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Cohorts activation toolkits on China’s premium grill market

Client profile

Our client is a renowned American company specializing in innovative outdoor grills and accessories. With a focus on quality and continuous innovation, the company has become a leader in the global barbecue market, promoting unique grilling experiences and fostering community through shared meals.

Objective

The client reached out to Daxue Consulting to design the best activation toolkit for the most suitable consumer cohorts.

The toolkit makes it possible for us to:

  • Identify the relevant online and offline touchpoints to reach out to our cohorts
  • Design suitable social media content aligned with their main topics of discussion and their way of talking about it
  • Develop a relevant distribution channel recommendation by leveraging the channels they use
  • Collaborate with the relevant KOL profiles to influence the tribe members’ decision-making process

Research process & methodology

We designed a logical 2-step process to develop activation toolkits for 4 target cohorts:

Step 1: Keywords definition and online platforms selection

Step 2: Online data extraction and sorting on each cohort

Our team of native experts started by translating into Chinese all relevant keywords tailor-made for each cohort. We then identified relevant social media platforms and blogs/forums to extract data from through the use of social listening tools.

Here, using social media listening tools, we scraped consumer posts based on the relevant keywords for each cohort that could be found on Weibo, Xiaohongshu, Douyin, Wechat, Baidu and other platforms.

Outcome

We present our findings in the form of a presentation with an actionable toolkit, based on in-depth qualification and quantification of each cohort, including:

  • Top-line demographic profile of each cohort
  • Their key life values as individuals
  • Major topics of discussion online
  • Favorite brands
  • Offline and online touch points
  • Online: platforms that they use and accounts they follow (incl. KOLs)
  • Offline: locations they go to during their spare time (e.g. exhibitions, cafes, etc.)
  • Hashtags, emojis and keywords they use
  • Their pain vs. satisfaction points in their life

 

Following the toolkit presentation, we determined the most suitable consumer cohorts to focus the brand’s strategy on.