Mobile apps are everywhere, and many big brands already depend on them to enhance the customer experience. Thanks to low-code app development platforms, it's easier than ever for any company to join the app marketplace.
Despite the proliferation of branded mobile apps, there's a lot to consider before you invest in one for your business. Will you be able to maintain it? Will your customers even want to use it? Here’s what the Forbes Technology Council suggests you consider before taking the leap.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2018/12/12/11-questions-to-ask-yourself-before-creating-an-app-for-your-business/#3be783cb6e5c/
In the traditional customer service setup, there were customer service personnel taking calls and responding to customer queries on emails. Unfortunately, they would suffer from burnout. They were forced to repeat the same instructions, cool down angry customers, and had to work for long hours. Fortunately, chatbot application development has revolutionized things. These software-based tools are now taking center stage in most company interactions with their customers. Here are ways chatbots are redefining customer experiences.
http://customerthink.com/how-chatbots-are-redefining-customer-experiences/
One discipline that is booming in 2018, however, is user experience (UX). And it seems to me this is precisely because UX is a broad church. UX is about meeting consumer expectations in a variety of channels, even if those are predominately digital.
UX fits within customer experience and this is at the heart of new agency propositions, where tech meets strategy and experience design.
To some extent these propositions have been forged in the heat of competition from consultancies. Earlier this year, Pierre Nanterme, chief executive of Accenture Interactive, pointed out that the company is staying out of the declining business of media buying and focusing on these more profitable areas.
https://www.marketingweek.com/2018/12/12/sweet-spot-is-where-strategy-meets-design/
Here at Mopinion, our employees are the backbone of our business. They make it possible for us to create and deliver innovative software that guarantees real value for our customers. That is why we’ve created the Employee in the Spotlight series. It is our way of giving our readers and customers a face to the people behind our brand. This month we’re going to learn more about a special member of our product & development team.
https://mopinion.com/employee-in-the-spotlight-dave-schrijvers/
Customer Effort Score (CES) is a customer satisfaction metric that is widely used in the feedback world. In essence, CES measures the ease of an online experience. This is done by asking the customer directly how much effort it took to achieve their goal on your website. It serves as a great way of discovering bottlenecks in the digital customer experience and helping you recognise your weaknesses. So how can you collect this feedback effectively?
In this article we will evaluate CES (as a customer satisfaction metric) as well as outline several feedback form templates you can use for collecting CES. Note: CES measures effort both on- and offline, however, this article focuses purely on digital CES.
https://mopinion.com/online-feedback-form-templates-customer-effort-score-ces/
Marketers today are cashing in more on the emotional quotient to connect with customers by either using celebrities or by campaigns involving social issues, talking about myths, stereotypes, etc.
Stepping into the shoes of customers and telling their stories through advertisements has become a common practice. With multiple options available to customers, it has now become difficult for brands to directly target a community and to reach to them, and hence content has started shaping up via storytelling and other formats.
http://www.buzzincontent.com/story/content-gives-an-emotional-edge-to-user-experience-says-ut-ramprasad-of-tata-motors/
Of my heroes for their ability to tell an amazing story, Walter Isaacson, author of biographies on Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Steve Jobs, and others easily makes the list. I just finished a listen of his book, The Innovators, and in comparison with his other works, it does not disappoint.
In some ways this book was a contrast from his other biographical works because it highlights the fact that the digital revolution wasn’t brought on by one single person or innovation. It instead was a continuous process of building and improving on the ideas and innovations of others and also required collaborations between individuals with a variety of strengths and abilities.
http://customerthink.com/customer-experience-insights-from-the-innovators/
Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere, driven by large investments, lots of startups, all established technology vendors, and enterprises big and small experimenting with what it can do for their bottom line. 120 predictions for AI in 2019 did not exhaust the subject, so here are 20 more.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2018/12/12/20-more-ai-predictions-for-2019/#2d3f2724d741/
User expectations have soared in the app-driven economy. People tend to compare companies less against competitors than against their own notion of an ideal experience. Companies no longer have the luxury to turn a blind eye to any disconnect between how their products act and what users really want. They must deliver a delightful, problem-free experience or users will find it somewhere else in the growing digital universe.
As companies race to reach the ever-rising bar of customer expectations, the traditional methods they have used to assess the quality, usability and relevance of their offerings are no longer good enough.
http://customerthink.com/a-company-wide-customer-first-obsession-a-must-have-not-an-option/
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