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How Top Brands Pull Customers into Orbit

Harvard Business Review

Instead of treating customers as passive targets, they treat them as active participants. Like the sun in a solar system, they create a gravitational field that pulls customers into their orbit. They go beyond customer loyalty to building customer gravity. Traditional brands are like artillery.

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Pin Down Your Customer Intelligence Objectives

Harvard Business Review

I divided the possibilities into two categories — those that are pretty aggressive on the technology front, and those that are more aggressive on the business front: Technologically-Aggressive Customer Intelligence Applications. Single customer data warehouse with all touchpoints. Marketing mix portfolio modeling.