Have you seen The Customer Experience Factbook?

In this 180+ page report, you'll find all the information and support you need to build a profitable, effective CX Improvement Program that spans every part of your business. You'll be able to implement and manage meaningful and profitable change, and grow your bottom line despite a slowing economy.

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It's time to get past content marketing

There are two core elements to any marketing strategy - content and audience. Marketers often tend to focus a lot on content but not so much on the audience - but what if you could increase engagement by using more of what you already know about your customers to better understand their needs?

Personalised consumer marketing is becoming an integral part of securing sales and building a loyal customer base. By providing a more personalised experience, brands have a huge opportunity to provide a much-needed personal approach to consumers across an ever-growing amount of communication channels.

But how can this personalisation be achieved? The answer lies in leveraging the information which lies in the contact centre. To be able to personalise your marketing strategy, a lot of data is required to be able to gain relevant information about your customers, and this is often found within the customer service department.

By using contextual history which dwells in the contact centre, marketers can better understand customers' needs and their previous interactions with the company. For example, with this knowledge, marketers would know not to push any promotional emails to a customer if they had complained in the last week. Conversely, if a customer recently responded positively to a customer service satisfaction questionnaire, they may be more receptive to promotional emails.

Personalisation is much more than just welcoming back a returning customer or showing recommendations based on what they have bought before. It is about using the data you have to create an enjoyable experience that encourages the customer to keep returning to you.

And this covers all communication channels which are available to customers. The phone certainly isn't going to go away, and we've found that human interaction is still a very valuable customer experience, where either a call or web chat can be helpful to the consumer. It's important to bring the human touch back to your digital customers, and that means reaching out to help them make a purchase at the right time.

Using targeted and proactive web chat can be a great way to provide proactive and precise assistance at the consumer's point of need. It can also reduce call handling, help to maintain customer loyalty and boost retention.

The online shopping experience needs to mirror the human experience you would get in a store, talking to the customer, engaging with their needs, having a conversation with them to find out more about what they are looking for. It's all about building a personal profile of the customer - and this means integrating your contact centre customer information with your marketing across multiple touchpoints - from webchat to email, across to text.

And this technology can all easily be integrated into sales and marketing - by monitoring and reacting proactively to buying signals, companies can utilise the value of bringing a sales person into that digital customer experience at the right moment.

Cloud technology is fast becoming one of the most used - and useful - services for marketing, giving marketers real-time access to customer information from whatever device they are using to create and deliver relevant customer experiences that encourage long-term engagement.

"The Cloud offers a flexible deployment model for tools to enhance the customer experience, and means that companies can adjust campaign strategies to cater to customer needs, increasing marketing effectiveness and in the longer term, improving revenues," concluded McCrossan.

Have you seen The Customer Experience Factbook?

In this 180+ page report, you'll find all the information and support you need to build a profitable, effective CX Improvement Program that spans every part of your business.

You'll be able to implement and manage meaningful and profitable change, and grow your bottom line despite a slowing economy. Grab this goldmine of easily adaptable and up-to-date strategies, walk-throughs, trends, technologies, research, suppliers and partners, plus all the supporting arguments you need to build a solid CX strategy.

While most marketers could list maybe a dozen key points for improving their brand's Customer Experience (CX), the researchers and writers at The Marketing Factbook have identified FORTY main 'CX Keys' which will help you drive your customers to new levels of delight, loyalty, advocacy and profitability.

The areas in which customers have direct contact with your organization are perhaps the most obvious places in which CX improvements can be made, and this report addresses all 24 of these 'Direct CX Keys', applicable to offline and online businesses alike.

At the same time there are many other areas that indirectly affect CX (such as the supply chain, policies and processes) in which every business can make simple but far-reaching improvements. This report guides you through the problems and solutions for all 16 of these 'Indirect CX Keys', many of which are often forgotten or under-played even in the best CX strategies.

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