Influitive

OCTOBER 12, 2018

It’s been five years since Influitive published the Advocate Marketing Playbook. Since then, it’s been downloaded over 5,700 times. Hundreds of companies followed those proven plays to achieve success in developing powerful advocate programs. But another interesting evolution happened. We witnessed amazing creativity and innovation as individuals at these companies took the principles of advocate.

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Influitive

OCTOBER 12, 2018

It’s been five years since Influitive published the Advocate Marketing Playbook. Since then, it’s been downloaded over 5,700 times. Hundreds of companies followed those proven plays to achieve success in developing powerful advocate programs. But another interesting evolution happened. We witnessed amazing creativity and innovation as individuals at these companies took the principles of advocate.

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Influitive

JANUARY 12, 2017

Customer marketing is on the rise. According to Koyne Marketing’s 2017 State of Customer Marketing Report, 93% of organizations agree that customer marketing is important or very important to their revenue, and more than two-thirds are planning to boost their investment in customer marketing over the next year.

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SendX

JANUARY 18, 2021

Customer experience affects not only initial interactions but also contributes vitally to the retention of customers. What Is Customer Experience? Customer experience is the feeling or perspective your customers are left with after an interaction with your brand.

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Speaker: Ruth Stevens, President of eMarketing Strategy

In a pandemic, it’s more important than ever to focus on retaining and expanding current customers. So, how can sales and marketing support the retention effort? Join Ruth Stevens as she dives into this fast-paced session and reviews the 7 key strategies for current customer marketing, to enable sales and expand customer value.

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Influitive

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of presenting at CMX Summit 2020, where I explored the convergence of community and customer advocacy. The post Supercharging your Community with Customer Advocates appeared first on Influitive. Advocate Engagement Community Customer Engagement

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Influitive

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Measuring your customer advocacy and community program’s success is critical for growing membership, boosting engagement, and delivering even better customer experiences. The post Influitive Takes Customer Engagement Data to the Next Level appeared first on Influitive.

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Measure Up Marketing

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Nearly every organization we speak with believes they’re customer-centric. Work by MarketCulture Strategies , found that “a strong customer-obsessed culture is the single most important driver of future business performance.” Finding a Customer Focus.

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Influitive

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Customers are hungry for meaningful interactions – both with your brand and with other customers – and community managers need to make the experience simple and painless. The post Gamification Alone Can’t Modernize Customer Communities appeared first on Influitive.

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Measure Up Marketing

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Most business leaders and Marketing and Sales professionals today understand the impact that peer reviews and stories make on the customer bying journey, including the B2B purchase journey. Expand Who in Your Organization Engages with Customers.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

For marketing teams to develop a successful account-based marketing strategy, they need to ensure good data is housed within its Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. More specifically, updated data can help organizations outline key accounts for their campaigns. And to begin the targeting process, marketing teams must develop an Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) with appropriate firmographic and behavioral data to ensure they’re going after the correct audience.Download this eBook to learn how to start improving your marketing team's data!

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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 27, 2020

As marketers look to bounce back from the impact of COVID-19, new research suggests that they will be turning to both existing customers and new prospects to achieve their strategic goals. Customer Experience Industry News customer experience digital marketing Search Engine Marketing

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Influitive

AUGUST 31, 2020

We kicked off this year’s Influitive Live 2020 conference with a hot topic: the customer journey. In his Opening Keynote, Influitive CEO Dan McCall presented this important finding: 84% of customers say that the experience a company provides is as important as its products and services. “A

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Influitive

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The post Advocacy Insights Inside Salesforce Deepen Customer Relationships appeared first on Influitive. Advocacy ROI Customer Engagement Customer Marketers Customer Success Teams Marketing Leaders Sales Professionals

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Influitive

MAY 4, 2017

Evaluations are done, sales reps are in closing mode, and all that stands in the way of a killer three months are a few customer references. Asking for a customer reference. The scenario: it’s nearing the end of the quarter, and your sales team is within reach of their number. Panic time? Of course not.

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Speaker: Brian Carroll, CEO and Founder of markempa

Marketing and sales feel pretty tricky right now. What worked before now feels out of touch, but have you made plans for how you'll continue to move forward? You've likely tried everything: expert recommendations, best practices, the latest tools, and automation. But your results are falling short. Here's the thing: All the automation tools, best practices, data analytics won't help get better results now until you master empathizing with your customers. In this webinar, you'll learn how to go beyond rational-logic based sales/marketing and adjust your sales enablement strategy to better understand how buyers feel so that you can connect and help them on their journey.

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SendX

OCTOBER 20, 2020

But beyond brand awareness, product promotion and recovering abandoned carts, email marketing is an effective channel for customer appreciation and retention. Keeping an existing customer is significantly more cost-effective than trying to attract new ones.

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Influitive

MAY 30, 2019

If you work in B2B, then you probably hear the terms “customer-obsessed,” “customer-centric,” and even “customer-powered” used interchangeably on a day-to-day basis. Rather than merely being buzzwords, the increased usage of this kind of language is a sign of how companies are shifting their priorities to focus on the value they bring to their customers.

