从传统经济转向订阅经济

Damien Delard

May 09, 2019

Top 5 challenges in the shift from a legacy economy to a subscription economy

Embarking on a digital growth strategy is a high priority for many companies, especially traditional companies that are seeing their businesses challenged by eroding markets and margins. 制定策略对它们的生存至关重要. Following is an overview of the top 5 common challenges faced by many companies as they transform their businesses.

1. Shifting business models

We are familiar with the legacy economy that has been in place for decades where the flow goes from product definition, to marketing research, to sales, 到渠道，最终到客户. There are all executed with one objective in mind — sell the product and complete the “asset transfer”.

In the new economy, 订阅者是商业模式的中心, 创造向新业务参数的转变. These include:

•获取客户的成本

•终身客户获取

• Annual recurring revenue

• Average revenue per user

所有权观念正在转变. Change is accelerating. Every day new companies and new entrepreneurs offer new subscription services, 影响顾客对新的直觉价值主张的看法.

2. 改变营销策略

When the product becomes the subscription we can no longer look at marketing in the traditional way. The 4P’s of marketing (price, product, promotion, and place) need to evolve. 传统营销支出(用于印刷广告), campaigns, billboards, 和电视)不再有效. “Word of mouth” is vital. 顾客需要被反复的体验和服务所吸引. 讲故事变得越来越重要, and the “who, how, 以及为什么需要清楚地传达关于服务的信息.

When customers subscribe, it provides access to a huge amount of data. 如果你管理新的信息, data analysis, 和客户知识有效地创建一个仪表板, it can add tremendous value to your business and help to further define the subscription offering.

3. 创新带来无尽的改进

Ongoing innovation is a great concept and the subscription economy is ideally suited for it. Innovations can be launched and tested quickly, compared to traditional, longer term market research. Businesses can adapt, learn, and optimize based on customer feedback and collected data. The critical part is having agility and making an effort to talk and listen to customers and then apply the data analysis to your core business.

Collaboration with customers and being able to respond quickly to change become critical in an agile service development model.

4. 改变销售行为

One of the biggest challenges is shifting from an asset transfer model, 建立长期关系销售模式. Sharing what other customers are doing is key to this new sales approach. Selling a service can help with your company’s growth as sales are coupled with a growing subscriber base. 适应性定价策略可以帮助优化收益. 对于新的销售模式，三个销售要求是必不可少的:

• Acquire more customers

•增加客户价值(通过向上销售和交叉销售)

•留住客户更长时间(降低流失率)

5. 新的“即服务”损益表

A new subscription economy income statement needs to be created and monitored. 传统的销售净额、销货成本、收入、利润&D, S&M成本，净收入，不再适用于商业模式. New financial indicators are required to make sense of this new economy and monitor appropriate finance KPIs. Indicators can include:

• Annual recurring revenue

• Recurrent cost

• Recurrent profits

• Growth cost

Finance teams must make significant changes to current models and make the right decisions to adapt and succeed in the new economy.

Key recommendations to grow business in the new subscription economy

• Most manufacturers don’t own their customer relationship, the channel does. 客户关系的所有权是至关重要的.

• Create a tracking system, analyze subscription behaviors, usage, and subscriber interest. 倾听和学习，然后根据数据调整服务. 在订阅经济中，数据是新的“黄金”。.

• When Software as a Service (SaaS) initiatives start with high revenue product, many companies let their people sell both legacy product and lower subscription offerings, resulting in most cases, 新生订阅的消亡. 订阅业务的成功通常始于一个专注的小型销售团队.

•价格较低的基本计划或免费增值计划非常重要. However, if a large percentage of customers (>60%) are in this stage, 即使他们对服务很满意, 这可能是一把双刃剑，会损害公司的财务状况. In an ideal world, the goal would be to move customers to the mid and higher level subscription services. Of course you would have to create a sales pitch to encourage customers to willingly move to the next level of services.

•渠道是成功的关键, 除了在教育上投入的时间和资源, workshops, and whitepapers, businesses must shift the channel behavior from “transaction based customers” to “managing customer relationships”. This would include clear communications about how subscription models can benefit their company.

• Last but not least, a subscription culture creates a customer-centric culture that promotes customer input and feedback, 并推动服务的发展.

In 2019 Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise celebrates its 100-year anniversary with a proud history of transformation. 为了保持这个传统, digital subscription transformation is well on its way and ALE is eager to involve customers, partners, 以及新订阅经济的生态系统提供商.

Discover more about these opportunities with Alcatel-Lucent Rainbow™, Network on Demand, 以及其他现收现付服务 nvsiam.mediagate-egy.net/en