Tag Archives: Guest Experience

Communities Over Personas: The New Social Media Marketing Trend

“Communities” will replace the old model of marketing personas, according to a recent report. For decades, many companies have used “personas,” a description of their target audiences for marketing. For example, a brand publishing marketing content on its website may instruct the writer to aim content at one of its audiences such as “goal-setting millennials,” ‘Baby Boomers nearing retirement” or “tech-savvy Gen Xers” by providing personas of character traits within that audience group. However,...

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5 Customer Satisfaction Survey Turnoffs and What to Do Instead

These common survey mistakes can prompt customers to send your survey straight to the trash. Americans receive billions of customer satisfaction and feedback surveys a year. While many consumers are happy to answer a few questions about their experience, many others suffer from “survey fatigue” and have no desire to complete one more customer satisfaction survey. At the same time, the inundation of surveys and resulting fatigue present tough challenges for businesses and organizations seeking fe...

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Want Your Business on Google’s Home Page? Learn Search Engine Optimization

It sounds complicated, but it doesn’t have to be. Only the desperate scroll to the second page of a Google search. So while social media and other kinds of marketing are important, getting onto that front page can make a huge difference for site and in-store traffic. Search engine optimization (SEO) makes that possible by increasing your visibility. But looking up SEO lessons can lead to hefty paragraphs with a bunch of undefined words. Don’t let yourself get bogged down by the jargon. SEO reall...

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6 Steps for Creating a Customer Experience Strategy

Having a customer experience strategy in place helps boost revenue and build customer loyalty. Nearly half (45 percent) of 1,920 business professionals surveyed placed “customer experience” as the top business priority for the next five years, according to customer relationship management software company SuperOffice. Yet less than half of all the organizations surveyed plan to invest in a customer experience strategy next in 2023, even though “Companies who successfully implement a customer exp...

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5 Customer Service and Guest Experience Trends to Watch in 2023

Today’s customers expect digital communication and mobile options with a human touch and self-service methods that offer convenience and efficiency. Want to boost revenue and loyalty for your business or organization in 2023? You can start by improving your customer service and guest experience. More customers will walk away from a company after a bad experience, which makes the customer experience the “new battlefield” among industry competitors, according to customer service software provider ...

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Protecting the Guest Experience from Hotel and Restaurant Cyber Attacks

Take these steps to protect guest privacy and your hotel or restaurant from cyber attacks. The hospitality industry ranks second in cyber security breaches, after the retail sector, with customers’ sensitive, personal information frequently stolen and sold to criminals on the dark web, according to “The Unwelcome Guest: Cyber Threats in the Hospitality Sector,” a white paper from Distinguished, a specialty program insurance provider. “With the treasure trove of personal data the hospitality indu...

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How the Guest Experience is Changing in the Fabric Industry

Working with textiles may appear to be a dying art, but professionals in the industry are adapting to keep that from happening. As one of few under the age of 40 employed at my fabric store, I am often reminded by patrons that the art of sewing is dying out – or so it seems. I belong to a new generation of quilters and crafters. I’ve spoken with many longtime professionals about their experience in the fabric industry and how their jobs have changed in just the last few years, and I’ve seen how ...

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Report Finds Disconnect Between What Consumers Want and What Businesses Think

Think you already know the top self-service options your customers prefer? You may be surprised at what options survey respondents cite as most important. There are serious disparities when it comes to technologies that consumers want and those that businesses “believe” consumers expect, according to the “2022 Digital-First Customer Experience Report” from NICE, a customer experience cloud-based platform. The report is based on survey results from 1,000 consumers and 320 people in senior managem...

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4 Customer Service Trends That Shape Today’s Banking Guest Experience

These top customer service trends make banking more convenient and up-to-date for loyal and new bank customers alike. Customer service in banking is the “new marketing battlefront” among financial institutions and other companies, according to a customer experience (CX) marketing survey from industry insight and business guidance company Gartner. “More than two-thirds of marketers responsible for CX say their companies compete mostly on the basis of CX,” according to the survey. “And in two year...

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5 Amenities and Extras That Will Delight Family Travelers

Add these family-friendly features to make your hotel a go-to destination for family groups. More than eight in 10 parents (85%) say they are likely or very likely to travel with their kids in the next year, according to the 2022 US Family Travel Survey from the Family Travel Association. "Demand for travel in larger family groups also remains strong," the survey states, noting that almost half of travelers (47 percent) have a multi-generational trip in the works. Both multi-day international tr...

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