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Amazon Takes on Apple in Digital Music
Combined CDs and AutoRip Make Amazon Cloud Player More Enticing
by Patricia SeyboldAmazon’s AutoRip feature surprised and delighted some customers and annoyed others. We like the fact that we now have digital access to MP3 files of the music we bought on CDs for free and without doing anything! -
Amazon’s Next Moves
It’s a Customer Ecosystem Poised to Become an Increasingly Important Part of Our Lives
by Patricia SeyboldAmazon isn’t “just” an online retailer; it’s a vibrant and layered customer ecosystem designed to help you get things done faster and cheaper. Amazon phones will bring added convenience. Amazon’s ads will be more relevant than Google’s or Facebook’s. -
Shopping Smarter with Mobile Devices Changes the Face of Holiday Shopping
Mobile Makes Its Mark on Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday Sales in 2012
by Patricia Seybold2012 holiday shopping kicked off in the U.S. with a bang. Consumers shopped heavily on the Thanksgiving holiday through “Cyber Monday.” Online shopping from tablet computers was big. So was comparison shopping in stores using mobile phones. -
BuzzCar—Peer-to-Peer Car Rental
Building a Platform for Participation for a “Peers Inc.” Business Model
by Patricia SeyboldBuzzcar is a peer-to-peer car rental company that started in France. Instead of leaving your car in driveway, rent it to a neighbor! Founded by Robin Chase, the co-founder of Zipcar, Buzzcar uses what Robin calls a “Peers Inc.” business model. -
The Mobile E-Wallet Customer Ecosystem
What Types of Players Need to Partner and What Do They Need to Do to Gain Customers’ Trust?
by Patricia SeyboldThe mobile e-wallet landscape is a 6-layered ecosystem of players, with e-wallet providers at the top and payment and financial institutions at the bottom. If all players aligned around customer-critical issues, mobile e-wallet adoption would accelerate. -
Who Are the Key Players in Mobile E-Wallets in the U.S.?
Amazon, Apple, Google, PayPal (e-Bay), Mobile Phone Networks, Credit Card Companies, or Upstarts?
by Patricia SeyboldWe predict the marketshare battle for mobile phone e-wallets will be waged in the U.S. in 2013. Here’s the landscape as we see it. We believe that Amazon and PayPal will throw their hats into this ring, along with Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Isis. -
Will Amazon.com Emerge as a Viable Gaming Platform?
Enabling Platform-Agnostic Social Gaming Customer Ecosystems
by Patricia SeyboldAmazon may provide the next major ecosystem for social gaming, challenging Facebook, Zynga, Apple, and Google. -
Adobe Recommendations: Personalizing the Customer Experience
Harnessing the Power of the Adobe Digital Marketing Suite
by Susan AldrichAdobe Recommendations should be on the short list of marketers in retail ecommerce, B2B ecommerce, media, financial services, high tech, or publishing who seek to personalize their customer experience and drive higher revenues. -
Alaska Airlines’ Evolves Its Mobile Strategy
Catering to Frequent Flyers Pays Off
by Patricia SeyboldAlaska Airlines has been delivering mobile apps since 2010. They chose to focus first on the functions needed for “day of travel” rather than online booking. -
Don’t Blindside Your Customers
Bankofamerica.com Neglects to Warn Customers of a Glitch that Requires Customer Attention
by Ronni MarshakWhen there is an emergency service interruption to your customer experience, it’s important to have processes in place to remedy the situation. Bank of America missed that opportunity and was deluged with calls from frustrated and annoyed customers. -
Are You Tracking Your Customers’ Locations on Their Mobile Phones?
Marketers Beware: Customers Don’t Want Their Locations to Be Tracked and Monitored
by Patricia SeyboldDo you know where you are? Everyone else might! Today’s smartphones are tracking devices that also happen to make phone calls. Your mobile apps are probably tracking your location and sharing that information without your permission. -
Peerius Recommendation and Personalization Solution Evaluation
Personalizing Many Aspects of Customer Experience
by Susan AldrichOur evaluation explains why Peerius should be on the short list of any retailer who seeks to personalize any aspect of the customer experience using behavioral, profile and social data to predict which content will be the most valuable. -
How to Think About Privacy and Managing Your Online Identity
Use Your Head and Use Your Manners
by Peter HorneHow should you manage your online identity in an era in which all your communications and activities are being tracked both online and offline? -
Steps to Success for Personalizing Your Customer Experience
A Roadmap for Personalization
by Susan AldrichSee how pioneers in personalization, including Bakers Shoes and Netflix, use personalization to great advantage. Personalization varies among businesses and among customers, but we offer the specific steps you can take to set and accomplish personalization goals that enhance your business and your customer experience. -
KANA Experience Analytics
Powerful Analytics, Tight Integration with KANA Service Experience Management
by Mitchell KramerKANA Experience Analytics monitors, analyzes, and acts on customer conversations on the social web and customer conversations on internal channels. Analytics that categorize customer conversations and classify their sentiment are its key strength. -
Career and Job Hunting Advice
How Well Does Monster.com Help Prepare You for Your Job Hunt?
by Ronni MarshakCustomers often need preparation in order to value your offerings. We look at how Monster.com prepares members before they actively start searching for jobs. The lessons learned can apply to any organization. -
Facebook’s Timeline: Seductive and Dangerous?
Applications Integrated into Timeline Track Everything that You and Your Friends Do
by Patricia SeyboldFacebook’s new Timeline is much more than a new user interface. It’s a seductive forced march designed to lead us all into a marketers’ nirvana in which our activities and life events are tracked. -
Customer Ecosystems: Meal Ordering Services
Creating Customer Ecosystems Around a Specific Service
by Ronni MarshakIf there’s “a job” that customers need to get done, it’s relatively easy to foster an ecosystem of business partners to fulfill customers’ goals. What take-aways for your business will you get from our comparison of three competing meal ordering services? -
Unintended Risks of Using Facebook
Pay Attention to What Information, and Whose Information, You Are Sharing with Whom!
by Patricia SeyboldBe a good steward of your privacy and the privacy of your friends and family members on Facebook. Learn how applications are mining and analyzing your and your friends’ Facebook behavior and what you should know about those practices. -
Groupon's New Consumer Programs
How Do They Benefit Consumers? And What Do They Offer Merchants?
by Ronni MarshakGroupon is trying new programs to win the loyalty and wallets of existing and new customers. But do the programs offer enough to attract customers to join? And what’s in it for the merchants?
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