ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Chip Bell on How to Create Customer Evangelists. What is the best way to get your customers to truly become your advocates? Shep Hyken speaks with keynote speaker and author Chip Bell about the best way to inspire customer loyalty. But Bell asserts that the best expression of customer loyalty is customer advocacy.

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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?

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Customer advocacy Journey mapping SaaS Gamification 81

Influitive

JULY 14, 2020

Customer advocacy has come a long way since its inception. Today, the most fervent supporters of customer advocacy report an uptick in both customer loyalty and customer engagement, and a stronger sense of community among their customers. A successful program requires a dedicated […].

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Measure the specific emotions across the customer journey. Train your people on how to evoke emotions. Recommendation Cluster: If the customer feels these emotions, then they will likely stay a bit longer, spend more, and be a good customer. Rule #5: Train your people on how to evoke emotions.

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OctopusTech

JANUARY 22, 2019

Won’t it be a relief if instead of burdening your team members with all the responsibility of your new business, you could share some of the hard work with your customers? And it’s got a name as well; Customer Advocacy. It is a change in the company’s culture supported by customer focussed service and marketing techniques.”.

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Influitive

JULY 22, 2022

is to grow advocacy within your community by showing customers your appreciation. The post How to Leverage the 5 Love Languages to Drive Customer Advocacy appeared first on Influitive. There is a lovely selection of swag and a couple of gift cards to select, […].

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SharpenCX

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

There are dozens of ways to measure your customers’ satisfaction. Your customer Net Promoter Score builds the foundation to help you measure customer advocacy, too. Undeniably, customer advocacy helps you win more customers. But, one metric steps beyond just measuring satisfaction. Guaranteed.

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Education Services Group

JUNE 7, 2022

So, Forky asks a question: What is customer advocacy? How do you answer Forky? Do you say: a) Customer advocacy is the foundation of Customer Success, wherein businesses put the customer experience first. The term “customer advocacy” is used in both contexts for two totally different things!

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

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. Customer advocacy becomes your best friend. Of course, there’s more to this article.

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AskNicely

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

In fact, we all want the magic bullet that drives the customer advocacy growth flywheel. Advocate Marketing is the art of identifying your highest-potential customers, nurturing their potential, and motivating and empowering this ‘Golden 5%’ to preach positive about your company.” ~ Lee Marc Stein , President, Lee Marc Stein Ltd.

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Call Center Weekly

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

What is the most important role of the Chief Customer Officer? In my mind, there three important areas for the Chief Customer Officer to focus on: culture, systems and customer advocacy. When it comes to the culture, either the company is completely customer focused or it’s not. That begins with culture.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JANUARY 13, 2022

They are embedding steps to nurture customers into advocates within the customer lifecycle. They are also employing software and tools to track the customer advocacy touchpoints & progress. We will talk about the application of these software and how they help optimize the customer advocacy process.

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bold360 Blog

APRIL 27, 2020

How do you engage your customers? Customer advocacy has gotten to be a corporate buzzword like CX or content marketing. But there’s a lot to building a great customer advocacy program. How do you approach your customers? How do you engage with them? How do we really focus on them?

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ProProfs Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2018

In a world where people can easily share their experiences with businesses via social media–an assessment which can make or break a brand— customer advocacy has become one of the top priorities today. What is Customer Experience Marketing and Why Is It Important? How To Do It Right.

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Mindtouch

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Case in point, this week Apttus teams up with Oracle, Gainsight, and WalkMe to present on how to not only sustain, but grow your customer’s value (net negative churn) across the board, leaning heavily on customer advocacy.

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PeopleMetrics

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Here’s my point: focus on pain points for your customers and relieving them. Try to be empathetic as you think about how to improve the customer experience with technology. What are the customer experience risks if this technology fails? Make sure you and your customers can live with the balance.

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Clarabridge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

While it may seem impossible to address all the negative reviews, answering customer complaints actually increases customer advocacy. Conversely, not answering these complaints decreases customer advocacy. This is when your customer advocacy skyrockets.

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GetFeedback

JULY 19, 2019

Losing customers is bad for the bottom line. Not only is that customer lost, but it will cost your business 5–25x as much to acquire a replacement than it does to keep one you’ve already earned. FREE GUIDE: How to Run a Successful VoC Program . Answering complaints increases customer advocacy. Get the Guide.

