Customer Equity Accelerator

This week in the Accelerator: How should we measure the customer experience offline? What happens when a digital measurement expert turns his eye to the offline world? Author of Measuring the Digital World, Gary Angel, has done just that. How can data be used to help us plan for a better customer experience in real life? What could we see if we only apply digital measurement techniques to the offline world? In this episode I interview Gary Angel, CEO of Digital Mortar, an innovative technology for measuring the offline world.  Please help me spread the word about building your business’ customer equity through effective customer analytics. Rate and review my podcast on Apple Podcast, Stitcher, Google Play, Alexa’s TuneIn, iHeartRadio or Spotify. And do tell me what you think by writing Allison at info@ambitiondata.com or ambitiondata.com. Thanks for listening! Tell a friend! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week in the Accelerator Phil Irvine joins us from The Bouqs to talk about activating CLV strategies. In a competitive space such as online flower gifting, in depth customer knowledge becomes a critical differentiator. How do you move the right customers beyond the mother’s day and valentine’s day flower purchases that make up 50-60% of revenue? Phil Irvine discusses CAC to CLV ratios, annuities and other strategies to active CLV marketing. And in a special bonus, Phil also compares the use of two enabling technologies where he’s had personal experience: Salesforce marketing cloud and Custora.      Please help us spread the word about building your business’ customer equity through effective customer analytics. Rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcast, Stitcher, Google Play, Alexa’s TuneIn, iHeartRadio or Spotify. And do tell us what you think by writing Allison at info@ambitiondata.com or ambitiondata.com. Thanks for listening! Tell a friend! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adcho

This week in the Accelerator:How does a new brand generate quality customers? In this episode host Allison Hartsoe speaks with Kate Fernandez, Brand Marketing Director at Winky Lux. Winky Lux is a fast-growing cosmetics brand which has used customer lifetime value to their advantage. Kate talks about creating experiences to connect new customers to the product but also how they look at customer lifetime value to make product merchandising decisions.     Please help us spread the word about building your business’ customer equity through effective customer analytics. Rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcast, Stitcher, Google Play, Alexa’s TuneIn, iHeartRadio or Spotify. And do tell us what you think by writing Allison at info@ambitiondata.com or ambitiondata.com. Thanks for listening! Tell a friend!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week in the Accelerator host Allison Hartsoe summarizes a selection of key insights from the Custora conference in New York City. This conference was all about CLV, personalization and the best uses of customer analytics. Allison includes kick off commentary and key industry sticking points from Custora CEO Cory Pierson, McKinsey’s personalization framework and finally, a series of maturity personas from Forrester. Get the key insights from this power-packed episode and see how you stack up against the industry.      Please help spread the word about building your business’ customer equity through effective customer analytics. Rate and review my podcast on Apple Podcast, Stitcher, Google Play, Alexa’s TuneIn, iHeartRadio or Spotify. And do tell us what you think by writing Allison at info@ambitiondata.com or ambitiondata.com. Thanks for listening! Tell a friend! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week in the Accelerator: Everyone talks about Customer Experience but how do you find value in this generalized term? Where do Personas and Customer Journeys add value and what typical mistakes do organizations make? In this episode host Allison Hartsoe speaks with Ehow Chen from Ambition Data about these challenges and more. By connecting Customer Value to Customer Experience a beautiful, logical order of operations emerges which satisfies all.      Please help me spread the word about building your business’ customer equity through effective customer analytics. Rate and review my podcast on Apple Podcast, Stitcher, Google Play, Alexa’s TuneIn, iHeartRadio or Spotify. And do tell me what you think by writing Allison at info@ambitiondata.com or ambitiondata.com. Thanks for listening! Tell a friend! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are many ways to see bits and pieces of customer data across the enterprise but what holistic strategies can you use to tap into the right data? What questions and data could actually create an unfair competitive advantage for your business? In this episode I summarize a month of customer strategy interviews and best practices. I include clips from previous guests, Custora’s Jordan Elkind, MIT’s Michael Schrage and Electronic Art’s Jodie Antypas. Finally, I wrap up with three insightful nuggets.      