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Adjusting Your Retail Brand Experience To Evolving Consumer Expectations

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As consumer purchasing options widen, it becomes increasingly challenging for retail organizations to foster a brand identity that connects with evolving consumer expectations. Once you have collected enough information about the market-at-large, your brand can begin to adjust its experience to meet these evolving consumer desires.

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Why listening to customers matters in a recession

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How can you stay relevant to consumers in a competitive market - especially one under the pressure of a recession? By listening to your customers. It seems obvious, but according to Hubspot research , 42% of businesses don’t survey their customers or collect feedback. Do you want to win them back? Food became a $1.8

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Use Customer Feedback To Support, Not Punish, Your Employees

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Brands should strive to be as receptive to customer feedback as possible, collecting a trove of information that can then be converted into tangible changes to the way your team interacts with consumers. This feedback can be acquired in several different fashions, including voice of customer survey and mystery shopping programs.

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How Can Your Retail Brand Compete Against Amazon?

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Organizations that provide a unique, individualized value to their customers, both within their brick-and-mortar locations and online, will always have a place in this landscape, because the sheer size of Amazon prevents them from reaching individuals in this fashion. 1 [link]. 3,4,5 [link].

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Do Your Employees Know What Customers Are Saying About Your Brand?

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Understanding how consumers view your organizations plays a huge role in your employees’ ability to establish beneficial relationships with customers. Thus, implementing measurement programs as a tool to capture this customer feedback data has become an integral aspect of any Customer Experience platform.

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What Your Luxury Retail Brand Can Gain From Mystery Shopping

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Luxury retail is a space dominated by brands with consistently great reputations, because trust serves a foundational pillar in the relationships formed between consumers and brands. 1] The data that is collected, filtered and analyzed in a mystery shopping initiative can help your team build towards this level of trust with consumers.

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The Best Ways To Provide Customer Service Via Live Chat

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There is a massive opportunity for brands operating within digital channels to optimize the way they communicate with and provide service to consumers online. 1] However, to truly make an impact on how customers perceive your brand’s eCommerce ability requires a significant investment of time, training and resources. 1,2,3,4 [link].