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4 Top Trends in Customer Stories That Can Boost Your Marketing

Customer stories are a powerful marketing tool that can help you increase sales, generate leads, and build trust with potential customers.
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Captivate Collective
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Why the Forks Matter...and Other Lessons from FX's The Bear

I love a good TV series. Sometimes, I even get some good (and unexpected) nuggets of wisdom from my favorite characters that really hit home for me. It happened to me this past week while catching up on one my favorite shows right now, The Bear.
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Bianca Del Vecchio
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Awards

2023 CAP Award Finalists

Meet our 2023 CAP Award finalists and learn who won!
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Elisia Carr
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Strategy

Choosing the Right Customer Advocacy Agency

Wondering what it’s like to work with an agency? Learn why working with Captivate Collective will level up your customer advocacy game.
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Bianca Del Vecchio
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The Path to Alignment and the Value of Collaboration in Advocacy

We get it. There are a lot of things to balance when it comes to managing your customer advocacy program—or, programs (we see you, portfolio managers). But without this one critical piece of the puzzle, your efforts will only take you so far: alignment.
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Bianca Del Vecchio
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Strategy

Advocacy Program Brand Foundation: Bringing Your Advocacy Brand Personality to Life

What’s in a customer program name? Would that which we call an advocacy program by any other name smell as sweet?
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Liz Richardson
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The Importance of Generating and Measuring Business Impact with Customer Advocacy

‍‍As a business, having customers that actively advocate for your brand can be incredibly valuable. Not only do they help to promote your products and services, but they can also act as a trusted source of information and feedback for potential customers.
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Deena Zenyk
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Inside Cisco Insider: An Exceptional Advocacy Practice In Action

There are only a handful of organizations with advocacy programs that have achieved broad-scale brand recognition outside of their own customer base or industry. Cisco is one of them.
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Deena Zenyk
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CSMs: Your New Best Friends

How to Develop Mutually Beneficial Relationships to Achieve Your Desired Outcomes
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Kiely Monteiro
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