BlueOcean

JULY 5, 2016

In our world, it’s a little bit soul crushing to know that one third of people in the US would choose to clean a toilet over talking with customer service. If the call to customer care is a dreaded and distasteful last resort, how do we adapt and improve the experience? The Facts About Social Customer Care.

Customer Care 120

Customer Care Social Media Contact Center Entertainment 120

ijgolding

JUNE 14, 2016

When it comes to the subject of Customer Experience, there are many questions I would like to know the answer to. So this year, I wanted to explore another aspect of Customer Experience that I find extremely interesting. So what did people see as either enabling customer centric behaviour… or frustrating it?

Customer Centricity 120

Customer Centricity Customer Experience Customers Leadership 120

Help.com

MARCH 14, 2016

A recent study by Gallup shows that only 29% of customers are fully engaged. 71% of customers are ready and willing to part ways with your company. We share a few tips below that can help boost your customer engagement and create a culture of loyal, happy customers. Make your business more customer-centric.

Customer Engagement 114

Customer Engagement Engagement Tips Social Media 114

Comm100

JANUARY 14, 2016

Consequently, as newer technologies enable more ease in performing business transactions, consumers will have higher expectations when it comes to customer service and sales support. In recent years, consumers have placed greater importance on the quality of customer service than on the price and quality of products alone.

Omni-Channel 0

Omni-Channel Trends Self Service Customer Service 0

CX Journey

APRIL 21, 2016

Image courtesy of Juju Insipired What customer experience challenges are you facing this year? Even though 2016 is already a third of the way over, I thought it would be interesting to share some findings about key customer experience challenges that have been identified for this year. That's pointless.

Omni-Channel 80

Omni-Channel ROI Culture Trends 80

Experience Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2016

If you’ve followed our research, then you know that organizations build and sustain customer-centric cultures by mastering the Four CX Core Competencies: Purposeful Leadership, Compelling Brand Values, Employee Engagement, and Customer Connectedness.

Customer Connectedness 217

Customer Connectedness Customer Experience Customer Centricity Employee Engagement 217

CX Journey

MARCH 29, 2017

It was published on their blog on April 26, 2016. I recently came across some research conducted among customer experience (CX) practitioners that found that their #1 challenge this year is creating a customer-first culture. You know by now, of course, that the employee experience drives the customer experience.

Culture 80

Culture e-support Customer Journeys Leadership 80

Alida

DECEMBER 1, 2016

A report conducted by the tech company LinkedIn, the advisory firm Capgemini and the non-profit Efma found that half of banking customers around the world now use at least one product or service from a fintech firm. In the first quarter of 2016 alone, fintech startups saw an influx of $5.2 Establishing a customer-centric culture.

Customer Experience 193

Customer Experience Financial Banking Culture 193

ijgolding

MAY 6, 2020

This is a post about customer experience (CX) transformation – about the incredible work being done by a bank in Eastern Europe in their quest to become sustainably customer centric. I first met Laura Tengerdi and Andrea (Andi) Hanyecz in 2016. customer insight. customer journey management. governance.

Banking 233

Banking Customer Experience Customer Centricity Strategy 233

CX Journey

APRIL 7, 2016

Ron and I have been working on this topic for many years and are happy to report that the April issue of Harvard Business Review picked up our ideas and published a short piece in the Idea Watch section in the April 2016 issue. They are: Rule #1: Don’t start with customer-facing employees. If the customer says X, respond with Y.”)

Culture 80

Culture How To Net Promoter Score Airlines 80

ijgolding

JANUARY 17, 2017

In my exclusive column for CustomerThink in October 2016, I shared my ‘top tips’ for creating the right culture to enable an organisation to become genuinely customer centric. In November 2016 I did so with tip number 1 – how to make Customer Experience a priority for the whole company – you can read it here.

Customer Experience 168

Customer Experience How To Customer Centricity Tips 168

ShepHyken

JULY 4, 2016

Each week I read a number of customer service articles from various online resources. 3 Tips for Using Twitter as a Customer Service Tool b y Joe Wadlington. Hootsuite) Want to learn how to better engage with existing and potential customers on Twitter? How Employee Culture Impacts Customer Experience by Eric Berridge.

