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Customer Engagement Featured Articles
Customer relationships have changed. Consumers have more power than ever to positively or negatively influence a brand – and that power grows every day. In today's competitive landscape, smart brands know the most important customer interaction is the one that happens next. Welcome to the Customer Engagement Channel sponsored by ACCENT Marketing Services, a customer engagement company that helps brands acquire, support, retain and grow customers across every lifecycle stage.
Best defined by Forrester Research as the level of involvement, interaction, intimacy, and influence a person has with a brand over time, customer engagement is emerging as the latest trend to take shape in a crowded and fragmented marketing landscape. As the conversation shifts from a one-way push of information into a two-way dialogue, marketers everywhere from traditional brand agencies and direct interactive agencies to marketing services firms are exploring new ways to get the attention of today's distracted consumers.
To learn more about the latest trends in customer engagement and to keep up to date with the most current white papers and case studies, stay tuned to the Customer Engagement Channel.
Managing Customer Engagement on the World Wide Web: A Tricky Business
When it comes to keeping your customers happy, it is going to take a lot more than that colorful song and dance of yours, because today's customers are increasingly wary of brands and are more apt to trust a recommendation from their friends than a wishy-washy advertiser.
5/22/2012
Skechers and Teleflora Tap PowerReviews to Enhance Social Customer Engagement
PowerReviews, a provider of social commerce and customer engagement solutions, has been helping two leading brands - Skechers and Teleflora - leverage their customers' online social activity to drive real business results.
The companies have tapped PowerReviews' Essential Social Suite (ESS), a fully integrated platform that offers deep visibility into the ROI of social programs. PowerReviews' easy-to-deploy, cloud-based social commerce tools have helped them drive increased revenue, customer engagement and site traffic.
5/21/2012
Customer Engagement: An Informed Customer is an Empowered One Says Opower
Opower, the energy efficiency software company, believes that energy efficient customers are happy customers, and its latest joint venture with 15 utility partners and six expansions is a move that lends substance to its vision.
5/17/2012
Multivariate Serves as Effective Tool to Managing Customer Engagement
In order to focus on customer engagement, companies will need to look at a testing philosophy that meets certain objectives. Before beginning a specific formula for direct marketing strategies, you need to identify if you are looking to drive customer acquisitions by improving response rates and establish customer loyalty or increase revenue streams while lowering marketing costs.
5/14/2012
Survey Report Highlights the Importance of Prioritizing Customer Service
The customer may be the "King" but the rather lethargic response of organizations toward customer service, makes one doubt that fact. A recent survey conducted by Retriever Communications, which focuses on this aspect, found that "quality customer service" was hard to come by.
5/9/2012
British Retailer Graham and Green Picks Lyris HQ to Boost Customer Engagement
Lyris, a provider of digital marketing and customer engagement solutions, announced that Graham and Green, a stylish interior design retailer based in the United Kingdom, has chosen Lyris as its digital marketing partner.
5/7/2012
Lithium Technologies Takes a Stab at Increasing Customer Engagement
Lithium Technologies, a major player in Social Customer Experience, has unveiled its next-generation social marketing solution designed to help brands deepen their level of customer engagement.
Officials with Lithium Technologies said that the new Lithium Social Marketing Solution adds new features to its platform, including rich media interactions, ad hoc groups, streaming conversations, and a powerful new ratings and reviews module
5/4/2012
Bank of America Slacking with Regards to Customer Engagement, Survey Reveals
Just as there is a Starbucks on every street corner in Manhattan, banks are popping up on virtually every street as well which means it would be wise for banks to learn a strategy or two with regards to how to keep customers coming back - especially with banks barely being able to give any interest on savings account or offer incentives for customers to invest their money.
5/1/2012
How to Hone Effective Customer Engagement Strategies with a Limited Budget
With the economy still reeling, marketers are forced to contend with the very real dilemma of how to optimize media and marketing spend to hone successful customer engagement strategies while grappling with limited, constricting budgets. Consequently, many executives come up feeling exasperated as they discover that there is no one-stop solution to answer their question of where to invest crucial marketing dollars and still meet objectives.
4/26/2012
Successful Customer Engagement Strategies are Nothing without the Final Stage -- Optimize
So you've heard for weeks about the importance of listening, learning, connecting and influencing with regards to your customers, so what now? How do you see your return on investment for embracing these customer engagement strategies?
4/24/2012
Customer Engagement Industry News
Continuous Engagement Process
Featured Podcasts
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Just One Step Left - Optimize!
