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If you are buying or selling something online, make sure to keep your guard up and watch for scammers. This week, I want to tell you about a scam that I have not heard of before. A woman who lives in Pueblo tells me she was selling a car online when she heard from an interested buyer - little did she know, they weren't interested in the car.
"I had an ad to sell my daughter's old car on Craigslist and someone said they were interested in the car," Jenny told me. She said the customer sent her a text message. "It said, 'Can you please call me at this number and type in 64.' When I called the number, it answered as Google Voice and I'm not really familiar with Google Voice, although we have one on a phone that we never use."
http://gazette.com/voice-of-the-consumer-keep-your-guard-up-when-buying-and-selling-online/article/1625181/
BPM is implemented in an organization to improve business operations. However, organizations are discovering that the capabilities of this platform is helping them become more customer-centric as well. In their efforts to be customer-focused, brands are developing customer journey maps - identifying all points of interactions that a customer has with a brand. And then aligning their business processes to those touch points.
http://www.cxotoday.com/story/from-good-to-great-customer-touchpoints/
How do your customers really feel about your company? To find out, you could train employees to ask for feedback after each transaction, then feed those responses into a database. You could subject customers to a lengthy survey. You might also host periodic focus group meetings.
Or you could ask customers one simple question — and use their answers to determine your Net Promoter Score (NPS).
https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/what-is-a-net-promoter-score-and-why-you-should-know/
A business’s brand plays a crucial role in the overall success of a business. A report from Circle Research found 77 percent of B2B marketing leaders believe branding is critical to growth. While the majority of marketers believe good branding is critical, many businesses struggle to identify how to go about defining and building a brand. The same report found a mere 39 percent of B2B companies have a clearly defined brand strategy.
For many businesses, “branding”, is seen as a secondary nicety rather than an essential component to the business. After all, is the perfect logo really as important than keeping the lights on? Evidence suggests it is. B2B companies with a strong brand generate a higher EBIT margin outperforming weak brands by 20 percent.
Consistency is frequently touted as the key to building a successful brand, but consistent in what? Let’s dive into the three types of brand consistency that can boost customer loyalty.
https://customerthink.com/the-three-types-of-brand-consistency-that-drive-customer-loyalty/
A customer’s experience with a business will be at its best during the sale more often than not. From there, the interaction value typically declines as businesses devote more attention to new sales opportunities or upselling. Nowhere is this more evident than in customer service models in which representatives are evaluated based on the speed and efficiency of how they handle inquiries rather than the service provided. Companies have even been known to establish a metric for “efficiency” by encouraging the highest volume of calls in the least amount of time. That approach doesn’t leave a lot of room for personality or attention, does it?
In today’s competitive environment, whether interacting with potential or existing customers, keeping them happy is critically important. No customer should be treated as an afterthought or an “issue.” Businesses need to stop considering customer service an unnecessary cost center and start focusing on its potential value.
https://www.business2community.com/customer-experience/the-opportunity-to-be-a-leader-in-customer-service-02055160/
In general, most consumers are conditioned to raise a wary eyebrow toward what a brand or company tells them, but they warmly embrace the opinions of people they know and trust - or perceive as “just like me.”
Your existing and potential customers are also conditioned to share their opinions openly online, which you can use to your distinct business advantage is you know where to look, and take the steps to listen and act on your customer’s voices.
https://www.siliconindia.com/news/general/How-to-Use-Your-Customers-Voice-to-Create-Powerful-Content-that-Converts-nid-204227-cid-1.html/
Are millennial preferences really killing dozens of industries? Not necessarily, according to Brennan Wilkie, SVP of CX Strategy at InMoment. Instead millennials are misunderstood when it comes to the retail customer experience.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/business/interview-how-millennials-are-changing-businesses/article/521084/
Customers are yearning for better experiences. But what are you doing to design a better experience?
How do you know what your customers’ expectations are? What are they trying to achieve? And how well is that going for them? Are you listening to customers? Are you mapping their experiences? How are you driving the necessary change within your company?
https://customerthink.com/from-journey-map-to-experience/
If a company wants to improve its bottom line, it needs to focus on improving sales. That is only possible when the brand is addressing the right audience and solving their key problems. But, how can the brands achieve that? Being a mind reader sounds amazing, doesn’t it? Now, no need to lose hope. There still are different ways by which the companies can tap into what their customers’ pain areas are. Post that knowledge, they can plan their customer experience strategies to solve those problems.
In this article, we will be discussing the customer service pain areas of the customers – some pressing issues, urgent needs and what could be the possible solutions.
https://customerthink.com/identifying-customer-service-pain-areas-and-how-to-solve-them/
Zoom has received the highest overall rating in the Gartner Peer Insights 'Voice of the Customer' Meeting Solutions Market Report. Free of any vendor influence, Gartner Peer Insights research reports are based on end-user reviews and their first-hand experiences of software and services. This report includes the ten highest rated solutions in the "Meeting Solutions" category.
https://www.informationweek.com/whitepaper/software/operating-systems/gartner-peer-insights-'voice-of-the-customer'-meeting-solutions-market/396863?gset=yes&/
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