Create natural customer advocates.
Engage employees.
Think like a startup.
Bill Lee can help.

"Bill is a pioneer of the 21st Century Customer Relationship." Chris Adlard, co-founder and co-author, The Customer Catalyst

Bill created the categories of Customer Advocacy and Engagement and the metric, Return on Relationship™—the foundations of Customer Marketing.
Built a global community around these concepts, including Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, Box, Marketo, HubSpot, Palo Alto Networks, AWS, SAS, Siemens, Subaru of America and dozens of others using our educational, research and advisory services.
HBR articles include: Marketing is Dead, Things Customers Can Do Better Than You, The Right Way to Hire Your Customers and more.
Founded longest running (16 years), most respected customer engagement conference in the world, the Summit on Customer Engagement, held in Silicon Valley.
In 2020, Bill co-founded the Roundtable for a Customer Revolution with eight titans of the customer engagement–like Nick Mehta, Carol Meyers, Jake Sorofman and others. Since then it's grown into a decade-long movement for revolutionizing and simplifying the customer relationship to achieve Customer-Led Growth.
CLIENTS


The Vision
Customers want you to connect them to other customers throughout the customer journey.
1. So, Build an ACI Customer Community
2. Get great at connecting your AIC customers to crush growth objectives.

ADVOCACY
Traditional marketing and Sales are dying. You need customers who provide natural advocacy, word of mouth, evangelism: Customers who create an ongoing movement in your market.
IDEAS & INNOVATION
Your best resource for strategy? Strategic customers. For innovation? Innovative customers. The notion that customers can't provide such input is another common misconception about human potential.
CUSTOMER OUTCOMES
Customers struggling with adoption, expansion or renewal in the post-sale often want to connect with other customers like them to "show them the ropes"—just like buyers do in the pre-sale. You want a customer base that excels at that.
The Plan
You can start connecting customers right away to impact and crush critical growth objectives.
Here’s how we can help. Customizations include Advisory, internal Workshops, external Roundtables, and Research.
The
Start Now!
Sprint
120 days to a
Customer-Led
Enterprise
Implement with
Cathedral
Builders
Dare to be
Legendary
Why wait? The customer base of a viable firm has 30% or more promoters or loyal customers.
Instead of focusing on detractors, why not insert your promoters–who already love you–into critical growth challenges?
The CEO’s best leverage point is to build emotional bonds with customers and employees.
That requires a purpose that’s about improving customers lives in some significant way–and then living that purpose.
That’s the foundation for unlocking immense customer value.
Your customer-impacting employees should see the bigger picture of:
Living the purpose of the business.
Engaging and connecting your best customers to meet and crush strategic objectives.
Rather than subordinate your best customers to traditional marketing and sales motions.
A new offering for companies who want to become legendary—to create a legacy like Nike, Apple, Vanguard…
Plan
Start connecting customers right away to impact and crush growth objectives. Here’s how we can help.
Customizations include Advisory, internal Workshops, external Roundtables, and Research.
The Start Now! Sprint
Why wait? The customer base of a viable firm has 30% or more promoters or loyal customers.
Instead of focusing on detractors, why not connect the promoters who already love you into critical growth challenges?
120 days to a Customer-Led Enterprise
The CEO’s best leverage point is to build emotional bonds with customers and employees.
That requires a purpose that’s about improving customers lives in some significant way–and then living it.
That’s the foundation for realizing immense customer value.
Implement with Cathedral Builders
Your customer-impacting employees should see the bigger picture of:
Living the purpose of the business.
Engaging and connecting your best customers to meet and crush strategic objectives.
Rather than subordinate great customers to traditional marketing and sales motions.
Dare to be Legendary
A new offering for companies who want to become legendary—to create a legacy like Nike, Apple, Vanguard…