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Assigning Emotions to Moments of Truth
Enhancing Customer Scenario® Mapping by Capturing Feelings
by Ronni MarshakCapturing how customers might feel depending on how well you help them achieve their goals can enhance a line of site from customer priorities through your bottom-line opportunities based on how they are feeling while doing business with you. -
Profile of Lead Users in Systems Architecture
What Can We Learn from Patty’s Pioneers that Will Help Us Identify Lead Users
by Patricia SeyboldLead users are the people who want to design their own products and services because yours don’t fit the bill. To identify true lead users, you need to know what to look for. Use this example from info tech when you’re recruiting lead users in any domain -
The Emotional Rollercoaster within Customer Scenarios
Most Customer Scenarios Bring Out Mixed Customer Emotions; Are You Prepared to Respond to Them?
by Ronni MarshakWhat emotions are customers feeling as they get things done? How can you anticipate and respond to customers’ negative emotions? -
BuzzCar—Peer-to-Peer Car Rental
Building a Platform for Participation for a “Peers Inc.” Business Model
by Patricia SeyboldBuzzcar is a peer-to-peer car rental company that started in France. Instead of leaving your car in driveway, rent it to a neighbor! Founded by Robin Chase, the co-founder of Zipcar, Buzzcar uses what Robin calls a “Peers Inc.” business model. -
How B2C Customers Are Similar to B2B Customers
The Roles Consumers Play as They Interact with Your Firm
by Ronni MarshakRegardless of what hat your customers are wearing when they do business with you—parent, employee, soccer coach—they all want a great customer experience. Consumers have more in common with business customers than you might think. -
Getting at Customers’ Moments of Truth
The New CSM Guidebook: Part 6: Identifying and Measuring Moments of Truth
by Ronni MarshakUnderstanding your customers’ scenarios and the potential showstoppers to customer success should be part of your customer experience strategy. Learn how we identify these “Moments of Truth” as a part of Customer Co-Design. -
The Mobile E-Wallet Customer Ecosystem
What Types of Players Need to Partner and What Do They Need to Do to Gain Customers’ Trust?
by Patricia SeyboldThe mobile e-wallet landscape is a 6-layered ecosystem of players, with e-wallet providers at the top and payment and financial institutions at the bottom. If all players aligned around customer-critical issues, mobile e-wallet adoption would accelerate. -
Measure What Matters to Customers
The New CSM Guidebook: Part 5: The Vital Importance of Metrics
by Ronni MarshakMeasuring things is easy. Figuring out what to measure is hard! Here are guidelines for defining metrics that matter to customers and how you should measure your organization's performance and bottom-line opportunities based on these measurements. -
Alaska Airlines’ Evolves Its Mobile Strategy
Catering to Frequent Flyers Pays Off
by Patricia SeyboldAlaska Airlines has been delivering mobile apps since 2010. They chose to focus first on the functions needed for “day of travel” rather than online booking. -
Don’t Blindside Your Customers
Bankofamerica.com Neglects to Warn Customers of a Glitch that Requires Customer Attention
by Ronni MarshakWhen there is an emergency service interruption to your customer experience, it’s important to have processes in place to remedy the situation. Bank of America missed that opportunity and was deluged with calls from frustrated and annoyed customers. -
What Do I Do Now?
When Customers Are in Crisis, How Well Do You Support Them?
by Ronni MarshakCrises are great opportunities to gain customer loyalty for life. How your brand and your organization rally to help customers in crisis is often the make or break point in any customer relationship! -
Setting Expectations for Customer Co-Design and Other Customer-Facing Engagements
The New CSM Guidebook: Part 4: Setting Expectations
by Ronni MarshakNo matter how well prepared you are for your customer-facing events, you won’t be completely successful if the expectations of participants haven’t been clearly set. Here are tips for setting the expectations of customers, partners, and internal stakeholders. -
Career and Job Hunting Advice
How Well Does Monster.com Help Prepare You for Your Job Hunt?
by Ronni MarshakCustomers often need preparation in order to value your offerings. We look at how Monster.com prepares members before they actively start searching for jobs. The lessons learned can apply to any organization. -
When and How to Embed Customer Co-Design into Your Projects
What Customer Co-Design Options Fit Your Purview?
by Patricia SeyboldWe have found at least six opportunities to embed customer co-design into the projects you’re already doing. Our recommendation? Use customer co-design early and often. -
Handling the Logistics of a Customer Scenario® Mapping Session
The New CSM Guidebook: Part 2: Logistics Check List
by Ronni MarshakPreparing a customer-facing engagement can be a logistics nightmare. Here is a checklist of the details required to run a successful Customer Scenario® Mapping session, which is a superset of all the logistics required for a great customer engagement. -
How to Plan for a Customer Scenario® Mapping Session
The New CSM Guidebook: Part 1: The Eight Pre-Session Planning Activities
by Ronni MarshakTo get the most out of Customer Scenario® Mapping sessions, you need to plan carefully. Here, we provide an overview of the eight steps you’ll want to take before each event to ensure that your customer co-design sessions are successful and impactful! -
Customer Ecosystems: Meal Ordering Services
Creating Customer Ecosystems Around a Specific Service
by Ronni MarshakIf there’s “a job” that customers need to get done, it’s relatively easy to foster an ecosystem of business partners to fulfill customers’ goals. What take-aways for your business will you get from our comparison of three competing meal ordering services? -
Groupon's New Consumer Programs
How Do They Benefit Consumers? And What Do They Offer Merchants?
by Ronni MarshakGroupon is trying new programs to win the loyalty and wallets of existing and new customers. But do the programs offer enough to attract customers to join? And what’s in it for the merchants? -
What Stands in the Way of Successful Customer-Centric Projects?
The Five “Gotcha’s” that Plague Most Initiatives
by Patricia Seybold, Ronni MarshakMost customer projects encounter five obstacles to success: lack of resources, lack of access to the right customers, no buy-in from execs, inadequate execution, and no tangible results. Here is advice on how to overcome these internal showstoppers. -
Survey Shows Data-Driven Marketing Improves Sales Productivity and Market Share…Yes!
What Does It Take to Become Data Savvy?
by Susan Aldrich, Susan McKittrick, Julie Schwartz, Christopher KochSurvey on the impact of data-driven marketing on business performance shows improved sales productivity and market share. Read what it takes to become a data-driven marketing organization.
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