I segreti dello share

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AICEX: ci piace la frase finale “… if the most highly regarded values on social are driven by emotion, ego, insight, intrinsic fulfillment – not coupons, deals and discounts – how do rethink your marketing strategy with the goal of blowing through the content shock?”
Although the actual act of sharing online is simple, the affect on your relationship-building efforts is huge. The act of sharing content actually helps others process your information better. Because of the implied commitment, those who share pay closer attention to what they are sharing. Another New York Times study on sharing found that:
  • 73% of participants say they process information “more deeply, thoroughly, and thoughtfully” when they share it.
  • 85% say reading content that others share helps them understand and process information and events.
  • 49% say sharing allows them to inform others of products they care about, potentially changing opinions or encouraging action.
So by creating ideal conditions for content-sharing, you build power for your brand AND create new value by helping your audience understand you and become authentic evangelists for your products and ideas.  Obviously, getting to this cannot be reduced to SEO techniques or “buy-ten-thousand-Tweets” schemes to drive traffic.Mark Schaefer says, “Shareability requires connection of some kind; your content must fill a need or perhaps even reflect on a trusted relationship.
There are any number of pieces of content that go viral on the Internet due to luck. One of my favorite sayings is “Cats win the Internet!” But only a few of them really take off.  Who knows why? In any case, you shouldn’t build the focus of a strategic effort on getting lucky. Leverage best practices and learn some of the techniques you can apply to give your content its best shot.  One of these is the recognition that most of the value created on Social every day is not economic. The bulk of folks on Facebook are not there to be more profitable!
Emotion is at the core of the idea of social….social has a number of definitions and nuances as a word, but in this context the meaning is “Attitudes, orientations, or behaviors which take the interests, intentions, or needs of other people into account (in contrast to anti-social behaviour)…” People share when they feel joy, fear, uncertain or passionate about something. One study discovered that purely emotional content performed about twice as well as strictly rational content. This part of human personality benefits from the addictive nature of connecting, storytelling and commiseration. The reward for passing on content is intrinsic and rewarding in ways that cannot be bought. Lee Odden, CEO of TopRank Marketing, says “The most important characteristic of content marketing today is not quality or quantity. It’s insight. And that is the differentiator lacking most everywhere.
So, if the most highly regarded values on social are driven by emotion, ego, insight, intrinsic fulfillment – not coupons, deals and discounts – how do rethink your marketing strategy with the goal of blowing through the content shock?  This is a tough nut to crack and a challenging mindset to take.
Is building deeper relationships with your customers a big goal for you? How are you going about it?

SOURCE: Fascinating Sharing Secrets You Need to Know – http://wp.me/ph7Ft-d9

Customer Experience Gaps

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AICEX: a noi ricorda di nuovo il ciclo di Deming 🙂

A few well known brands are renowned on the basis of how their customers experience these brands. Year after year, the situation remains the same: the same brands stand out in terms of the customer experience, and of the rest most of them are doing ok (not great) and haven’t improved much from the previous year.

So what’s missing?  Is it that the Tops and Middles in these so-so organisations/brands don’t understand the importance/value of customer experience? Is it that they don’t understand how to go about improving the customer experience? If this is the case then the mountain of speaking and writing that has taken place and continues to take place on the important/benefit of Customer Experience is failed. If this is the case then all the effort that academics, consultancies, and ‘gurus’ have put into coming up with and pushing forward their secret recipes – approaches, methods, tools and techniques – has been wasted.

Hold on. Could it be that what is not missing is not knowledge/understanding – of the benefits, and how to get there?  Could it be that folks understand Customer Experience and that understanding is not enough?  I invite you to read and reflect on the following words of wisdom:

In life, understanding is the booby prize.

– Werner Erhard

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Dimenticatevi della Customer Experience

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AICEX: Anche in questo post emerge l’importanza del Cliente come persona.

Posted by Sandi Piatz

This title makes a bold statement but don’t get me wrong. I am not suggesting that you shouldn’t consider customer experience within your business objectives. A valuable customer strategy, after all, is known to deliver increased revenue, higher profit margins, decreased expenses, greater efficiency, and improved brand loyalty; however, the fact of that matter remains that many businesses approach this tactic entirely wrong. In fact, I would argue that customer experience is often a fruitless initiative. Rather, your organizational focus must be on the customer’s experience.

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Come gli smartphone stanno plasmando il nostro cervello

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by KATIE COLLINS

Extensive use of smartphone touchscreens is changing the sensory relationship between our brains and our thumbs, a study published in Current Biology has revealed.

The plasticity of the human brain and how it adapts to repetitive gestures has been tested in multiple contexts previously, including in musicians and gamers, but neuroscientists from the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich believe smartphones provide a unique opportunity to understand how everyday life can shape the human brain on a huge scale.

Smartphone growth has seen people using their fingers — and in particular their thumbs — in a completely new way multiple times a day, everyday. The very nature of the devices means there is usually a record kept of all the things we are doing with our thumbs on our phones, providing the neuroscientists extensive data to work with.

“What this means for us neuroscientists is that the digital history we carry in our pockets has an enormous amount of information on how we use our fingertips (and more),” explains one of the study’s authors, Arko Ghosh.

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