Ignoring customer needs: Marketoon of the Week

Why go back to bad service?

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This week’s Marketoon taps into something that’s been on all our minds, or should be. Since the pandemic began, many customers have changed their behavior, engaging with companies through new channels at all times of day.

Fishburne’s take: Some of the desire for business to go back to normal is an illusion. Customer expectations will continue to evolve. The post-pandemic world will also have its own changing dynamics that will require businesses to keep up. A report released this week from January Digital and Foresight Research found that “50% of US consumers expect brands to retain and improve upon pandemic conveniences.” This creates an opportunity for organizations that can continue to keep pace. 



Why we care: Good service builds trust with customers, and advances like conversational AI make the increased engagement by customers manageable. Don’t forget, the more conversations and messages you have, the more feedback and data businesses obtain to further improve experience. It’s a virtuous circle accelerated by the pandemic.


About the author

Chris Wood
Staff
Chris Wood draws on over 15 years of reporting experience as a B2B editor and journalist. At DMN, he served as associate editor, offering original analysis on the evolving marketing tech landscape. He has interviewed leaders in tech and policy, from Canva CEO Melanie Perkins, to former Cisco CEO John Chambers, and Vivek Kundra, appointed by Barack Obama as the country's first federal CIO. He is especially interested in how new technologies, including voice and blockchain, are disrupting the marketing world as we know it. In 2019, he moderated a panel on "innovation theater" at Fintech Inn, in Vilnius. In addition to his marketing-focused reporting in industry trades like Robotics Trends, Modern Brewery Age and AdNation News, Wood has also written for KIRKUS, and contributes fiction, criticism and poetry to several leading book blogs. He studied English at Fairfield University, and was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. He lives in New York.

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