It’s time for our February Employee in the Spotlight! This month we’re putting the spotlight on one of our newest team members, our Front-End Developer and ‘website extraordinaire’ Yannick Post.
https://mopinion.com/employee-in-the-spotlight-yannick-post/
Whenever I hear about an organization with a "chief customer officer," my first thought is, "well, shouldn't that be everyone's job?"
It really should, and maybe that will help what appears to be an increasingly dire situation. A recent study by Forrester Research states that the average customer experience (CX) is getting worse, not better. "The data also shows that trust in companies has dropped precipitously," according to a report in Marketing. The report urges companies to engage their employees more intimately with the CX process, and even make it "an internal disruptive force" within the organization, with plenty of corporate culture consideration. "CX teams have implicitly covered culture change in the past, but it’s becoming more enshrined in their roles. That’s because the CX skill set transfers well to employees."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joemckendrick/2018/02/24/enterprises-seek-to-sharpen-their-customer-experience/
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/
Simplicity is a basic tenet of customer experience, but it is often overlooked in favor of a company’s outdated rules or procedures. Doing simple better means aiming for the fewest clicks (or taps) possible to complete a digital task, allowing a customer to easily talk to a human being on the phone if they need to, and writing legal terms and conditions in language customers can understand.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dangingiss/2018/03/21/how-to-do-simple-better-in-your-customer-experience/#8ab7c737204b/
A modern business understands the importance of offering a seamless customer experience. However, consumers tend to be more demanding nowadays. This brings out the challenge of optimizing your customer journey to ensure that you’re offering a successful multi-channel approach.
A successfully optimized customer journey can help your company meet the customers’ demands and meet the key objectives. This can only be achieved by having multiple teams working towards the same goal.
https://www.clickz.com/bring-marketing-sales-together-optimize-customer-experience/213687/
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/
With only months remaining before the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into effect, it is dominating the news agenda and is a top priority for businesses. From retailers to charities and the manufacturing industry to financial services, the impact of GDPR will affect every organisation that handles customer data and will be far reaching. Indeed, it has the scope to change the face of marketing completely.
http://www.information-age.com/will-gdpr-improve-customer-experience-consumers-123470312/
In recent years, inbound marketing has seen a boom in popularity. Businesses of every shape, size, and industry have started adopting the inbound methodology to attract visitors and turn contacts into clients. Unfortunately, the final step of the inbound methodology—delighting customers—has been talked about quite a bit less than other topics, such as writing a killer e-book or organic keyword rankings. But that’s all about to change.
As more and more brands turn to inbound marketing, the competition will grow only fiercer, making it even more important to focus on a positive customer experience (CX). After all, if a customer has a negative experience with your brand, what’s stopping them from turning to a competitor that can offer them the same services and content? By focusing on customer success and support, organizations will be able to increase the lifetime value of their current customers, decrease the cost of acquisition for future customers, and turn passive customers into enthusiastic promoters.
https://www.business2community.com/marketing/inbound-customer-experiences-future-marketing-02035120/
It used to be so simple. If you were looking to acquire new customers you needed the reach of mass campaigns to attract them to you. If you wanted to build and enhance relationships with existing customers, you needed to deploy what you had learned and tailor your targeted messages precisely.
Now, thanks to ad blocking, savvy consumers opt-out more easily than ever, so ensuring communications are accurately targeted to potential customers is imperative.
https://www.marketingtechnews.net/news/2018/apr/17/its-no-longer-choice-between-targeting-or-audience-reach-both-are-imperative-succeed/
The takeover is complete: The customer is in control and customer experience now reigns supreme over the business universe. A whirlwind of global forces has propelled us to this place. Now that we’re here, what do companies need to do to not only survive, but also thrive?
https://customerthink.com/making-customer-experience-your-marketing-and-sales-magnet/
