Biznology

APRIL 25, 2018

Some marketers seem to keep their distance from customer data. When I ask what kind of customer information they are working with, I hear things like, “Oh, Mary is in charge of our data. This record contains the contact information, and descriptive and behavioral data elements we know about the customer. I leave it to her.”

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Biznology

APRIL 18, 2019

The biggest mistake that many companies make in their B2B sales and marketing activities is the way they fragment or silo different touchpoints in the customer journey among disparate functional teams. Customer experience matters for B2B marketers. “Customer experience is queen” and all that. Here’s why.

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Biznology

APRIL 27, 2017

As marketing advances, most professionals are well aware by now of the importance of retention and reactivation in optimizing the value of the customer base. Let’s review the strategies that are most effective in stimulating a renewed relationship with your dormant customers, and reducing customer defection and churn.

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Biznology

MARCH 21, 2018

It’s always possible to have a bad digital customer experience if you lack the skills or investment to create one. A consultant friend recently asked me to put together a questionnaire for a discovery workshop on digital customer experience. How do you gather customer feedback? What are your business goals? experience design?

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Biznology

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

I’ve long observed that B2B marketers focus too much on lead generation, and not enough on current customer expansion and retention, which is, after all, where the bulk of profits lie. When asked, the typical B2B marketer will say that 80-85% of their effort goes to customer acquisition. This is a mistake. marketing program?

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Biznology

MAY 2, 2019

Personalization needs to benefit the customer experience and drive your business. It’s about making customer experience more effective. One of the reasons that personalization has been oversold is that it depends on you, the user, to create content and develop rules for all the various segments of customers you need to talk to.

Personalization 151

Personalization Paid Search Agency Emarketing Customer Satisfaction 151

Biznology

AUGUST 23, 2019

The role of the customer support (CS) team has continued to expand. Once a reactive team that responded to inbound requests, customer support now has input into several aspects of the business. Organizations that encourage proactive customer support understand the value of building amazing customer experiences.

Marketing AI 136

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Biznology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

When countless products and services become connected, personal customer-vendor relationships will be added. Each task and step will include new people-first automated conversations that replace searching, customer support, shopping, and e-commerce services like Amazon. Local logistics responds flexibly to customers’ daily lives.

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Biznology

MARCH 5, 2019

Alternatively: Chicken Soup for the Customer’s Soul. What is your customer experience like if you could walk into a diner feeling under the weather, and are immediately offered chicken soup? Because the reality is: you compete with all the experiences your customers have everywhere online. 0:00 Intro. 29:05 Outro.

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Biznology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

They are those happy events where your customer buys something from you–or at least takes a big step in the right direction. It was a positive customer experience, but no conversion. I likely would have opened a chat with customer support. Just about every digital marketer tracks conversions of some sort.

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Biznology

AUGUST 16, 2019

Let’s look at six ways big data helps businesses improve their customer experience and makes their brands, products and services more valuable. When customers want to buy something, the vast majority of them. Ideally, the customer experience doesn’t involve a lot of troubleshooting. Data Informs Competitor Research.

Top of Funnel 142

Top of Funnel Digital Marketing Funnels Customer Satisfaction Cold Calling 142

Biznology

JULY 30, 2018

Customer Experience is perhaps the hottest trend in digital marketing. They want to dramatically improve the experience for customers. It’s not always possible to know what customers are trying to do–their task–but we spend less time trying than we should. How are you measuring your customer experience?

High Quality Lead 112

High Quality Lead Search Marketing Demand Trends 112

Biznology

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Mastering the art and science of acquiring customers via leading social media platforms is extremely valuable, given that all your potential customers, numbering billions, hang out on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other social platforms. True, every business needs new customers all the time to grow and prosper continually.

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Biznology

JUNE 28, 2018

The post Why you need testimonials to persuade your customers appeared first on Biznology. But even if you do, some smart people will remain cynical, unless you have clients that will sing your praises to your prospects. If this company needs testimonials, everyone does. Including you. Like this post? Sign up for our emails here.

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Biznology

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

What do customers want, and are you delivering? Ask a business executive and they’ll tell you that everything they do is for their customers. Which is all well and good, but how many B2B companies are really paying attention to the changes in what customers want? How can B2B companies learn from Amazon?

Marketing Management 112

Marketing Management Amazon eCommerce B2B 112

Biznology

MAY 17, 2017

There are always risks of offending some customers and employees so the challenge is to determine what issues to address, and how. The answer should depend on the core values that define the brand equity and image, and related to this the most important values of their primary customers and employees. on Amazon ).

Brand Identity 138

Brand Identity Branding Paid Search Agency Loyalty 138

Biznology

JANUARY 3, 2018

In the past, we’ve had to resign ourselves to guessing what ideas might pique our customers’ interests. But we now have many ways to learn more about what customers want: Digital ad data around which topics your clients engage with. Or you can use your data to look like a customer genius. It’s up to you.

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Biznology

APRIL 20, 2017

Collecting customer data and analyzing it to gain customer experience insights is something only big businesses do, right? In fact, small businesses can and should collect valuable customer information, just like big businesses. Before we start, you may be wondering if collecting customer data is in any way illegal.

Privacy Policies 143

Privacy Policies Ideal Customer Profiles Marketing Analytics Tools Terms and Conditions 143

Biznology

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Increasing customer engagement with video is not the same as upping the level of charm in the video. It’s getting the customer involved. It provides a better customer experience. FAQs can increase customer engagement with videos. On the interwebs this generally means clicking something or sharing something.