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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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ShepHyken

MAY 19, 2017

Don’t spend much time trying to think how to take care of the guest, just respond. Follow these steps and I guarantee your customer advocacy will go through the roof, you will have raving fans and you will learn a lot! Responding quickly is even more important than a well-crafted response. Take it offline.

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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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Totango

MAY 26, 2021

Resource: The Customer Data Platform Benefits You Should Know. The Customer Journey is Not Linear. Resource: How to Use Customer Success Automation to Do More with Less. Things will change, they will follow a different path than you think and you will have to pivot to meet their needs at that step.

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Journey mapping Customer advocacy Enterprise Technology 99

Help Scout

AUGUST 6, 2024

Learn how to turn customers into loyal advocates with effective strategies for building lasting relationships, enhancing customer experiences, and fostering organic growth. Read the full article

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Customer advocacy Customer Experience 64

Strikedeck

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Shreesha talks about how to leverage customer advocacy to expand your business.

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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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Customer advocacy B2B SaaS Best practices 40

Taylor Reach Group

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

The workaround is available, the manufacturer met their customer service obligation, but, the effort to affect the workaround is unusable! Enter, the customer advocacy role in the contact center comes in. In these situations, the CES score is 10.

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Influitive

MAY 15, 2019

You may have heard of customer advocacy and see it as a function belonging solely to Marketing, when in fact, its results can be used to bolster other departments like Customer Success, Sales and Product Development.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

At the peak of the Hierarchy pyramid is a set of 2 emotions – Happy and Pleased – defined as the Advocacy Cluster. For my key example of practical creation of customer advocacy, I’m reprising material on my exposure to lagniappe, and what it can do for any company, irrespective of size, industry, or location. Lagniappe works.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Process-oriented companies focus on creating benefit by keeping customers, optimizing their purchases over time and stemming rates of defection or recovering lost customers. Comcast Goes Sales Bottom-Fishing, Door-to-Door, Trying To Win Back Ex-Customers. How to Optimize Social Media Customer Service for Millennials.

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C3Centricity

AUGUST 20, 2024

For instance, Apple, known for its high NPS, has consistently seen strong brand loyalty and customer advocacy. Trader Joe’s also uses NPS to understand customer loyalty. Emotions such as joy, surprise, and excitement are strong indicators of customer delight.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Seek out a QM solution that lets you customize scorecards to examine interactions for speed, completeness, and customer sentiment. This will help you gauge whether your team is delivering seamless experiences that turn customers into your brand champions.

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Contact Center Quality management Calibration Coaching 78

Amity

DECEMBER 21, 2017

6 TED Talks That Are Surprisingly Relevant to Customer Success. 5 Powerful Videos That Spotlight Customer Advocacy. 2017 Rewind: Your Customer Success Playlist. How to Nail a Customer Meeting (Before, During, and After). How to Get a Hold of Your MIA Customers. by guest writer Kristen Hayer.

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Customer advocacy Best practices Sales Metrics 107

CX Accelerator

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

They want to get customers’ feedback on preferences and experiences, share these insights with corporate stakeholders, and act on these insights so they can improve the experience. Give a guarantee on how long the survey will take to complete. Inform customers on how you plan to use the feedback. Why Is VoC Important?

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Brad Cleveland Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2020

It’s a smart move and highly recommended for any organization to instill the principles of customer advocacy in the customer service and operations functions. Harnessing service and … The post Customer Advocacy: Harnessing Service and Operations first appeared on Brad Cleveland.

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Totango

MARCH 29, 2022

Proactively increasing customer satisfaction through product adoption increases an organization’s NPS and customer advocacy and engagement. Grow customer advocacy and change detractors into promoters. Customer advocacy is all about focusing on how to offer the best of the best experience to your customers.

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Influitive

OCTOBER 4, 2018

On October 3, 2018, campers joined us from far and wide to celebrate customer love at Advocamp Field Day, the biggest customer engagement, experience, and advocacy event of the year.

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CSM Practice

MARCH 26, 2017

Customer advocacy has been a hot topic for customer success teams, so this week I sat down with Jesse Goldman , VP of Customer Success at Influitive to learn how he promotes customer success at Influitive through their best-of-breed advocacy program. Who owns customer advocacy at Influitive?

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