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Rhonda Basler: From Adequate to Outstanding: 5 Ways to Inspire Customer Advocacy Through Customer Care

Bill Quiseng

By providing customer care that supports your brand’s vision, mission and values, you inspire customer advocates to truly believe in your company’s products, services, and brand, and to share their positive feelings with others (friends, family, acquaintances, social media networks, etc.). Commit Random Acts of Kindness.

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Business-to-Business Customer Advocacy: Is It A Real Possibility Or A Real Oxymoron?

Beyond Philosophy

The new behavior was ultimately defined as customer advocacy , i.e. actions driven by a strong bond with the preferred, most favored brand and active, voluntary online and offline word-of-mouth on behalf of that brand. . But, what about customer advocacy in BtoB products and services? Does it exist?”.

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How Rosetta Stone’s Customer Retention Skyrocketed By 58% With A Customer Advocacy Program

Influitive

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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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of February 26, 2024

ShepHyken

How Customer Advocacy Fuels Brand Loyalty and Growth by Marbue Brown (CMSWire) Reputations are made or broken by the experiences customers have with companies and especially by what they have to say about those experiences. This is a cornerstone of customer obsession — when customers are “obsessed” with a brand.

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Guest Blog: Kaleidoscope Service

ShepHyken

Good” is the key to customer retention; but “unique” is the secret to customer advocacy. Here are a few examples: Corley Heating, Air, and Electric in Greenville, SC sends their service techs out on Valentine’s Day with balloons and a valentine card for each customer.

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Why, Oh Why, Is ANYBODY Still Measuring Customer Satisfaction?

Beyond Philosophy

When Customer Retention, my first book on customer behavior was published, now over 20 years ago, one of the strongest reactions voiced was my contention, and the proof offered, that satisfaction and retention were fundamentally different concepts, and that they required different measurement protocols.

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The Dual Meaning of Customer Advocacy

Education Services Group

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.