Our Partners & Relationships

Customer Faithful may be small and beautifully formed, but we also access a wide range of agencies and professions through our business network.

Alongside our core team, we have great relationships with specialists who add to our expertise in particular areas. These include capabilities such as technology, film & visual arts, creative design and communication. We also partner with individual researchers and niche agencies worldwide to give us a breadth of language skills and geographical scale across the globe. This approach enables us to custom-build each client project with individuals and companies that have simply wowed us with their skill, imagination and passion.

We are proud to have worked with them, and openly list them here, by way of recommendation, either alongside us or in their own right.

Ancona + Associates
Tom Ancona’s US-based experience design agency is the best we’ve seen for capturing and celebrating the heritage of a brand, to ensure its authority for the future, both on and off-line.

Creative Leap
Our pick of the UK’s top 10 brand and communications agencies , especially for visual identity and brand positioning.

Greenfield Television
Outstanding video production team, with extensive experience in the creation and use of new media, incl. DVD, 3D animation, video for web, or content for company intranets.

Intrepid
Our preferred market research consultancy, with a specialism in innovation workshops, ethnographic and social media analytics

Nic Askew
A genuinely unique film-maker, Nic has a rare gift for capturing the soul of an individual or an organization , laid bare in beautiful, black-and-white short films.

Vybrant
This consultancy has an inspiring philosophy of making people more valuable. That incorporates a wide range of services to bring about positive change in an organisation, but I especially like that their method is based on sound connective research and scientific evidence about behavioural change. Not guesswork.

Sheba Cassini – contact us for details at rick@customerfaithful.com
Sheba is almost our resident visualization cartoonist, with a speed and imagination that is perfect for brainstorming workshops, innovation sessions and fun communication !

Dorothy Bisbee – contact us for details at rick@customerfaithful.com
Dorothy was Rick’s personal coach during the conception of Customer Faithful. During those formative months in 2009, her guidance in establishing values, prioritisation and goal-setting was invaluable.

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With so many people using smartphones and the apps that make them so appealing, is the creation of a customer service app the next big thing in customer experience? Our view is a provisional ‘yes’ – but it all depends on how the app is downloaded initially. For the lowdown, read on…..

How does a patient-centric pharmaceutical company behave? Blog, Healthcare, Insight - 2:16 pm How does a patient-centric pharmaceutical company behave?

In a world where pharmaceutical companies traditionally focus on patient compliance with their medication regimes, how would a patient-centric model pay for itself? And how would we recognise its existence in a drug company’s behaviour?

IBM survey calls for more individual approach to customer insight Blog, Insight, News - 1:22 pm IBM survey calls for more individual approach to customer insight

In a major global study, IBM’s landmark report found that almost half of respondents felt ‘overwhelmingly underprepared’ by their consumer insight. What were the reasons? Read on to find out….

Why Customers aren’t taking to Wave and Pay Blog, News, Retail - 11:17 am Why Customers aren’t taking to Wave and Pay

Despite Barclays ‘contactless’ credit card fraud issues last week, providers would have you believe that wave ‘n’ pay cards are the way forward. We disgree. There’s a far more profound problem with wave ‘n’ pay, which is easily solved but isn’t going away yet…

A story of Apple and a broken brand promise Blog, Retail - 5:14 pm A story of Apple and a broken brand promise

Successful brands are more than just world-beating products – they carry an emotional attachment, and a degree of trust in the brand-consumer relationship. But when a great product is let down by its customer service, what’s the impact of that broken brand promise? Here’s what I found when Apple did just that to me…

Customer Faithful joins BHBIA Blog, Healthcare, News - 1:53 pm Customer Faithful joins BHBIA

Customer Faithful has been elected as a full member of the British Healthcare Business Intelligence Association (BHBIA).
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Newspaper Tablet Editions – Reaching Out or Locking In? Blog, Insight, News - 9:22 am Newspaper Tablet Editions – Reaching Out or Locking In?

As more people choose mobile devices to be their primary source of news and information, we explore the pro’s and cons of using newspaper tablet editions. And from our experience, we think some publishers are missing a trick…..

Ways for marketers to beat the downturn Blog, Insight, News, Retail, Toolbox - 4:18 pm Ways for marketers to beat the downturn

What do you do when your tried-and-tested marketing techniques aren’t as effective in today’s economy? Start by staying positive – here’s how some of those negative trends can have silver linings if your mindset allows you to see them..

What Mary Portas didn’t suggest for Britain’s High Streets… Blog, News, Retail - 2:31 pm What Mary Portas didn’t suggest for Britain’s High Streets…

Last week saw the much-awaited report by retail guru Mary Portas, offering ways to reinvigorate Britain’s ailing High Streets. Aside from a few small gems, we felt it missed a Big Idea, so we have one of our own to share instead…..

Watching Gen Y shop for Christmas – 5 Lessons Blog, Insight, Retail - 10:00 am Watching Gen Y shop for Christmas – 5 Lessons

Regular visitors to this site will know that we have a particular interest in Gen Y or the Millennial Generation, so we’ve been out in the run-up to Christmas, watching them shop, both in High Streets and malls, as well as on-line. What have we learned? Here are 5 clues to attracting Gen Y shoppers……..