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Customer Loyalty Is Overrated

&
Old Habits Die Hard, but They Do Die
Mir Faisal Talpur

Mar 21, 2018

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Keep existing & attract new Customers

• Be relevant & superior to attract


new ones and retain old
customers
• Easy choice is more sustainable
as compare to perfect
• Attraction does not guarantee
retention
• Holding customers is not
continually adapting to changing

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Creatures of Habit

• Buying products / services may be emotional, but conscious logic


• Purchase decisions arise from conscious choice & repeated experience

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A Complement to Choice

• People must have a reason to buy a product in the first place


• Companies without cumulative advantage cannot retain customer
• Here are four basic rules to follow
1. Become popular early.
2. Design for habit.
3. Innovate inside the brand
4. Keep communication simple

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Customer Loyalty – Key Points

• Competitive advantage is as sustainable


• Easy to access product / services and support comfortable buying habit will
win over innovative but unfamiliar alternatives
• Constantly updating your value proposition and branding is a trap
• Sustainability of initial advantage is depend upon four rules of cumulative
advantage.

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Old Habits Die Hard, but They Do Die

• Purchase decisions are more closely to habit and ease than to loyalty
• Shift toward companies that provide services in addition to goods

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Strategic Inflection Points

• A time in the life of a business when its fundamentals are about to change.
• New technologies leading to change in habits very fast

In 2004 Facebook was founded.

In 2005 YouTube was founded.

In 2006 Amazon launched Amazon Web Services (AWS).

In 2007 Apple’s iPhone operating system were commercially released

In 20017 Google’s Android operating system were commercially released

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A Balance of Stability and Dynamism

• Leveraging the Familiar Even as You Reinvent


• Power the core skills or capabilities of an organization in a new format
• The Internet was made for classifieds and classifieds were made for the
Internet
• Steady, sustained profit growth is hard to achieve
• Balance culture, relationships, leadership, and even strategy with rapid
resource mobilization, marketplace experiments, and people mobility.

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Old Habits Die Hard, but They Do Die – Key Point

• Customers can easily “hire” another solution that does a given job better

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Conclusion

• People will adjust to a radical change, if it offers a habit from some other
context to relate to—particularly in the digital space.

• The better strategists understands that building habitual behavior is as


important as changing habits & technology

• Cumulative advantage is sustainable only when aligned with Technology

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Thanks
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