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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of April 22, 2024

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How Target, Coca-Cola and Tide Use ‘Irrational Love’ to Win Customer Loyalty by Cindy Scott (AdAge) While “love” may sound fuzzy in the advertising world, it can be scientifically measured by four key components: strong familiarity, high regard, being personally meaningful and competitively unique.

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for the Week of June 12, 2023

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B2B Customer Experience Examples: Think Like A B2C by Dan Gingiss (Dan Gingiss) While B2B businesses are technically providing products and services to companies, they are selling to individual buyers who are consumers. This week he emphasizes B2B must think like B2C. Here are my top five picks from last week.

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Now Revealed and Proven: (The True Marketing Value of) Return on Word of Mouth

Beyond Philosophy

As a long-time believer in the power of word-of-mouth and brand favorability in b2b and b2c marketing ( [link] and [link] ), he deserves a sincere thank you for bringing this insightful piece of work to everyone’s attention. How does paid advertising compare to WOM in driving results? How do offline WOM and online WOM compare?

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Guest Post: The Biggest Value Driver That is Not on Your Journey Map

ShepHyken

In the process, B2B and B2C customers from the US, Canada, UK, Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia answered 1m+ survey questions. The research culminated in my book “ The Big Miss: How Organizations Overlook The Value of Emotions ” (Business Expert Press, 2022).

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Different types of Telemarketing

Quality Contact Solutions

B2C Telemarketing vs B2B Telemarketing. B2C telemarketing is when a business is reaching out directly to consumers to sell them product s or service s that benefit the individual themselves. With B2C telemarketing, there are more stringent guidelines you must follow such as: time of day calls can be made. M agazine ads.

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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. Every aspect of a company’s offering – customer service, advertising, packaging, billing, products, etc. – are all thought out for consistency. They market, and create experiences, within the branded vision.

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Seven ideal characteristics of a B2B influencer

Peter Lavers

This has caused controversy in the B2C world where it has been done clumsily through thinly-disguised paid celebrity endorsement* that actually can damage trust rather than build it. The key difference vs. B2C is that the influencer has to have genuine experience and/or academic credentials that merit their recognition as an “expert”.

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