One of the complaints the majority of B2B buyers have about vendors is that they are too busy selling their products and services to listen to their needs. With this in mind, a survey [download page] from ValueSelling Associates and Training Industry shows that high...
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Retail Banks Overtake Credit Unions in Customer Satisfaction
For years credit unions have enjoyed a higher level of customer satisfaction than retail banks in the US. This trend changed in 2019 when, according to customer satisfaction data [download page] from the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), retail banks...
Marketers Are Looking At Retention and Satisfaction Rates to Determine CX Success
Marketers in both B2B and B2C sectors view optimizing customer experience as one of the biggest opportunities for this year, but how are they measuring the success of their customer experience efforts? A recent Ascend2 survey [download page] of roughly 300 B2B and B2C...
Pinterest Leads the Pack in Social Media Customer Satisfaction
For the second consecutive year social media users have a relatively low level of satisfaction with the platforms they use as a whole, per a report [download page] from the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). The ACSI measures customer satisfaction with 46...
Consumers Expect Customer Service Agents to Know Their Engagement History
An overwhelming majority (95%) of retail customers say they try to resolve an issue online at least some of the time, with two-fifths (42%) trying to resolve their issue online first most of the time. That being said, a new survey [download page] by Radial and CFI...
The Failure to Make Websites Accessible is Leading to More Lawsuits
In a time when large companies are having substantial fines levied on them for breaching GDPR regulations, it’s important to remember that data privacy isn’t the only area where businesses need to be diligent. Website accessibility is another area covered by...
Consumers Look to Tech to Improve Their Shopping Experience
Consumers are seeing an improved experience due to shopping technologies and innovations for online (80%), in-store (66%) and mobile (63%) shopping. The use of intelligent automation is not slowing down either, per a new report [download page] for the National Retail...
Pay-TV Services Still Lag in Customer Satisfaction
Video streaming continues to gain a competitive edge on traditional TV. Earlier this year, a study found that more US consumers subscribe to a video streaming service than to pay-TV. Adding fuel to the fire, now a new report [download page] from the American Customer...
Amazon Cedes E-Commerce Customer Satisfaction Crown
Amazon has for many years been the king of e-commerce by several measures, including brand valuation, where shoppers begin their searches, time spent on e-commerce websites, and even as a place for retailers to spend their advertising dollars. Jeff Bezos is...
In Hindsight, What Would Retail Marketers Do Differently to Maximize Their MarTech Investments?
If given the opportunity to do it all over again with marketing technology, there are at least a few things marketers would do differently to make it more effective. Coming top of that list, according to a report [download page] from Forrester and Listrak, is having...
New Deck: Top 20 B2B Marketing Charts of 2018
From buyer-vendor relationships to demand generation and events, our collection of 2018's top B2B marketing charts reveals some of the most important trends in buyers' path to engagement, while also finding that vendors are making advances but have to room to grow in...
Retailers See Many Benefits From Recurring Revenue Programs
Marketing leaders typically spend more on acquisition rather than retention, but the results of a recent Ordergroove survey [download page] of more than 150 retail industry professionals may indicate a growing emphasis on winning repeat business: some 83% of...

What’s The Most Over-Used Buzzword in Advertising?
It’s not “cookieless” – although if you guessed that you’d have quite a lot of company.

B2B Marketers Intend to Implement Separate ABM Metrics, but Face Obstacles
6 in 10 B2B marketers intend to implement separate ABM measurement and analysis in the next year.

What Are Retailers Finding Tough About Customer Acquisition?
Retailers are looking to move beyond a reliance on Meta and Google.

Consumers Look to Tech to Improve Their Shopping Experience
Consumers are seeing an improved experience due to shopping technologies and innovations for online (80%), in-store...

Pay-TV Services Still Lag in Customer Satisfaction
Video streaming continues to gain a competitive edge on traditional TV. Earlier this year, a study found that more US...

Amazon Cedes E-Commerce Customer Satisfaction Crown
Amazon has for many years been the king of e-commerce by several measures, including brand valuation, where shoppers...