the age of customer
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Marketing in the Age of
Customer
ROYA SAQIB, NADINE WALKER-MOONEY, MARANA AVANT
Key words: E-Commerce, Social Media, Age of the Cusomter, Truth-based Marketing, Customer
Intelligence, Customer Experience
INTRODUCTION
Business Disruption by Empowered Customers
Business Responses
Business Reinvention
History of Traditional Marketing
Practices
Business Intelligence
Data Mining and Data Analytics
Customer Intelligence
Target Market Segmentation
HISTORY According to David Cooperstein, et al in “Competitive Strategy in the Age of the
Customer”
1900Age of
Manufacturing
1960Age of
Distribution
1990Age of
Information
2010Age of the Customer
CUSTOMER POWER
“Our research indicates that customer power
in this Internet era is driven by three factors:
more options, more information, and simpler
transactions”
-G. Urban (2002)
CUSTOMER POWERE-Commerce
E-Commerce
Options
Information
Transactions
U.S. consumers are exposed to 5.3 trillion ad impressions per year
6.8 billion mobile subscriptions in place (7.1billion people on the whole planet!)
CUSTOMER POWERSocial Media
RESPONSE TO CUSTOMER POWER
“Where the buyer has full information about
demand, actual market prices, and even supplier
costs, this usually yields the buyer greater
bargaining leverage.”
- Michael E. Porter (1980)
Marketing in the Age of CUSTOMER
Traditional pure push marketing Focus on Trust-Based Marketing
RESPONSIVENESS
Be responsive
a) Listen,
b) Respond
c) Prevent
BUSINESS RESPONSE TO CUSTOMER
POWER
Develop effective social media strategies
a)Get a social media monitoring tool (Social CRM tools)
b)Know what data to extract and why (actionable data),
Turned data contextualized customer experience
Caution: Balance between too personal and too
superficial use of data
RESPONSE TO CUSTOMER POWER
Get your customers to advocate on your behalf
The most successful companies in the age of customer
will be those who craft customer relations and
experiences into their business strategies for a win/win
outcome.
References
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Ontario.
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Surma, J. (1980). Business Intelligence: Making Decisions Through Data.
Urban, G. (2002). Wy is Consumer Power Growing and How Should Companies Respond? MIT Sloan.
Washkuch, F. (2011). Netflix Fixes What Was Never Broken. PRWeek, 8-8.
References
Glen, U. Interacting with Social Customers, 101, Why Is Consumer Power Growing and How Should Companies Respond?
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http://searchcrm.techtarget.com/news/2240110333/Tread-carefully-with-social-media-based-customer-loyalty-programs
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Q & A