Customers are all that really matter. You can build the slickest products in the world and offer seemingly amazing services, but if people aren’t buying and using them, it’s all for naught.
Internal stakeholders talk about customers all the time, but rarely beyond the anecdotal or hypothetical context. “I heard” or “I think” customers want something is about as deep as most folks go. But, to provide a solution that is valued, loved and appreciated, companies need a far deeper understanding of what customers really desire and care about. This insight can’t be stored in isolated pockets of the company, nor can organizations rely on a single “customer expert.”
https://community.uservoice.com/blog/how-to-foster-shared-understanding-of-customer-needs/
While a technical background is a mandatory prerequisite for becoming a product manager, there are some technical skills worth having in your toolbox as a PM. The good news is you don’t need to go back to school to master these technical competencies either. The skills we’ll discuss in this article won’t put you in competition with your engineers or make you smarter than your system architects. But they WILL make you faster, more independent, and more knowledgeable about your product and your users.
https://community.uservoice.com/blog/technical-skills-every-product-manager-should-know/
COVID-19 threw a spanner in the works for the support team at Hiver and most of the world alike. With social isolation becoming the need of the hour, we transitioned into a remote team overnight. At the same time, we could not afford to leave our customers waiting when they reached out to us. It was imperative that we manage the transition seamlessly.
https://hiverhq.com/blog/how-hiver-remote-work/
In recent years, after the first quarter, I try my hardest to publish the top trends of the current year. One of those trends I’d like to focus on here and now is how having a strong CX (Customer Experience) philosophy is vital, critical to achieving growth. For both Brick and Mortar and Online.
The following are trends that should be of interest to businesses who aim to listen to the Voice of the Customer (VOC); the goal being to implement the technology needed to respond to that voice, boosting the customer experience, and the bottom line.
If you’ve only been talking about CX, Here are 6 2018 Trends that will inspire you to take action:
https://www.business2community.com/consumer-marketing/take-businesss-cx-next-level-2018-6-trends-02041477/
So it turns out that the voice of your customer is pretty darn important. Gartner found that 95 percent of companies regularly listen to their customer’s feedback, and yet rather worryingly, Gartner’s research also concluded that only 29 percent of firms with VOC programs in place incorporate VOC data into their decision-making processes, while nearly three-quarters of brands don’t consider their VOC programs to be very effective at driving actions. In other words, the benefits of VOC data collection are clear and well received — but brands are struggling to make their VOC programs impactful.
https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/the-step-by-step-guide-to-a-successful-voice-of-the-customer-program/
Customer engagement and customer experience (CX) are too often used as buzzwords without a company making a true effort to shape their strategy and the way they do business around the customer. Moreover, companies feel that simply installing a technology product will be a silver bullet to providing better customer engagement. This shortsightedness creates an unsustainable environment that gives customers the sense of a disjointed company and employees left confused on how they can provide the best experience for their customers.
https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/9-challenges-to-successful-voice-of-the-customer-strategies/
Customer evaluations are one of the most important and effective tools a company can use to build long-term relationships with their clients and create a sense of brand loyalty. Doing the evaluation creates a mental investment in the company on the part of the client, and the contents of the evaluation can play a significant role in shaping the client’s image of the company moving forward.
Effectively deploying evaluations is easier said than done, however, and if you’re not careful they can be totally ineffective or even backfire and push customers away. You’ve got to put serious thought into the content of the evaluation and the way you’ll deploy it. And then, when it’s all said and done, you’ve got to understand and take the results seriously as well.
https://customerthink.com/the-tricky-but-crucial-game-of-customer-evaluations/
Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a hugely popular rating system that companies use to rate customer experience. Although on the surface it appears extremely simple, there are still a large amount of companies that are not using it correctly.
We take a look at the most common mistakes below that if you can avoid will help you improve your score and increase your ROI.
https://customerthink.com/5-biggest-net-promoter-score-mistakes-and-how-to-avoid-them/
Funnel analysis, A/B testing & landing page optimisation are all fantastic ways of improving your websites conversion rate.
However, nothing will come close to the effectiveness of VoC analysis to deliver quick conversion rate and website usability increases.
https://econsultancy.com/blog/64411-voice-of-customer-surveys-a-killer-tactic-for-quick-cro-wins/
The results of Gartner’s 2017-2018 CMO Spend Survey are in, and the news is not all good.
For the first time in three years, growth in marketing budgets has decreased, placing marketers on the hook to justify financial investments and demonstrate solid ROI for existing activity. In this more restrictive environment, Gartner finds marketers are increasingly turning their focus to existing customers, with a spending ratio of 2-to-1 in favor of retention over acquisition. Because of those trends, chief marketing officers are keeping customer experience (CX) programs at the top of their priority lists and they are expecting such initiatives to deliver measurable returns.
https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/transforming-listening-into-action/
