Customer Bliss

JULY 24, 2018

As customers, we become emotionally attached to companies who consider our lives when they make decisions. However, not all companies behave in this manner when it comes to their customers and employees. It’s our humanity and our ability to care that makes all the difference in the lives of our employees and customers.

Employee Engagement 161

Employee Engagement Tips Customer Satisfaction Conference 161

Customer Bliss

APRIL 11, 2017

Brian worked at Intuit from 2002 to 2013, ultimately serving as VP of Customer Experience and Business Excellence. (He He arrived at that role in October 2007.) He’s currently the Senior CX Principal at Medallia, after being VP, Customer Experience and NPS at Sprint. He has an MBA from Purdue University.

NPS 163

NPS Net Promoter Score Wireless Call Center 163

Horizon CX

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

I’m reflecting and writing this latest blog on the eve of the very first Customer Experience Day (CX Day) declared so by the Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA) as the first Tuesday in October from this point forward. Product and technology are often short-lived.

Strategy 138

Strategy CEM Customer Experience Banking 138

Heart of the Customer

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

You would think that the return on customer experience is obvious. A better customer experience improves loyalty, and loyalty means you can spend more time serving customers than chasing new ones, resulting in cost savings. I love this report – it really shows the bottom-line impact of customer experience.

Customer Experience 132

Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Report Loyalty 132

Forrester

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Since 2007, the average customer experience in the industries that Forrester tracks has gone up across the board, and the number of truly awful experiences has dropped like a rock. So if your CX is average, it''s just not good enough to win, serve and retain customers. Customer Experience. Customer Experience Index.

Loyalty Programs 109

Loyalty Programs Insurance Government Loyalty 109

Think Customers

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Since 2007, the average customer experience in the industries that Forrester tracks has gone up across the board, and the number of truly awful experiences has dropped like a rock. So if your CX is average, it''s just not good enough to win, serve, and retain customers. 2014 wasn''t a good year to be average.

Loyalty 88

Loyalty Customer Engagement Strategy Engagement 88

Beyond Philosophy

JULY 23, 2019

This episode of The Intuitive Customer explores the implications for Facebook of this latest privacy violation. Facebook has a series of scandals over the years, going all the way back to 2007. So, it’s no surprise that Facebook is always pushing the limits of what their customers can see and use for their business purposes.

Culture 90

Culture Social Media Policies Consulting 90

Customers Rock!

APRIL 14, 2010

Recently on Customers Rock! We had a great discussion around listening to customers, gathering social media feedback and turning it into action inside of a company, and of course we talked about the NetPromoter score and how to use it strategically. Delivering Voice of the Customer to Enable Customer Delight and Financial Gains.

Social Media 154

Social Media Case Study Financial Banking 154

BirdEye

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This statistic shows that your customers are looking for you online. You must monitor what your customers say about you, respond to their remarks, and use their feedback to improve. Restaurant reputation management refers to the processes you use to track, respond to, and address customer feedback.

Tips 108

Tips Management Social Media Feedback 108

Quadient

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

As a Customer Experience focused company with rapidly expanding software businesses, the Quadient team spends a lot of time analyzing our clients' journeys with our products and services, as well as the journeys of their customers that our software supports. VP of Customer Transformation. Customer Journey Mapping.

Customer Journeys 52

Customer Journeys Social Media Roadmap Software 52

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

For many years, there has been a debate whether you could assign a dollar amount to determine the return on investment for any Customer Experience improvements. Whilst the transactional business is more interested in repeat purchases and their frequency, the subscription business is mostly interested in how long customers remain loyal.

Net Promoter Score 164

Net Promoter Score ROI Customer Experience Insurance 164

Forrester

AUGUST 1, 2016

Since 2007, Forrester has helped consumer brands evaluate the experience they deliver to their customers with our Customer Experience Index (CX Index™). This methodology powerfully demonstrates to business-to-consumer (B2C) companies the link between CX and customer loyalty. B2B customer experience.

B2B 40

B2B B2C Customer Experience Loyalty 40

Forrester's Customer Insights

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Electronics store sales peaked in 2007, and since then, an ever-growing proportion of consumer electronics sales has moved online.* Our latest update to our Digital Go-To-Market Review series for brands looks at the consumer electronics sector.

