Heart of the Customer

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Journey mapping is a fantastic tool to break down silos by creating a shared view of the customer experience. The post Journey mapping is still happening in silos. appeared first on Heart of the Customer. This is ironic. Except when it isn’t.

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Customer Journeys Tools Customer Experience Employee Engagement 104

Heart of the Customer

APRIL 29, 2019

We find a lot of confusion in the marketplace around journey mapping. Some think that journey mapping is just a workshop where you take all the people who created your broken, siloed experience, give them Post-It Notes, and Bam! You have a journey map.

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Customer Journeys Marketing Customer Experience Customer Voice 92

CX Journey

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Image courtesy of Pixabay Are you adding data to your journey maps? You Got Your Metrics in My Journey Map! In it, I advocated for mappers to add data to their journey maps. There are a lot of reasons to bring data into your maps. Data is a critical ingredient for improving the customer experience.

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Customer Journeys Data Effort Score First Call Resolution 86

Heart of the Customer

APRIL 25, 2019

We’ll have events both in-person and online, to share the journey mapping best practices outlined in our book, How Hard Is It to Be Your Customer? Using Journey Mapping to Drive Customer-Focused Change. The post May is (Journey) Mapping Month! appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Customer Journeys Customer Focused Conference Resources 84

Heart of the Customer

MAY 9, 2019

The Heart of the Customer blog is a place where we share our insights on journey mapping, offer best practices based on our experiences, and share CX practitioner interviews – and we don’t normally place promotional items here. The post Two Days to Journey Mapping Mastery appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Customer Journeys Customer Experience Conference Resources 74

Lumoa

MARCH 20, 2018

Customer experience has been on the rise during the last couple of years. From the traditional product-oriented businesses we’re moving towards customer understanding and customer-centric approaches. Whether you’re new to customer experience or coming for little inspiration, this is the right place.

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Net Promoter Score Customer Journeys Omni-Channel Customer Experience 286

GetFeedback

MAY 9, 2019

If you Google customer experience you’ll get about 2,340,000,000 results—articles, videos, reports—with in-depth information about the space. What is customer experience? Customer experience is how your customers perceive their interactions with your company. What is great customer experience?

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Customer Experience Customer Journeys Metrics Effort Score 337

Heart of the Customer

APRIL 3, 2019

Note: We’re celebrating the upcoming launch of our new book “How Hard Is It to Be Your Customer? Using Customer Journey Mapping to Drive Customer-Focused Change,” by Mapper-In-Chief Jim Tincher and B2B Practice Lead Nicole Newton. The post Who’s the Right Customer to Map? Two weeks ago, […].

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Customer Journeys B2B Customer Focused Customers 83

InMoment XI

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Understanding and responding to customer needs is paramount for business success, however, many businesses find themselves grappling with the challenge of harnessing the full spectrum of customer voices. Surprisingly, a staggering 85% of valuable customer data remains untapped, residing in various teams, systems, and silos.

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Multi-Channel Touchpoint Social Media Customer Voice 260

Heart of the Customer

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

What is journey mapping? This confusion is fueled by vendors who offer “journey mapping workshops.” The post Too many see journey mapping as an employee workshop. appeared first on Heart of the Customer. The post Too many see journey mapping as an employee workshop.

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Customer Journeys Employee Engagement Customer Voice Customer Centricity 99

Lumoa

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

And just like these new phrases have become commonplace now, new customer experience trends are popping up as well. Not only has the world changed, but technology has improved, and companies have been finding new ways to provide customers with a great experience. That’s because it works.

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Trends Customer Experience Competitive Advantage Customer Insights 208

CX Journey

AUGUST 13, 2015

Creating a customer journey map is an important first step when it comes to your customer experience transformation. Notice the word that I used a couple times in that sentence: "customer." And yet so many companies create an assumptive map and then leave it at that. Stay tuned for that.)

