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Who Really Leads Customer Experience: What Happens When Confusion Strikes

Customer Bliss

Guest post by Blake Morgan, Customer Experience Futurist, Author, Speaker. For a customer experience program to be effective, the most senior leaders at the company must take ownership of the program. Worldwide, brands spend $500 billion per year on marketing and advertising and a mere $9 billion per year on customer service.4

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Self to Assisted Customer Service: Are You Passing or Dropping the Baton?

Tricia Morris

While many brands and organizations are stepping up and keeping up when it comes to multichannel customer service , it’s the transition between channels where service often stumbles, causing extra frustration for customers, even those who wanted to save time and effort by serving themselves.

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Government Customer Service: 3 Ways to Get Better Even as Budgets Get Smaller

Tricia Morris

Government customer service continues to be plagued by shrinking budgets and staff, and increasing media coverage when things go wrong. While many agencies have been improving when it comes to customer service and satisfaction, overall public perception according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), continues to decline.

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Top 50 Customer Service Leaders – Best Customer Experience Influencers

Storyminers

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. Adam Toporek.

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Top 50 Customer Service Leaders – Best Customer Experience Influencers

Storyminers

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. Adam Toporek.

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Investing in Innovation: Inside the Mind of the Man Behind Salesforce Service Cloud

Talkdesk

This interview is with Mike Milburn, Chief Customer Officer of Service Cloud at Salesforce. You meet with customers all the time. When it comes to call centers and service centers what are people focusing on today compared to a decade ago? Customers are switching services and switching brands rapidly.

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Investing in Innovation: Inside the Mind of the Man Behind Salesforce Service Cloud

Talkdesk

This interview is with Mike Milburn, Chief Customer Officer of Service Cloud at Salesforce. You meet with customers all the time. When it comes to call centers and service centers what are people focusing on today compared to a decade ago? Customers are switching services and switching brands rapidly.