Tag Archives: CUSTOMER

How to Use Customer Testimonials in Your Email Marketing

by Kristen Dunleavy Follow @KristenWritesItSeptember 10, 2016 Customer testimonials are one of the most powerful tools that email marketers have in their conversion arsenal. Why? Because they work. And they work because they function as social proof – an extremely powerful motivator of consumer action. According to Syed Balkhi, the co-founder of OptinMonster, social proof … Continue reading How to Use Customer Testimonials in Your Email Marketing →

Looking beyond the holiday purchase: understanding customer lifetime value

As the holidays approach, it’s time to take a close look at customer lifetime value. Columnist James Collins discusses the benefits of using data to determine the CLV of consumers gained during the holiday season and beyond. James Collins on September 2, 2016 The ideal brand relationship is much more than a single experience. It … Continue reading Looking beyond the holiday purchase: understanding customer lifetime value →

Building Customer Trust Alongside Your Entire Organization

by Lindsay SmithAugust 30, 2016 When many professionals think about building client relationships and creating trust, they usually default to thinking about their organization’s Customer Success department(s). But what about other teams at your company, such as sales, marketing, and product management? What role do each play in cultivating trust and facilitating client relationships? Establishing … Continue reading Building Customer Trust Alongside Your Entire Organization →

Every call is becoming data: Rich customer data revolutionizes call analytics

Columnist Andrew Osmak points out that every inbound call to a business is data — and that data provides real-time insights on customers that businesses can put to use in their marketing and advertising. Andrew Osmak on August 26, 2016  Rich data is about to do for call analytics what it has done for customer … Continue reading Every call is becoming data: Rich customer data revolutionizes call analytics →

Next stop in Salesforce’s evolution: Becoming the platform for customer experience

A Salesforce exec points out how the Demandware acquisition and all those clouds can fit together. Barry Levine on August 19, 2016   When it was founded in 1999, Salesforce was known largely as the company for customer relationship management. CRM has remained its center of gravity as it has added tools for marketing, sales … Continue reading Next stop in Salesforce’s evolution: Becoming the platform for customer experience →

Driving Action From a Customer Satisfaction Program

by Andrew Dalglish Follow @circle_researchAugust 18, 2016 Most companies have a customer satisfaction research programme in place, but not all are made equal. Some are active agents of change – they spur the organisation to act, building stronger customer relationships, boosting customer loyalty and ultimately improving commercial performance. Others are passive observers – they simply … Continue reading Driving Action From a Customer Satisfaction Program →