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Client pyramid (Curry)

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The big picture

If you can successfully identify your most valuable customers, acquire them, keep them and increase their purchases, you will generate significantly more value than with a one-size-fits-all approach. The customer pyramid paradigm, revitalised by Jay and Adam Curry, provides a company with a mechanism for segmenting its customer base. The pyramid depicts the customer classification: the most valuable group of customers at the top and the vast majority of less valuable customers at the bottom (Figure 37.1).

When to use it

A customer analysis helps to classify customers into groups. Curry’s customer ...

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