Consumers 58

Consumers Marketing Sales Brands 58

West Monroe

MARCH 29, 2022

From inventing digital music and the iPod in 2001 to launching the iPhone in 2007 to imagining a new way to experience television with AppleTV, the company has innovated to provide a value so high that people are willing to give up a week’s salary to buy an Apple product.

Leadership 98

Leadership Consulting System Marketing 98

Retently

MARCH 23, 2023

You can also learn a surprising amount of tactics and strategies by studying the opposite end of the scale – the world’s least successful companies, from a churn perspective – to compare their common weaknesses and find out what makes their customers so unlikely to recommend them to their peers.

Net Promoter Score 113

Net Promoter Score Company NPS Effort Score 113

CSM Magazine

JUNE 14, 2019

First trialled in 2007 with a £10 maximum spend limit, its true introduction to the mainstream was only around five or six years ago, although it feels much longer. Within smaller spend transactions, one of the key areas affected has been customer service. So, what does this mean for customer service? The tipping point.

Customer Service 40

Customer Service Hospitality Tips Retail 40

Gainsight

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Across decades, in any industry, business leaders have obsessed over their customers. Whether a business serves five or 500,000 people, the opinion and experience of those customers are critical to the longevity of that business. . Today’s leadership also obsesses over their customers with one key difference.

Customer Success 45

Customer Success Customers Sales Leadership 45

Customer Guru

MARCH 7, 2018

Jennifer Parnell currently serves as the Deputy General Manager – Customer Engagement at BookMyShow. She comes with 20 years of work experience, of which 15years have been in Customer Experience. Its primary focus has always been delivering the very best entertainment experience to its dedicated customers.

Customer Engagement 62

Customer Engagement Net Promoter Score Entertainment Engagement 62

Quadient

AUGUST 11, 2022

But while concerns of economic uncertainty remain top of mind, the market for customers’ time, attention, and spending is becoming fiercely competitive, making 2023 the right time to transform your customer communications. Aspire Leaderboard: Create a Custom Vendor List Aligned with Your Criteria.

Customer Journeys 52

Customer Journeys Report Data Omni-Channel 52

CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Every year organizations invest millions to deliver a high-quality customer experience (CX) during their seasonal periods. trillion spent in 2007. But despite these extra agents and the enormous investment – the crushing truth is that usually there is still a massive amount of friction… and not just for the customer.

Customer Experience 52

Customer Experience Tips Self Service Average Handle Time 52

Michel Falcon Experience

MARCH 17, 2023

I discuss all things related to company culture, employee performance, customer experience, and career growth, all to impact the growth of a company. Now, what is it that your customers care about the most? If you think of myself as a customer and the demographic that I lie within, I’m technically a millennial.

Hospitality 60

Hospitality Customer Experience Banking Sports 60

Service Untitled

MARCH 10, 2014

With happy customers comes repeat business, referrals, and of course loyalty; all adding to a customer oriented culture that ultimately places an organization as being more popular and valuable. The customer did reportedly purchase a pair of Ugg boots. ” Customer needs are anticipated.

Culture 68

Culture Call Center Customer Centricity Customer Satisfaction 68

CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Adam Taylor, MD at VeriCall reveals a radical new approach to providing high volume service operations that support redesigned customer journeys across multi platforms. Since 2007 there have been more SMS messages sent than phone calls made and yet the primary method of contact for business is still the phone?

Self Service 52

Self Service Multi-Channel Social Media Customer Journeys 52

Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 3, 2016

This often minimizes customer selection of vendors. So, aren’t BtoB customers more often “trapped” into supplier relationships compared to their BtoC customer counterparts? Twenty years ago, in their 1994 white paper entitled “Customer Loyalty:Toward an Integrated Conceptual Framework,” academics Alan S.

Consulting 60

Consulting Loyalty Advertising Analysis 60

BirdEye

APRIL 17, 2023

It allows companies to leverage customer relationships to create a steady revenue stream. It also enables customers to automatically and conveniently repurchase a product or service they want to continue using. The customer can choose an evergreen plan that auto-renews each time indefinitely unless the customer explicitly cancels it.

