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customer acquisition

The cost of focussing on customer acquisition

Our Managing Director, Rachel Bevans, analyses a recent experience to consider the cost of focusing on customer acquisition without a balanced approach to retention. The scenario You’re a loyal customer of 10 years with a monthly subscription service, costing $102 a month. You go to login to your account and see exactly the same package […]

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Building trust in uncertainty calls for alignment

Purpose-led leadership aligns people, planet and profit Purpose-led leaders agree that the role of a business is to create long-term value for all stakeholders, achieving the triple bottom line of people, planet and profit. This is alignment in its purest form – aligning customers, employees and key stakeholders around a common purpose, values and identity

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The Future is Bright for Business and Brands: Optimism makes life better

Part 4 of 4 on the importance of optimism in building brands and business, written for and appearing first in First 5000, the professional network for Australian mid-sized businesses.  When times are tough, businesses and brands can drive optimism by: helping people feel better about themselves and their lives; and helping people feel better about

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The Future is Bright for Business and Brands: Through the Lens of Optimism

Part 3 of 3 on the importance of optimism in building brands and business, written for and appearing first in First 5000, the professional network for Australian mid-sized businesses.  Look at your business and brand through the lens of optimism Working with Mid-sized Businesses and the larger end of Small Businesses, I understand that the

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10 themes driving brands and business into 2020 and beyond

Reset: 10 Themes Driving Brands & Business into the Next Decade

2020 is the dawn of a new decade. Rachel Bevans explores the top ten themes driving brands and business from the last decade into the next one. Written for First 5000 Introduction For many, 2019 has been in limbo. There have been organisation shake-ups, projects stalling and brands standing up for what they believe in,

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In it for the long term: business, brand and marketing strategy

Businesses need to invest in the long term or risk being stuck in an endless cycle of cash flow challenges. First published in First 5000. Short-term financial priorities rule the mind-set of many mid-sized business Having worked with mid-sized businesses, and evident in research by KPMG1 BDO2, Grant Thornton3 and the Australian Government Department of

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Revitalise Your Brand

Balance consistency and evolution Brands should be developed as long-term assets to the company and for long-term relationships with customers and employees. Consistency is key. On the other end of the scale, complacency is dangerous. Brands need to evolve over time to accommodate business growth, new customers and employees, market changes and so forth.  It’s

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Turn strategy into actions to achieve your objectives

12. Activities, action targets, timing and responsibilities Once you’ve agreed on objectives, priority strategies and investment, you can develop your activity plan: – Customer segment and strategy – What are the activities you need to do?  – What are your action targets? – What is the timing?  – Who is responsible?  Example: Awareness, engagement and community building

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Commercial assessment, prioritisation and investment

11. Commercial assessment, prioritisation and investment Once you’ve assessed your strategies and how they need to be changed to achieve your objectives, you’ll need to prioritise what you do and when. This requires a commercial assessment of which strategies are ‘good business as usual’, the quick wins (lower value, lower resource) and big wins (higher value, higher resource), small

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Is your customer value proposition designed to achieve objectives?

5. Customer value proposition What is your customer value proposition? What is your offer to customers that is of value to them and will increase their value to you over time?  What are their unmet needs and problems that your brand and business can solve?  What are the products and services, important elements of the experience/marketing

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