Voice Assistants and Voice Search: Where are we headed?
When it comes to technologies that can potentially turn customer behavior and marketing upside down, voice search and voice assistants are at the top of the list. But what exactly do we know about user behavior and handling of language assistants?
Benchmarks, trends and customer centricity: Know your customers
Benchmarks are popular tools to adapt and optimize processes, systems and methods. What are other companies doing, what are current trends and what works? But if you lose sight of your own customer base and only concentrate on benchmarks, you might get lost in the hype.
Customer Centricity: from Inside-Out to Outside-In
When speaking about Customer Journey Management, Outside-In and Inside-Out views are often mentioned. But what do these views mean and should you use one of them or can you combine them?
What are ROPO-customers (and what do they need)?
The stationary trade has long feared that due to the growing number of digital channels customers will turn their back to traditional brick & mortar stores. But many customers use online channels as starting point for all their product researches.
From research to purchase: how do smartphones influence the customer journey?
Today’s customers are curious and use their smartphones even when they buy in shops. From research to purchase to payment – the smartphone has become an integral part of most customer’s shopping experience. Natalie Bührmann explains, how customers make use of their smartphones during shopping.
Customer Experience: Your customers are smarter than ever
With the invention of the printing press in Europe in the 14th century (and the much earlier inventions in China), a new age of enlightenment and information was born. The digital transformation works in similar ways: It has never been easier to obtain information on your own.
KPI Conversion Rate: Definition, Use and Optimization
To measure how successful campaigns and strategies really are, you need numbers. The conversion rate is one of those numbers and especially important in any marketing team.
America vs. Germany: how does the content marketing differ?
Content marketing is an art because “one size fits all” is not fitting everyone, especially when it comes to different industries, products, target groups and cultures. If we compare the American and the German marketing, for example, we see how information and tonality are defined by regional standards.
Digitalization: bridging the gap between generations
What do you do if one half of your customers still uses the fax machine and the other prefers doing business only via their smartphone? More and more studies prove that old and young generations have different demands for a perfect customer journey – but how should companies accommodate both?
Customer loyalty: why retention is important
A while ago, a German „Marketing expert“ embarrassed himself by writing about his secret trick to gain more followers on Facebook. His solution: simply buy a few hundred thousand followers, after all, they hardly cost anything.