My deck from SOBCon Chicago 2013 - talking about customer intimacy, and working through your existing customers to develop your company's growth strategy.
17. Ideal Customer 2nd Generation Cust
First
Offer
ew Version
Of
First
Offer
LOW Risk
Medium Risk
Medium Risk
Slow Death Tailoring the
Filling next logical need
• Low product
investment
• Low marketing
investment
• Low to Medium
product
investment
• Medium to High
Marketing
• High product
investment
• Low to Medium
Mktg Invest
18. The nature of BAD
customer service?
Superb customer service
= When YOU care more
about your customer’s
problems than yours.
19. Care + Empathy =
Customer
Intimacy
Means you can
ANTICIPATE their
20. Ideal Customer 2nd Generation Cust
First
Offer
ew Version
Of
First
Offer
LOW Risk
Medium Risk High Risk
Medium Risk
Slow Death Tailoring the
Filling next logical need SUDDEN Dea
• Low product
investment
• Low marketing
investment
• Low to Medium
product
investment
• Medium to High
Marketing
• High product
investment
• Low to Medium
Mktg Invest
• High product
investment
• High Mktg
Investment
21. Ideal Customer 2nd Generation Cust
First
Offer
ew Version
Of
First
Offer
LOW Risk
Medium Risk High Risk
Medium Risk
Slow Death Tailoring the
Filling next logical need SUDDEN Dea
• Low product
investment
• Low marketing
investment
• Low to Medium
product
investment
• Medium to High
Marketing
• High product
investment
• Low to Medium
Mktg Invest
• High product
investment
• High Mktg
Investment
Lot of different notions of customer intimacy – from what a masseuse experiences, to what Targets does with its data analysis. The question is, what CAN it mean for YOU and your business?
THE THEORY OFVALUE DISCIPLINESThe inuit have hundreds of words for snow – but then Linguists argue. The SAMI people, though – then norternmost indigenous people of Europe – have like a thousand words for Reindeerhttp://www.ashridge.com/website/IC.nsf/wFARATT/When%20Operational%20Excellence%20Meets%20Customer%20Intimacy/$file/OperationalExcellence-CustomerIntimacy.pdf
The inuit have hundreds of words for snow – but then Linguists argue. The SAMI people, though – then norternmost indigenous people of Europe – have like a thousand words for Reindeer
The inuit have hundreds of words for snow – but then Linguists argue. The SAMI people, though – then norternmost indigenous people of Europe – have like a thousand words for Reindeer
FROM “Results-based Leadership,” - By Dave Ulrich, JackZenger, and Norm Smallwood
Another way of looking at customers, to borrow from Carol Roth…
This is the networked customer. This is what happens when you work more within the realm of communities, as opposed to individuals