In today’s work environment, a void of effective feedback mechanisms exists, resulting in lower employee satisfaction and, ultimately, lower productivity. The primary driver behind lackluster performance management lies in the annual performance review. While the performance review has its place, managers miss many opportunities throughout the year to offer practical and meaningful feedback to performers.
While you may not be able to change the current performance management mechanisms in your organization, you can take the matter into your own hands by eliciting feedback from your mentors, colleagues, managers, partners, and even clients. Here’s how.
https://www.business2community.com/communications/how-to-ask-for-feedback-the-ultimate-guide-to-relevant-feedback-02164582/
Brands need to do a better job connecting with customers in several key touchpoints.
That’s according to a new study from customer experience platform provider InMoment. Data from “CX Trends 2019” reveals that 50% of brands believe they are “definitely” doing better at delivering an excellent customer experience, but only 11% of consumers agree.
The study also identifies five specific customer experience trends that demonstrate a disconnect between brands and customers, and offers recommendations on resolving them.
https://www.chainstoreage.com/technology/study-five-customer-experience-disconnects-to-avoid/
If you have a big growth goal to reach in 2019, you can leverage your customer insights from your Voice of Customer (VOC) data to achieve it. And on the flip side, if you have already invested in a VOC initiative, there are multiple ways you can use this data to influence your company growth.
http://customerthink.com/how-to-leverage-your-customer-insights-for-growth-in-2019/
Launching a successful Digital Branch is not an easy task, it is an ongoing strategic initiative that not only takes financial investment, but a lot of collaboration across multiple layers of an organization.
Throughout the process of launching a Digital Branch, many companies get caught up in the overwhelming details, technicalities and resources and forget to ask the simplest questions. Perhaps the most important initial step in building a Digital Branch is to get to know the end-user: your customer.
https://www.inddist.com/article/2019/01/what-you-need-know-about-customers-launching-digital-branch/
A new study on brand feedback reveals just how minor the vocal minority really is. Research from Apptentive finds that most brands hear from less than 1% of their customers.
Customers rarely leave feedback in any form. Moreover, when they are inclined to leave feedback, they’re often met with a process that is clunky and time-consuming. As a result of brands not being proactive in their efforts to gather feedback in non-intrusive ways, they only end up hearing from their smallest and most vocal group of customers.
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/less-than-1-of-customers-leave-feedback-for-businesses/290269/
DIY Surveys aren’t what they used to be. We are in an age where technology can extract insights, patterns and even sentiments from structured and unstructured conversations on multiple platforms; and feed them directly into campaigns. Leela Srinivasan, CMO of SurveyMonkey, brings us up-to-speed on ways that technology is elevating DIY surveys to a science, and what marketers need to do to drive optimal business outcomes from them.
https://www.martechadvisor.com/articles/bi-ci-decision-science/using-customer-surveys-for-smart-insights/
The rise of mobile-first shopping is intrinsically tied to the explosive growth of mobile devices, particularly with younger consumers becoming ever more money conscious and increasingly social media savvy.
Worldpay research, published last week by Retail Week, revealed that 41% of UK 21- to 34-year-olds have made a purchase directly through social media, helping to fuel a rapidly growing m-commerce market as shoppers look to Facebook and Instagram for their next online purchase.
https://www.retail-week.com/retail-voice/are-you-mobile-ready-your-customers-certainly-are/7030747.article?authent=1/
Customer experience (CX) is not only a major priority, but also a game changer for businesses. To craft customer-centric business policies and meet customer needs, marketers first need to understand, what is customer experience? Let’s start with the basics.
Gen-Z is more aware, needs instant service and has rising expectations, and Millennials and Baby Boomers have their own unique needs. In this high-pressure situation, businesses need to be meticulous with their CX strategy. We have put together a comprehensive A-Z customer experience guide to help you optimize your business strategies.
https://www.martechadvisor.com/articles/customer-experience-2/what-is-customer-experience-a-to-z-guide/
In a recent white paper we created about health care data, we borrowed from Dr. Seuss: “Data here, data there, data going everywhere. Near and far, far or near, data going out my ear.” It’s pretty safe to say that statement is true for all industries today, especially marketing.
The burning question is: “How are we using our data?” Or, from a more proactive standpoint: “How do we use our data to drive us, not drown us?”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescommunicationscouncil/2019/01/11/voice-of-the-customer-using-digital-analytics-to-strengthen-your-content/
Each and every page on your website / mobile app serves a different purpose, so why should your feedback buttons be any different? Well they’re not – at least not anymore which is something that many feedback companies have caught onto. In fact, most of these companies know that in order to get the best and most relevant feedback results, you (the user) will want to tweak your feedback forms so that they are aligned with the goals of specific pages or funnels.
The thing is…most feedback tools don’t exactly facilitate the deployment of different feedback buttons with specific forms – at least not without you having to implement multiple scripts.
https://mopinion.com/one-script-for-all-your-feedback-buttons/
