The “customer experience’ bandwagon marches on with a new Toolkit 2018 survey from researcher WARC saying that 53 per cent of brands and 58 per cent of agency respondents reckon it’s the key to “digital transformation.” All of which helps the big consultancies more than agencies as they compete for client budgets in a period of low sales growth, fragmented communications and commoditised products.
https://www.moreaboutadvertising.com/2018/01/customer-experience-is-the-new-marketing-battleground-says-new-warc-survey/
Customer Experience or CX is a hot initiative at many companies and many more companies, from Fortune 500 to 5-10 person start-ups, are looking how to start and build their CX programs. Customer Experience takes passion, perseverance, and a belief to build a great series of experiences for the customer across all customer interaction points in an organization. A great product or service is the start point for great CX. You also need a great billing process, great digital tools, and reasonable pricing, and a great way to resolve and settle customer problems. Here are five easy to follow steps to have a great Customer Experience program.
http://www.vendingmarketwatch.com/news/12388438/5-steps-to-begin-a-customer-experience-program-at-your-company/
Context marketing gives you the power to understand your customers and offer them a truly personalized experience. It can help you deliver the right content or services to the right people at exactly the right time.
Organizations that market to customers in context of those customers' current and past interactions know exactly where customers are on the decision journey. More important, they can assess and figure out what might improve the customer journey and guide customers toward purchase.
https://www.marketingprofs.com/articles/2017/33319/how-to-create-a-customer-experience-program-and-winning-marketing-team-context-marketing/
The way we create and deliver customer experiences is constantly evolving in this rapidly changing space. Keeping up with customer experience trends is now an essential part of running a successful business.
It’s moving from a “nice to have” to a “must have” department in most organizations. Those with or without customer experience in their titles are considering how their daily work impacts the customer journey. As a result, the ways we measure, analyze and improve the experience are becoming more and more sophisticated.
http://www.customerexperienceupdate.com/2018/trends/?open-article-id=7272949&article-title=5-top-cx-trends-for-survival-in-the-age-of-the-customer&blog-domain=360connext.com&blog-title=360connext/
Is there a secret sauce for conquering the customer journey? How many touches does it really take? What’s a surefire way to move leads into the purchase funnel and eventually turn them into advocates for your brand?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescommunicationscouncil/2017/11/08/the-secret-sauce-of-the-customer-journey/#6242a93961d6/
Nowadays, there is a lot of talk about customer experience. Aside from a strong product offering, it is customer experience that can help differentiate a business. Competition is all around, and technological advancements allow for innovative ways that create the illusion of more intimate brand-customer relationships. Customer experience is motivated not only by rational argument (“what do I think of the brand”), but also very much the emotional sensations that arise from interacting with a business (“how does it make me feel”).
http://www.cxotoday.com/story/customer-experience-focus-is-a-strategic-brand-differentiator/
Among the many measures of U.S. corporate performance is topple rate, or the rate at which groups of leading companies in industries or market indexes changes over time. Multiple studies have found that the topple rate has never been higher and, as a result, increasing numbers of top companies face obsolescence. This reality is commonly caused by a company’s product or service losing relevance, but it can also be a consequence of customer experience offerings failing to match the changing times. Consequently, the digital component of the customer experience has never been more critical to success.
http://www.destinationcrm.com/Articles/Web-Exclusives/Viewpoints/Mapping-the-Customer-Journey-From-Effort-to-Emotion-121880.aspx/
