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As a team of consultants embedded in dozens of unique customer advocacy programs at any given moment, Referential is constantly exploring, implementing, and improving on strategies and best practices.

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Finding the Pieces to Your Advocacy Puzzle with Influitive

In the eighth and final edition of our Summer ‘ 24 Partner Platform Overview, we highlight Influitive, a platform with a significant history and impact in customer advocacy. Founded in 2010 by Marc Organ, Influitive has evolved into a comprehensive customer community platform, offering robust targeting capabilities, flexible challenge design, and comprehensive analytics. Discover why Influitive is a preferred tool for efficient management and impactful customer advocacy.

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Unleash Advocacy Power with Champion

In this blog, Referential explores the benefits of integrating Champion’s customer marketing platform into your business strategy. In reviewing some of Champion’s exciting features, we look at how you can measure the revenue impact of advocacy interactions in real-time, enhance customer loyalty, and optimize your advocacy programs.

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Advocacy Platform Overview, Base.ai, Data Migration, Customer Communities Kristian Gallego, Advocacy Consultant Advocacy Platform Overview, Base.ai, Data Migration, Customer Communities Kristian Gallego, Advocacy Consultant

Let’s Talk Base Jumping        

Referential serves a diverse range of clients, from Global 500 enterprises to start-ups. In this blog, part of our Partner Platform Overview week, we highlight our recent experience migrating a global enterprise client from their existing Customer Advocacy Platform to Base.ai. With a tight deadline and nearly a decade of data to transfer, we ensured a seamless transition in just under a month!

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Employee Highlight: Advocacy Program Management at a Fortune 500 Company

This blog features a Q&A with Senior Advocacy Consultant Barbara Leavy, in which she speaks about her experience managing the advocacy program at a fortune 500 company. Topics include navigating acquisitions, setting client expectations, the challenges of massive product portfolios and more!

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Customer Communities, Company News Ryan Quackenbush, Principal Customer Communities, Company News Ryan Quackenbush, Principal

#TOP100CMA: The Who's Who Of Customer Advocacy

Recently, our partners at Crowdvocate initiated a nomination process and subsequent vote to establish within the customer advocacy community a list of the who’s who, or the more influential among us in the advocacy community. It’s with great pleasure that we at Referential are able to report: we have two of our own voted in to share the spotlight!

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