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View Article  Selling Integrity to Truth-starved Customers
In a Throwaway Society, what is really being thrown away? And how do we get back what we have lost?   more »
View Article  Will Rogers Sweeten the iPhone Pot?
Apple/Rogers iPhone Canadian launch is not enough sweet, too much sour.   more »
View Article  Loyalty and Price Elasticity
What tips the scales in keeping customers on side with price increases when the competition is nipping at your heels?   more »
View Article  Telco, Telco, Where Art Thou, Telco?
Why does every phone company that enters the market operate the same? Is it an infectious disease that is spread through the grid? Richard Branson, come and rescue another industry from malevolent customer mismanagement.   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  Upgrading for Productivity
What is the true cost of keeping technology up-to-date?   more »
View Article  Pink Again!
I tickled me to see this after I wrote the entry Keeping Customer Relationships in the Pink (Jan 17, 2008). ...   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  Fiddle While Rome Burns
Food shortages, oil prices, geopolitical instability, one customer-centric marketing solution   more »
View Article  Closing the IT Loop
Converging technology, changing business models and mega-mergers in IT are no defense without a roadmap based on customer values.   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  Round and Round and Round She Goes. Where She Stops Nobody Knows.
Bear Stearns falls, Visa rises. You have to give credit where credit is due.   more »
View Article  Mrs. Fields, Tim Hortons, Wendys, McDonald's - spot the odd man out.
In the US of A if you can't create a cultural icon, you have more than just a hole in your doughnut.   more »
View Article  Get Yer Fresh Black Appleberries!
The main impact of iPhone - Blackberry competition will be category expansion, which is good for both.   more »
View Article  SmartPhone/StupidCarrier
According to a recent survey more than half the smartphone users polled thought enabling security on their devices was their own problem, not the carriers. Someone is still asking the WRONG questions.   more »
View Article  The Fool’s Gold Rush
How to make or lose vast quantities of investment money and product potential based on customer research.   more »
View Article  The McCultural Revolution
Having failed to revalue its brand proposition to healthier food (go figure!), McDonald's is seeing surprising results just by changing the interior, to appeal to specific customer values.   more »
View Article  The Root of All Evil
What makes marketers do things they shouldn't in the attainment of goals they are striving to reach   more »
View Article  The Hand That Rocks The Cott
When your product depends on consumer values, yet you have no relationship with the consumer, your fortunes will be carried by the winds of change. Wouldn't losing 90% of your share value be a message to change that dynamic?    more »
View Article  Paying Homage to the Gods
Oscar night raises 1 billion hopes for a few hours that these illusions are what life is all about. That's what dreams are for and where many customer values lie. So here is my ode to such purveyors of dreams, hopes and other marketing divinities.   more »
View Article  Kill the Goose, & Grab the Eggs Anyway
Loblaws, a Canadian Retail icon, has fallen faster than a shooting star while still trumpeting a brighter future in the tail of its burn out. It must be trying to keep those shareholders on board. But where are those customers flying???   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  "Is There a Doctor in the House?"
Lack of Doctors, lack of choices in healthcare and no way to fix things other than a ballot every 4 years. Can customer-centric marketing be applied to fix Canadian Healthcare?   more »
View Article  Behavioral Economics
Economics is based on rational behavior. Behavioral economics defines the irrational and leaves you wondering what is really holding the world up?   more »
View Article  Clorox vs. Burt's Bees
Is there a bandwagon some companies shouldn't jump on, and how do customers re-evaluate their values when savvy investors bag their most treasured prizes.   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  Joy to the World!
Oh To to Wish a Happy, Merry, .... To Whom Should You Wish The Joy of Christmas, or any other religious holiday?   more »
View Article  Which End of the Telescope Do You Use?
The semantics of your marketing communications have to change if you really want to embrace customer-centric marketing.   more »
View Article  CIBC - IOU $4.3B
When asset accumulation is a self-serving goal to be the biggest and best, banks need to rethink their services and get back to customer reality.   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  Gas Again
Gas supply charges are down to $0.26/cu.m. Some people locked in last Summer for 5 years at $0.49 caving in to pressure marketing tactics. But you won't hear gas marketers crying wolf at today's rates. Shame on them.   more »
View Article  One Day Forward, 10 Years Backward for Cda's Wireless Industry
Hardly had the thought left my head on yesterday's blog when the CRTC today announced a repeat performance of the debacle they created the last time a spectrum auction was announced. Bad for customers, bad for competitors, bad for new bidders.   more »