A new study from UserTesting should sober up email marketers, and just about anyone involved with the customer experience.
Of 1,600 professionals surveyed, 85% say their customer experience needs improvement.
Worse, 44% have never heard of the term digital transformation -- a key part of improving customer engagement -- if you believe the report. And digital transformation ranks near the bottom of present and future trends.
The study shows that 34% in the process of undergoing a digital transformation. Another 28% don’t know what that is, and 16% are simply not doing it. Only 22% say they are done.
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/333834/most-firms-say-their-customer-experience-needs-a-b.html/
Advanced customer experience (CX) technologies are proliferating in the private sector, connecting customers with companies via a number of channels — phone, email, live chat, and even social media — quickly and easily. That’s why by 2020, experience will overtake price as a key differentiator for consumers. It’s also why citizens today expect increasingly transparent and responsive services from the public sector.
Direct government-to-citizen (G2C) experiences are paramount in shaping perceptions of and building trust in public-sector agencies. Every level of government can take steps to improve G2C interactions by updating their citizen experience philosophy and adopting modern technology. One powerful example that has already proven to improve customer experience in the private sector is a live chat platform where citizens can connect with government agents directly via their website or mobile app.
https://www.govtech.com/opinion/Get-Ready-for-Customer-Experience-Technology-Contributed.html/
Avaya research indicates that only 14% of back offices are fully automated and tracked against SLAs, yet 'back office' operations such as delivery are among the top five considerations when it comes to repeat purchases and customer satisfaction.
Speaking at the Johannesburg leg of the international Experience Avaya 2019 roadshow on Tuesday, Natalie Keightley, Solutions Marketing Director at Avaya International, said: "Customer experience technology has been slow to integrate into the back office and slow to support workers. When companies have adopted customer experience technologies, they often focus purely on the customer-facing technology. So they may enable the text channel for the customer to speak to the organisation, but fail to consider how this connects to the back office."
https://www.itweb.co.za/content/G98YdqLxVLXqX2PD/
In the past month, the pillars of the digital transformation has been discussed —shifting our focus from technology to the behaviors that drive the digital transformation. I believe that the complete transformation is only possible if the right kind of organization is built, an organization that believes in the possible. To build these organizations, Every organization needs to fully understand the meaning of each pillar. There is no pillar that is more important than the next. Just like in a building, you need all the pillars to stand tall. So, let’s first get a deeper understanding into how experiences drive the digital transformation.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielnewman/2018/06/19/3-keys-to-driving-customer-experience-into-your-digital-transformation/#5c1703fd4318/
Providing great customer service is a challenge for many businesses today.
Companies like Amazon and Zappos have raised in the bar in terms of what customers expect, and there are an increasing number of tools and technologies that businesses people can use to improve their support.
So, I asked 14 customer service and customer experience experts this question:
What's the biggest customer service challenges today's companies are facing and how can they overcome it?
Here's what they said...
http://blog.sagecrm.com/detail.php?id=27782/14-experts-on-the-biggest-customer-service-challenges-faced-by-businesses-today/
The role of digital marketing for customer experience, in particular, has become key with online and bricks-and-mortar retailers alike. The digital approach is helping them implement new strategic technologies to win new and retain existing customers.
https://techfinancials.co.za/2018/08/20/high-speed-connectivity-at-the-forefront-of-the-retail-tech-evolution/
QYMarketResearch recently delivers a latest research report entitled “Effective Market Analysis of Global Customer Experience Management Industry 2018” which highlights the Customer Experience Management market size, comprehensive Customer Experience Management industry dynamics and high-tech updates of global Customer Experience Management market concerning Customer Experience Management industry challenges, risk, constraints, opportunities, cost structure and modern trends in the Customer Experience Management industry. This Customer Experience Management study guide consist of top Customer Experience Management manufacturers, Customer Experience Management market segmentation by Types, Application and Customer Experience Management market division based on geographical locations. The Customer Experience Management research report basically focuses on giving an in-depth Customer Experience Management research analysis and forecast for Customer Experience Management Market from 2018 to 2023.
http://timesofjersey.com/27350/global-customer-experience-management-market-trends-2018-2023-oracle-ibm-nokia-opentext-tech-mahindra/
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 the lines between offline and online are blurring, store retailers and online retailers are both redefining the way they function to engage customers and create better experiences for them. Amalgamation of online and offline marketing strategies makes purchasing more rewarding and easier for the customer.
https://www.martechadvisor.com/articles/customer-experience-2/5-ways-online-and-offline-customer-experiences-are-coming-together-in-2018/
As the digital economy deepens and grows more mature, customers are demanding more and more from businesses. They have seen what it’s like to interact with world-class organizations like Amazon, Facebook, and Spotify, to name just a few, and they have come to expect that level of service and expertise.
http://customerthink.com/5-ways-to-enhance-the-customer-experience/
