customer relationship management

Sophisticated customer relationship management places the cultivation of customer loyalty at the center of communication, service and marketing processes.

digital persons in front of suit-wearing man

#digital signage #brick and mortar retail

Foot traffic and behavioral analytics converge with digital signage

More customer loyalty based on invaluable information

Puzzleteile liegen auf dem Boden vestreut

#e-commerce #customer relationship management

Integrated shopping systems instead of data silos

How retailers can increase their efficiency in 2021

#customer satisfaction #brick and mortar retail

Lowe's introduces enhanced shopping experience for Pro customers

Exclusive offers, such as perks, new products and services

#customer satisfaction #customer relationship management

Touchless Feedback

The Wall Street Journal published an article about Instant Feedback ‘Smiley’ Buttons

Graphic from Zalando with lettering: A heart for stores when it is hard for...

#online trading #brick and mortar retail

Zalando onboards C&A to Connected Retail

Network passes 3.000 active stores mark

#customer relationship management #marketing

They're just not that into you

Consumer-brand relationship insights for marketers and brand communication

#customer satisfaction #brick and mortar retail

Shopping experience thanks to electronic shelf labels

A unique customer experience at new danish gaming store

A blue bird with glasses is looking at a smartphone with the twitter social...

#customer satisfaction #customer relationship management

Better customer care on Twitter leads to increase in customer satisfaction

Responses to queries on social media impact service quality perception

Children walk hand in hand through the shopping center...

#brick and mortar retail #customer relationship management

Come together: local retailers connect with local customers

The online platform Ladenfreun.de connects local retailers with potential customers. The common denominator: A product.

13.08.2020 #consulting #customer satisfaction

4 tips on how to handle customer complaints

How you can effectively respond to negative reviews and use them to be a benefit to your company

Most retailers don’t like customer complaints. Plus, they also mean extra work. Yet ignoring complaints is not a great long-term strategy because any bad customer experience can haunt your brand if it becomes public. That’s why retailers ...

12.08.2020 #customer satisfaction #customer relationship management

The importance of effective complaint management

A strategic and cross-channel approach to handling negative customer experiences

Customers are more demanding than ever, while brand loyalty is declining. Even a couple of negative experiences can alienate consumers and erode loyalty. Shoppers increasingly share bad reviews and complaints on public communication channels for ...

17.07.2020 #brick and mortar retail #customer relationship management

Upturn for brick and mortar retail in city centres?

Economic development and city marketing about current measures

Bonn's inner city – like all other cities in Germany – is struggling with the consequences of the Corona lockdown. We asked directly on site what support there is from the economic development and city marketing departments. This ...

29.05.2020 #customer satisfaction #customer relationship management

WhatsApp Business: A direct line to customers

About the installation, functions and advantages of the app

WhatsApp is a popular communication channel used by millions of people worldwide. Now small and medium-sized retailers or restaurants can use WhatsApp Business to quickly and easily engage and interact with their customers and build customer ...

31.03.2020 #consulting #customer relationship management

Our bot is happy to assist you

Chatbots and AI virtual assistants automate customer service

Chatbots and virtual assistants – some think they are creepy, others consider them a part of daily life. Either way, they patiently answer frequently asked questions related to the opening hours of the nearest supermarket.By now, some ...

26.02.2020 #customer satisfaction #customer relationship management

When is the customer especially HAPPY?

155.9 million data points from over 1,000 retailers globally reveals happiest and unhappiest retail seasons

Easter is the unhappiest major retail event of the year, while shoppers love Halloween shopping, according to data from the world’s leading customer feedback solution, HappyOrNot.The Finnish technology company, which works with retailers such ...

06.02.2020 #online trading #e-commerce

Next Level Point of Sale: The transformation of the buyer-seller dialogue

VR Payment at the EuroShop 2020

Tempora mutantur – and rather quickly. While the focus of interest in this sector has primarily been on online trade in recent years, analogue trade is currently moving back into the foreground. Competition among distribution channels is ...

