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Updated for 2025: Best practices for Driving a Successful Customer Advisory Board Program

Updated for 2025: Best practices for Driving a Successful Customer Advisory Board Program

by Mike Gospe | Jan 13, 2025 | CAB best practices, Partner Advisory Boards

Every year I update this article to reflect the latest Customer Advisory Board best practices. Throughout 2024, my team and I interviewed more than 3 dozen C-suite CAB members (cross industry). One of things we explored was characteristics of an excellent CAB program....
C-Suite leaders define a world-class CAB program for 2025

C-Suite leaders define a world-class CAB program for 2025

by Mike Gospe | Dec 31, 2024 | Homepage, Upgrade your CAB, Voice of the Customer

In 2024, my senior team and I at KickStart Alliance interviewed dozens of C-Suite CAB members across a variety of industries. When asked how they define a “world-class CAB program for 2025”, here’s what they told us. What defines a “world-class...
How smart companies are using their Customer Advisory Boards to double their annual revenue

How smart companies are using their Customer Advisory Boards to double their annual revenue

by Mike Gospe | Mar 25, 2024 | Homepage, Strategies, Traits & Characteristics

One $50M technology hardware company used their CAB to double the annual revenue of their dozen CAB members in less than 3 years because they better understood the trends facing their top customers. Another logistics and transportation company used their CAB to double...
3 Traits that define the best-run Customer Advisory Board(CAB) programs

3 Traits that define the best-run Customer Advisory Board(CAB) programs

by Mike Gospe | Jan 9, 2024 | CAB best practices, Traits & Characteristics

Customer Advisory Board (CAB) programs have become commonplace, but they are not all alike. Sadly, many are mediocre. They fail to fully harness the wisdom and market opportunities a CAB can provide because they are not properly designed, facilitated, nor integrated...
NEW: Plan your 2024 CAB program using these 6 best practices

NEW: Plan your 2024 CAB program using these 6 best practices

by Mike Gospe | Jan 4, 2024 | CAB best practices

It’s January. That means it’s CAB planning season! These six Customer Advisory Board best practices will ensure you design and deliver a best-in-class experience for both your executive team and your most important customers. This is how some of today’s...
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Mike GospeMike Gospe is a Customer Advisory Board (CAB) & Partner Advisory Board (PAB) strategist & professional facilitator. Over the past 20 years, Mike has facilitated more than 250+ CAB and executive roundtable meetings around the world. He  leads KickStart Alliance’s Advisory Board practice, and he’s helped some of today’s most innovative companies deliver world-class virtual & in-person customer and partner advisory engagements.

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