
Advice & Insight
Reflections on customer advisory boards, customer relationships, and what it takes to strengthen them both.
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CIO: Your Next Chief Customer Officer? [Article]
[AS SEEN IN CUSTOMER THINK] CIO's are becoming more involved in customer engagement strategy as a way to ensure delivery of the appropriate high value technology solutions. Jane Hiscock shares three approaches CIOs are taking in adopting this new customer-facing aspect of the role.
Customer Advisory Boards – Listening Labs for Client Feedback
As clothing brands establish labs to test new product designs directly with customers, the clients we serve use Customer Advisory Boards to stay competitive in this rapidly changing marketplace.
Reinventing the Customer Experience
Building a remarkable, memorable, meaningful, pick a positive adjective—customer experience is what marketers are chasing today. And it isn’t just marketers—CEOs place building compelling customer experiences as their number one priority.Why is this such a difficult challenge to tackle?
The Power of Customer Advocacy in Times of Disruptive Transformation
In this time of fundamental disruption, one of the most powerful assets to survive the tumult is a strong, loyal customer base. Tap into key lessons learned in what it takes to create sustainable customer engagement and advocacy.
Fortune 500 CEO Advice Helps to Drive Customer Engagement
Customer engagement tips for the C-suite
B2B Marketing Summit – London 2016: The Power of Customer Advocacy in Times of Disruptive Transformation [SPEAKING]
Jane Hiscock, President, Farland Group and Alison Orsi, VP of Marketing, IBM will be presenting at the B2B Marketing Summit, London, June 22, 2016.
Understanding Your Customer is Not Just About Star Ratings
The Net Promoter Score (NPS), has provided marketers and customer experience leaders with one way to determine how customers feel about their products and services. It was – however – never intended to lead to the instant star ratings and recommendations on-demand that our digital world has built
Picking Up the Phone: The Human Touch in Customer Experience
Choosing the phone over email adds value to your relationships with your customers, enriches the customer experience, and increases efficiency.
Advisory Boards Open New Market Opportunity
Customer Advisory Boards can drive new thinking and innovation if you consider a different approach to membership and content.
3 Steps to More Personalized Account Based Marketing [Article]
[AS SEEN IN CHIEF MARKETER] How to deliver more personalized account based marketing to customers...
Criteria for Success: Define the Right Customer Advisory Board Membership
Getting the right members on board is the lynchpin of a successful Customer Advisory Board (CAB). Here are some lessons learned in developing an effective membership screen and the right criteria to recruit and maintain members.
Customer Advisory Boards: Delivering Client Value through Peer Relationships
We see customer advisory boards delivering value to members through peers engagement. Here are just three of the many benefits of these peer connections.
Peers: The Secret Sauce to Advisory Board Success [Article]
[AS SEEN IN CUSTOMER THINK] Don't underestimate the power of peer connections when convening a customer advisory board.
Transformation and Change Must Not Trump Customer Engagement
Businesses today are moving through a lot of change, but this is distracting employees to focus internally and forget about customer engagement approaches that are needed to retain and grow the business.
Four Ways to Earn Loyalty in the C-Suite [Article]
[AS SEEN IN LOYALTY360] Four key factors that contribute to winning or losing loyalty in the C-suite
Getting a Grip on Digital Leadership
With every C-suite leader vested in the future of digital, the question is who is going to lead the transformation? Three recent articles provide a useful perspective on the CDO role and how executives should think about digital leadership.
How an Outside Partner Strengthens your Advisory Board
Why hire an external partner to help deliver a Client Advisory Board? Many companies have found that the strategic and challenging nature of operating a successful Client Advisory Board makes an outside specialist critical for its success. Here’s why.
Chief Marketing Officers – Leaders of Disruption, Drivers of Growth
Farland Group convenes a Council of Global Fortune 200 CMOs and through that work have gained expertise on the role of the CMO, the signficant trends in marketing and technology. Learn more about the top 3 areas that emerged in a recent webinar with other thought leaders.
A Board Member’s Perspective on Why CIOs Should Join Customer Advisory Boards [Mention]
[AS MENTIONED IN CIO | INSIGHT] Tom Greene, Chief Information & Business Services Officer for Colgate-Palmolive shares why he believes CIOs should join customer advisory boards in his article at CIOInsight.com.
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