Today the hottest new area of marketing is Customer Relationship Management (CRM) — the discipline of identifying, attracting, and retaining a company¹s most valuable customers. Drawing upon more than ten years of testing, tryout, and implementation in hundreds of companies, CRM expert Jay Curry, and his Internet-expert son, Adam Curry, have written a clear, step-by-step guide to profiting from this exploding movement, with strategies that are aimed at the small and medium-sized business owners who need them most.
Jay Curry explains how CRM can help managers boost profits by implementing a customer-focused strategy. Using easy-to-understand graphics, he introduces the customer pyramid — segmented as “Top,” “Big,” “Medium,” and “Small” — to help the reader visualize, analyze, and improve customer profitability. Success comes to those who follow this three-step Customer Marketing Strategy: (1) get new customers into your pyramid; (2) move customers higher into your pyramid; (3) keep the customers in the pyramid. Combining practical how-to directives with vital CRM reference information, the book includes a case study, “InterTech,” that allows readers to see customer-focused strategy in action.
The final third of this practical, easy-to-read book is devoted to the Internet. Here Adam Curry introduces the “Permission Pyramid” and the “e-Customer Marketing Pyramid” to explain the nature of “virtual customer relationships” and how to use them to create, keep, and upgrade customers. This section includes mini-cases and tips to help managers use the Internet to complement current marketing and sales activities and ends with guidelines to test out the new paradigms of e-commerce.
Throughout The Customer Marketing Method, the emphasis is always on practical steps to “make it happen.” It is essential and timely reading for owners of small and medium-sized businesses as well as managers of small business units within larger firms.
Customer Reviews
Practical and very useful:
This books can show you an interesting and practical method that will help you ending your CRM pains.
A intelligent aproach to a very dificult discipline.
Customer Communications Consultant:
Chairman of the Customer Marketing Institute, co-founder of consulting group MSP Associates, and CRM “guru” Jay Curry takes readers on an international journey “through the pyramids.” Using the “rest of the world” as the foundation to the pyramid structure, Curry shows readers how to build on suspects and prospects and carry them to the top of the customer pyramid. From inactive customers to top tier clientele, Curry offers valuable information, trends, statistics, and real-life
examples.
This is not simply a book about customers. It is a handbook for anyone who has customers. Curry goes beyond traditional customers and offers his version of the e-Customer and special considerations for marketing to this virtual audience. Filled with action items, the book is formatted with numerous graphics in a manner that is easy to digest and quick to place into service.
Whether you are a small business owner or a manager in a multi-division corporation, this book has information you can read today and use tomorrow, building a customer pyramid with not only a firm foundation but also a top filled with satisfied, and profitable, customers.
GET,MOVE,KEEP customer:
Now Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is the hottest area of marketing. This book explain that CRM is the activity of getting customer in, moving customer up, keeping customer in. Authors written a clear, step-by-step guide of CRM. Authors introduces the “Permission Pyramid” and the “e-Customer Marketing Pyramid” to explain the nature of “virtual customer relationships” and how to use them to create, keep, and upgrade customers. I think that this concept is simple and clear. but it explain all of CRM.
GET,MOVE,KEEP customer:
Now Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is the hottest area of marketing. This book explain that CRM is the activity of getting customer in, moving customer up, keeping customer in. Authors written a clear, step-by-step guide of CRM. Authors introduces the “Permission Pyramid” and the “e-Customer Marketing Pyramid” to explain the nature of “virtual customer relationships” and how to use them to create, keep, and upgrade customers. I think that this concept is simple and clear. but it explain all of CRM.
The only book to present real Performance Indicators:
As another reviewer wrote, there is a lot of theory (and even blabla, my words) around. However, this book offers the only readily implementable framework in CRM I know of. Production management has been working with Performance Indicators for years. Somehow, marketing, sales and service have never gotten so far. This book presents a set of measurements, together with a means of setting them up and improving results. I am using excerpts in my teachings at a business school, but also at secondary school level and everybody understands everything. So the theory HAS TO be simple as well!
