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Connecting With Your Customer
Webster:• “connected” – joined or linked together• “your” – belonging to you• “customer” – someone who pays for goods or
services
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Connecting With Your Customers
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Connecting With Your Customers
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My Customer Connection Dream
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Earning the Cheese
• Customer has significant pain
• If perceived benefit of product/service exceeds cost, then voluntary exchange of value possible
• Solution must be better than could do by themselves (“economic rent”)
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“Rent” and Pricing
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Series 3Economic RentSeries 2Series 1Variable Cost
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Flying Money Ingredient #1
• Group of customers that has:– Bags of money– An important problem that I can profitably solve
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A Word On “Better”
• Best!• Best?– Cheapest– Fastest– Highest quality– Most convenient– Most fun– Most admirable values
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Flying Money Ingredient #2
• Best Widget
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Product Features
• Customer pain Product Features
• “Marketing is the art of talking about features, but wrapping them in a value proposition” –Holly Hamann
• Pricing
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The Power of Brand
• All sales are emotional
• People have memory, and hopes: What is the perception of how you treated them previously? How do they think you’ll treat them in the future?
• “A brand is a promise to a customer of quality, image, and differentiation.“ – CEO, E&J Gallo
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Video - TheBlogFrog
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The Power of Brand• All sales are emotional
• People have memory, and hopes: What is the perception of how you treated them previously? How do they think you’ll treat them in the future?
• “A brand is a promise to a customer of quality, image, and differentiation.“ – CEO, E&J Gallo
• TheBlogFrog video – what is the brand?
• The enduring power of brands: Apple, MS
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The Sales Process Brand
• Helpful attributes– Affinity / trust / sincerity / integrity– Alignment– Timely & capable
• An aligning question: “How can I help?”– Timely– Sincere– Expert– Expedient
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Flying Money Ingredient #3
• Best Brand– Aka perception as best widget
• (Hint: perception is reality)
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Wait: Nobody Cares!
• Field of Dreams “Build it and they will come” = stupidest movie ever, Kevin Costner sucks
• It takes time and effort to make people give a damn about your schtick
• The science art of advertising:– Making potential customers aware of, and want, your
product – at the precise moment they’re feeling pain
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Advertising Methods
• Newspaper ads• Magazine ads • Billboards• Yellow Pages• TV ads• Endorsements• Spam• AdWords• Word of Mouth
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Raving Fans
• Increasingly, humans are making purchasing decisions based upon their social network
• WoM offers timely, trusted, deep product connections – for free!
• Ask any customer who’s had a good experience to tell a friend, tweet and/or blog about it
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Flying Money Ingredient #4
• Big Ad Budget• Vocal, Raving Fans
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The Flying Money Virtuous Cycle