· Delight Features: Features that are not expected and that when successfully delivered can exponentially increase the customer’s perception of the brand, product, or service.
· Performance Features: The features that are expected to perform in a way that provides a competitive advantage, or why the customer selected the product over a competitive product.
· Minimum Features: These are minimum expected features, the lack of which can exponentially decrease the perceived value of the brand, product, or service.
· Undesired Features: While not common, these are features whereby their existence would lead to negative perception — that is the customer does not want these features to be present.
“There is a scientific and mathematical approach to engaging with customers to understand subjective desires and shape overall product and service direction.”
The Kano Model contains factors that not only encompass the product and service features — but *how* successfully those products and services are delivered. The same factors of delight, performance, minimum, and undesired can be mapped to the physical interaction with our brand in the delivery of the products or services.
“Given the importance of customer service and customer engagement, as leaders we should also work to define those brand and team member attributes which contribute to success.”
Other aspects of the Kano Model is that it can be used to help define and prioritize new products and services that should be offered by the brand. There is a scientific and mathematical approach to engaging with customers to understand desires and shape product and service direction. Given the importance of customer service and engagement, as leaders we should also work to define those brand and team member attributes which contribute to success.
What are the minimum expectations of the brand and team as it relates to the customer experience? What can be done to provide a competitive advantage? And what would our engagement look like if we really wanted to generate delight? And what should we *not* be doing? These subjective qualities can also be mapped to customer satisfaction surveys. We also develop and use associated metrics to reward employees and team members for performance that delights our customers.
At Idea Spring we've found three main issues common to most organizations:
Online marketing seems to hit almost all of those categories.
Today, it takes diverse skillets to launch, run, and manage effective marketing campaigns. And just as you've tuned your marketing strategy, and everything is humming along -- the rules suddenly change. What worked as a best practice yesterday, could tank your results tomorrow.
Since marketing and marketing automation are no longer just something the "big businesses" do... it is something that everyone needs. I'd even argue that is more true for the small businesses and solo-entrepreneurs. Marketing automation is vital for companies with limited time and resources.
Idea Spring has worked with a number of the leading platforms, and our consensus is that it's really a function of finding the right tool for the right job. However, none of the platforms are a good choice if you don't have a solid marketing and content strategy developed first.
The more integrated the platform, the less agile those systems are at dealing with both strategic and technological change. That's why our platform takes a modular approach to content management and automation. We look at the functionality of each component and wire them together to build the right solution based on budget and need. As the technology or rules change, we can then substitute for a different individual tool instead of the entire system.
As a result, our tip to anyone needing to maximize time and resources, and considering making the important move to marketing automation -- the best first investment you can make is to start with your marketing strategy and content strategy. Finally, when you know your game plan, you find the right platform.
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It's interesting to look at the percentage breakdown of investment dollars by category (marketing analytics, content marketing, social media marketing, etc.) While perhaps not in all categories, I think the breakdown does in some ways reflect the relative importance one should place on their own marketing spend - especially for small and mid-size businesses.
For example, marketing analytics is relatively more important than predictive analytics and just slightly behind business intelligence platforms. However, analytics is less important than content marketing. Common sense will tell you that if you're doing content marketing well you'll see results, even if you're not tracking them. Of course, that doesn't mean that marketing analytics isn't important, just relatively less so.
This chart makes for a nice breakdown of categories to consider what and how your business is investing in marketing efforts.
Social media marketers talk a lot about how to get more clicks, but sometimes we forget about real engagement. What’s the use of clicks if your audience doesn’t stay on the page for any longer than th
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This is a pretty fun (and useful) Infographic on suggested lengths for various online and social media posts.
Why a value proposition might be more effective than your elevator speech or unique selling proposition.
This is a concise article that neatly sums up the differences between Elevator Speech, Unique Selling Position, and Value Proposition. All three are necessary, and each should be aligned with specific client or customer segments.
There are some great tools, resources and processes for brainstorming and creating your Elevator Speech, your USP and Value Proposition. Some approaches and tools we've used with clients at Idea Spring include the Duct Tape Marketing "Talking Logo", the Value Proposition Canvas, and taking some of the principles behind the Blue Ocean Strategy.