13.01.2020 #customer satisfaction #customer relationship management

Blind Date is so yesterday! Know your customers!

Customer loyalty: Personalizing your customer communications – across all channels

Is brand loyalty dead? These days, consumers no longer buy the same brand of goods for life. They want personalized offers for products that meet their specific needs. That’s why it is more important than ever for retailers to retain and ...

11.11.2019 #customer satisfaction #brick and mortar retail

How to reinvigorate Germany's high street

Brick and mortar retail should focus on technology, especially Wi-Fi

It is not easy for the brick and mortar retail to assert itself in the course of the digital transformation and the competition from the online trade. Retail stores can upgrade with technology to stay competitive. An important factor that has been ...

24.09.2019 #customer satisfaction #customer relationship management

HappyOrNot CX360 leader insights

Do you know what type of experience customers expect from your brand?

The following is based on a June 2019 interview with Sami Hero, Chief Operating Officer at HappyOrNot’s global headquarters in Tampere, Finland. He spoke with freelance writer Tom Hagy of Philadelphia. In it we will share our thoughts and ...

16.09.2019 #customer satisfaction #mobile payment

retail trends 3/2019: focus "checkout zone"

Shopfitting, technology, marketing: What does a checkout have to do nowadays?

Read our latest edition retail trends 3-2019 online as an e-paper. ...

10.09.2019 #customer satisfaction #customer relationship management

Distract or divert!

How to engage customers at the checkout

Retailers and retail designers spend a considerable amount of time discussing and juggling a crucial aspect of the customer experience at the point of purchase: the checkout.To be fair, it’s not easy to turn the moment when customers have to ...

25.07.2019 #customer satisfaction #customer relationship management

91% of SMBs think customer reviews are critical

Survey about online customer reviews on platforms

Uberall, Inc., a location marketing solution for businesses, released new data on how small- and medium-sized businesses feel about online customer reviews across platforms like Yelp, TripAdvisor, Facebook, Instagram, Google and more. For the ...

18.07.2019 #customer satisfaction #customer relationship management

5 essentials for customer experience leaders

Gather customer feedback and analyze it

Customer experience is fundamental to your business and needs to be in your company’s strategy.However, CX leaders are challenged with what it means to spearhead these efforts. To improve their influence, and subsequent results, CX leaders can ...

03.06.2019 #digital signage #customer relationship management

Why digital signage pays off big!

The right content can increase sales and customer loyalty

The strategic use of digital signage can unquestionably lead to increased sales, a boosted impact of the sales floor, a new shopping experience, and a stronger brand image. However, emphasis is too often placed merely on technical innovations that ...

03.06.2019 #customer satisfaction #customer relationship management

retail trends 2/2019: focus "sales promotion"

How to win, serve, and keep customers

Read our latest edition retail trends 2-2019 online as an e-paper. ...

29.05.2019 #customer relationship management #marketing

Product ratings: customer-centricity is important

Global product ratings study: companies being pushed toward increased customer-centricity

Globally, 54% of companies consider product ratings to be very important to their business. For another 29%, they are somewhat important, while 17% think ratings are not important at all or that they don’t play any role yet. U.S. results ...

21.05.2019 #customer satisfaction #customer relationship management

Post-purchase communication: Well-informed customers are happier

Shipment tracking options and convenient returns management solutions

Harald Mösel from b.telligent asserts that retailers can set themselves apart from the competition with positive, unique post-purchase experiences. In this interview, he illustrates how companies can utilize post-purchase communication to ...

09.04.2019 #security #customer relationship management

Blockchain: Protecting the retail sector from counterfeit products

Fake products reduce consumer confidence in a brand

What if something would allow manufacturers, retailers and customers to verify at any time that a product on the shelf is authentic?Counterfeit products often look deceptively like the real deal, but the quality is inferior to the original goods and ...

