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/
As companies pour money into generating the seemingly elusive “word-of-mouth marketing,” it’s not just about celebrities and other influencers. Focusing on a great customer experience can result in fewer customers leaving a business and, perhaps more importantly, more customers advocating to their friends and families on a company's behalf.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dangingiss/2018/08/16/11-customer-experience-experts-heres-how-to-get-customers-talking-about-your-company/#2a5f4bf526a5/
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/
Is your Marketing department aligned with customer experience and employee experience? The necessity and logic of doing this was highlighted in a recent presentation by Hootsuite’s Vice President of Customer, Kirsty Traill. She pointed out that Marketing Communications is unfortunately the typical focus of customer journey maps and customer-centric marketing.
http://customerthink.com/marketings-role-in-employee-customer-experience-journeys/
Today’s marketing environment is undeniably a busy one. In fact, it’s almost impossible nowadays for digital marketers to perform their tasks without the right tools at their side; tools that automate and simplify processes ensuring they get a good return on their marketing investment. This is essentially where having a marketing technology stack becomes fundamental to your success as an online company.
So what is a marketing technology stack? Why do I need one? And which tools do I need to complete mine? Let’s take a look...
https://mopinion.com/tools-for-your-2019-marketing-technology-stack/
By now, most companies have at some level realised that they need to embrace digital transformation. For the most part, however, these efforts are still limited to upgrading IT infrastructure, with very little thought given to the rest of the organisation.
A more holistic approach to digital needs to be adopted and “the customer” should be given more focus in an organisation’s digital transformation efforts. It is, after all, customer experience (CX), more than any other factor, that sets an organisation apart from its competitors.
http://themediaonline.co.za/2019/12/what-does-digital-transformation-mean-for-customer-experience-in-2020/
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/
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/
A talk by Aisling Hassel, Airbnb’s head of global CX, at a recent event organised by CXPA Ireland was inspiring. Airbnb are game changers and not just in how they democratised travel. In a CX context, they have motivated and enabled employee to deliver a powerful customer-centric strategy based on that most precarious of marketing variables: trust.
http://marketing.ie/articles/customer-experience-fad-or-future/
Market dominance once depended on delivering the best product or service, at the best price. Yet today, rising consumer expectations have changed the rules, making customer experience the new battleground of competitive differentiation.
As a result, outpacing rivals now means following the example of prominent industry pundits such as Jonah Sachs, and building businesses around people.
https://www.fourthsource.com/data/people-based-marketing-wins-customer-experience-battle-22190/
