Do you measure Net Promoter Score or customer loyalty? Are you tracking customer retention and engagement? Each of these metrics attempts to answer the same fundamental question: how happy people are being customers. For all of the effort we spend measuring and monitoring these metrics, it’s worth considering the deeper question of human motivation. What makes people happy about spending money? […]
Subscription Marketing
Nurture SaaS Super-Users and Advocates
Many SaaS companies empower the advocates among their customers to help others. Well-designed advocacy programs benefit everyone: The advocates receive recognition, additional resources, and the overall satisfaction of helping others. Newer customers benefit from having a variety of people available to answer their questions and provide guidance. Your company benefits from increased customer loyalty and […]
A Video Book Review!
The always entertaining Douglas Burdett created this video book review of Subscription Marketing s a companion to his Marketing Book podcast. If you haven’t heard it, I highly recommend the Marketing Book Podcast as a great way of keeping up on what’s going on in the world of marketing.
Check Out the Marketing Book Podcast
Here’s a worthy New Year’s resolution: keep up on the latest in marketing books in 2016 by listening to the Marketing Book Podcast. Bonus: On the January 1st episode, Douglas Burdett and I discuss Subscription Marketing – the book and the practice. Things we discuss: How the sharing economy and Internet of Things are affecting industries of all […]
Subscriptions Are Eating Software
In an essay published in the Wall Street Journal in 2011, Marc Andreeson famously described the path of the technology industry with the phrase “Software is eating the world.” (Read the original article here.) In short, software is disrupting the technology industry, sector by sector. Everything that a technology sector does is eventually absorbed into software. There’s […]
Marketing and the Subscription Economy: A Zuora Video
At the Subscribed conference in San Francisco last May, I sat down to talk with Zuora about marketing in the subscription economy. Here’s a transcript; the video is below. In the traditional marketing environment, a lot of marketers only keep their eye on the ball up to the point of the sale. They think about customer retention, […]