--- title: 5 Tips for Uncovering Changing Customer Preferences During COVID-19 description: In this turbulent time, it is critical to evaluate changing customer preferences. image: https://blog.ams-insights.com/hubfs/arturo-rey-5yP83RhaFGA-unsplash.jpg --- - [Insights Blog](https://blog.ams-insights.com) - [Toolkit Login](https://voctoolkit.ams-inc.com/login/) - [Join Us](https://www.ams-inc.com/why-work-at-ams/) [![AMS\_web\_logo\_final](https://blog.ams-insights.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Applied-Marketing-Science-2026/images/AMS_web_logo_final.png?width=200&height=61&name=AMS_web_logo_final.png "AMS_web_logo_final")](http://ams-insights.com) - [Solutions](https://ams-insights.com/our-solutions/) - [Training & Coaching](https://ams-insights.com/train-your-team/) - [Who We Help](https://ams-insights.com/who-we-help/) - Who We Are - [The AMS Difference](https://ams-insights.com/the-ams-difference/) - [Our People](https://ams-insights.com/our-consultants/) - [Contact Us](https://ams-insights.com/contact-us/) - [Resources](https://ams-insights.com/resources/) [Talk to a Consultant](https://ams-insights.com/contact-us/) - [Solutions](https://ams-insights.com/our-solutions/) - [Training & Coaching](https://ams-insights.com/train-your-team/) - [Who We Help](https://ams-insights.com/who-we-help/) - Who We Are - [The AMS Difference](https://ams-insights.com/the-ams-difference/) - [Our People](https://ams-insights.com/our-consultants/) - [Contact Us](https://ams-insights.com/contact-us/) - [Resources](https://ams-insights.com/resources/) # 5 Tips for Uncovering Changing Customer Preferences During COVID-19 It may now be cliché to declare that COVID-19 will change everything, but it is still true. As businesses reopen and life slowly returns to something resembling “normal”, reality is going to be different for your customers. What may have been true before the crisis – **customer needs, priorities, and pain points – will likely be replaced by a new set of truths when it has passed.**  A severe shock to the market – a global pandemic, a financial crisis, an oil embargo – dislocates and disrupts, but also **creates opportunity for innovators in new products and services**. Events that “change everything” reset everyone’s understanding of what customers need, rendering years of accumulated insights obsolete.   If you are not thinking about how your customers’ needs have changed and will continue to do so, you are missing that opportunity. The winners in the post-COVID-19 marketplace will be the innovators that **use the crisis as an opportunity to build a new, unique, and proprietary fact base about changing customer** **needs** before their competitors do. 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