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        <title>Think customers: The 1to1 Blog</title>
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        <description>Engage the 1to1 Media editors on the topics driving customer strategy</description>
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            <title>Social Customer Care Means Putting People First</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="social-media-integration-insight.jpg" src="http://www.1to1media.com/weblog/social-media-integration-insight.jpg" width="235" height="174" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" /></span>Just as brands need consumers to purchase their goods and services to stay afloat in today's competitive market, social networks would be nothing more than online ghost towns without the people who populate these pages with their thoughts and experiences. But, while social media offers consumers an outlet for their opinions, such channels also open up the opportunity to build relationships that exist beyond the company's traditional offerings and cultivate the strong trust and loyalty behind brand advocacy.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Hoffman&apos;s Hot Seat: The Business Value of Word of Mouth Index</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.1to1media.com/weblog/Hoffman%27s%20Hot%20Seat%20logo%201.PNG"><img alt="Hoffman's Hot Seat logo 1.PNG" src="http://www.1to1media.com/weblog/assets_c/2012/06/Hoffman's Hot Seat logo 1-thumb-199x92.png" width="199" height="92" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" /></a></span>1to1 Media's Tom Hoffman speaks with Larry Freed, President and CEO of ForeSee, about the company's impetus for developing the Word of Mouth Index and the business benefits it can provide to companies that use it.]]></description>
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                <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Net Promoter</category>
            
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            <pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:35:52 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Take the Network out of Social Network to Build Real Relationships </title>
            <description><![CDATA[I spent the past two days at the Corporate Social Media Summit in New York City, hearing from companies like Dunkin' Donuts, Chobani, Adobe, General Mills and others about how they have built and continue to build their social media strategies. While every speaker provided insight on how to maximize each social channel- what made my heart skip a tweet was Adobe Director of Strategy Jeff Feldman's concept that social doesn't equal social networks. What a groundbreaking concept for this conference! 


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                <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category">Customer Experience</category>
            
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            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:04:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Preparing Your Culture and Network for BYOD</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Last year had experts calling BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) trend, "the hottest trend of 2012." This year as companies start to embrace this ever-growing culture, they're now figuring out how to manage the BYOD's security and application delivery, as well as employee productivity. 

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            <link>http://www.1to1media.com/weblog/2013/06/preparing_your_culture_and_net.html</link>
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                <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category">Customer Experience</category>
            
                <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category">Employee Engagement</category>
            
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                <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">bring your own device</category>
            
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            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:04:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Customer Experience Innovation From The Outside In</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Firms crave differentiation. But the truth is that even companies with dedicated time and budget for customer experience innovation focus most of their efforts on two things - whatever their competitors are doing and whatever the latest technology enables them to do. When companies blindly add shiny new features or trendy technologies to their mix of customer experiences, they're innovating just for innovation's sake.

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            <pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:14:03 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Porsche Invests in Customer Satisfaction</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="porsche2.jpg" src="http://www.1to1media.com/weblog/porsche2.jpg" width="150" height="200" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" /></span>Today's customers have high expectations. They have become used to doing business with best-in-class organizations and expect any company they interact with to give them the same great experience of great brands like Amazon and Zappos. ]]></description>
            <link>http://www.1to1media.com/weblog/2013/06/porsche_invests_in_customer_sa.html</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 07:00:52 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Facebook&apos;s Influence on Interactive Loyalty</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="social_large43636356.jpg" src="http://www.1to1media.com/weblog/social_large43636356.jpg" width="215" height="215" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" /></span>Facebook has revolutionized the way consumers interact with friends, family, and brands. But, just as these shoppers have incorporated the social network into their daily routines, companies must also work to make social media an integral part of their customer strategy. For <a href="http://www.migros.com.tr/">Migros</a>, winner in the <a href="http://www.1to1media.com/view.aspx?docid=34313">Social and Mobile Engagement</a> category of this year's <a href="http://www.1to1media.com/crmexcellence/view.aspx?itemid=34332">Gartner & 1to1 Media CRM Excellence Awards</a> (EMEA/APAC region), Facebook now represents the key component behind the brand's interactive loyalty program.]]></description>
            <link>http://www.1to1media.com/weblog/2013/06/facebooks_influence_on_interac.html</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Personalizing the Mobile Customer Experience</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.1to1media.com/weblog/mobile%20customer%20experience.png"><img alt="mobile customer experience.png" src="http://www.1to1media.com/weblog/assets_c/2013/06/mobile customer experience-thumb-199x221.png" width="199" height="221" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" /></a></span>Customer attrition rates vary from one industry to the next. Certainly one industry where customer churn is particularly high is among mobile telecom carriers, where annual attrition is nearly 40 percent, <a href="http://www.gccrm.com/eng/content_details.jsp?contentid=2317&subjectid=107">according to DMG Consulting LLC president Donna Fluss</a>. There are several reasons for this - including widespread competition, quality issues, as well as customer dissatisfaction with questionable charges. One mobile carrier -- Greek mobile telecommunications operator <a href="http://www.cosmote.gr/cosmoportal/cosmote.portal">COSMOTE</a> - is succeeding at retaining customers by personalizing offers to its customers across all of the touchpoints that they use.]]></description>
            <link>http://www.1to1media.com/weblog/2013/06/personalizing_the_mobile_custo.html</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 05:05:27 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>A Recipe for Targeted Customer Service</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Plato said knowledge is the food of the soul. For companies aiming to engage intelligently with their customers, knowledge is the appetizer, main course, and dessert.