Customer Service 81

Customer Service Culture Hotels Tips 81

CSM Magazine

MAY 23, 2016

This in-depth research report written by CX Network looks at the key customer experience trends, challenges and investments for the next 12 –18 months and the digital transformation of organisations. Customer loyalty and retention, online customer experience, and data and analytics are also the top trends predicted by practitioners.

Customer Experience 56

Customer Experience ROI Trends CRM 56

OpinionLab

JULY 15, 2016

We heard from OpinionLab customer Citi on-stage at CXNYC that their basic customer expectation is to “know me and make it easy”. Involve employees to build a CX culture. Forrester CXNYC also put significant emphasis on aligning CX efforts with internal corporate culture.

Handbook 60

Handbook Conference Customer Centricity Culture 60

C3Centricity

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A Gartner survey found that employees’ willingness to support enterprise change fell from 74% in 2016 to just 43% in 2022. It also allows them to identify winning concepts while highlighting and quickly removing those which don’t resonate with customers. So clearly atomic changes are the way to go.

Employee Engagement 226

Employee Engagement e-support Policies Retail 226

ReviewTrackers

JUNE 29, 2017

Welcome to Customer Insights , a weekly digest of the most important stories about online reviews, customer feedback, and customer experience. This week: The ability to provide an enhanced customer experience starts with improving workplace culture. Customer Experience Starts with Workplace Culture .

Culture 50

Culture Banking Feedback Customer Insights 50

AskNicely

AUGUST 17, 2018

Why is Customer Obsession a Priority? And 23% of CEOs list customer service as one of their top three business priorities. Savvy CEOs understand that growth and employee engagement can be created by listening to customer feedback while following one guiding principle: Be customer obsessed. 28% say workforce.

Competitive Advantage 150

Competitive Advantage Feedback Net Promoter Score NPS 150

Experience Matters

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

One of the team’s strategic objectives this year was to make sure that CX is considered in decisions made across the company, and to that end it developed empathy programs, widely shared customer insights both horizontally and vertically, and established Enterprise and business unit metrics that incentivize an outside-in Read More.

Groups 202

Groups Customer Centricity Culture Metrics 202

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 26, 2016

Each week I read a number of customer service articles from various online resources. The Hidden Costs of Poor Internal Customer Service By Joanne Wortman. Integrify) Of course, every business understands the need to maintain a high commitment to providing excellent customer service. Here are my top five picks from last week.

Chief Customer Officer 83

Chief Customer Officer Customer Service Lifetime Customer Loyalty 83

Experience Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2016

If you’ve followed our research, then you know that organizations build and sustain customer-centric cultures by mastering the Four CX Core Competencies: Purposeful Leadership, Compelling Brand Values, Employee Engagement, and Customer Connectedness.

Customer Connectedness 120

Customer Connectedness Customer Experience Customer Centricity Employee Engagement 120

Innovative CX

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

How do we satisfy the needs of each while creating a culture that will support and deliver an effective CX strategy? Millennials surpassed Gen Xers in 2016.” What does all this have to do with improving the customer and employee experience in an organization? We used to say happy employees equal happy customers.

Culture 56

Culture Strategy Examples Engagement 56

Lumoa

JANUARY 3, 2018

We started Lumoa with Carlos and Suvi after leaving Microsoft in August 2016. Since that we have launched a product, acquired our first customers, grown from the 3-person founding team to a 7-person team. Corporate cultures are (horribly) different. I wanted to learn new things and make a difference.

Culture 340

Culture Analytics Industry Company 340

Lumoa

AUGUST 23, 2021

In any case, customer experience used to be the largest way to differentiate your brand among the turbulent sea of competition. New ways of interacting with customers A recent study from CMO found that 84% of companies were using social media for brand building and more than 54% have used it for customer retention.

Customer Experience 236

Customer Experience Social Media Video Analytics 236

Experience Matters

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

I’m sure you’re not surprised to hear that mobile customer experience is on the rise, but this infographic provides some more insights on what that shift looks like.

Infographics 317

Infographics Groups Data Customer Experience 317

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Each week I read a number of customer service articles from various online resources. The Customer Service Strategies Behind Zappos’s Success by Sharpen. Sharpen) The power behind the Zappos brand and majority of their success is attributed to the power of fantastic customer service, which is often overlooked as a sales strategy.

