John Wiley & Sons Inc Customer-Centric Marketing: Build Relationships, Create Advocates, and Influence Your Customers

"Customer-Centric Marketing examines the complex forces influencing the rise of the empowered and demanding customers, and outlines how marketers can use these forces to connect with them. It breaks down how the new purchasing journey has created a wholenew set of customer touchpoints with unique needs, and identifies key activity areas such as customer experience, innovation as part of organizational culture, content development, social media, and operating strategy. The book's actionable framework is a plan to show how marketers can pull all the seemingly independent elements together into customer centric business model that is ideally positioned to take on the dynamic requirements of today's marketing environment. Insights include: How to define the new customer-purchasing journey and how to build an organization to benefit from it How to identify the new consumer and how to influence them Strategic rules that CMOs can use to model their organizations and position themselves to win in this new environment How to engage, nurture and utilize the new brand "Advocates" to spread your message "-- The practical, expert guide to reaching the new consumerCustomer-Centric Marketing is a comprehensive game plan on succeeding in the new marketing landscape by focusing on the customer. Written by one of Canada's top communications pioneers, this book examines the complex forces influencing the rise of empowered and demanding customers and outlines a framework that helps marketers exploit these forces to engage them. You'll find actionable advice to help you pull together these seemingly independent elements to create a customer-centric business model that is ideally positioned to take on the dynamic requirements of today's marketing environment, and learn the strategic rules that CMOs can use to model their organizations to win. Valuable insights on customer experience, innovation, content, social media, and operating strategies will help you formulate a workable plan, and when combined with the practical guidance and expert advice, enable you to put your plan into action today.The new purchasing journey has created a whole new set of customer touch points with unique needs, and has identified key activity areas that drive success or failure in the marketplace. This guide helps you sort it all out, and make your organization rise to the top. Define the new customer-purchasing journey Identify and influence the new consumer Engage, nurture, and utilize brand advocates to spread your message Position your organization to win in the new marketplace As customers evolve, smart companies evolve with them, and, with a track record that speaks for itself, putting the customer at the center of strategic thinking is the key to a winning plan,. Consumer evolution is happening more rapidly than ever before, and keeping your organization out in front has never been more important. Customer-Centric Marketing provides the concrete framework, expert insight, and actionable advice that turns strategy into reality. Autorid: Aldo Cundari