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Summary: Best of breed
Review: The One to One Fieldbook is, by far, the most useful of all relationship marketing books.
For newcomers, it provides a concise introduction to the concepts of One to One Marketing as well as detailed references to where additional materials can be found in Peppers and Roger's other books.
For experienced One to One Marketers, The One to One Fieldbook makes it easy to apply the lessons of One to One marketing to specific situations.
The strength of the One to One Fieldbook is the way it easily relates concept to specific, actionable topics. Each chapter leaves you--or your team--with specific, manageable, measurable tasks that will further your cause and advance your progress towards a One to One future.
Specific references to topics covered in their own, and other relationsip marketing books, provide you with direction when you want to delve deeper into a topic.
I'm recommending it to all my clients and readers.
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Summary: www.witagency.com
Review: This book is a good start in developing an internet strategy... It lacks a discussion of relevant tools and what companies will be using 1 year from now.. jim
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Summary: How to Treat Different Customers Differently
Review: What a fantastic book for every marketing professional to read. The authors have invested a lot of time and effort to make this book very informative and practical. It deals with the real business world and not some theoritical formula that works only in closed conditions. There are many examples of successes as well as failures of companies that have switched over to the 1 to 1 Marketing concept.
The book consists of 15 chapters to help one build the system of 1to1 marketing. The main highlights for me in this book were the following:
1.) Learning to treat different customers differently, separating them into three catagories
Most valuable Customer (MVC)
Most Growth Customer (MGC)
Below Zero (BZ)
and concentrating most of your companies effort and budget on the MVC and MGC clients.
2.)Gathering detailed information about the most profitable clients and maintaing a data bank to help all areas and product line to interact with the client on a profitable basis.
3.)Generating feed-back and interacting with the client based on the feed-back. Junking the typical model of customer help lines that do more damage than good for a company.
4.) Getting high-level management participating and to be prepared for the costs incurred when implementing the 1to1 marketing concept for the company.
One of my own important experiences is that management conceives the idea without asking the advice and input from the sales force. This can be disastrous for the 1to1 Marketing concept. Everybody and I mean everybody has to informed of why they are preforming a certain task and what effect it has on the entire company. Tell your employess what you are doing from the beginning, if you wish to avoid the pitfalls of internal conflicts and bickering.
At the end of each chapter there is a summary and a check list of items that should be done in order to implement the points discussed in the respective chapter. Don't forget... all companies are different and one will have to figure out which strategy to pursue for his or her industry.
This excllent book will definitely help your profits SKYROCKET to the moon. Do it before your competitor does.
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Summary: Should you buy this book? Most definitely, yes.
Review: Whenever I sit through a lecture with a marketing guru like Don Peppers, I leave fired up and ready to tackle the world. However, the feeling doesn't last. There are seldom specific examples of steps you can actually take to put these ideas to work. As much as I warmed to the ideas discussed in his first two books (with collaborator Martha Rodgers), The One to One Future and Enterprise One to One, I was left with much the same feeling. So, when a copy of The One to One Fieldbook hit my desk, I was eager to see if we would finally get some specific tactical advice. Like many business principles, one to one marketing can be summed up by the simple idea of treating different customers differently. The Fieldbook begins by outlining four steps for implementing a one-to-one marketing program: identify your customers, differentiate your customers, interact with your customers and customize your products. Then the book suggests detailed steps for planning, implementing, evaluating, and upgrading any firm's relationship-marketing program. Each chapter leaves you with specific, manageable, measurable tasks to improve your one to one marketing efforts. I found the book less a "toolkit for implementing a 1 to 1 marketing program" than a crash refresher course in basic marketing concepts. That's not all bad though. Many readers will find the step-by-step advice on differentiating customers a real blessing to addressing this frequently difficult problem. Some chapters are better than others are though. I was especially disappointed in the chapter on information systems. Most of the checklists presented here are too "high-level" to be of much use. The chapter on channel management, on the other hand, was a pleasant surprise - providing lots of good advice to improve your relationship with your channel partners. As an added value, The Fieldbook comes with an electronic password that allows readers to access a special one-to-one group Web site. There you will find electronic versions of all the book's checklists, along with extensive bibliographic references and useful spreadsheets that will save you time. More importantly, if you are shopping for Customer Relationship Marketing software, you should insist that your potential suppliers read this book. And take its messages to heart! Every CRM developer on the planet will quote the wonders of one to one marketing as they attempt to sell you their wares. Yet, very few of these people really walk the talk and provide software solutions that will help you implement these strategies! For example, I cannot think of a single CRM program that makes it truly easy to broadcast an appropriate stream of e-mail messages to various prospects at various stages of the sales cycle. This capability essential to effectively interact with your customers! So, should you buy this book? Most definitely, yes. The dozens of checklists for implementing relationship-marketing programs, along with self-analysis tools and questionnaires for evaluating a firm's progress or readiness for such programs are worth the purchase price alone. Rich Bohn
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Summary: Should you buy this book? Most definitely, yes.
Review: Whenever I sit through a lecture with a marketing guru like Don Peppers, I leave fired up and ready to tackle the world. However, the feeling doesn't last. There are seldom specific examples of steps you can actually take to put these ideas to work. As much as I warmed to the ideas discussed in his first two books (with collaborator Martha Rodgers), The One to One Future and Enterprise One to One, I was left with much the same feeling. So, when a copy of The One to One Fieldbook hit my desk, I was eager to see if we would finally get some specific tactical advice. Like many business principles, one to one marketing can be summed up by the simple idea of treating different customers differently. The Fieldbook begins by outlining four steps for implementing a one-to-one marketing program: identify your customers, differentiate your customers, interact with your customers and customize your products. Then the book suggests detailed steps for planning, implementing, evaluating, and upgrading any firm's relationship-marketing program. Each chapter leaves you with specific, manageable, measurable tasks to improve your one to one marketing efforts. I found the book less a "toolkit for implementing a 1 to 1 marketing program" than a crash refresher course in basic marketing concepts. That's not all bad though. Many readers will find the step-by-step advice on differentiating customers a real blessing to addressing this frequently difficult problem. Some chapters are better than others are though. I was especially disappointed in the chapter on information systems. Most of the checklists presented here are too "high-level" to be of much use. The chapter on channel management, on the other hand, was a pleasant surprise - providing lots of good advice to improve your relationship with your channel partners. As an added value, The Fieldbook comes with an electronic password that allows readers to access a special one-to-one group Web site. There you will find electronic versions of all the book's checklists, along with extensive bibliographic references and useful spreadsheets that will save you time. More importantly, if you are shopping for Customer Relationship Marketing software, you should insist that your potential suppliers read this book. And take its messages to heart! Every CRM developer on the planet will quote the wonders of one to one marketing as they attempt to sell you their wares. Yet, very few of these people really walk the talk and provide software solutions that will help you implement these strategies! For example, I cannot think of a single CRM program that makes it truly easy to broadcast an appropriate stream of e-mail messages to various prospects at various stages of the sales cycle. This capability essential to effectively interact with your customers! So, should you buy this book? Most definitely, yes. The dozens of checklists for implementing relationship-marketing programs, along with self-analysis tools and questionnaires for evaluating a firm's progress or readiness for such programs are worth the purchase price alone. Rich Bohn
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