Locking Customers into the Loyalty Loop

In a not so recent article (Nov/2015) on the Harvard Business Review, Competing on Customer Journeys by David C. Edelman and Marc Singer discusses the new shaping of the customer journey. Their description of the journey is shaped in a strikingly similar structure that remind many of us as a type of (not so) casual loop or a system archetype. Read More …

Do You Know the Cost of Your Customers?

I think it would be safe to say that in traditional Lean Practices, the notion of Product/Goods Dominant Logic still prevails. The opposite, of course, is Service Dominant Logic. From that tradition, you will see many Lean companies viewing their product as a value stream and as a result, their markets in very much the Read More …

Spend Your Time Where Customers Are

Part of The Lean Minute Collection on YouTube Don’t think about WHERE you should stick your next ad or send your next newsletter. WHERE is about the communities that you spend your time in. Successful marketers today spent their time in the business that their customers are in. The simplest way to do that is Read More …

What do Customers Buy, Part 2

John Goodman’s new book, Customer Experience 3.0: High-Profit Strategies in the Age of Techno Service takes John’s Customer Service expertise and puts it into a digital context.  John has managed more than 1,000 separate customer service studies, including the White House sponsored evaluation of complaint handling practices in government and business and studies of word Read More …

What do Customers Buy: Experience or Product?

Part 1 of 2 with John Goodman Customer Experience 3.0: High-Profit Strategies in the Age of Techno Service is John Goodman new book and my guest this week on the podcast. John has managed more than 1,000 separate customer service studies, including the White House sponsored evaluation of complaint handling practices in government and business and studies Read More …

Turning Prospects into Customers

For almost 20 years, Craig used Trigger Event strategies to become a top sales performer at EVERY company that has hired him – including WorldCom where he was named the #1 salesperson within six months of joining the company. Craig has co-authored the book Shift!: Harness The Trigger Events That Turn Prospects Into Customers which Read More …