InMoment XI

AUGUST 2, 2023

In our latest report, State of Customer Experience: 2023 UK Consumer Study in partnership with NPSx by Bain & Company, we uncovered the differences between industries and brands and how each brand represents certain values. The true value lies in taking decisive action based on the insights gathered from customers.

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NPS Customer Centricity Tips Automotive 260

Brad Cleveland Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

To customers, this was just confirmation the restaurant … Continue reading → The post 6 Traits of a Customer-Focused Culture appeared first on Brad Cleveland. Referrals spread rapidly, reviews were positive, and before long, the waits to get in became longer.

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Customer Focused Culture Customers Contact Center 26

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The fact is, improving your Customer Experience means you must also become more customer-centric. But what is customer-centricity and how do you do it? Creating and sustaining a customer-centric culture was the subject of a recent podcast. The first one was, “We put customers first.”. But guess what?

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Customer Centricity Culture Customers Customer Experience 245

Help Scout

APRIL 29, 2021

Your customer service culture is not what your fancy “Customer Guarantee” promises, and it’s not whatever you say it is in your new employee handbook. Your culture is the set of beliefs held by your employees about your company: who and what it is for, what it values, and how they act in response to those beliefs.

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Culture Customer Service How To Policies 139

ShepHyken

MARCH 10, 2024

5 Straightforward Ways Small Business Owners Can Create a Stellar Customer-Focused Culture by Steven Van Belleghem (America’s Small Business Network) Embarking on a journey to craft a customer-focused culture within a small business landscape isn’t just about adhering to the norms—it’s about redefining them.

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Self Service Customer Service Airlines Touchpoint 78

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 30, 2016

Co-creation sessions, customer journey workshops and customer-focused innovation summits can sound so sexy and intriguing. We envision a group working cohesively, rolling up their collective sleeves to create an improved customer-centric culture and earn long-term loyalty from customers.

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Customer Focused Innovation Customer Journeys Customer Centricity 110

Integrity Solutions

JUNE 11, 2020

There’s never been a better time to step up to more transformative culture change — to increase transparency and shift the culture with a greater focus on customers, employees and the community. For Most Organizations, Culture Has Already Changed. What Does it Take to Sustain Culture Change? By Bob McCarthy.

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Culture Banking Financial Sales 89

Customers That Stick

JANUARY 22, 2019

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Customer Focused 60

Customer Focused Culture Innovation Customers 60

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Is the process designed for the good of the Customer or was it designed for the good of the company? In my experience, the latter is more likely than the former, leaving most organizations with a process lacking a customer focus. Creating a Customer-Focused Process. How to Make or Break Your Customer Experience.

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Customer Focused Customer Journeys Customer Centricity Employee Engagement 153

Brad Cleveland Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2017

The number one key to sustaining great service is culture. The culture of doing the daily hard work to focus on what’s best for customers. What do organizations with the most engaged employees and customer-focused cultures have in common?

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Customer Focused Culture Customers Engagement 26

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 11, 2014

One of the most influential factors on your Customer Experience is your company culture. Most companies might understand the concept, yet still engage in activities that influence company culture in a way that hurts the Customer Experience. You have no definition of what your culture is for the organization.

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Culture Customer Experience Customer Centricity Airlines 134

One Millimeter Mindset

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Are competing customer retention cultures crippling your organization or association? First, competing customer retention cultures are sustained within traditional departmental silos and business models. My One Millimeter Mindset blog post, “ Do Our Professional Labels create Positive Customer Experiences?

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Customer Retention Culture Customer Focused Customers 61

Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 15, 2019

Defining and managing your customer service culture is a significant issue for many organizations. Today we share some important considerations for establishing your customer service culture as well as the best practices of the leading customer service organizations. Then, you implement it.

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Culture Customer Service Leadership Airlines 114

One Millimeter Mindset

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Does our organization engage in a couch potato storytelling culture? A couch potato storytelling culture is self-focused. A couch potato storytelling culture emphasizes drama over minor skirmishes. Sometimes the best customer-focused stories are the ones our organization never pays attention to.

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Culture Course Leadership Strategy 71

Brad Cleveland Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2017

The number one key to sustaining great service is culture. The culture of doing the daily hard work to focus on what’s best for customers. What do organizations with the most engaged employees and customer-focused cultures have in common?

Customer Focused 20

Customer Focused Culture Leadership Video 20

Brad Cleveland Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2017

The number one key to sustaining great service is culture. The culture of doing the daily hard work to focus on what’s best for customers. What do organizations with the most engaged employees and customer-focused cultures have in common?

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Customer Focused Culture Leadership Video 20

CX Centric

MAY 27, 2024

If you look at any successful organization, it will surely have customer focus at one of its core values and rightly so. After all, the customers are the reason for which the company exists. Customer obsession means constantly listening to customers, and then continuously testing, enhancing, and personalizing the customer experience.

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One Millimeter Mindset

DECEMBER 10, 2018

These 5 little One Millimeter Mindset workplace collaboration blog posts wrap your brain around the notion that collaboration no longer is a “nice to have” soft skill. And creating remarkable customer-focused experiences. As you read these blogs, do a little victory lap. Enjoy this blog post? Subscribe to my blog.

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Innovation Customer Retention Consulting Culture 65

CX Accelerator

JANUARY 11, 2021

When I was first introduced to the company I read everything I could find about their culture, training, leadership philosophy, and Tony. Zappos taught me that my idea of positively changing a customer's day one interaction at a time was not a lofty ambition but an achievable goal. Also, they published the Culture Book (pictured).

