Our customer advocates trust us. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t be advocates. They want that trust to continue and we need to do our part of this. Sadly, businesses lose advocates daily. Often, this stems more from neglect than from anything we do. The video below looks at five principles for maintaining trust and keeping the momentum going. This video …
Customer advocacy has the potential to strengthen your organization and transform customers into enthusiastic brand advocates. But you have to unleash it, whether you’re developing customer advocacy within a team, a department, or across the organization, you’ll need an ongoing approach to guide your efforts. In the following video from the LinkedIn Learning Course, Customer Advocacy, you can learn about …
Many of the best decisions you make as a customer service leader will come by putting yourself in your customers’ shoes, really seeing things as they do. In a recent LinkedIn Learning Course that I recorded, Customer Service Leadership, I include some suggestions for doing that and some sources of insight to consider. Each source of insight has a story …
Do you know who your company’s brand advocates are? Do you recognize and engage with them? If you answered no to these questions, you may be missing a huge opportunity. Customer advocacy creates what some refer to as your most powerful sales force. Learn more about the benefits of brand advocacy in this recent Lynda.com video from my course Customer …
Customer advocacy is one of those terms that can be confusing. Does the customer advocate for us, the business? Or is it the other way around? One of the past issues of The Edge of Service® Newsletter suggests the answers to these questions is both! Take a few minutes to read this issue (The Edge of Service® Newsletter Issue 21: …
Lynda.com has given me the opportunity to record a few courses for their library. It’s been a great experience. One of the most recent courses is on Customer Advocacy – what it is, how it’s done and how to maximize its benefits. If you are interested in how to empower employees to be customer advocates and how to encourage customers …
Customer advocacy refers to both how a company advocates for customers (doing what’s best for customers) and how customers advocate for companies (spreading the word about its products, services and brand). Both are vital to success today. Here’s a video from my just released Lynda.com course to explain why. The entire course is titled Customer Advocacy and is available at …
