Customer Guru

AUGUST 8, 2018

Amanda is a highly experienced customer experience consultant, adviser, and writer. She has helped organizations of all sizes and sectors transform themselves into customer-centric ones. Arie is a Customer Strategy, Customer Lifecycle Management, Customer Insight, and Innovation Consultant.

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Experience Matters

JANUARY 9, 2017

The report provides insights from eight finalists in the Temkin Group’s 2016 CX Excellence Awards. This report has rich insights about both B2B and B2C customer experience. We just published a Temkin Group report, Lessons in CX Excellence, 2017. Here’s the […].

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GetFeedback

JANUARY 6, 2020

In this article, I’ll take a deeper dive into personas and customer feedback as it relates to B2B and B2C journey maps. What is the difference between B2B and B2C? Let’s start with some basics about what it means to be a business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) company. . B2C companies sell to consumers.

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Experience Matters

JANUARY 8, 2018

The report provides insights from six winners in the Temkin Group’s 2017 CX Excellence Awards. This report has rich insights about both B2B and B2C customer experience. We just published a Temkin Group report, Lessons in CX Excellence, 2018.

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Thunderhead

JULY 15, 2019

And while such a handover can be unsettling for the uninitiated, the rewards of this level of customer-centricity are significant. Journey orchestration is virtually useless unless we can understand customer intent. We must pull insight from (1) all journeys , spanning (2) all touchpoints , and most critically, (3) all time.

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Lumoa

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The focus on enhancing customer experience has gained traction in recent years. As businesses recognize its value, the shift from a product-centered approach to a customer-centric one continues. The situation when B2B CX was very distant from B2C CX has been rapidly changing.

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Definition Net Promoter Score Customer Experience B2C 178

Experience Matters

JANUARY 9, 2017

The report provides insights from eight finalists in the Temkin Group’s 2016 CX Excellence Awards. This report has rich insights about both B2B and B2C customer experience. We just published a Temkin Group report, Lessons in CX Excellence, 2017. Here’s the […].

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ReviewTrackers

MAY 8, 2017

This is why more and more businesses are investing in customer experience, learning and applying industry best practices, and developing strategies in customer experience management. For more on CX: “ Customer Experience Definition — and How CX Differs from Customer Service”. Customer Experience Conferences and Events.

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Lumoa

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Never underestimate the customers expectation in CX. Once the customer had a positive CX, it will set a new benchmark. It will also be thrilling to see how UX, customer centricity and empathy will be connected to the field of AI. Also, companies really need to transform their structures to reflect customer centricity.

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Thematic

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Customer journey mapping helps businesses see their business or organization from the customer’s perspective. This tool can be extremely beneficial as it helps you get an insight into your customer pain points and how to improve your customer experience. Incorporate qualitative data.

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Forrester's Customer Insights

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Forrester’s customer experience Forums are in their tenth year — from our first one in 2009 in New York, they’ve grown and spread to San Francisco, London, Singapore, and other cities around the world and become yearly destinations for CX pros far and wide. CX Europe 2018 is just 10 days from now — Tuesday […].

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Forrester's Customer Insights

JUNE 29, 2022

Learn how the customer lifecycle framework helps B2B and B2C business leaders – enterprise-wide! calibrate what are too-often internally focused processes instead of the customer's process and perspective in order to become more customer obsessed.

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B2C B2B Customers Customer Centricity 26

SurveySensum

JULY 14, 2020

Currently, he is serving as the Director of Customer Success at Kustomer and an Advisor at The Success League. He specializes in customer success, customer experience, SaaS start-ups, B2B & B2C marketing strategy, and e-commerce. Blake Morgan – Customer Experience Futurist, Keynote Speaker, Author.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 8, 2022

Her blog posts continue to serve as a valuable resource for people who seek to understand and master customer success processes. A star in the world of Customer Success, Amarachi Ogueji is known for her exceptional skills in retaining B2B and B2C SaaS clients. Amarachi Ogueji. Annette Franz. Ashna Patel. Emilia D’Anzica.

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Lumoa

MARCH 20, 2018

From the traditional product-oriented businesses we’re moving towards customer understanding and customer-centric approaches. Whether you’re new to customer experience or coming for little inspiration, this is the right place. The situation when B2B CX was very distant from B2C CX has been rapidly changing.

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Net Promoter Score Customer Experience CEM B2C 114

Forrester's Customer Insights

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Transform traditional retail stores into dynamic, customer-centric spaces that enhance experiences and drive business outcomes.

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Retail Customer Centricity B2C Customers 54

Forrester's Customer Insights

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

By April of this year, an astounding 62% of US online adults had performed some kind of online transaction for the first time as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic — many began ordering products online for delivery, others experimented with digital payments or started banking online, and some opted to receive medical advice […].

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Lumoa

MARCH 20, 2018

From the traditional product-oriented businesses we’re moving towards customer understanding and customer-centric approaches. Whether you’re new to customer experience or coming for little inspiration, this is the right place. The situation when B2B CX was very distant from B2C CX has been rapidly changing.

Definition 64

Definition Net Promoter Score Customer Experience CEM 64

Forrester's Customer Insights

APRIL 10, 2020

Marketers, let’s face it: Offering consumers a great experience across their entire customer journey remains a challenge. Despite technology that provides insights, touchpoints are multiplying, marketing channels are still siloed, and customer expectations for a seamless brand experience continue to grow.

