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LFS Conveyancing Conference

Treating customers fairly and profitably

26 September 2013

Victor OloweDirector, Winzest Consulting

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Nagging question

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What is treating customers fairly?

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Profitability League Table(Hypothetical Profit League Table – Conveyancing Firms)

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How businesses are wired?

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Treating Customers Fairly Matrix

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A B

C D

Treating Customers Fairly

Treating Customers Unfairly

Profit

Loss

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Capacity to Experiment

“I don’t think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you’re willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn’t work. If you’re going to invent, it means you’re going to experiment, and if you’re going to experiment, you’re going to fail, and if you’re going to fail, you have to think long term.”

(Jeff Bezos, Amazon)

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Pricing power

• “The cost of being a conveyancer…..- Low fixed fees…”

(Eddie Goldsmith, Conveyancing Association)

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Pricing power

“The single most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power.”

“If you’ve got the power to raise prices without losing business to a competitor, you’ve got a very good business. And if you have to have a prayer session before raising the price by 10 percent, then you’ve got a terrible business.”

(Warren Buffet)

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Another Roger Bannister?

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Treating Customers Fairly Matrix

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A B

C D

Treating Customers Fairly

Treating Customers Unfairly

Profit

Loss

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Possible barriers to change

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Key Drivers of Change

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Smarter Competition

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Smarter Competition

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Smarter Competition

Bad profits

“…Though bad profits don’t show up on the books, they are easy to recognise. They are profits earned at the expense of customer relationships...”

“…Bad profits strangle a company’s growth, primarily through the detractors they create…”

Fred Reichheld, Rob Markey & Andreas Dullweber (Bain & Company)

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Smarter Competition

Bad profits“…Whenever a customer feels misled, mistreated, ignored, or coerced, profits from that customer are bad. Bad profits arise when companies shortchange customers by delivering a poor experience. When sales reps push overpriced or inappropriate products onto trusting customers, the reps are generating bad profits. When complex pricing schemes dupe customers into paying more than necessary to meet their needs, those pricing schemes contribute to bad profits…”

Fred Reichheld, Rob Markey & Andreas Dullweber (Bain & Company)

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Smarter Competition

Good profits

“…Good profits are dramatically different. If bad profits are earned at the expense of customers, good profits are earned with customers’ enthusiastic cooperation. A company earns good profits when it so delights its customers that they willingly come back for more – and not only that, they tell their friends and colleagues to do business with the company…”

Fred Reichheld, Rob Markey & Andreas Dullweber (Bain & Company)

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Smarter Competition

Good profits

“…Satisfied customers become, in effect, part of the company’s marketing department; they become promoters. The right goal for a company that wants to break the addiction to bad profits is to build relationships of such high quality that those relationships create promoters, generate good profits and fuel growth…”

Fred Reichheld, Rob Markey & Andreas Dullweber (Bain & Company)

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Smarter Competition

Good profits

“..A truly customer-focused company is one that lives up to the Golden Rule. Employees treat customers the way they would want to be treated if they were customers. That means avoiding bad profits entirely…”

Fred Reichheld, Rob Markey & Andreas Dullweber (Bain & Company)

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Smarter Regulation

Better Tools

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Smarter Consumers(How customers pay?)

Source: Seth Godin

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Smarter Consumers

•Better Information•Collaborative Decision Making

• Connection Economy

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Moving to the next level Treating customers fairly framework

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Summary Are we asking the right questions?

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Summary

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Summary Although the next two to three years looks promising

The long term future is still uncertain The challenge to find the right talent may continue

Unless this sector is perceived to be more sustainable The new disruptive competitors are unknown

But the regulators may look different The influence of channel partners may wane

But customers’ expectations will surely change And the businesses that remain intelligently focused on

customers will thrive

• Are we making good or bad profit?

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Further information

Relevant papers at www.winzest.co.uk

• Setting Profitable Fixed Fees through Value Based Pricing• Developing a Better Customer Service Culture

• Are we making good or bad profit?


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