How do you know what your customers need? As long as you are using the correct channels, finding the answer can be as easy as asking.
Getting honest feedback may be tough because it takes time out of a customer’s day. This is why you must make the process as easy and as fast as possible. It also helps to offer an incentive along with your request for feedback. The incentive could be a discount or complimentary product or service from your business.
Here are some of the best channels to ask for customer feedback:
https://www.business2community.com/customer-experience/how-to-get-honest-customer-feedback-and-use-it-02071019/
Harnessing the voice of the customer and using role-specific insights to improve the performance of every individual agent is how NICE Satmetrix is revolutionising Customer Experience (CX) in the contact centre.
Featuring a set of unique and truly innovative technologies that gather direct feedback from the customer and apply contextualised analytics to help improve agent performance, NICE Satmetrix offers an unprecedented CX solution that adds value to every interaction.
https://www.uctoday.com/reviews/contact-centre-solutions/nice-finding-value-in-the-voice-of-the-customer-with-nice-satmetrix/
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/
With so many consumers to talk to, retailers need to ensure that they personalise their messaging to each every shopper. In this piece, Aaron Masih (pictured below), COO, Persado, tells RetailTechNews how Persado can help retailers achieve this goal.
https://www.retailtechnews.com/2018/05/29/personalising-your-consumer-voice-qa-with-persado/
Communication is everything in all types of relationships, especially when it comes to your customers. If you ever thought customer communication is overrated, think again – 70 percent of customers are willing to spend more with companies that provide excellent customer service. The way you interact with your customers has a direct impact on your bottom line. If they feel that they’re understood and treated with respect, they’re likely to keep doing business with you.
So what about when things go wrong? It’s inevitable, things happen. How you and your frontline handle the inescapable adversity can make all of the difference. Not sure how to go about it? Here are four simples ways to get you started.
https://customerthink.com/4-easy-ways-to-impress-customers-using-communication/
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/
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) initiative has put customers back in the driver's seat. Customers and prospects will henceforth own their personal data and have control over the communications they receive.
As marketers, we represent the voice of the customer. The European Union's GDPR helps us do that by focusing on the "customer first." The best possible outcome is that Marketing provides the customer with information considered valuable.
We should do so not only for EU customers but for all customers.
https://www.marketingprofs.com/articles/2018/34819/gdpr-is-already-here-a-simple-marketing-guide-for-compliance/
When it comes to creating an outstanding customer experience, Voice of the Customer (VoC) programs are a top priority and area of differentiation for operations teams and CX leaders. According to Forrester, just 33% of CX professionals say their VoC program is effective at driving action to improve customer experience. This means there’s tremendous room for improvement in the implementation and execution of these programs.
VoC programs require a wide skill set, deep expertise, and a significant commitment from leadership within the company. As a result, it can be challenging to get these programs past the infancy stage. In many cases, leaders are looking for ROI, yet the programs don’t have what they need to impact business results. It’s time for strategies to evolve so that VoC programs can drive increased customer loyalty and proven ROI. For that to happen, there needs to be a fundamental shift where programs move from listening to customers to truly understanding them.
https://customerthink.com/voice-of-the-customer-programs-one-strategic-shift-you-need-to-make/
Market research used to rely primarily upon asking questions. The tools of the trade were surveys, in-depth interviews, focus groups, in-store shop-alongs and some observational techniques derived from academic ethnographies. Of course, there were also occasions when it was possible to work directly with purchase data or with passively-measured media exposure data, but the lion’s share of research involved asking people direct questions about their behavior and attitudes. The best research practitioners refined their questions through experimentation to improve accuracy and reduce potential biases.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmcdonald1/2018/05/29/the-voice-of-customer-still-matters/#753a04807481/
GDPR may be one of the hottest topics in the business world today, causing many organizations to rethink and revise how they approach many of their everyday practices.
The General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR for short, aims to increase the protection and privacy of personal data, also known as Personally Identifiable Information (PII), for all EU residents.
In the age of the GDPR, consent and managing individual’s rights are crucial. Because of this, Voice of the Customer (VoC) research may become an even more important source of data and insights to marketers wanting to understand better and improve the Customer Experience (CX).
In this post, we look at why.
https://www.iperceptions.com/blog/voice-of-the-customer-gdpr/
