Bill Quiseng

MAY 18, 2015

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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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

11 Reasons Why Customer Advocacy is the Bedrock of Your Business by Robbie Richards. JitBit) In this post, we’ll be discussing the importance of customer advocacy and why you must get on board, or else risk weakening the bedrock of your business. My Comment: Customer advocacy is powerful.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 31, 2016

When examining the leverage employees can exert on customer states of mind, a few companies have learned that employees loyal to the company are also loyal to its brands—and are more likely to act as ambassadors in creating customer commitment and advocacy. The figure below illustrates their findings.

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Influitive

JUNE 29, 2020

According to data presented at the Forrester/SiriusDecisions Summit in May, companies who focus on advocacy in their customer marketing programs drive deeper relationships over time. The post The Power of Customer Advocacy in Unprecedented Times appeared first on Influitive.

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Influitive

JULY 14, 2017

It’s customer advocacy programs. Last year, only 10% B2B vendors surveyed had a customer advocacy program in place, according to the IDC research. This year, “The Role of Marketing in Customer Advocacy”.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

But Bell asserts that the best expression of customer loyalty is customer advocacy. In other words, the customer talks about you, tells stories about you, and tweets about you. In essence, the customer becomes an extension of your sales and marketing staff. What would I do totally differently?

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Customer Advocacy: How to Get Your Customers and Customer Success Team Invested. If you work for a SaaS business, you know word-of-mouth marketing is everything. ChurnZero virtual RYG panelists included: Nicole Barker , Head of Customer Success at Conductiv. Megan Macaluso , Sr.

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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? Make a great first impression from the start.

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Influitive

OCTOBER 21, 2015

The most powerful tool B2B marketers have in today’s hyper-connected world is genuine word of mouth from their customers—such as reviews, social media shares and recommendations. In the report, Laura discusses why advocate marketing is critical to the success of B2B companies. Advocate marketing creates value for B2B brands.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

As concluded in a 2010 white paper by marketing software company Neolane: “… with the right technology, skill sets, and C-level buy-in, social media provides an opportunity to take a more personalized and interactive approach to achieve true engagement… So, stop broadcasting, start engaging and put your social media intelligence to work.”.

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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. Set clear goals.

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JivoChat

JULY 19, 2023

Source : Sproutsocial report Any forward-looking brand would love to tap into this social data goldmine to create an ideal customer profile based on their interactions, behavior patterns, needs, and pain points. It helps create relevant, engaging, personalized content that drives customer advocacy. So, there you have it!

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 11, 2020

and all the other things you don’t want for your Customer Experience. Attention Cluster: These emotions are what marketing tries to evoke. They get customers’ attention and draw them in. Advocacy Cluster : People often ask what the difference is between Recommendation and Advocacy.

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C3Centricity

JANUARY 17, 2022

This is my selection of great quotes from some of the best marketers around, together with a relevant question to ask yourself for each. 1. “Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. QUESTION: Are you going to upgrade your marketing this year to meet this lofty challenge? #2.

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OctopusTech

JANUARY 22, 2019

And it’s got a name as well; Customer Advocacy. Wikipedia defines it as “a specialized form of customer service where the companies focus mainly on what’s best for their customers. It is a change in the company’s culture supported by customer focussed service and marketing techniques.”. Is this even real?

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ProProfs Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2018

drop in the company’s shares in pre-market trading. 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?

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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. This is a cornerstone of customer obsession — when customers are “obsessed” with a brand.

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Influitive

OCTOBER 28, 2015

This is why referral marketing programs can be so effective. B2B customers tend to be very informed about the products and services they use— more so than in their lives as consumers. A Guide To Engaging B2B Customers In The Digital Age. Referral marketing programs have direct impact on revenue.

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Influitive

JANUARY 11, 2023

Today’s audiences are increasingly indifferent to what we marketers have to say. The post What is Customer Advocacy? Yes, our blogs, ebooks, and webinars contain valuable information (and hopefully this post is an example of this), but everybody else is also putting out valuable information. Not only […].

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ShepHyken

MAY 19, 2017

Jay Baer , board of Advisors for ServiceGuru and one of the top social media consultants in the country and author of Hug your Haters, said it best that customer service is the new marketing. 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!

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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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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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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 19, 2015

As the job market becomes more competitive, it is possible that companies are putting more effort into engaging their current workers.” question, the consistent financial impact of engagement on individual companies and their customers, i.e. on a micro level, needs to be addressed, understood and reported. Like the “So what?”

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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? It is about marketing. Center your customer. Marketing lead?

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SQM Group

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Our award-winning call centers understand that customer advocacy is one of the best ways to attract more customers and gain market share over the long term.

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Influitive

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

As the world’s entering economic uncertainty, more and more marketing leaders are looking to recession-proof their strategies. The first – and most critical – step to recession-proofing your marketing is to focus on existing customers.

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Influitive

DECEMBER 13, 2019

We are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2019 Best Advocate Marketing Awards (BAMMIES). The BAMMIES, now in their 6th year, was designed to recognize companies and individuals who have successfully used customer advocacy to turbocharge their marketing programs. The BAMMIES […].

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Influitive

JUNE 29, 2020

According to data presented at the Forrester/SiriusDecisions Summit in May, companies who focus on advocacy in their customer marketing programs drive deeper relationships over time. The post The Power of Customer Advocacy in Unprecedented Times appeared first on Influitive.

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ClientSuccess

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Customer marketing is one of these initiatives. While most customer marketing programs are a cross-function of CSMs and marketing teams, many marketing departments will look to CSMs for direction and guidance when selecting and working with customers directly.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Companies can achieve a higher, more attractive cost/benefit ratio for customer acquisition and advocacy efforts. The key is to attract high-value customers by identifying high-potential prospects and delivering what they want and need. He calls these companies Acquirers.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 17, 2016

In preparation for Customer WinBack , my 2001 book on customer loss and recovery co-authored with Jill Griffin, we conducted original research among purchasing agents and sales/marketing managers to better understand the essential value delivery perceptual differences between customers and suppliers.

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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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Influitive

JANUARY 19, 2018

In the past 15 years, customer reference usage in marketing and sales has evolved from simply inserting testimonials in ads to a dedicated discipline that drives revenue.

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Influitive

JUNE 18, 2020

Why can’t a customer advocacy platform be used to drive engagement with prospects? That’s what many of our customers have been asking us lately, particularly in light of the global pandemic and their apprehension of trying to drum up new business in the middle of it using traditional demand generation methods.

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Influitive

JUNE 18, 2020

Why can’t a customer advocacy platform be used to drive engagement with prospects? That’s what many of our customers have been asking us lately, particularly in light of the global pandemic and their apprehension of trying to drum up new business in the middle of it using traditional demand generation methods.

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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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Influitive

JANUARY 12, 2017

Customer marketing is on the rise. According to Koyne Marketing’s 2017 State of Customer Marketing Report, 93% of organizations agree that customer marketing is important or very important to their revenue, and more than two-thirds are planning to boost their investment in customer marketing over the next year.

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