Adrian Swinscoe

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Today’s interview is with Micah Solomon, a renowned expert on customer service, hospitality, and customer experience. Micah joins me today to talk about his new book: […] The post Your customer doesn’t want to know about your technology – Interview with Micah Solomon first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Micah Solomon

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The author, Micah Solomon, is an author, consultant, influencer, keynote speaker, and trainer in customer service, customer experience, customer service culture, and hospitality. Last week, I suggested quick wins that could improve your customer service and customer experience. Upgrade your technology.

Customer Experience 256

Customer Experience Customer Service Hospitality Hotels 256

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. And while organizations talk the talk about being customer-focused, walking the walk falls short.

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ECXO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

When: September 13th Time: 1 PM CET – 12 PM GMT Registration is exclusively available on ZOOM: [link] Get ready for another enriching session featuring an exceptional lineup of panelists: Anne Frisgaard Jacobsen, Director of Customer Experience and Leads at Jyske Bank Navin C.

Customer Experience 73

Customer Experience Data Customer Centricity Culture 73

One Millimeter Mindset

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Does our organization engage in a couch potato storytelling culture? A couch potato storytelling culture is self-focused. There are a number of new books out, currently, which discuss how our organization’s stories make our products and services (not even our people) the heroines of the day. We know the plot.

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Comm100

AUGUST 17, 2022

Answer: “The companies that figured this out started investing in this, started training people to deliver on it, not just frontline customer service reps, but entire organizations go through training to be more customer-focused. Everybody has a customer, whether it be the outside customer or an internal customer.

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Meeting How To Airlines Virtual Agent 189

Blake Morgan

JANUARY 20, 2022

Succeeding as a CX pro–no matter if you’re an executive or just starting your career–requires constantly learning and adapting to new research, trends, and technology. He offers a European perspective on employee and customer engagement and customer focus and shares interviews with top CX leaders. . Annette Franz .

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Case Study Customer Journeys Competitive Advantage Customer Centricity 96

Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

His best-selling book in 2016 is called: How to Wow: 68 Effortless Ways to Make Every Customer Experience Amazing. She recently wrote the book on customer understanding ! She’s the author of Customer Understanding: Three Ways to Put the “Customer” in Customer Experience (and at the Heart of the Business).

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Horizon CX

MAY 19, 2023

An organizational transformation refers to a significant and intentional change in the structure, processes, culture, and strategic direction of an organization. Transforming an entire organization requires addressing multiple factors simultaneously, such as strategy, structure, processes, culture, and people.

Customer Centricity 130

Customer Centricity Leadership Culture Customer Experience Management 130

Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

His best-selling book in 2016 is called: How to Wow: 68 Effortless Ways to Make Every Customer Experience Amazing. She recently wrote the book on customer understanding ! She’s the author of Customer Understanding: Three Ways to Put the “Customer” in Customer Experience (and at the Heart of the Business).

Customer Experience 130

Customer Experience Customer Service Social Media Consulting 130

ShepHyken

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Companies with a Soul are the Future of Customer Experience. Understanding Companies and Customers of the Future. They discuss her new book, The Customer of the Future: 10 Guiding Principles for Winning Tomorrow’s Business , focusing on the psychological, technical, and experiential components of building a good customer experience.

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Employee Experience Culture Connections Technology 82

Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

How do you make health care more personal and customer-focused? This is a topic that comes up in my interview with Antoinette Taranto , Chief Customer Officer at The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing. Lean into Your Customers. How do you do this and engage customers as a healthcare provider?

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ECXO

MARCH 21, 2023

Journey Map Your way to Customer Experience Maturity in Just 8 Steps + 12 with CX and EX Customer experience culture is a set of values, beliefs, and behaviors that a company adopts in order to create a customer-centric culture. Based on the company ‘’mindset’’ and approach. In the end, everything is connected.

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B2B Customer Experience Roadmap Culture 98

Customer Bliss

JULY 6, 2018

“An actionable, smart, and fun book everyone in hospitality should read. My latest book, Would You Do That To Your Mother? The Make Mom Standard for How to Treat Your Customers has been on sale for a little less than a month now, and I’m immensely grateful for all of the positive reviews it’s received.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 20, 2018

But, how do you think a customer feels when we see the deal, then calls the company to ask for the same deal, and is told that it’s just for new customers? A successful customer experience strategy is a result of the company’s culture. Three C’s of Customer Service Success. Each year I read about 40 books.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 25, 2019

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. How Blending Brand And Culture Can Impact The Customer Experience by Chris Cancialosi. Forbes) Customer experience is a memory. I wrote a book on it!) Here are my top five picks from last week.

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Customer Service Competitive Advantage Trends Culture 108

Kayako

APRIL 15, 2019

His articles have been read in hundreds of publications, and he is the author of Moments of Magic®, The Loyal Customer, The Cult of the Customer, The Amazement Revolution, Amaze Every Customer Every Time and Be Amazing or Go Home. Self Service – Put control in the customer’s hands. Let customers move at their pace.

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Customer Experience Self Service Hospitality Customer Journeys 169

Customer Guru

AUGUST 21, 2018

Continuing with our list (in alphabetical order) of customer experience (CX) influencers (experts, consultants, and authors), we are sharing a few names of leaders leaders that every CX enthusiast must follow and take inspiration from. John is an “Ex-Disney Guy” and Customer Experience Coach. John DiJulius Follow @JohnDiJulius.

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Customer Experience Customer Journeys Consulting Customer Experience Professionals 115

Kustomer

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Considered a converged medium as well as disruptive technology, the podcast unites the internet with traditional radio broadcasting. The Modern Podcast – A leader in customer experience, host Blake Morgan is a keynote speaker, customer experience futurist, and contributor to Forbes and the Harvard Review. Experience This!

