I recently read a report showing that out of 46,000 shoppers, 73% used multiple channels to make a purchase. Only 7% shopped exclusively online, while 20% shopped exclusively in-store. I believe this is clear proof that there is an increasing need for retailers to turn to omnichannel retail to enhance the customer experience.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/2018/08/03/how-to-create-your-omnichannel-retail-strategy/#7067087e6561/
Understanding customers, discovering and managing their behaviours have been hot topics in marketing for a long time. However, customer experience is still a new notion to many. Today, different companies sell almost identical products at the same price level. This state of play creates a question. If the price and quality are almost the same, on which criterias do the consumers make their decisions?
https://www.cxnetwork.com/cx-experience/articles/4-steps-for-creating-unique-customer-experiences/
Marketing’s goal used to be pretty straightforward: build a pipeline of qualified leads to hand over to the sales team. The model changed a little bit depending on the audience and the vertical, but essentially marketing material and actions, from awareness level to consideration, were used to build a pipeline.
https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/why-marketing-needs-to-drive-the-entire-omnichannel-customer-experience/
Welcome to 2019… where digital technologies will start evolving faster than we can adapt. Where customers’ experience expectations will rise above everything else. Where predictive analytics will boost customer experience for good, and where data ethics will become the new competitive advantage. Bottom line: our customers expect now more than ever that the digital customer experiences (CX) we provide are not only seamless and integrated but also more advanced and secure.
https://mopinion.com/top-digital-customer-experience-cx-trends-for-2019/
Our interactions with businesses are increasingly taking place online and now in most cases you can expect to find the information at the click of a button. Failing that, you might turn to a website’s live chat to find your answer. It’s likely that you’d try both of these methods, if offered, before considering making a call or sending an email.
The ways customers prefer to interact with businesses have changed significantly over the past five years. Whilst face to face or over the phone sales were previously the norm, we’re now faced with a multitude of possibilities, including social media, e-commerce, instant messaging and toll-free web-based calling.
https://www.itproportal.com/features/managing-omnichannel-and-the-customer-experience/
In an omnichannel world, where consumers have infinite options available to them, customer experience (CX) is the leading way for retailers to achieve success. In fact, research suggests that by 2020, CX will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator.
For many retailers, customer experience is synonymous with customer satisfaction and customer service. But successful retailers know that CX is much more comprehensive. CX is a customer’s collective perception of their interactions with a retailer and how they feel about a brand as a result. Everything, from a retailers’ messaging and merchandising to its people and products, impacts this.
https://risnews.com/delivering-promise-customer-experience/
Salesfloor, the award-winning mobile platform designed for store associates, received the award for Best Omnichannel Customer Experience Solution at the Vendors in Partnership (VIP) Gala this past Friday.
The VIP Awards marked the official start of NRF's Big Show in New York City where retailers from around the world gather to share, learn, and network. The VIP Awards is a way for retailers to celebrate the drivers of the retail ecosystem and formally support, influence and recognize their vendor partners.
http://streetinsider.com/Globe+Newswire/Salesfloor+Wins+Best+Omnichannel+Customer+Experience+Solution+at+the+Vendors+in+Partnership+Gala/16332848.html/
Customer experience teams are having a tough time, and the pressure is mounting to prove business value of a customer experience (CX) team in 2020. And unfortunately, the proof is not “in the pudding” as one might say. Confirmit’s survey, which polled over 800 CX professionals globally discovered just the opposite – the number of CX teams receiving significantly increased investment is declining, dropping from 22 percent 16 percent in just the last year.
http://martechadvisor.com/articles/customer-experience-2/beating-the-cx-slump-in-2020-to-deliver-true-business-impact/
