Customer Experience News & Articles

The customer experience is still a work in progress. We know that as social and mobile technologies become more advanced, the challenge isn’t necessarily about deploying them, it’s about getting them to seamlessly align alongside human capabilities. The mobile coupon fails to get scanned at checkout. The opportunity to enroll customers in a rewards programs is missed. Consumers receive irrelevant promotions that don’t meet their interests or activities. What if there was a better way to improve the customer experience without having to upgrade the human experience?

The current definition of the Customer Journey seems to consist of some version of Consider/Awareness leading to Research/Evaluate, and then to Purchase. Some models include the Out Of the Box Experience (OOBE) followed by Usage after Purchase. I particularly appreciate models that include those two pieces, as they take into account that the customer's experience needs to be favorable for some time after the purchase. Most customers are not in the market for the next new thing as soon as they purchase one (if so, there’s something wrong with the product!)

 Digital marketers have a strong interest in tuning and optimizing the search experience, which is why Sitecore has given search a front row seat in Sitecore 7.

A Pandora for relationship management. That’s how Nimble describes version 3.0 of its social relationship manager platform, because of a Rules Engine that curates engagement opportunities, birthdays, job changes and “people of importance.” Sort of like setting up a station on Pandora, but built around people you want to stay in contact with.

South Korean mega-vendor Samsung keeps churning out the devices to cover every conceivable base and user need, with the new Mega 6.3" screen phablet joining a waterproof S4 model, with an S4 mini confirmed on the way. 

Alongside the Tumblr acquisition, Yahoo is taking off the wraps on one of its earlier acquisitions. Image-sharing service Flickr gets a major hi-resolution makeover with a new app for Android users. 

“Social business” has become a popular buzzword, but what are the processes and best practices that successful social businesses use to boost profits, decrease expenses and increase customer satisfaction? A new report from IBM aimed to find out. 

Navigating social media sites can be quite a task, but Pinterest aims to improve how users use the content sharing website with a new feature that will prove useful to brands and companies: information pins.

Web stat geeks will be stoked about Google Analytics updates that include real time widgets and interactive insights that help define how customers really decide to finally make a purchase.

Business intelligence and strategic analytics provider, Alteryx has announced US$ 12 million in funding that will be used to help with company growth.

There is much written on the virtues and triumphs of mapping customer journeys, but little about what can go awry.

What’s the key to adopting the kind of marketing innovation that is necessary in today’s environment? According to a new report from Forrester Research, it boils down to one thing: a culture of innovation.

On the web, we need a new form of communications that focuses on serving customers rather than telling them what to do.

How do you uncover and remove the barriers in shopping journeys? What are the key moments of opportunity? What are the key drivers of engagement? Chances are if you’re one of the many businesses trying to create a successful customer experience, you’ve been working to answer these questions. Now, thanks to SDL’s new Customer Committment Framework, companies can identify exactly how, what, when and where on the customer journey, customers commit to brand, product, and business. 

Yahoo has announced that it will acquire Tumblr in a refreshingly honestly press release that states "Per the agreement and our promise not to screw it up, Tumblr will be independently operated as a separate business."