Customer understanding isn't new. Businesses have always won by knowing their shoppers, not by chasing reach or the latest platforms. What matters is what you communicate, person to person.
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Knowing your customers is nothing new. Businesses have been marketing this way for centuries. Back in the days when people walked to stores rather than logged into them, businesses succeeded as much from knowing their customers as anything else. Marketing buzzwords like customer centricity are nothing more than putting a new name on something that's been around for as long as commerce has. But success today is no longer just about reach or distribution. Businesses can't solve this problem with technology, which is probably why so many big businesses don't get it. It's not about the communication channels themselves. It's about what's communicated. It's not about Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, AI, chatbots, or anything else tactical. It's not about B2B or B2C. It's about P2P—people to people.