Please help me spread the word about building your business equity through effective customer analytics. Rate and review my podcast on Apple Podcast, Stitcher, Google Play, Alexa’s TuneIn, iHeartRadio or Spotify. And do tell me what you think by writing Allison at info@ambitiondata.com or visit ambitiondata.com. Thanks for listening!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week in the Accelerator: What is customer-centric research and how is it different from traditional methods? In this episode host Allison Hartsoe interviews Jodie Antypas, VP of Research from Electronic Arts. Jodie shares examples of how the customer-centric research work her innovative team delivers drives real world performance for Electronic Arts.  She talks also talks about methods to use and how to integrate with product teams to maintain the essence of the brand while navigating customer-centric behavior and motivations.      Please help me spread the word about building your business’ customer equity through effective customer analytics. Rate and review my podcast on Apple Podcast, Stitcher, Google Play, Alexa’s TuneIn, iHeartRadio or Spotify. And do tell me what you think by writing Allison at info@ambitiondata.com or ambitiondata.com. Thanks for listening! Tell a friend! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week in the Accelerator: What is the one question you should be asking your customers that will completely change the way you think about your business? Similar in power to Levitt’s famous “What business are you in?” question, this new question, “The Ask” will revolutionize the way you think about customers and their value. This week I interview author Michael Schrage, a Research Fellow at the MIT Center for Digital Business. He explains what “The Ask” is and, why is it so powerful? Along the way he shares examples from Apple, Dyson, McDonalds, the pharmaceutical industry and more who have reaped the benefits of how organizations can and should create value.  Please help me spread the word about building your business’ customer equity through effective customer analytics. Rate and review my podcast on Apple Podcast, Stitcher, Google Play, Alexa’s TuneIn, iHeartRadio or Spotify. And do tell me what you think by writing Allison at info@ambitiondata.com or ambitiondata.com. Thanks for listening! Tell a frie

Part 2 - Who is driving growth through CLV strategy in the retail space? Hear three transformational stories about retailers Bonobos, Eloquii, and Crocs. Learn why CLV is the smartest predictive growth strategy and why this is the golden age for today’s CMO.  Host Allison Hartsoe chats with Jordan Elkind, Head of Product at Custora this week on the Customer Equity Accelerator.      Please help me spread the word about building your business’ customer equity through effective customer analytics. Rate and review my podcast on Apple Podcast, Stitcher, Google Play, Alexa’s TuneIn, iHeartRadio or Spotify. And do tell me what you think by writing Allison at info@ambitiondata.com or ambitiondata.com. Thanks for listening! Tell a friend! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Who is driving growth through CLV strategy in the retail space? Hear three transformational stories about retailers Bonobos, Eloquii, and Crocs. Learn why CLV is the smartest predictive growth strategy and why this is the golden age for today’s CMO.  Host Allison Hartsoe chats with Jordan Elkind, Head of Product at Custora this week on the Customer Equity Accelerator.      Please help me spread the word about building your business’ customer equity through effective customer analytics. Rate and review my podcast on Apple Podcast, Stitcher, Google Play, Alexa’s TuneIn, iHeartRadio or Spotify. And do tell me what you think by writing Allison at info@ambitiondata.com or ambitiondata.com. Thanks for listening! Tell a friend! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What does data storytelling have to do with customer equity? Everything. In this episode I summarize a month of data visualization and data storytelling best practices. I include clips from previous guests, Lea Pica, Alberto Cairo, Felix Shildorfer and Gulrez Khan. Finally, I wrap up with four insightful nuggets.      Please help me spread the word about building your business’ customer equity through effective customer analytics. Rate and review my podcast on Apple Podcast, Stitcher, Google Play, Alexa’s TuneIn, iHeartRadio or Spotify. And do tell me what you think by writing Allison at info@ambitiondata.com or ambitiondata.com. Thanks for listening!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How do you move from just data science to data storytelling? In past episodes Chief Analytics Officers have told us this is one of the skills they value the most. In this episode host Allison Hartsoe speaks with Gulrez Khan, a data scientist at Microsoft who’s clever and charming fables open up the hearts of his audience so he can unfurl data insights to their minds.     