ChurnZero

APRIL 8, 2020

How Online Communities Create Customer Advocacy and Retention. This is a guest post by Danielle Juson is a Customer Success Community expert at inSided. Isn’t it great when you have a customer that not only keeps using your product, but shouts about how great it is too? Community as an advocacy strategy.

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Influitive

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

That’s why Blackbaud , a non-profit software solutions provider, launched a customer advocacy program to engage and connect with its 30,000 customers. Amy Bills , Customer Marketing Director at Blackbaud, knew they could do better if they rethought their approach to customer advocacy. Education for everyone.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Since 2005, over 50,000 respondents, in 49 countries and multiple b2b and b2c industries have participated in research incorporating the Hierarchy model emotions. In this post, we are addressing the perceived value influence of emotions and memory on b2b and b2c customers. Some additional stats: We have asked approximately 4.5

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ClearAction

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Solving Complex Challenges through B2B Customer Experience Lynn Hunsaker. “Our customer experience team really wants to make systemic and strategic changes that span the company, so we only tackle situations that our normal business-as-usual processes are not normally suited to tackle.

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 30, 2016

35 years ago, Deming said “Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your product and service, and that bring friends with them”, he was talking about what, for the past decade, we have understood, and effectively measured and applied, as customer advocacy behavior.

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Lumoa

APRIL 22, 2020

B2B companies often struggle with common hurdles when it comes to surveying customers. Conducting B2B customer surveys should be an illuminating process, but instead, they become a nightmare that makes you want to tear your hair out. It shouldn’t be this way. That’s a lose-lose scenario for everyone. Don’t worry, though.

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Influitive

JUNE 2, 2015

If you sell B2B software, then you know that the quality of your online reviews can make or break your sales. After all, a Google study found that 60 percent of B2B technology buyers search for peer reviews during the decision-making process. How Code42 Stepped Up Its B2B Customer Review Game.

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Influitive

JANUARY 27, 2017

To start 2017 off strong, we’re reviewing some of Influitive’s biggest B2B marketing campaigns from 2016 to see what went well and what we could improve on. (If January is the perfect time to review the past year’s ups and downs—both personally and professionally—to see how you can do better. If you’re curious about previous years,

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Education Services Group

JUNE 7, 2022

So, Forky asks a question: What is customer advocacy? Do you say: a) Customer advocacy is the foundation of Customer Success, wherein businesses put the customer experience first. This strategy involves tasking CS professionals with advocating for their customers’ needs across the entire customer lifecycle.

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Influitive

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Every year, we honor 10 customer-centric B2B marketers with the Best Advocate Marketing Awards (also known as the BAMMIES). These awards are given to those marketers who are harnessing the power of their advocates through engaging, creative and effective marketing campaigns to fuel growth and change the way their company does business.

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Influitive

JULY 25, 2017

In 2016, Cristina Melluzzi, Head of Customer Advocacy EMEAR at Cisco, was facing something lots of B2B companies can relate to: having an internal fire drill every time Cisco needed customers for references, speaking opportunities, analyst interviews, and case studies.

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Influitive

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

B2B content marketing as we know it is broken. Only 30% of B2B marketers say their organizations are effective at content marketing, according to the 2016 B2B Content Marketing Benchmark Report.

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Influitive

JUNE 30, 2016

You don’t have time to delight your customers with something like an advocate community. The post Why Every Company Has Time For Customer Advocacy (And Where To Find It) appeared first on Influitive. Isn’t that someone else’s job anyway?).

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Influitive

APRIL 3, 2015

They’ve reimagined how to engage people by treating them like members of a special club instead of one-time customers. Driving customer advocacy starts with building authentic, deep relationships. Members, by definition, have better relationships with organizations than regular customers. Businesses are full of people!

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Influitive

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

They’ll even drive three hours to a fellow customer’s office just to help them set up the optimal IT environment—all based off interactions in HPE’s online B2B community. The post How To Build A Thriving Online B2B Community, According To Jennifer Susinski From HPE appeared first on Influitive.

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Influitive

JULY 8, 2015

Creating raving brand advocates in the B2B tech space isn’t impossible—if you’re willing to get creative with your marketing. Rob Meinhardt , founder of Dell KACE and partner at Toba Capital , has proven that differentiating your brand can pay off big time in the B2B world. Product is an amazing place to start your customer advocacy.

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ClientSuccess

JUNE 24, 2019

ClientSuccess is excited to host Andrew Stapleton , VP of Customer Success at G2Crowd , for this month’s customer success webinar series: How to Gather and Use Reviews for Customer Advocacy. Webinar: How to Gather and Use Reviews for Customer Advocacy. Request a custom product demo.

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Amity

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

In Part 1 we expanded Geoffrey Moore’s Four Gears model to this emerging B2B model ( SaaS 2.0 ) In this post we will examine how to operationalize the four gears. Over the past few years the B2B business model has evolved from a ‘Land and Maintain’ model to a ‘Land and Expand’ model. Four Gears Model for B2B SaaS. Onboarding.

