L’esperienza online come prosecuzione di quella offline

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 AICEX Interessante articolo sulla sinergia tra mondo fisico e digitale nel retail

A recent discussion with an experienced industry leader who is working to reimagine the role of the high street store has highlighted some important implications of current retail omni-channel trends that will have a profound impact on retail business models and IT strategies in future.

Rapidly changing, technology-led consumer expectations and demands while online and in-store will make it essential for retailers to better align their business and operations with the core notion of customer-centricity, which goes far beyond providing exceptional customer service.

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6 modi (ironici) per tenere lontani i vostri Clienti

 AICEX: Il nostro preferito è il numero 1 🙂  —-

Moving has a lot of perks: excitement about a new city, jitters about a new job, and creativity (read: spending gobs of money) on decorating a new apartment.

How to turn off your customers in six sarcastic steps

But moving also means canceling your cable and Internet, ending – and starting new – utilities, frantically searching for apartments, and, once you’ve found that apartment, lugging boxes from dusk to dawn.

Cable?

Utilities?

Realtors?

That sounds like a bad dream. (And I’m living proof that it is.)

From a marketer’s standpoint, though, it’s more than a bad dream: The poor customer service associated with moving, whether intentional or not, is a nightmare.

So today, I present a six-step checklist to help you turn off customers and market like it’s 1999. (Side note: sarcasm and I hang out on the reg.)

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Perchè una Banca Online dovrebbe avere filiali fisiche ? (CheBanca! case study)

AICEX : Interessante connubio tra Virtuale e Reale

Why would a digital bank have branches? (CheBanca! case study) – by Chris Skinner

I just visited with Roberto Ferrari at CheBanca! in Italy.  For those who don’t know CheBanca!, it is the digital first bank launched in 2008 by Mediobanca.  Mediobanca provides merchant bank services in Italy and had never had a retail bank before.  Therefore, it made sense in the post-meltdown digital age to implement a fintech bank fit for Italy, andCheBanca! claims to be that bank.  You can find out more here.

Anyways, being a digital first bank does not mean being a digital only bank, and Roberto took great pride in showing me his branch.

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I know, it doesn’t look like much, but wait till you get inside

A digital bank with a branch?  Yep.  CheBanca! has launched almost 50 of them so far, with more to follow.  This has proven critical in getting trust and deposits, with the main aim of achieving three things that digital only does not achieve:

  1. Trust
  2. Brand
  3. Service

These three things are harder to achieve when you are unseen, unproven and unknown, although some are bound to disagree.  However, Roberto and his team gave me some interesting statistics that may back up this claim.

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Una lezione di Loyalty dal Cirque du Soleil

cirque du soleil emotional expériences

AICEX: come reinventare ogni volta un’arte antica come il Circo

Cirque du Soleil Always Delivers Emotional Customer Experiences

By: Jim Tierney, Loyalty360

Connecting and engaging with customers on an emotional level is fast becoming a key differentiator in the world of customer loyalty and customer experience marketing.Cirque du Soleil might have cornered the market on delivering emotional connections to its customers.

Patrick Corneau, Vice President Sales and Marketing−Touring shows at Cirque duSoleil, explained his theatrical company’s customer engagement phenomenon to Loyalty360.

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