Tag: customer relationship management

7 ways to piss potential business clients off

September 4, 2015 • Content Marketing • 5 comments

6 Ways to Piss Potential Clients Off
Courtesy of Ace of Sales

How do account managers in agencies end up infuriating their clients? What can agencies do to avoid becoming gossip client fodder?

As a long-time marcoms director in my previous incarnation, I get approached quite frequently by advertising and marketing agencies offering all kinds of wares. They include anything from design and advertising agencies, web developers, digital marketers, PR consultancies, workshop and conference organisers to video production houses, gifts suppliers and printers.

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7 Ways to Truly Delight Your Customers

February 19, 2014 • Content Marketing • no comments

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Marketing is broken. At least in the traditional sense.

Focused on customer acquisition, promotions and sales volumes, traditional marketing views customers as “targets” to be arrowed.

Bigger, bolder and flashier campaigns are launched to attract their rapidly diminishing attention while carrots like discounts, freebies and lucky draws are dangled to coax them to open their wallets. 

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The Five Levels of Customer Engagement

October 27, 2013 • Business and Management • 1 comment

Group of Business People Holding Placards Forming Customer

Courtesy of DC Marketing Pro

Customers. Love them or hate them, they’re the only reason for our existence.

In the past, our customer relationships were pretty non-existent. A customer walks into a store, browses around, picks up a can of soda, pays, and leaves.

Perhaps a lady could be having her hair done at a salon, and the stylist would banter with her while trimming her tresses. After her hair is styled and cut, she departs happily to her next appointment.

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