BlueOcean

OCTOBER 7, 2021

At Blue Ocean, we’ve noticed that this new level of uncertainty in the travel industry has led to a shift in what customers value: Where once the name of the game was efficiency and speed, today’s customer experience hinges on empathy and reassurance. Many Customers Just Want to Talk.

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Travel Industry Customer Experience Call Flow 218

Customer Guru

AUGUST 8, 2018

Adam Toporek is internationally renowned for his expertise as a keynote speaker, customer service expert, and front-line trainer. He has extensive experience in retail, wholesale, franchising, and small business and has a strong belief in positive customer experience. Aimee Lucas Follow @Aimee_Lucas.

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Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Consulting Customer Journeys 130

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 consistently helping his clients create a magical customer experience like Disney.

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Customer Experience Customer Journeys Consulting Customer Experience Professionals 115

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. ” – Shep Hyken.

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Customer Experience Self Service Hospitality Customer Journeys 169

Lumoa

APRIL 21, 2022

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you … The Cost Centre Shuffle Reframe the question Bring a different outlook Solutions not problems Rewrite the Cost Centre book Walk in the shoes of others. What will make Customer Success succeed?” But so long as you connect the Customer Story to the Money Story, people will listen.

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How To Self Service Banking Customer Satisfaction 208

Blake Morgan

OCTOBER 3, 2023

                        As customer experience professionals, our goal is to listen to what customers want and make changes to improve our service and their experience. I wanted to know how his leadership experiences could be applied to the customer experience space.

Leadership 52

Leadership Metrics Call Center Customer Experience Professionals 52

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Delivering Amazing Customer Experiences Through Times of Crisis. certified CX professional and bestselling author. They discuss his new book, Stronger Through Adversity , and share key lessons on how to survive and thrive during challenging times. That’s much of what customer service is all about.

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Leadership Customer Experience Professionals Customer Centricity Brands 82

ECXO

JUNE 6, 2022

His book influenced all global businesses, thought leaders, and practitioners and how we perceive products, services, and experiences in our days. The Experience Economy was probably the most impactful book related to customer experience and design around the globe. Who is Joe Pine ?

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Consulting Customer Experience Professionals Innovation Culture 52

CX Journey

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The concept itself, which is also the title of a book ( Weology: How Everybody Wins When We Comes Before Me ), summarizes the leadership style of Peter Aceto , CEO of Tangerine Bank. As Peter states in the book: Being good to your own people is good business. Three unique letters rearranged into two powerful little words.

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Banking Culture Innovation Employee Experience 187

Kustomer

AUGUST 26, 2022

The team at What It Means defines themselves as truly customer-obsessed, and hopes that you will be, too. Customer service expert and New York Times bestselling author Shep Hyken hosts this dynamic customer-centric podcast. The Chief Customer Officer Human Duct Tape Show. Author of Chief Customer Officer 2.0,

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Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Competitive Advantage Hospitality 105

Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

We’re honored to be honored for our work alongside so many of our customer service and customer experience colleagues. This is especially true in the customer service industry. Customer Experience (CX) has catapulted into one of the most important aspects of determining business success.

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Customer Experience Customer Service Social Media Consulting 147

Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

We’re honored to be honored for our work alongside so many of our customer service and customer experience colleagues. This is especially true in the customer service industry. Customer Experience (CX) has catapulted into one of the most important aspects of determining business success.

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Customer Experience Customer Service Social Media Consulting 130

ClearAction

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

CCXP exam (Customer Experience Professional Certification) competencies are a guide to highly profitable customer experience management. Customer Service is not covered much in the CCXP, because CS is a subset of CX Improvement & Design. CCXP Exam Joys, Struggles & Rewards Lynn Hunsaker.

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Customer Journeys Study Customer Experience Professionals Financial 62

ijgolding

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

How do you become a Customer Experience Professional? I think it is fascinating to understand how people end up doing something like CX…… and so I am absolutely delighted to share with you one professionals story in this post. I have known Heather Grisedale for a number of years.

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Customer Experience Professionals Tourism Training Customer Experience 120

Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 19, 2020

We realized that we needed to make a more reliable connection between how having a customer-centric culture that puts the customers’ needs first leads to customer-driven growth. Moreover, we need to train Customer Experience professionals to measure how their efforts lead to it.

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Trends Net Promoter Score Effort Score ROI 191

ijgolding

MARCH 31, 2017

So when my friend and fellow CCXP (Certified Customer Experience Professional), Mike Bartlett sent me his own story comparing Delta and Virgin, I felt that others needed to read it too! The online chat went very well but the agent confirmed I would need to call their customer service department directly to resolve the issue.

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Comparison Customer Experience Airlines Travel 120

ShepHyken

MAY 8, 2018

Would your customers agree that your service is so good, you’d make mom proud? The “Make Mom Proud” Standard for How to Treat Your Customers , and discusses her book and the art of making customers happy. ? ?. This part of the book describes the importance of honoring your customers’ time.

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Chief Customer Officer Case Study Customer Experience Professionals Customer Centricity 78

ShepHyken

MAY 9, 2017

First Up: Shep Hyken’s opening comments focus on how important it is to create an easy experience for your customers. Delivering convenience is going to be the battleground for what future customer service is all about. Ace Hardware, which tops the list, also understands the importance of creating customer convenience.

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Loyalty Customer Experience Professionals Retail Financial 76

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 9, 2015

Here are some ways you can educate and empower yourself to be the customer experience champion you want to be. There are now zillions of books (that’s a lot) focusing on customer experience. The passion is a start, but information and knowledge will help you get a lot farther. Catch up on your reading.

