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Amazon’s Next Moves
It’s a Customer Ecosystem Poised to Become an Increasingly Important Part of Our Lives
by Patricia SeyboldAmazon isn’t “just” an online retailer; it’s a vibrant and layered customer ecosystem designed to help you get things done faster and cheaper. Amazon phones will bring added convenience. Amazon’s ads will be more relevant than Google’s or Facebook’s. -
VOC: Using Customers’ Interviews to Inform Decision-Making
How the Residents of a Small Community Are Shaping the Future of Healthcare
by Patricia SeyboldWe used interviews of residents on the Boothbay peninsula to help keep cherished St. Andrews Hospital, which Maine Health wants to turn into a walk-in clinic. I interviewed 48 patients and published verbatims. The result: a stay of execution. -
Daily Deal Fatigue
Putting the Bloom Back on the Rose
by Ronni MarshakAfter an explosion onto the marketplace a few years ago, daily deal sites are floundering. Why are consumers turned off and what can dealers and merchants do to win them back? -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Will Amazon.com Emerge as a Viable Gaming Platform?
Enabling Platform-Agnostic Social Gaming Customer Ecosystems
by Patricia SeyboldAmazon may provide the next major ecosystem for social gaming, challenging Facebook, Zynga, Apple, and Google. -
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. -
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! -
How to Innovate Business Models
Should You Create a Business Model Innovation Factory?
by Patricia SeyboldSaul Kaplan’s book, The Business Model Innovation, clarifies why so many internal innovation projects fail: they challenge existing business models. -
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. -
Facebook’s Timeline: Seductive and Dangerous?
Applications Integrated into Timeline Track Everything that You and Your Friends Do
by Patricia SeyboldFacebook’s new Timeline is much more than a new user interface. It’s a seductive forced march designed to lead us all into a marketers’ nirvana in which our activities and life events are tracked. -
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? -
Unintended Risks of Using Facebook
Pay Attention to What Information, and Whose Information, You Are Sharing with Whom!
by Patricia SeyboldBe a good steward of your privacy and the privacy of your friends and family members on Facebook. Learn how applications are mining and analyzing your and your friends’ Facebook behavior and what you should know about those practices. -
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? -
Local Motors: Open Source Car Design and Local Manufacturing
Forging a Customer Ecosystem to Transform the Automobile Industry
by Patricia SeyboldCan you transform an industry from the outside? That’s what Local Motors is doing with the automobile industry with its customer ecosystem to design and produce great cars. -
The Next Big Thing: Customer Ecosystems
Six Secrets for Designing Business Networks Aligned To Help Customers Get Things Done
by Patricia SeyboldCustomer ecosystems are business networks that are aligned to help customers get things done—both the things they want to accomplish and the things they want to manage. We’ve found six keys to designing successful customer ecosystems. -
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.
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