Customer Service 0

Customer Service Chatbots Culture Tips 0

Blake Morgan

MAY 17, 2023

Delivering an amazing customer experience starts at the top with customer-focused leadership. Companies winning in customer experience are led by people obsessed with the customer experience and putting customers first in everything they do. There is incredible power in customer-focused leadership.

Customer Focused 59

Customer Focused Leadership Effort Score Customer Centricity 59

Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 21, 2016

However, in the job market we find ourselves in 2016, the two activities are critically important and intrinsically linked. It also explains the elements needed for engaging employees, how to move highly-engaged employees to ambassadorship, and how ambassadorship translates into an excellent Customer Experience.

Social Media 60

Social Media CEM Employee Engagement Employee Experience 60

Customer Guru

MARCH 13, 2018

At Customer Guru, we believe that Customer Experience (CX) should be the number one priority for all the Indian businesses so that they become more sustainable and successful globally. Thus, we are on a mission to spread this awareness, inspiring and guiding professionals to adopt and inculcate a customer-centric approach.

Customer Centricity 71

Customer Centricity Culture NPS B2C 71

ShepHyken

JANUARY 14, 2024

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Consumer Trust Languishes at 2016 Levels by MarTech Cube (MarTech Cube) Consumers’ trust in the organizations they do business with has not recovered from its pandemic decline. Here are my top five picks from last week.

Customer Service 57

Customer Service Retail Consumers Metrics 57

Talkdesk

MAY 18, 2016

Opentalk 2016 was a whirlwind. Talkdesk’s inaugural summit was jam-packed with valuable insights on the future of the customer experience. Empathy is the heart of the most successful customer experiences. Customer satisfaction can seem an amorphous goal at times.

Self Service 40

Self Service Omni-Channel Customer Centricity NPS 40

Provide Support

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

People who work in your company create the atmosphere your customers feel when they interact with your team. Well trained and friendly employees will always provide high quality customer service, but how to achieve this? The task of creating a customer focused culture is not as easy as it seems to be. Read more.

Infographics 40

Infographics Culture Customer Service Training 40

Vonage

OCTOBER 24, 2016

When a company reaches the top, does customer service quality still matter? Key learning point for customer service quality. Customer service quality will still matter. Give it 120% in regard to customer service quality. Action steps for customer service quality. Attending Connect 2016? A very busy week!

Airlines 120

Airlines Customer Service Conference Culture 120

ShepHyken

JANUARY 14, 2024

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Consumer Trust Languishes at 2016 Levels by MarTech Cube (MarTech Cube) Consumers’ trust in the organizations they do business with has not recovered from its pandemic decline. Here are my top five picks from last week.

Customer Service 55

Customer Service Retail Consumers Metrics 55

SuiteCX

MAY 4, 2016

There are many approaches to Customer Journey Mapping, just as there are many different company cultures looking to use this valuable tool to improve their customer experience. We presented this content at the 2016 CXPA Members Insight Exchange.

Customer Journeys 100

Customer Journeys Culture Customers Tools 100

SuiteCX

MAY 4, 2016

There are many approaches to Customer Journey Mapping, just as there are many different company cultures looking to use this valuable tool to improve their customer experience. We presented this content at the 2016 CXPA Members Insight Exchange.

Customer Journeys 100

Customer Journeys Culture Customers Tools 100

ijgolding

OCTOBER 3, 2016

As I continue to develop my Customer Experience Specialism around the globe, a number of questions are continually raised by the people I meet. How many customer segments should we have? Should we have a Chief Customer Officer. Customer journey maps of all shapes and sizes are adorning many a conference room wall.

Customer Centricity 263

Customer Centricity Customer Experience Customer Journeys Chief Customer Officer 263

Michelli Experience

JULY 18, 2017

Customer Experience and Trust…hmmm. and, 3) What percentage of Americans answered “True” to the same question in 2016? drumroll please… In 1964 77% of respondents said “most people can be trusted” but only 31% viewed most others as worthy of trust in 2016 (thus causing my negativistic prediction about you today).

Customer Experience 164

Customer Experience Contact Center Consulting Policies 164