People trust people, not brands, as the saying goes—and the rise of user-generated content in e-commerce is fast outranking all other forms of marketing when it comes to influencing purchase decisions.
User-generated content (UGC) is one of the most useful forms of free marketing that an e-commerce business could ask for: authentic, trustworthy content created by fans and influencers, sharing reviews, images and videos of your product online.
https://www.business2community.com/brandviews/xsellco/user-generated-content-important-e-commerce-02007937/
The term digital transformation is increasingly creeping into the boardrooms of businesses both big and small. Finally, there is a realization at the top of many organizations that digital has genuinely changed the world and that business as usual is no longer an option.
Unfortunately, few executives understand either the nature of digital or how it has changed things. Worse still they are not turning to us, as digital experts, for the answers. In this post, I want to encourage you to embrace the new boardroom buzzword and move from digital implementor to digital transformation advocate.
http://mediatemple.net/blog/tips/digital-transformation-care/
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/
Clive Watts talks to Paul Milligan about the new launch, ADDERLink INFINITY 100T, and how customer feedback is instrumental in driving Adder's product innovation.
http://www.inavateonthenet.net/news/article/adder-how-customer-feedback-is-driving-product-innovation/
Personalization is a popular idea for brands and consumers alike. But few brands are able to deliver on customer expectations.
Ernan Roman of ERDM conducts specialized VoC research to identify high impact CX strategies which generate significant increases in revenue. In this video, Ernan shares how to “crack the code” for personalization success.
http://customerthink.com/powerful-personalization-how-to-provide-value-and-avoid-creepy/
Customer Experience is now recognised as a profession – as I am sure many are bored with hearing me repeat over and over again! As with any profession, it is defined by a number of competencies, tools, techniques and methodologies that are recognised and practised by thousands of specialists around the world. It is a challenging profession for a variety of reasons – largely because it is not ‘black and white’. There is no one way of doing anything when it comes to Customer Experience. The art and skill of the Customer Experience Professional is knowing how to adapt and flex the tools, techniques and disciplines for any and every situation that faces them.
http://www.customerexperienceupdate.com/customer-journeys/?open-article-id=6181085&article-title=customer-journey-management---it-s-not-just-about-the-mapping-&blog-domain=ijgolding.com&blog-title=ijgolding/
Of the 7.5 billion people in existence, nearly 51% have access to the internet. That amounts to around 4 billion people who – as a whole – conduct a whopping average of 1.2 trillion searches per year. In other words, competition for online traffic is FIERCE. Businesses are up against a huge pool of competitors and are therefore obliged to find innovative ways of winning over the attention of their target audience. One of the most popular ways of achieving this traffic is through the application of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) tools.
https://mopinion.com/top-29-search-engine-optimisation-seo-tools/
As a product manager and usability expert, I work with both marketing and R&D teams to deliver a product that meets users’ needs and expectations and provides value.
Our approach is to build a product with a strong base that offers most of the expected capacities considered important for our particular domain. Then we bake in the capability for customers to build what they need to adapt to their specific context.
https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/put-voice-of-the-customer-feedback-into-action-with-the-usability-approach/
Silicon Valley can at times seem like an idea factory, a Wonka Chocolate wonderland for inventing the future and disrupting the status quo. Belief in that idea has launched a thousand startups.
So what if only a few reach the farther shore? That’s normal: new ventures and pursuit of the next big idea are a high-risk proposition. The next big idea rarely emerges fully formed.
https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/looking-for-your-next-big-idea-ask-your-customers-and-really-listen/
Surveys have gotten a bad name in the past due to the fact that the main ways of getting people to complete them were cold-calling and going from door-to-door. However, in today’s internet world, businesses can utilize surveys much more efficiently as they have become much easier to dispense and take. If you have a small business, surveys can provide concise and constructive feedback from your customers. Below are a few ways how survey tools can benefit your small business.
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2018/02/12/survey-tools-benefit-business/
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