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Balancing Creativity and Strategy From Concept to Creation

In this insightful interview, our Manager of Creative Services takes us behind the scenes of customer advocacy, sharing his decade-long experience in crafting compelling visual content. From managing video shoots to translating brand identities into impactful assets, he provides a detailed look at the creative process and the importance of attention to detail.

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What My Eighth Grade Graduation and a Multibillion-Dollar Company Have in Common

Filming customer testimonials for our clients is a team process that involves multiple hours of work, which includes reviewing existing case studies and potential client interviewees. Maintaining regular touch points with the client to ensure there is a full understanding of the participants, and also to formulate relevant and valuable interview questions.

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Capturing Customer Testimonials During a Pandemic

As the US slowly starts to get back on its feet from the Covid-19 quarantine, businesses just like ours are starting to look at how we can adapt and overcome new social etiquettes. As the head of our video production team, it has been a challenge for me to develop new ways in which we are able to continue to create customer testimonial videos, but I have developed some strategies for navigating our new normal.

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Learnings from Decades of Amplifying the Voice of the Customer

This recognition of customer advocacy as a business essential is the result of a thoughtful evolution in the concept of “customer references” and a concerted effort to recognize both the myriad of ways customers imbue value back into an organization and the opportunities companies have to provide more value back to their customers.

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