Encouraging Dialogue with Customer Advocates
Customer advocates are influential, even as passive promoters. They write testimonials and reviews, and they answer questions to reviews or on forums. Their engagement is visible, and it’s very believable. You further customer advocacy as you encourage dialogue,...
The Power of Telling Your Customers’ Stories
To design and deliver great customer experiences, you have to understand the customer’s journey. Put another way, their story. To understand the customer narrative, the most successful organizations harness something that’s been around as long as humanity,...
6 Traits of a Customer-Focused Culture
I recall a new restaurant with great food and impeccable service that quickly built a following. Referrals spread rapidly, reviews were positive, and before long, the waits to get in became longer. To customers, this was just confirmation the restaurant was a great...
The Customer Feedback Funnel
Your feedback process should act as a funnel, catching data from all the various sources and bringing it into a centralized location. This could be a database that’s part of your customer relationship management (CRM) system, a dedicated customer feedback system, a...