Archive for category: Customer Experience

How To Steer Clear of Potholes in Your Customer Experience Strategy

How To Steer Clear of Potholes in Your Customer Experience Strategy

2 Kelly Hushin / March 27, 2012 11:37 pm

There are a lot of routes you could take in attempting to nail a customer experience strategy for your organization. How do you know what’s the right answer? What efforts will bring better brand recognition, increased loyalty and a proven [...]

Frugality Drove Me To Luxury Brands

Frugality Drove Me To Luxury Brands

0 Amol Tembe / March 23, 2012 4:15 pm

The below post is from friend and colleague, Amol Tembe, who also happens to be my boss! This is the first of many posts you’ll see in the coming weeks where I and/or my colleagues talk frankly about ecommerce, mobile [...]

How to Integrate Customer Voice into Web Experiences via Customer Service

How to Integrate Customer Voice into Web Experiences via Customer Service

0 etailblog / March 21, 2012 4:05 pm

Starbucks’ CEO Howard Schultz is known for involving team members in the decision-making process at his company. When employees have a stake in authorship, they also feel a stake in the outcome, goes the theory. Integrating the voice of the [...]

How & Why to Implement Website Recommendations…NOW!

How & Why to Implement Website Recommendations…NOW!

0 etailblog / March 12, 2012 3:40 pm

Forrester Research has predicted that online retail sales will reach nearly $300 billion in the United States alone by 2015. As more across the globe turn to the web for gift ideas and for shopping transactions, retailers who expect to [...]

2 Customer Experiences Illustrate the Power of a Good One

2 Customer Experiences Illustrate the Power of a Good One

0 Kelly Hushin / March 8, 2012 2:51 pm

The talk of the hour in retail and any other business model that deals with customer service (and what kind of business doesn’t, really?), is all about improving the customer experience. Why is this such a hot topic today? We [...]

Jay Shaffer’s ‘One Thing’ is a Customer Service MUST!

Jay Shaffer’s ‘One Thing’ is a Customer Service MUST!

0 Kelly Hushin / February 8, 2012 2:33 pm

Jay Shaffer, Chief Marketing Officer, California Delicious, chose a ‘One Thing’ that will probably set a light bulb off for many of you as retailers, especially online retailer, also can’t live without it. What is it? Customer Service. And more [...]

Barnes & Noble’s 2 Questions to Ask about Loyalty Programs

Barnes & Noble’s 2 Questions to Ask about Loyalty Programs

0 Kelly Hushin / December 15, 2011 4:42 pm

The average American household today belongs to about 14 loyalty programs. FOURTEEN. Can you guess how many of those are active? On average: six. This is according to Marc Parrish, VP, Membership and Loyalty at Barnes & Noble. Amid such [...]

Barnes & Noble on ‘Loyalty Programs in a Noisy World’

Barnes & Noble on ‘Loyalty Programs in a Noisy World’

0 Kelly Hushin / August 10, 2011 4:37 pm

Loyalty programs aren’t exactly new. If you thought they were – consider this: in the 1950’s there were Raleigh cigarette coupons and Topps baseball cards. In the 1960’s S&H Green Stamps’ rewards catalog was the largest publication in the U.S. [...]

Gathering Priceless Customer Feedback: 8 Tips & Tricks

Gathering Priceless Customer Feedback: 8 Tips & Tricks

0 Kelly Hushin / March 30, 2011 4:43 pm

We bring you our second edition of weekly posts from our friends at Retail Online Integration. This time we discuss customer feedback – an invaluable asset as it often tells you something that can help improve your customers’ experience. Leave [...]

Focus on Customer Experience Not Channels

Focus on Customer Experience Not Channels

0 Kelly Hushin / March 16, 2011 1:18 pm

We’ve found another great blog written by an attendee to eTail West 2011. This time around, we talk customer experience – a hot topic for many of the online retailers at the conference. Wanda Cadigan first posted this on Cactus/blog, [...]