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Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Customer Experience Professionals Resources 110

Michelli Experience

JUNE 26, 2018

Early in my career, I wrote a book about helping children develop humor skills ( Humor, Play and Laughter – Stress-proofing life with your kids ). How and when should we use humor to engage customers? Isn’t it remarkable how things we learn at one point in our life come back to us as welcome gifts later?

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Customer Experience Consulting Guidelines Tips 184

Kerry Bodine

OCTOBER 5, 2015

In Delivering Happiness , CEO Tony Hsieh talks about his unwillingness to compromise the Zappos.com customer experience—and some of the tough business decisions he had to make in order to protect it. As Tony says in his book, “It was good for our customers, and it was good for our bottom line.”). Let us help !

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Strategy Customer Experience Customer Journeys Brands 120

ijgolding

MARCH 20, 2018

This year, Ian Golding (that’s me), will officially become the author of a book. Today I am absolutely delighted to share my interview with passionate Customer Experience Professional, Kathy van de Laar – enjoy… Ian. While I was there, the agency started working with something called experience-based branding.

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Customer Journeys Culture Customer Centricity Contact Center 152

Kustomer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

How do you empower your customer service agents to deliver a great experience and delight customers? Michael is the Principal and founder of the consultancy The Pace of Service , which helps organizations to realize the full benefit of Customer Service, Social Business, Business Process Management, and People Leadership.

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Exercises Handbook e-support Contact Center 61

Oracle

AUGUST 1, 2018

Meet them: Shep Hyken Shep is a customer service and experience expert and the Chief Amazement Officer of Shepard Presentations. Jeanne Bliss Jeanne Bliss is the Founder and President of CustomerBliss , and the Co-Founder of The Customer Experience Professionals Association. Learn more. Learn more.

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Chief Customer Officer Video Customer Experience Professionals Social Media 72

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

A look back at the past few years reveals the many significant changes in the world of customer service. The credit for these changes goes to the customer service experts who helped redefine the industry. This will help you stay up to date with the trends and best practices of customer service. Bill Quiseng.

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Customer Service Social Media Customer Centricity Tips 10

Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 8, 2017

Neither of them provides a Customer Experience worth mentioning—at least not in a positive light. We asked the Customer Experience professionals there to name a Telecom they admired for the experience they provided. In Florida, we are having problems with our service, so I called customer care.

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Customer Experience Customer Centricity Poor Customer Service Customer Service Representative 124

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

Bold360

JANUARY 19, 2017

Customer service has never been more important. Businesses are beginning to understand that customer experience is the difference between social media shares and bad publicity, between creating brand ambassadors or handing over the profits to your competition. He specializes in customer experience, loyalty and engagement.

Customer Experience 40

Customer Experience Self Service Consulting Social Media 40

Steve DiGioia

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Recently I had the pleasure of interviewing many leaders in the business world and customer service industry. Constant reinforcement of the importance of customer service is key to sustaining the culture. As they grew and added different areas to their business, they always put the customer first. Shep Hyken.

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Industry Culture Metrics Customer Centricity 100

Kayako

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Up till now here on the Kayako blog we’ve used the terms agents, reps and customer experience professionals interchangeably when we’ve been writing about customer experience teams (across support, service and success). Does a support agent do anything different from a customer service rep?

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Culture Advertising Industry Customer Experience Professionals 120

Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 4, 2019

From a practical perspective, you can see the effect of your Customer Experience design, the effects of the customer service training you engaged or whatever else you want to measure that relates to how the customer feels. Colin is an international author of six bestselling books and an engaging keynote speaker.

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Measurement Consulting Technology Customer Experience Professionals 102

Answer Dash

JUNE 27, 2018

Here are 6 most important customer service lessons I've learned during my career as a CCO in numerous enterprise ventures. You will find these lessons amazingly helpful if you are also a major in customer service industry. Leading a customer experience transformation is a lot of work! Let's begin!

Chief Customer Officer 63

Chief Customer Officer Customer Experience Leadership Policies 63

SurveySensum

JULY 14, 2020

Meet the Top 150 Global Customer Experience Thought Leaders and Influencers of 2020. Adam Toporek – Customer Service Expert, Keynote Speaker, Trainer, Strategic Advisor . Annette Franz – Customer Experience Consultant, Keynote Speaker, Author . LinkedIn : [link]. Website : [link].

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Customer Experience Consulting Multi-Channel Leadership 132

ShepHyken

JULY 15, 2016

Doing so can help companies to better understand the paths that customers take to purchase or to receive support and to identify any friction they may face in their experiences that can be removed. Of course, there are other tactics that customer experience professionals can explore. Hoffman, a graduate of St.

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Customer Journeys Customer Experience e-support Case Study 48

Customer Enthusiast

JULY 16, 2015

In your book you mention that 80% of companies claim to provide superior service, while only 8% of customers agree. hours, left no mess behind, and were courteous and professional. Where’s the outrageous customer service gesture?” Customer Service Week will be here before we know it.

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Customer Experience Exceptional Customer Service Social Media Customers 40

ijgolding

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Just researching Sky on the web highlights a plethora of issues being experienced by many of their customers. One of my valued network of Customer Experience Professionals is enduring an even worse experience with Sky at the moment. Sadly, I am not alone. There is also no email address for a complaint.

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Feedback Examples Survey Customers 120

SurveySparrow

JANUARY 28, 2020

What advice would you give to our blog readers to help them start their customer journey mapping process? Jim: Well, naturally, I think our book, How Hard Is It to Be Your Customer ? Using Journey Mapping to Drive Customer-Focused Change , is the best place to start! Not just Marketing, Sales, and Customer Service.

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Customer Journeys Net Promoter Score Effort Score Customers 52