Alright I tried several times to properly download the avatar I created and it kept giving me this racist caricature of a man so I'll be contacting my lawyer while I write this post (
SARCASM). The avatar of my average customer is someone in a suburban home, likely a college graduate who spent their time listening to music about the peace and love era that is long dead and gone. They've accepted the decline of humanity and the erasure of their individuality, leaving them time to dwell on humanity by reading Hegel and watching Bojack Horseman while also wondering how long their current lifestyle can last. They're past their twenties, they're employed, and, worst of all, they're assimilated. The prototypical customer for a guy like me is someone who views everything new with a sense of distrust, and therefore rarely purchases new products or services. They don't have kids themselves, and that leads them to actually like kids more so than other adults. They'd care more about the problem of urban decay, natural death creeping into the civilized world. Do I have a lot in common with them? Only in an American sense; I personally wouldn't care whether or not the nature of death starts to appear in our society and frankly I'd welcome it with regards to how we actually view ourselves within the world. That said, we both care a lot about things that no one else sees. Also, my prototypical customer doesn't lift weights. Can't even squat their body weight.
Hi, cool description on your prototypical customer. I liked how specific you got with your description lol, but it gave me a better sense of who your customers would be. I thought it was important that you brought up that you and your customer cares about a lot of things that most people wouldn't. Sharing this similar value with your customers is an important bond to make your service successful.
ReplyDeleteI had the same problem with the avatars! Anyways, I agree with Tiffany that how specific you were is a good thing. It helps you connect with your target audience, whether you find commonality between them and yourself or not, and that enables you to tweak the product better.
ReplyDeleteAs our professor mentioned in the directions, you were very specific and included a large amount of detail when discussing your possible customer. They seem to have an open mind and don't tend to follow current trends, I feel similar with this customer as I cannot squat my own body weight even though I don't look like them. They have an interesting perspective on life.
ReplyDeleteI loved the description on your prototypical costumer. I liked the way on how you ended it saying that they do not even lift their own weight, kind of funny but in general I liked it !
ReplyDeleteWhile I liked your description of the customer, I'm not sure I see the connection between that customer and your service. The recent college grad that has lost hope in much of humanity doesn't seem like the person to fund a cause that improves anything. I suppose they seem to lack the optimism that humans can change and that the world can be a better place, especially if Bojack Horseman is one of their idols. Also, if they view everything with a sense of distrust, what will make you and your service stand out as good in their darker (and perhaps slightly cynical) eyes.
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