Storyminers

MAY 21, 2020

Certainly in Australia, there have been growing examples of CMOs actively partnering with their customer service, operational and people and culture counterparts to make that happen. Extensive investment is being made into reskilling marketing teams to meet the new demands of being more holistically customer focused.

Culture 147

Culture Voice of Customer Fashion Strategy 147

ijgolding

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Last night, I received an email from a good friend of mine asking for my input into a question they had been asked by the senior leadership team of their organisation. The question was as follows: What value has our business experienced as a result of all the Customer Experience (CX) work that has been done?

Customer Experience 208

Customer Experience Poor Customer Service Financial Return on Investment 208

Kustomer

AUGUST 26, 2022

Podcasts are no longer just a nice addition to your content and marketing strategy — they’re a necessity. Not only should businesses be considering podcasts as part of their own marketing strategies, but they should also be utilizing the wealth of insights in podcasts to evaluate and improve their own customer experiences.

Customer Experience 105

Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Competitive Advantage Hospitality 105

ECXO

MARCH 21, 2023

This ‘’culture’’ ensures that every employee in the organisation is committed to delivering the best possible experience for the customer. The pillars of a customer experience culture are: Customer-focused leadership: The leadership of the organisation sets the tone for customer experience culture.

B2B 98

B2B Customer Experience Roadmap Culture 98

ChurnZero

JANUARY 18, 2024

The role of the chief customer officer has become an essential function in subscription-based business models such as software-as-a-service (SaaS), where customer retention is paramount and requires executive-level leadership. Ideal candidates are strategic thinkers with operational experience and collaboration skills.

Chief Customer Officer 52

Chief Customer Officer Net Promoter Score Insurance Software 52

ClientSuccess

JANUARY 11, 2023

Focus on customer retention and long-term ROI. By incorporating these principles into your customer success strategy, you can ensure that every member of your team is collaborating towards a common goal: delighting customers and achieving success. The Golden Rule as the Standard for Customer Success.

Customer Success 80

Customer Success eBook Loyalty Conference 80

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Whatever the case is for your organization right now, I can tell you this: The most Customer-centric organizations have quite different answers than the majority of companies. When we look at the answers, we often determine whether a company is more Customer-focused or more product or internally focused.

Customer Experience 154

Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity CEM 154

Storyminers

JULY 29, 2018

Certainly in Australia, there have been growing examples of CMOs actively partnering with their customer service, operational and people and culture counterparts to make that happen. Extensive investment is being made into reskilling marketing teams to meet the new demands of being more holistically customer focused.

Culture 100

Culture Voice of Customer Fashion Strategy 100

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Overlook this, however, and you are not likely to end up with the Customer focus you seek. This post is the second in a series of nine posts looking at the different parts of the organization contributing to Customer Centricity. Naïve companies are the least customer-focused and Natural companies are the most customer-focused.

Net Promoter Score 120

Net Promoter Score Customer Experience How To CEM 120

ShepHyken

AUGUST 13, 2018

Then we do “leadership-type” things. My Comment: Want to get better at customer service? There are plenty of resources to keep up-to-date with the latest customer service strategies, technologies and tactics – and my friend Steve DiGioia shares many of these in this article. Don’t stop learning about it.

Customer Service 72

Customer Service Loyalty B2C Study 72

Customer Guru

AUGUST 21, 2018

DiJulius is a best-selling author of three books, a renowned keynote speaker, and an international customer experience consultant. She is a renowned expert on customer relationship management (CRM), customer service strategies, and ROI. Marketing and thought leadership programs. John Formica Follow @JohnFormica.

Customer Experience 115

Customer Experience Customer Journeys Consulting Customer Experience Professionals 115

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Coming out from under eBay’s shadow will let them blossom, into what I hope will become a Customer-centric organization. They have Customer-centric leadership. It’s great that their new CEO, Dan Shulman is coming from American Express, a highly Customer-centric company. Competition is great for Customer Experience.

