Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 9, 2019

Are You Using the Right Measures? Measuring your progress for your Customer Experience strategy is an essential aspect to your program’s success. In this episode of The Intuitive Customer, we discuss the importance of measuring Customer Experience correctly. Let me give you an example.

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Measurement Airlines Survey Voice of Customer 104

InMoment XI

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In my last post, we discussed the difference between interactions, engagement, and customer experience. Now, I’d like to dive deeper into customer experience and the role everyone in your organization plays in delivering that experience. You heard me right: not one department owns the customer experience—it’s every department!

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 7, 2021

To most companies, it invariably means “customers give us all their money.” So, today we’re going to talk about the five rules that will build customer loyalty. Having that kind of bond with your customers is fantastic for your business. However, customer loyalty necessitates thinking long term.

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Loyalty Airlines Banking Customers 172

COPC

JULY 20, 2023

Overview Service level is one of the most important metrics for a contact center to measure and manage and has been in place since contact centers evolved. Organizations are missing opportunities to view this metric differently to manage customer service delivery and its associated costs more effectively.

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GetFeedback

JULY 19, 2019

When it comes to customer experience (CX) , I can think of many, many things we all know to be true. . We can all agree customers expect more of us than ever. We can agree there are more customer interactions than ever before, and some of that is our own fault. How can you give your customer a voice within your business?

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InMoment XI

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In particular, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a powerful tool, revolutionizing the way companies understand and enhance the customer experience. As we delve into the realm of AI in Customer Experience (CX), we will explore how this technology is reshaping the customer-business relationship. What is AI in CX?

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PeopleMetrics

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

The reason is that a great customer experience is usually about solving a problem with as little customer effort as possible. On a recent fight on American Airlines, however, I experienced the opposite of an easy experience - it indeed had quite a bit of friction and effort. Listen to your customers!

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Customer Bliss

JULY 29, 2021

I’ve had the great honor of working with Southwest Airlines for many years and spent a lot of time talking to, not only Herb Kelleher, but Colleen Barrett who was the president (now president emerita). ” Well, yeah, that may be good for today, but not for tomorrow’s customers who are going to potentially walk away from you.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 18, 2017

airlines, sizing them up according to factors that matter to travelers, including delays, on-time arrivals and lost baggage. Overall, the newspaper reported, airlines did a better job on some measures in 2016 than in 2015, with 7 percent fewer late arrivals. Are we going to say sorry for our lack of customer service?”

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Kayako

MAY 13, 2022

In recent years, the rise of social media put the customer in charge of the brand conversation. As e-commerce and demand for online help expands, companies have to meet and exceed new expectations to keep customers satisfied. Fortunately, customers also like to help themselves. What Is Customer Self-Service?

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 31, 2020

As organizations emerge from this crisis, many are likely to face changing customer behavior and attitudes. Some of these will be driven by 1) the organizations’ response to the crisis and others will be driven by 2) changing customer habits and attitudes. But there are other, not-travel related customer experience shambles too!

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GetFeedback

JANUARY 12, 2020

About eight out of ten business leaders say they want to “improve” the customer experience (CX) to be more competitive. In CustomerThink’s recent study of 200+ CX initiatives, 74% agreed: “By 2020, customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator.”. Customer service takes too long to answer the phone.

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NetBase

MARCH 26, 2019

Measuring influencer marketing success requires a particular set of skills – skills that go beyond typical ROI savvy, to criteria that specifically relates to influencers. And what’s the measure? And both need to happen before and after engaging influencers, so they have a baseline to measure against. But is it working?

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 9, 2018

In a previous blog, I outlined 14 different metrics that contact centers should be tracking to improve customer experience. In this blog, I outline 3 critical customer service metrics that organizations are using to answer broader business questions including: Are my customers happy with my products and services?

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NPS Metrics Net Promoter Score Customer Service 122

CX Journey

MAY 8, 2019

When companies focus on people, their people - employees first, then customers - the numbers will come. And that knowledge typically equates to focusing on marketing and sales first, i.e., do whatever it takes to acquire customers, drive sales, grow the business, etc. Sounds like measuring the employee experience to me!

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Airlines Travel Loyalty Customer Satisfaction 151

ShepHyken

MAY 16, 2022

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Are You Tracking the Customer Service Metrics That Really Count? My Comment: We kick off this week’s Top Five roundup with an excellent article about the best customer service metrics. Does the customer come back?

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Zeisler Consulting

DECEMBER 22, 2021

It was an evening flight, perhaps not the last flight on the route (it was hub-to-hub for the airline, so the route sees a lot of traffic), but close to it, and we were—of course—late getting in. Louis) had limited flights for this particular airline. The airline? That meant two things. Of course, that’s the way we think.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

We all want customers that return and buy more for us. Returning customers often buy more than new customers and require fewer resources to attract. So, how do you get customers to come back? . On a recent podcast, we hosted speaker and author Shep Hyken, one of the most influential voices in Customer Experience today.

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Airlines Net Promoter Score Self Service Comparison 109

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In a meeting with a long-time client, I learned how pleased they were with their repeat business, which they saw as loyal customers coming back for more. I knew these customers would leave my client when the competition had a good enough offer. After all, don’t loyal customers bring you repeat business?

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Customers Rock!

