ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

This week we feature an article by Eric Melchor, founder of Elevate My CX. If you’re a Customer Experience specialist, you might think that salespeople are not the kind of role models to get customer care tips from. Jim didn’t win every sale, who does, but he always outperformed his counterparts. Except for Jim.

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Roadmap Sales Case Study Airlines 117

TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

He’s the CAO (Chief Amazement Officer) of Shepard Presentations and leading international authority on customer service, CX, and loyalty in business. Shep has worked with thousands of companies and organizations that want to create amazing customer service experiences for their customers and employees. Follow on LinkedIn.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Be sure to review what customers are already sharing via surveys, social media comments, user reviews, and frontline interactions. This feedback could provide clues about where customers want you to listen more. This is where a customer journey map can come in really handy! Related Article: Why Journey Map?

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Horizon CX

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The Art of Selling CX: Convincing Skeptical Senior Leaders on Customer Experience Success Introduction In the dynamic landscape of customer experience (CX) management, the journey extends beyond strategic implementation; it’s a constant process of persuasion and selling ideas, especially to senior leadership.

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Kerry Bodine

AUGUST 14, 2020

On Wednesday I presented a webinar with the Toronto Customer Experience Professionals Association. In contrast, CX professionals look broadly across all channels—websites, mobile apps, email, online chat, phone conversations, retail store visits, home visits from technicians, paper statements, and so on.

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CX Journey

MARCH 13, 2018

The good news is, more and more company leaders are starting to get that they need to focus on the customer experience; the bad news is, many – most – are still struggling with the concept , choosing instead to focus on sales, metrics, and maximizing shareholder value. No argument there. Remember that this was 2005.

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CX Journey

AUGUST 24, 2017

I love attending webinars and reading articles about journey mapping because I'm always curious about how others talk about them, what their approaches are, what outcomes they've achieved, etc. Mapping stages may also be appropriate as you think about the high-level customer relationship and where to begin journey mapping.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 21, 2019

This week we feature an article by Jonny Everett who discusses what businesses must do to be successful in the on-demand world in which we live. Your customers are used to ordering a taxi, booking hotel rooms and getting their shirts dry-cleaned in a few taps of their phone screen or clicks of their mouse.

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Chatbots Customer Experience Hotels Consumers 119

Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

Prior to joining Temkin Group, she implemented the CX strategy and managed the Voice of the Customer program for Crowe Horwath LLP, one of the top 10 public accounting and consulting firms in the US. He serves on the BoD for the Council of Better Business Bureaus and the Society of Consumer Affairs Professionals. Annette Franz.

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customer sure

JANUARY 16, 2024

Due to the multi-faceted nature of ‘experience’, there’s no convenient single metric for measuring experiences – though concepts such as NPS (Net Promoter Score) , or CES (Customer Effort Score) make a good go of it. At the very least, an experience consists of communication , quality , pricing , and branding.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. Customer Experience Statistics: 7 Formulas You Need to Know by Brianna Langley. You do if your customers are there.

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Customer Guru

AUGUST 21, 2018

Kristina is a customer experience expert and host of “The Customer Experience Podcast for Business Leaders”, a podcast series for motivating C-Suite and leadership teams in improving customer experience. She is also a board member of the Customer Experience Professionals Association.

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Customer Experience Customer Journeys Consulting Customer Experience Professionals 115

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JULY 12, 2022

Be sure to review what customers are already sharing via surveys, social media comments, user reviews, and frontline interactions. This feedback could provide clues about where customers want you to listen more. This is where a customer journey map can come in really handy! Related Article: Why Journey Map?

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Customer Journeys Feedback Social Media Exercises 143

Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

Prior to joining Temkin Group, she implemented the CX strategy and managed the Voice of the Customer program for Crowe Horwath LLP, one of the top 10 public accounting and consulting firms in the US. He serves on the BoD for the Council of Better Business Bureaus and the Society of Consumer Affairs Professionals. Annette Franz.

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Customer Guru

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Chauhan has been recognized for demonstrating exceptional passion in putting the customers first and aligning business strategies based on the customer needs. In this candid interview with Customer Guru, Mr. Chauhan shares his journey as a customer experience professional.

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ijgolding

OCTOBER 28, 2015

I am therefore delighted to be able to share this article with you – an article written by someone who is a specialist when it comes to Customer Experience Design. Now the employees can not only hand out the prescription but also walk with the customer to shelves with other products.

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ijgolding

MARCH 10, 2016

This article was originally written for my exclusive column on mycustomer.com – a hugely valuable and rich resource of information, expertise and inspiration for CX Professionals. You can find the original article here. If a business has historically had a SALES focused culture – changing behaviours and mindsets is challenging.

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Customer Centricity Culture Customer Experience Professionals Communication 120

Comm100

MARCH 8, 2017

Connect with this customer service expert on Twitter today to make sure that your company doesn’t miss out! Her Twitter sports articles about Millennial trends, and is a hot spot for information on what companies can do to appeal to Generation Z and Millennial consumers. Chelsea Krost. ChelseaKrost. Kate Nasser. KateNasser.

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CX Journey

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Pundits and experts alike say that customer experience is everyone's job. If you google "customer experience is everyone's job" and "customer service is everyone's job," you'll find endless articles, blogs, and webinars with that very title. Technically, it is everyone's job. How can that be?

