To personalize a consumer experience, you must tailor interactions based on customer data such as demographics, purchase history and preferences. As customer expectations have evolved, so has the need for more sophisticated approaches. Enter hyper personalization. While personalization might involve sending a targeted email based on past purchases, “hyper personalization” predicts future behavior and proactively … Read more
More than 5 million Google searches happen daily according to MailChimp. Search engine optimization (SEO)—adjusting your website to boost the amount of quality traffic that comes to it—is an essential part of connecting with your audience. Search engines like Google and others use formulas, called algorithms, to determine what sites to serve up in response … Read more
The last, best experience a shopper has anywhere becomes the minimum expectation for the experience they want everywhere. – Havas 2019 Prosumer survey Havas Group surveyed a combination of 2,000 “pro-sumers” — early adopters who are forward thinking, influential, and proactive in what they do and share — and mainstream consumers across the U.S., U.K., … Read more
“With consumers now spending significantly more time online, the notion of maximizing your brand’s digital presence has become a necessity. If you’re not reaching and engaging potential customers across a purchase journey that’s increasingly online, you can be sure another brand is.” – Mata Martinez, Think with Google Google teamed up with Boston Consulting Group … Read more
The Nielsen Norman Group has done extensive research with people shopping online and identified five main types of behavior: product-focused, browsing, researchers, bargain-hunters, and one-time shoppers. Each customer type benefits from a different online experience: Product-Focused Product-focused shoppers know the exact product model and options they want. They want to easily find the item they … Read more
“An important part of building a loyal base is knowing who is (and who should be) a part of it. Then it’s a matter of supplying those people with a great experience every single time they interact with your brand.” – Tom Klien, CMO at Mailchimp What does it take to create a brand that … Read more
Customer journeys include many things that happen before, during, and after the experience of a product or service. Journeys can be long, stretching across multiple channels and touchpoints, and often lasting days, weeks or longer. Brand awareness, converting prospects to customer, providing long-tern value to create loyalty and advocacy are all part of the journey. … Read more
“Experience Management (XM) is all about people. Customers are people. Employees are people. Partners, suppliers, and prospects are all people. Even “organizations,” at the end of the day, are really just large collections of people. Everyone who is creating or consuming experiences is a human being…” – XM institute Before an organization can effectively manage … Read more
In a recent interview with Zoey Chen, assistant professor of Marketing at the University of Miami School of Business and co-author of the Return Trip Effect. Colin Shaw derived these seven steps to create a memorable experience for your customers. Decide what type of memory you want people to have about your experience. Different strategies enhance … Read more
Customer experience is a global principle. Although it might look different in each location, the concept is always the same: customers want to be valued and should be central to a brand. These 25 companies around the world each demonstrate a quality customer experience in their own way to build customer satisfaction and loyalty. Countdown … Read more
According to Greg Chapman, Founder and CEO of The Pocket CMO, ‘customer segmentation provides a comprehensive understanding of your current and potential consumers that produces a variety of rich data including identifying the financially-optimal targets for your brand.’ Greg shares that: “Profiles are built from data. Personas are built from insights. You don’t market to … Read more
As more organizations move towards a more customer-centric way of doing business, customer journey maps remain an important tool to help companies better understand what’s happening today, and what customers want tomorrow. In an ‘outside-in, customer-centric’ way, customer journey maps serve to discover, codify and share relevant information across the customer lifecycle and help to … Read more