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70% of Fortune 1000 will be Replaced: Will you Be Relevant?

Posted On: April 30th, 2012 by | Advisory Boards, Customer Advisory Boards, Customer Engagement Strategies, Customer Value, Customer-Centricity | Permalink | No Comments

In an April 2011 article in Forbes magazine, contributor Nathan Furr outlined the challenge to big... read more

Marketing is the Product

Posted On: March 26th, 2012 by | Customer Communities | Permalink | No Comments

Much is being written about the transformation of marketing.  The IBM CMO study of 1700 CMOs... read more

Reciprocal Value: You Have to Give to Get

Posted On: March 7th, 2012 by | Advisory Boards, Customer, Customer Advisory Boards, Customer Communities, Customer Engagement Strategies, Customer Value, reciprocal value | Permalink | No Comments

Organizations create customer advisory councils or convene customer forums for a variety of reasons: to gain... read more

Connecting to Customer Needs – Sometimes it’s What You Say (or Don’t), Not What You Do

Posted On: March 1st, 2012 by | Advisory Boards, b2b Customer Community, Building Loyalty, Customer Engagement Strategies, Customer-Centricity, Customer-Focused Marketing | Permalink | No Comments

Companies are investing lots of time and energy to collect and listen to input and feedback... read more

B2B and B2C Marketing: Are the Lines Blurring?

Posted On: February 15th, 2012 by | Advisory Boards, b2b Customer Community | Permalink | 3 Comments

Much has been written about the blurring of lines between B2B and B2C marketing.  Marketing automation... read more

Creating a Setting for Conversation that Matters: The Devil Really is in the Atmospheric Details

Posted On: February 1st, 2012 by | Advisory Boards, Content, Conversation, Customer Advisory Boards, Customer Communities, Event Planning | Permalink | No Comments

How many times have you attended a meeting, forum, or event that had tremendous content, but... read more

Laying the Tracks in Front of the Train: Are Your Customers About to Run You Over?

Posted On: January 24th, 2012 by | Advisory Boards, B2B Communities, Building Loyalty, Customer Engagement Strategies, Customer-Centricity, Customer-Focused Marketing | Permalink | No Comments

I was talking recently with an executive about the work he is doing around the strategy... read more

Are You Ready for 2012 to be the Year of Customer Experience?

Posted On: January 9th, 2012 by | Advisory Boards, B2B Communities, Building Loyalty, Customer Advisory Boards, Customer-Centricity, Customer-Focused Marketing | Permalink | No Comments

Amidst the myriad of predictions and forecasts for marketing in 2012, I was struck by a... read more

A Year For Customers, Leadership and Optimism

Posted On: December 21st, 2011 by | Advisory Boards, Analytics, b2b Customer Community, Customer, Customer Advisory Boards, Customer Communities, Customer Engagement Strategies, Customer-Centricity, Customer-Focused Marketing | Permalink | No Comments

Of course it would not be December without a blog post that reflects upon 2011 –... read more

Building Customer Value: The Power of Relationships

Posted On: November 16th, 2011 by | Advisory Boards, Analytics, Community, Customer-Centricity | Permalink | No Comments

Guest blog post by Katharyn White who serves as IBM’s Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) for its... read more