Articles from Jan-Willem van Vugt

These days, communication between companies and customers primarily takes place via the smartphone. Your customers can directly reach your company via communication channels they already use every day. And vice versa! Just how convenient is that? We’ll tell you!

Business messaging in 2020 will be quite different from what you’re used to. Different, both from a business and a consumer perspective. Questions raised on both ends are “Will you notice?” and “Will it matter?”. In both cases the answer is: “Yes, it will!” And this is how.

You live in the age of unlimited possibilities when it comes to customer contact. With the digitalization of the world you are able to build up a very detailed profile of your customer and get to ‘know’ your consumer very well. It’s like how the local grocery shop owner used to know his customer in person, but now on massive scale. And that’s a very good thing I think. It closes the gap between traditional quality oriented shops and online price fighters. You can add more value to the consumers by understanding their needs, and consumers are willing to pay more for better fitting services and products.