If you’ve ever worked in the service industry I’m sure the chant “the customer is always right” still rings in your head. Customer service and the customer journey are not new concepts. However, the medium that customer service is carried out through today is new. With the eruption and growth of the internet over the past 20 years – the entire customer journey has been rewritten – no matter how long you’ve been in business or what industry you’re in. As the way we do business evolved, the customer experience evolved with it. But why has it been so difficult for businesses to transition?
https://mopinion.com/why-the-customer-experience-should-be-your-main-focus-this-year/
In this hyperconnected and competitive environment, keeping your customers satisfied is non-negotiable. According to a Walker study, by the year 2020 providing great customer experience and building long-term relationships will be a major differentiator for your business overtaking price & product features as the key differentiating factors.
A relationship becomes strong only with trust and openness. Your relationship with your customers is no different. Staying accessible, being easily reachable to customers and engaging with them at each stage of their customer journey is the first step to building trust with your customers. Here are a few important reasons why you should care about being reachable to your audience:
https://www.business2community.com/customer-experience/3-reasons-to-stay-easily-reachable-to-your-customers-02183059/
Come to think of it. Customers are on a journey. From the moment they first learned about you to their first purchase, every step leads to a path. As a marketer, it’s your responsibility to drive them to your desired path – the conversion path.
Personalizing customer journey leads to better customer experiences since everything you send them is relevant to their specific needs. As a result, you get better email marketing performance. In fact, 96% of organizations believe that email personalization can improve email marketing performance. And the open rate for emails with a personalized message was 18.8%, as compared to 13.1% without any personalization.
So, be sure your email marketing software makes it easy for you to personalize customer journey, and then follow these tips!
https://customerthink.com/5-ways-to-personalize-customer-journey-for-improved-relevance/
Expresso Fashion and Claudia Sträter are two well-known Dutch fashion brands with stores in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Alongside their more traditional, brick-and-mortar shops, these labels are also sold online. This omni-channel strategy makes it possible for these two webshops to not only serve as sales channels but also platforms for inspiration. Visitors can get their inspiration online and then choose to do their shopping in the webshop or in-store. In other words, their online services are critical to the success of both on- and offline channels.
Let’s take a look at how they’ve experienced the Mopinion software thus far…
https://mopinion.com/expresso-fashion-claudia-strater-customer-story/
People live in their own functional domains. They have their responsibilities, their metrics, and they can become defenders of their domains. Though from the best intentions, internal competition ultimately creates the reactionary boundaries that we have come to call silos, which harm an organization in ways that are becoming increasingly fatal.
I won’t spend an inordinate amount of time on this because we all know and dislike silos. We have built an awareness of the problem, and we have an accurate model, so our task is to put our heads together and figure out how to stop them.
As it turns out, customer experience unlocks a radical capability of mapping the customer journey. This sounds innocent enough, I’ll admit, but if you look deeper you will see that this fundamental process is anathema to silos. To destroy silos, all you need to do is focus on changing customer journeys.
https://customerthink.com/break-silos-with-this-secret-customer-experience-weapon-cascading-collaboration/
It sounds like a contradiction in terms, doesn’t it? How can you optimise a journey with friction when for many it is considered the nemesis of growth and success? It is annihilated at every opportunity in the digital world for fear the customer might abandon a purchase or fail to sign up for a newsletter. This is not necessarily the case in physical locations like stores, restaurants and service centres. Sometimes a little friction can be a good thing.
http://customerthink.com/improve-customer-experience-by-introducing-friction/
How many of us follow the same purchasing habits today as we did even five years ago? Very few. How many businesses rely on the same sales and marketing approach as they did five years ago?
More than you would think.
In the rapidly evolving digital era, the rules have been (and are still being) fundamentally rewritten. It used to be the supplier who created interest in their products and services, pushing out information and offers as part of lead generation campaigns. But now it is the consumer who is firmly in charge of their journey to purchase.
https://www.marketingtechnews.net/news/2018/mar/01/customer-journey-smooth-path/
Research on everyone from millennials to senior citizens shows how learning is tied to happiness. So those who prioritize picking up new skills (shout out to those learning CX right now!) or just enjoy learning in general, tend to be happier, more satisfied people.
http://www.customerexperienceupdate.com/?open-article-id=7825450&article-title=why-learning-cx-will-make-you-happy-and-successful&blog-domain=360connext.com&blog-title=360connext/
The number one rule in customer experience (CX) is to meet your customers where they live. Understand their preferences, their challenges. Know what gets their goat. As CX practitioners, we also should know the way, or ways, our customers prefer to communicate with us. Are we giving them their preferred option? Or are we simply using the channels that suit us best?
http://customerthink.com/customer-initiated-feedback-a-new-window-into-the-customer-journey/
It takes a lot for a new customer to become a customer these days.
Very few customers discover a company, find a product they need, and decide to purchase all in the same day -- instead, they take many steps, over the course of days, weeks, or even months to make a purchase and start using a product.
The complex process of winning over customers requires strategy and commitment. That's why sales and marketing funnels and buyer's journeys were created -- to divide and conquer each little step that goes into converting a potential customer into a returning one.
https://blog.hubspot.com/customer-success/collect-customer-feedback/
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