Please help me spread the word about building customer equity through effective customer-centric analytics. Rate and review my podcast on Apple Podcast, Stitcher, Google Play, Alexa’s TuneIn, iHeartRadio or Spotify. And do tell me what you think by writing Allison at info@ambitiondata.com or ambitiondata.com. Thanks for listening! Tell a friend! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What happens behind the scenes to create a visual data disaster? Data visualization is often taken as a given once you land buckets of data together. This week we go behind the scenes of a data disaster to learn why that is not so. Felix Schildorfer tells us a wonderful story rife with political maneuvering, management cheerleading, IP sabotage, cross-functional politics and data not actually owned by the company and ultimately how he won in the end. His story has more twists and turns than a Bay Area detour. Learn what he did to deliver the ultimate outcome: a visualization dashboard loved and used that supports real business value.  Please help me spread the word about Customer Centric analytics. Rate and review my podcast on iTunes and tell me what you think by writing Allison at info@ambitiondata.com or ambitiondata.com. Thanks for listening! Tell a friend!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some people believe that well-visualized data will tell you exactly what you need to know. But there are many more visual data disasters than we realize out there. This week Alberto Cairo shares several examples he has discovered from weather to politics where some people really like what they see – it’s just not what the data is actually saying. How can you avoid this kind of data disaster? What should you do to avoid becoming a victim of it?  This week learn the process Alberto Cairo uses to help others think clearly about data and what it should represent.  Please help me spread the word about Customer Centric analytics. Rate and review my podcast on iTunes and write to Allison at info@ambitiondata.com or ambitiondata.com. Thanks for listening! Tell a friend!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What does that chart mean? How does it relate to the last one? Are your hard-fought insights getting through? A yawning gap has formed between analysts and executives when it comes to communication through data, enough to deem data storytelling the most valuable position by some CAOs. We must turn insights into effective action to drive quick wins within any customer-centric organization. This week learn how to get your message through with presentation and data storytelling expert Lea Pica. Lea provides a series of tips and shortcuts to make your customer data come to life.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did you know there is a way to cleanly connect marketing to revenue? It is customer equity and these principles are the primary driver behind the Customer Equity Accelerator podcast. This week host Allison Hartsoe recaps the fundamental drivers of customer equity, how it relates to CLV, and then highlights several high-impact guests who have appeared on the show from the first 6 months.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are many points of resistance when organizations try to become customer-centric. From executive understanding to data silos, the path is not easy to navigate. This week host Allison Hartsoe interviews Jeff Gardner from Staples who has seen customer-centric data strategies not only succeed but unlock 7-10x more value within companies. How does this kind of customer-driven, data-driven change management take place? Slowly and carefully. Hear the stories of quick wins on this week’s episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have you channeled the customer’s state of mind in your testing experiments? If you have ever grouped all your mobile visitors or your product page viewers or your site exit-ers together for an experiment then you may have missed the customer’s state of mind completely. Host Allison Hartsoe interviews experimentation expert Brooks Bell, CEO of Brooks Bell who shares the five pains and gains of the customer’s state of mind.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What are Chief Analytics Officers (CAOs) thinking today? In this episode host Allison Hartsoe summarizes a meeting of CAOs in Miami. She includes poll results from audience questions to provide a sense of who is in the room, and then seven things CAOs wish their analysts knew. Finally, she wraps up with three insightful nuggets that address the questions everyone was asking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are product-centric organizations tone-deaf to customer needs & desires? How can you balance the two? June Dershewitz, Director of Analytics at Twitch, explains how these mindsets are not mutually exclusive. She offers 3 steps to take: setting clear, quantifiable goals, ensuring a balance between product- & customer-centric approaches to align everything with the company’s core values, & using data at each step in the innovation cycle to ensure product optimization. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices