The Network Is Your Customer

"An incredibly useful and valuable guidebook to the new consumer economy. Buy it. Learn from it. Succeed with it."--Jeff Jarvis, author of "What Would Google Do " "This is the stuff that every business and nonprofit needs to embrace if they're going to succeed in a changing world."--Vivian Schiller, CEO of NPR With clear analysis and practical frameworks, this book provides a strategic guide that any business or nonprofit can use to succeed in the digital age. Marketing expert David Rogers examines how digital technologies--from smartphones to social networks--connect us in frameworks that transform our relationships to business and each other. To thrive today, organizations need new strategies--strategies designed for customer networks. Rogers offers five strategies that any business can use to create new value: ACCESS--be faster, be easier, be everywhere, be always on ENGAGE--become a source of valued content CUSTOMIZE--make your offering adaptable to your customer's needs CONNECT--become a part of your customers' conversations COLLABORATE--involve your customers at every stage of your enterpriseRogers explains these five strategies with over 100 cases from every type and size of business--from shoes to news, and software to healthcare. In "The Network Is Your Customer," he shows: How Apple harnessed a host of collaborators to write apps for its iPhone How IBM designed a videogame to help sell its enterprise software How Ford Motors inspired an online community to build brand awareness for its new Fiesta...and countless other cases from consumer, b2b, and nonprofit categories. The book outlines a process for planning and implementing a customer network strategy to match "your" customers, "your" business, and "your" objectives--whether you need to drive sales, to enhance innovation, to reduce costs, to gain customer insight, or to build breakthrough products and services. Because today, whatever your goals and whatever your business, the network is your customer.

Rethink your business for the digital age. Every business begun before the Internet now faces the same challenge: How to transform to compete in a digital economy? Globally recognized digital expert David L. Rogers argues that digital transformation is not about updating your technology but about upgrading your strategic thinking. Based on Rogers's decade of research and teaching at Columbia Business School, and his consulting for businesses around the world, The Digital Transformation Playbook shows how pre-digital-era companies can reinvigorate their game plans and capture the new opportunities of the digital world. Rogers shows why traditional businesses need to rethink their underlying assumptions in five domains of strategy—customers, competition, data, innovation, and value. He reveals how to harness customer networks, platforms, big data, rapid experimentation, and disruptive business models—and how to integrate these into your existing business and organization. Rogers illustrates every strategy in this playbook with real-world case studies, from Google to GE, from Airbnb to the New York Times. With practical frameworks and nine step-by-step planning tools, he distills the lessons of today's greatest digital innovators and makes them usable for businesses at any stage. Many books offer advice for digital start-ups, but The Digital Transformation Playbook is the first complete treatment of how legacy businesses can transform to thrive in the digital age. It is an indispensable guide for executives looking to take their firms to the next stage of profitable growth.

An internationally known public speaker, entrepreneur, and marketing executive shares practical, up-to-date tips for mastering the skills of networking. Networking doesn’t have to be that frenzied old-school game of calendars packed with stuffy power lunches and sterile evenings at community business gatherings. We’ve entered a new era, one in which shifting cultural values and the explosion of digital technology enable us to network in vastly more efficient, more focused, and more enjoyable ways. A fresh take on How to Win Friends and Influence People, Your Network Is Your Net Worth is an entertaining, straightforward guide filled with revealing case studies, hands-on advice, and innovative strategies for building your network. Written by sought-after speaker, entrepreneur, and marketing executive Porter Gale, with a foreword by Apple evangelist and bestselling author Guy Kawasaki, this book shows you how to establish, expand, and nurture your connections both online and off. New ways to network are popping up every day—and Gale tells you how to make the most of them—but even traditional networking opportunities are not the same animals that they once were, and we need to shift our attitudes and approaches accordingly. Networking has evolved from a transactional game to a transformational process. Whereas once it was about power plays, now it’s about charting your own course, following your passions, and making meaningful connections, which in turn increase your happiness and productivity. In addition to chronicling her own rise from an ad agency intern to an in-demand consultant, Gale also shares the inspiring stories of so many others who live by this networking model: a military wife who connects with social media communities while her husband is deployed overseas, a young woman blog-ger battling leukemia, a dyslexic politician who wins elections by telling stories, and the CEO of a Major League Baseball team who once made a phone call that changed the course of his life. When you focus on your passions and reorganize your networking around your values and beliefs, you will discover the kind of lasting relationships, personal transformation, and, ultimately, tangible wealth that are the foundation for happiness and success. With a message both timely and important, Your Network Is Your Net Worth is the definitive handbook to Networking 2.0.

Un-tap the power of influence to build rapport and trust, Use network tools to grow, inform and support your Customer Network; Activate teams to foster customer input, recognition, and ownership. Implement a Communication system to generate a wealth of Master key network skills necessary to rocket your bottom line profits.

Customer First. Team Second. Ego Third.What if the key to the next level of your business is to return to what motivated you at the beginning of your business? Network marketers are so often concerned with how to duplicate themselves in their business that they lose sight of what's most important: helping customers experience the life-changing properties of your product. Tasha Smith shows you how to increase your team sales by focusing all of your energy on creating impact for customers.Tasha has been coaching and training people in sales for 19 years, and has been able to help thousands of people be successful without being "salesy" or pushy. Instead of asking a question like, "how do I find more committed builders?" Tasha asks, "how can we provide the very best experience possible for customers, and how can we lead a team to do the same?"In Customer First, Tasha shows you how to bust through the blocks you have in your business, communicate with customers authentically AND effectively to help them solve their problems. You will also learn how to make more sales without all of the follow-up and nagging, grow and duplicate your team and show up consistently as the best version of yourself.