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Oracle

MARCH 22, 2019

What makes a loyal customer nowadays? You can no longer say that it is just a satisfied customer or even a repeat customer. After all, if another option becomes more convenient, a customer will just as soon drop you and go with them. Signs of True Customer Loyalty. Really, you are looking for a lifetime of customer value. You want customers loyal to you and always coming back, but not only that. Customer Experience Oracle Marketing Cloud

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Influitive

MARCH 23, 2018

Going where no company has gone before: finding a scalable way to boost customer retention Rosetta Stone, the leading provider of language-learning software, has been helping learners around the world master new languages for more than 25 years. In addition to learners at home, Rosetta Stone also serves educators and global businesses to help upskill.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

As buyer expectations continue to heighten, marketing and sales teams are feeling pressured to deliver authentic messaging to buyers at every point of their customer journey. This report aims to highlight the current state of B2B database and contact acquisition strategies, and organizations’ goals to leverage data to fuel their go-to-market strategies in 2020 and beyond.

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Influitive

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

A new year welcomes new opportunities for customer advocacy managers and their community members. From new campaigns, recruitment strategies and new goals to achieve, our customers’ programs have been buzzing with activity this past month. Advocate Best Practices Customer Engagement

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Act-On

MARCH 13, 2017

B2B marketers are focusing more and more on making sure their customers are successful after they’ve signed the contract and started using your product or service. First, successful customers are happy customers and their more likely to renew with you. The second reason is that successful, happy customers are also great advocates for your brand. They’re your customers who are willing to advocate for your brand, your company, your solution, your people.

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Influitive

JUNE 16, 2017

I walked into an all-day meeting back in February, and on one of the tables I saw a piece of notebook paper with my name and a heart written on it. To the side of the paper was a Starbucks tea (I abhor coffee) and a bottle of water.

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Oracle

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

It is about history, though—the history of business and how it tends to view customers. This article calls for a reorientation of marketing’s mission so that it can begin focusing on working with a company’s existing customers in a similar way that it focuses today on buyers and prospects. In other words, cover the complete lifecycle of a customer, providing them with the guidance they need to make the best decisions at each step of their journey.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

ZoomInfo has created the following eBook to help other B2B organizations gain insights on how to launch their own data-driven ABM strategy. In this eBook, we will reveal the good and the bad from our own campaign and highlight some key takeaways on how to improve your ABM strategies moving forward.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

Customer pain points are abundant, and it is up to marketers and salespeople to both identify and address them when reaching out to prospects. What Are Customer Pain Points, And Why Are They Important? Basically, your whole GTM strategy should be centered around customer pain points.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

Customer pain points are abundant, and it is up to marketers and salespeople to both identify and address them when reaching out to prospects. What Are Customer Pain Points, And Why Are They Important? Basically, your whole GTM strategy should be centered around customer pain points.

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Biznology

JUNE 29, 2017

Are you looking for the best ways to reactivate dormant customers and reduce churn? Consider which of these may be the most applicable to your business, your customers, and your objectives. The longer a customer is inactive, the more likely an eventual defection. But you can take this principle a step further if you examine customer behavior patterns to predict inactivity before it even starts. Segment your dormant customers, and treat them differently.

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Influitive

OCTOBER 23, 2019

It’s all well and good if your product feels intuitive to you, but if your customers don’t feel the same way, they won’t continue using your platform. The post The 5 Stages of Customer Centric Design appeared first on Influitive. AdvocateHub Best Practices Customer Centric Customer Engagement, Retention & Growth Developer Relations Product DevelopmentGreat user experience hinges on your ability to understand how consumers think.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

This eBook highlights how data-driven strategies empower marketing campaigns through personalization tactics.

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Oracle

MARCH 28, 2019

I delivered a talk about empathy at Oracle’s recent Modern Customer Experience (ModernCX) conference. In the talk I described how we in North America SaaS Customer Success are building out an enablement program for Customer Success Managers (CSM) that will be fueled by empathetic inputs. Also, the program needs to consider how it will eventually play out in front of customers (the ultimate beneficiaries of the program), even indirectly. Customer Experience

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Influitive

OCTOBER 11, 2015

Marketers know that finding ways to increase customer engagement is good for the bottom line. Customer engagement is highly correlated to customer loyalty ,” says Aimee Lucas , Customer Experience Transformist and VP at the Temkin Group , a customer experience research and consulting firm. That’s because loyal customers are more likely to buy again, and buy more than before. “We Loyal customers draw in more customers.

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ClickZ

DECEMBER 17, 2020

30-second summary: Effective data analytics expands far beyond the collection of customer info. Digital technologies have been completely democratized over the past several years, which is producing mountains of data related to customer behavior, from preferences to interest and sentiments.

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Oracle

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

It refers to a broad array of touchpoints and building blocks that will transform how the world experiences Oracle, from product to brand—including our look and feel, interaction design, UI platform, website, and customer stories. Oracle is moving from being a product-based company to being a service provider hyper-focused on customer success. In fact, all of the new things you’ll see at Oracle OpenWorld are about elevating customer success.

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Measure Up Marketing

APRIL 7, 2020

A study by Forrester found that companies committed to customer experience (CX) have higher brand awareness, higher average order value, higher customer retention, higher return on spending, and higher customer satisfaction rates. So, when customer experience goes awry it can be extremely detrimental. In fact, Vision Critical estimates the overall impact of bad customer experiences in the United States alone is more than $537 billion per year.

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