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Guest Blog: The Customer Experience is Not Just for B2C

ShepHyken

If you’ve been habituated to think that the customer experience (CX) is strictly for B2C (business serving customers) verticals, you’re not alone. Relationship building is just as crucial in B2B as in B2C for some very good reasons. Customer mapping is just as essential for B2B as it is for B2C.

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Guest Post: Reset Buyer Strategy to Drive Post-Pandemic Revival

ShepHyken

The impact extends from B2C (business-to-customer) markets to B2B (business-to-business) sales as well. A study by McKinsey Consulting in April 2020 indicated that digitally-enabled sales interactions were at least twice more important during the pandemic than they were in the pre-COVID-19 era.

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Guest Post: How to Design a Customer Success Program That Works

ShepHyken

The bar for providing a top-notch customer experience (CX) seems to be rising year after year, regardless of whether you operate in B2B or B2C. Account management Offer workshops on relationship-building, active listening, and consultative selling for identifying upsell or cross-sell opportunities.

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5 Rules for Managing Your Customer Experience in Business-to-Business

Beyond Philosophy

However, there are some differences between managing Customer Experience in business-to-business (B2B) relationships and business-to-consumer (B2C). The senior account manager handled the most critical accounts. So they focused on that 20 percent, which left the other ones without an account manager, effectively.

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Eliminating Experience Pain Points, and Creating Customer Satisfaction: Is This Ever Enough?

Beyond Philosophy

And, this perspective got me to thinking: Irrespective of B2B or B2C industry, is the fundamental meeting of basic customer expectations, such as a pain-free transactions or experiences, ever sufficient to drive loyalty behavior? And, on a related note, is complete satisfaction ever enough to build and sustain loyalty behavior?

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Eliminating Experience Pain Points, and Creating Customer Satisfaction: Is This Ever Enough?

Beyond Philosophy

And, this perspective got me to thinking: Irrespective of B2B or B2C industry, is the fundamental meeting of basic customer expectations, such as a pain-free transactions or experiences, ever sufficient to drive loyalty behavior? And, on a related note, is complete satisfaction ever enough to build and sustain loyalty behavior?

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Guest Blog: How to Use Social Media to Provide Great Customer Service

ShepHyken

If your services fall under the B2B umbrella, for example, your customers are more likely to engage with you on LinkedIn as opposed to in B2C businesses. technical, account, and payment issues first, followed by more minor concerns—and assign tickets to them. Not sure where your customers go when they’re online?