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2023 omnichannel customer service overview: Product knowledge up, personalization down

Agility PR Solutions

An uncertain economic environment and changing consumer behavior is causing a major shift in the retail industry, now underpinned more by customer experience and engagement than more traditional measures such as quality and price (although those features remain key)—one in three shoppers will switch to a new brand after one bad experience, affirms (..)

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Managing the Aftermath of a Digital PR Crisis

5W PR

The latter includes direct, continual contact with fans and customers. The opportunity to engage, to solve problems, and to influence the narrative about and around the brand in the consumer public. When that happens, the issue should be dealt with carefully and directly… But what comes next?

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Ecommerce for Social Media 2024: Ultimate Guide

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

Major social media platforms are stepping up their game by providing retailers with specialized tools for social commerce. But, if you’re an online retailer with your website and store, you can also lead customers to your site for extra benefits. Big names like Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and TikTok are all in on this.

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How to Engineer the Perfect PR Metric

Cision

Advertising Value Equivalency (AVE) (the measurement equivalent of the self-esteem movement), justifies what you have by what it would have cost if you’d bought it. There are plenty of different software packages that offer unique ways to capture and measure PR data, but there is still an unsatisfying aspect to these.

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Want to Build Trust Online? Don’t Neglect Customer Reviews.

Rock the Status Quo

Most restaurants and retail businesses make an effort – smart ones realizing just how much new business they fuel – but monitoring is slim-to-nonexistent for many other types of businesses and there’s no effort made to grow the volume of reviews. Customer service or sales? Read more ).

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3 Ways to Turn Weak Market Share into an Asset

Cision

In 2010, Professor Neeru Paharia was the lead author on a paper titled “The Underdog Effect: The Marketing of Disadvantage and Determination through Brand Biography” and published in the Journal Of Consumer Research. According to the research, the effect works because it resonates with consumers who self-identify as underdogs.

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5 Common Misperceptions of Social Customers

Cision

Black Friday 2015 has come and gone, and one trend dominated all others: more and more people are purchasing online rather than shopping at brink-and-mortar retailers. Social care (customer service) continues to be one of the top reasons that people initiate social media interactions with brands. Conclusion. ”