After two years of rapid change in ecommerce and retail, what do consumers want? Trust me, they’ll tell you, via Voice of the Customer (VoC) data, and you should be asking and listening. Now that a great customer experience is table stakes, retailers need to know more about them to stand out, making VoC data that much more critical.
Fast delivery, once a way to really stand out, has become standard and the effort to add on new features and faster speeds is starting to look like a race to the bottom. Shipping is important, but brands need to redefinine customer interactions and reimagine the impact on operations in order to really differentiate themselves.
Brands selling through stores and websites might see Amazon’s explosive growth as their biggest threat. In fact, the online giant may offer brands their biggest opportunity. Here is how some of today’s agile brands are growing on Amazon.
“The customer is always right,” is a slogan that promises that retailers give the highest priority to the customer experience. But is it a true statement? In the latest MCM CommerceChat podcast, Stan Lucas, Principal of Lucas Advising, LLC., talks about how you approach the concept of “the customer is always right” can impact your business either positively or negatively.
Customer feedback is vital in any business or industry. Retailers in particular are utilizing it to not only put specific products under the microscope, but to also analyze how they’re providing the best experience across all their channels. Listen to the lastest MCM CommerceChat podcast with Martha Brooke of Interaction Metrics as she discusses the value of customer feedback.