Customer-feedback surveys are everywhere: at the bottom of cash-register receipts, at the end of phone calls with customer-service reps, and clogging the email inbox. Recently, I saw an electronic touch screen in an airport bathroom, soliciting my impression of cleanliness.
This barrage underscores the importance that many companies now place on customer experience. But it has diminishing returns, as many people don’t want to answer more surveys. No wonder that response rates have been declining for years. Yet without feedback, how can companies keep in touch with their customers’ needs and priorities?
https://blogs.wsj.com/experts/2018/05/04/how-to-get-customer-feedback-without-asking-the-customer/
In today’s global marketplace, it’s not enough to just have a digital presence. To capitalize on opportunity and captivate real, live, human readers, an optimized, functional, interactive website is a must. Unfortunately, the Internet is swarming with poor website designs that miss both the technical and content mark. Worse yet, clients and developers alike continuously contribute to the current outbreak of design delinquency in equal measure.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/denispinsky/2018/02/12/website-design-standards/#4ce7552ff54f/
Improvements in technology drive innovation in many fields, and there are few arenas where these efforts are as visible as in the customer experience. The emerging tools and techniques for customer teams provide new, insightful avenues for interaction, but are still grounded in the concept of tying a brand to a positive, happy experience.
Customers notice details, either when they are particularly good or particularly bad, so it is always in a company’s best interest to make sure they are innovating in the right way. Here are seven ways technology will aid companies in creating — and taking advantage of — compelling experiences for their customers in 2018:
https://customerthink.com/7-ways-tech-will-change-the-customer-experience-in-2018/
It has become all too common for B2B SaaS companies to survey their customers once a year through a moment-in-time customer relationship survey, with at least one section addressing the ultimate question of Net Promoter Score (NPS).
https://www.business2community.com/strategy/saas-companies-implement-product-nps-program-5-simple-steps-02021767/
In 2006, Facebook was still a place for college students to connect. People poked each other, but there had yet to be a sheep thrown. There were no ads quietly targeting its users, and the fake news farms and talk of manipulation of voters was a long way off.
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/user-feedback-forces-facebook-to-address-criticism-1.3407551/
Twitter has begun the global launch of its long-awaited Bookmarks feature, designed to make it easier to save tweets for later revisiting. The company acknowledged that it can be difficult to find and share tweets you've previously seen.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-and-science/technology/twitter-launches-bookmarks-to-let-you-save-and-share-tweets/article/516192/
Rise Science came to IDEO with a challenge. The young startup had built a robust data platform for college and professional athletes to track their sleep and adjust their behavior so that they played at peak performance. But for the players, the experience was challenging. Rise expected athletes to look at data-driven charts and graphs to determine what decisions to make next, but players struggled to find those insights. Rise was convinced they just needed easier-to-read charts and graphs.
https://hbr.org/2018/03/what-happens-when-data-scientists-and-designers-work-together/
Established in 2001 in the Netherlands, Translink operates as the connecting force behind the OV-chipkaart. One card used for accessing all sorts of public transportation, the OV-chipkaart is an easier and more secure way for people to travel. The OV-chipkaart also allows Dutch public transportation companies to make more efficient use of capacity, resources and staff.
https://mopinion.com/translink-provides-seamless-online-experience-with-customer-feedback/
While technical innovation has come on leaps and bounds since the early 19th century, these Luddite-inspired trends are still present in the form of the “neo-Luddite”.
The rapid advancements in technology that we’re seeing in the digital era is bound to continue to grow.
https://www.cbronline.com/in-depth/targeting-neo-luddites-21st-century/
It is not uncommon for small business owners to wear many different hats, and “web designer” tends to be one of the most common titles entrepreneurs are challenged to adopt. Technology plays such a large role in our lives today that any size business has to have a functioning website to remain relevant in their industry.
https://axcessnews.com/business/breaking-business/website-design-tips-small-businesses_4390/
