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Lesson #10: B2B VoC and B2C VoC Are Completely Different

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Who are your customers? Are they businesses ( B2B ) or consumers ( B2C )? The answer to this question is key to creating a world-class VoC program. While VoC looks different in B2B than in B2C, the idea of using it to retain customers and reduce churn is still central to both. VoC In Both Worlds.

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B2B Voice-of-the-Customer: Integrating Decision Influencers’ Views

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B2B Voice-of-the-Customer: Integrating Decision Influencers’ Views Lynn Hunsaker. Picture this: in deciding whether to rebuy from your company, the customer’s general manager and purchasing agent are neutral, the end-users are supportive, the safety department gives their approval, but the facilities manager rejects it.

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Understanding Business-to-Business Purchase Decisions for Customer Experience Management

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Understanding Business-to-Business Purchase Decisions for Customer Experience Management Lynn Hunsaker. Does your business-to-business (B2B) customer survey portfolio monitor expectations of everyone who impacts buying decisions? Yet, today few B2B suppliers pay attention to these facts.

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How to Gain Leadership Buy-In for VoC. HINT: Show Them The $$$

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In turn, the best way to secure executive sponsorship in VoC is to demonstrate that improving the customer experience pays big returns. Then begin to create your own internal business case for VoC. Public information is the first place to begin and often the only place to start if you have no VoC in place.

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Value Chain Solution to VoC ROI

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Value Chain Solution to VoC ROI Lynn Hunsaker. Voice-of-the-customer (VoC) ROI can be elusive unless you’re adamantly driving customer experience transformation. The key to VoC maturity and ROI is not sophistication or breadth of market research. What is a value chain? That is mutual value creation.

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Is Operations Involved in Customer Experience?

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This progress was achieved by engaging employees company-wide in coordinating customer-focused improvements across Operations, Marketing, Service and other functional areas. She had a hunger for voice-of-the customer (VoC) data and drove cross-functional improvements. Go beyond traditional VoC.

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Survey Health Is Everything. The Success of Your VoC Program (And Probably Your Job) Depends on It.

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Let’s start with the obvious… if survey health is poor, nothing else you do with your VoC program will matter. The quality of your questions won’t matter, the beauty of your dashboards won’t matter, and your case management workflow won’t matter either. For B2B , we see response rates as high as 50%. Watch the clock.

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