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Your Brand has an Image, but Does it Have a Great Personality?
Your brand is not what you think it is! It's what your customers think it is; its brand image, personality and value to them. I was lecturing at Miami University a few years ago on brand image and personality. These...
Five Brilliant Ideas to Boost your Insight Development
Insights are the pot of gold that many businesses dream of but rarely find. Why is that? Are you one of them? If so then I have some practical ideas on how you can get much, much better at insight...
The 23 Keys to Creating Raving Fans Part 2
This is the second part of "The 23 Keys to Creating Raving Fans" post by Alan Hale from CMG (Consight™ Marketing Group) in Chicago. Don't forget that you can download the full white paper using the link at the bottom...
The 23 Keys to Creating Raving Fans Part 1
This week we have another guest post from Alan Hale of CMG (Consight™ Marketing Group) in Chicago. Exceptionally, I am publishing it as two separate posts because its length and value deserve the detail and effort he has put into...
How to Make a Great Customer-Centric Website Design
Website design is a variable that changes as fast, if not faster than we can get our latest creation published! In just the past twelve months, digital adoption has expanded five to ten times faster than was expected, thanks to...
24 Factors to Consider in Pricing your Product, Service or Solution.
We have a treat for you today. It's a guest post from the highly respected global expert on customer centricity, Alan Hale of Chicago. He writes about the importance of getting pricing right and generously shares twenty-four (!) factors to...
Should CMOs Concentrate on Brand Building or Business Growth?
Which is more important, brand building or business growth? Do you remember when Coca-Cola did away with their CMO in favour of a Chief Growth Officer? Then two years later they brought back the position. At the time, I asked...
How to Sell More to Less People: Essentials of Segmentation
Businesses often make the mistake of trying to sell to everyone, rather than running a segmentation. Are you guilty of this? Why is this a mistake? Well, if you try to please everyone you end up delighting no one. This...
How to Measure Customer-Centricity the Right Way
Denyse Drummond-Dunn · How to measure customer centricity the right way As a customer-first strategist (just like you I hope), I spend a lot of my time searching how to better measure customer-centricity for my clients. I also do a...
The 5 Essential Rules of Customer Observation for Greater Business Success
One of the best ways I know to understand your customers is to watch and listen to them whenever you can. Customer observation is a powerful, but unfortunately under-utilised tool these days. So when was the last time you got...