Customer Segmentation

Traditional approaches to Customer Segmentation for B2B organisations need to evolve. They often rely on constraining sets of data that don’t adequately take into account customers’ intentions and needs.

Based on decades delivering Customer Strategies for a host of organisations and academically acclaimed research by its founders, Customer Attuned has introduced a new way to map your customers that puts their intentions and desires at the centre of your decisions, plans and activities; the marque of true customer centricity.

Our Customer Segmentation service relies on our own methodology, not based on random data, but on their history with your company, their engagement with you and crucially, their expressed level of trust in the relationship. The output is an insight-led framework that defines tasks and activities for key teams – marketing, sales, and customer service and success.

What is Customer Segmentation?

Customer Segmentation is the practice of dividing up prospects and customers in to smaller groupings based on some definable characteristic in order to better connect with them.

What are traditional characteristics of Customer Segmentation for B2B organisations?

Traditional customer segmentation might follow characteristics such as geographic location, staff count, or turnover. Some behavioural segmentation can be used based on knowledge of the industry sector, any technology used or the stage of business maturity.

What makes Customer Attuned’s Customer Segmentation approach different?

Customer Attuned’s approach to Customer Segmentation for B2B organisations is based upon Dr Mark Hollyoake‘s seminal work on organisational trust. His S-Curve of Trust depicts the different stages of trust within a business relationship – low trust relationships work for some often low-value customers, but it is the high trust relationships that result in mutual benefits that support significant growth. Our Customer Segmentation model and consultancy services help organisations build and maintain meaningful and profitable relationships, based on trust.

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We help you redefine your Customer Management, through developing and implementing a focused strategy, and overseeing the changes to people, processes and technologies.

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Benefits of Customer Segmentation

• Know who your best customers are
• Know which customers can be your future best customers
• Identify objectives and roles for Sales and Customer Success teams
• Develop attitudinal and behavioural profiles for targeted prospects
• Know which customers should be left alone
• Identify customers for co-creating:
– testimonials
– case studies
– industry positioning
– recommendations
– product development enhancements
– product innovations
– … and so much more!

Segmentation as a Part of Customer Strategy

Customer Segmentation is a critical component of any Customer Strategy that impacts upon the whole What, Who and How of delivering business.

We believe that Customer Strategy is spiral, moving forwards while using new insights to evolving the strategy with customers needs and the competitive environment. This is revealed through, for example, the Voice of the Customer insights shaping the Segmentation (which influences the level of trust and relationship, and appetite); or the introduction of new products and services that change the shape of category management (which influences the opportunity!).

Great Segmentation frameworks allow for continual development.

Segmentation Case Study

A tech organisation came to Customer Attuned because, although it had customers and was by all measures successful, their growth had been organic and there was a desire to grow sales, but they lacked the insight as to how to target this growth.

A business leader had previously worked with Dr Mark and called on his expertise. Following an investigation which included internal stakeholder engagement, analyses of data and even a Voice of the Customer programme, Customer Attuned created a Segmentation approach that was built in to their Salesforce.

Using data from Salesforce, marketing and the VoC programme, the client can now view each customer’s Segmentation within their CRM system. And, because our team helped define work actions around each Segmentation, Account Managers, Marketing, Sales and Product Managers, all have a framework for guiding their work tasks.

Benefits and Outcomes

The business benefits from:

a view of their customers that considers potential revenue
ensuring that there is a healthy mix of customers across the 6 Segments
defined objectives that balance effort with reward
an approach that grows value for both our client and their customers.

The Customer Segmentation Canvas

Customer Attuned is delighted to have created the B2B Customer Segmentation Canvas, a new approach to Segmentation that is focused on the customer.

Customer Attuned Ltd's Customer Segmentation Canvas, a new way to segment your customers based on opportunity, appetite and trust

Can we help with your Customer Segmentation?

With expertise in Customer Segmentation and the supporting areas around it, our team is ready to listen to your challenges. Get in touch and let’s see if we can help.

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