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Biznology

APRIL 25, 2018

Instead, we are moving towards deeply listening to customers to find out their needs. Now, James writes frequently about a powerful tool with which to hear those customer needs: keyword ontology. A keyword ontology lets you examine the keywords your customers search for. Examine these keywords to see what questions they ask.

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Keywords Search Marketing Webinar Metrics Trust Marketing 148

Biznology

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Advanced communications technology and powerful software enables call center executives to foster interactions that resonate with customers and boosts brand credibility. By leveraging robust VoIP services and CRM tools, you can equip employees with resources that enable them to create delightful customer encounters.

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Biznology

JULY 19, 2018

His team has developed a breakthrough approach to delivering a custom communications stream to business buyers based on their particular journeys. It’s actually a great example of the highly advanced – and automated – customer journey approach I mentioned. Ascend also designed custom landing pages that matched each email version.

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Automation B2B Marketing Advertising Agencies Cost per Acquisition 144

Biznology

MARCH 15, 2017

Engaging customers long before a sale, and even longer after it, are keys to building brand confidence and growing your revenue. At each of the four stages of a sales funnel your goal is to be front of mind, engage, provide value, and move the customer to the next stage. This is where personalized customer journeys come into play.

Top of Funnel 123

Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profiles Digital Marketing Funnels Brand Identity 123

Biznology

MAY 10, 2019

According to Jeffrey Vocell, Principle Product Manager for the HubSpot Growth Platform, customers expect to be contacted by brands across 13 different channels, with a 10-minute response time. Why SMS Messaging for Customer Experience? When talking about customer experience, the customer is in control.

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Biznology

JULY 2, 2019

When used properly, data can improve customer satisfaction. And here’s some powerful data — a survey of retail customers shows that 91% prefer brands that provide personalized offers / recommendations. The post SearchChat Podcast: Your Customers are Begging for (Better) Personalization appeared first on Biznology.

Personalization 120

Personalization Customer Satisfaction Search Marketing Custom Publishing 120

Biznology

DECEMBER 9, 2016

How’s your customer outreach? You might be looking at how to secure new customers and follow up on leads, but are you also keeping your existing customers happy? We hear a lot about customer engagement and outreach these days. After all, holding on to those existing customers is really your bread and butter.

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Biznology

AUGUST 9, 2017

Many of us are in business where we don’t interact directly with our end customers. I had to contact customer support because my car, though hardly exotic, had been redesigned for this year, and Thule hadn’t yet adapted their racks to fit it. The post Using your website to get to know your customers appeared first on Biznology.

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Marketing Websites Paid Search Agency Contact Marketing Marketing Prospects 133

Biznology

MAY 6, 2019

What’s more, social networks are an ideal place to find the perfect customer. When customers are loyal to you, you know they’ll do business with you and stick by you. If you rank high, potential customers will be more likely to visit your website. Still, converting people from fans to customers isn’t as easy as it seems.

Social Media 99

Social Media Media Content High Quality Lead 99

Biznology

JUNE 10, 2019

Advances in fintech have improved efficiency and effectiveness for both the industry and customers alike. But beyond payments and transfers, online banking allows customers to communicate with their banks and buy services and products, change their plans, and more without ever making a trip to the office.

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Biznology

JULY 8, 2016

So, I am not the top customer ever, but I figured I was someone worth pursuing. And sure, I am obviously not a loyal customer, so maybe they say, “Good riddance.” The post Is your marketing telling customers to go away? I travel a lot for business. ” I wonder how smart that is. Like this post?

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Biznology

JANUARY 16, 2017

One of the challenges business owners face is attracting new customers while trying to retain current customers. B2B companies tend to focus more resources on attracting new customers than retaining current customers. What does your B2B marketing program have to do with your customer retention strategy?

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Biznology

OCTOBER 19, 2015

For some reason, we’ve decided that these two ways of understanding customers are completely separate, complicated, and require immense training to do properly. The Persona can be though of as what we know about customers that doesn’t change very often–who they are, how they think, their style, and their passion.

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Biznology

AUGUST 26, 2016

Customer data is one of the most important parts of your business success. If you’re not already using a customer relationship management (CRM) platform to collect and manage the data , you should be. However, it’s worth noting that 99% of customers are willing to provide more personal information in exchange for rewards if asked.

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Data Hygiene Work Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management 80

Biznology

JANUARY 7, 2016

We’ve all heard and read a lot about customer experience recently and how the study of and practice of CE Marketing has become an area of specialization and innovation. To begin, attention to customer lifecycle or product consideration cycles in any meaningful way is still absent at the retailer level.

Loyalty 80

Loyalty Paid Search Agency Disintermediation Ideal Customer Profiles 80

Biznology

APRIL 18, 2016

Suppose I told you that for every web page you have on your website, I could run a survey that tells you what customers’ questions that page leaves unanswered. Is your company using website search to read customers’ minds? The post Are you using your website search as customer research? Sounds pretty cool, huh?

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Biznology

MAY 2, 2014

I take care to ensure that they understand that marketers obtain information about customers, competitors, and markets, and focus on delivering value. I suggest we go back to the future and start incorporating more customer focus and ROI in our social media marketing programs. Your objective should be to add customer value.

Social Media 80

Social Media Fulfillment Facebook Custom Publishing 80

Biznology

JANUARY 10, 2019

This marketing technology stack is a full suite of software for marketing, sales, and customer service with a free CRM at its core. I joined HubSpot because the company was founded on the principle of creating a helpful and human customer experience. Customer expectations and the demand for convenience are more important than ever.

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