It’s the age of the customer and the world’s biggest brands are duking it out every day for a greater share of our hearts, minds, and wallets. Customers hold more decision power than ever in an era where information about any company’s products and services is just a mobile search away.
Where does the Voice of the Customer (VoC) land in the priorities for your company’s overall strategy? Forrester’s Customer Experience Council 2017 member survey shows that 79% of all respondents believe that measuring customer experience is a top priority.
https://www.peoplemetrics.com/blog/12-reasons-to-invest-more-in-customer-experience/
Is your business listening to the Voice of the Customer (VoC)? If not, you might want to start now – as it is becoming a top priority among most online businesses. This rise in popularity is owed to the fact that Voice of the Customer programs (and therefore Voice of the Customer tools) have recently become a critical element in customer experience initiatives.
https://mopinion.com/28-voice-of-the-customer-voc-tools-an-overview-comparison/
A 360-degree customer journey is a set of ideas and methods meant to take you from vague promises of being “customer-centric” to a concrete process for measurably offering more value to customers. By better understanding individuals and groups of customers, you’ll find ways to make your products more useful and smooth out the buying process, building an engaged audience for your brand along the way.
https://mopinion.com/360-degree-customer-journey/
In the world of constant disruptive changes and rapidly amplifying market needs, innovation is the differentiator. It is the capability to do things differently, caters to ever-increasing customer expectations, and transform ideas into reality.
Which is why innovation is the ‘strategic vision du jour’ of many ambitious organizations today.
https://ceoworld.biz/2019/02/05/4-practices-to-create-culture-of-innovation-in-your-organization/
When an organization has a holistic understanding of their customer experience (CX), it provides an opportunity to make more informed CX improvements. Voice of the Customer (VoC) programs are a proven way businesses can collect solicited customer feedback to gain a deeper understand of how customer expectations compare to customer experience and take action to drive improvements.
http://customerthink.com/5-benefits-of-collecting-solicited-customer-feedback/
The travel, tourism, leisure, and hospitality (TTLH) industry has long been the poster child of great customer service (CS). But with its agile and strategic response to the disruption and innovation caused by digital transformation, it is also setting the benchmark for customer experience (CX) Explore how hospitality marketing has embraced the digital customer journey and what digital marketers committed to delivering the best CX - virtual or otherwise – across industries can learn from it.
https://www.martechadvisor.com/articles/customer-experience-2/5-cx-lessons-for-digital-marketers-from-the-ttlh-industry/
It’s essential CX practice today to offer customers a range of channels through which they can interact with you. But adding new channels is only half the battle. It’s the CX team’s responsibility to coordinate them, too. At the B2B technology company for which I work, we call it connected listening.
For many companies, adding channels means adding silos to an already siloed organization. Lack of coordination across those channels can defeat the purpose and cause frustration for customers, who don’t care that your call center and web experience team operate separately from one another, or that your mobile app development team rarely communicates with your store or branch network.
CX organizations are uniquely positioned and skilled to ensure that organizations are offering customers great omni-channel experiences. Here are some guidelines to make the most of the omni-channel boom.
http://customerthink.com/connected-listening-3-tips-to-meet-the-cx-challenges-of-omni-channel-communication/
I regularly meet executives who tell me their customer experience initiatives are not meeting their expectations, and when I look deeper I find some or a combination of the following:
http://customerthink.com/create-a-customer-experience-transformation-programme-that-delivers-results/
Customer journey insights are vastly under-utilized. Companies that are reaping full value are using customer experience insights to align their whole business to customers’ expectations. Thoughtful planning can spell the difference between limited value and transformational value from customer journey mapping. Hootsuite’s Vice President of Customers, Kirsty Traill, recently presented1 how her team’s holistic approach is reaping transformational value, starting with increasing Marketing impact.
http://customerthink.com/customer-journey-insights-increase-marketing-impact/
Customer success means establishing a relationship with your clients, listening and understanding what their needs are and supporting them throughout the journey that leads to their own goals. That’s all nice and clear in theory but what are some actionable customer success tactics that actually work?
It’s easy to get lost in the fluff and talk about general concepts but, when it comes to customer success, it’s important to have a clear strategy in mind and put in place effective measures that actually have an impact on the customer journey. A well defined customer success playbook is in fact vital in order to guarantee a constant customer success driven growth.
https://blog.userlane.com/customer-success-tactics-lead-to-hyper-growth/
