How to Build a Successful
Customer Experience
August Meetup
20K members
7 years
The VBOUT
Community
• 5.00 - 5.15: General intro
Agenda
• 5.15 - 5.50: How to Build a Successful Customer Experience
• 5.50 – 6:10 : VBOUT’s resources and QA
The VBOUT stack
 Marketing automation stack
 Simple interface
 Great price
 Premium support
The VBOUT stack
10+ core tools working together
01. Landing pages
02. Forms
03. Popups and site
messages
04. Lead tracking
05. Automation sequences
06. Email campaigns
07. Social media
listening
08. Social publishing
09. Retargeting
10. Analytics
11. Pipeline management
12. Calendar booking
Integrates well
Full Product Video Tour
Visual automation builder
Full Product Video Tour
Lead data platform
Owning
First
Party
Cookie
Underkills Overkills
Price
Current landscape
How to Build a
Successful
Customer
Experience
(Marketing, Onboarding, Post-Onboarding and Retention)
August Meetup
Outline
1. How to Build your Customer Experience Strategy
Identify the 4 steps of your buyer’s journey
2. Onboarding
The best onboarding practices
How to personalize your customer support
3. Post-Onboarding and Retention
How to deal with churn
Determining your customer success metrics
Why businesses invest in customer
experience?
Source: SuperOffice
42%
33%
32% To improve
cross selling
and upselling
To improve
customer
satisfaction
To improve
customer retention
How to Build your
Customer Experience
Strategy
Identify the 4 steps of your buyer’s
journey
1. Problem Aware
2. Solution Aware
3. Product Aware
4. Most Aware
Exploring the pain
Looking for solution to the
pain
Comparing products and
services
Negotiating pricing and terms
Breakthrough Advertising by Eugene Shwartz
Social media, website, community
Forms, surveys, emails
Signup, demo, talk to sales
Contracts, onboarding, reviews
Onboarding
1. Customize the experience
• Personalize the onboarding process
• Channel concerns and set expectations
2. Onboard your employees
• Train your team well on the process
• Provide full visibility on the impact of
the process
3. Collect data
• Learn your customer needs at a deeper level
• Observe patterns during onboarding, like
sessions, logins, upgrade, downgrade, ticket
frequencies, etc…
4. Strengthen the relationship
• Activate your email automation
• Connect with them on social and engage with their
content
• Harvest and grow your community
5. Follow up after onboarding is done
• Make yourself available to them
• Install a live chat option on client
portal
• Follow-up monthly
6. Offer add-ons and upgrades
• Cross-sell but do not oversell
• Offer discounts on upgrades
• Make freebies available for clients
7. Make your onboarding accessible and
repeatable
• Record the onboarding process
and make it available
• Use webinars on demand
• Provide more resources and grow
your content library
Personalizing
Customer Support
1. Start with a great welcome series
2. Enrich your support channel with customer
details
3. Ask for reviews
Post-onboarding and
retention
Churned customers
Source: Forrester
How to deal with
churned customers and
why does churn
matter?
1. Find out why churn occurs
2. Identify who’s at risk
3. Always improve your services
4. Turn complaint to compliments
5. Offer long term contracts
Churned customers
Source: Forum Corporations Search
Customer success
metrics
1. Average lifetime value
2. Net promoter score
3. Customer satisfaction (CSAT)
4. Customer effort score (CES)
5. Churn rate
6. Retention
VBOUT’s
Onboarding
Resources
VBOUT’s training on Demio
VBOUT’s professional onboarding overview
VBOUT’s help section
7 KPIs to measure your agency success
Best Practices for Onboarding new
employees
VBOUT’s Onboarding Resources
Attendees Intros
August Meetup
Thank you!

How to Build a Successful Customer Experience

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    How to Builda Successful Customer Experience August Meetup
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    20K members 7 years TheVBOUT Community
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    • 5.00 -5.15: General intro Agenda • 5.15 - 5.50: How to Build a Successful Customer Experience • 5.50 – 6:10 : VBOUT’s resources and QA
  • 4.
    The VBOUT stack Marketing automation stack  Simple interface  Great price  Premium support
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    The VBOUT stack 10+core tools working together 01. Landing pages 02. Forms 03. Popups and site messages 04. Lead tracking 05. Automation sequences 06. Email campaigns 07. Social media listening 08. Social publishing 09. Retargeting 10. Analytics 11. Pipeline management 12. Calendar booking Integrates well
  • 6.
    Full Product VideoTour Visual automation builder
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    Full Product VideoTour Lead data platform Owning First Party Cookie
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    How to Builda Successful Customer Experience (Marketing, Onboarding, Post-Onboarding and Retention) August Meetup
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    Outline 1. How toBuild your Customer Experience Strategy Identify the 4 steps of your buyer’s journey 2. Onboarding The best onboarding practices How to personalize your customer support 3. Post-Onboarding and Retention How to deal with churn Determining your customer success metrics
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    Why businesses investin customer experience? Source: SuperOffice 42% 33% 32% To improve cross selling and upselling To improve customer satisfaction To improve customer retention
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    How to Buildyour Customer Experience Strategy
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    Identify the 4steps of your buyer’s journey 1. Problem Aware 2. Solution Aware 3. Product Aware 4. Most Aware Exploring the pain Looking for solution to the pain Comparing products and services Negotiating pricing and terms Breakthrough Advertising by Eugene Shwartz Social media, website, community Forms, surveys, emails Signup, demo, talk to sales Contracts, onboarding, reviews
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    1. Customize theexperience • Personalize the onboarding process • Channel concerns and set expectations
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    2. Onboard youremployees • Train your team well on the process • Provide full visibility on the impact of the process
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    3. Collect data •Learn your customer needs at a deeper level • Observe patterns during onboarding, like sessions, logins, upgrade, downgrade, ticket frequencies, etc…
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    4. Strengthen therelationship • Activate your email automation • Connect with them on social and engage with their content • Harvest and grow your community
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    5. Follow upafter onboarding is done • Make yourself available to them • Install a live chat option on client portal • Follow-up monthly
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    6. Offer add-onsand upgrades • Cross-sell but do not oversell • Offer discounts on upgrades • Make freebies available for clients
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    7. Make youronboarding accessible and repeatable • Record the onboarding process and make it available • Use webinars on demand • Provide more resources and grow your content library
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    1. Start witha great welcome series
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    2. Enrich yoursupport channel with customer details
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    3. Ask forreviews
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    Churned customers Source: Forrester Howto deal with churned customers and why does churn matter?
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    1. Find outwhy churn occurs 2. Identify who’s at risk 3. Always improve your services 4. Turn complaint to compliments 5. Offer long term contracts Churned customers Source: Forum Corporations Search
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    4. Customer effortscore (CES)
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    VBOUT’s training onDemio VBOUT’s professional onboarding overview VBOUT’s help section 7 KPIs to measure your agency success Best Practices for Onboarding new employees VBOUT’s Onboarding Resources
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