Beyond Campaigns: How Customer Service and Digital Marketing Unite to Transform User Experience

Beyond Campaigns: How Customer Service and Digital Marketing Unite to Transform User Experience

For years, I’ve championed the idea that the customer service team plays one of the most pivotal roles in any successful marketing strategy. They are…

How to Design an Emergency Email during COVID-19

How to Design an Emergency Email during COVID-19

In the last few weeks, companies everywhere have had to make important decisions on how to adapt their marketing strategies to the rapidly changing circumstances…

How to Prep for a Customer Journey Mapping Session

How to Prep for a Customer Journey Mapping Session

Customer journey mapping can help to identify strengths and weaknesses with your sales, marketing, and customer support tactics so that you can improve the experience…

What’s the Difference between CSAT, NPS and CES Surveys?

What’s the Difference between CSAT, NPS and CES Surveys?

If you’re looking for a way to truly understand how your customers are feeling about their experience with your brand, it could be time to…

5 Steps for Handling Negative Reviews

5 Steps for Handling Negative Reviews

You’ve put together a solid review strategy to improve local SEO and build your online reputation, and now you’re seeing a few subpar reviews come…

The Reviews Are In(dispensable)

The Reviews Are In(dispensable)

On a scale of 1 to 5, how do your customers feel about your business? That question is getting asked and answered about your business…

A User Generated Content Guide for Community Banks and Credit Unions

A User Generated Content Guide for Community Banks and Credit Unions

Once upon a time, community banks and credit unions cornered the market on personalized communications and a neighbor-to-neighbor experience for their customers. But now, with…

Helping Clients Understand SEO

Helping Clients Understand SEO

There are many moving parts to an SEO campaign and having a roadmap that lists the items to accomplish and the actions we will take to fix & optimize your site, can be the best tool. A solid roadmap can consist of:

Secure the web! Early experience with the Let’s Encrypt Open Beta

Secure the web! Early experience with the Let’s Encrypt Open Beta

I’m writing this blog post because I just can’t hold in my excitement. Let’s Encrypt has just entered public beta! Read on for technical details.

Conversion Optimization for New Websites: What’s really going through your customer’s head?

Conversion Optimization for New Websites: What’s really going through your customer’s head?

Customer acquisition is only a small piece of your audience’s marketing journey. Oftentimes, marketing efforts are successful in bringing customers onto a website, but your…

The Future of Branch Banking: Start Collecting Info Now

The Future of Branch Banking: Start Collecting Info Now

Over the last year, I’ve attended a few banking conferences and a hot topic that’s often brought up is the future of the bank branch….

How we evolved mature identities in Amazon Web Services

How we evolved mature identities in Amazon Web Services

Are you an all day every day user of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) management console? Do you represent a number of clients, each with…

Is Your Checkout Process Causing Lost Conversions?

Is Your Checkout Process Causing Lost Conversions?

You got your customer to your site, helped them find what they were looking for, and now they’re ready to order. Nice work! While it…

Digital Analytics Dashboards: 4 Awesome Examples for Any Organization

Digital Analytics Dashboards: 4 Awesome Examples for Any Organization

In this age of data, endless supplies of information can be accessed with just a click of a button. But most of us have no…

sxswi hangover: social media customer service

sxswi hangover: social media customer service

In a fantastic SXSWi panel on the growing area of social customer service, the people behind the social media voices of Southwest Airlines, Chase Financial and Samsung spoke to a packed room about how the big guys handle (and learn from!) social media. My 3 favorite quotes:

customer profiles are pathways to better banking relationships

In a 2012 study, customers cited “impersonal communications” and “lack of services” as one of the top reasons they tried another bank. Using automated profile-based communications — or Profile Pathways — can build better banking relationships.

a lesson in wow: Helzberg proves their reputation for great customer service

Helzberg Diamonds offered a deal last week that seemed too good to be true… and turned out it was. Their online system had a glitch and their advertised “surprise savings” were a surprise even to them! These are the moments that define a company’s reputation. There are a lot of lessons to be taken from how Helzberg handled the potential catastrophe.