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Three-Hour Presentations
FusionBranding: How to Forge Your Brand for the Future    Customer Equity: Driving Profitable Brands in the Customer Economy

Offering #1: FusionBranding: How to Forge Your Brand for the Future

Overview
The book, FusionBranding: How To Forge Your Brand for the Future, revolutionized strategic branding by pointing out the disconnect between the dated branding tactics of the mass economy and the imperatives of the customer economy. It also pointed how companies could build a perpetual brand by adapting to the requirements of the emerging demand economy. Presented by customer loyalty expert and author Nick Wreden, this 3-hour seminar provides an overview of the principles of FusionBranding, which CRM magazine called "required reading." These principles include everyday operational excellence, customer equity and accountability.

Summary
Key points include:
   The importance of branding
   What's behind so many branding failures
   Past, current and future branding models
   Dated strategies of the mass economy
   What drives a brand in the customer economy
   Branding laws for the customer economy
   Components of everyday operational excellence
   How to do business on customer terms
   Advantages of customer equity
   How to calculate customer equity
   Segmentation according to customer equity
   Leveraging customer equity
   Strategic pricing and customer equity
   Ensuring measurement and accountability
   The biggest branding challenge
   How to prepare for the coming demand economy

Results
After attending, attendees will be able to:
   Understand how branding tactics must fit with the appropriate branding model
   Know the basic principles behind customer equity calculations
   Segment customers according to relative profitability
   Use customer equity segmentation to improve customer profitability and eliminate unprofitable customers
   Leverage a new pricing approach to maximize profitability
   Know how to do business on customer terms
   Be able to refocus metrics around customer requirements
   Improve their branding vision based on emerging branding trends

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Offering #2: Customer Equity: Driving Profitable Brands in the Customer Economy

Overview
Successful branding in the customer economy requires a strong focus on customer equity, or the lifetime profitability of customers. This 3-hour seminar shows how companies can improve retention, profits and operations by understanding and segmenting customers based on customer equity. Such segmentation can drive efforts to eliminate unprofitable customers (at most firms, 15% of the customer base are unprofitable). Case studies illustrate how companies are using customer equity to improve profits, and the four main approaches to customer equity are outlined. Presented by customer loyalty expert and author Nick Wreden, the seminar also includes hands-on exercises.

Summary
Key points include:
   Why there are so many branding failures
   What the emerging customer economy means to branding
   Three keys to successful branding
   The strategic importance of customer equity
   How customer equity differs from brand equity
   Misconceptions about customer satisfaction and customer equity
   4 approaches to customer equity calculation
    (Customer segment; customer equity dashboard; RFM (recency, frequency, monetary value); customer P&L sheet)
   Required data for customer equity calculations
   Calculating the impact of brand polygamy
   The impact of customer profitability segmentation
   Strategies for improving customer profitability
   Determining how customers hold you accountable
   Strategies for customer recovery
   Strategies for customer evangelism
   Improving pricing strategies
   How to ensure customer accountability
   Customer equity do's and don'ts

Results
After attending, attendees will be able to:
   Improve the effectiveness of their retention and customer winback strategies
   Eliminate drags on branding performance caused by outdated tactics
   Be able to calculate customer equity based on one or more approaches
   Use customer equity segmentation to improve customer profitability and eliminate unprofitable customers
   Understand why "customer satisfaction" can be a misleading metric
   Know how to turn customers into their best sales force
   Gain insight into the organizational constraints that keep companies from doing business on customer terms
   Allocate branding resources more effectively
   Leverage a new pricing approach to maximize profitability
   Know how to target the customers most likely to buy
   Calculate the impact of customers who sometimes buy competitive offerings

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