28.03.2019 #customer relationship management #data protection

Retailers ask California to preserve customer loyalty programs

New privacy law becomes applicable in January 2020

The National Retail Federation and the California Retailers Association today asked state officials to preserve popular customer loyalty programs, protect businesses from potentially ruinous financial penalties and address other provisions of a new ...

25.03.2019 #customer satisfaction #customer relationship management

2019 Eptica Digital Trust Study

89% of consumers will switch brands if trust breaks down

UK brands are undermining consumer trust and risking revenues by failing to deliver consistent, multichannel customer service, according to the 2019 Eptica Digital Trust Study.Trust is increasingly central to customer relationships. 89 percent of ...

14.03.2019 #customer satisfaction #customer relationship management

The Guinness Storehouse in Dublin – a powerful customer magnet

Brand advertising with taps, creamy whitecaps, and hashtags

Just in time for Saint Patrick's Day, we turn our attention to arguably the favorite drink of the Irish: the iconic Guinness beer. Or, more precisely, the home of the stout: the Guinness Storehouse opened its doors in 2000 right in the heart of ...

02.01.2019 #data management #customer relationship management

Companies lose customers during online holiday promotions

Bad preference management equals frustrated customers

A recent survey from PossibleNOW uncovered that as many as 36 percent of businesses are not actively collecting customer preference data. Additionally, another 31 percent aren’t sure if they’re collecting this data. Many retailers will ...

26.10.2018 #multichannel commerce #customer relationship management

Superdata PromoServer – Customer loyalty as a factor of success

All instruments for customer loyalty and sales in a single solution

Customer loyalty programs play a central role in the retail industry in order to secure the customer’s favor with increasing competition. With the expansion of the sales and communications channels, the challenge of customer loyalty has ...

01.10.2018 #customer relationship management #shop planing

retail trends 3/2018

Topics: retail technology, content management, lighing, interior design, and many more

Have a look at our printed edition as an e-paper. Desire for real paper? We will send you the latest issue. Inquiries to: service@iXtenso.com Your iXtenso team ...

16.04.2018 #consulting #brick and mortar retail

Only what the boss himself would wear makes it onto the clothes hanger

Visiting the Herrenbude in Köln-Ehrenfeld

Custom, authentic and exclusive – words that describe the product selection of the small fashion store called Herrenbude in Köln Ehrenfeld (a city district of the German City of Cologne). It’s a concept that is able to keep up with ...

03.04.2018 #customer relationship management #digitization

Cash is trend

Smart cash handling in retail

There's life in the old dog yet – despite all the prophecies of doom, digitalisation is still failing to oust physical cash. A recent study by the European Central Bank shows that cash is and remains the most prominent payment method in ...

03.04.2018 #e-commerce #customer relationship management

Using chat to shop online

The integration of payment processes in messenger

A large portion of our days is spent on social networks, forums, blogs and messaging apps. There is still a lot of untapped potential for retailers who want to position themselves and their product choices in these settings. This applies especially ...

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29.03.2018 #customer satisfaction #customer relationship management

Electronic pricing optimizes customer experience and employee satisfaction

"The reduction of price errors is noticeable, and of course we are pleased to provide a much better customer experience." (Thomas Baeck)

In the end of 2017, Bauhaus in Tilst, Denmark, implemented electronic shelf labels on its more than 40,000 items. Since then, the electronic pricing has reduced the number of price errors significantly, increased the overall employee satisfaction on ...

29.03.2018 #customer satisfaction #customer relationship management

UK consumers demand better, more detailed answers from brands

94 percent say personalised answers will make them more loyal – with 84 percent switching to competitors if responses disappoint, according to Eptica research

Providing more detailed, personalised answers to consumer questions on their channel of choice is now key to winning and retaining customers – but brands in the UK are failing to meet rising expectations. 91 percent of consumers ...

