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Spring 2000: Customer Relationship Management

Date:    April 28, 2000
Place:   Boar's Head Inn, Charlottesville, VA
Primer on Customer Relationship Management

AGENDA

9:30 – 10:00 a.m.     Welcoming Reception & Registration

10:00 - 12:00 p.m.    Speaker: Lucia Jansen, Consultant,
                                            Peppers and Rogers Group

Ms. Jansen will speak on the topic of "Implementing One-to-One Marketing."

12:00 - 1:00 p.m.      Lunch

1:00 – 3:00 p.m.       Panel and Roundtable Discussion

3:00 - 4:00 p.m.        Closing Reception

 

Implementing One-to-One Marketing

A Step-by-Step Approach

Companies are now racing to develop more loyal and profitable customer relationships, which Information Week says is fueling "the fastest growth area in technology." At its heart is the notion of one-to-one marketing, a strategy to increase customer retention by making loyalty more convenient for a customer than disloyalty. Also known as "customer intimacy," "relationship marketing," or "customer relationship management" (CRM), this type of business competition was pioneered by Don Peppers and Martha Rogers, in their first two international business best-sellers, The One to One Future, and Enterprise One to One.

In a new, highly practical book, The One to One Fieldbook: The Complete Toolkit for Implementing a 1to1 Marketing Program (Currency/Doubleday, 1999), Peppers, Rogers and their partner Bob Dorf have outlined a powerful, four-step implementation process for putting 1to1 marketing to work in a variety of business situations. In order to be competitive in the Interactive Age, a company must be able to:

  1. identify its customers;
  2. differentiate them one from another;
  3. interact with them cost-efficiently and effectively through a variety of media; and,
  4. customize its products or services based on what the firm learns about each individual customer.

Based on the principles outlined in The One to One Fieldbook, this presentation begins with the proposition that building stronger, more profitable customer relationships is a desirable objective, and then takes the audience through the implementation process, one step at a time. Drawing on a wealth of real-world consulting experience in this discipline, the speaker will cite successes, failures, and cautionary tales to punctuate the discussion.