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Business-to-Business Customer Advocacy: Is It A Real Possibility Or A Real Oxymoron?

Beyond Philosophy

Beginning around 1995-2000, major consulting organizations began to recognize that these critical changes were likely to have profound impact on businesses. These new dynamics meant that traditional thinking about customer satisfaction, and even loyalty, also needed to change. Is business-to-business customer advocacy an oxymoron?

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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

Committing to customer experience: applying the concepts. Building and running a customer experience program. Employee engagement and ambassadorship: linking to customer behavior. Customer advocacy and brand bonding measurement. Behavioral economics and customer experience.

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Top Customer Success Leaders to follow in 2022

CustomerSuccessBox

With the grace of a number of Customer Success communities, we have come a long way to 2022. Where now we see a new avatar of the emerging customer success, with the rise of customer advocacy and expansion putting in greater emphasis on customer onboarding. He is a complete customer-centric growth mastermind.

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“U.S. Employee Engagement Reaches Three-Year High.” Where Customer Experience and Value Delivery Are Concerned, Shouldn’t We Ask: ‘So What?’

Beyond Philosophy

A recent article by a major employee research and engagement consulting organization led with the above headline. The consulting organization went on to conclude from these findings that “Recent trends suggest that improvements in engagement coincide with improvement in unemployment and underemployment.”, Like the “So what?”

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A Practical Framework to Calculate Customer Maturity Index

Amity

Note, that the investment here is not in educating your customer on your product (standard training material), but rather management consulting to enhance how they run their business. Your playbooks : a) Engage the customer to deliver consulting services to them, or b) Engage partners to do the same.

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Aug 16 – Customer Success Jobs

SmartKarrot

Establish both leading and lagging KPIs to enhance customer advocacy. Work with customers to define objectives and deliverables, monitor progress, provide support, convert TAP data into assets (papers, conference proceedings, application notes, sales collateral, etc.). Conducting 1:1 consultation with customers in person.

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Have You Met “The Advocates”? (We Think You’ll Like Them…)

Influitive

Fellow consultant Rachel Bakker does a great job of outlining just how important building authentic relationships is in the post-modern marketing world in her recent post, Are You Real? ). I was first introduced to the concept of the Servant Leader by community engagement maven Phoebe Venkat during a talk she did at a conference in 2015.