Customer ExperienceFor

Growing Businesses

July 2013

As you scale your business, there will be changes in your Customer Experience… Like it or not! How do you continue to grow without alienating your existing customers? How do you adopt new growth strategies without inciting a mutiny among your employees?

It’s all about remaining customer-centric as we grow!

Growth Strategies for Customer-Centric Organizati ons

Strategies for customer-centric organizations can help propel any old business ahead of their competition. But

increased focus on acquisition makes it easy to lose sight of your mission, and lose touch with the smaller parts that

really keep things moving.

How To Bett er Your Business

As you grow your business, you will inevitably be making lots of changes along the way. But not everyone is going to be happy with these changes. Be on the lookout for these 3 common trends in growing businesses to stay ahead of the

curve.

B2B Customer Retenti on Strategies During Growth

Business growth is often equated with customer acquisition. But what about specific B2B customer

retention strategies? Here are 5 tips and disciplines to help keep your customers from feeling alienated as you grow

and change.

Customer Experience Isn’t Marketi ng

Marketers, those experts at telling us what we really want, are now saying customer experience is the new marketing. I’m here to tell you it’s not. Let’s examine the points in the

journey that are often overlooked -or ignored – by marketing.

3 Customer Experience Considerati ons

As organizations grow, they begin to lose touch with what drove them in the first place. How can growing

organizations be sure to continue delivering a superior customer experience? Consider these questions to help

you stay true to your original goals.

Customers Want Convenience on Their Terms, Not Yours

With busier schedules and comfort with ecommerce, customers are choosing those brands who provide

convenience in the way they like. Focusing on convenience as a driver throughout your customer’s experience could

help you attract and retain customers.

Learning By Doing: A Growing Experience

Next time you find yourself saying, “But I’ve never done that before” as an excuse to NOT do it – stop yourself. Set a

small goal and accomplish it. Then set a loftier one and accomplish that. You can do this.

Five Key Questi ons for Designing Your Ideal Customer

Experience

There is nothing more organic than how a passionate entrepreneur creates experiences for his or her customers. The experience often reflects who they are as a person, in

spite of their best efforts! Ask yourself these critical questions when scaling your business.

Customer Experience Improvement Via Innovati on

Innovation is often described as “building a better mousetrap.”If you don’t know what your customers are

expecting in the rest of the marketplace, it makes it difficult to build anything better. Do you pay attention to your

competitors?

Customer-Centric Performance Metrics

Determining what customer-centric performance metrics you track for your organization, especially as you grow, can determine if you will improve your customer experience or

leave it to chance. Here are the 5 basic ways to measure business performance.

Startup Growing Pains: What Would You Say to Help a New

Company?

As spans of control widen it gets harder for one person to hold it all together. There are many questions that an owner needs answering. Guest blogger James Lawther takes us inside the plight of a growing customer-centric

business. What advice would you give the owner?

Expert Advice: How to Drive Business Results With The

Peak-End Rule

The peak-end rule means creating memorable experience. The highs and the lows are what customers remember. Highs are great emotions. Lows are bad ones, like guilt. Learn how to understand what really matters to your

customers, then work it!

7 Ways Bad Customer Experience Teaches Business Growth

As you scale your business, there will undoubtedly be some terrible customer experiences along the way. But don’t

fret! Guest blogger Stefanie Amini has shared 7 ways your growing business can benefit from these experiences by

turning them into “Wow” experiences.

Microinteracti on of the Month: GrubHub Del ights Employees

You don’t have to send your employees on a posh escape to make them stay. It just takes some creativity,

consideration and willingness – and that’s my cue to present you the star of our July 2013 Microinteraction of

the Month: GrubHub!

Microinteracti on of the MonthCONTEST!

For the month of August, we want to feature a microinteraction from you! So share your favorite microinteractions with us for a chance to be featured in

our communities and to win the bestselling book, Youtility: why SMART MARKETING is about HELP not HYPE by Jay Baer!

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