It used to be that retailers couldn’t wait to hear the unmistakable sound that said the holidays had arrived — ringing cash registers. Today’s businesses are adapting to the new signs of the holiday season — digital clicks and online carts. Black Friday, the most joyous of all shopping days in the year for retailers and customers alike, still tops the list of sales spikes for the year, followed closely by its relatively new cousin Cyber Monday.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescommunicationscouncil/2017/11/28/five-digital-marketing-trends-for-the-2017-holiday-season/#54cb1dd4777f/
Today’s businesses no longer compete on product, price and advertising space alone. The experience they provide to customers has become a leading differentiator, and deterrent, in purchase decisions.
https://martechseries.com/mts-insights/guest-authors/understanding-customer-sentiment-scale-secret-digital-maturity/
In our transactional world of fickle customers, how do we snag the prize - aka customer loyalty? It turns out that cracking the code is easier than you may think. Just follow this four-step approach, and you’re sure to create wild raving fans
https://www.freep.com/story/money/business/columnists/josh-linkner/2017/11/18/how-create-kind-customer-loyalty-you-crave/874471001/
From a single blog to a full-blown website, any new digital marketing project goes through several iterations before launch. Each stage of the project presents an opportunity to discuss the plan, make changes, and get buy-in from the entire team. When clients skip this opportunity or fail to understand its importance, bad things happen.
https://www.business2community.com/digital-marketing/need-provide-feedback-every-stage-project-01961070/
At a time when many leading global financial institutions are still saddled with poor reputations dating from the financial crisis, Bank of America, one of the world’s largest commercial banks, has invested in building credibility with its customers by listening and responding to customer feedback in real-time.
https://which-50.com/digital-feedback-powerful-builder-brand-trust-bank-america/
Collecting customer feedback is crucial, but there’s more to capturing the voice of the customer (VoC) than compiling readily available data and dropping it into a spreadsheet.
https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/voice-of-the-customer-decoded-4-tips-to-make-the-most-of-feedback/
Businesses now have all of the tools necessary to find out how people feel about their branding efforts. Social listening is a marketing strategy that allows companies to read and respond to customer feedback on social media. This gives them the opportunity to fine-tune their marketing efforts to help them achieve their goals.
https://www.webpronews.com/social-listening-can-strengthen-online-marketing-strategy-2017-07/
“We know this solution is more usable based on the feedback the usability tests provide us with, but it’s just a bit boring,” was the heartbreaking feedback the agency received from their client. “There’s no way our users wouldn’t know what that interface control means.”
You might think that the arrogance of speaking on behalf of users without ever having met one – or, worse still, ignoring user feedback if it doesn’t suit – represents a luxuriant hubris for the tiny minority of organisations so successful and with such desirable products that their users will take what they are given. However, this author’s experience suggests that this outlook is more prevalent than it should be, based on what we know about the close relationship between how organisations treat their customers online and commercial success.
https://www.siliconrepublic.com/companies/ux-design-advice-tips/
Here’s the scenario: You have a new app that is (you think) ready for its debut in the public spotlight. Your boss just wants to do one last check to make sure everything goes as planned – are there clear instructions? Is it intuitive? Will users “get” it? Your boss wants to get feedback from real users before the app goes live. Fair enough. That’s doable (you can send it to your friends and family). There’s one catch though: your main users are in France, Germany, and China (where your friends and family, unfortunately, aren’t) and all this feedback has to be in hands of the product team within four hours…
https://www.applause.com/blog/user-feedback-48-countries-in-four-hours/
The long-term quality of feedback you get from customers is directly correlated to the actions you take based on that feedback, and the feedback you give to the customers who made the effort to respond to you.
https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/developing-a-circle-of-customer-organization-feedback/
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