AuthorTarun Babbar

Why did I love this Saturday?

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I usually start my weekends with an intense workout regimen. This one was also quite intense but in a very different way. I attended the 71st edition of ‘Playbook Roundtable’ on Saturday the 28th of May, 2016. Incidentally, this was my first time at any Playbook event. From the time I received the invite, I just had one question: how should I prepare to give it my very best? Little did I know...

Identifying King Customers and building your business around them isn’t that easy!

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“Throughout history, it has never been easy to identify a deserving king!” I attempted to address this in my previous post, in the context of customer strategy. I proposed Customer Lifetime Value (CLTV) as the key metric to identify king customers. However, I’ve found this philosophy extremely difficult to follow, which is why I wrote this post. It’s okay if you have not read my previous post...

Who said that the customer is a king?

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Lesson one in succeeding at customer management: don’t treat them all alike. Whosoever said that the customer is a king, didn’t tell us which customer! And until you know which customer deserves your very best, you’re not likely to have a very effective customer management strategy. In this post, I want to share a framework which will allow you to understand how to holistically look at your...

How to identify and track the right metric?

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“To know how to measure the success, is to know how to achieve it” A few days ago while discussing complexities of managing a product portfolio, Uday asked me a simple question: what is the most important metric one should use to measure product performance? I suddenly felt dumbfounded because I didn’t have a clear answer. Though I could have used my heuristics to throw suggestions...