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Gaining a Sustainable Advantage - Customer Perception of Value PCV19
Alan Albert led a session at ProductCamp Vancouver 2019 called "Gaining a Sustainable Advantage." Focusing on Customer Perception of Value, the session includes tips on conducting your own value discovery interviews, and how this insight can be used to guide more effective innovation, marketing, and pricing.
Alan Albert led a session at ProductCamp Vancouver 2019 called "Gaining a Sustainable Advantage." Focusing on Customer Perception of Value, the session includes tips on conducting your own value discovery interviews, and how this insight can be used to guide more effective innovation, marketing, and pricing.
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Customer Perception of Value
hard to change
sparks emotion
discoverable
measurable
You can easily change
ideas
products or services
markets or segments
positioning and messaging
28.
What Your
Customer
Cares About
Your Idea
or
Solution
What your customer
will talk about
What you
won’t learn
29.
The next time you talk to a customer, try
not mentioning your idea, product or feature at all.
30.
Changing the Product to Find a Fit
CUSTOMERS
x
?
PRODUCT
x
31.
Understanding Customer Perception of Value
helps us make better use of product analytics.
32.
Designing for Customers’ Values
CUSTOMER
PERCEPTION OF
VALUE
UNDERSTANDING
OF VALUE
33.
Designing for Customers’ Values
CUSTOMER
PERCEPTION OF
VALUE
UNDERSTANDING
OF VALUE
PRICING
MARKETING
INNOVATION
helps build a sustainable competitive advantage
34.
Designing for Everyones’ Values
CUSTOMER
PERCEPTION OF
VALUE
UNDERSTANDING
OF VALUE
Features not valued
reduce CPV
35.
CUSTOMER
VALUES
PRODUCT
VALUES
MARKETING
“PROMISE OF
VALUE”
PRODUCT
-MARKET
FIT
Designing for Product-Market Fit
36.
Understanding Customers’ Perception of Value
provides long-term guidance for sustainably
innovating in directions they’ll care about
marketing in ways that motivate action
pricing for things worth paying for
37.
Agenda
The Need for a Better Approach
Customer Perception of Value
Case Study
How To
38.
Case Study - Infobip
Global Messaging Infrastructure
39.
Case Study - Infobip
Research & insight into
Customer Perception of Value
Challenge: Sucessful global market leader,
dissatisfied with growth in N.A.
Used surprising CPV insights to
revise their value proposition
First Step:
Next Step:
41.
Case Study - Infobip
Recommended new Pricing Model
based on discovered customer values
$ / Transaction ➔ SaaS subscription
New Pricing Tiers, Bundles & Add-ons
Free Service & Support ➔ Paid
42.
Case Study - Infobip
Subscription revenue target for entire
year reached in month 2
Support Dept. on path from cost center
to profit center by month 6
Gross profit for SMB segment
increased by 3x - 5x
Product Managers happier, too!
Results:
43.
Case Study - Infobip
“I think the single biggest problem
in Product today is that folks who
build products don’t know enough
about their customers — yet they
assume that they do.”
44.
Customer values are discoverable, measurable
and quantifiable. Why skip this step?
45.
Agenda
The Need for a Better Approach
Customer Perception of Value
Case Study
How To
47.
http://nyti.ms/22y5HEK
N.Y. / REGION
After Funeral and Cremation, a Shock:
The Woman in the Coffin Wasn’t Mom
By MICHAEL WILSON MARCH 21, 2016
After a long battle with cancer, Val-Jean McDonald, mother of eight sons, with more
than 20 grandchildren, almost as many great-grandchildren and three great-great-
grandchildren, died on Dec. 18 at the age of 81.
Her funeral, 11 days later, attracted scores of mourners to Union Baptist Church
in Harlem: her sons, from Manhattan, New Jersey, Georgia, Texas and Australia;
other relatives and friends; and people who had never met her but knew her
children.
They all filed past the open coffin, seeing familiar remnants of Ms. McDonald’s
life: a favorite pink blouse and white suit, and her finest jewelry.
“Why did they cut off all her hair?” a son, Errol McDonald, 57, remembers
thinking. “Maybe it’s the cancer.” He bent and kissed her.
But sometimes children see what adults cannot. Adults rationalize. Children call
it like it is.
“My 10-year-old son said, ‘Daddy, that’s not Grandma,’” recalled Mr. McDonald,
a school maintenance worker in Manhattan. “I said, ‘Yes, that’s what happens,’” he
told the boy, explaining that people can look different in death.
The next day, the family attended Ms. McDonald’s cremation at Woodlawn
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Explore the past reality, not the unpredictable future
50.
Each Audience Perceives Value Differently
Buyers /
Purchasers
ApproversDecision Makers
Scouts /
Influencers
Users Evaluators
Focus on one audience at a time
51.
Awareness Consideration Purchase Usage Advocacy
Customer Journey
Different Perceptions of Value Along Customer Journey
Focus on one context at a time
52.
• Never pay for subjects Talk only to people who care
• Gain insight with live interviews Use surveys for screening audiences
• Avoid yes/no, a/b or forced choices Let them use their own words
• Don’t mention your product or features Learn what they care about
• Quantify the intensity of their values Learn which values matter most
• Don’t disagree, prove or sell Learn what they think
Customer Perception of Value Research Tips
53.
Ask them to describe their behavior in your chosen context
What did they actually do in that context?
Ask only about the past — not the present or future
Then ask about their thinking at that time
What led them to do the things that they did?
How did they go about making their decision?
Don’t ask about features. Focus on how they decided.
Interviewing for Customer Perception of Value
54.
Ask your neighbor to name a purchase they made recently.
Focus only on their buying decision in their customer journey
Ask them to describe their behavior
What did they actually do in that context?
Ask only about the past — not the present or future
Then ask about their thinking at that time
What led them to do the things that they did?
How did they go about making their final decision?
Customer Perception of Value Mini-Workshop
58.
The ROI of Understanding Values
Faster sales cycle
More customers
More revenue per sale
More customer retention
More referrals
Lower risk of failure
Lower cost of development
Lower cost of acquisition
Cost Savings
Revenue
Profit
Market Share