Telstra’s director of corporate marketing, Inese Kingsmill, says creating stronger advocates among its customers is now a key measure of lifetime value and growth in all of the company’s operations and markets.
Kingsmill, speaking on the latest Marketing Dividends webisode by the Australian Association of National Advertisers (AANA), said customer advocacy will underpin any growth Telstra is going to achieve, be that from existing or new customers. “Customer advocacy is strongly related to trust, for example. Customer advocacy is very strongly related to lifetime value and the future relationship with the customer,” Kingsmill said.
The full interview can be seen here:
Kingsmill said that right up to the board level it is understood that advocacy is not ‘a soft metric’ as a result of econometric modelling that proves the lifetime value of a customer increases as advocacy rises.
“We have a very sophisticated research, insights and analytics function within the Telstra marketing team. So we’ve got a very good understanding of what the drivers of advocacy are, and what the attributes are that then help us to shape our go-to-market products and services, solutions and brand focus so that we can build advocacy, build lifetime value for the customer and improve the growth of the business,” she said.
“The modelling work that we do allows us to look at value pools, and to be able to create the right types of offerings, construct those offerings that we can take to market and deliver to people in a way that is relevant to their needs. Therefore the aperture through which they can consider Telstra as the right option is exponentially increased,” Kingsmill said.
The series on Sky News Business features three minute episodes, which can be viewed on the AANA YouTube channel. Extended versions are also available for viewing on the AANA YouTube Channel.
