It’s no longer good enough to listen to customers just for the sake of listening. In the age of the experience, brands need to listen to improve the customer experience if they have a hope of staying relevant.
Enter voice-of-the-customer (VoC), a concept used in business and IT to describe the in-depth process of capturing customer’s expectations, preferences and aversions.
According to Forrester, companies are using VoC programs to collect and analyse customer feedback, inform customer experience (CX) improvements, and track the results of those improvements. But while VoC has been on the radar for several years, maturity across companies and their VoC programs is at extreme ends of the spectrum and many are just getting started.
https://www.cmo.com.au/article/631432/listening-why-customer-voice-taking-whole-new-meaning/
It’s no longer good enough to simply provide customer service. To truly be relevant and competitive in the marketplace, companies need to adopt a customer obsessed outlook and culture.
Customer obsession takes more than just offering services and products that customers might like and buy. To truly be best-in-class, companies need to not only deliver a customer experience that leaves a lasting, loyalty-inducing impression but also be constantly communicating with their audience. It’s these two-way conversations that help build deep, lasting relationships with our customers.
https://www.somos.com/blog/customer-obsession-starts-listening-customers/
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/
What makes a great customer experience? In many ways, this might depend on what you (the customer) value the most in a brand. Personalised emails or speedy social replies, for example. Or perhaps superb digital content.
Overall, however, brands with a great CX tend to cover a multitude of bases – ensuring that customers are satisfied at each and every touchpoint. So, delving a little deeper (and away from the most obvious brands) here are just a few examples and the reasons why they excel.
https://www.econsultancy.com/blog/70005-nine-less-obvious-brands-offering-great-customer-experiences/
When retail brands started measuring CX through emails or SMS, they thought they would be rewarded with several benefits. For one, they would constantly monitor the pulse of their CX and react quickly to solve customer problems. Besides, CX conversations would start to happen across the organization and brands would have access to a benchmark. Customers would also be rewarded as they would be offered a new way to highlight issues or pass compliments. And, to a certain extent, some of those benefits did materialize.
It was the time when some software vendors were claiming CX would improve if companies simply launched a CX measurement program (be it NPS or something else, as long as it used their software) that encompasses those metrics across the organization.
http://customerthink.com/why-customer-experience-measurement-is-biased-and-how-to-fix-it/
With rising customer expectations, the need to deliver an exceptional customer experience (CX) is at an all-time high. And frankly, the best way to achieve this superior level of CX is to visualise it – which is often done using a process called customer journey mapping. A customer journey map essentially tells the story of the customer’s experience – which starts at the initial point of contact all the way through to a long-term relationship – giving us critical information about key interactions along the way. For this process to be a successful one and because it can be quite complex, many business seek the assistance of customer journey mapping tools.
https://mopinion.com/top-20-customer-journey-mapping-tools-an-overview/
According to a survey by Statista, nearly 2.62 billion people have active social media accounts worldwide today. The high tech industry has long understood that targeted ads and social media campaigns are powerful tools for driving brand awareness and sales. However, despite the fact that social media drives more traffic to a website than organic search, conversion rates are still extremely low. In fact, according to AdWeek, social media traffic has an average conversion rate of 0.71 percent, with organic search converting at 1.95 percent and email at 3.19 percent.
Some high tech companies are very successful in creating communities and developing a strong following on their social media accounts and this is definitely the first step to increasing conversion. But how do you use these communities to build customer loyalty, provide a better customer experience and increase sales conversion rates?
https://www.itproportal.com/features/3-ways-technology-brands-can-leverage-live-engagement-on-social-media/
Customer Experience Management (CEM) is getting a lot of attention in the technology market. CEM is a solution through which an organization can interact with their customers and analyze customer behavior, purchasing patterns, satisfaction, complaints, insights and their overall experience. Organizations have to reach out to customers and hence are applying this customer centric approach.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/3796068/
Marketers are constantly introducing newer and more sophisticated Customer Experiences (CX). But, how do you ensure that all of your customer touchpoints will align with the promise of these new CX improvements?
Based on our VoC research, we have learned that the brands most successful in making their CS (Customer Service) and back-end processes align beautifully with their front end CX, are those which involve and integrate every department and every employee!
Here are 3 tips to help ensure that your CS matches the promise of your CX:
http://customerthink.com/3-tips-to-ensure-customer-service-matches-your-promised-customer-experience/
How are you getting insight on your customers that is deeper than your competitors? How well is it working? Are these insights allowing you to make changes that increase your market share and revenues?
You will already know where the trend is going. GDPR will create some volatility as the implications start to play out, but without doubt it will play out albeit with amended guidelines. What is also without doubt will be the explosive growth of passive data which will be harnessed to increasingly sophisticated analytics as a means of predicting customer behaviour. As data bandwidths increase and become cheaper, the sheer volume of data will explode as almost everything we do becomes monitored to a greater and ever granular degree.
Is it possible that we are relying too much on technology? Are companies now adapting their customer journeys, internal processes and products based on what the technology-driven analytics say alone? Or are there alternatives that will give you better insight?
https://nextten.media/voice-of-customer-and-big-data-will-never-be-your-key-differentiator/
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