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View Article  Will Rogers Sweeten the iPhone Pot?
Apple/Rogers iPhone Canadian launch is not enough sweet, too much sour.   more »
View Article  Traverse Marketing: Crossing Segments Without Slipping
It's not so much that different segments have walls that divide them uniquely into different approaches. More like barriers.   more »
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View Article  Traverse Marketing: Launching Your IT Into a New Market Segment
Businesses are frequently frustrated that their initial success is not so easy to replicate as they diversify into different markets. It is one of the main reasons that technology innovation fails to achieve its full potential.   more »
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View Article  Thermablades Slicker On Ice Than Off
A product's innovation should never get in the way of it becoming a success in the market   more »
View Article  Price, Shmice!!!
Price is an indicator of value, but marketers should evaluate the decision criteria that precede it before they start messing with their prices.   more »
View Article  Canada's "USA's Little Brother" Syndrome
China is now the #1 Exporter to US, giving Canada something more to gripe about, or blame the currency, rather than confront the dynamics of its relationship with the US.   more »
View Article  Keeping Customer Relationships in the Pink
A brief tutorial to define the difference between hyper-targeted customer marketing and customer-centric marketing.   more »
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View Article  IT Business: Maintaining Relationships in a Disruptive Business Model
When emerging markets and technology disrupt the traditional supply chain, the key to success is how you support relationships. Understand the principles of customer-centric marketing applied to the dynamics of the IT industry.   more »
View Article  Prospects for 2008
A quick snapshot of 'Business Year Nasties' and how to improve the customer-centric world.   more »
View Article  You Bet Your Bottom Dollar And Killed Your Manufacturing Business
The Canadian Manufacturing Industry's woes are not just due to a rate of exchange gap. Price opportunism is the worst foundation for long-term business relationships.   more »
View Article  The 180º Right Turn
You can't make the right decisions about how to market to your customer base from your side of the fence. Stand up and face the truth - your opinion might be yours alone.   more »
View Article  The 360º About-Face
You can't implement a customer-centric marketing program until you have traveled the complete circumference of your customer's perspective ,and returned to the place where your product, service or brand sits. Then apply what you have learned.   more »
View Article  Fresh Lemons and Bible Lessons
Lululemon's recent IPO and Wal-Mart's Bible Toy Announcement through a customer-centric lens.   more »
View Article  Buck Rogers At It Again
Summer brings out the students on commission from companies that would cheat their way to customer pocket books no matter how publicly listed they are.   more »
View Article  Religion & Politics in Marketing?
Politics, religion and money. Is it too hot to handle or is it time for marketers to remove the blinkers and capitalize on the opportunity?   more »
View Article  Bringing Child Nutrition Into Focus Using Touch Marketing
How to interest Canadian children in good food choices is a marketing conundrum that Hydrogen Creative was raring to solve.   more »
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View Article  Honesty in Relationships: Part I
Customer-centric marketing can only be built on a foundation of truth. The fastest way to kill a relationship is to be caught in a deception.    more »
View Article  Time to cut the umbilical cable
Canadians are over-taxed, and the CRTC is one of the more insidious culprits. But customers can still make a choice.   more »
View Article  Bell Bottoms!
Bell Canada is aggressively calling its best customers to offer better value. How dare they call me their best customer!   more »
View Article  The Cyber-Domesticated Household
How to reduce stress and support lifestyle values in the double-income household.   more »
View Article  The Tail is Wagging the Loyalty Dog
The establishment of a statute of limitations on points redemption for Aeroplan Rewards reveals the dark irony to these programs being categorized as Loyalty Marketing.   more »
View Article  If All the Raindrops Were Customers and Shareholders, Oh What a Joy That Would Be.
How do you balance of shareholder vs. customer expectations in a world that demands immediate gratification?   more »
View Article  Marketing ROI
Part of a forum discussion on the struggle some marketers have to justify their contribution to the bottom line.   more »
View Article  The Vicious Circle of the Marketing Cycle
How the Finance Dept. looks at Marketing and what happens next.   more »
View Article  Custom.er Definition
The word customer has lost its meaning. See for yourself.   more »
View Article  The Good Old Days or The Good New Days
How to reduce the degree of unpredictability in your marketing forecast   more »
View Article  How To Make the Customer the Centre of Your Universe
How do you prevent your customer from considering other products and services? How do you expand your relationship with your customer to convert loyalty into higher frequency and bankable continuity? How do you apply the same techniques to convert prospects into customers?   more »
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View Article  Loyalty Rewards and Sugar Fixes
Are you rewarding true loyalty or being tolerated by the customer because you offer points?   more »
View Article  Bro.ke.n Bo.ard.ro.om
What happens to what comes out of the Boardroom   more »
View Article  COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT CUSTOMER LOYALTY
A step-by-step look at why marketers fail to respect loyalty from the customer's perspective.   more »
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