Strategic customer acquisition through customer profiling

Acquisition strategy for more customers and higher sales

This training is held in German.
Customer profiling is the logical and structured strategy method modeled on criminal profiling. With consistent logic from data/facts combined with experience and intuition, you gain the necessary knowledge about your customer and target group potential. Analyze your customers' buying and decision-making motives and make strategic use of them. Customer profiling begins where conventional tools such as needs analyses and CRM have their limits. Activate new sales potential after this training !

Contents

Acquisition strategies

  • From acquisition to the desired customer.
  • Acquisition methods put to the test - strategy check.
  • New requirements for successful acquisition.
  • Your customers' motives for action and decisions.

Winning ideal customers

  • The definition of the desired customer.
  • Typologies of your desired customers.
  • From target clarity to the desired customer.
  • The "ideal" customer, the "optimal" target group for your sales.

The 5 phases of customer profiling

  • "Take a walk inside your customers' heads" - with the profiler method.
  • You know more than you think - hypothesis work by profilers.
  • Forming hypotheses for reality - from the star hypothesis to the core hypothesis.
  • Storyboards for acquiring new customers and addressing target groups.

Address your target customers optimally

  • Identify the necessary knowledge about customer and target group potential.
  • Analyze and strategically use buying motives and decision motives.
  • Potential check for your target customers.
  • How to activate your sales potential.
  • Practical examples that work.

Learning environment

In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this qualification measure after you have registered.

Your benefit

  • You will get to know the logical and structured method of customer profiling and can use it successfully for your active, strategic new customer acquisition.
  • You learn to think and work like a profiler in criminalistics, you work out the "customer crime scene" and thus recognize the "ideal" customers and the "optimal" target group for your sales.
  • You know your customers' motives for action and decision-making and you know how to "walk in your customers' heads".
  • You can transfer the profiler method directly into your day-to-day work, apply it and thus activate new sales potential.
  • You develop storyboards and identify your target customers' motives for action and decision-making.
  • You know how to analyze and strategically use buying motives and decision motives.
  • You can combine your existing acquisition methods with customer profiling.

Customer profiling is the logical and structured strategy method, modeled on criminal profiling, with which you can activate new potential in sales and distribution.

Methods

Practice-oriented training with exercises, discussion of case/best-practice examples, exchange of experience, work aids, checklists, practical transfer and trainer input.

Recommended for

(Junior) managers from sales and distribution, sales and distribution managers, sales managers, sales management executives, decision makers in sales, product managers, entrepreneurs and managing directors who are looking for an innovative method to increase sales success and customer acquisition.

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16.07.2025
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