AUGUST 16, 2012

Social media has pushed customer service to the forefront for many organizations. And when things go wrong, customers often flock to social media to air their grievances; a perfect example is the article I recently co-authored for Forbes Online, with Mark Fidelman , about the Southwest Airlines 3 Million Fan Flash Sale fiasco.

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Steve DiGioia

APRIL 1, 2019

How would I be able to serve my customers with these rotten cold symptoms? Can we really be expected to provide the same level of service to our customers even when sick? The 3 Ways to Serve a Customer Even When We’re Not at Our Best. Switch Places with the Customer. It’s no different with customer service providers.

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Airlines Travel Customers Measurement 269

NICE inContact

OCTOBER 4, 2019

There probably isn’t a more common KPI in customer service than First Response Time (FRT). I’ve asked many people, and even myself, whether FRT is still important in today’s world of mobile customers. But it is not the end-all of customer service metrics. What I mean by mobile is the customer.

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Airlines Social Media Travel Metrics 138

Kitewheel

JANUARY 15, 2020

Journey analytics is the key way that businesses understand the customer experience they deliver. Businesses cannot actively create better experiences for their customers if they don’t identify journey and experience trends. This is why exploring the customer journey is a key use case within journey management. Not so today.

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Interactions

MARCH 2, 2023

Cost constraints may lead some companies to prioritize downsizing measures over investing in customer experience (CX). Companies that prioritize customer experience may find that it pays off in increased customer loyalty and satisfaction. Sometimes a customer just needs to speak to someone,” he says.

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Talkdesk

MAY 6, 2015

No matter your industry—or business size—keeping your customers happy is paramount. After all, even the small mom-and-pop shop needs to take that first-time customer and nurture him or her into a brand proponent who can evangelize on behalf of their small business. So what can airlines do to bring their customer service to new heights?

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Airlines Call Center Customer Satisfaction Software 40

Comm100

JUNE 13, 2018

Welcome to the first of a new series of monthly posts where I will be looking at the best of Customer Service, Customer Experience and Customer Success articles that can be found online. made an excellent point about churn and the importance of customer service. Metrics and Measures. Have a H.E.A.R.T.

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Customer Service Airlines Call Center Metrics 103

Aveus

JULY 12, 2017

It seems no matter whom I am talking with in business lately, a key theme is that customer expectations are higher and changing more rapidly than ever before. This reality seems to have sped up in the last 24 months within most industries due to technology advancements and shifts in what customers want and expect in their experience.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 8, 2023

While they were delighted with their repeat business, which they attributed to customer loyalty , a closer look at the repeat business statistics painted a different picture. What I observed wasn’t a steadfast commitment from their customers; rather, it appeared to be inertia.

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Loyalty Airlines Consulting Financial 88

ijgolding

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The whole idea of the Net Promoter Score (NPS) is based around asking customers the question ‘How likely is it that you would recommend our company/product/service to a friend or colleague?’ Yet how useful is NPS really, unaided by any other metric, as an effective way of assessing an organisation’s appeal to its customers?

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Metrics Net Promoter Score NPS Measurement 256

Michelli Experience

APRIL 14, 2017

According to Bruce Temkin’s 2016 study , after a positive emotional experience, customers are 15 times more likely to recommend a company. But do the current solutions deliver on the key question that companies should be asking themselves: How can we provide a positive emotional experience to our customers? 15 times more likely !

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Analysis Feedback Effort Score NPS 223

CX Journey

AUGUST 16, 2017

It's been a year or more since I've written about the ROI of customer experience. Always good to revisit this topic because it is such a hot one for customer experience professionals. As you can see from the graphic above, there is definitely a correlation between the two, superior customer experience and superior revenue growth.

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Wired and Dangerous

AUGUST 13, 2018

Customer issues can be like volcanos. Customers typically provide warnings before they blow their tops. It could be an unexplained reserve or shyness on the part of the customer. If service providers ignore the signs of discontent and fail to intervene, they catch the wrath and heat of customer anger.

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GetFeedback

JUNE 10, 2019

We know that customer’s opinions and feedback are important because they impact the sustainability of a company throughout its lifecycle. Listening to your customers pays off–you’ll learn about their pain points which will help you to improve your product, making it more useful to current and potential users.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 6, 2019

When I started Beyond Philosophy back in 2002, I could ascertain whether a company was customer-focused or not right away. This answer became my second book, Revolutionize Your Customer Experience , which explores how the culture of a company reflects how customer-centric the organization is. What measurement is in place?

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Net Promoter Score Company Customer Centricity Airlines 171

CX Journey

MAY 8, 2019

When companies focus on people, their people - employees first, then customers - the numbers will come. And that knowledge typically equates to focusing on marketing and sales first, i.e., do whatever it takes to acquire customers, drive sales, grow the business, etc. Sounds like measuring the employee experience to me!

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Airlines Travel Loyalty Customer Satisfaction 88

Comm100

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

For any business to thrive, they need their customers to trust them, and to do this, they need to prove that they take personal privacy seriously. To make sure that our customers are leading the way in privacy and gaining their customers’ trust, Comm100 is fully PIPEDA compliant. What does this boil down to?

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Telecommunications Transportation Banking Airlines 147

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.

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Net Promoter Score Company NPS Effort Score 124