Mary Claire Mandeville

Mary Claire Mandeville

Mary Claire Mandeville heads up Vennli’s agency practice. She believes in the power of understanding customer and consumer insights to provide a competitive advantage for any organization striving to create meaningful and lasting growth. She has focused her passion and harnessed her previous experiences and education to help agencies differentiate in a highly competitive market and increase their win rate by delivering deep marketplace insights in their new business pitches. Mary Claire has a BBA and MBA from the University of Notre Dame. Her experiences span from start-ups to corporations, from social entrepreneurship to financial institutions, and from Central America to back home in the US.

Why You Shouldn’t Use Customer Demographics to Segment Markets

Effective marketers aim for “the right product, price and message for the right customer at the right time.” Today, technology makes it possible for us to customize and distribute our offerings and messages to very specific, targeted audiences. However, if you don’t understand what drives customer behavior, you can’t develop the right marketing mix. One…

Creating a Product Development Strategy to Delight Customers

When developing new products, businesses typically ask their customers a single question. They provide a long list of features and ask, “For this product, which of these features do you most prefer?” This seems like a straightforward question. Many product development teams would take these results and immediately begin developing whatever features were selected most…