Every business hopes to better its profits. The best way to do so is to serve the customer as fully as possible, especially if you can get each consumer to lead the way. By seeking customer feedback, many businesses gain a clearer picture of ways they can improve. Collecting such feedback can present a challenge, however. Many businesses seek customer feedback and get no substantive results. Walking around the store with a clipboard is no longer an effective way to collect accurate, helpful data.
Instead, you should unleash the power of the Internet and new technology to collect customer insights effectively.
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/4-innovative-methods-collecting-customer-feedback/119417/
If you come home from work every day asking yourself why the enterprise applications you use are non-intuitive at best, and completely unusable at worst, you’re not alone.
Many studies over the last decade have shed light on enterprise software usability issues. A 2017 report by Unit4 shows that the vast majority of enterprise software users (76%) feel “meh” about the applications they have to use at work. According to a 2016 study from Forrester and Sapho, 75% of employees surveyed had a “hard time accessing information in their enterprise systems and applications.” The list goes on...
http://customerthink.com/4-questions-to-help-enterprise-software-companies-create-a-customer-centric-product-development-culture/
As an ecommerce business owner, I get it: the internet is a loud place. There’s information on how to maintain customer loyalty, conflicting SEO practices, and a need to stay abreast of change in your industry. As technology advances and brings us new ecommerce features, such as advanced inventory management and custom APIs, we’re still overwhelmed with a wealth of information, sifting through it all and trying to figure out how to get ahead.
The ecommerce landscape isn’t slowing down. So, here are five tips to help you grow your online business in the new year.
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/307358/
Wholesale retail energy startup based in Houston is preparing to scale its artificial intelligence-backed business based on its positive customer feedback. Evolve Energy uses AI and machine learning to optimize energy usage, providing customers with the best wholesale energy prices on fluctuating renewable resources.
"We want to help our customers save a significant amount of money on electricity costs and help them decarbonize the grid," CEO Michael Lee tells InnovationMap.
http://houston.innovationmap.com/evolve-energy-uses-ai-machine-learning-to-save-on-electricity-2644720884.html/
The finance industry has been undergoing quite a few changes over the last few years. Financial institutions that were once very traditional are now looking to adopt best practices used by more agile and flexible FinTech organisations. These practices that will not only enable these organisations to adapt to a fast-changing and increasingly tech-driven industry ecosystem, but also meet the rising expectations of their research-savvy and technologically inclined customer base.
In this article, we will analyse the current state of the financial industry as well as summarise 5 best practices for Financial Companies entering into the ‘Digital Age’ .
https://mopinion.com/best-practices-for-financial-companies-entering-the-digital-age/
Customer experience offered by e-commerce companies has come a long way in the past 17 years. Here is a look at what are the latest technologies companies to keep customers coming back to their site.
http://www.computerworld.in/slideshow/customer-experience-king-ecommerce/
According to the Forrester report: Predictions 2018, A Year of Reckoning, customers’ expectations will outpace the ability of companies to evolve or invest in experiences this year
https://www.technative.io/five-ways-technology-will-improve-customer-experience-in-2018/
In an instant, mobile users read customer reviews, research products, and compare prices; the mobile customer experience is key for today’s informed customer base.
https://www.business2community.com/customer-experience/mobile-marketing-revolutionized-mobile-customer-experience-0733769/
Unhappy customers in a mobile world are a tough combination for business. Dissatisfied patrons seem almost determined to post a negative review and even worse, review sites permit customers to upload pictures too. So, if your coffee house has an overflowing trash can or the floor needs sweeping, a customer can snap a photo and upload it to a review site for all to see. Negative reviews have become the digital version of calling someone out, and they can wreak havoc on your business.
https://www.business2community.com/customer-experience/business-gets-negative-review-01873163/
Technology has produced huge breakthroughs in design. A product can be ideated, prototyped and finalized with little more than a keyboard and code. But the ingenuity of modern design often leads to product teams neglecting the basics.
While the best tech entrepreneurs anticipate trends before they occur and deliver cutting-edge products, it’s impossible to be so prescient without hearing from real users. That’s why, to stay competitive, more and more tech companies are adopting a customer-centric model of design.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/20/in-a-tech-saturated-world-customer-feedback-is-everything/
