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Build Your Customer Strategy

A Guide to Creating Profitable Customer Relationships

James G. Barnes
Wiley, 2006

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James Barnes is an iconoclast about statistics and customer relationship management software. He’s interested in building customer loyalty instead. He advocates building it not with data but by putting yourself in your customers’ shoes. Your job then becomes removing everything that gets in the way of their having a great experience in every interaction with your company. Charts help him get his points across, and an appendix that provides a “customer strategy template” will help you implement his ideas. getAbstract recommends this book if you still believe that repeat customers are the same thing as loyal customers or that having a targeted customer marketing strategy means your company is customer-focused.

Take-Aways

  • Put on a “customer hat” and experience your business as customers do.
  • You are probably less customer-focused than you think.
  • Don’t assume that repeat customers are loyal customers.

About the Author

James G. Barnes is the author of seven books, and a speaker and educator on customer relationship strategy. He consults with many major firms on building customer loyalty and managing customer relationships.

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    M. A. 4 years ago
    In these circumstances, while we're getting back to f2f customer promotion, it's very essential to associate with what's central in their lives. HCPs were the immunity system of the society in face of Covid-19 threat and they did a great job all the time especially there is neither confirmed treatment nor a vaccine. Many of them has got infected and some of them lost their lives while working hard to save patients lives. So in the "New Normal", I believe that building customer strategy should have an authentic part of showing empathy and listening carefully to what's they tell about.
    This in conjugation with perfecting digital channels and continuous improvement in understanding the suitable channel(s) per customer/ customer segment.
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    J. Z. 6 years ago
    very good