Lars Birkholm Peterson is one of the co-authors of Connect - How to use Data and Experience Marketing to Create Lifetime Customers. I interview Lars about the Customer Experience Maturity Model and how to apply some of the principal's of customer centric marketing practices for business. Lars explains some quick wins you can achieve by aligning your digitial channels, using ppc campaign results and how to personalise and segment your customer journey on your website. He gives some Australian examples of companies creating great customer experiences like QTM Mutal Bank and Australian Super.

To learn more about the book and take the Customer Experience Maturity Model Survey visit connecttheexperience.com

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Bernd Schmitt is a professor, speaker, author and thoughtleader in the space of branding and marketing. I wanted to interview him about his book Happy Customers Everywhere: How Your business can profit from the insights of positive psychology, because Customers are central to every business.

To learn more about Bernd visit his website MeetSchmitt

To buy the book go to Amazon

I was interviewed about building a customer centric marketing approach some time ago and have decided to share with you 10 minutes of key highlights. Today having a customer centric approach to your marketing is not a nice to have, it is a must have.

Here is a You Tube Video Webinar about being customer centric Dan did for Axient.

Jordan Elkind has the same passion for customer centricity as me. His love of information and insight has created a career well suited to him at Custora a new sofware company. Custora provides a dashboard of data analytics for retail customers to create more compelling, relevant marketing touchpoints for their customer's journey. The result is more profitable customers and less customers at risk of ending their journey.

Jordan's insights are a must listen for any business as we all scramble to create the customer connection that brands like Esty, Threadless or Redballoon enjoy as a client of Custora.

Custora website

Custora University

Jordan's email [email protected]

Jon Pietz runs Brandxco and is a branding expert. Jon uses probing interview techniques in his brand discovery process with clients.This buyer insight and the real problem you solve for your ideal customers, is part of Jon's approach. This branding strategy transforms your marketing activities and the return you get on your marketing spend. Spending some time with Jon you will learn from his many years experience about how to develop your core brand position.

Jon's process is aimed at understanding:

You:

What are you good at? What makes you different? What are your most satisfying experiences with your clients? When you are firing on all cyclinders and what is that like?

Your sales cycle:

Your process, your sticking points, why you win, who they try and attract as ideal customers

Competitors:

Who are they, what makes them different, where do they compete

Ideal customers

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• Identify up to 12 awesome customers
  
• Score your customers for certain factors, need, values, referral opportunity, growth, etc
  
• What is driving their behaviour: from life and work that you provide
  
• Where do they get their information: social, magazines, 
  
• What are the common, beliefs, values, fears: The psychology behind why they buy from you.
  

Jon turns the tables on me and asks me about my process and my ideal client.

Books Jon referred to:

Tom Asacker The business of Belief

Ted Talk by Tom

Simon Sinek Start with Why

Marty Neumeir - Liquid Agency The brand Gap

Chip and Dan Heath - Made to Stick Switch

Jeanne Bliss - I love you more than my dog

Brandxco

It has been a long time in the making but I am so delighted that The Customer Culture Imperative is now on the shelves. I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr Linden Brown from MarketCulture on the new book he has co-written with his son Chris Brown about creating a customer centric culture. What makes this book different from others like Peter Fader's and experts on customer centricity is that it is backed up by research proving the relationship between 7 key customer centric behaviours and business growth.

Please enjoy this interview with Dr Linden Brown.

Niraj Dawar is a Professor at the Ivey Business School and with a wealth of corporate experience as an expert marketing strategist. Niraj has wrote one of the most important books I have read as a customer centric marketer this year. Tilt: Shifting Your Strategy From Products to Customers.

Key strategic questions that I earmarked in reading Tilt  by Niraj Dawar are as follows:

1. Why do your customers choose you? Make sure it is not table stakes.

2. What business are you in? What business do your customers think you are in? How have they defined you? The answer you give to this question is predictive of how you see your business strategy

3. How is profitability measured? By customer or by volume?

4. Where do you spend most of your effort and energy? – on the service or product you sell or on understanding your customers and consistently delivering value to them by asking one fundamental question: What else do our customers need?

“Today manufactures can replicate the looks and feel of an innovative product and print it to market for a fraction of the price, in a fraction of the time it use to take. Even Nike and HP manufacture their products in Asia.” Tilt pg 178

5. How can we take what we know about our customers and provide value in different ways.

Niraj gives a indepth interview with me around the reason he wrote Tilt, the difference between upstream and downstream strategies and what it was like to present the book to the Canadian president!

More information:

strategytilt.com

Blog

My article on Tilt