Customer experience

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Research: Why clients work with Collective Content 

By Tony Hallett 01/22/2025

Why do your customers choose you?   This is one of the biggest questions in business. Companies that don’t know the answer are flying blind.  We always ask this question of…

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Written By Tony Hallett22/01/2025
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Speaking to your customers? No alarms and no surprises

By Becky Thompson 10/10/2024

This is part of a series of posts where I talk about my experiences managing large channel marketing content programmes. This time I look at how to keep customers at…

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Written By Becky Thompson10/10/2024
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Like The Bear? Love agencies

By Tony Hallett 06/20/2024

I wasn’t alone in loving the first two seasons of The Bear, which follows the highly strung family and wider team that run the titular Chicago restaurant (spoiler: there are…

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Written By Tony Hallett20/06/2024
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Content pollution: Tips for a greener content climate

By Zoe McNeill 01/29/2024

Attention is a finite resource. It’s critical to engagement and becoming harder to capture. Whether you believe the claims of shrinking attention spans, there is an appetite for shorter, punchier…

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Written By Zoe McNeill29/01/2024
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Essential customer experience insights from Q3 2023

By Bill Clark 11/02/2023

1. McKinsey: Customer experience increases total shareholder return Research by consulting firm McKinsey with 8,500 insurance customers in North America found that customer experience is a strong driver of financial…

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Written By Bill Clark02/11/2023
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Essential customer experience insights from Q1 23

By Aled Herbert 05/15/2023

1. Almost half of customers would pay more for great service: ACA Study The 2023 ACA Study: Achieving Customer Amazement report surveyed 1,000 US residents from Gen Z to Millennials…

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Written By Aled Herbert15/05/2023
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Essential customer experience insights from Q4 2022

By Aled Herbert 01/24/2023

1. How to recover trust following a brand calamity Sometimes, brands let their customers down. The question is how you recover trust afterwards. Forbes takes a look at the lessons…

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Written By Aled Herbert24/01/2023
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