No matter how loyal shoppers may be to certain retailers, online shopping can test even the most dedicated brand ambassadors. Those warm and fuzzy feelings shoppers have for favorite stores or designers often evaporate when the dire need for lowest price, fastest shipping, and special sizes outweigh the emotional bond a shopper may have with a particular company.
Let’s face it: Customer loyalty is always fleeting. And during peak seasons, it can be doubly easy to lose and much harder to gain.
https://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/news/2018/08/15/can-brand-loyalty-survive-online-shopping.html/
How many times have you called your credit card or insurance company only to plow through a grueling five minutes of automated options before being put on hold for the “next available representative”? After being reminded that “this call will be recorded for quality assurance purposes,” another five minutes drag by before you’re finally talking to a human being.
By this time, you’re frustrated and exhausted, and you wonder how any company concerned with “quality assurance” could put you through such an obnoxious ordeal.
This is an example of an awful user experience (UX) – from its clunkiness and inefficiency to its total lack of regard for the customer’s time, this kind of call center gauntlet is doing the company no favors with regard to customer satisfaction or loyalty. As such, it has an immensely harmful effect on the overall customer experience (CX) – how customers engage with a company over the entire duration of their time using its products and services.
http://customerthink.com/why-you-should-be-thinking-about-ux-and-cx-differently/
Customers are reporting lower levels of loyalty than in the past – 59% of high income consumers surveyed in Asia Pacific indicated they were less brand loyal now compared with before. So, if customers are less loyalty-driven, does that mean loyalty programmes are becoming obsolete? Quite the opposite in fact. A well-marketed loyalty programme can drive both customer retention and new customer acquisition for your brand.
http://www.marketing-interactive.com/features/optimising-the-customer-experience-to-encourage-allegiance/
appos is considered a leader when it comes to customer experience, but it hasn’t always been that way. When Rob Siefker, now the Senior Director of Customer Loyalty, started representing the company at conferences years ago, he estimates only 10% of people had heard of Zappos. Now that number is around 99%, and the company has become a model of how to create a customer-obsessed culture. However, the road to Zappos’ success wasn’t without hiccups.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/blakemorgan/2018/03/28/stronger-and-smarter-a-look-back-at-customer-experience-with-zappos/#6530f99a39fb/
If you start counting the most competitive industry in these days than probably retail top the list. Incremental use of technologies has made this domain more tech-savvy and sophisticated. Especially, enterprise mobility solutions for retail has transformed the way industry operates. It has unveiled new direction for retailers to interact with customers, suppliers, internal staff, and partners.
To be the first choice for customers, it is imperative to deliver a meaningful customer experience. Optimize customer engagement by delivering interactive and seamless user experience on different mobile devices.
Here’re a few touchpoints that end up you by winning the customer loyalty, establishing lasting relations with them and generating repetitive business.
https://customerthink.com/improve-customer-experience-with-enterprise-mobility-solutions-for-retail/
Investing in your employees’ knowledge and happiness are sure pointers that can lead to improved business outcomes. To achieve this, the relationship between business owners and the customers they serve must be properly cemented and built on trust. This is where your employees come into play, as they are the ones who play the role of connector between customers and your business. However, to get them to play this role effectively, it is imperative that you adequately train and equip your staff so that they are able to engage and create experiences that eventually lead to customer loyalty.
https://www.hospitalitynet.org/opinion/4086198.html/
Customer experience management is generally the domain of the chief marketing officer (CMO) and the marketing department. Information governance usually falls into the domain of attorneys and records managers. It’s time these two groups got together to explore ways they can serve their organization’s mission better as a team.
It’s all about the customers. And their information. And their trust and loyalty.
https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/why-customer-experience-needs-information-governance/
Why is customer experience such a hot topic and buzz phrase in the travel industry (and others)?
Answer: because in the age of the experience economy the quality of customer interactions at each stage of the path to purchase builds customer loyalty and advocacy. Both are closely aligned to profits.
The reality is, big data and technology have enabled brands to understand us better – often better than we understand ourselves (I sometimes joke that Google knows me better than my partner does).
https://www.hospitalitynet.org/opinion/4086016.html/
Loyalty360 asked a few experts in the loyalty industry about trends related to customer behavior, how brands can leverage these insights to strengthen relationships and spark expanded brand loyalty, and the positives and challenges associated with Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
https://www.loyalty360.org/content-gallery/daily-news/behavioral-trends-that-could-impact-customer-exper/
