Inaugural Voice of the Customer Awards
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Congratulations to Experian, Progressive and Vanguard for winning Forrester's inaugural Voice of the Customer Awards in NY yesterday. It's great to see that organisations
that gather feedback and turn it into actionable insight to generate ROI are being recognised. It's a major task to gather feedback from the customer masses, and then collating and reporting on it at such a scale.
This new form of marketing is largely supported by some traditional skills combined with great new technologies including:
- Cloud Computing and the rise of the Software-as-a-Service business model
- Increased access to faster broadband
- Maturing social networking behaviours and social media tools
- API's that allow you to integrate mutliple systems such as CRM
All three companies awarded a prize emonstrated hat the voice of the customer was too valuable to ignore, and that by listening to and valuing individuals, the resultant insight and opportunities could propel the business through increased sales, greater advocacy and generally being regarded highly as a business that listens and acts upon what their customers are telling them.
At Dub we provide the tools to allow brands and organisations to do just this, whether it is your customers, your staff or even your suppliers that you want to engage and listen to.
I was saddended not to see any European businesses in this list, surely you are out there. If you are, and you think you should be represented in a more European-centric award scheme, let me know and we'll see what we can do about it.
