Posts Tagged ‘customers’

The Empty Promise of Experience Without Engagement

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010


I wasn’t sure what the reaction would be to last week’s column on customer experience.
Maybe I hang around with vendors and other analysts too much, because customer experience is a hot topic among, us and it’s generally seen as a good thing. However, judging by last week’s mail and some further digging at the Harvard Business Review’s Web site, it appears that there are at least two camps with decidedly different views on customer experience. The mail from last week was very positive.

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The Sometimes-Deadly ‘Customer Experience’ Strategy

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010


Customer experience reared its head in my life this month. My phone service went out, which was not a catastrophe for me because in addition to the landline, I have a cell and a nifty VoIP line that lets me talk through my computer. Parenthetically, I love my VoIP line because, though I live in the Boston area, the VoIP line has a 415 area code, which you may know is San Francisco’s. I don’t know if it’s my heart that’s out there, but certainly a piece of me lives in San Francisco, and for some reason that makes me happy.

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Target Your Customers by Leveraging Your Shopping Cart Data

Monday, March 1st, 2010

As an eCommerce marketer, it is easy to fall into the trap of thinking that setting up a website, having sales and having paying customers will bring in lots of revenue. The stark reality is for customers to return repeatedly, it is all about targeting your customers with specific marketing messages. Internet marketing is all about knowing your customer intimately.

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5 Basics for Making the Scene in Social Media

Monday, February 15th, 2010


Many companies are hesitant to adopt the social media movement because of the uncertainty of negative comments or results. The fact is that negative conversation will happen regardless of whether or not you are engaging in social media, so don’t hesitate, just jump on the social media bandwagon and engage. Social media has become a necessary extension of traditional marketing and, more realistically, an “x-factor” that can really make a different. I would like to share the five keys to social media success:

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Site Navigation - Helping Your Customers Find Your Products Easily

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

Everyone hates websites that toss you around, directing you from one page to another before showing you what you actually want to see. If you want to successfully sell the products in your site, then make sure that you make your site very easy to navigate.

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