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Customers

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Articles tagged Customers

Products

Owning a place in the customer's mind

Why products that customers choose out of habit and trust can earn for decades without changing, and what product designers can learn from that kind of durability.

10 min read

Business

Pre-call planning: be prepared, then be present

Most sales conversations are won or lost before they start. A practical guide to planning a customer meeting, and to conducting it with attention, purpose and respect.

10 min read

Business

The assets the balance sheet cannot see

Why a company's most valuable assets, its brand and reputation, often appear nowhere on its balance sheet, and what goodwill and intangible assets do and do not tell you.

10 min read

Products

The empathy map: seeing your customer from the inside

An empathy map captures what a customer says, thinks, does and feels. How to build one from real evidence, how sales and product teams use it, and the mistakes that turn it into guesswork.

10 min read

Ideas

The psychology of bubbles: why sensible people join in

Bubbles are not driven only by greed or foolishness. Extrapolation, herding, social proof, overconfidence and fading memories lead sensible people to join in. How to recognise and resist them.

10 min read