Business Strategy

Relationship Marketing – Do Twitter and Facebook Make Sense for You?

March 10, 2010

Last week I wrote about an approach to relationship marketing, Hub and Spoke: A Customer Marketing Strategy for the Rest of Us, that even the smallest business can use. Two of the most commonly used and least understood spokes, or tactics, in this approach to relationship marketing are Twitter and Facebook.

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Customers are Important

February 25, 2010

I sometime use this brief presentation when talking about why customers are important. It shows, graphically, the multiplying effect that loyal customers have on revenue and profitability.  Then it introduces Net Promoter Score with an approach to using this idea to drive customer marketing strategy. Customers Are Important View more presentations from James Hipkin.

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Hub and Spoke: A Customer Marketing Strategy for the Rest of Us

February 22, 2010

I have a number of what I call bottom drawer clients. These are usually small projects, projects you can fit in a bottom drawer, for very small businesses without a lot of resources. I don’t make much from these clients but I learn a lot working with them, so it’s not completely gratuitous, and they [...]

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