With customer experience a focal point for businesses across all sectors, marketers shouldn’t just be looking at B2C brands for inspiration as B2B is increasingly seen to be leading the way.
https://www.marketingweek.com/2018/08/22/b2b-brands-customer-experience/
Various studies of B2B customers show that more than 50% are not satisfied with the way in which brands market to them once they became paying customers. Similarly, more than 40% of marketers are not satisfied with the results of their customer marketing efforts, yet 90% of them believe that customer marketing is an important investment. And in an era where customer loyalty is weakening, it is clear that the need to create high value customer marketing investments has never been more pressing.
http://customerthink.com/the-power-of-curated-customer-experiences/
When talking about customer experience, there’s almost an underlying assumption that the focus is on customers in the B2C space. But B2C is just one side of the coin. There’s the B2B angle to it as well, where delivering a great experience is equally crucial to be successful in the long run.
According to Accenture, approximately 80% of executives in B2B companies believe that offering an outstanding customer experience is directly connected to generating better business results and ensuring the company has a competitive advantage. Despite this realization, fewer than 25% of these companies excel at offering great CX. The rest still have a more product or channel-centric approach, with everyone in the organization focused on the product and where and how it’s marketed.
https://customerthink.com/the-future-of-customer-experience-in-b2b/
Now more than ever, marketers have a variety of new and traditional options in their toolboxes. In addition to tried-and-true foundational practices, our group of professionals shared their insights into new ways of approaching demand generation, improving content marketing, and leveraging early forms of machine learning and AI — all within the framework of a vastly expanded appreciation of the central role of the customer experience.
http://customerthink.com/the-evolving-scope-of-b2b-marketing-its-all-about-customer-experience/
How would you like to reduce customer churn by 27%, increase Net Promoter ScoreTM by 65%, and outperform competitors by 20% in sales, purchasing, ordering, installation, billing, service inquiry, maintenance and account management processes? This progress was achieved by engaging employees company-wide in coordinating customer-focused improvements across Operations, Marketing, Service and other functional areas.
https://clearaction.com/operations-involved-b2b-customer-experience/
Much of the conversation was focused on digital how-to’s, discussions on the direction that online marketing will be moving in the coming years and the ever present suspicion that computers will steal all of our jobs.
https://mopinion.com/digital-development-on-the-rise-for-b2b-companies/
In the B2B world, most tech buyers don’t want to dedicate a lot of time to purchasing decisions. Often, it’s just a necessary part of their job to help businesses run more efficiently and enable employees to work more productively with the latest technology.
This is fantastic for B2B marketers, because tech buyers often want to be brand loyal. It’s much easier to buy technology from a brand you trust.
So, if you provide a reliable product at a fair price and prove to be a genuine partner, you can drive more brand loyalty and greatly impact the bottom line. Easy enough, right? Well, not so much. There are several other factors that drive (and destroy) B2B brand loyalty.
http://www.chiefmarketer.com/build-destroy-b2b-brand-loyalty/
B2B companies know that it is harder than ever to influence customer experience (CX) in the digital age. An influx of channels, easy access to information and influencers, and an increasing desire for personalised, consumer-like experiences has blurred traditional purchasing paths and empowered B2B customers to independently make buying decisions before engaging with company representatives.
https://www.mycustomer.com/experience/loyalty/have-b2b-companies-lost-control-of-the-customer-experience/
In a newly published study, nearly two-thirds of buyers told Merkle that they are challenged by vendors and sales reps that are more interested in selling their products and services than listening to buyers needs.
While this feedback from prospective customers speaks specifically to their buying process, it does provide a glimpse into the lack of insights that many brands have about their customers, their needs and what experience they desire.
https://customerthink.com/experiencing-customers-to-deliver-customer-experience/
In this month’s conversation with Johannesburg-based author Mark Eardley, we discuss why differentiation seriously matters and how customer centricity (what Forrester calls customer obsession) plays a key role in getting your firm to stand out from the crowd. It’s about differentiating based on your customer experience — making CX one of the key things that distinguishes you as an organization.
https://go.forrester.com/blogs/b2b-marketers-should-differentiate-on-customer-experiences/