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Customer Journey Touchpoint Consumers Customer Expectations 38

ClearAction

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Voice of Customer Maturity: Ultimate Guide Lynn Hunsaker Voice of customer maturity is not about scores, real-time feedback, response rates, listening posts, benchmarks, or comparisons of B2B versus B2C trends. C) Enterprise Use Today VoC insights are generally insufficient for adapting instantaneously to shifting market needs.

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SuiteCX

JANUARY 19, 2015

It was hard to boil these down to just 10, but we think these are the most important insights to emerge from over 100 client engagements. 10 Key Insights from 15 Years of Customer Journey Mapping Case Studies January, 2015. Click here to view SlideShare. Yep, we’ve been at this a while.

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Customer Journey Mapping Customer Journey Insights 2014 40

Forrester's Customer Insights

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The 2023 Customer Obsession Awards will recognize organizations and executives who put customers at the center of everything — and, in the process, accelerate growth, customer loyalty, and employee engagement. Learn more and nominate yourself now.

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Forrester's Customer Insights

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The crises of 2020 turbocharged consumers’ technology adoption and usage. While the pace of change is impressive, consumers’ swift adaptation to life among screens is not entirely radical.

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Forrester's Customer Insights

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Today, brands leverage loyalty programs to acquire and retain customers, particularly those they lost during the height of the pandemic. As both customer and business needs change, programs are evolving […].

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Forrester's Customer Insights

DECEMBER 16, 2019

This year, we’ve seen an uptick in client and industry interest in customer communities. Marketers want to build authentic and lasting relationships with customers who are more and more likely to experiment and less and less likely to trust traditional advertising.

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Forrester's Customer Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Are you responsible for building, improving, or evolving your company’s digital business strategy? If you answered yes (or even “mostly yes”), then the Develop The Digital Strategy priority within the Forrester Decisions for Digital Business & Strategy service is for you!

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Forrester's Customer Insights

AUGUST 19, 2020

Customer Service As We Know It Has Changed What is was Customer Service? All customer engagement in the post-sales customer journey. Support to enable better use of a product or a service. A mandatory investment that adds to cost (and this needs optimization to manage revenues). Yes, but no.

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Forrester's Customer Insights

MARCH 6, 2019

But what if we told you that customer-centric privacy programs […]. Over and over, clients tell us they just don’t get enough funding for the kind of privacy programs they want to create. In fact, many privacy budgets shrank in 2019, after firms were forced to spend more than they expected on GDPR compliance in 2018.

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Forrester's Customer Insights

MARCH 29, 2022

Fueled by industry and pandemic forces, QR codes have shot onto the scene at every stage of the CLC. Our recently published research, which includes an analysis of over 125 QR codes, highlights several best practices Brands should use when they implement QR codes into their strategy.

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Forrester's Customer Insights

APRIL 4, 2023

Success in an uncertain economy requires customer obsession. Register now for CX North America to get the cutting-edge research and actionable frameworks you need to achieve your goals.

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Forrester's Customer Insights

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Widersprüche im Kaufverhalten, ordnungspolitische Umwälzungen und mehr grenzüberschreitende Remote-Arbeit werden 2021 prägen Bisher machen die „stürmischen 2020er Jahre“ ihrem Namen alle Ehre – wir erleben eine globale Pandemie und die rasant wachsenden Auswirkungen des Klimawandels. Und dabei ist das neue Jahrzehnt noch nicht einmal ein Jahr alt!

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Forrester's Customer Insights

OCTOBER 16, 2018

It’s frustrating when a customer exhibits purchase intent, but does’t buy because of friction in the customer journey. Nearly 40% of CMOs say that a lack of consistent customer experience (CX) prevents greater online sales revenue. Empowered customers now […].

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Forrester's Customer Insights

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

COVID-19 has disrupted school, summer vacations, birthdays, weddings — you name it. It has been equally unforgiving to marketers, whose carefully crafted marketing plans became irrelevant amid store closures, erratic shopping trends, and supply shortages.

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Marketing Social Media Customer Centricity Measurement 36

Pointillist

APRIL 17, 2019

Business Intelligence Solutions Since they were first introduced in the late 1970s, Business Intelligence (BI) tools have played a critical role in helping businesses turn raw data into insights. BI platforms are used by analysts and business users alike to turn raw data into meaningful insights and actionable information.

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Forrester's Customer Insights

AUGUST 23, 2018

In the past few months, my colleague James McQuivey has written several blogs about the exciting times we live in. In these posts he focuses on how technology is fundamentally changing the way we interact with the world around us and how that change is grounded in evolution. His research shows that our uniquely evolved […].

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Forrester's Customer Insights

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Forrester recently explored changes in how consumers buy products and services.

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Consumers Brand Values Brands Customer Centricity 41

Forrester's Customer Insights

MARCH 27, 2019

Direct-to-consumer brands (DTC) are making a splash — for example, Glossier and Rent the Runway just reached unicorn status (a valuation of $1 billion or more) last week. What does this mean for incumbent brands? We’ll be unpacking the DTC trend and its repercussions next week at Forrester’s Consumer Marketing Forum in New York City, […].

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