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To improve CX, companies must rethink the customer journey to cater to Gen C

To improve CX, companies must rethink the customer journey to cater to Gen C

A (r)evolution is brewing, and most companies are not prepared for it. It’s no secret how, with an overabundance of new devices and platforms available every day, customers are more empowered and finding new ways to either hack or completely ignore company touchpoints. With this complex customer journey unfolding, great marketing, products and services are not enough to win. Now, companies need to create and cultivate meaningful experiences for their customers. This starts with designing a more intuitive and efficient…

Rocket Fuel’s ADVERTISING 2020: Brian Solis

Rocket Fuel’s ADVERTISING 2020: Brian Solis

via Rocket Fuel Rocket Fuel presented a SXSW panel of AdTech visionaries to talk Advertising 2020, a look at current trends in the advertising industry and where it’s headed in the second half of the decade. MODERATOR Richard Frankel is president and co-founder of Rocket Fuel. Richard’s passion for creating successful customer-focused businesses has been honed by more than 15 years of Internet advertising experience. It’s been enhanced by his notable contributions that helped build several high-profile Internet pioneers into…

Facebook Borrows Key Feature from Snapchat to Help Brands and Customers Connect

Facebook Borrows Key Feature from Snapchat to Help Brands and Customers Connect

Conversations about the eventual demise of Facebook are greatly exaggerated. Each week it seems, Facebook finds interesting ways to improve engagement on its platforms by either innovating, acquiring or borrowing new features. Did you know that 900 million people use Facebook Messenger every month? Beyond everyday conversation, Facebook sees a promising opportunity for businesses. In fact, over one billion messages are sent between people and businesses on Messenger each month. The team at Facebook aims to help businesses benefit from further promoting…

The Opposite of Change is Conformity: A framework for driving meaningful digital transformation

The Opposite of Change is Conformity: A framework for driving meaningful digital transformation

Digital transformation is a buzzword. On top of that, the term digital transformation causes debate amongst those working in or studying the field and confusion among everyone else. But at the same time, digital transformation is also one of the most promising and impactful trends in business (r)evolution today. Why? It carries with it the ability to modernize how businesses work, market and serve. And more so, digital transformation offers a unique glimpse into how disruptive technologies are affecting human behavior, expectations and values. It has…

Content Standard: How to Deliver Harmonic Experiences in the Third Wave of Enterprise Disruption

Content Standard: How to Deliver Harmonic Experiences in the Third Wave of Enterprise Disruption

Via Ted Karczewski, Content Standard, Excerpt What Is Experience, Really? According to speaker, author, analyst, anthropologist, etc., Brian Solis, “An experience is something that you feel and sense, but it only counts when it’s whole, when it’s one thing.” And as a business in the digital age, you’re not just competing with those in your industry when it comes to experience—you’re competing with everyone. Solis cites Uber as an example, recalling how many times he’s heard an entrepreneur or media outlet…

Adobe Summit: ‘If An Experience Isn’t Shared, It Didn’t Happen,’ Says Solis

Adobe Summit: ‘If An Experience Isn’t Shared, It Didn’t Happen,’ Says Solis

by Steven Cook, CMO.com Brian Solis is one of the leading authorities on why delivering a relevant customer experience is the next brand differentiator. So who better to talk at Adobe Summit about the future of brand is experience than Altimeter Group’s principal analyst? Here are some of Solis’s key points from Tuesday’s session. Definition of a great CX: “We live in a tremendous time and a new era of business in which your brand is defined by those who experience it. I’ve been studying what…

Direct Marketing: Why Be an “Experience” Business? Because Customers Expect It

Direct Marketing: Why Be an “Experience” Business? Because Customers Expect It

by Ginger Conlon, Editor in Chief, DMNews (excerpt) Time for change During his presentation at the Summit, Brian Solis (left), a principal analyst at Altimeter Group, also asserted that “the future of brand is experience.” Like Rencher, Solis pointed out that there’s a great deal of the confusion among marketers and other business leaders about how to define customer experience. “We hear and use experience all the time, but do we really know what it means? People will describe it differently.” Solis said….

Warum smartes Experience-Design so wichtig ist – Brian Solis im t3n-Interview [Video]

Wie wichtig ist smartes Experience-Design? Das aktuelle Buch von Brian Solis gibt Antworten. (Grafik: altimetergroup.com) Brian Solis zu Experience-Design: „Unternehmen haben sich immer weiter vom Kunden entfernt“ via t3n Brian Solis ist Digital-Analyst, Keynote-Sprecher und erfolgreicher Autor. Letztes Jahr hat der US-Amerikaner sein aktuelles Buch mit dem Titel „X: The Experience When Business Meets Design“  herausgebracht. Grund genug, den Experten zu interviewen. Auf der SXSW 2016 trafen wir Solis persĂśnlich und stellten unsere brennenden Fragen zum spannenden „Experience-Design“-Thema. MĂźssen Unternehmen sich stärker…

Loyalty360: Brian Solis Looks to Change How Companies View Customer Experience

Loyalty360: Brian Solis Looks to Change How Companies View Customer Experience

by Mark Johnson, Loyalty360, excerpt If you ask 100 executives what customer experience means to them, you would likely get 100 different answers. The need to define CX is compounded by the fact that modern customers expect the very best customer experience from their favorite brands, but not even these shoppers are sure what exactly that experience might entail. In his literary works, including the latest X: Where Business Meets Design, Brian Solis, Principal Analyst at Altimeter Group, a Prophet…

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