Tag: Customer service

Forbes: L’importanza della Customer Experience nell’epoca della gratificazione istantanea

su da Gian Carlo Mocciin CRM, Customer Service, Customer Neuroscience, Marketing, Loyalty

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AICEX: GESTIRE LE ESPERIENZE DEI CLIENTI NON E’ PIU’ UN LUSSO, MA UNA NECESSITA’ DI BUSINESS.

There is much talk these days about the rise of customer experience. Nearly every service, product or expertise is first hive-minded, Uberized and Yelped, then tweeted with true glee or scorn, ordered hands-free thanks to Alexa, coupon-coded and reviewed to death. Instant vilification kills and instant gratification buoys brands — often quite quickly. Whatever room for error may have existed before our digital nativity, the times have changed.

Moving Into New Digital Ground

As customers, being jerked around by telecoms, car rental companies and airlines is passé. Last month, after an Avis rental problem was poorly handled, I did some Google research and reached out to a customer service executive. I had a callback and refund within 24 hours. A Delta kosher meal debacle in the spring was quickly solved with gift cards to our mailbox. No-questions-asked refunds (think Trader Joe’s and Amazon) have now become the norm.

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Fortune: 5 motivi per i quali Amazon aprira’ altri negozi fisici

su da Gian Carlo Mocciin CRM, Customer Service, Marketing, Loyalty
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AICEX: IL CANALE FISICO CONSENTE MODALITA’ DI RELAZIONE NON OTTENIBILI CON CANALI DIGITALI.

Amazon’s seventh physical store opening—the latest in New York City last week—might seem rather counterintuitive. Why would a company that is responsible for the demise of many bricks-and-mortar retail stores bother to open its own physical stores? Yet, from a strategic standpoint, brick-and-mortar stores are not a slip backward into book retailing, but rather a step forward toward establishing a unique, cross-category, omni-channel approach. There are several ways in which physical stores might benefit Amazon:

Content discovery
Amazon’s online bookstore is a place where customers can easily find the book they are looking for. But its huge inventory comes at a cost: There is simply too much choice available for consumers who are unsure about what they want to read. Amazon.com—the pioneer of “one-click” online purchasing—is a great option for customers who like to save time when shopping, but its brick-and-mortar stores work better for customers who want to spend time discovering new reads. To this end, Amazon makes it easy by curating lists of books by consumer ratings, and even the speed of reading the content, as measured by Kindle data.

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Forbes: L’unico Trend di Customer Experience di cui preoccuparsi davvero

su da Gian Carlo Mocciin CRM, Customer Service, Customer Experience, Marketing, Loyalty

 AICEX SUMMARY: I clienti si aspettano tanto da te perché stanno già ricevendo tanto da altri.

Consciously or unconsciously, customers continue to expect better and better customer service–in every industry, every niche, at every price point. These expectations don’t come out of the blue. Customers expect you to provide better customer service because they’re already getting better customer service elsewhere. Whether customer service has been improving in your particular competitive niche or not, it has improved over time at so many companies with such broad consumer reach, including Starbucks, Amazon, Apple, USAA Insurance, Trader Joe’s and Publix, not to mention the great hotels and restaurants that serve so many of your customers every day.

After one of these companies comes into contact with a customer of yours—when USAA expertly assists in filing an insurance claim, or Amazon enables an effortless product return, or a genius at the Apple Store debugs an iPhone issue with aplomb, it’s inevitable that your customer is going to expect friendlier, speedier, more intuitive service from your company as well.

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How can you meet this challenge? Here’s a list to help you get started:

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Forbes: Perchè e come Warby Parker sta aprendo negozi fisici

su da Gian Carlo Mocciin CRM, Customer Service, Customer Journey, Digital, Design, UX, Marketing, Loyalty

AICEX: Continuare a pensare al fisico e al digitale come a due competitor ha davvero poco senso. Per le signore le sneakers e le scarpe col tacco più che in competizione sono spesso complementari e sinergiche. Certo vanno sapute utilizzare nelle occasioni giuste e con le persone giuste, chiamasi time to market, personalizzazione, personal branding, posizionamento, etc…

The retail landscape is changing…again.

It’s well known that many “clicks and bricks” retailers are shifting focus away from the “bricks” and more toward the “clicks.” Some, like Kenneth Cole and Bebe, are eliminating physical stores entirely. Credit Suisse predicts that nearly 8,600 stores will close this year. As this shift toward e-commerce evolves, brands and retailers have been overlooking an important opportunity. When considering an omni-channel strategy, many have focused on e-commerce at the expense of the in-store experience, rather than optimizing each channel independently.

I believe that the physical store will always have a place in the omni-channel ecosystem and that retailers can optimize this revenue channel while still focusing on e-commerce. Yet the look, size and function of the store will have to change. Retailers and brands will have to “rightsize” their physical store footprint and adopt in-store mobile technology to become more effective to serve and satisfy customer needs to drive loyalty and repeat purchase.

Physical Stores Are Here To Stay

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