Use Customer Journey Mapping To Master Customer Experience
Marketing in the modern world means making a personalized connection with your consumer base. The old way of blindly advertising and marketing based on vague data about generalized demographics doesn’t accomplish that goal. With better analytics and information than ever before driving business strategy, companies can now create accurate customer journey maps that help them…
Marketers: Rethink The Customer Decision Journey
In 2009, McKinsey & Co. proposed what was touted as a radical shift in marketing practice they called the consumer decision journey. The article called into question the long held concept of the purchase funnel in favor of a new model that incorporated customer experience and advocacy. “If marketing has one goal, it’s to reach…
How To Adapt To The Shifting Consumer Shopping Journey
By Robert Caruso When social media marketing was in its infancy, brands and marketers needed to do little to make an impact, standout and see results. Though the marketing platforms were new, the data quickly showed that early adopters and average consumers alike were willing to be influenced and make purchase decisions through the new…
Sales Pitches Don’t Sell
Sales pitches don’t sell, but authenticity, leadership and service do. How you create that shift within your business and your mind will determine the results you experience in the coming years. The internet and the world of social selling have changed the face of what “selling” looks like, most likely forever. Selling might well be…
How To Link Business & Marketing With Buyer Personas
By Tony Zambito One significant change in the past few years is the top of mind presence of the customer on the part of CEOs. The mandate of “getting closer to the customer” has never been stronger. Various surveys point to CEOs linking business growth to increasing customer engagement efforts, growing their customer base, and…
Respectful Foundations of Social Selling for Business
I was thinking of titling this article “Can I Slam You Over the Head with My New Product?” because that is exactly what non-respectful social selling feels like to a consumer. Online or offline there is a way to be social that flows like warm honey and ways to be social that feel like fingernails…
How To Gain Deep Insights Into Customer Buying Behavior
By Tony Zambito The digital economy continues to evolve at a fast clip. New technologies are being introduced nearly every month. Startups are ascending while long tenured organizations suddenly find themselves on shaky grounds. New services and product introductions are falling flat. Making the pursuit of understanding why customers are buying or not buying most…
How To Turn Social Customer Service Issues Into Assets
Delivering excellent customer service via social networks is not childs play. You need to re-think and adapt procedures in order to integrate social customer service into your organization. Smart companies are determined to face and overcome such challenges because they believe we’ve entered a brand new customer service era, so they want to be perceived as pioneers.…
Exceptional Social Customer Service is a Differentiator
Most companies have a multi-channel online presence, with their websites, blogs and social networks. But that’s not enough! In 2015 the online arena has become so crowded, that brands must have an effective online strategy to be successful. They have to be: Properly positioned –> SEO-optimized in order to reach your target audience. Noticed –> conveying a unique and…
4 Ways to Make Your Marketing More Effective
How a Boy Got Stuck in a Chimney In 2011, Richard and Sandy Draper came home to a surprising situation that would end up leaving their house partially destroyed. What happened? You’ll never believe it, but follow along anyway. They returned to their Utah home from dinner one Friday evening around 7:30pm and when they got into the house…
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