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Improving B2B Customer Experience: Is It More Personal Than B2C?

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

The term “customer experience” usually conjures up images of individual customers in retail or other business-to-consumer (B2C) environments. I am often asked about business-to-business (B2B) as a separate experience. It’s totally different than B2C! How can that be? Click To Tweet.

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Creating Customer Personas: Solutions to 4 Common Challenges

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Customer personas can be as detailed or high-level as you need them to be, based on your goals and usage of them. A customer persona helps humanize the customer to the point you might refer to them by a fictional name. You’ll notice I didn’t call this a consumer persona or a buyer persona. Let me know.

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24 Experts Reveal Their Top Customer Retention Strategies For B2C Brands

Storyminers

In today’s competitive marketplace, consumers have an increasing amount of choices- and they aren’t afraid to try them. There always seems to be a new product, service, or experience within reach of a brand’s current customer. And as we all know, replacing an existing customer costs 7 times more than retaining them.

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Why You Must Address Customer Irrationality Before It’s Too Late

Beyond Philosophy

Your customers are irrational, too. They are irrational in business-to-consumer (B2C) transactions and they are irrational in business-to-business (B2B) interactions also. Today we will take a closer look at what irrationality means in a Customer Experience and how it applies to customers’ decision making.

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A to Z Guide to Customer Experience Definitions and Terms (Updated)

Lumoa

The situation when B2B CX was very distant from B2C CX has been rapidly changing. Now at least 80% of B2B buyers now expect the same buying experience as B2C customers. We’re moving towards a personalized omnichannel experience in B2B customer journeys. It is trusted by 92% of consumers.

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Achieving customer experience excellence at seven critical life cycle points

ERDM

Traditionally, marketers put customers into one of two buckets: business-to-business (B2B) or business-to-consumer (B2C). These interviews uncovered four universal truths of customer experience (CX): • There is a dangerous chasm between the CX fantasy of brands versus the reality that people actually experience.

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The ‘Always On’ Enterprise

Storyminers

With advances in technology, digital and mobile, customers demand more attention—and more value—from the brands they choose. This quick about-face is forcing business decision makers to include customer outcomes in their thinking. It’s no easy feat. There were numerous real-world examples.

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