Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

We also discussed how your Customer Experience plays into the mix to help you facilitate customer-driven growth. . Business Growth has always been at the heart of the Customer Experience movement. Where do we get new customers? Customer Driven-Growth. Focus on Unmet Needs to Improve Business Growth.

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ijgolding

JUNE 9, 2015

If you have followed my writing for a while, you will be very much aware that I am very proud and passionate Customer Experience Professional (CXP). One of a growing number of ‘specialists’ in the newly recognised professional field, this group of skilled, experienced practitioners is growing in number on a weekly basis.

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Lumoa

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Success in customer experience (CX) can be represented by numbers. A high Net Promoter Score (NPS), a large number of new customers in a month, or fewer unsatisfactory customer service request conclusions, are just some of the metrics we use to measure an effective customer experience.

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Oracle

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

If you work on a customer experience team — as an account manager or success rep — you may be wondering where your career will take you in the next 2, 5, or 10 years. In a customer support role, you have a deep level of insight into the needs of your company’s target audience. Your customer support background is an asset.

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Qualtrics

JUNE 21, 2019

Whether you choose to learn from the wisdom of market legends, your own experience (and maybe a few mistakes along the way), requests from customers, or the successes of others, remember that there’s no one key to success in CX. Lessons from TV’s Most Notorious Customer Experience. The customer is always right, yes?

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InMoment XI

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Customer feedback is critical for helping your customer service agents tackle problems—whether closing the inner loop directly with customers, or closing the outer loop with problems that keep surfacing over and over again. Organisations are typically quite comfortable tackling inner loop programs. Is the solution known?

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InMoment XI

MARCH 6, 2024

The best customer experience quotes can be a great source of inspiration for leadership teams and entire organizations looking to drive their CX transformation. According to research: Companies that earn $1 billion annually can expect to earn, on average, an additional $700 million within 3 years of investing in customer experience.

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eglobalis

SEPTEMBER 30, 2017

Die CXPA hilft Customer-Experience (CX)-Spezialisten, das Customer-Experience-Management zu einem festen Bestandteil der Unternehmensausrichtung zu machen und Transformation über die gesamte Unternehmung hinweg einzubetten. Web, Call Center, persönliche Meetings, Verkaufsstellen, Mobile Commerce etc.),

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 2, 2014

This Best of 360Connext post was part of the Customer Experience Professionals Association’s 2013 Customer Experience Day celebration. What’s the value of customer experience? Value to customers. As customers, we are aware when experiences go really well or really not well.

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TechSee

AUGUST 14, 2023

TechSee’s Annual Influencer List For a second year, everyone at TechSee is proud and excited to share our annual list of influential leaders in the space of digital customer service. They are “the ones to watch” and we recommend you follow them on Linkedin, Twitter, or YouTube or try meeting them at key industry events.

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Lumoa

JANUARY 19, 2023

Understanding customers is a key step to success, and organizations do it best when they have a customer experience department in place. This department is tasked with analyzing customer feedback and data and disseminating its findings to improve the organization’s processes, products, and services.

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CX Journey

MARCH 21, 2018

Image courtesy of Pixabay What's in your customer experience strategy budget? Traditionally, customer experience professionals have no budget. Despite that, customer experience professionals still need to develop a budget for the work that they do and for the resources they need for that work.

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ijgolding

OCTOBER 2, 2017

This post is part of the Customer Experience Professionals Association’s Blog Carnival celebrating customer experience. It’s part of a broader celebration of Customer Experience Day 2017. Are organisations really changing the way they treat customers and employees? Or even 1997?

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Voice of the Customer (VoC) programs often start with a general plan on how to gather customer feedback. The plan typically includes suggestions for customer listening posts. Customer listening posts are specific tools, locations and mechanisms to gather customer feedback along specific touchpoints on the customer journey.

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ijgolding

APRIL 5, 2016

The very first question they asked me was “How did you become so passionate about customer experience management?” Using tools and methodologies to improve the ability of a business to meet and exceed customer expectation just made so much sense to me. I took a role as a Six Sigma Black Belt….

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ijgolding

OCTOBER 3, 2016

As I continue to develop my Customer Experience Specialism around the globe, a number of questions are continually raised by the people I meet. How many customer segments should we have? Should we have a Chief Customer Officer. Customer journey maps of all shapes and sizes are adorning many a conference room wall.

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InMoment XI

JANUARY 25, 2024

When it comes to creating your customer experience strategy, and deciding which partner to execute that strategy with, it is always important to look at third-party research. For customer experience professionals, InMoment recommends reading the Gartner Magic Quadrant within specific industry trends and considerations.

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CX University

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

To meet the market demands for quality online instruction and preparation for Certified Customer Experience Professional (CCXP), CX University (CXU) launches its CCXP Exam Prep Course. Course Availability Course is available for purchase as a stand-alone program or as an add-on the the CX500 Mastery Series.

