The Stranger's Long Neck
eBook - ePub

The Stranger's Long Neck

How to Deliver What Your Customers Really Want Online

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Stranger's Long Neck

How to Deliver What Your Customers Really Want Online

About this book

The Stranger's Long Neck is a practical guide for any manager wishing to improve their organisation's online performance. Web content specialist, Gerry McGovern, explains that all websites have a small set of tasks, or 'long necks', that are important to its customers and that must be easy to complete or customers will go elsewhere. The Stranger's Long Neck shows how to tune in effectively to what your customers want - and then deliver it with aplomb.


Understanding customer needs can be a difficult task when customers are 'strangers', in that he or she is always 'on the outside', particularly so in an online environment. Using case studies including Tetra Pak, Microsoft and the NHS, and illustrated with web shots throughout, The Stranger's Long Neck shows how organisations can use the 'long neck' theory to create and manage efficient and user-friendly websites.

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Information

Year
2010
Print ISBN
9781408114421
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781408134290

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. 1. Trading with strangers
  7. 2. Gut instinct and the information tsunami
  8. 3. From Long Tail to Dead Zone
  9. 4. The rise of the Long Neck
  10. 5. A secret method for understanding your customers
  11. 6. There are always tasks
  12. 7. Defining tasks at NHS Choices
  13. 8. Free money: That’s what we want
  14. 9. Organization v. customer thinking
  15. 10. How the Microsoft Excel Web site dramatically improved customer satisfaction
  16. 11. A method for managing search
  17. 12. Deliver what customers want—not what you want
  18. 13. Measuring success: Back to basics
  19. 14. Preparing for task measurement
  20. 15. Carrying out a task measurement
  21. 16. Those practical, innovative Swedes
  22. 17. Fox meets chicken
  23. Further Reading

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