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When all of a sudden your customer support team was now called your customer, or client, success team? What follows is an edited version of our conversation, with key takeaways that capture what Luke believes to be the crucial elements of building customer success. MORE
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‘Customer experience’ refers to putting the customer and their needs at the center of everything a company does. Arguably, the most important element of the customer experience and therefore, of marketing, is the content that a company offers to its customers.
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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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The emergence and spread of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has dramatically changed the game for both B2B vendors and customers. But it also means a dramatic leap in customer expectations. Professional customers (i.e., Customer Service Management Tools.
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When all of a sudden your customer support team was now called your customer, or client, success team? What follows is an edited version of our conversation, with key takeaways that capture what Luke believes to be the crucial elements of building customer success.
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The Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) is used to identify, source, and prioritize your best prospects – but how do you create an accurate ICP in the first place? It takes time, money, and people to attract, convert, and delight new customers. What is an Ideal Customer Profile?
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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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Marketers are constantly working to provide a more engaging, authentic, and compelling customer experience — and for good reason. Eighty-six percent of buyers say they’ll pay more for a better customer experience, according to Forbes magazine. 1: Why customers stop purchasing.
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This may support the statistics that suggest customers are maintaining relationships with marketers via email. This seems to suggest that more marketing emails are making it into the inboxes of customers and prospects.
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