What's the Future of Business Bonus Chapter

After releasing, "What's the Future of Business: Changing the Way Businesses Create Experiences," Brian Solis published a secret "bonus" chapter for those who finished the book and found the Easter egg at the end.

What is the true value of a customer?

In this special section, Brian shares a new methodology for measuring the value of shared experiences aka "The Ultimate Moment of Truth."

In a social economy, customer value takes on a new dimension. Customers are sharing their intentions, experiences and outcomes in online communities, social networks and mobile apps for others to discover at every step of the dynamic customer journey. Because of the discoverability of these shared experiences, what turns up from other customers affects the journey of the next consumer. In this dynamic ecosystem, decisions are made for and against you in real-time. Understanding the state of these shared experiences introduces previously unforeseen windows of opportunity for customer engagement and ultimately opportunities within emerging platforms.

How customers feel when interacting with or around your business, at every stage of the journey, will dictate what they share about you online. Businesses need to monitor and assess these experiences, and ensure to craft experiences their customers enjoy. One of the key challenges facing businesses in a social economy, however, is that the behaviors of connected customers are no longer congruent with that of the traditional customers they were originally built to serve. In many organizations, customer service is still operated out of a call center; marketing is spread across multiple, yet siloed functions that follow the linear path within a traditional sales funnel; and product development follows a roadmap that looks so far ahead that it inevitably splits from evolving customer realities and expectations.

WTF: www.amazon.com/WTF-Business-Changing-Businesses-Experiences/dp/111845653X