Seamus Egan, over at Huffington Post, has published five tips to starting off marketing relationships right, because as he points out in his first sentence, you only get once chance at first impressions.
Here is our quick summary, below is link the full story if you are hungry for more:
Vic Dadson's new article on B2C (Business 2 Community) looks into what is new in the world of on-boarding.
While she suggests that many successful businesses have always worked hard to deliver a quality experience for thie customers, it was more difficult to track the results, to find out how happy customers really are.
Today, with email, websites and web forms, Twitter, Linked-In, Facebook, and more, there are many ways to track customer satisfaction. But of course, you need...
David Skok has posted an extended article about reducing churn by keeping customers happy. He sets the stage nicely: "Because most startups are created by passionate product people, they tend to fall in love with their product and its features. Often this means that they lose touch with the simple messaging around business benefits."
It does take extra effort to reach out and really understand your client's needs, business model, and best ways to make use of your product or service. It may not always pay to make...
Fox News has posted an article with five strategies designed to increase your connection to your Most Valuable Customer (MVC).
Here is our short summary of the five:
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1to1media.com points out that when an existing customer takes on a new product or service they need onboarding all over again. Seems obvious, but many onboarding programs are tied only to acquisition of new customers, and ignore existing customers taking on new products or services.
The article suggests that with modern CRM systems in place it should be within any organization's grasp to track ALL onboarding needs.
After all, losing a long-time client due to brand-new frustration is not good business.
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The folks at Groove provide help desk software, so they live right in the midst of the world of customer relationships. So when they publish a list of 10 great examples of onboarding, and each comes with a specific case to illustrate, that's worth reading.
Here is our quick summary, but we suspect that once you scan that you'll want to check out the full post at the Groove blog.
Below is our quick summary version of how to make that critical first customer experience a postive one, starting with this: the critical time is between when they sign up and their first success...
Arthur Middleton Hughes of the Database Marketing Institute has written a article that suggests that companies should make a clear distinction between two types of customers: Transaction Buyers, who buy only based on price, and Relationship Buyers, who buy based on the quality of product, service, and reputation.
Hughes points out that the concept of attracting new customers solely with low prices rarely works: those new customers will always hop to the next low price vendor, and never contribute much to profits.
He...
B2C, or Business2Community, has published an article with four essential ways to keep customers, and some statistics to back up the importance of keeping your customers happy.
You work hard to GET your customers, but if, for reasons you didn't predict, they have a bad experience - they won't be back in 72% of cases.
Here is a short summary of B2C's four ways to KEEP your customers:
Micah Solomon, who consults on customer service problems, has put together his top ten list of avoidable issues that cause customers to leave.
Here is a bare-bones summary of his list, and if any of these sounds suspiciously interesting to you, better read the full article:
Aaron Agius has posted an article at Entrepreneur.com listing 4 ways that onboarding can insure success for startups. His four main points are:
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