Digital Customer eXperience is the New Battle Ground with Bernie Borges and Dayle Hall

Digital Customer eXperience is the New Battle Ground

Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn

Dayle Hall, SVP of Marketing at Lithium Technologies is back for episode three of this UpClose Podcast Series. So far of The 5 Most Influential Topics for B2B Marketing, we’ve discussed influencer marketing and data overload. On this episode, we’re focusing on digital customer experience. This is a big topic, and we cover as much as we can in this short podcast episode. The statistics we point out further bolster the argument to engage on the digital customer experience (CX) battle ground.

Get all five episodes in one recording plus Social Business Journal Volume 10 now.

Digital Customer Experience as a Differentiator

The B2B Landscape of today is digital first. Dayle says the best customer experience comes from looking at where people want to engage – currently, that’s on digital channels. Products can be imitated, but a brand’s customer experience can be the differentiator. According to Harvard Business Review, Those who have the best experiences will spend 140% more than those who have the poorest experiences.” If you don’t pay attention to CX, it will affect your bottom line.

How to gain #customerloyalty through excellent #customerexperience? @bernieborges @marinadazza answersClick To Tweet

3 Questions to Ask as a B2B Marketer

1 – How has my customer changed in the last three years? Where do they want to connect with me now?

Modern consumers are searching for information everywhere, and when they can’t find what they’re looking for, they’ll quickly move to the next brand that can help them. Dayle shares how a Lithium Technologies study showed that 29% of consumers prefer communicating via website, blog, or social media, compared to 17% preferring in store, and 16% preferring email. Consider this statistic when strategizing around the customer experience.

Most consumers would rather engage w/ brands digitally. @marinadazza shares why #DigitalCX @bernieborgesClick To Tweet

2 – How can I activate my most passionate customers? How do I develop trusted relationships with them?

The brands that put the customers’ wants, needs, and expectations at the heart of the brand experience are those that will ultimately win long-term customer loyalty. According to Lithium Technologies, 73% will spend more if they love your brand. Investing the time to understand behavioral, transactional and social data points will cultivate those connections and lead to increased revenue.

73% of consumers spend more on the #brands they love. More #buyer stats from @marinadazza @bernieborgesClick To Tweet

3 – How can I take advantage of all the data on digital channels? Can I measure ROI and can I get to know my customers better?

A brand’s digital presence is also a strong influencer on purchasing behavior. Dayle notes that 32% of adults say they are likely to spend more on products and services from a brand that communicates with them, and 31% will spend more with a brand that shares entertaining and engaging content via social media.

Increase your brand's bottom line through dialogues & content sharing. @marinadazza @bernieborges #DigitalCXClick To Tweet

Brands Excelling at Customer Experience

Microsoft moved all of their support to an online community for Power BI, thereby reducing their number of complaints to zero. The online community has afforded Microsoft $145M Case Deflection Savings and the added benefit of $2.24M in SEO value. From this data, it’s clear that Microsoft’s customers want a self-service option.

Zuora followed a similar approach and set up a community to post solutions to common customer problems. It’s a win-win situation because it allows agents to work on more complicated issues, and it saves the organization close to $500,000/month (an annual savings of approximately $6M from 2016 to 2017). Consumers can find answers in the community to simple and complex problems.

Zuora

In keeping with Dayle’s stylish personal brand, I asked him what’s in style this season with customer experience? He says the only differentiator for brands is the experience. People can always mock a product, but brands are starting to figure out that they will win with the experience they deliver. Next season he predicts we will see real ROI from digital CX and even more successful use cases. Dayle sees what’s next in three ways regarding digital CX:

  1. Fad: The current fad is predictive analytics. It’s complex and not scalable and, yet, still unproven.
  2. Failure: What hasn’t worked for B2B marketers is relying on transactional data alone. There are too many data points not to use.
  3. Flourishing: The one thing flourishing for B2B marketers is social. But, brands must be able to integrate that into delivering an awesome digital CX.

Lithium Technologies helps brands navigate the sometimes overwhelming world of social media marketing and management, social customer service, online communities and social analytics. A leader in the space, they’re guiding brands to build trust with their clients while delivering top-notch customer experiences. Dayle leads the charge at Lithium Technologies on all strategic marketing initiatives.

This Up Close podcast series is sponsored by Lithium Technologies.

P.S. Join us September 27th for episode 4 in this UpClose Podcast Series, The Current State of Social Engagement.

Featured On This Episode:

There are TWO WAYS you can listen to this podcast.  You can click the Listen Now button at the top of this page…

Or, you can listen from your mobile device’s podcast player through iTunes or Stitcher.

This podcast originally appeared on Social Business Engine.

Podcast Resources:

Table of Contents

Copy + Paste is such a waste.

As your personal productivity app, FlyMSG automates the written word by removing the time drain it takes to find, copy, paste or write messages with just a few short keystrokes.
Add FlyMSG to Chrome. It's Free!