Net Promoter Score 110

Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity Social Media CEM 110

ClientSuccess

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Research Vectors by Vecteezy Many customer success leaders in the SaaS space are faced with the same question: who should own customer renewals? It’s an important question to answer, as it can make all the difference in customer retention and long-term success.

Customer Success 71

Customer Success Sales eBook Resources 71

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 20, 2018

Instead of focusing solely on the revenue generated by increasing customer retention, improving customer engagement and creating more customer loyalty… What happens when we do not engage customers? A customer isn’t a customer until they purchase something from you, right?

Engagement 179

Engagement Social Media Sales Loyalty 179

PeopleMetrics

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Typically leveraged by Sales & Marketing teams, CRMs help to centralize the management of leads and improve customer relationships with ultimate objective of driving customer retention and sales growth.

CEM 84

CEM CRM Customer Relationship Management Customer relationships 84

ijgolding

JANUARY 26, 2016

Team meetings; leadership meetings; board meetings (or should I say bored meetings); entire company meetings. Last year, I observed the leader of a business addressing his peers at a senior leadership meeting. The leader said that his team were always looking for ways to become even more customer focused.

Meeting 120

Meeting Financial Leadership Customers 120

ijgolding

JUNE 14, 2016

Describe up to three things (in your own words) that are either enabling your organisation to focus on Customer Experience or not (as the case may be)! Organisations wanting their people to have a customer focused mindset to go about doing the right things without being penalised 12%. Leadership commitment 8%.

Customer Centricity 120

Customer Centricity Customer Experience Customers Leadership 120

One Millimeter Mindset

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Or, tell these stories, compellingly, while acquiring or retaining customers. Consider the impact of our not having time to capture these stories on productivity, profitability and customer retention? To showcase the real value we bring when serving customers, focus on the customer experience value of collaborative storytelling.

Customer Retention 75

Customer Retention Culture Consulting Innovation 75

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Coming out from under eBay’s shadow will let them blossom, into what I hope will become a Customer-centric organization. They have Customer-centric leadership. It’s great that their new CEO, Dan Shulman is coming from American Express, a highly Customer-centric company. Competition is great for Customer Experience.

Net Promoter Score 60

Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity Social Media Leadership 60

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Coming out from under eBay’s shadow will let them blossom, into what I hope will become a Customer-centric organization. They have Customer-centric leadership. It’s great that their new CEO, Dan Shulman is coming from American Express, a highly Customer-centric company. Competition is great for Customer Experience.

Net Promoter Score 60

Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity Social Media Leadership 60

CX Journey

JUNE 19, 2015

How are you getting employees immersed in the customer experience? And are you still struggling to get buy-in, to get company leadership on board with focusing on the customer? We know that having executive commitment is critical to the success of any CX strategy. What tools or approaches have you been using?

Customer Journeys 80

Customer Journeys Chief Customer Officer Hospitality Customers 80

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 20, 2018

Instead of focusing solely on the revenue generated by increasing customer retention, improving customer engagement and creating more customer loyalty… What happens when we do not engage customers? A customer isn’t a customer until they purchase something from you, right?

Engagement 110

Engagement Social Media Sales Loyalty 110

Gainsight

JUNE 9, 2021

The end of this part of the keynote came with a fantastic reveal: a new study is being released today on the subject of retention, and how it affects value, and revenue of publicly traded companies. What an important and exciting justification for the existence of CS—the effect on customer retention and net dollar retention (NDR).

Entertainment 98

Entertainment Customer Success ROI Trends 98

ClearAction

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

See how a British Columbia credit union adopted a customer-centric strategy as the company’s strategy, re-organized to align their leadership talents and functional accountability around customer experience, and achieved unanimous support among all managers and employees: Customer Experience ROI Trajectory.

Customer Experience 54

Customer Experience Customer Centricity Policies Customers 54

ClearAction

MARCH 21, 2017

Research of 10,000 companies across 25 years proved that a strong customer culture drives over 35 business performance measures , including ROI, growth, customer retention, market share and sales. When you think about it, that makes a lot of sense: 40-70% of customers switch loyalty due to a perceived attitude of indifference.