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Customer Service Entertainment Trends Social Media 98

Kustomer

AUGUST 26, 2022

Customer experience (CX) professionals have to make a concerted effort to keep up with the ever-changing CX field. Podcasts are a tried and true way for these professionals to not only learn but to keep listeners up to date with technological advances within the industry. The Chief Customer Officer Human Duct Tape Show.

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Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Competitive Advantage Hospitality 105

Horizon CX

OCTOBER 3, 2020

He then handed me a book entitled Stick Control for the Snare Drummer by George Lawrence Stone—first published in 1935 and considered the bible of drumming. Customer experience is as much a cultural aspect within any organization than it is any specific set of practices and it all begins there. Building a CX Strategy.

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Customer Journeys Net Promoter Score Effort Score Analysis 130

Smith+co CX

JUNE 20, 2022

How a UK brand dominates a tough sector with purpose, passion & a kick-ass culture. It’s an approach we’ve kept an eye on for over twenty years, since first featuring the brand in our book Uncommon Practice. In his Sunday Times column, Julian spoke about the clear link between satisfied employees and satisfied customers.

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Brands Retail Culture Leadership 36

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 6, 2021

My Comment: I’ve been preaching for years (since my first book over 30 years ago) that customer service is not a department. It’s baked in the culture. So, if customer service isn’t a department, what do you call it? How about “customer care?” Yes, the technology has improved.

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Steve DiGioia

DECEMBER 5, 2016

As some companies grow, they purposely change their shift from customer focused to bottom line focused. For those that are interested in staying focused on the customer, it is more important than ever to hire the right people that fit the customer focused culture. Keep focused on the people.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

I call it The Convenience Revolution , and I’ve written an entire book about it and how you can use convenience to take your customer service to the next level. Three Revenue-Generating Rules for Creating a Client-Centric Culture of Service by Carrie Hansen. My Comment: Are chatbots good or bad for customer service?

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Customer Service Hospitality Chatbots Hotels 79

One Millimeter Mindset

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Obviously, unengaged employees, those who do not feel purposeful or acknowledged within workplace culture, underperform. When engaging with and serving customers? First, does employee-focus translate into customer-focus? Second, not every employee perceives their relationship with customers the same way.

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Kayako

JANUARY 24, 2018

Did the comparison site or airline double book me? I got my answer in the end (and my refund), but it wasn’t an ideal way to spend the first hour of my Sunday morning or my first customer service transaction this year that stressed out. What will make a business more customer-centric than the next one? Did my bank have an error?

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Customer Centricity Self Service Trends Customer Experience 208

Kustomer

MAY 28, 2020

Blake suggests that this is happening because of the nature of CEOs and their short time investments in companies along with the need to change culture. Changing a company’s culture and being willing to make a long term investment into customer experience isn’t always appealing and is not a quick fix. She does keynote speaking.

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Natalie Petouhof

AUGUST 15, 2022

As the processes, policies, technology, and culture needed to drive improved experiences shift, customer experience (CX) must shift, too. Utilizing and combining these elements effectively is what makes customers want to spend more with you, stay longer, and actively refer others. Original Article by Jim Tincher.

Leadership 52

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Peter Lavers

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

It presented a huge opportunity to learn about emerging technologies, get one-on-one advice from experts, and hear about the successes and challenges faced by global business leaders and industry disruptors. HR – staff engagement/talent/culture/performance management. Transformation.

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Conference Leadership Culture Customer Centricity 66

ShepHyken

OCTOBER 3, 2016

My Comment: If you’ve been following this column you will occasionally see me write about what’s happening on the inside of a company is felt on the outside by the customer. Stan Phelps, the author of the “Goldfish” series of books, shares insights from Southwest airlines. It’s all about creating the right culture!

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Airlines Customer Service Infographics Customer Retention 124

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JULY 28, 2020

Consider this case study: For more than three decades the Business Roundtable , the association of CEO’s from America’s leading companies, had encouraged corporate leaders to consider the goals of their businesses to be focused squarely on shareholder value. ” But instead, in 2019, things changed. How is success measured?

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Strategy Customer Journeys Customer Experience Net Promoter Score 225

ShepHyken

JULY 25, 2016

The 27 Best Customer Service Books by Mathew Patterson. Help Scout) If you’re starting, growing or working in a customer service team, we’ve collected the books we think are most worth your valuable time. My Comment: Looking for a “summer reading” business book? My Comment: Here is a bonus article. (So,

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

APRIL 28, 2017

Ground zero of any customer experience isn’t when a leader reads a book then declares it “the year of the customer.” Connecting the dots of customer experience. Here are some valuable lessons from the customer experience case studies presented at Experience 2017.

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Case Study Airlines Conference Wait Times 152

Beyond Philosophy

JULY 5, 2016

To make the brand or company more attractive, and have greater impact on customer decision-making, there must be an emphasis on creating more perceived value and more personalization. Much of this is, culturally, operationally, and from a communications perspective, what we have been describing as “inside-out advocacy” for years.

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Customer Experience Customer Centricity Leadership Culture 84

ECXO

AUGUST 2, 2023

To know more about Shep you can visit his webpage: [link] What You Will Learn: In this fireside chat, we’ll ask Shep about the following topics: How to generate Convenience that will ensure customer return and how to develop Loyalty in such a challenging period after the Pandemic. Liraz Margalit.

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Customer Journeys Leadership Innovation Customer Relationship Management 52

ShepHyken

OCTOBER 28, 2019

The 6 Customer Experience (CX) Trends Every Company Must Get Ready For Now by Bernard Marr. Forbes) In order to become and remain competitive, companies need to tap into the latest technologies and customer experience trends. Here are 6 customer experience trends every company must get ready for. by Wayne Simmons.

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