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/
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/
Customer Experience (CX) includes a combination of multiple elements that translate to a customer’s satisfaction with the experience and her overall perception of your brand. As marketers, what more can we do to ensure this is a positive, fruitful journey for her? Let’s look at some best practices.
In 2019, Marketers and CMOs can leverage MarTech in innovative ways to stand out in these times of information overload. Let’s start by setting the context with some perspectives about customer experience.
https://www.martechadvisor.com/articles/customer-experience-2/4-surprising-customer-experience-best-practices-to-try-in-2019/
In today’s omni-channel world, consumers shop using multiple devices, touchpoints, and channels, ultimately choosing their own preferred path to purchase.
A typical digital journey today could start with a consumer researching a purchase on their smartphone, then continuing later on a laptop or tablet. They might visit your site after engaging with your search ad and ask your chatbot some initial questions. They might call your business a few days later after getting one of your emails and finalize their purchase in person at your closest brick-and-mortar location.
https://www.business2community.com/customer-experience/4-ways-marketers-use-voice-analytics-to-create-frictionless-customer-experiences-02088381/
BrightEdge, a leader in enterprise SEO and content performance marketing, made these startling observations related to the role of AI in their recently released report, titled, 2018 Future of Marketing and AI Survey.
https://martechseries.com/content-marketing/content-marketing-content-marketing/ai-powered-personalization-drives-great-customer-experience/
Adobe and Econsultancy have released a new report that covers the key differences between Asia Pacific (APAC) marketers and their North American and European counterparts when it comes to adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and investment in digital skills.
Notably, the report found that APAC marketers are focusing on making the experience as personalized and relevant as possible, while the main focus for North American and European respondents is on making the experience as valuable as possible.
https://www.enterpriseinnovation.net/article/apac-marketers-focused-personalized-relevant-customers-experience-1662569438/
Rigid strategies that do not focus on the future, restructures that fail to overcome silos and staff who are not empowered are hindering businesses joining up to deliver differentiated customer experiences.
https://www.marketingweek.com/2016/11/16/brand-learning-trends-10-nov-issue-be-rewarded-for-joined-up-thinking/
As the world moves from desktop to mobile, apps are becoming our new shopping malls. Just as we walk into a mall or a store, look around the merchandise, pay, and leave with a bag, now we launch an app and shop to our hearts content, without having to leave the comfort of our chair. Best of all, we can do it anywhere we can now do our grocery shopping on our morning commute, shop for friends birthdays on our lunch break, and send Mom flowers without ever having to make a single call.
https://mopinion.com/creating-a-perfect-user-journey-in-your-mcommerce-app/
Over the years I witnessed the never ending debate between practitioners of Customer Service/Support and Marketing over which one of them is more critical to the delivery of outstanding Customer Experience. The debate itself is a testimony that these practitioners are more focused on their self importance than on their customers’ needs. As long as you debate which is more important – the food or the utensils – your guest goes away hungry. The most amazing product cannot thrive without at least reasonable customer service. The most amazing customer support cannot keep customers from abandoning inadequate products, and without retaining the customers there is no path to sustainable profitability.
http://blog.cx-iq.com/customer-experience-the-three-legged-stool/
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/
