No product or brand can fulfill the needs and expectations of every person every time. Companies that try to please the masses usually underwhelm their true target audience and gain little in the exchange. Even if you manage to create an incredible experience in red, there will always be people who prefer blue.
Great customer experience (CX) does not exist in a vacuum. To design an experience that keeps people coming back, focus less on wowing the crowd and more on creating a plan that consistently delivers satisfying results.
https://www.inc.com/rhett-power/the-perfect-customer-experience-is-not-what-you-think.html/
86% of customers are willing to pay more for a better customer experience. Give them what they want. Your customers expect an experience on your site. A great experience; an experience that has been personalized for them. Where do you start when making something like that a reality?
This Exponea e-book will take you through the early stages of improving the customer experience on your site, followed by specific personalization strategies to start using, and a comparison of different product recommendation models so you can pick the best one for your business.
https://www.drapersonline.com/business-operations/industry-insight/industry-insight-building-a-great-ecommerce-customer-experience/7034986.article/
This customer experience (CX) thing can be a bit confusing and you'd be forgiven for wondering whether the current state of affairs is due to data management, complacency or both.
It's one thing to say CX is everything to your company and quite another to actually deliver.
That's about the only solid conclusion you can garner from the spate of CX data points flying around as Adobe's big Summit conference concludes this week.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/customer-experience-cx-disconnects-is-it-the-data-or-the-complacency/
Customer experience has been steadily evolving over the past decade, as new technologies come online and businesses try to provide a better service to customers in the most efficient way possible. AI has been seen as pivotal in this journey, driving more intelligent call handling and streamlining processes through automation.
To discuss this issue further, TechRadar Pro spoke to Craig Palmer, Director of Customer Experience Transformation EMEA from Verizon in our latest Q&A to find out how AI is impacting the modern contact centre environment and to identify what the core benefits and potential pitfalls are.
https://www.techradar.com/news/customer-experience-in-an-ai-world/
When it comes to customer expectations, it is no surprise that with all the latest tech-leaning us towards instant gratification that millennials have higher expectations for customer experience. This is mostly due to instant gratification with mobile and email notifications from brands.
A recent report from Adobe surveyed 1,500 U.S. adults regarding preferences and expectations for digital experiences in the retail, travel & hospitality, media & entertainment, and financial services industries and found that expectations for customer experience are much higher coming from the millennial age group than ever before.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicolemartin1/2019/03/26/why-millennials-have-higher-expectations-for-customer-experience-than-older-generations/
Any retail marketer knows that customer experience is critical. With numerous touch points — web site, in-store, Amazon, advertisements, contact centers and more — retailers are more responsible than ever for providing a great experience for customers regardless of the channel.
The one aspect that factors into every customer touch point is content. Whether it is product information or a content marketing campaign, all details must be consistent — and in the customer’s language. According to a recent Forrester report, 80% of business leaders believe that content challenges prevent them from delivering on their business objectives. This is not very surprising when you consider the volume and velocity of digital content that makes its way across all of the customer communication channels. This level of content can be tough to manage if businesses do not have the right strategies in place.
https://www.retailtouchpoints.com/features/executive-viewpoints/content-s-role-in-the-customer-experience/
Providing a single repository that delivers a 360-degree view of the customer enables an organization to deliver a highly differentiated and much more engaging customer experience (CX). Brands who leverage a CDP are already proving how IT and marketing teams can work together to drive business success.
As organizations deploy their first CDP use cases, or plan to do so, Adobe’s experts have some important tips that can help improve the chance of success with these projects. The most important is that the CDP must support both known and unknown data. An unknown contact is one that may not be a registered or named user yet is still a valid contact or website visitor. Adobe has designed their use case with the capability to bring together known and unknown data to activate real-time customer profiles across channels throughout the customer journey.
https://www.cio.com/article/3385116/the-customer-data-platform-your-next-step-in-optimizing-the-customer-experience.html/
With a history spanning over five decades, Virgin Group is a collection of more than 400 companies across several industries around the world. Be it riding the rails with Virgin Trains, spending the night in a Virgin Hotel, or placing calls with Virgin Mobile, Virgin companies are renowned for offering a unique and exceptional customer experience. While Sir Richard Branson, founder of Virgin, has made many statements on the topic of serving customers well over the years, he has equally many things to say about treating employees well, as evidenced above.
http://customerthink.com/fix-the-agent-experience-to-improve-the-customer-experience/
A new study from UserTesting should sober up email marketers, and just about anyone involved with the customer experience.
Of 1,600 professionals surveyed, 85% say their customer experience needs improvement.
Worse, 44% have never heard of the term digital transformation -- a key part of improving customer engagement -- if you believe the report. And digital transformation ranks near the bottom of present and future trends.
The study shows that 34% in the process of undergoing a digital transformation. Another 28% don’t know what that is, and 16% are simply not doing it. Only 22% say they are done.
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/333834/most-firms-say-their-customer-experience-needs-a-b.html/
Building a great product or solution is essential, but a company won’t go very far if it can’t provide a robust customer experience. With 73 percent of clients worldwide indicating that it’s an important factor in purchasing decisions, businesses have to ensure excellent customer experience to not only meet demand but also keep up with the competition.
Companies also need to understand that expectations and demands are high. People care about having access to instant, consistent, and contextual conversations with customer support teams across several channels. As such, it’s imperative that they’re available on channels customers already trust and enjoy.
https://www.techinasia.com/rules-modern-customer-experience-game/
