"your right customers"

"The customer” does not exist because every customer is different. Customer-centric firms acknowledge the heterogeneity among our customers. More than that, we celebrate it because we understand that heterogeneity offers us opportunity. In a customer-centric company, we understand that some customers do matter more. We understand that some customers do deserve more-and by extension, some customers deserve less. We understand that it's okay to give them less. I really believe that. I believe it very deeply, in fact. But I also understand this idea is pretty far out there-and I understand the enormous challenge associated with its real-world implementation.

It's a challenge that organizations must tackle on both the organizational and financial fronts.

The idea that some customers matter more than others is a radical one. But so is the idea that your company should completely retool its research and development functions, rework its metrics, and generally rethink every aspect of its daily operations specifically to meet the demands of those right customers - and in the process acknowledge that your old way of doing things was, for lack of a better term, misguided. So many companies are so good at the product-centric basics-inventing a thing, producing a thing, delivering a thing, inventing a new thing, and so on-that they don’t stop to ask themselves, even for a moment, whether the customers they are selling to are the right ones.

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Once you have identified your right customers the next steps are obvious. You mine those customers for information. You find out what they want, what they need, and what they will demand going forward. You find out how to acquire new customers who share some of the key characteristics that distinguish your best customers. And then you position your company, from the very top of the corporate structure right down to the on-the-ground sales force, to deliver on these ideas-because by identifying and serving those customers (and in some sense ignoring the rest), you will be doing precisely what is necessary to maximize their long-term value and your company’s profits."

Trechos retirados de "Customer Centricity: Focus on the Right Customers for Strategic Advantage (Wharton Executive Essentials)" de Peter Fader.