The marketing landscape has seen a tremendous shift in the last five years, largely due to data aggregation, and 2018 will be no different as communicators continue to gain a greater and increasingly granular understanding of customers.
Marketers have become proficient in gathering performance and consumer data through a wide variety of online experiences. These insights have enabled organizations to provide more relevant content throughout every stage of the sales funnel -- from the awareness stage all the way to the conversion stage. In the past, audience data metrics, informed by Google and Facebook analytics, could be applied effectively in organic social media content. But the days of free content are in the past as the industry has moved to a pay-to-play approach to reaching consumers.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescommunicationscouncil/2017/11/28/priorities-for-marketers-in-2018-refining-the-customer-experience/
Market dominance once depended on delivering the best product or service, at the best price. Yet today, rising consumer expectations have changed the rules, making customer experience the new battleground of competitive differentiation.
As a result, outpacing rivals now means following the example of prominent industry pundits such as Jonah Sachs, and building businesses around people.
https://www.fourthsource.com/data/people-based-marketing-wins-customer-experience-battle-22190/
A talk by Aisling Hassel, Airbnb’s head of global CX, at a recent event organised by CXPA Ireland was inspiring. Airbnb are game changers and not just in how they democratised travel. In a CX context, they have motivated and enabled employee to deliver a powerful customer-centric strategy based on that most precarious of marketing variables: trust.
http://marketing.ie/articles/customer-experience-fad-or-future/
The healthcare field is changing, and customer experience is right at the center. Gone are the days of customers feeling inconvenienced and doctors having to spend long hours to catch up on their work — today’s healthcare revolution is all about empowering customers and helping everyone get the care they need. That change means the industry is becoming more competitive, and customer experience in many cases is the deciding factor for where patients go to get care.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/blakemorgan/2017/11/09/healthcare-revolution-lead-with-customer-experience/#ed6241d216d6/
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