Services

How I can help

Practical support for businesses that want to build stronger customer relationships, whether you’re starting from scratch, improving what already exists, or figuring out the right approach.

Launch your customer community

Turn the idea of a customer community into a clear, launch-ready programme.

I’ll work with you to define the purpose, audience and value proposition, design the structure and member experience, and create the engagement, onboarding and launch plan your team needs to bring it to life.

Need more hands-on support?

Launch execution and ongoing community management can be added separately.

Good fit if

  • You know you want a customer community but need help shaping it

  • You’re unsure how it should be structured or launched

  • You need both strategic and hands-on support

What we’ll work on

  • Community purpose, proposition and audience

  • Platform structure, member journey and onboarding

  • Content and engagement planning

  • Launch planning and measurement

Typical timeline

6–8 weeks

Revitalise your community

Understand what’s working, what isn’t, and what to do next.

A focused review of your existing community to identify what’s getting in the way of engagement, where the opportunities are, and what should be prioritised next.

Good fit if

  • Engagement has stalled

  • The community feels unclear or underused

  • You need an outside perspective and clear priorities

What we’ll work on

  • Member experience and structure review

  • Content, engagement and available data review

  • Clear recommendations and a prioritised action plan

Typical timeline

2 weeks

Launch a Customer Advisory Board

Create a structured way to bring your most important customers closer to the business.

I’ll help you define the purpose of your CAB, design the programme and membership model, shape your recruitment approach, establish the operating cadence and prepare everything your team needs to get the programme off the ground.

Need support beyond setup?

CAB launch support, session facilitation and ongoing programme management can be added separately.

Good fit if

  • You want more strategic customer input

  • You need a stronger feedback loop with key accounts

  • You want to deepen important customer relationships

What we’ll work on

  • Purpose, member profile and recruitment approach

  • Structure, cadence and communications

  • First-session planning

  • Ongoing engagement model

Typical timeline

4–6 weeks

Turn customers into advocates

Create meaningful ways for your strongest customers to champion your business.

Turn customer enthusiasm into advocacy through stories, testimonials, referrals and ambassador programmes that work for your business.

Good fit if

  • Advocacy currently happens ad hoc

  • You want more customer stories, referrals or participation

  • You want to build a champions or ambassador programme

What we’ll work on

  • Advocate identification and programme design

  • Participation opportunities and recognition

  • Recruitment and rollout

Typical timeline

3–4 weeks

Bespoke customer marketing support

For the challenges that don’t fit neatly into a package.

Flexible support for your customer marketing challenges, from research and engagement strategy to customer events, roundtables, lifecycle communications and figuring out where to start.

Good fit if

  • Your challenge does not fit neatly into one of the packaged services

  • You need support shaping the right approach

  • You need focused strategic or hands-on help on a specific customer marketing project

Possible areas of support

  • Customer engagement strategy and programme design

  • Customer research and interviews

  • Customer event planning and delivery, including roundtables and customer sessions

  • Lifecycle / customer communications

  • Hands-on project support

Typical timeline

Scoped to the project

Need help working out the right next step?

Whether you have a defined brief or just a customer challenge you want to solve, Open Thread can help you shape the right approach and move it forward.

Need help working out the right next step?

Whether you have a defined brief or just a customer challenge you want to solve, Open Thread can help you shape the right approach and move it forward.

Need help working out the right next step?

Whether you have a defined brief or just a customer challenge you want to solve, Open Thread can help you shape the right approach and move it forward.