At Forrester CXNYC 2015 in New York Howard Beader, Vice President Product Marketing at SDL discussed brand relationships and customer experience. He then joined forces with Andreas Meier, Head of Business Development for Fashion Days Group to talk about customer experience in retail.
Fashion Days with Howard Beader & Andreas Meier at Forrester #CXNYC 2015
1. SDL Proprietary and Confidential
Brand Relationships:
The Good Is Expected
The Bad Goes Viral
Howard Beader, VP Marketing, SDL
@SDL @HBeader
2. The Brand-Customer Relationship
New Global SDL CX Research
○ Where does customer experience go wrong?
○ Can you ever win back ex-customers?
○ What gets customers to recommit?
@SDL
@HBeader
3. 3
The Good is Expected, The Bad is Remembered…
2 out of 3 recalled a MAJOR customer
experience failure over the last 10 years
…less than half remembered a success
@SDL @HBeader
5. 5
Where the Experience Goes Wrong
Purchase
21% of failures
happen during the
buying process
First Use
17% are lost
during the first
engagement
Support
32% of failures
happen during
post-sale
@SDL @HBeader
10. 10
19% want discounts on future
purchases
What Actually Will Win Them Back
30% want to see improvement/change
as result of their bad experience
But…@SDL @HBeader
11. The sweet spot for success is the combination of
people, process and technology
Customer service was cited in
3 of the top 4 reasons for positive CX
Getting it Right: The Human Touch
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“Forrester Research, January, 2014
The Convergence of Brand, Customer Experience and Marketing
Customer Experience
Demands a New Set of
CMO Priorities
”
14. FASHION DAYS
FROM FLASH SALES
TO RETAIL
Forrester CXNYC 2015
Andreas Meier, Head of Business Development
Fashion Days Group
New York, 16 June 2015
15. • FOUNDED IN 2009
• PART OF NASPERS GROUP
• OPERATING IN 7 COUNTRIES
• OVER 7 MIO CUSTOMERS
• MORE THAN 500 000 PRODUCTS
• OVER 1000 BRANDS
• CA 30% SALES ON MOBILE
• OVER 1.6 MIO FACEBOOK FANS
ABOUT FASHION DAYS
The #1 Fashion Destination in Central and Eastern Europe
16. FROM FLASH SALES TO RETAIL
Two different business models compared
CHARACTERISTICS OF FLASH SALES CHARACTERISTICS OF RETAIL
ADDICTIVE & ENTERTAINING RELIABLE & CONVENIENT
SELECTED CUSTOMER GROUP EVERYBODY
VISUAL BROWSING NAVIGATING
LIFESTYLE DRIVEN PRODUCT DRIVEN
NEW PRODUCTS EVERY DAY SAME PRODUCTS EVERY DAY
DISCOVERY SEARCH
VIRAL & REPEAT SEO & PURCHASED TRAFFIC
25. TAKE AWAYS
MOVE QUICKLY, BUT TAKE CUSTOMERS WITH YOU
LEARN FROM THE BEST
A CHANGE OF BUSINESS MUST BE PLANNED CAREFULLY
DON’T THINK ABOUT FEATURES, THINK ABOUT CUSTOMERS
New Global SDL Research: Surveyed 5000 consumers across 9 countries and 4 generations about their most major customer experience failure in the last 10 years
We learn more from the failures than the successes.
[FANTASTIC CX IN LAST 10 YEARS?]
We asked these 3000 customers to tell us about the worst customer experience they can remember over the last 10 years.
And we also asked them to tell us about the best experience they could remember in the same timeframe.
So of the 2/3 that did report a major customer experience failure, now we’re going to drill down on those negative experiences
So, we’ve talked about the data and what happens when customers experience a brand failure , now let’s take at why brands fail customers.
Pre-purchase You were just in the process of investigating products and services from ^f('QS7')^ and evaluating options
Shopping / Purchase You had made the decision to buy from ^f('QS7')^ and were in the process of shopping / buying.
Initial Impressions You had spent money with the company. After you had purchased products / services from ^f('QS7')^
Product / Service Experience You had enough time to evaluate the product / service from ^f('QS7')^ thoroughly, and ful
Post-Sale Support You were in the process of reaching back out to ^f('QS7')^ for service / support help.
Re-Purchase You were in the process of buying more products or services from ^f('QS7')^
[JOURNEYSTAGE - OF CX FAIL]
Q1.1. The statements below show a journey from just discovering a brand or company for the first time to becoming an active advocate of the brand. Read each statement and select the ONE that best describes how you feel about your relationship with <FAILNAME> when the failure happened.
[ATTEMPT RESOLUTION]
Q4.1 At any point in your engagement with <FAILNAME>, did you attempt to resolve the failure?
Yes
No [SKIP TO Q4.4]
d/k / Not applicable [SKIP TO Q4.4]
[<FAILNAME> EVER RECOVER?]
Q4.5 Would you ever become a customer of <FAILNAME> again?
Yes, it’s possible. [SKIP TO Q4.7]
No, it will never happen again. [SKIP TO Q4.7]
FILTER WHERE ‘YES’ FROM Q4.4 ABOVE
[BEHAVIOR CHANGE AFTER WON BACK]
Q4.8 After <FAILNAME> won you back as a customer, which of the following apply to how your attitudes and behaviors changed in your dealings with <FAILNAME>?
I’m MUCH less loyal than ever before – I’m actively looking for alternatives
I’m a little less loyal than before – it wouldn’t take a lot for me to go elsewhere to get what I need
Nothing has changed.
I’m a little more loyal than before – it would take a lot for me to go elsewhere to get what I need
I’m MUCH more loyal than ever before – I like what I get from them, and I’m a big advocate
Look at by Demo.
Look @ by journey phase.
So the stakes are very high as once they customer is gone changes are low that they will come back and they will be less loyal and spend less money when they do. but the good news is that our data did show that the vast majority of customers WANT to try to fix Customer Experience issues as they experience them – they aren’t starting out WANTING to foster a bad brand experience.
So now we are going to see what customers said would help repair the relationship – or prevent it from breaking up in the first place.
What REALLY Gets Customers to Recommit?
[WHAT DID THEY DO TO WIN YOU BACK?]
Q4.6 What did <FAILNAME> do to win you back after the failure? (Select all that apply)
[WHAT COULD THEY DO TO WIN YOU BACK?]
Q4.7 What could <FAILNAME> do to win you back after the failure? (Select all that apply)
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Talk Track
SDL is uniquely positioned to work across your whole organisation
Delivering empowerment to the people that need it
but with the centralised control that you need
Bringing together all pieces of the puzzle
Simplifying complexity
And ultimately impacting customer experience in profound ways!
Pick one of the case study statements
Talk Track
SDL is the only company 100% focused on CX, which means 100% of our R&D, professional services, and customer support time is spent on delivering the best possible customer experience solutions and services
We focus on the entire customer experience journey – with offerings to help the digital marketer, eCommerce professional, Customer Support and IT Professional
SDL delivers seamless, contextual experiences at each point of the customer journey – across channels, devices and languages
SDL makes it easy for departments and divisions to share, collaborate and deliver against their CX imperative
Objective of the slide: Position SDL’s strengths mapped to the customer’s problems
What is the key point: SDL is best because…