At a time when well over 500 new start-ups are being launched each day in the UK, finding ways to differentiate and grow a business brand is more important than ever. User generated content in the form of customer endorsements and online reviews are a powerful way to achieve this and verify claims made about a product or service. The simple fact is that reviews help consumers decide whether they should purchase a particular product or service.
http://www.smeweb.com/2018/01/22/see-positive-side-negative-customer-reviews/
You’ll need to consider and control many factors if you want your digital marketing strategy to be successful. Your branding efforts, the types of campaigns you choose, the amount you invest, and how you stitch those campaigns together all matter—but you may not realize how much the advancement of your tech plays a role in your success.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnrampton/2017/08/22/digital-marketing-strategy-new-tech/#2772b2972eaf/
Voice of the customer (VOC) initiatives have gone mainstream. Unfortunately, too many companies doom their VOC programs from the start.
The problem isn't that brands aren’t collecting feedback. In fact, companies are gathering more feedback from customers and visitors than ever before.
The problem is that brands fail to realize the primary value of VOC data. Information culled via customer feedback is valuable because it creates internal alignment and provides insights that allow brands to execute quicker than the competition.
https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/why-your-voice-of-the-customer-data-isnt-actionable-and-what-to-do-about-it/
Digital transformation consists of multiple interdependent and intersecting changes driven by technological disruption. An organization’s ability to not only survive digital transformation but thrive, is dependent on its ability to manage complex change with a cohesive strategy. Research data from multiple sources indicates that slightly more than half of major change initiatives are viewed as successful. That means that nearly half fail to achieve their goal, a clear indication that organizations will need to sharpen their change management skills to transform to the digital state. Does your organization have a plan in place for managing digital transformation?
https://www.arcweb.com/blog/will-you-survive-thrive-digital-transformation/
A great many companies continue using market research institutes that collect data through extended surveys in order to evaluate their websites. Every quarter, a bulky power point presentation then puts forward the collected data and analyses mishaps and improvement actions.
https://mopinion.com/without-real-time-insights-you-lose-customers/
The relationship between the sales and marketing departments naturally varies from organization to organization. But at its core, the relationship is meant to be a new-business-creating one-two punch. Marketing builds up relationships with a wide base of potential clients, while sales converts those relationships into paying customers. This is clearly a massive oversimplification of the buyer’s journey, but it at least illustrates one important fact: These two departments need to work in concert if they have any hope of creating a sustainable customer pipeline. Good content can go a long way toward making that a reality.
https://www.skyword.com/contentstandard/marketing/your-content-strategy-should-include-your-entire-organization-part-iii-syncing-up-with-sales/
If you’re a business owner and it isn’t clear to you that the customer’s voice is the most important voice to hear, you’ve been living under a rock.
Now, more than ever, customers expect their needs to be met, and they expect their feedback to be addressed right here, right now. Now that social media has made it easier than ever to spread “word of mouth” commentary about a business’s performance, business leaders need to be acutely aware of what their customers are saying about their brands, while also being able to act upon that feedback in a timely, efficient and satisfactory manner.
https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/your-customers-are-speaking-are-you-listening/
“What’s in it for me? That’s what your potential reader is asking,” said Robinson. “Does your headline answer that question clearly – and quickly – enough?”
Here’s Robinson’s advice on how to ensure your headlines grab your audience, amassed over five years of branded content work at Forbes and a decade at AOL. “Programming the AOL homepage teaches you a lot about what people click on,” Robinson said. Follow her 9 principles when you rewrite headlines, and higher clickthrough rates might be in your future.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescontentmarketing/2017/09/20/your-headline-is-your-one-second-chance-to-make-your-reader-care-so-make-the-most-of-it/#5c03005b38c0/
As a nascent marketer, I misjudged how crucial feedback was to success. But when I was promoted to head a marketing and communications team, that lack of appreciation for feedback slowly eroded my team’s functionality. While I had a leadership philosophy founded on open communication, I underestimated how intentional and vigilant I needed to be.
But a few months into my then new role, an employee informed me things were not operating as smoothly as they once had. I was shocked! Weren’t we producing exceptional campaigns? Weren’t we meeting deadlines and making revenue goals?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescommunicationscouncil/2017/08/25/your-most-valuable-tool-your-teams-feedback-loop/#1bed88a95690/
YouTube announced it is working on a new look and feel for both its desktop and mobile apps and is inviting beta testers to preview the redesign and offer feedback.
“While we hope that you’ll love what we’ve been working on, we’re also really excited to involve the YouTube community so we can make the site even better before sharing it more broadly,” writes product manager Brian Marquardt, on the YouTube Blog.
https://marketingland.com/youtube-invites-users-give-feedback-upcoming-redesign-213622/
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