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Book Review: Creating Customer Evangelists

August 31, 2005 By Joe Rawlinson


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Creating Customer Evangelists written by Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba is a brilliant work about turning your customers into a powerful sales force. Customer Evangelists are the ideal Return Customers that will come back to your business and bring their friends.

This book outlines several key ways you can utilize your customers to improve your business. Involving your customers can result in improved products, more new customers, and increased profits.

The authors present these six tenets of customer evangelism in detail:

  • Customer plus-delta – continually gather and utilize customer feedback
  • Napsterize your Knowledge – share your knowledge freely and make it easy for others to pass along
  • Build the Buzz – build powerful word of mouth networks that extol just how wonderful your company and product really are
  • Create Community – encourage customers to meet
  • Bite-size Chunks – offer smaller versions that are easier to attract customers
  • Create a Cause – focus on making the world a better place

After outlining the major principles behind creating customer evangelists, the authors share 8 case studies of companies that have exhibited those same qualities and have benefited greatly. You’ll get a boatload of ideas of how you can start reaping the rewards of customer evangelists from these examples.

The end of this book offers a few bonus appendices that help you get started. The authors ask several thought provoking questions that you can ponder in your business. The answers will improve your customer experience and your bottom line.

Creating Customer Evangelists is a wonderful read and I highly recommend it.

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