To help marketers navigate the massive and expanding array of marketing technologies available to them, Chief Marketing Technologist Editor Scott Brinker recently released his annual Marketing Technology Landscape supergraphic, known as the ‘Martech 5000’.
https://www.iperceptions.com/blog/marketing-technology-landscape-2018/
According to Gartner CMO Spend Survey 2016-2017, customer experience is the top area of innovation being pursued by marketing leaders. Empowered with larger budgets and spend directed toward innovation efforts, marketing leaders look to analytics for proof that customer experience investments pay off. VoC analytics is often used alongside customer journey analytics in order to evaluate the customer experience across touchpoints and over time.
https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/use-voice-of-customer-data-to-improve-customer-experience-analytics/
Recently, Spotify, a global music content platform, introduced a new feature, Discover Weekly, as an intelligent playlist developer for its users. Based on a listener’s past history, preferences and the trends reflected by analysing data from music aficionados with similar tastes, the company implemented machine learning ‘best fit’ algorithms to provide its users with a delectable list of latest music that kept them glued to their headphones for hours.
This is one of the many instances where AI has transformed customer experience as we know it.
https://www.deccanchronicle.com/technology/in-other-news/070518/how-ai-and-data-science-are-reshaping-customer-experience.html/
When consumers shop they expect a seamless experience that is able to flow between the digital and physical, and one that always ends up with the product of their choice in their hands. As such, incorrect or missing product information across platforms can hinder the shopping experience in many ways, and ultimately cause a consumer to lose interest and move on to another retailer. In order to meet consumer expectations, retailers must adopt the best practices of unified commerce, and to do so, they need to begin with a key foundational element; the product.
To create an exceptional customer experience in a unified commerce world, retailers need to ensure each and every one of their products maintains complete data integrity throughout the unified commerce cycle; here are the top factors to consider when creating a customer experience tailored for unified commerce.
https://www.retailcustomerexperience.com/blogs/the-role-of-data-integrity-in-building-a-unified-commerce-customer-experience/
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/
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/
Voice of the Customer (VoC) provides you the ability to understand and anticipate your customers’ needs, wants, perceptions and preferences so you can better meet their ever-growing expectations.
In the age of the Customer Experience (CX), these insights are paramount to designing an online and offline experience that is superior to what your competitors are offering.
https://www.iperceptions.com/blog/successful-voice-of-the-customer-program/
For Newsday, increasing the clarity of viewing our business through the consumer’s lens has become increasingly important. Pursuant to this goal, in March 2016, Newsday began a multi-channel voice-of-customer strategy that included measuring customer experience for its contact centre, home delivery distribution, digital Web, and mobile Web platforms via Foresee.
Today, Newsday continues building this robust multi-channel, voice-of-customer rich data set, having collected data from more than three million answered questions.
https://www.inma.org/blogs/value-content/post.cfm/voice-of-customer-strategy-leads-to-better-business-decisions-at-newsday/
Customer experience. I am sure you’ve discussed improving your CX at least once this year—and if you haven’t you probably should. The truth is, 2018 is the year of the customer experience and customer satisfaction. Why? According to Salesforce, 75 percent of consumers expect a consistent experience wherever they engage and 87 percent of consumers think brands need to do more to provide a seamless experience.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielnewman/2018/04/25/4-technologies-driving-the-future-of-customer-experience/#5e88404d3089/
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