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The Best Customer-Centric Uses of Data

Totango

Becoming customer-centric —putting the customer’s needs and interests at the center of your goals and processes—is impossible without customer data. You need customer data to track progress toward goals, deliver on promises, and continually upgrade your product. Customer feedback. Support tickets.

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To drive meaningful customer experience improvements, start with your why

Alida

Tune into the C-suite, and you’ll hear different beliefs and drivers for being customer-centric: It’s about our moral obligation to treat customers as we want to be treated. It’s about loyalty economics: we can reduce churn and improve lifetime customer value.

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Customer Success and Upsells: How to Make the Most of Opportunities

Totango

When your goal is to grow your customer’s business, upselling becomes a means, not an end. That’s the advantage of working within a customer-centric environment. Your success depends on your customer’s success, so expansion becomes a necessity for both parties. Natural Customer Success Upsells.

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What are the Benefits of Customer-Centricity?

Totango

In his 2016 letter to Amazon shareholders , Bezos describes the preservation of this day 1 feeling as the biggest driver for pursuing a customer-centric approach. He believes customers desire “something better” and that your business needs to provide that kind of continued value. 3 Benefits of Customer-Centricity .

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How to Create Customer Journey Maps That Work

CSM Magazine

A natural collection of Customer Journeys over the life of the customer relationship. Other common terms include: cradle-to-grave relationship, end-to-end relationship, customer for life experience, and lifetime customer connection. The Customer Journey. Gradual decline of engagement and service culture.

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The Rise of the Customer Insight Business

CSM Magazine

To keep up with rising consumer and market expectations, an ever increasing number of companies are now prioritizing becoming customer-led. The race towards customer-centricity is driving some the biggest trends in business technology. The customer relationship management (CRM) market, for instance, reached $26.3

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Are You Using 1999 Metrics to Measure 2019 Customer Care?

BlueOcean

Those metrics were born in an era when customer service was a race, where whoever got to the finish line first (i.e. off the phone) – upsetting the least number of hurdles, extra points for a graceful gait – was the champion, the most successful, the most likely to win “customer service agent of the year.”. Sound complicated?

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