Limit(ed) Options: CX and the Problem of Choice
Generally it’s assumed that having more options is innately better than just a few, right? For many customers, that may not be true.
Social Media Vocabulary: Sound Strategies for Listening to Customers
What is a social media listening strategy and why is it important?
CM Your Way to Better CX: Community Management Best Practices
Your CX process should always leave room for contingency, surprise and delight. We would like to suggest a few best CM practices that should be an integral part of your broader CX process. If done correctly, your process should improve your CM efficiency, and ultimately make your customers love you.
Level Up: Strategies to Improve Your CX
Welcome back to another edition of Salty Waffle Social Media Vocabulary, where we cover everything from hashtags to brand strategies and how they relate to CX. As previously discussed, CX is now an integral part of branding. Accordingly it should top your list when creating your brand identity and marketing strategy. Continuing our series on…
Mastering the Elements: Avatar Your Customer to Increase User Engagement
Overview Our regional real estate client Henry’s Home Investments sought to grow their business both geographically and financially. We’ll start by defining a Customer Avatar, then we’ll outline the process of creating a customer avatar, and ultimately how it affected user engagement for Henry’s. What is a Customer Avatar? A Customer Avatar (CA) is a fictional…
Salty Social Media Vocabulary: Put it to the People
Welcome back to Salty Social Media Vocabulary. Today we’re chatting all things collaborative and crowd-sourced. Many brands—especially smaller startups—have moved away from traditional focus-group style testing, and instead try different means through which to market-test ideas and solicit user feedback. Not only do some of these strategies help cover overhead costs, but they also create…
Salty Social Media Vocabulary: Content to Plan Content
Welcome to another edition of Salty’s Social Media Vocabulary. Over the past two weeks we talked about customer journey maps and how they can help grow your business and improve your customer’s experience. In the example map, many customer points of contact happen by way of social media. As such, this week we’re discussing another…
Salty Social Media Vocabulary: More on That Customer Journey
Last week we talked about building customer journey maps, and how they can help you understand your business and improve the customer experience. This week we’re covering a few related topics that we use at Salty Waffle to help our clients improve their customer experience. Experience Map: is a slightly more nuanced take on the…
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Salty Social Media Vocabulary: Mapping Your Customer Journey
Welcome back to another edition of Salty Social Media Vocabulary. After a couple of weeks of Instagram hashtags, we’ve decided to bring it back to customer experience. One of our favorite tools we use with clients is a customer journey map. A customer journey map is a visual representation of every point of contact between…
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Salty Social Media Vocabulary: In the News
With the increasing number of Americans who get their news online and on social media, we thought it might be a good time to touch on news and how it relates to social media. Because the exchange of information in itself is not a simple topic, we’ll also be covering some adjacent and related topics….