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Leela Mehta / Chief Marketing Officer

Three positions on how a new utility earns its customers

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Measuring adoption5 min read

A registration is not a kitchen

City gas companies describe growth in connections, a word that can mean a signed form, a pipe on a wall or a family cooking. Marketers should be paid, and boards informed, on the last of these.

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Measuring adoption

  1. Measuring adoption5 min read

    A registration is not a kitchen

    City gas companies describe growth in connections, a word that can mean a signed form, a pipe on a wall or a family cooking. Marketers should be paid, and boards informed, on the last of these.

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Safety communication

  1. Safety communication5 min read

    Teach the smell before you sell the pipe

    Utilities often treat safety communication as a compliance leaflet or a frightening advertisement. In a city new to piped gas it is the product's first lesson, best taught by a fitter in a kitchen and measured on the doorstep.

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Industrial gas sales

  1. Industrial gas sales5 min read

    Industrial buyers switch fuels on a trial, not a tariff

    A discount persuades a factory owner to listen, not to convert. What converts an industrial cluster is a price formula the owner can check, a funded trial on his own furnace and a plain account of who receives gas first in a shortage.

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