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Return on Investment Culture Customer Centricity Ecommerce 266

CX Journey

MARCH 12, 2015

As companies focus inward to understand how to achieve their customer experience goals, the term “engagement” is often used interchangeably with “culture.” The two terms are related, and they’re both elements of customer experience improvement. Prompts might include: “We know who is responsible for the customer.”

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Culture Engagement Employee Engagement Customer Centricity 80

SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Given the choices that customers have in today’s SaaS industry, customer focus has become indispensable for a SaaS company. Gone are the days when you could anticipate customer needs and produce your offerings to succeed in the market. Customer focus service can be a competitive advantage if you have the right mindset.

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Customer Focused Culture Net Promoter Score ROI 10

TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

As an author, consultant, and trainer, he helps organizations develop customer-focused cultures. In addition to authoring four customer service books including The Service Culture Handbook, Jeff reaches more than 10,000 customer service professionals every week through his Customer Service Tip of the Week email newsletter.

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CX Accelerator

JANUARY 11, 2021

When I was first introduced to the company I read everything I could find about their culture, training, leadership philosophy, and Tony. Zappos taught me that my idea of positively changing a customer's day one interaction at a time was not a lofty ambition but an achievable goal. Also, they published the Culture Book (pictured).

Return on Investment 182

Return on Investment Culture Customer Centricity Ecommerce 182

Lumoa

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

More brands will (and should) bring up customer feedback to the decision-makers in the company, and with the help of some new amazing technologies we’re changing the way businesses see their customers. Companies do marketing, sales and CRM – the customer does the experience! Read the full answers here below.

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Customer Experience Customer Centricity Self Service Culture 324

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. When I thought about it, there were some common telltale cultural signs organizations share that indicate where their focus lies. Sometimes organizations do the same for customers.

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Net Promoter Score Company Customer Centricity Airlines 171

Customers That Stick

MAY 22, 2015

We wish that changing a customer service culture could be like turning a Jet Ski®. We all wish that changing a customer service culture happened that way. Changing a a customer service culture, particularly in a large organization, is more akin to turning around a container ship. How hard is cultural change?

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Culture Customer Service Customer Centricity Comparison 60

Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 16, 2018

A recent article on corporate customer-centricity by a prominent market research firm made the case for this type of culture as “the most effective way to meet customers’ changing needs.” If customer-centric culture-building and customer-focused initiatives were the only end goals, perhaps these approaches would be sufficient.

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Culture Company Customer Centricity Travel 83

Lumoa

MARCH 21, 2023

You read blog posts and research articles if you want to learn more about a specific topic. I wanted to share the tactics and tools I teach in my speeches, as well as what my team teaches in our customer service workshops. Customer service is not a department. Nowadays, most people search for information online.

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Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Customer Experience Management Customer Centricity 236

Provide Support

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

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. There are always a lot of obstacles which prevent your customer service from being perfect. Read more.

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Infographics Culture Customer Service Training 40

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 2, 2018

But what’s even trickier is when you may not have customer experience or customer insights in your title. Being a customer-focused leader is a tall order. So how can you lead by example to make the experience better for your customers, regardless of where you are on the org chart?

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Customer Experience Customer Journeys Culture Leadership 225

Service Untitled

APRIL 2, 2010

Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. The stores were all designed and recreated using the feedback of customers and customer focus groups that had been developed. So what did customers say they wanted?

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Customer Focused Self Service Groups Customer Satisfaction 40

Totango

OCTOBER 12, 2022

That’s why prioritizing a culture of customer success is the first step in driving client engagements that go above and beyond their needs. Our survey shows that 36% of respondents struggle to gain visibility into customer adoption, and 37% identified a reactive approach to customers as a core issue.

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Customer Success Culture Survey Customer Journeys 111

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

This week we feature an article by Doug Bell who writes about how leaders can optimize their company’s customer experience. It is important to have a plan in place for managing the customer experience and having a customer-focused culture. – Shep Hyken. A Simple Playbook for Managing Customer Experience.

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Measurement Interaction Customer Experience Culture 54

Service Untitled

APRIL 8, 2010

Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. Customer focus development Customer focus is more than just adding directions to your. Is customer service commensurate with price in real estate sales? If I shop at Walmart for a pair of denim.

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Customer Focused Customer Service Representative Policies Training 41

ECXO

MAY 16, 2024

This paradigm shift in leadership benefits not only the organization but also fosters lasting and meaningful relationships with customers. This blog post will explore the essence of customer-centric leadership and key factors that form the basis of a successful customer-focused organization.

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Customer Centricity Leadership Customer Journeys Touchpoint 67

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Consider this way-too-typical scenario: Marcus decides one day to stand in front of his employees and request in no uncertain terms how everyone needs to be more customer-focused. “Help customers love our company and brand more!” He promotes the idea of becoming more customer-focused. And that’s all.

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Net Promoter Score How To Customer Centricity Metrics 547

ShepHyken

AUGUST 11, 2017

In a recent letter to shareholders that went viral, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos talked about customer obsession and its criticality to remaining a Day 1 company. But in my view, obsessive customer focus is by far the most protective of Day 1 vitality,”* said Bezos. Customer obsessed companies are the future.

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Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity How To Feedback 93