Culture 88

Culture Roadmap Customer Centricity Measurement 88

ijgolding

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Customer journey maps of all shapes and sizes are adorning many a conference room wall. Enough customer personas have been created by businesses to launch a new country!

Customer Centricity 263

Customer Centricity Customer Experience Customer Journeys Chief Customer Officer 263

One Millimeter Mindset

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Sometimes the best customer-focused stories are the ones our organization never pays attention to. These stories may come from the middle of the customer experience scorecard pack. Also, we stay out of these customers’ way. And that strategy reinforces the flaws in our coach potato storytelling culture.

Culture 71

Culture Course Leadership Strategy 71

ClientSuccess

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) space, it’s important to follow the right data points in order to make smart, customer focused decisions. 1: Customer Retention Rate. Your sales team will tell you: getting new customers can be difficult. Tip: Struggling with improving your customer retention?

Metrics 49

Metrics Net Promoter Score NPS Effort Score 49

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Whatever the case is for your organization right now, I can tell you this: The most Customer-centric organizations have quite different answers than the majority of companies. When we look at the answers, we often determine whether a company is more Customer-focused or more product or internally focused.

Customer Experience 60

Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity Customer Journeys 60

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Whatever the case is for your organization right now, I can tell you this: The most Customer-centric organizations have quite different answers than the majority of companies. When we look at the answers, we often determine whether a company is more Customer-focused or more product or internally focused.

Customer Experience 60

Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity Customer Journeys 60

ChurnZero

MARCH 3, 2020

Leading Customer Success Summit 2020 Date: April 8, 2020 Location: Portland, OR. The world’s only free, invitation only CS Leadership opportunity hosted by Aaaron Thompson the Founder and CEO of Portland Customer Success. ChurnZero is planning on hosting twenty-four RYG Leadership Hour events in 2020.

Conference 72

Conference Customer Success Chief Customer Officer Return on Investment 72

One Millimeter Mindset

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Some of our most difficult customers also are the most rewarding. I’ve assembled this list of customer retention blogs I’ve written since the beginning of the year. Communication Disconnects negatively impact Customer Retention [link]. Do You have a Bright, Shiny Client Retention Strategy? [link].

Customer Retention 66

Customer Retention Communication Customers Strategy 66

One Millimeter Mindset

MAY 23, 2019

Leadership through storytelling takes another look at your toxic professional stories. Tomorrow, I deliver a breakout presentation at the 2019 IEEE Women in Engineering International Leadership Conference in Austin TX. Lead a more employee- and customer-focused workforce. But also, with toxic workplace environments.

Leadership 70

Leadership Conference Innovation Culture 70

One Millimeter Mindset

JANUARY 17, 2019

Communication disconnects, above all, have negative impacts on customer retention rates. First, when customers do not understand the purpose of your job function or cannot understand the words you use, they tune out and turn off. And customer-focused solutions fall short of what they might have been.

Customer Retention 69

Customer Retention Communication Customers System 69

ClearAction

MARCH 21, 2017

Research of 10,000 companies across 25 years proved that a strong customer culture drives over 35 business performance measures , including ROI, growth, customer retention, market share and sales. When you think about it, that makes a lot of sense: 40-70% of customers switch loyalty due to a perceived attitude of indifference.

Culture 69

Culture Roadmap Customer Centricity Measurement 69

SurveySensum

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

These satisfied users aka promoters enthusiastically recommend your software to others, driving customer acquisition for your business. By prioritizing an outstanding customer experience, you not only boost SaaS customer retention but also harness the promotional power of your satisfied users, ultimately growing your business.

Customer Experience 52

Customer Experience Self Service Effort Score Metrics 52

CSM Magazine

JUNE 21, 2018

Fatal flaws in customer experience (CX) foretell the demise of many companies. Learn to recognize these flaws and put in place a CX strategy that ensures you become a leader not a loser. improvement in customer satisfaction scores results in a revenue increase of.5%. Blind Leadership. The Perils of Poor Execution.

Company 40

Company Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Effort Score 40