5 Best Customer Success Strategies That Can Help You Grow Your Business
Did you know that one in three customers would move away from their beloved brand if they had even one poor experience? Clearly, if you want your business to grow, you need to focus on providing a positive experience to your customers. That’s why it’s important for you to formulate effective customer success strategies. It…
5 Reasons You Should Start Commenting On Blogs Again
When was the last time you commented on a blog post? Go on, own up! I reckon it was quite a while, wasn’t it? And yet I bet you’ve been happily commenting away on social media since then. Why is that? Real-time responses? Instant gratification? No moderation? Massive amount of material to comment on?…
How to Better Read Your Audience To Improve Content Marketing Results
Building a relationship with your customer base should be a top priority for every single business. Making a customer feel understood, cared for, and connected to a brand can cultivate long-term loyalty that will impact sales for years to come. These are among the elements that will improve your content marketing results. However, many businesses…
The Secret of Effective Communication with Customers
Everything we say or write is an attempt to convey a message. We tend to think that we excel in effective communication. But, like it or not, most of the times we fail. This is essentially due to two reasons: We have used unclear language (technical words, jargon or ‘brandalese’) that our listener could not understand……
Why No News Is Not Good News In Customer Service
When I started working about 20 years ago, a mantra was ‘we must avoid customer complaints.’ That was the first time I heard about customer retention. Today, working as a customer service consultant and trainer, I still see many companies trying to prevent complaints. But in the meantime, technology has dramatically changed customers’ behavior. In this…
8 Ways to Improve Your Customer Experience
The Importance of Customer Experience Often overlooked, Customer Experience is one of the main factors that contributes to the success of your brand. It is as important as your digital marketing strategies, website usability and, of course, product quality. In other words, you need to identify the means to offer your clients a satisfying and…
10 Reasons Your Readers Aren’t Commenting On Your Blog
It can be extremely soul destroying putting your heart and soul into creating a fantastic post, and your readers aren’t commenting on your blog. In fact you get zero feedback, zilch, nothing, tumbleweed bounces across your screen. You soon start to doubt your prowess as a blogger. And understandably so, if you get so little recognition for…
Surveys: The Perils & Pitfalls And How To Overcome Them
You’d think that just putting together a survey would be easy, right? Just ask the questions that you feel need answering, then decide the format and software, and where you want to post it. So easy in fact, that at least as of 2013, according to vovici.com, it was estimated that American adults received 7…
How to Encourage Your Customers to Provide Real Feedback
“Tell us what you think.” In almost every transaction that you complete, you are asked in some way to give your feedback. This is because smart business owners know that gathering feedback from customers, analyzing it, and using that information to make improvements is the best way to ensure that customers are continually receiving the…
