Ah yes, the Thursday before a long weekend. Project deadlines are still looming, but for even the most diligent of workers, the lure of a long weekend and the unofficial start to summer may be enough to allow the mind to wander, even if it is just for a little while.
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Topics:
Customer-Centric Marketing,
Utility Communications,
Clean Energy,
Climate Change,
Inspiration,
Sustainability Marketing,
In the News,
Audience Segmentation,
Climate and Social Justice
We have mentioned a few times that the voice revolution is coming, and today we’d venture a guess to say that it has arrived. For one in five U.S. adults, voice assistants are a regular part of their daily routines, providing solutions, offering advice, and acting as a go-to resource for doing everything from turning off lights to scheduling playdates. Your company needs to embrace voice technology as a customer engagement tool, or risk losing out on countless opportunities to provide key customer touchpoints with your brand.
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Topics:
Customer-Centric Marketing,
Utility Communications,
Digital Transformation and User Experience,
Smart Technology
Customer expectations and demands are rapidly changing—customers expect every interaction they have to be as good as if not better than their most recent experience. When an energy or utility customer pays their bill, for example, they expect the same experience and level of personalization that they had purchasing a new product on Amazon or Target. An experience that is often authentic, intuitive, easy-to-use and mobile.
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Topics:
Customer-Centric Marketing,
Digital Transformation and User Experience
For over 40 years, KSV’s purpose has been to thrive as a band of thinkers and makers focused on sustainable energy and motivated to do right by humankind. The reason? We know that when “doing good” starts from within, it leads to better work for our clients.
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Topics:
B Corporation,
Company Culture,
Climate and Social Justice
You may have heard us mention this once or twice: we know the energy customer. It’s true. We say it with confidence and we say it often because here at KSV, we make it our mission to know how to communicate to the energy customer—through the solutions we provide to our clients and through carefully planned, comprehensive research that spans issues important to brands and customers alike.
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Topics:
Customer-Centric Marketing,
Utility Communications,
Innovation,
Energy Efficiency,
Research,
Clean Energy,
Climate Change,
Energy Storage,
Electrification
In the past two months, we have attended the AESP, Distributech, AEEEast and NESEA conferences and kept up with all of our GreenTech Media and Utility Dive readings and podcasts. Having been devotees of these industry staples for years, we have noticed a trend that causes us to ask, “Where did energy efficiency go?”
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Topics:
Customer-Centric Marketing,
Innovation,
Energy Efficiency,
Clean Energy,
Social Media Strategy and Best Practices,
Energy Storage,
Sustainability Marketing,
Electrification
Here in the northeast, spring has started stretching out before us, and for the first time in what feels like forever, the days are filled with more and more sunshine.
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Topics:
Innovation,
B Corporation,
Clean Energy,
Climate Change,
Social Media Strategy and Best Practices,
Inspiration,
Sustainability Marketing,
In the News,
Electrification,
Climate and Social Justice
We’ve talked a lot about the importance of going beyond simply being present on social media and instead actively engaging with audience members across social platforms. To do this takes time, a strong social media and content marketing strategic plan, and a willingness to commit fully to the idea that social media is a crucial part of your customer acquisition, retention, and brand building strategies.
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Topics:
Customer-Centric Marketing,
Utility Communications,
Clean Energy,
Social Media Strategy and Best Practices,
Content Marketing,
Inspiration