Companies can no longer buy customer loyalty and assume customers will stay. It is easy for customers to “click away” and buy from another vendor. Customer Experience Management is now a formal process that involves multiple processes and departments. It requires the mapping of customer touchpoints, and combines operational and CRM data with customer service and marketing information.

When times get tough, it’s tempting to put “customer-centricity” on the back burner. But it doesn’t have to be that way. In this blog post, Bob Thompson, CEO of CustomerThink, offers some tips on how to weather the economic storm.

Arjun Sen, president and founder, ZenMango offered some great advice to companies during the online Engage eSummit. Read this blog to learn more…

Gary Tucker, SVP and General Manager of JD Power and Associates, offered five tips in his Engage eSummit session on the importance of delighing your customers in the current economic environment. Read on to learn more about these five tips.