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CX disconnects continue to plague brands: More than 80 percent of consumers had poor experiences with online retailers last year

Agility PR Solutions

What will it take to give consumers the experience they want in a transactional exchange? Or are most brands and businesses simply unable to put together a seamless process on their purchase pages and customer service interactions? Are they just too picky?

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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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The changing face of retail—and the new marketing mandate for stellar service and CX

Agility PR Solutions

As we turn our sights to a recovering retail economy, one vestige of the COVID experience will be sticking around for the foreseeable future—customer service is now so important for retailers and marketers that a whopping 90 percent of consumers say they would not shop with a retailer again if they provided bad customer service […].

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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. Connect with your customers on their preferred social shopping platform.

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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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What B2C Can Learn From B2B PR

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

B2B public relations is widely perceived as the nerdy cousin to consumer PR’s popular girl. Having already noted what B2B PR people can learn from their colleagues who run consumer brand accounts, I think the reverse is also true. The same trend is happening in consumer sectors, thanks to social media.

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PR and social media set for continued growth

Stuart Bruce

For example, last autumn, an initiative by British Gas, which is owned by FTSE 100 group Centrica, to use its Twitter account to promote customer service was greeted by hundreds of tweets pouring scorn on the company’s decision to raise energy prices ahead of winter.”.