Here are 5 pillars that would help you identify if you are using proper storytelling, or you are just making a fancy case study.

Planning your Customer Advisory Board can be very complex and time-consuming. There are many factors to consider, many details to plan, and conversations to have.
If you are in the initial design stage, or if you want to redefine your CAB, let’s look at 6 questions that would guide your process:

So you’ve launched a customer advocacy initiative? Congratulations!! But you may also be thinking, what’s next?

When developing new services or products for your company, it is crucial to understand your customer well. You need to know what is relevant to your customer and what they value.

In today’s digitally connected world, selling isn’t easy. Buyers have all the information they need at the click of a button, and therefore, they are in control. So as a seller, how can you accelerate your sales success?

One reason some businesses are more successful than others is because they find and connect with their target personas consistently. Their marketing and sales reach out to the right audience with higher purchasing potential, because the product or service offered connects with their needs – it addresses a pain point.

No matter how much customer content you produce, it always seems like a never-ending struggle to keep up with the demand from other teams. And, while sometimes you really need to push for more, there’s also the case where your content gets lost through the cracks and people might not be aware of everything that is available.

The success of many customer evidence programs is usually measured by the number of stories produced/published. But as the saying goes, “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it…”, was the customer story ever published?

Part of any Customer Advocacy strategy (and very often the first step into Customer Advocacy) is producing and publishing Customer Stories.

When it comes to your sales teams needing a reference for a sales call, do they know where to find them?
Is the list of references sitting in a spreadsheet/Dropbox/Google drive somewhere in the marketing department? On the corporate website (and way out of date)? Or even worse, in someone’s head or their personal notepad maybe?