Without knowledge about their customers, companies can't understand their needs, preferences, or buying histories and therefore are unable to deliver the most optimal service strategies as a result of that deficit. Siloed information, multiple customer channels, and legacy systems continue to threaten knowledge's stronghold in organizations. 

<span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.1to1media.com/weblog/knowledge%2C%20customer%20service.jpg"><img alt="knowledge, customer service.jpg" src="http://www.1to1media.com/weblog/assets_c/2013/06/knowledge, customer service-thumb-200x105.jpg" width="200" height="105" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" /></a></span>]]></description>
            <link>http://www.1to1media.com/weblog/2013/06/a_recipe_for_targeted_customer.html</link>
            <guid>http://www.1to1media.com/weblog/2013/06/a_recipe_for_targeted_customer.html</guid>
            
                <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category">Customer Experience</category>
            
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            <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 11:48:57 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Building Brand Advocacy and Customer Contentment</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="Customer-Experience-Management-Customer-Centric-Organization-copy.jpg" src="http://www.1to1media.com/weblog/Customer-Experience-Management-Customer-Centric-Organization-copy.jpg" width="225" height="159" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" /></span>Though many companies are product or service driven, customers remain at the heart of every operation. In most instances, consumers have numerous options when it comes to the companies they interact with, and in today's increasingly competitive market, price no longer reigns as the deciding factor--customer service trumps all.]]></description>
            <link>http://www.1to1media.com/weblog/2013/06/building_brand_advocacy_and_cu.html</link>
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                <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Gartner &amp; 1to1 Media CRM Excellence Awards</category>
            
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            <pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 06:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Tapping into Data to Improve Customer Experience</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="akbank2.jpg" src="http://www.1to1media.com/weblog/akbank2.jpg" width="200" height="200" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" /></span>Data is everywhere. According to <a href="http://www.idc.com/">IDC</a>, in 2010 more than 1.2 zettabytes of digital data was generated globally in 2010, and the amount of data generated each year is expected to reach almost eight zettabytes in 2015.]]></description>
            <link>http://www.1to1media.com/weblog/2013/06/tapping_into_data_to_improve_c.html</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 07:44:06 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Having the Guts to Take Risks, and the Willingness to Invent on Behalf of Customers</title>
            <description><![CDATA[I recently came across an interview with Amazon Chairman and CEO Jeff Bezos, in which he was quoted this: "What's dangerous is not to evolve...You have to have a willingness to fail.... It's not enough to just listen to customers; you have to invent on their behalf."

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            <link>http://www.1to1media.com/weblog/2013/06/having_the_guts_to_take_risks.html</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 02:33:23 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Hoffman&apos;s Hot Seat: Best Practices in Measuring Mobile Customer Behavior</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.1to1media.com/weblog/Hoffman%27s%20Hot%20Seat%20logo%201.PNG"><img alt="Hoffman's Hot Seat logo 1.PNG" src="http://www.1to1media.com/weblog/assets_c/2012/06/Hoffman's Hot Seat logo 1-thumb-198x91.png" width="198" height="91" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" /></a></span>1to1 Media's Tom Hoffman speaks with Eric Feinberg, Senior Director of Mobile, Media & Entertainment at ForeSee, about effective ways for using data and analytics regarding customers' mobile behaviors to identify opportunities for improving the mobile customer experience along with the elements of the mobile customer experience that matter most to customers.]]></description>
            <link>http://www.1to1media.com/weblog/2013/06/hoffmans_hot_seat_best_practic_6.html</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 07:49:27 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Celebrating Customer Champions</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Sometimes employees do stupid things that negatively affect the customer experience. And sometimes the leadership of those companies can flip a potential disaster into a positive public relations coup, gaining positive customer sentiment as a result.

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            <link>http://www.1to1media.com/weblog/2013/06/celebrating_customer_champions.html</link>
            <guid>http://www.1to1media.com/weblog/2013/06/celebrating_customer_champions.html</guid>
            
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            <pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 00:04:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Future Customer Experience Differentiation Will Require New Operating Models</title>
            <description><![CDATA[At some point after their companies find-and-fix the low-hanging fruit that create problems for customers, customer experience leaders hit a wall. That wall is the outdated operational models upon which most companies were built. These models were conceived decades ago, based on the existing capabilities and constraints of the day, when the primary vehicle for value was tied up in the product/service itself. Within these operating models, firms have worked to optimize processes like marketing, sales and distribution focused on getting to the transaction. Support has been a cost center, so limited as much as possible. But this kind of operating model has critical problems. Here are a few that just scratch the surface:

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            <pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 09:36:46 -0500</pubDate>
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