Category: Subscription Marketing


It’s Never Too Early to Start Planning for Customer Retention

“Value nurturing sounds great, but first we need to prioritize lead generation.” Lead generation almost always takes priority over customer retention efforts. According to a recent study by Regalix Research, only about one in four B2B marketers plans for customer retention….

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Using Customer Data: Don’t Be Creepy

Businesses have all kinds of data about customers. You can use that data in ways that demonstrate value to your customers, or that erode customer trust or creep people out. You decide. As a previous blog described, campaigns that use customer data can help you reinforce…

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Disrupting Digital Business: A Book Review and Marketing Perspective

The word ‘disruptive’ is thrown around a lot lately. It made Forbes’ list of the 10 most overused startup buzzwords. But there’s a good reason for that. Disruption is all around us. It’s better to acknowledge and embrace that fact…

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Getting Creative about Customer Retention Marketing

On Wednesday, May 13, I’ll be hosting a webinar on Creative Approaches to Retention Marketing. To whet your appetite, here’s a sneak preview of a few of the topics: Using video to add personality to customer communications Why customer retention marketing campaigns is how you do Customer…

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Using Data to Demonstrate Customer Success

Wow, I’ve walked the length of Japan. The team at Fitbit sent me that nugget of data recently, and it’s a great example of value nurturing using data. Fitbit is all about collecting and sharing data. It reminds me if…

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The Customer Retention Marketing Opportunity

It’s time for marketers to give customer retention a little love. According to the State of B2B Product Marketing 2015 report by Regalix Research, customer retention marketing comes in dead last in the list of B2B marketing activities. Only about one…

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Value Nurturing: Marketing Meets the Subscription Economy

In the subscription economy, marketers must dedicate time and energy to nurturing their current customers. If you sell using a subscription model, then your future revenues depend heavily on the success and loyalty of your current customers. The potential payback for marketing…

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Embedding Marketers on Customer Success Teams

How can marketing work effectively with the growing Customer Success teams on the customer-facing front lines of their businesses? The question has been on my mind since I attended the Totango Customer Success Summit recently. Businesses are staffing and expanding…

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An Insider’s Guide to the Membership Economy (Book Review)

Question of the day: Are memberships one variation of the Subscription Economy (as suggested in John Warrillow’s The Automatic Customer, which I reviewed here)? Or are we really experiencing the growth of a Membership Economy, for which subscriptions are merely…

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Why Customer Success is Marketing’s New Best Friend (or Should Be)

Marketing and Customer Success are like two people in a canoe. Ideally, you’re both trying to get to the same place (a successful business with happy customers). The trip is much easier when you work together well. And in choppy…

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