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How Online Communities Create Customer Advocacy and Retention

ChurnZero

How Online Communities Create Customer Advocacy and Retention. This is a guest post by Danielle Juson is a Customer Success Community expert at inSided. Isn’t it great when you have a customer that not only keeps using your product, but shouts about how great it is too? Community as an advocacy strategy.

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Making Optimal Customer Experience A Focus of Your Company’s (And Your) Thinking and Doing: The Case for Foundation and Advanced CEM Training

Beyond Philosophy

Many b2b and b2c companies offer antiseptic, commoditized, vanilla experiences for customers. These are almost guaranteed not to be memorable, not to be talked about (unless neutrally or negatively), and not creating outside-in advocacy and value creation. All employees have the responsibility of providing customer value.

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Solving Complex Challenges through B2B Customer Experience

ClearAction

Solving Complex Challenges through B2B Customer Experience Lynn Hunsaker. “Our customer experience team really wants to make systemic and strategic changes that span the company, so we only tackle situations that our normal business-as-usual processes are not normally suited to tackle.

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4 Customer Centricity Lessons From My Visit to Costco

PeopleMetrics

Costco managed that lack of stress handily, and the experience offers four lessons, each of which can benefit your own business’s trek to customer centricity. Their brand, corporate mythos, and customer advocacy played a large part in my stepping through their sliding glass door in the first place. Preparation.

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4 Powerful Rules to Create Employee and Customer Word-of-Mouth Programs That Work

Beyond Philosophy

Based on broad WOM program experience with b2b and b2c clients around the world, I’ve developed four general ‘rules’ for accomplishing this: 1. It’s about hiring the most customer sensitive, proactive staff, training them to be customer focused, and making customer processes as friendly as possible.

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10 Advocate Marketing Success Stories Every B2B Brand Can Learn From

Influitive

Every year, we honor 10 customer-centric B2B marketers with the Best Advocate Marketing Awards (also known as the BAMMIES). Below, we’re featuring.

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Create a Winning Customer-Centric Marketing Strategy

Help Scout

It’s likely not a surprise to you that putting your customer first is good for business. But building a customer-centric marketing strategy for your business can be difficult. The good news is that putting in the work to deliver customer-centric marketing pays off. What is customer-centric marketing?