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Customer Journeys Effort Score Touchpoint Customer Voice 80

InMoment XI

JUNE 21, 2022

After 14 customer experience speakers, 250 delegates, two hands-on workshops, and hours of networking on the Sydney Harbour cruise, the 2022 Sydney XI Forum is done and dusted. That means it’s time to take what you’ve learned and start doing the work to elevate your experience program! .

Customer Experience 260

Customer Experience Feedback Advertising Survey 260

Lumoa

JUNE 30, 2022

If you want people in your organisation to appreciate the value of customer experience, you need to learn how to sell customer experience (CX) to those who are not dealing with it day in and day out. You need to learn (and teach) how to sell customer experience to your whole organization. Lack of good data.

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Customer Experience How To Metrics Feedback 277

Lumoa

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Customer experience plays an important, if not the most important role in success of any business. Nearly all companies (89%) believe that customer experience will be their primary basis for competition. Why do you need Customer Experience Management? Voice of the customer: where to start?

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Customer Experience How To NPS Touchpoint 376

CX Journey

JUNE 9, 2016

Image courtesy of CountyLemonade Still not convinced you need to map customer journeys? Earlier this week, I wrote about how eye opening journey maps and journey mapping workshops are. A couple years ago, I wrote a popular post titled 18 Reasons to Map Customer Journeys.

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Customer Journeys Policies Customer Voice Customers 80

Lumoa

APRIL 28, 2024

Every interaction with your business has the power to build or damage the relationship with your customer – and can directly impact your revenue. 78% of customers have backed out of a purchase due to a poor customer experience (CX). That’s where customer experience platforms come in.

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Self Service Customer Journeys Feedback Analysis 208

Lumoa

MARCH 20, 2018

Customer experience has been on the rise during the last couple of years. From the traditional product-oriented businesses we’re moving towards customer understanding and customer-centric approaches. Whether you’re new to customer experience or coming for little inspiration, this is the right place.

Net Promoter Score 160

Net Promoter Score Customer Journeys Omni-Channel Customer Experience 160

Lumoa

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Not only are online retailers enjoying massive revenue from their customers (expected to be over $6 trillion in 2022 ), but the platforms themselves are also becoming increasingly sophisticated. Now, technologies such as AI and machine learning are driving highly personalized customer experiences.

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Retail Customer Experience Chatbots Ecommerce 208

Lumoa

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

According to The State of the Customer Experience survey that we did earlier in 2018, all companies track customer experience using one or several of the 6 world-wide recognised KPIs: Net Promoter Score (NPS), Customer Satisfaction (CSAT), Churn rate, Retention rate, Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) or Customer Effort Score (CES).

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Metrics Net Promoter Score Effort Score Customer Experience 432

ECXO

MAY 16, 2024

Customer-centric leadership – what does it mean? In an increasingly competitive world where customer needs and expectations are continuously evolving, the concept of “customer-centric leadership” has become a cornerstone for driving successful businesses. So, what does it mean to be a customer-centric leader?

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Customer Centricity Leadership Customer Journeys Touchpoint 69

CX Journey

JULY 7, 2015

One of the arguments against journey mapping I often hear is that it's an exercise in futility: You map. You map because you need to understand the customer experience; you know that you cannot transform something you don't understand. This is a common starting point for maps. You put it on the wall.

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Customer Journeys Exercises Touchpoint Call Recording 80

InMoment XI

AUGUST 31, 2023

This year’s edition of the XI Forum Europe is making a triumphant return, promising an even more exceptional experience. We’re all about assisting businesses in translating their customer experience initiatives into tangible, measurable business outcomes. Hear what our delegates had to say about last years’ event!

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Conference Banking ROI Customer Voice 260

Michelli Experience

MAY 15, 2018

I was asked recently to provide a couple (of what a reader called “See Spot Run”) blogs concerning must-have and must not do elements of a successful customer experience business. In this case, that connection hopefully comes through shared experiences with that reader concerning our early adventures with Spot!

