketing

Everything the ENTREPRENEURS should have known BEFORE investing ONLINE [and that no one ever told them].

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