Spinning Plates? Here’s Why Your Small Biz Needs CRM

Are you a small business owner worried about the quality of your customer service? Not sure how to improve it without dropping the ball in other areas of your business? Here’s how to choose a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) program or service that empowers you to reach and interact with your clients and customers like…

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The Customer Experience is Evolving

Social media and texting are having a profound impact on the way customers and companies communicate. There have been some studies done by Hailo, a taxi app and by the Pew Research Center. These statistics that have been published by Andrew Prokop indicate findings that suggest the evolution. These findings include: Text messages represent the…

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Let Your Customers Help You Make It Memorable

In last week’s post we explored the importance of creating a memorable experience for your customers. Today’s customers are one click away from finding someone else to meet their needs which means you need to knock them dead every time. While your competitors can match your prices, copy your products or services and even hire away your…

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Marketing Idea: What Does Your Customer Experience?

The concept of creating a memorable customer experience is nothing new. Companies like Disney, Zappos and Ritz Carlton have become famous for how their customers rave about doing business with them. Who doesn’t know the famous Ritz Carlton line “we are ladies and gentlemen, serving ladies and gentlemen?” So the concept has been around for a while, but I predict it will…

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5 Ways to Turn Indifferent Customers into Raving Fans

Providing good customer service just isn’t enough anymore, not with companies the world over clamoring for the dwindling dollars consumers spend. And heaven forbid your customer service should be classified average! That could, literally, be the death of a company if it’s not turned around quickly. Encourage your team to take customer service from bland and…

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The Future of Personalization

If you haven’t been thinking about the future of personalization, you should. The CMO Council released a fascinating study, looking at how marketers are viewing/using personalization and what that means for all of us down the road. The study, done in partnership with Pegasystems, is entitled “Predicting Routes to Revenue, and found that nearly half of…

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Your Brand Theater

Often times when you’re building a brand, you’re trying to show the best of an overall purchasing experience. Like any form of entertainment, they too are all about the experience. At first exposure you want that point in the relationship to be absolutely compelling if you want the customer to look deeper. Brand image plays…

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7 Tips to Continuously Improve Your Customer Experience

Every company claims to provide good customer service. If you do the same, you are just one of many vying for your customers’ business. If you want to break through and truly show you are different, you need to create memorable experiences that will spark curiosity and engage customers when they choose to do business…

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Consumer Reviews: The Only Currency

Consumer reviews are easier to make and access than ever before. There was a time when you actually had to talk to someone, or talk to someone who talked to someone else who was willing to tell you what they thought. Then, when business websites came on the scene, there was sometimes an option to…

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