Customer Engagement
Virtual Reality: Ready for Its Close-Up
It’s time to call virtual reality out for what it is – a reality. Virtual reality is no longer cutting its teeth but is, instead, growing exponentially in terms of market share with nearly untapped reserves when it comes to digital marketing. Virtual reality (VR) quickly ingratiated itself across industries by affording training technologies, testing procedures, and product development applications that are difficult to duplicate – or rival. Let’s dig in.
Your Search Bar: A Big Deal You Should Deal With
The future of search is now. Your customers and potential customers alike can go directly to your site’s handy-dandy search bar to plug in exactly what they are looking for and go directly to it, and the convenience cannot be denied. Search used to be nothing more than a workaday tool that helped searchers hammer their way through labyrinthian websites, but no more. Search has the potential to serve as a powerful conversion tool, which should be used to your advantage.
Online Marketing and Inclusivity Should Go Hand in Hand
Inclusivity is not something you should aspire to – or that you should massage into your content after the fact. Ideally, inclusivity is part of who you are as an online business – and your content reflects this fact. There is always room for improvement, however, and if you’re behind the curve on this, now is a good time to get cracking.
Customer Support: It’s Time to Think Third Wave
The old adage that the customer is king remains just as true today as it was the day the term was coined. If you run a successful business, you owe your success to your customers, and pouring your tender loving care into customer support is paramount. Having a sleekly automated online customer experience – from initial research through purchase, receipt, and support is great – but the bottom line is that this pipeline has to work, and your customers need to feel heard in the process. The third wave of customer service – after tasks and workflow – is refining your customer support practices, including incorporating AI search and natural language processing. Let’s take a closer look at the importance of this and how The Web Guys can help.
A Positive Spin on Negative Reviews
Online negative reviews happen, and while they can feel like the end of the world, they shouldn’t. A negative review here and there affords you a greater perspective about how your business is doing out there and helps you appreciate those five-star reviews that much more. If the thought of negative reviews stops you in your tracks, never fear – there is a straightforward to-do list that can help you slay this dragon and make your negative reviews work for you. The most important point to keep in mind is that sweeping those not-nice reviews under the rug is not going to do you any favors and that the time for action is now.
COVID-19 and Customer Loyalty: Lessons to Be Learned
Without customer loyalty, you’re not making the most of your business, but the pandemic and its attendant wave of restrictions put customer loyalty to the ultimate test. The most telling point is that consumer spending hit an unparalleled global low during the height of the pandemic, and this fact left businesses hanging on word-of-mouth recommendations and on those loyal customers who kept coming back for more – the gold standard when times are tough. As uncertainty about COVID-19, business capacity restrictions, and consumer behavior continue to loom, there are some confidence-boosting tactics you can employ to help ensure that you’re building brand loyalty and keeping customer satisfaction high – now and into the post-restriction future.
6 Surefire Tips for Helping Your Site Bounce Back
Bounce rate is a buzzword that gets its share of attention, but you may not know what it means for your business. Your site’s bounce rate isn’t a black-and-white proposition. While it’s generally something that you want to reduce, that isn’t the end of the story. Fortunately, there are six hot-as-heck tips that can help you handle your bounce rate – rather than letting it handle you.
Digital Marketing Lessons from 2020
2020 was a year for the books that none of us will forget anytime soon. There were, however, some important lessons peppered throughout that we – as an industry – are wise to heed. While 2020 was all about putting distance between ourselves, many businesses were able to chart new territory in their efforts to help keep us connected. Because real life is often the best teacher, let’s get cracking and learn a few digital marketing lessons that 2020 taught us.
3 Tried-and-True Techniques for Building Online Trust
In the digital shopping arena that is becoming increasingly more relevant, building online trust is critical. No one would argue with this sentiment, but figuring out how to foster trust in this nebulous arena is less clear. Fortunately, the precepts of successful marketing apply fairly evenly across the board and translate nicely to online marketing – especially with the application of savvy tweaks and nuanced adjustments that are in keeping with the medium and that experienced digital marketing specialists have on tap.
Why You Need a Solid FAQ Page, and How to Get There
Nobody wants to leave customers – or potential customers – hanging. These searchers have questions, and if you can provide them with answers upfront (with minimum hassle), you decrease the risk of losing them to competitors. SEO is a similar deal, and if Google can’t find its answer – pronto – it will look elsewhere. When you take the time to create a FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) page that addresses common questions with comprehensive answers that highlight your brand’s strengths, you do yourself and your customers a favor.