About Dr Mark Hollyoake
Mark is a co-founder and Director of Customer Attuned Ltd. He holds a Doctorate from the University of Southampton, his thesis focused on Trust as a dynamic within business to business customer relationships.
He is an expert in B2B Customer Experience and Customer Management. This includes CM strategy development; execution of improvement plans (incl. organisational modelling for customer management); programme design; and partnership & alliance development.
Mark's applied work across FMCG, industrials, medical devices, financial services, business services and construction has led to organisations making, significant improvements to their customer management. A large focus of this work has been moving organisations up the Trust Ladder to enable them to benefit from reduced cost to serve, while continuing to innovate and deliver mutual value.
Mark is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and Member of the Institute of Sales and Marketing Management. He holds an MBA in strategy from Henley Business School.
Entries by Dr Mark Hollyoake
Peter Lavers named as a Top Customer Service Influencer
/in News/by Dr Mark HollyoakeCustomer Attuned Director Peter Lavers has again been named as one of the world’s top customer service influencers.
He has been featured on Fit Small Business’s Top Customer Serv… Read more
Managing Distributors as Partners
/in Customer Management/by Dr Mark HollyoakeOur new book is out! It’s only taken three years to write…..
MANAGING AND DEVELOPING YOUR DISTRIBUTOR RELATIONSHIP
Are you considering using distributors, or unsu… Read more
B2B Trust as business developer
/in B2B Trust/by Dr Mark HollyoakeCustomer Attuned Director, Mark Hollyoake shares the research insights from his DBA on Trust within B2B Relationships at the forthcoming event:
Your Future in Partnership with… Read more
Driving Insight
/in Business Capabilities/by Dr Mark HollyoakeOne of our great days with the team at Nomad Foods Europe; many thanks in particular to our colleague Paul Weston and his assistance in creating a tool to assist with market mapping –… Read more
How to use Trust DNA™ for Business Development
/in Embedded Trust/by Dr Mark Hollyoake
Like our personal world, business to business can also be surrounded by fake news, false claims, unethical behaviours and self interest. Never has there bee… Read more
Trust Talk – “Trust as an element of Customer Development”
/in Embedded Trust/by Dr Mark HollyoakeTrust is the buzzword of the moment in Business to Business, the new elixir that clinches contracts, opens doors and pushes up profits without requiring resources or investment;… Read more
Exporting and International Business Development
/in Sales and Account Management/by Dr Mark HollyoakeAre you preparing to make the most of your international trade and business development opportunities pre & post Brexit?
A leading bank has recently published a UK trade outl… Read more
Is your distributor up to the challenges ahead?
/in Customer Management/by Dr Mark HollyoakeIs your distributor up to the challenges ahead?
We have an evaluation tool (Distributor Evaluation Tool – DAT) that will tell you and highlight what needs fixing or replacing.
Us… Read more
Are your people getting the right share of mind / share of voice with your distributors?
/in Customer Management/by Dr Mark Hollyoake
Are your people getting the right share of mind / share of voice with your distributors?
We have the training and development programme to fix it. It cov… Read more