The 5Cs, Not the 4Ps By Paul Greenberg President, The 56 Group, LLC Chief Customer Officer, BPT Partners, LLC Author: CRM at the Speed of Light MAN! It’s Just So 2.0 Out There

The Business World Changed "Companies used to focus on making new, better, or cheaper products and services....Now the game is to create wonderful and emotional experiences for consumers around whatever is being sold. Its the experience that counts, not the product." “ People…want capabilities and options, not uniform products…business is there to provide the tools.” “ The Knowledge Economy is giving way to the Creative Economy...” (Knowledge has become a commodity so the solution is to) "focus on innovation and design as the new corporate core competencies." BUSINESSWEEK, DECEMBER 19, 2005

The Business World Changed “ NBC Universal announced sweeping cuts to its television operations yesterday, demonstrating just how far a once-unrivaled network must now go to stay competitive with YouTube, social networks, video games and other upstart media.” – Washington Post, October 21, 2006

The Business World Changed It's official: YouTube and Verizon ink deal Tuesday 11:50 AM | Cyrus Farivar | Engadget Mobile | | Filed under: Handsets , Verizon Wireless Well folks, we told you just over three weeks ago about "advanced talks" between Verizon and YouTube, and it looks like as of today, the two lovebirds have just tied the knot officially. with their joint service will launch next month. However, there are a couple of points to take stock of: first, it's exclusively on Verizon, which means it's going to run on V CAST -- costing you an extra $15 a month, that is, assuming you have a V CAST-capable handset. (According to one analyst, Roger Entner, only about 10 percent of Verizon's 20 million users with such phones have signed up for the service so far.) Second, Verizon's exclusivity is only going to be for "a short time," and it's more than likely that T-Mobile, Sprint, Cingular and friends have already been knocking at YouTube's door. Third, as you probably know, YouTube is a two-way street (you know, that whole "user-generated" thing we've been hearing so much about) and as such, Reuters is reporting that you'll be able to post videos directly from your handset with the use of a "five-digit short code instead of an email address." Finally, the Mercury News points out that you won't have access to all of YouTube, just what Verizon decides that you'll want via its proprietary YouTube channel. So that means you can probably forget about catching episodes of "Ask A Ninja" on your bus ride home. Still, diluted YouTube is better than no YouTube; we can almost hear thousands of freshly-bought VX9900s flipping open to check out the content already. Read - Reuters Read - San Jose Mercury News Permalink | Email this | Comments

The Business World Changed Second Life Game Gets Virtual Phones The accessories from YouNeverCall look and act like cell phones. By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek Nov 28, 2006 06:53 PM The communications revolution has gone virtual. YouNeverCall , an online mobile phone store, is making free virtual cell phones available to Second Life residents. "The virtual cell phones we are offering on Second Life are more than just a fun accessory," said Sam Michelson, CEO of YouNeverCall, in a statement. "The cell phones let Second Life residents send and receive text messages, as well as hold the virtual phone to their ear. They ring like real cell phones and, best of all, require no special download." Really, they're just a fun accessory — in a world where teleportation is an option, you don't need a telephone to reach out and touch someone. But Second Life residents may find them compelling as a fashion statement, at least until someone finds a way to dial into Second Life from real-world phones. The YouNeverCall virtual kiosk in Second Life is located in the Alston region at coordinates 95, 58, 22 .

Old School Irony… Source: BearingPoint/EIU, 2004

“ We have to create a great experience every time you touch the brand, and the design is a really big part of creating the experience and the emotion. We try to make a customer’s experience better, but better in her terms.” – A.G. Lafley, CEO Proctor & Gamble Case Study: Proctor & Gamble “ I think its value that rules the world. There’s an awful lot of evidence across an awful lot of categories that consumers will pay more for better design, better performance, better quality, better value and better experiences.” – A.G. Lafley, CEO, Proctor & Gamble

"You're starting to see big advertisers pull money out of television," said Michael Goodman, a senior analyst at the Yankee Group. "Proctor & Gamble announced...that they are pulling money out of TV advertising because they felt they weren't getting enough bang for their bucks, and they are looking at video games as a place where they can." Case Study: Proctor & Gamble

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