15.02.2018 #customer satisfaction #customer relationship management

Omnichannel: engbers Männermode rolls out a new concept

Numerous background processes but only one payment process at the point of sale system

The men’s clothing store engbers has recently completed the test phase of a new omnichannel solution for its in-store point of sale systems. Now the rollout starts in all 320 stores throughout Germany and Austria. The implementation primarily ...

15.02.2018 #online trading #e-commerce

Unified Commerce: Mapping all processes in real time

Avoid "frustrating stumbling blocks in the shopper experience”

Once it was multichannel, then omnichannel and now unified commerce. With new software options, all the functions of a customer journey are supposed to be apparently invisible and run from a single source. Jean-Marc Thienpont, Managing Director POS ...

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29.01.2018 #consulting #customer satisfaction

What shop design can look like: The unique store of Mußler Beauty by Notino

Online/offline symbiosis: Inspired by Arabian bazaars and current trends

Mattias Mußler hired Dittel Architekten to implement his new fragrance and beauty product store concept. At Stuttgart’s Gerber shopping mall, the team created an impressive design, which optimally complements the company’s ...

29.01.2018 #online trading #customer satisfaction

Amazon is not the cause but the symptom

"Retailers must finally take advantage of their opportunities and stop complaining"

Regardless of what you might think of Amazon, in 2017, the internet giant has pioneered more innovations than any other entity. Amazon Flex, Prime Now, and Amazon Fresh are just some of the projects the U.S. company created to explore new ways to ...

24.10.2017 #customer relationship management #marketing research

Eye-catching labels stigmatize many healthy foods

Study finds that labels such as organic, fair-trade and cage free can impact consumer behavior

When customers walk down aisles of grocery stores, they are inundated with labels such as organic, fair-trade and cage free, just to name a few. Labels such as these may be eye-catching but are often free of any scientific basis and stigmatize many ...

19.10.2017 #customer satisfaction #customer relationship management

Music strengthens trust and reliability

Mood Media's before-and-after comparison shows the positive impact of music on the customer experience

Even branches away from the classical retail trade can have a positive effect on customers with the right music concept in their sales points. This is the result of a qualitative and quantitative study by Mood Media, the internationally leading ...

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15.10.2017 #mobile payment #customer relationship management

"Mobile payment can fail due to lack of knowledge and enthusiasm of checkout personnel"

Interview with Professor Ludwig Hierl of the DHBW Heilbronn

Out in the field, new technologies hinge on whether the people who use them also accept and adopt them. In this conversation with iXtenso, Professor Ludwig Hierl points out that things are still amiss when it comes to mobile and contactless payment ...

29.09.2017 #consulting #customer satisfaction

Brands failing to deliver on chat customer experience

Only 15 percent of consumers are always happy with their chat services, an Eptica study finds

Consumers increasingly want to use chat for customer service – but companies are failing to meet their changing expectations. Nearly three quarters (72 percent) of consumers say a good chat experience will make them more loyal – however ...

29.09.2017 #brick and mortar retail #customer relationship management

Smart retail through use of sensor technology

How brick-and-mortar retail can catch up to the informational edge of e-commerce

E-commerce has a clear advantage over brick-and-mortar retail when it comes to subjects like big data, personalization, and automation. Every time search and buying processes take place online, information about customers practically collects ...

14.09.2017 #customer satisfaction #customer relationship management

Top retail brands ranked with Personalization Index

The Retail Personalization Index ranks brands on the quality and degree of personalization in their customer experience.

Sailthru, the leading cross-channel experience management platform for the world's top retail and media companies, today announces the debut of its first annual Retail Personalization Index, a ranking of 100 top retail brands according to how ...

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31.08.2017 #brick and mortar retail #customer relationship management

Carrefour Belgium brings its convenience stores in Brussels metro and train stations

Offering is combining shopping practicality with customer mobility

To forge ever closer relationships with its customers, Carrefour Belgium has expanded its convenience store network with the opening of two new Carrefour Express stores. They will allow the Group to provide a tailored offering combining shopping ...

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