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Influitive

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Referrals are an important part of a healthy B2B sales pipeline. According to LinkedIn, 84% of B2B decision makers start the buying process off with a referral. Referred prospects are also 30% more likely to convert than leads generated through other marketing channels, and have a 16% higher customer life-time value.

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Influitive

MARCH 21, 2019

Customer advocacy is increasingly becoming a “need-to-have” for brands, rather than simply a “nice-to-have”. When it comes to B2B purchase decisions, the influence of customer references and testimonials is second only to previous customer experience.

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ClientSuccess

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

ClientSuccess hosted Sara Masson, Senior Customer Success Manager of Loopio and a 2017 Customer Success Innovator of the Year Finalist , for this month’s customer success webinar series: How to Build Customer Advocates using The Customer Advocacy Ladder. The customer advocacy ladder framework.

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Influitive

MARCH 23, 2018

Going where no company has gone before: finding a scalable way to boost customer retention Rosetta Stone, the leading provider of language-learning software, has been helping learners around the world master new languages for more than 25 years.

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Influitive

MAY 5, 2016

The post The Problem With B2B Marketing That Nobody Is Talking About appeared first on Influitive. In his Advocamp 2016 keynote, Joseph Jaffe, CEO/Co-Founder of Evol8tion, recommends a different approach: going back to the basics. Watch his talk to learn where.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 25, 2021

In fact, that is when the customer journey truly begins. In B2B SaaS you spent anywhere between 1 – 3X times the Annual contract value (ACV) as your Cost of Acquiring the Customer (CAC). The goal should be to renew customers multiple times to lower the acquisition cost and increase profitability.

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Influitive

AUGUST 3, 2015

In the B2B software world, it’s a buyer’s market. In fact, the 2015 B2B Buyer’s Survey Report (sponsored by DemandBase and Demand Gen Report), found the top three resources that buyers rely on when researching potential vendors were: In addition, access to all of this information is making the buying cycle longer.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 14, 2022

This is a guest article by Joel Passen , co-founder, Sturdy , a customer intelligence platform designed to help teams improve products, relationships, and revenue. B2B SaaS businesses haven’t invested heavily enough in tools and technologies to help them better understand their customers. Influencing customer advocacy.

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Influitive

MAY 23, 2018

Meagen Eisenberg, CMO at MongoDB, can smell covert sales tactics almost instantly. Instead of sending her funny GIFs or email forwards, she believes good sales people can get her the resources she needs to make a purchase decision – whether it’s an introduction to another CMO for a product use case, or providing technical support.

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Influitive

OCTOBER 11, 2015

In today’s hyper-connected world, people aren’t shy about sharing their opinions—and B2B buyers are listening. The 2015 B2B Buyer’s Survey Report found that 20% of respondents consider peer recommendations one of the top information resources when researching potential vendors (along with web research and analyst reports).

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Influitive

AUGUST 31, 2016

Analysts at Forrester and Gartner have outlined how advocate marketing strategies can spark B2B growth by increasing leads, brand awareness, and customer retention. However, fear of failure still prevents many brands from investing in customer advocacy—especially if more traditional.

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Influitive

AUGUST 15, 2017

I’m Victoria LaPlante, Influitive’s new Senior Customer Advocacy Marketing Manager. I look forward to getting to know you and helping you reach your advocacy program goals. Today, I’d like to share how I discovered the power of advocacy when I led.

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Amity

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

All in all, with a solid loyalty program in place, your customers will be less likely to switch to another brand. Customer advocacy and user-generated content. Let the customers be your most efficient marketing tool. Encourage them to share their experiences and tell what they think about your services.

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Kapta Customer Success

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Are you developing and capturing the voice of your customers for customer advocacy? More than 75% of B2B buyers consult three or more sources of advocacy before making a purchase decision, according to Gartner.

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Influitive

MARCH 16, 2018

According to a 2015 Capterra survey, software companies with online reviews get 22% more traffic to their website and 79% more leads compared with vendors without reviews. Not only that, but 88% of people trust these reviews as much as they trust the opinions of their own family and friends. These are two of many.

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Influitive

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Before you buy a new laptop or smartphone, what’s the first thing you do? If you’re like most people, you Google it and see what people have to say about different models online. These online reviews are usually seen as the best source of unbiased information. After all, why would reviewers be anything but brutally.

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Influitive

JUNE 7, 2018

Last month, a stampede of over 3000 sales, marketing, and customer success pros took over the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas for the SiriusDecisions Summit. They came ready to learn the latest insights from industry leaders about how their peers are driving business growth. But one announcement stirred up more buzz than anything else at.

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Influitive

APRIL 19, 2017

When it costs 6X more to attract a new customer than it does to keep an existing one, does it still make sense for marketers to focus mainly on generating new leads, rather than nurturing current customers? As more and more companies turn their focus away from short-lived marketing campaigns, and towards building ongoing.

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Influitive

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Making your customers feel special is necessary for building stronger relationships and increasing advocacy. And that doesn’t come just from building moments of delight into your product (although that’s important).

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