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Cultivating Content from Customers

Content cultivation is the practice of collecting content from customers to use in ongoing marketing and customer nurturing. When it comes to content marketing after the sale, you need focus on the issues that are important to current customers. What better source…

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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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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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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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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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5 strategies for faster customer story approvals

Customer stories often have bad rap in marketing organizations.  Everyone loves them when they’re done. But the process of publishing customer stories can be difficult – you’ve got to line up interviews with the customers, write and edit the story,…

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