A recent survey of marketing professionals revealed that only 48% of companies measure customer lifetime value (CLV) aka LTV. How to Calculate Customer Lifetime Value Perhaps this is due to a focus on short term revenue metrics in order to please private equity overlords, or maybe there is not a mechanism to capture the value of a Read more…
CX, DX, UX, XM… the definition of experience is as varied as the thing itself. No two experiences are the same – no matter how much process and automation is involved. Because experience includes another x-factor – context. What is Experience Context? Very simply, context is the who, what where, when, how, why questions. Which buyer persona? Read more…
There is a certain mis-match between the idea that Millenials want differentiated experiences, are not interested in old-fashioned ideas of materialistic ownership and the rampant acquisition of drop-shipped, mass-market stuff flooding cloned pop-up Shopify Ecommerce sites around the world. But because of this idea – that experience is the point of difference, the word has been co-opted Read more…
As I moderated 5 different panels at Virtual Seamless KSA last week, there was an overarching theme – customer experience is at the fore-front of the ecommerce and retailing. The merging of the digital with the physical world, a kind of augmented reality, the experience that customers go through is the key determinant. What struck me in Read more…
A few months ago, I wrote an opinion piece about how the actions of companies and brands during lock-down would be remembered by customers for a long time. Under pressure, some brands threw the strategy out the window and instead used short-term tactics to try and bring in revenue. And there is nothing wrong with that – Read more…
There are a lot of acronyms and jargon in that headline. So let’s start by unpacking what they mean. CX – Customer Experience. CX is shorthand for Customer Experience. At Aquitude we believe that CX is something that should be top of mind for everyone in the company. It’s like a river that has many sources and Read more…