Step By Step Methods On How To Get Customers And Generate Leads In Your Network Marketing CompanyYou're about to discover how to make more money with your network marketing business by creating a loyal customer base. In this book, you'll learn how to generate leads online and offline. You'll also learn how to turn those leads into customers that will keep coming back to you, and only you. Win trust of customers effortlessly with these proven steps. In network marketing, you are most successful when you know how to sell. This is because we have to know how to sell in order to teach our teams to sell. This is a very "how to book". No fluff. Just ideas, methods, and strategies that you can start implementing in your business today! If you want to earn the "right now" money, you have to know how to generate leads and get customers. Once you get a customer, there should be no reason why you weren't able to keep them. In the book, the importance of customer service is discussed. Another rep in your company should never be able to take your customers. You have to be the best to get the best customers. And I'll teach you how, with these proven strategies. Customers are the lifeline of your business. Without sales, you cannot properly train your team or your future team. This book is for network marketers at any level. There are many ideas in the book that are original and can be implemented immediately. Today, with so many distributors, customer loyalty is not easy to get. But if you offer them something no one else can you will build a relationship and reap the benefits. Learn super easy tricks you can use on social media to drive traffic to your company website where people will make purchases and you'll be able to sell to them again because you'll be the one collecting the leads. Getting customers is simple, but we tend to make the process complicated. Once I learned what they really want through experience-- customers were super easy to get. Generating leads and customers is a skill that you have to learn in order to make it in any business, both online and offline. Never stop sharpening the skills needed to make money. Advertising and marketing play a big role in your success. If you don't know how to do either-- you'll tend to come off as sketchy. Learn how to make leads and customers trust you right away. Also, find out how you can make your customers feel special by simple gestures. The skills you learn in this book can be transferred to any business. Every single business needs customers to stay afloat. In network marketing, you have to have the right mindset. Use the mindset tricks I discuss in this book. Once you learn how to sell and have the right mindset you'll be able to train your team members with ease. If you're not making any money it's probably because you're not offering enough value to customers. I'll show you how to add value. Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn... How To Generate Leads How To Turn Leads Into Customers How to Make Customers Loyal How To Increase Your Sales Lead Generation Strategies for Both Online and Offline How To Stay Motivated How To Get Leads and Customers via Social Media Internet Marketing Strategies Much, much more! Get your copy today!

Business Models for Transforming Customer Relationships What if there were a way to turn occasional, sporadic transactions with customers into long-term, continuous relationships--while simultaneously driving dramatic improvements in operational efficiency? What if you could break your existing trade-offs between superior customer experience and low cost? This is the promise of a connected strategy. New forms of connectivity--involving frequent, low-friction, customized interactions--mean that companies can now anticipate customer needs as they arise, or even before. Simultaneously, enabled by these technologies, companies can create new business models that deliver more value to customers. Connected strategies are win-win: Customers get a dramatically improved experience, while companies boost operational efficiency. In this book, strategy and operations experts Nicolaj Siggelkow and Christian Terwiesch reveal the emergence of connected strategies as a new source of competitive advantage. With in-depth examples from companies operating in industries such as healthcare, financial services, mobility, retail, entertainment, nonprofit, and education, Connected Strategy identifies the four pathways--respond-to-desire, curated offering, coach behavior, and automatic execution--for turning episodic interactions into continuous relationships. The authors show how each pathway creates a competitive advantage, then guide you through the critical decisions for creating and implementing your own connected strategies. Whether you're trying to revitalize strategy in an established company or disrupt an industry as a startup, this book will help you: Reshape your connections with your customers Find new ways to connect with existing suppliers while also activating new sources of capacity Create the right revenue model Make the best technology choices to support your strategy Integrating rich examples, how-to advice, and practical tools in the form of "workshop chapters" throughout, this book is the ultimate resource for creating competitive advantage through connected relationships with your customers and redefined connections in your industry.

"The customer relationships that a company is able to cultivate represent the most important asset that will never appear on its balance sheet." -From Chapter 1 of Build Your Customer Strategy Build Your Customer Strategy: A Guide to Creating Profitable Customer Relationships spells out how to create profitable and lasting customer relationships. It demystifies creating the great customer experience-something that everyone seems to be talking about these days-by showing you how to approach "experience" in ways your competitors haven't even thought of. Praise for Build Your Customer Strategy: A Guide to Creating Profitable Customer Relationships "Jim Barnes has written a down-to-earth, highly readable book that takes you through real examples with concrete ideas you can use today. Fact is, customers are the only source of revenue, and Jim will help your company build the strategy to grow the value of each customer to your firm, by making sure your firm becomes more valuable to each customer." -Don Peppers and Martha Rogers, PhD coauthors, The One to One Future and Return on Customer "Jim Barnes is in a class by himself as a guru who truly understands customer relationships from the customer's point of view. Read Build Your Customer Strategy when you're ready to move past slogans and technology-based CRM projects to create real customer equity and long-term profitability." -Bob Thompson, CEO CustomerThink Corp., and founder, CRMGuru.com "Build Your Customer Strategy is the book for leaders committed to creating genuine connections with clients. Jim goes beyond conventional thinking to help businesses understand, create, and implement a strategy that will result in the type of long-term loyal customers everyone wants-the ones who bring their family and friends." -Anne Lockie, Executive Vice President, Sales Canadian Personal and Business Clients, RBC Royal Bank "Excellent reading. Jim Barnes brings a refreshing perspective to customer service, loyalty and the importance of long-term, sustainable client relationships. Insightful and very educational." -Stephen Foster, Senior Vice President, Operations Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.