Successful service businesses understand that it's not enough to just offer a great services. Often, the benefits that might be obvious to you aren't apparent to your prospective customers. Creating loyal followers rests on your ability to Encourage, Empower and Enable people to derive the maximum benefit from your offer. This presentation shows you how.
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1. How to be your customers
first choice in a tough market
Amelia Young and Stuart Baltman
November 4, 2011
2. Services are
Intangible
Consumed at the same
time they are delivered
It varies based on who is
delivering and
experiencing it
Quality is difficult to
define much less
measure
The experience is your product. You cant
afford to get it wrong.
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3. Not just whats urgent, but whats
necessary
Urgent Necessary
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4. A model for winning customers
Encourage
Engage and excite your customers
Encourage
with a vision
What should they expect to
experience?
What does DONE look like?
Why should they care?
How will they feel?
Empower Enable
Provide your customers with the tools Ensure your customers have the
required to deliver on the vision knowledge & skills to use the tools
Empower
Give your customers access to the
people, processes, equipment, Enable
you have provided
Educate, teach and train your
infrastructure, and other resources that customers (if necessary)
they need Leverage their capabilities and
Make it easy for your customers to build the capabilities they need
choose you Show them how
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5. The good news is that these are the
only three things you need to do to.
. the challenge lies in the fact that you
must do all three
Encourage
Empower Enable
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6. Remember how you learned to skate?
Its fun
Encourage Watch mom/dad
Hot Chocolate anyone?
Lets go get some
Empower skates
Rink at City Hall
Teaching process
Instill confidence
Enable (overcome fears)
Teach (e.g. A. Stand, B.
Walk, C. Glide..)
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8. From coffee to for-here, grande, half-
decaf, non-fat, extra foam, hazelnut, latte
Teach the Starbucks Language
Enable Guidance from well-trained Baristas
Ordering guides, calling orders
Where to pay, where to stand
Product variety and customization
Empower
capabilities.
Layout, D辿cor, Location, Neighbourhood, etc.
Value Outgoing, friendly and knowledgeable staff.
Beans, Cups, insulators, toppings, napkins,
etc.
Your beverage, your way.
Encourage
Your 3rd place.refuge from home & office
Premium service, product and..premium
price.
Price
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9. From coffee to for-here, grande, half-
decaf, non-fat, extra foam, hazelnut, latte
Teach the Starbucks Language
Enable Guidance from well-trained Baristas
Ordering guides, calling orders
Where to pay, where to stand
Product variety and customization
Empower
capabilities.
Layout, D辿cor, Location, Neighbourhood, etc.
Value Outgoing, friendly and knowledgeable staff.
Beans, Cups, insulators, toppings, napkins,
etc.
Your beverage, your way.
Encourage
Your 3rd place.refuge from home & office
Premium service, product and..premium
price.
Price
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10. What are the benefits of this approach?
1. Ensures you dont miss components of your customers
experience that are critical in their process to choose you
2. Removes barriers, making it easy for your customers to do
business with you
3. Creates barriers that make it challenging for your customers
to switch
4. Supports premium pricing, which drives margin growth
5. Builds a strong and deep relationship with customers which
drives loyalty and increased share-of-wallet
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11. The broken furnace..
This part looks
expensiveI think Ill
charge them enough
to buy an i-Pad
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12. From Ill fix the furnace when it
breaks to a multi-year service contract
Enable Low monthly fee vs. high unexpected
repair bills
Leverage print materials, web and call
centre staff to educate customers
Create multi-year service contract
Encourage Empower
product/service.
Call centre, billing capabilities, technicians,
equipment, etc.
Create need an unexpected breakdown
could cost you $100s or even $1,000s
Professional and highly skilled technicians
in uniform at your home 24/7/365
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13. From Ill fix the furnace when it
breaks to a multi-year service contract
Invoice
Enable Low monthly fee vs. high unexpected
repair bills $20
Leverage print materials, web and call x36 mo.
centre staff to educate customers = $720
Create multi-year service contract
Encourage Empower
product/service.
Value Call centre, billing capabilities, technicians,
equipment, etc.
Create need an unexpected breakdown
could cost you $100s or even $1,000s
Invoice
Professional and highly skilled technicians
in uniform at your home 24/7/365
$350
Price
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14. Breakout Discussion: Which of the 3Es
does your business do best? Gaps?
Enable
Empower
Value
Encourage
Price
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15. Who do you need to Encourage, Empower
and Enable?
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16. Example: Product differentiated by
service
Consumer Retailer
Signaled to the consumer that They were able to demonstrate
Enable
this is a special product by a process that would ensure
merchandising it in the bakery freshness would be consistent
Empower
Small portion sizes make it easy Unique packaging made it
for people to have a small, guilt- possible for the product to
free indulgence belong in the bakery section
Pizza Pizza deal Demonstrated strong consumer
Encourage
School pizza lunches demand from the promotional
opportunities
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17. Example: Multi-stakeholder service
Economic Buyer Direct Indirect
Influencers Influencers
Enable
Head of Portfolio Clients
Empower
Operations Managers Regulators
Owner/CEO Compliance
Admin staff
Encourag
e
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18. Breakout Discussion: Stakeholder
Identification
Decision-makers up the Influences outside
Functions hierarchy
Lines of business Users down the hierarchy the organization
Economic Buyer Direct Influencers Indirect
Influencers
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19. Unconventional tactics for identifying what will
encourage, empower and enable your customers
LinkedIn profiles and discussion threads
What Investor materials
they say Surveys of stakeholders other than the economic
buyer
Mystery shopping and talking to call centre reps
What Who theyre hiring and for what
they do Marketing campaigns
Comprehensive win/loss analysis
LinkedIn discussions
What Talking to your customers customers
others say Investor presentations of their customers and
about them competitors
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20. Taking Action
Commit to doing whats necessary:
I will do the following in the next 30 days to enhance the value of the
experience my organization delivers to its customers:
1. __________________________________________________
2. __________________________________________________
3. __________________________________________________
_______________________ ____________________
Signed Date
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21. Focus on whats necessary to identify what a
great experience looks like for your customers
Who?
Economic Direct Indirect
Buyer Influencers Influencers
Encourage Insight ??? Insight ??? Insight ???
What?
Empower Insight ??? Insight ??? Insight ???
Enable Insight ??? Insight ??? Insight ???
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