Russel Lolacher

MARCH 2, 2021

In BC, I’m the public service director responsible for the government social media customer care for our ministry, but my dad still doesn’t understand what I do. I’m the Director of Web and Social Media Services for the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure in the BC Public Service. Thanks, Dad.

Social Media 52

Social Media Government Customer Care Transportation 52

inmoment

JUNE 22, 2020

Though brands are contending with a lot of customer uncertainty at the current time, there’s another, equally important group with whom all organizations need to engage during this pandemic: furloughed employees. Just like customers, employees are facing tremendous stress and anxiety in the era of COVID-19.

Employee Engagement 75

Employee Engagement Engagement Handbook Social Media 75

Bill Quiseng

APRIL 17, 2024

QUI QUOTE: Instead of giving incentives to your customers who fill out your surveys, offer rewards and recognition to your people who deliver service so GREAT customers rave about them on your surveys and social media. Customers pay for their experience, not your product or service.

Social Media 156

Social Media Financial Loyalty Survey 156

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Many executives are interested in improving and understanding customer experience. When Oracle released their White Paper Why Customer ‘Satisfaction’ is No Longer Good Enough , the stats caused quite a stir, and rightfully so. 64% have made future purchases from a company’s competitors after experiencing poor customer service.

Customer Experience 282

Customer Experience Social Media Poor Customer Service Loyalty 282

ShepHyken

JUNE 19, 2023

Top Takeaways: Social media is called “social” for a reason. It is about communicating with your customers, getting feedback, responding to comments, and taking action based on what your customers tell you. Customers are watching you on social media.

Customer Centricity 65

Customer Centricity Social Media Marketing Customer Care 65

Alliance by IFS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Employee engagement is probably one of the largest challenges facing field service companies currently. Despite the latest excitement regarding worker engagement, few businesses understand the impact or the way it may drive company outcomes. Why is employee engagement so important for field service companies?

Employee Engagement 82

Employee Engagement Engagement Competitive Advantage Social Media 82

Lumoa

APRIL 28, 2024

Every interaction with your business has the power to build or damage the relationship with your customer – and can directly impact your revenue. 78% of customers have backed out of a purchase due to a poor customer experience (CX). More than 80% of business leaders see customer experience as a growing priority in 2024.

Self Service 208

Self Service Customer Journeys Feedback Analysis 208

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Customers are seeking your attention in immediate and demanding ways. Welcome to Multi-Channel Customer Support. Customer Service, a stand alone department in many companies, remains a call center. That’s the same feeling customers have when it takes four different channels to get an answer. Take showrooming.

Multi-Channel 268

Multi-Channel Social Media Call Center Retail 268

NICE inContact

AUGUST 27, 2019

Customer experience is the name of the game today, with more brands competing based on customer experience (CX) as a key differentiator than price or product innovation. As we’ve said before, customer experience comes down to how your customers feel about your brand. 1) Be personal. 2) Be responsive.

Connections 149

Connections Tips Social Media Multi-Channel 149

Alida

APRIL 28, 2016

If the image that you project doesn’t accurately reflect your culture, current and former employees will call you out. RELATED: Read the Authenticity Handbook for real-world examples of companies that are building genuine trust with their customers and employees. . Engage with empowered employees. Final thought.

Employee Engagement 100

Employee Engagement Culture Engagement Handbook 100

Win the Customer

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In the evolving landscape of business, customer experience (CX) has emerged as the linchpin for success. For senior service managers, the ability to understand, measure, and enhance customer engagement is pivotal. Customer Effort Score (CES) The ease with which customers can interact with your services or products is paramount.

Customer Journeys 69

Customer Journeys Management Customer Experience Net Promoter Score 69

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

If you are having trouble retaining customers, this could mean a variety of things. Customers could be upset about a change. A change in your product, the experience, the billing structure, the cost or any change could lead to customers jumping ship. Your customers could see you aren’t handling things in the way they want.

Metrics 252

Metrics Customer Experience Social Media Loyalty 252

InMoment XI

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Whenever the subject of employee satisfaction and engagement arises, it is often difficult to differentiate between them. Just as customer satisfaction doesn’t equate to loyalty behavior, if you believe that “a satisfied employee IS an engaged employee”, it’s likely that you can’t articulate a distinction.

Company 260

Company Communication Culture Employee Experience 260

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.

Customer Experience 236

Customer Experience Net Promoter Score How To Customer Journeys 236

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Sure, you may not intend to, but there are probably ways you, as the leader of your department or organization, are sabotaging the experience your customers have. Watch out for these sneaky ways typical business methods lead to customer defection. Never dealing with customers. Keeping customer praise to yourself.

Customer Experience 304

Customer Experience Customer Journeys Employee Engagement Social Media 304

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Cooks and the customers they serve who can see each other – literally – both feel better about the experience. A recent study found that if cooks in a restaurant kitchen could see the customers ordering and enjoying their food and the customers could see the cooks preparing it, the food tasted better.

Social Media 282

Social Media Study Consulting Customer Engagement 282

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 9, 2014

For the second year in a row, customer experience professionals around the globe celebrated Customer Experience Day , affectionately known as CX Day. In Chicago, I was happy to be a part of the celebration, as one of the Customer Experience Professionals Association local networking events happening simultaneously around the world.

Social Media 279

Social Media Customer Experience Professionals Consulting Employee Engagement 279

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Customer experience is more than a full-time job. Create or revise your customer experience mission statement. Deputize someone in each department as the customer advocate. It’s their job to truly represent the customer in every meeting. It’s their job to truly represent the customer in every meeting.

Customer Journeys 306

Customer Journeys Customer Experience eBook Employee Engagement 306

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 5, 2017

These employees have some potential to impact the customer experience; and there is documented, often incidental, evidence of correlation between the two. However, there is little proven direct causation, the specific, defined linkage of employee thinking and behavior to customer loyalty and advocacy.

