Fulfilling the Modern Customer’s Needs: Top Customer Experience Trends for 2023

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With the abating restrictions on social lifestyle post the global pandemic, there’s a noticeable shift in customers’ purchase behavior now. To the wonder of several businesses, customers are reverting to retail stores for in-person shopping experiences again.

Enterprises are, therefore, exercising a check on their expenses and the CX leaders are back on the drawing board to craft a robust and measurable strategy without going overboard with spending and maintaining a focus on cost optimization wherever possible.

Enterprises will be focused on building customer experience driven by insights from both online and offline activities. AI & advanced analytics will be leveraged by CX leaders to implement cost optimization techniques and at the same time improve customer experiences to enable loyalty, retention, and greater customer satisfaction.

Evaluating the dynamic customer intent in the recent past can make way for informed decisions in the present scenario.

Let’s weigh in on the repercussions of 2022 and predictions for 2023 in the customer experience space.

• Businesses to focus on cost-optimization

The cost-sensitive consumer behavior has shifted toward more practical purchases instead of ambitious luxury buying.

Keeping this dynamic consumer behavior in mind, organizations will be seen leveraging strategies and solutions whose successes can be directly measured using sales/growth metrics.

Enterprises will focus on reducing promotions and optimizing their marketing budget in anticipation of better ROI. They will be leaning towards AI & advanced analytics solutions to analyze spending patterns that will help them forecast customer demand and develop robust pricing and promotion strategies to provide enriched customer experience.

The focus of marketing spends will shift from exclusive Brand marketing to lower funnel marketing to improve ROI and strengthen customer loyalty. Emphasis will be on creating strategies & experiences that will assist consumers in their journey to conversion.

Solutions & strategies curated specifically to drive conversions and targeted towards consumers who can strengthen loyalty will be the key to formulating delightful customer experiences for enterprises.

• Hyper-personalization: Building Long Term Relationships with Customers

Catering to a new-age audience during a volatile economic situation are making enterprises think differently. Therefore, focusing on customer retention strategies would be crucial for businesses to drive sales.

Building consumer-focused personalization or hyper-personalization experiences can drive customer retention and strengthen consumer-brand relationships.

Enterprises can be seen shifting away from a brand-centric approach to allocating marketing budgets to create unique customer-centric experiences to outperform their competitors.

A hyper-personalization strategy built by leveraging data and advanced technologies will allow organizations to implement retention strategies through personalized offers and experiences which can drive conversions.

Analytics-driven approaches will help enterprises to collect real-time customer behavioral data and tailor products, services, and experiences accordingly.

Hyper-personalization will be the key to maximizing revenue, reducing costs, and elevating the customer experience. In addition, future-focused businesses should consider leveraging the power of hyper-personalization to take their brands to the next level.

• Increased emphasis on first-party data

First-party data provides insights into specific consumer behavior and needs. It is a critical data point when designing consumer journeys, formulating hyper-personalization strategies, and developing connected platform experiences.

Marketers will focus on first-party data to build more consumer-specific experiences aligned to the consumer’s phase of the journey through programmatic ads. These programmatic ads targeting the right audience will be pivotal in driving customer retention and providing a personalized experience.

With evolving technology, digitization, and advancement in Martech, focusing on creating a hyper-personalized experience would be the significant to winning customers. Programmatic channels play an important role in delivering this experience.

Using first party data for delivering ads will help organizations efficiently plan their marketing budgets and achieve better ROAS. A shift from algorithmic to programmatic advertising, targeting to replace people-to-people negotiations with AI optimization, will help enterprises enhance experiences and realize improved ROI.

• Building Omnichannel Experience

An effective omnichannel experience can attract new customers and drive customer retention. Through omnichannel experiences organizations will aim to provide a consistent experience to every customer regardless of devices, channels, or platforms.

Enterprises intend to craft an omnichannel experience that will serve specific consumer needs. Building strategies tailored to the consumers’ journey phase will help drive customers’ purchase decisions.

Having an end-to-end customer experience strategy driven through omnichannel touchpoints will help organizations implement hyper-personalization, creating customer retention strategies and realize new customer acquisition at scale. This can fuel growth and earn the trust and loyalty of customers.

Enterprises will be seen leveraging the power of AI & advanced analytics for building propensity models to optimize order fulfillment to refine customer segmentation. Analytics will be the major component in formulating a seamless omnichannel experience.

Technologies such as AR, virtual shopping assistants and socially integrated brands would play crucial roles in building effective omnichannel experiences for customers.

Key takeaways:

It is, thus, evident that a customer-first approach driven by hyper-personalized offerings will be vital for enterprises to nurture long-term customer relationships and build brand loyalty.

Enterprises must tap into the power of AI and advanced analytics to help them streamline operations and make improved and informed decisions. Fostering a culture driven by AI/ML, throughout their customer experience strategies and operations will enable companies to realize better ROI and outperform competitors.

Praveen Satyanaryana
Praveen is a Director of Retail Customer Experience Management practice at Tredence. He graduated from Duke University with over 10+ years of consulting experience focused on creating end to end retail customer experience & analytics solutions. He has consulted for 15+ retailers across Food, Apparel, Beauty, & general merchandising stores and helped them deliver personalized solutions using data & AI. He strives towards a vision of creating customer centric cultures for his clients & helping them compete & differentiate in these red oceans.

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