Competing for Customers

COMPETING for CUSTOMERS : https://www.mainstaycompany.com/blog/features/competing-for-customers/

Business-to-business customer expectations have changed. To survive - and thrive- in today's economy, where customers are constantly reevaluating their purchases and looking at options never available before, you need to deliver business outcomes, not features and functionality.

Suddenly, your "sale" is no longer a one-time event: it's a relationship that demands continuous care and nurturing. You need to constantly deliver, measure, and demonstrate the value you create for your customers.

Like it or not, it's your job to make sure your customers succeed - and keep on succeeding - with what you've sold them. That job has a name: "Customer Success."

Delivering customer success means radically changing the way you engage with customers - from sales, to marketing, to engineering and support,. This book gives you a complete framework for doing just that. Step by step, you'll learn how to make sure your customers are achieving business outcomes from your offerings...now, net year, and for years to come.

Embed customer success in your organizational DNA, in 3 steps:

Listen: Truly understand what it means for your customers to succeed with your offerings

Engage: Start a productive dialogue, collaborate to solve problems, and promote awareness to the value you create

Ensure: Innovate to deliver on you promises, prove it to the customer, and build retention

Competing for Customers: How the Best Companies Use Customer Success to Deliver Results That Matter

Facilitators: Amir Hartman, Founder, Mainstay and Carol Sato, VP Global Customer Programs, Oracle

“Customer focus” and “customer advocacy” are no longer enough. Today, customers can walk away from your products and services on a moment’s notice. There’s only one way to make sure it doesn’t happen: focus relentlessly on helping them achieve measurable business outcomes. Not just once. Not just before the sale. You need to support outcomes constantly, throughout your

entire relationship—and make sure your customers know it. This doesn’t just happen. It requires a comprehensive, tested blueprint that integrates everything you do.

Those in charge of customer advocacy and other customer programs, must be center stage in this transformation. Based on the forthcoming book “Competing for Customers,” and using examples from some of the best companies out there, Amir and Carol will discuss the unifying principles and tactics required for success.

This workshop will provide attendees with:

• A self-assessment to identify critical gaps
• A facilitated breakout session to identify short term remedies
• Best practices from some of the leading companies

 For more information about the Center of Customer Engagement Summit visit http://centerforcustomerengagement.com/