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Book SynopsisFind out how to reap the benefits of motivating and engaging the new, direct customer voice The Customer''s New Voice shows businesses how to motivate and transform directly volunteered consumer knowledge into profitable insights, enabling a new echelon of marketing relevancy, customer experience, and personalization. With a deep look at the inner workings of how a modern generation of business innovators are tapping into the fresh opportunities with the customer''s new voice, this book describes how businesses are transforming inference-based predictions of purchase intent with direct consumer knowledge of their actual intentions and buying context. The result: An untouchable/unprecedented level of offer relevancy, experience, and personalized service levels.
Those offers range from the most basic app model of Give me your physical location, we''ll find the best Thai restaurant near you, and give you an instant coupon to a more complex model such as an Electri
Table of Contents
Foreword xv
Preface: New Voice, New Competencies xix
Acknowledgments xxi
PART I DAWN OF THE NEW CUSTOMER 1
CHAPTER 1 New Information Masters 3
Informed 4
Sharing 4
Mobile 4
Future Masters 8
Notes 12
CHAPTER 2 Power and Transparency 15
Absolute Power 15
New Transparency 16
Note 19
CHAPTER 3 Age of Sharing 21
Historical Sharing Tools 21
Sharing Statistics 22
Intentional versus Incidental 26
Value of Intent and Context 29
Science of Consumer Sharing 30
Notes 42
PART II NEW VOICE INNOVATORS’ WIN?]WIN 45
CHAPTER 4 Yesterday’s Indirect Information Model 47
Yesterday’s Model 47
Legacy of Indirect Information 50
Privacy Not 53
Notes 57
CHAPTER 5 Emerging Customer’s New Voice Business Information Model 59
Customer?]Direct Information Model 59
Forces Driving New Voice Engagement 62
Direct Competencies Required 66
Unlocking Consumers’ Intent 71
Notes 96
CHAPTER 6 Today’s Customer’s New Voice Vertical Industry Innovators 101
Industry Innovators (Vertical) 101
Notes 143
CHAPTER 7 Horizontal Industry Innovators 147
Collaborative Consumption (Sharing Your Stuff) 147
Quantified Self 151
Wearable Technology 155
Mobile Health 156
Internet of Things 166
Triangulated Personal Information 168
Sensor Technology 168
Virtual Reality 178
Augmented Reality 179
New Customer Information Industry (Consumer as Stakeholder) 182
The Customer’s Voice 209
Notes 210
CHAPTER 8 Practical Guide: How to Leverage the Customer’s New Voice Today with Dr. David Schrader 213
Scenario 1: Jeff’s Shopping Trip 213
Scenario 2: Jill’s Grocery Shopping 214
Overview 215
Strategy 216
Marketing and Sales 220
Customer Service 224
Information Technology 228
Notes 233
PART III ENGAGING TOMORROW’S NEW VOICE 235
Notes 238
CHAPTER 9 How Consumers Will Buy Tomorrow 239
Selling Reincarnated as Buying: New Buy/Sell Process 240
Advertising Inversion 245
Notes 248
CHAPTER 10 New Privacy 249
Government/Advocacy Personal Data Initiatives 251
Pivotal Personal Data Protection Initiatives 257
Pivotal Business Event Time Line 271
Notes 275
CHAPTER 11 Future Consumer Data Ecosystem 277
Consumer as Information Stakeholder 277
Mature Consumer/Business Information Sharing Models 278
Walking through the Model 279
Three Key Components Enabling the Personal Data Ecosystem 283
Frameworks: The Major Ecosystem Governance Mechanism 284
Volunteered Customer Information Service Characteristics 289
Personal Information as a Sovereign/Monetized Asset 291
Personal Data Ecosystem 294
Notes 304
About the Author 305
Index 307