Listen, learn, connect, influence? Check. So what's the final step in ACCENT Marketing Services' Continuous Engagement Improvement Process? Optimize. Now that you have already completed the first four steps of ACCENT's customer engagement process, it's time for the fifth step of optimizing, or uncovering hidden insights about your customer, brand and products to ensure that the next interaction is personal and more intelligent than the last. Recently, Tim Searcy, chief executive officer of ACCENT, sat down with TMCnet to discuss what it means to optimize and why this step is critical for successful customer engagement strategies.
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Just How Influential Are You?
When it comes to your brand, you might feel fully confident that you listen to your customers well and can adequately meet their needs. But just how influential are you? According to ACCENT Marketing Services, the fourth step of the company's Continuous Engagement Improvement Process is to influence - a step that is oftentimes overlooked. Recently, Tim Searcy, chief executive officer of ACCENT, sat down with TMCnet to discuss what it means to influence and why brands oftentimes fail when it comes to this step.
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It's time to Connect!
If you've already taken the time to listen to your customers pain points and learn about their wishes, you are already two steps ahead of the game. But now, according to ACCENT Marketing Services, is the time to connect, the third step of ACCENT Marketing Services' Continuous Engagement Improvement Process. Recently, Tim Searcy, chief executive officer of ACCENT, sat down with TMCnet to discuss what it means to connect and what brands can immediately do to improve how they connect with their customers.
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You've Listened to Customers... Now What?
For those of you that have taken the time to figure out if your customers are really happy and what their pain points are, congratulations. But now, it is important to employ the second step of ACCENT Marketing Services' Continuous Engagement Improvement Process – learn. Recently, Tim Searcy, chief executive officer of ACCENT, sat down with TMCnet to discuss what it means to learn and how this differs from the first step of listening.
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A Continuous Engagement Improvement Process is Born
When ACCENT Marketing Services, a performance marketing company for brands that are passionate about keeping and growing customers, spearheaded its Continuous Engagement Improvement Process, the goal was simple – transform customer service touch points into powerful relationship and brand-building tools. Recently, Tim Searcy, chief executive officer of ACCENT, sat down with TMCnet to discuss the first stage of the improvement process, listen.
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A Look at Customer Engagement
What is customer engagement and how important has it become? Recently, Tim Searcy, chief executive officer of ACCENT Marketing Services - a performance marketing company for brands that are passionate about keeping and growing customers - sat down with TMCnet to explore these very questions. In addition to shedding light on why ACCENT was founded, Searcy dives into why ACCENT created its Continuous Engagement Improvement Process to promote customer engagement.
Featured Case Studies
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ESP Case Study: Manufacturing
In a highly competitive marketplace, customer satisfaction and loyalty have never been more important to the long-term success of an insurer. That's why the company began an insurance review prog...
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Online Survey Tool Case Study: Manufacturing
Since 1895, the heating and cooling manufacturer has been dedicated to providing trusted brands, innovative products, unsurpassed quality, and responsive service. As part of that brand promise, the...
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Technical Support Case Study: Consumer Electronics
For nearly 70 years, the consumer electronics Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) had been a world-wide leader in instant photography – developing, manufacturing and marketing cameras, film and accessories to consumers, commercial customers and business partners across the globe.
Featured Solutions
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Acquire
Acquiring new customers is crucial to the growth of any business. Yet, many retailers have not yet figured out how to replicate the in-store shopping experience online, often missing important opportunities to keep consumers engaged at critical points in the sales cycle.
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Support Whether your customers are new or established, it's critical that you work hard to make them customers for life. According to a recent study conducted by RightNow Technologies and Harris Interactive, 82% of consumers have stopped doing business with a company as a result of a negative customer experience.
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Retain
Consumers have greater access to information today than ever before. From product reviews and customer ratings to side-by-side price comparisons, savvy shoppers are making more informed purchase decisions.
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Grow
Building long-term relationships with your customers is mission-critical. But you need to do more than retain your most valuable customers – you need to grow them.
Featured Datasheets
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Account Review Data Sheet Today's technology makes it easier than ever for your customers and policyholders compare companies, get free quotes, and switch to a competitive service Competition for insurance and financi...
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Customer Care and Technical Support
Data Sheet Every time a customer or member contacts your business, you have an opportunity solidify the relationship, provide excellent care, and ensure prompt issue also an opportunity to gain actionable information and cross- and up-sell it takes the right tools.
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Extended Service Plan Marketing
Data Sheet Manufacturers today face many critical problems: shrinking profit margins, commoditization, and intense domestic and foreign competition, among others.
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