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Effective customer engagement requires a commitment to reciprocal value. Too often, companies use customer stories to benefit them, and fail to consider the benefit for the customer. Our approach will push you to focus your engagement strategy on the value to the customer.

Developing a customer-centric commitment requires a shift in mindset. Done well, meaningful engagement will ultimately lead to better business results for your customers and ultimately return benefit to you.

Recent Advice & Insight

Getting to a Customer Engagement Mindset

Posted on 12.3.2018 by in Engagement Strategy

Many marketers are stuck in an activity mindset, focused more on the event calendar and the client reference database than strategic conversations with customers. In contrast, an engagement mindset creates a strategy focused from the outside-in rather than from the inside-out. Here are ways to shift your approach toward an engagement mindset, even when you can’t achieve a full-scale transformation.

From Seller to Advisor: Engage Your Customers to Help You Stop Pitching

Posted on 11.11.2018 by in Engagement Strategy, Featured

At the 2015 ITSMA annual conference, we considered, “If it is all about the customer experience, why are we still pitching?” We share the key takeaways from our discussion with Janis Fratamico, Director, Relationship Marketing at Bloomberg and David Coates, Director, Customer Programs at Iron Mountain, about relationship-based engagement…and four ways your can help your organization work from a customer point of view.

To Dial, Or Not To Dial…That Is The Question!

Posted on 03.20.2018 by in Engagement Strategy

We live in an era where technology is full-steam ahead and constantly changing. We hear this from our clients throughout our work at Farland Group — that companies are in a game of cat-and-mouse to keep up with one another. Technology is the reason it’s so easy to open my email first thing in the morning and send that quick note to the assistant I’ve been chasing for two weeks.