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How should you approach the development and ongoing management of your customer communities? Online customer communities help customers connect and collaborate with each other, answer each others’ questions, solve each others’ problems, and get an inside track on things they care about. Customer Communities provide a valuable way for you to support, engage with, learn from, and empower your customers.

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Community and the Customer Lifecycle
Supporting Your Customers as They Navigate the Seven Lifecycle Phases

By Matthew Lees

By understanding (1) the dynamics of the customer lifecycle and (2) the ways in which your customer community and your own organization supports lifecycle phases, you’ll be able to better leverage both the community and your company to make it easier for your customers to do business with you.

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Explore Our Research on Customer Communities:

Why Are Customer Communities Important?


Online Customer Communities Are Strategic
Why We All Need to Build a Core Competency in Nurturing Customer Communities

Bathing Your Organization in Real-Time Customer Context
Using Online Communities to Understand Customers’ Passions, Issues, and Needs at Hallmark, Unilever, Kraft, RC2 and Charles Schwab

Foster Community
Strengthen Relationships and Help Customers Help Each Other



Customer Community How To’s


Best Practices in Acquiring Customer Community Members
Making It Easy and Worthwhile for Customers to Join

Best Practices in Engaging Customer Community Members
Making It Easy and Exciting for Your Customers to Participate

Best Practices in Moderating Online Communities
Making It Easy to Cultivate and Manage a Vibrant Customer Community

Community and the Customer Lifecycle
Supporting Your Customers as They Navigate the Seven Lifecycle Phases

Will Employee Communities and Customer Communities Converge?
Can a Single Social Technology Support Both Internal and External Communities?

They Said What?!
Dealing with Inappropriate and Difficult Discussions in Your Online Community

Active Community Members: What Makes Them Tick?
Interviews with Four Active Members of Service and Support Communities

Building Professional Peer Communities
An Interview with Vanessa DiMauro, Principal, Leader Networks

Integrating Community into Customer Support
What’s the Ideal Relationship between Customer Support and Your Online Customer Community?

Helping Customers Control Their User-Generated Content
Enabling Customers to Control How and with Whom They Share Their Stuff

Customer Innovation Guide: Effective Community Building
The Second Core Competency

Community Surfing
What You Can Learn from Communities You Don’t Own

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Customer Community ROI


Measuring the Success of Online Communities
A Customer-Centric Approach to ROI

10 Critical Success Factors for Generating ROI from Online Customer Communities
Measuring Your Community’s Impact on Your Profitability



Examples of Customer Communities


How Citrix Evolved Its Online Community of Customer Advisors
How to Recruit and Manage a Private Customer Community

Wikipedia Evolves Its Policies
Updates Now Need to be Approved: Reduces Vandalism!

Outside Innovation at the BBC
Q&A with Matt Locke, Head of Innovation, BBC New Media

Cisco Systems
Growing a Vibrant Online Community for More Than a Decade

Corporate Executive Board Responds to Customers’ Request for Increased Collaboration
Providing a Collaborative Environment for Sharing Messages about Compliance and Ethics



Roles & Responsibilities for Customer Communities


Who Owns Community?
An Approach to Aligning Community Authority and Responsibility

 

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