Category Archives: Customer Behavior

Does Your Company Understand That It’s Not All About You?

Posted on April 7, 2019 by Lorena Harris

As we discussed in part 1 of this series, much of today’s B2B selling cycle happens online without human interaction. When done right, the brand delivers a clearly-defined experience driven in large part by the customer’s previous digital behavior. The … Continue reading →

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Content Across the Ages

Posted on January 21, 2018 by Lorena Harris

In his recent MarketingProfs article, “The Brand-Content Preferences of Different Age Groups,” Ayaz Nanji examines HubSpot survey data and concludes that every age segment has different content preferences. Seems we all consider videos “the most memorable type of brand content.” … Continue reading →

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Marketing Megatrends for 2018 – A Lot to Digest

Posted on December 2, 2017 by Lorena Harris

According to Matthew Sweezey’s 11/29/17 article in MarketingProfs, we can expect “Five Marketing Megatrends for 2018”. I’ve digested and summarized those megatrends below. But are these attainable for companies without mega-budgets? Let’s examine: Context Replaces Advertising as a Growth Lever … Continue reading →

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Transformational Marketing

Posted on January 9, 2015 by Lorena Harris

As it often does, the New Year holiday and all the corresponding online retrospectives caused me to look back. I realized that my marketing career has coincided with several major waves of innovation.  Marketers started the century discussing one-to-one marketing … Continue reading →

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Content Marketing at Convergys 2007-2010

Posted on November 11, 2014 by Lorena Harris

Content Marketing has been an area of significant focus in my roles since 2005. At ADP, Convergys, and Vantiv I developed successful thought leadership campaigns centered around primary research on customer experience within each industry.  A thought leadership program positions … Continue reading →

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The ‘Omniconsumer’ of the Future

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Lorena Harris

I recommend taking a moment to read “Vantiv Profiles the ‘Omniconsumer’ of the Future” at RetailCustomerExperience.com … because it contains a lot of interesting facts about the 18-34 consumer and what they expect from mobile payments.  And because it’s part of … Continue reading →

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A Case of Consumption

Posted on November 25, 2012 by Lorena Harris

In early 20th century British novels the term “consumption” generally refers to TB, but encompasses a variety of diseases that relentlessly sap the heroines’ life energy. I would argue that in 21st century America the term now refers to the compulsion … Continue reading →

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Money Management – It’s a Personality Thing

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Lorena Harris

When I met my husband some years ago (before Quicken), I was surprised to discover that he balanced his checkbook by rounding.  He would enter “$50” if he thought he had spent about that, and figured he would be safe … Continue reading →

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When Customers Speak Out, Pay Attention or Watch Out

Posted on July 23, 2011 by Lorena Harris

This week, alongside many articles designed to amplify popular fascinations, CNN ran an article about customer experience entitled, How Social Media Are Amplifying Customer Outrage (http://bit.ly/rcOik5). In this op-ed, Mashable bureau chief Chris Taylor gives several examples of social media … Continue reading →

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What Your Employees Aren’t Telling You

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Lorena Harris

In her recent customer experience blog (http://bit.ly/nQLkK5), Forrester Analyst Kerry Bodine points out that many executives have tunnel vision. She says, “Many organizations place too much emphasis on top-of-mind channels such as the Web and social media, ignoring hundreds of … Continue reading →

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