User Generated Content: Your Next CX Strategy

User Generated Content: Your Next CX Strategy

Hey yo, and welcome back to Salty Social Media Vocabulary, where we cover all things social media strategy, customer experience design, and everything around and in-between. Today we’re discussing why generated content is both an essential part of a sound social media strategy and smart customer experience design. User Generated Content, or UGC, is when a…

CM Your Way to Better CX: Community Management Best Practices

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.

Salty Social Media Vocabulary: CxD is the New Brand

Salty Social Media Vocabulary: CxD is the New Brand

Welcome back to another edition of Salty’s Social Media Vocabulary. Instead of our regular list of vocab words, we’re going to discuss customer service design, a topic that’s near and dear to us (and most successful brands). We’ve talked about customer experience design before, and we’d like to expand on how CxD should be a…

Mastering the Elements: Avatar Your Customer to Increase User Engagement

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: More on That Customer Journey

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…

Salty Social Media Vocabulary: Mapping Your Customer Journey

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…

A Helpful Guide to Understanding Customer Experience Design for SMBs

A Helpful Guide to Understanding Customer Experience Design for SMBs

When shopping with Amazon, is your experience positive? You see their ads and place your orders, they send helpful messages and let you leave feedback about your purchase. This is all part of the customer experience. McKinsey Research indicates that 70% of buying is based on how customers feel. Therefore, it’s important for businesses to…