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ijgolding

JULY 14, 2017

“Focus on the whole journey, not just the transaction” In the world of Customer Experience (CX) you will hear this phrase frequently. The difference between a user story like the one above, and meeting a customer’s overall goal. You are a lifelong customer of Locality Bank. Scenario 1.

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Customer Experience Design Customer Journeys Customer Experience Banking 274

TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

Customers expect better and faster pre and post purchase services. Whether they need help setting up a new device or to repair a damaged product, the way in which these interactions are handled are at the heart of customer satisfaction. Eric Esguerra, Vice President, Customer Service & Operations at Miele Canada Ltd.

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ijgolding

DECEMBER 30, 2014

As we approach the last 24 hours before the end of 2014, I feel it is time to reflect on the last twelve months in the world of Customer Experience. Twelve months is not a particularly long time in the context of a lifetime of experiences, yet it is remarkable what progress can be made in 365 days. JD Williams. Virgin Media.

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ijgolding

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Quality is the key pillar of excellence – one of the vital components enabling success in Customer Experience. This is validated by all standard business definitions of Quality: ‘ Quality is the extent to which a product or service meets a customer’s expectation. Counting numbers of customers recommending you to others.

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Lumoa

JANUARY 9, 2018

Customer experience has been already a hot topic in business during 2017 and is promising to be even of higher importance in 2018. “CX It’s predicted, that by 2020 customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator when making consumer choices. How to overcome those challenges?

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delighted

AUGUST 4, 2023

You may feel like the bearer of bad news or like customers are always mad at you personally. In this post, we’ll cover 5 tips for digesting negative feedback to reduce the likelihood of feedback burnout as a customer experience professional. Why does your team come into work, ready to serve customers day after day?

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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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CX University

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

CX University (CXU) has completed a full internal audit of its course content to ensure all information is updated to meet standards of excellence and relevance. As with all online content immersed in a growing and advancing field, the Customer Experience discipline continues to provide valuable insights, data, and knowledge.

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Customer Experience Insight

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Customer experience professionals might be the most valuable players in their company’s success in 2021. You hold the key to customer retention. Many just couldn’t retain the customers they had before they were forced to shut down. So retaining customers is more important than ever.

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Customer Experience Professionals Social Media Customer Retention Tips 52

ijgolding

DECEMBER 14, 2017

As we approach the end of another calendar year, it is always appropriate for bloggers, writers, thought leaders and professionals in general, to reflect on what has passed, as well as what is to come in the future. As a prolific writer on the subject of Customer Experience, I feel as though every article I publish is a reflection of sorts.

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Customer Experience Customer Experience Professionals Customer Centricity Customers 164

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

To help you amp up your Customer Success management skills here’s a breakdown of our top recommendations for courses to consider taking. Customer Success Management Fundamentals. Course Description: New to customer success management (CSM)? The course then reviews the 14 tenets (or guiding principles) of customer success.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JULY 12, 2022

What does building a Voice of The Customer (VoC) program from the ground up look like? Typically, it’ll start with a general plan on how an organization is going to gather customer feedback — a plan that typically includes Customer Listening Posts. What are Customer Listening Posts? What feedback to gather.

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Customer Journeys Feedback Social Media Exercises 143

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Customer experience is about so much more than call-center scripts or proper protocol around customer complaints. The best companies, the ones we know as customer experience leaders, adopt a customer focused view to everything. Silos make understanding the customer journey that much harder.

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ijgolding

MAY 23, 2017

Usually (although not exclusively) the domain of men and women working for organisations in senior roles, the ‘rolling eye phenomenon’ often occurs when someone like me, a Customer Experience Professional, starts to talk about anything related to the Customer Experience.

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Thematic

JUNE 28, 2023

Large Language Models (LLMs) are set to revolutionize the way customers engage with technology and receive personalized services. If you work in customer experience (CX), then hold on to your hat - in this article I’ll explore how LLMs can make a radical difference in your work. Here are the answers: 1. Yes and no.

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ECXO

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The European Customer Experience Organization – Upcoming Events, Research, and Activities for You. Subscribe to the open access CX Professional growing business network: ECXO [link]. How to Practically Evoke Customer Emotions to Drive Value ($). Why customer emotions are overlooked by most organizations.

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ijgolding

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

In all cases, I have been asked to work with; talk to; teach; cajole; people from the C-suite to the front line; in understanding the importance of Customer Experience. One of the key skills required of a Customer Experience Professional is the ability to help those who do not understand its importance to ‘get it’!

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ijgolding

OCTOBER 24, 2014

As someone who spends every working day influencing organisations to focus on people (customers and employees), I am always intrigued that the reporting of business performance seems to spend more time empathising with shareholders than it does with customers and employees. All is not rosy in the supersize retail world it seems.

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Alida

MARCH 10, 2017

Failing customer experience initiatives are keeping business leaders up at night. According to an Accenture-commissioned study by Forrester Consulting, only seven percent of business leaders think that their company’s shopping experience exceeds customer expectations. Failure to listen to customers.

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