I'm Sonia Ouaksel. I'm really passionate about customers. I've been working in Customer Relationship for twelve years now and today I'm the CMO of Batch. Our customers are marketers and we provide them with the right platform to engage and make their own customers very loyal. Whatever their brands, platform, or services, our customers want to deliver the right experience to their users by delivering the right customer journeys through elegant messages.
Responsiveness & Loyalty
To me, customer engagement is the result of everything you put in place to generate responsiveness and loyalty from your customers. So in B to B, it means being able to create conversations, generate more business, and transform your own customers into ambassadors.
Engagement & Recommendation
In B to C today you have a lot of noise, a lot of competition, and the attention span is getting smaller and smaller. There really is an urgency to create customer engagement. Now if you look at B to B, and you compare different final products, we all have the same level of quality. That is why you really need to create something memorable for your customers to retain them. Today we are in a world of subscriptions, you can gain new customers very fast, but you can also lose them. It’s very important to create something particular and to have a special relationship and engage human people. This is one of the reasons why it’s urgent and critical to creating this customer engagement.
Perception & Connection
I think there is a difference between customer experience and customer engagement. Customer experience is the perception of your customers who are exposed to your different touch points. And customer engagement is really the connection that you are able to establish between your customers and your brand.
User & Experience journey
Today, in the B to B industry, if you want to create engaging experiences, you need to be different and memorable from the very beginning of the relationship that you create with your prospect and then your customer. You can think about creating a really virtuous circle by taking feedback and integrating some of this feedback into everything that you optimize in your product or services. For example, at Batch, we have launched a loyalty program that rewards our customers when they are engaged. So it's not based on transactional but really on engagement and so it encourages our customers to be more and more engaged and loyal.
Technology & Human
Technology is everywhere, but it's not the ultimate goal. Technology is just an enabler of everything that you create and it's the support of all the programs that you can create and execute for your customers. For example, if you want to talk to 1000 customers, technology will provide you with the right tool and the right solution to do it. But in the end, what will create free engagement is the human in front of other humans.
Customer & Conversation
To me today a massive trend that we see coming is the comeback of customer versus prospect. It means putting a lot of effort and resources into loyalty versus acquisition. Also, what we see is that we want to create one-to-one conversations so that we want to talk to human beings versus personas.
