Over the last few weeks I have posted here, here, here, here, and here to describe the underlying framework to build your Ideal Customer Profile. Doing this well is one of the most impactful exercises for Marketing and Sales professionals. In this post I will pull it all together in a model that you can…
Ideal Customer Profile: Positive Impact Potential
We are now onto the final of the three categories of attributes that describe your Ideal Customer Profile. Firmographics: Who should you call? (See here) Customer Business Problem: What problem do they have? (See here) This post addresses Positive Impact Potential: Will they be successful?, possibly the most important category of the three for companies…
Ideal Customer Profile: Customer Business Problem
The attributes of your Ideal Customer Profile can be separated into the three categories: Firmographics: Who should you call? Customer Business Problem: What problem do they have? Positive Impact Potential: Will they be successful? In my last post I described what to do to get the Firmographics piece right. This post addresses Customer Business Problem.…
Ideal Customer Profile: Firmographics
In my last post Ideal Customer Profile: Mining Your Customers, I showed how your existing customers are a great place to start to discover your ICP. This built on the previous post Ideal Customer Profile – Part 1: Introduction, where I introduced the concept of the Ideal Customer Profile. The attributes of your Ideal Customer…
Ideal Customer Profile: Mining Your Customers
In a previous post Ideal Customer Profile – Part 1: Introduction, I introduced the concept of the Ideal Customer Profile. In this post we will look at how your existing customers are a great source of insight with which to start. (Much of this post is from my latest book: Digital Sales Transformation in a…