Now Brands Talk

Now Brands Talk

By Ada SupportBusinessMarketing
Download on the App Store

Now Brands Talk episodes

  • Customer Experience: Transaction vs Relationship

    Is customer experience at your company a transaction or a relationship?

    In today's episode, Daron Fowlks, VP Global Customer Experience at StubHub, joins us to share his strategies on how to turn fans into customers and his experience building a team of over 200 people from scratch.

    Join us as we discuss:

    • Going “plus 2” for customers
  • CX leadership
  • Expressing empathy with customers
  • To hear this interview and many more like it, subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or our website or search for Now Brands Talk in your favorite podcast player.

    23 min
  • Brand Interactions That Help Companies Scale

    The way your employees feel about the internal brand is just as important as how you make people outside of your company feel.

    In this episode, we speak to Amrita Gurney, Head of Marketing at Float, about brand interactions that can help a company scale.

    Join us as we discuss:

    • Where brands are over and under investing
  • Aligning your brand’s mission with the internal culture
  • How technology can close the brand interaction gap
  • 27 min
  • CX Leaders Share Best & Worst Brand Interactions

    For the past six months, Now Brands Talk hosts Ruth Zive and Perri Chaikof have conducted interviews with CX and marketing leaders to discover what can be done to bridge the brand interaction gap. One thing they always asked the guests is to share their best and worst brand interactions.

    For our first milestone episode, Ruth Zive and Perri investigate the common themes that have emerged in both the “best” and “worst” categories. 

    Join us as we discuss:

    • Our biggest takeaways from the interviews so far
  • The common trends for best and worst brand interactions
  • What this all means for how your brand interacts 
  • To hear this interview and many more like it, subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or our website or search for Now Brands Talk in your favorite podcast player.

    32 min
  • How to Measure Brand Impact to Drive Revenue

    Your brand promise means nothing if you’re not influencing the people who truly drive your brand.

    In this episode, Megha Narayan, Head of Marketing at Assembled, joins the show to talk about how the expectations for a brand have changed over the years and a new way to measure a brand’s impact.

    Join us as we discuss:

    • How to enable customer success teams to be brand evangelists
  • How to measure a brand’s impact
  • Knowing when your brand is ready to evolve 
  • More information about Megha Narayan and today’s topics:

    • LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meghanarayan/
  • Company Website: https://www.assembled.com/ 
  • To hear this interview and many more like it, subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or our website or search for Now Brands Talk in your favorite podcast player.

    30 min
  • How to Build a Cross-Functional Content Ecosystem

    An ecosystem is a self-sustaining, self-supporting environment. Your content should be an ecosystem.

    In this episode, Justin Gonzalez, Global Head of Customer Empowerment at Square, joins the show to talk about marketing/CX alignment and creating a content ecosystem that supports the entire business.

    Join us as we discuss:

    • Eliminating tension between the marketing and CX functions
  • Redefining content as an ecosystem
  • The abiding importance of consistency
  • When friction can create a better experience
  • To hear this interview and many more like it, subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or our website or search for Now Brands Talk in your favorite podcast player.

    29 min
  • Diminishing Marginal Utility: Detrimental CX

    Customer experience is like drinking tequila shots. A couple will increase your happiness, but a dozen will not.

    When does brand experience become too much — and therefore detrimental?

    In this episode, we hear from Tyler Meema, Director of Client Success at Wealthsimple, about the creation of the client delivery curve framework to track CX equilibrium. 

    Join us as we discuss:

    • Brands and diminishing marginal utility
    • Why automation for the sake of automation is bad
    • Tracking opposing metrics to ensure equilibrium
    • Focusing on business outcomes instead of the “surprise and delight” trap 
    • Check out these resources we mentioned during the podcast:

      • The Effortless Experience by Matthew Dixon 
      • High Output Management by Andrew Grove 
      • Setting the Table by Danny Meyer  
      • To hear this interview and many more like it, subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or our website or search for Now Brands Talk in your favorite podcast player.

        24 min
      • What CX and EX Can Learn From Each Other

        Customer experience and employee experience share the same purpose — to help someone get something done.

        And the similarities don’t end there. In fact, there’s a lot that the two can learn from each other.

        In this episode, we’re talking to Zach Dunn, VP Customer Experience & Co-Founder at Robin, about the twin worlds of CX and EX.

        Join us as we discuss:

        • The paradigm shift in CX and EX
      • Leveling up EX in a digital world
      • The importance of feedback loops
      • Why delight is overrated
      • To hear this interview and many more like it, subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or our website or search for Now Brands Talk in your favorite podcast player.

        23 min
      • Digital Transformation: Before, During, and After

        How did a brand in a struggling industry pivot away from traditional into digital so successfully within a single year?

        In this episode, we speak with Bayley Clark, Head of Customer Experience at AirAsia, about the brand’s incredible digital transformation strategy — made possible by their brand interaction platform.

        Join us as we discuss:

        • Executing digital transformation before and during the pandemic
      • Principles of proactive communication during automation
      • A change management strategy based on people
      • AVA’s ability to be a brand ambassador for AirAsia 
      • Check out these resources we mentioned:

        • Lonely Planet’s A Year of Festivals 

        To hear this interview and many more like it, subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or our website or search for Now Brands Talk in your favorite podcast player.

        26 min
      • 3 Types of Data for Good CX Decisions

        We all get that data is important. Where we fail is getting the right data to the people who can use it to make CX decisions.

        Today, our newest cohost, Perri Chaikof, Director of Product Marketing at Ada, speaks with Craig Stoss, Senior Program Manager at PartnerHero, about what brands are doing right (and wrong) with their data.

        Join us as we discuss:

        • Why customer data is so important for brands
      • The three types of data that Craig cares about
      • What’s preventing brands from using data for better CX
      • Turning support tickets into retention data  
      • Check out this resource we mentioned:

        • Customer Experience Leaders Chat   

        To hear this interview and many more like it, subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or our website or search for Now Brands Talk in your favorite podcast player.

        20 min
      • Leveraging Employee Insights For Customer Care

        Positive brand experiences are not only for customers. 

        How you treat your employees matters just as much — they can be your biggest brand ambassadors!

        In this episode, we hear from Anna Skidmore, Vice President, Customer Care at BFA Industries, about the many layers of CX, customer care, and how automation should be a tool to free up more time for human connection.

        Join us as we discuss:

        • Holistic CX and brand consistency
      • Setting clear brand values
      • Leveraging data to inform brand strategy
      • Using automation as a front line for customer experience
      • To hear this interview and many more like it, subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or our website or search for Now Brands Talk in your favorite podcast player.

        23 min

      About Now Brands Talk

      From the publisher's feed

      Now Brands Talk is a show for leaders who want to close the brand interaction gap and bridge that tricky divide between brands and the people who love them. Our core belief is that brands are only as good as how they interact. To earn favor and build trust, brands must be continuously available, completely consistent, and always helpful, no matter when or where an interaction takes place.