customer relationship cultivation

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Social Loyalty

November 16, 2009 | 1 Comments

Today’s customer is less likely to spend and more likely to be discerning when they do which has further widened the profitability gap between maintaining existing customers and acquiring a reluctant new one.  Traditional loyalty problems...

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Fun Theory

November 9, 2009 | 2 Comments

What does a piano staircase, an arcade recycling bin, and the worlds deepest trash can have in common?  People use them....

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Context: What Are Your Customers Missing?

September 21, 2009 | 1 Comments

As a Washington Post experiment Joshua Bell, one of the finest classical musicians in the world, playing some of the most elegant music ever written on one of the most valuable violins ever made stood...

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It’s A People Question

September 14, 2009 | 0 Comments

Recently NetFlix found a winner to their long standing, million dollar, contest designed to inspire freelance teams toward creating new algorithms which would "…substantially improve the accuracy of predictions about how much someone is going...

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Marginal Non-Negative Impact

August 22, 2009 | 0 Comments

You send emails every day.  You send an email to a friend or colleague, and it goes through.  Occasionally you check the spam folder to see if anything important was missed.  Usually it wasn’t.  Spam...

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When Value Added Does Not Add Value

August 17, 2009 | 1 Comments

The concept starts as an organization who wishes to increase value to their customers.  Not so bad.  But what happens when this goes horribly wrong?  Suddenly it becomes blatantly obvious that you really don’t know...

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The Value Of An Ad Not Seen

August 10, 2009 | 0 Comments

What is the value of an ad not seen?  Worse yet, what is the value of an ad seen but not acted upon?  For years we as marketers have worked hard to turn the Internet...

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Tappers vs. Listeners: Who’s Who?

July 20, 2009 | 0 Comments

Made to Stick , a book by Chip and Dan Heath, brings about concept of tappers and listeners with respect to marketing.  They contend marketers have too much information to adequately convey their message to...

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The whole idea behind new media and social networking is to form deeper relationships with customers which can be cultivated into a strong bond and, hopefully, brand loyalty. We use twitter, facebook, email, linkedIn, blogs,...

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Why Your New Media Campaign Failed

June 24, 2009 | 2 Comments

Passion & Greed.  That’s it.  Those two words account for so much failure in new media, I can’t even begin to tell you.  But I can tell you why, and you can fix it....

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