Employee Engagement 68

Employee Engagement Engagement Consulting Culture 68

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? Whether by your customers or from within your organization, the value of customer experience can be measured in so many ways.

Customer Experience 297

Customer Experience Social Media Customer Experience Professionals Consulting 297

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 20, 2014

As business owners, we want to believe if we INTEND to have a customer-focused organization, we will! It’s organic – we just ARE customer focused. Consider the ways growth and scale as an organization can threaten the focus on the customer. Culture supporting a customer focused organization includes: Playfulness.

Customer Focused 289

Customer Focused Employee Engagement Culture Social Media 289

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. Share the best stuff!

Customer Focused 275

Customer Focused Employee Engagement Call Center Social Media 275

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

DECEMBER 3, 2014

moments that make a big difference in the customer experience. Jeannie Walters Jeannie Walters is the Chief Customer Experience Investigator™ and founder of 360Connext, a global consulting firm specializing in the cornerstones of customer experience: customer engagement, employee engagement and connections like social media.

Innovation 232

Innovation Customer Service Social Media Consulting 232

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Considering how much we ask employees to “own” the customer experience, why not form a company-wide book club to encourage learning and development in this area? How Net Promoter Companies Thrive in a Customer-Driven World . Get to know NPS a little with this updated edition of the classic customer experience book.

Customer Experience 273

Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Employee Engagement Culture 273

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 23, 2015

We get asked a lot about how to help customers in the 24/7 always-connected world we live in. Customers turn to social media to get questions answered quickly, report issues about products, praise great service and much more. Social customer care is going to be with us forever. What about you?

Customer Care 110

Customer Care Social Media Marketing Conference 110

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 19, 2015

As customers, we are expecting a lot from companies who are using social media to respond to customer service issues. We expect ALL companies to be responsive when we go to them via social media. Studies from Ambassador and Social Bakers reveal how mismatched our expectations are with reality.

Social Media 110

Social Media Customer Service Call Center Study 110

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

DECEMBER 15, 2014

For leaders to make smart decisions about who the best, most loyal and most profitable customers are, they need to understand the makeup of the customer population. This often means creating special loyalty programs , elite experiences, and special perks to maintain the top 1% of customers. How do you gauge customer value?

Loyalty Programs 268

Loyalty Programs Airlines Social Media Loyalty 268

Forrester's Customer Insights

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Employees’ Advocacy Boosts Your Content And Customer Interactions While trust in brands has dwindled, B2B buyers hold those same brands’ employees in high regard as authentic and compelling sources of information. And they want to engage with them.

Employee Engagement 35

Employee Engagement Engagement B2B Brands 35

Customer Interactions

OCTOBER 31, 2016

As you know, the success of any company is in the strength of its employees. This “happy employee = happy customer” mantra is encapsulated in many of the solutions sold by NICE. But it is in fact of much greater significance than just a mantra to ensure that a company’s customers stay happy.

Social Media 28

Social Media Employee Engagement Sales Engagement 28

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

APRIL 23, 2015

Have you ever struggled with how you can listen better to your customers? Amy agreed to an impromptu interview at the TripIt Lounge to share some ideas about feedback and customer input for my podcast which I co-host with Adam Toporek , Crack The Customer Code. Vocal customers offer valuable ideas. Thanks, @TripIt ! —

Social Media 110

Social Media Travel Rewards Programs Innovation 110

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Customers, and those of us who serve them, have one thing in common, no matter what the industry or situation. The most exciting companies change the game by innovating around their customer experience. These are the types of questions Adam Toporek and I will be covering in our new business podcast: Crack The Customer Code!

Social Media 244

Social Media Consulting Leadership Employee Engagement 244

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Customers every day are expressing how they feel – publicly – about these emotions. And yet, there are simple ways to reward customers. Check out these simple ways to increase customer loyalty. Surprise with random, small rewards for loyal customers! I’ve been a loyal customer for over 10 years!

Loyalty 272

Loyalty Banking Social Media Consulting 272

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Touchpoints within the customer journey help define a lot of moments, both good and not-so-good. Customer touchpoints in general are not often understood or appreciated from the customer’s perspective. Understanding the actual touchpoints your customers have with your organization is a basic part of that understanding.

Touchpoint 302

Touchpoint Customer Journeys Social Media Consulting 302

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 31, 2015

As some of you who follow this blog may know, I took the CXI® magnifying glass with me to South By Southwest Interactive this month to scout for customer-focused themes within the latest tech trends. New ways to gather data and offer personalized experiences should add up to better customer experiences and smarter marketing.

Technology 110

Technology Customer Experience Social Media Trends 110

Help.com

MARCH 14, 2016

A recent study by Gallup shows that only 29% of customers are fully engaged. 71% of customers are ready and willing to part ways with your company. We share a few tips below that can help boost your customer engagement and create a culture of loyal, happy customers. Make your business more customer-centric.

Customer Engagement 114

Customer Engagement Engagement Tips Social Media 114

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 17, 2015

Executives tell me: There is usually so much we COULD do with customer experience. We want to provide more, better, faster…but in order to do that for our customers we have to change entire legacy systems, hire totally new teams, and shift budget dollars from one place to another. Grab a cup of coffee with a front-line employee.

Customer Experience 110

Customer Experience Social Media Employee Engagement Metrics 110

Feedbackly

MAY 5, 2023

It is a mark of exceptional products and customer service offered by a brand. And let’s not forget that it’s costlier to attract a new customer than retain an existing one. Great customer experiences make customers feel special. CX also makes a brand more humanized and helps foster deeper connections with customers.

Loyalty 52

Loyalty Brands Customer Experience Social Media 52