Marketing Strategy

Customer Data: top trends, collection methods, and best practices in 2022

We’ve collated all the relevant information about how to collect customer data whilst overcoming this hurdle to put your business in the best position possible.

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Nathan HoareNathan Hoare

Collecting customer data is an essential part of any successful marketing strategy but as privacy regulations are tightened, and customers become more cautious of giving out their personal information, we need to come up with more innovative ways to collect customer data.

We’ve collated all the relevant information about how to collect customer data whilst overcoming this hurdle to put your business in the best position possible.

So, what is customer data?

Any information that you collect about your customers is customer data. This can include personal information, behavioural preferences, demographic information, and buying or browsing habits.

Having customer data forms a positive feedback cycle.



The more customer data that you have the more you can tailor the content that reaches your customers. The more personalised your content is to each customer’s interests, the more likely they are to return to your business and become a loyal customer.

There are a variety of methods for collecting customer data

Third parties
Social media
Website analytics
Customer surveys
Loyalty programs

What are the different types of customer data?

There are four different types of customer data that can be collected. They range from trustworthy and direct to large-scale and less specific.

First-party data

First-party data is all data collected by the brand about its customers from its customers. This is the most key segment of customer data that a business can collect because of how reliable it is at predicting behaviours.

Customers are often happy to share information with brands that they are passionate about and so long as the business has a good policy of data protection.

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