What Motivates B2B Customers To Become Advocates?

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What Motivates B2B Customers To Become Advocates?

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Feb 22, 2024

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Customer advocacy initiatives often leave a key question unanswered: How do customers benefit? On this episode of What It Means, VPs and Principal Analysts Laura Ramos and Amy Bills explain how B2B companies can get more value from customer advocacy by understanding what motivates customers to participate.

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Feb 22, 2024

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