Customer Retention 98

Customer Retention Consumers Strategy Tips 98

Second to None

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Despite its critical role in a company’s success, businesses often place customer experience on the back burner when it comes to financial investment. The hesitancy towards CX investments stems from the difficulty in directly attributing revenue growth to specific changes in customer experience. Harvard Business Review Study [2].

ROI 54

ROI Study Financial Loyalty 54

Second to None

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Despite its critical role in a company’s success, businesses often place customer experience on the back burner when it comes to financial investment. The hesitancy towards CX investments stems from the difficulty in directly attributing revenue growth to specific changes in customer experience. Harvard Business Review Study [2].

ROI 48

ROI Effort Score Study Financial 48

ijgolding

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Elephants also apparently recognize and can keep track of the locations of as many as 30 companions at a time, psychologist Richard Byrne of the University of Saint Andrews in Scotland and other researchers discovered during a 2007 study at Amboseli. There will always be scenarios where customers feel hard done by.

Groups 120

Groups Airlines Customers Survey 120

Wootric

AUGUST 21, 2018

Consider the realities: as recently as even 2007 the modern smartphone didn’t exist, AI was still a science fiction notion, and the idea of self-driving cars wasn’t on the general public’s radar. To that end, here are four technologies reshaping the customer experience as we know it. Artificial intelligence. Undoubtedly it’s chatbots.

Technology 58

Technology Customer Experience Chatbots Retail 58

West Monroe

MARCH 29, 2022

From inventing digital music and the iPod in 2001 to launching the iPhone in 2007 to imagining a new way to experience television with AppleTV, the company has innovated to provide a value so high that people are willing to give up a week’s salary to buy an Apple product.

Leadership 52

Leadership Consulting System Marketing 52

West Monroe

MARCH 29, 2022

From inventing digital music and the iPod in 2001 to launching the iPhone in 2007 to imagining a new way to experience television with AppleTV, the company has innovated to provide a value so high that people are willing to give up a week’s salary to buy an Apple product.

Leadership 52

Leadership Consulting System Marketing 52

ReviewTrackers

APRIL 27, 2017

Welcome to Customer Insights , a weekly digest of the most important stories about online reviews, customer feedback, and customer experience. It’s the end of the month, so that means this weeks’ Customer Insights focuses on four different industries: banking, hospitality, healthcare, and technology.

Healthcare 50

Healthcare Insurance Hotels Hospitality 50

GlowTouch

JUNE 24, 2021

Helping companies gain business advantages, increase customer loyalty and drive operational productivity. Instead of a printed beer list, a customer gets a touch screen tablet that has the application on it already. This may be the only interaction you have with your customer; we help you get it right. Managing Partner.

Social Media 52

Social Media Roadmap User Experience Healthcare 52

CX Journey

JANUARY 8, 2016

I recently came across the following Chinese parable, and as I often do, wondered how this story might apply to customer experience measurement and management initiatives. So how do we tie this story to customer experience? What about your business approach excites customers to consider your products and services first?

Effort Score 80

Effort Score Metrics NPS Comparison 80

ijgolding

MAY 20, 2015

It fills me with no joy to have to write a post about companies that have delivered unacceptable Customer Experiences. Regular readers of my blog know by now that I write about the good, the bad and the ugly when it comes to Customer Experience so that others may learn from the experiences that I and people in my networks have.

Net Promoter Score 120

Net Promoter Score How To Effort Score Lifetime Customer 120

Service Untitled

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Whereas Amazon is no longer just a store for books, the grand giant now sells everything that can be sold or delivered, so how do local stores compete, and what needs to be done to gain customer loyalty even after the last ornaments have been neatly tucked away? Make customer assistance convenient and quick for shoppers.

Retail 62

Retail Poor Customer Service Social Media Insurance 62

Service Untitled

MARCH 3, 2014

For the third year in a row, customer satisfaction in the retail trade for the United States is at an all time industry high, but of course there are always some caveats since many of the top retailers who scored relatively low for customer satisfaction are among the top retailers.

Customer Satisfaction 57

Customer Satisfaction Retail e-support Fashion 57