Client experience strategies are all the rage these days and for good reason—more and more customers are demanding customized solutions and requiring businesses to know them and understand them at a level we’ve never seen before. Last week, I had »
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Creating Signature Client Experiences: Consider Reciprocal Value
It’s a truism in B2B companies that a handful of customers generate the bulk of the revenue, and that keeping and growing a loyal client is far less expensive than finding net new clients. That’s why B2B marketers must develop strategies that help them listen to and engage customers actively in their marketing programs. As you listen, you will find that your customers are as vested in your company’s success as you are in theirs. That common interest is a basis for what we call reciprocal value: the powerful exchange that occurs when both parties get sufficient value out of a program for it to become self-sustaining.
Creating Remarkable Client Experiences
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Creating a Signature Client Experience
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Do You Really Want to Know What Customers Think?
As you build out your customer experience strategies and work on the plan for your customer-first approach – do you have a plan to actually listen? Do you really care what they (your customers) think? There’s a funny thing that »
Innovating Your Customer Experience? Start With Account Based Marketing
Dedicating marketers to a company’s key accounts—Account Based Marketing (ABM)—is not a new practice, but it is one that is difficult to do well and particularly challenging to effectively deliver at scale. ABM is an increasingly important part of the »
Overcoming the Initial Hurdles in Building a B2B Customer Experience Model
As consumers, we understand that a positive service experience provides competitive advantage for the companies who deliver. Until recently, this has not translated into a similar urgency for business-to-business (B2B) companies. In fact, earlier this year we tested with a »
Customer Engagement Strategies Deliver Revenue
Most organizations today have shifted or are in the process of shifting from product centric to customer centric. But our recent interviews with CMOs from more than 25 Fortune 500 companies show that while this is a known requirement, making »
70% of Fortune 1000 will be Replaced: Will you Be Relevant?
In an April 2011 article in Forbes magazine, contributor Nathan Furr outlined the challenge to big business survival in his post Big Business … The End is Near: Why 70% of the Fortune 1000 Will Be Replaced in a Few »
Marketing is the Product
Much is being written about the transformation of marketing. The IBM CMO study of 1700 CMOs shows that marketers believe the function is in the middle of a dramatic change and the majority also believes that they are not fully »