2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
New Thinking, 11 Oct 2002
By Timothy Horrigan - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Customer Share Marketing: How the World's Great Marketers Unlock Profits (Hardcover)
The overwhelming majority of business books that I have read over the past decade provide no new thinking. Books on how to lead, how to manage, how to sell, provide very little practical advice and even less new thinking.
This book provides new thinking. It is not a copycat title. Any industry can and should adopt the model. Thanks for delivering something fresh...
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
CUSTOMER SHARE MARKETING CHANGES EVERYTHING!, 13 Feb 2002
By Carolyn D Steele - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Customer Share Marketing: How the World's Great Marketers Unlock Profits (Hardcover)
Customer Share Marketing is the most logical explanation of the funk that business finds itself in today, and offers the only possible solution for growth for companies that have maxed out their market share limits. We certainly have.
The author has articulated a new marketing discipline that will revolutionize the way products and services are marketed worldwide. Customer Share Marketing cuts through all of the CRM hype, jargon, expense, and promises that have mostly gone unfulfilled. It makes sense that a new strategic marketing discipline (CSM) will help marketers deliver increased sales and profits. Unlike CRM, which was born out of technology, CSM is strategic, and was born out of marketing.
We've all heard the blah, blah, blah of getting closer to your customers. Customer Share Marketing just does it - building meaningful relationships with customers one at a time based on two important elements that take the guess work out of marketing:
1. Relevance to the individual customer based on product preferences that they knowingly provide the marketer
2. Permission granted to the marketer directly from the customer
Forget about acquisition. We are shifting our business model to reflect much more of a retention-oriented, customer share growth-oriented philosophy. Customer Share Marketing is a game-changer for us or any industry for that matter.
Why haven't we been doing this all along? Read it.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A highly tactical eCRM book in disguise, 21 Feb 2006
By ServantofGod - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Customer Share Marketing: How the World's Great Marketers Unlock Profits (Hardcover)
Though the author has done much elaboration on causes behind the shift of mass market share marketing to one-to-one customer share marketing with plenty of real life examples by big corps (using email, e-newsletter, rich media download etc), it failed to impress or edify me at all. One reason being that the author does not show any framework or analytical tool that differentiates his concept of customer share marketing from other maintstream marketing/CRM/e-commerce concepts that we are so familiar with. What's worse is that the book is a little jumpy and disorganised. It tries to tell much, but I assure you that you will simply forget what you have just read the very moment you close it. In short, not recommended, unless you just want a case book for tactics to copy and/or modify.
No matter what, as usual, below please find some passages I like the most for your reference:-
How the web is used. (Seven business models) pg 15
1. Brochureware model e.g. century21.com, mckinsey.com
2. Advertising-based model e.g. espn.com, cnn.com
3. E-commerce model e.g. microsoft.com, dell.com
4. Sales facilitation model e.g. sprite.com, frito-lay.com
5. Fee-based model e.g. ebay.com, etrade.com
6. Subscription-based model e.g. wsj.com, variety.com
7. Mall or portal model e.g. yahoo.com, aol.com
What are the objectives of your website? pg 18
1. Inform?
2. Build brand?
3. Generate offline leads?
4. Transact business online through e-commerce?
5. Facilitate offline sales through promotions?
6. Reduce costs by eliminating steps in the value chain?
7. All of the above?
Customer Touches, Inhouse(High) vs Outsource(Low): pg 102
- Product knowledge
- Customer Intelligence Gathering Capability
- Expeditious Resolution Capability
- Cross-Sell/Up-sell Capability
- Customer Satisfaction