Customer-Centered Design: A New Approach to Web Usability

The Customer Lifecycle

How do you monitor your customer throughout the lifecycle? Each customer enters the buying process at a different stage. This is most apparent with technology products and is not necessarily transferable to a commodity.

However, the Internet is, in essence, a technology product from an adoption perspective. Understanding how the customer interacts with your site or your products and when will help you target the correct intervention point. Pinpointing your communications to lifecycle stages will avoid a shotgun effect and will solidify your relationship with your customer as an evolutionary process.

Identifying Your Most Valuable Customers

You can identify your top customers by analyzing historical sales for dollar volume ...