The world has changed and you can't put
the genie back in the bottle. Customers are smart,
getting smarter and want to be served in a variety of
ways. Which is why your message needs to be consistently
delivered across all touchpoints and you need to be open
for business in a variety of ways.
It's not uncommon for clients to open a direct mail piece
(if you're lucky), visit your website, call your toll-free
number, revisit your website and then ask to meet with
a representative of your product in their community. This
channel surfing represents an opportunity to either impress
or depress your potential client. Are you prepared
and are your representatives prepared for the cynically
smart consumer?
You will be if you implement what we refer to as CDCI ...
Customer Driven Channel Integration. It's a
fancy way of saying ... sell your customers what they want,
however they want, and wherever they want.
A final thought before you give us a call... INTEGRATE
OR DISINTEGRATE.
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