Doing Business as Unusual: Customer Service
Companies can’t simply use new technology to prop up the status quo – they have to change the way they think and operate – it’s no longer business as usual.
Companies can’t simply use new technology to prop up the status quo – they have to change the way they think and operate – it’s no longer business as usual.
Ok, I think we all get carried away with what this conversation is. A large part of conversation in the real world is body language. In the digital world body language also plays a part in conversation.
If you want to see how corporations are changing their culture to be customer-centric, consistent across all channels, more participative, intensively use data and turn them into action, and embrace the social changes, take a close look at what the top banks that “get it” are doing out there.
Customer-centric thinking and working is the main driver in all marketing changes, we are going through, including social media marketing. Customer-centricity is not some kind of slogan. It’s a necessity for businesses and is achieved through direct and indirect processes of listening, understanding, providing relevance and optimizing value.
The industry still seems to be getting its knickers in a twist over terminology. ‘Social CRM’ has seemingly been settled on as the de facto term for the utilisation of social media to interact and engage with consumers for mutual value. But the matter is still far from settled.
The value of the customer life cycle, also called CLV, looks at the investments we plan to make for the customers (retention, sales, promotion, customer service, etc) and the return we expect from the customers. CLV has everything to do with the present and the future. An introduction.