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Customer Experience Customer Journeys Touchpoint Employee Engagement 138

SurveySparrow

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Did you know that 61% of consumers are willing to pay a premium of at least 5% for a promise of exceptional customer experience? Well, the secret lies in their commitment to improve and enhance customer experience. And one powerful tool that can help achieve this is a customer experience workshop.

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Customer Experience Exercises Customer Journeys Roadmap 52

PeopleMetrics

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Customer experience (CX) has become an essential cornerstone of modern business strategy. It helps you improve customer retention rates, efficiently focus on your highest-impact customers, and continually improve your services. But what is customer experience? Benefits of Customer Experience.

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Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Customer Journeys Touchpoint 71

Eptica

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Marketing Manager 5 books to help you build trust across the customer journey. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Marketing Manager In the fast moving world of customer experience keeping up to date with the latest thinking and ideas is vital.

Customer Journeys 93

Customer Journeys Loyalty Case Study Social Media 93

CX Journey

JUNE 22, 2017

In this second part of a two-part series, I continue detailing some important ways to ensure that your company is putting the customer at the center of all it does. In Part 1 of this two-part series, I left off with Step 3: Outline the Customer Lifecycle. They become the backbone of your customer experience management efforts.

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Customer Journeys Communication Customer Centricity Social Media 146

Oracle

AUGUST 7, 2018

Innovation must now focus on the customer. A customer-centric mindset puts customers at the center of a business’s thinking, decision making, and actions to improve customer experiences and enhance value. Applying customer centricity to innovation means solving customer problems and unmet needs.

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Innovation Customer Journeys Customer Centricity Transportation 111

NetBase

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The customer journey is a circuitous one, with the path to purchase riddled with distractions at every touchpoint. Understanding where your customer is now and predicting where they’re headed will help you avoid losing them along the way. Consumer experience data can feel elusive when scouring online data. Without it?

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Customer Journeys Analytics Customer Experience Social Media 58

Heart of the Customer

JANUARY 22, 2020

22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Heart of the Customer (HoC), one of the nation’s leading journey mapping consultancies, and Usermind, a pioneer in Experience Orchestration (XO), today announced a strategic partnership that will revolutionize how businesses map, orchestrate, and optimize their customer journeys.

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Customer Journeys Innovation ROI Consulting 88

Strativity

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

This blog is for CX professionals who 1) have multiple journey maps and 2) need a structure to connect them. Let’s move this analogy off the block and into the journey management: How much freedom did you give your journey maps? Do your maps connect to the head of the structure?

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Customer Journeys Touchpoint Connections Interaction 40

Strativity

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

This blog is for CX professionals who 1) have multiple journey maps and 2) need a structure to connect them. Let’s move this analogy off the block and into the journey management: How much freedom did you give your journey maps? Do your maps connect to the head of the structure?

Customer Journeys 40

Customer Journeys Touchpoint Connections Interaction 40

Heart of the Customer

MAY 2, 2019

This post, written by Heart of the Customer B2B Practice Lead Nicole Newton, is the third in a week-long series about some of the ways journey mapping differs from traditional market research. Using Video to Bring the Customer Experience to Life appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Customer Journeys Video B2B Customer Experience 89

Kayako

JULY 30, 2018

Content Marketing Ideas for Incredible Customer Experiences. After years of building customer success teams and programs, it seemed natural to take on my next challenge – build a global customer advocacy strategy. If not, what’s holding you back from these powerful opportunities to engage with your customers?

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Marketing Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Customer Voice 125

CX Journey

JULY 10, 2014

and how is it used to deliver a great customer experience? Data Sources Any initiative to improve the customer experience will be unsuccessful without understanding the customer and his needs. Data are useless to improving the customer experience when they remain siloed; siloed data mean siloed experiences.

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Data Customer Experience Customer Journeys Analysis 177

Interactions

JANUARY 7, 2021

Those with effective automated customer experience applications were able to react quickly and effectively. With consumer comfort growing and businesses realizing that customer experience automation powered by AI is a necessity to survive, what does the future look like? Jim Freeze, CMO.

Customer Experience 62

Customer Experience Customer Journeys Self Service Video 62