Why You Should Forget About Exceeding Customer Expectations Our modern business literature is filled with books and articles from experts who advise businesses to exceed customer expectations and over-deliver as a way to delight customers, build loyalty, improve retention, increase referrals and drive growth. This thinking is so entrenched in corporate America that it often …
How You Define Your Market Matters Definition of a market: “A medium that allows buyers and sellers of a specific good or service to interact in order to facilitate an exchange.” – Investopedia. Note that this definition is based on existing products and services. Consequently, it should be no surprise that many executives define their …
Businesses Don’t Drive Growth; Customers Do Peter Drucker said, “The purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer.” While companies also exist to build wealth for owners, provide jobs for employees, etc., a company cannot survive unless it first creates value for customers.
Do Customers Know What They Want? At the core of every successful business is an understanding of what target customers regard as superior value and how to deliver it to them. But how do we determine what customers regard as superior value? Do customers know what they want?
7 Benefits of Knowing Why Customers Buy Your Offering “People don’t want to buy a ¼” drill; they want a ¼” hole!” – Theodore Levitt Ultimately, customers don’t care about your offering or mine; they just want to get something done.
The Customer Information That is Essential Marketers talk a lot about buyer and user “personas.” A persona is an example or archetype of a real person who buys or might buy specific offerings. Personas can significantly improve focus and decision-making because they provide marketing and new product development teams with a concrete focus. However, not …
Even the so-called experts and thought-leaders in innovation frequently talk about the importance of discovering customer’s “latent unarticulated needs, needs that customers cannot tell us.” This is a very common myth! It is false. The problem is not that customers cannot articulate their needs – they can.
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