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ijgolding

JUNE 5, 2016

I recently wrote an article for my column on CustomerThink entitled ‘How Well Do You Know Your Customer?’ – the premise was around the significance and necessity of creating customer personas. You can read the article here. If used well, they are a vital cog in the development of customer strategy.

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Meeting Exercises Customer Journeys Customer Experience Professionals 120

SurveySensum

JULY 9, 2021

Why is it important for CX Professionals to be empathetic? Customer experience professionals must learn empathy because they are the ones in charge of making the end-customer satisfied. And, how will they know how to make an incredible customer experience if they don’t empathize with their customers?

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GlowTouch

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

What is Customer Experience in 2019? Linda Ruffenach, was recently tapped for her customer experience expertise. Here’s what Linda had to say on the matter: “The customer experience conveys the true essence of a company’s brand. It may be the only live, in-person experience an individual has with a company.

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CSM Magazine

MAY 19, 2023

Understanding Customer Experience Engineering Role of Experience Engineering in Business Growth Customer Experience Engineering (CXE) is a strategic approach to designing and optimizing the interactions between a business and its customers. This involves prioritizing customer needs and preferences.

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Customer Journeys Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Effort Score 52

Kayako

APRIL 15, 2019

We had the pleasure of hosting customer service and experience expert, Shep Hyken earlier this month for a half hour Q&A session on why customer experience matters so much and what businesses must do to create the best experiences for their customers.

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CX University

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Customer-facing teams in sales and service-orientated environments embrace the concept. Marketing teams use it to get to know their customers, to personalise their brand reach and encourage brand loyalty. This article is written by guest author, Chaman Maharaj. CHAMAN MAHARAJ Founder and Director www.beinghuman.cx.

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PeopleMetrics

DECEMBER 27, 2019

No matter how talented you are as a customer experience professional , you need a team to create a world-class VoC program. IT can also help create an automated system for this process, such as connecting a point-of-sale system or CRM to your VoC software platform via an API. The Information Technology (IT) Department.

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Horizon CX

AUGUST 10, 2020

Hence, within our role as customer experience professionals, we hold a conversation and the resulting communication in the highest order of the many skills we possess and exemplify. Functional conversation is designed to convey information in order to help achieve an individual or group goal.

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Answer Dash

APRIL 16, 2019

(This articles was originally published on CustomerThink as an exclusive column for CustomerThink Advisor ) Organizational agility — to profitably seize evolving opportunities and allay emerging threats — depends upon managers aligning daily decisions with core customers’ expectations and your corporate strategy. Connect with Ms.

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Customer Experience Financial Customer Journeys Handbook 76

Horizon CX

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Year-end has always been a time for personal reflection for me and as 2018 ends in just a few hours, I am inspired to share the following thoughts around Customer Experience both in reflection of the year just about to end and the one just about to begin. Case in point—How many more articles are necessary to explain NPS?

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CX Journey

APRIL 25, 2018

Let me start with explaining what journey maps are not: they are not lifecycle maps, sales funnels, buyer funnels, buyer lifecycles, etc. Those are marketing tools and are too high level for customer experience design. What is Journey Mapping? Process mapping should be done in conjunction with journey mapping.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 12, 2022

Goebel recently wrote a great article, “ It’s Time for the VoC to Get a Little Brother: The Voice of the Product,” that introduced me to the idea of the ‘Voice of the Product’. Goebel comes to us with nearly 20 years’ experience with enterprise software and a career of product management, sales engineering, and product marketing.

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Wootric CX Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

These authors, speakers, thought-leaders and dedicated customer experience professionals have all helped contribute to the widespread adoption of CX, not just as a strategy, but as a higher goal. They make our lives better, share their expertise, uplift our spirits, and show profound generosity. Why we love Augie: He’s the Sr.

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Customer Journeys Consulting Customer Experience Professionals Chief Customer Officer 67

Michel Falcon Experience

JANUARY 16, 2017

I still remember the day in 2007 when I committed to understanding customer experience management and how it grows businesses. I read books on customer experience, I set up a Feedly account and read dozens of articles every day on the subject. While working at 1-800-GOT-JUNK? ,

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Hospitality Study Airlines Culture 60

Ian Williams

APRIL 29, 2016

Just over four years ago, I wrote a blog post called “ Who owns Customer Experience ?”. The purpose of the post was to attempt to establish the best ‘place’ within the business to ‘house’ the Customer Experience professionals. One tongue-in-cheek argument is to sack all of your customer experience professionals.

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Steve DiGioia

DECEMBER 5, 2016

This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. Businesses across the land champion their great service and the positive experience given to their throngs of loyal customers. They tout the benefits of their product and how they tend to the specific needs, wants and desires of their customers. Grant Cardone.

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ClearAction

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Don't assume that customer experience personas initiated by engineering (R&D) are only applicable to that function (and vice versa for branding, advertising, marketing, sales, or service-initiated customer experience personas). Related articles: Voice of the Customer: Do This, Not That.

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Michel Falcon Experience

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

[bctt tweet=” If you’re going to have a successful career as a customer experience professional you need a strategy.”] ”] I remember the day when I first recognized that customer experience management would be “my thing.” Step 3: Invest in Yourself. What are your five?

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