Customer Bliss

AUGUST 15, 2017

Annette Höher-Bäuerle went from being internal legal counsel at the Thomas Cook Group to leading all of Customer Experience globally. Her skills and long tenure with the company led her to use agile design thinking to prove and implement changes in the customer experience — to gain traction and drive real sustainable improvement.

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Travel Industry Hotels Customer Journeys 204

GetFeedback

JULY 19, 2019

When it comes to customer experience (CX) , I can think of many, many things we all know to be true. . We can all agree customers expect more of us than ever. We can agree there are more customer interactions than ever before, and some of that is our own fault. How can you give your customer a voice within your business?

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ROI How To Touchpoint Hotels 309

GetFeedback

JANUARY 12, 2020

About eight out of ten business leaders say they want to “improve” the customer experience (CX) to be more competitive. In CustomerThink’s recent study of 200+ CX initiatives, 74% agreed: “By 2020, customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator.”. Customer service takes too long to answer the phone.

Customer Journeys 221

Customer Journeys How To Touchpoint Airlines 221

ijgolding

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Smiling is so simple – it is also the easiest and cheapest ingredient to put into your customer experience strategy. From getting to the airport; to parking; to checking in; to getting through security; to boarding the plane – holidays are filled with ‘touchpoints’ that can cause blood pressure to rise.

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Travel Touchpoint Employee Engagement Customer Journeys 271

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

APRIL 27, 2021

How important is customer experience in your organization? Most executives now consider customer experience a priority, but so many of them are still not ready to get serious about it. It can feel daunting to try to actually improve the customer experience when there are real challenges to overcome. What do customers want?

Customer Journeys 291

Customer Journeys Customer Experience Culture Sports 291

GetFeedback

JUNE 12, 2019

I’ve lost count of the number of meetings that I’ve had with copywriters, marketers, and designers where the terms customer experience (CX) , user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) have been used in an interchangeable manner. What is customer experience (CX)? . In fact, poor customer experience is costing U.S.

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User Experience Customer Experience Interaction Customers 329

CSM Magazine

APRIL 17, 2023

As air travel became more popular and commonplace, however, airports also started occupying a more consequential role in one’s overall travel experience. Aside from facilitating air transportation, airports are now also expected to provide tourists with their first and last touchpoints with their destinations.

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Travel Customer Service Transportation Competitive Advantage 52

CSM Magazine

MARCH 17, 2023

Many things contribute to a poor customer experience. Businesses that optimise both the customer journey and the customer experience are rewarded with strong customer retention, revenues and brand reputation. But so many fail at the first hurdle because they don’t take the time to understand the customer journey.

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Customer Journeys Ecommerce How To Touchpoint 52

GetFeedback

JANUARY 19, 2020

All done via Expedia, because it gives me one place to handle all travel arrangements, and provides a very nice app to remind me what I booked along with directions, phone numbers, and more. . type question works well when evaluating a relationship or complete experience, but it can be confusing if asked after individual touchpoints.

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Customer Journeys Touchpoint Survey Measurement 365

Wired and Dangerous

AUGUST 3, 2020

Customers today are picky, fickle, vocal, and vain. This customer narcissism has been forged both through the treatment provided by service providers as well as their newfound muscle to get their way in the marketplace. Several years ago we traveled through Europe on vacation with our family.

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Customer Experience Touchpoint Loyalty Travel 103

Talkdesk

MARCH 17, 2020

Continuously improving the customer journey in order to achieve the perfect customer experience (CX) is the Everest of the CX-obsessed. This is largely due to complex and inflexible tools that are difficult to customize and require IT resources, developers or professional services to build and manage.

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Contact Center Self Service Tourism Travel 94

Customer Bliss

AUGUST 3, 2017

Some interesting, if not surprising, news from the customer experience world recently. Forrester recently released their US 2017 Customer Experience Index , which goes through data from 120,000 online consumers to rank 300 brands across 21 industries. Customers actually want more of the emotional side of it. What does it mean?

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Customer Experience Travel Touchpoint Connections 236

AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 29, 2024

With Amazon Lex, you can implement an omnichannel strategy where customers engage via phone, websites, and messaging platforms. The bots can answer FAQs, provide self-service experiences, or triage customer requests before transferring to a human agent. Solution overview The following diagram illustrates the solution architecture.

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Contact Center Chatbots Self Service Touchpoint 92

SurveySensum

JANUARY 26, 2024

When the package arrived, she found some glitches and contacted customer support for assistance. The responsiveness and effectiveness of the support team in resolving her issue became a pivotal moment in Claire’s customer journey. Claire’s story encapsulates the essence of a customer journey. What is a Customer Journey?

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Customer Journeys Social Media Touchpoint Tips 52

SurveySensum

JULY 27, 2023

Do you know how Amazon suggests the products that you totally love based on what you’ve bought and browsed? — By actively gathering and analyzing customer feedback to get insight into its customer’s preferences. That’s also the power of understanding customer feedback and data. And Netflix?

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Retail Examples Feedback Customer Experience 52

Maru Group

JUNE 5, 2023

It is a crucial touchpoint on the journey providing an opportunity to drive loyalty through the brand experience. We utilized the Maru experience and insights platform to instantly access recent air travelers who have used the airport or airline lounges during their journey. The role of staff is a vital brand touchpoint.

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Airlines Travel Touchpoint Case Study 52

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 4, 2020

She writes about preparing a productive and successful customer experience strategy and why it’s important to have one. This summer, The Petrova Experience conducted a Customer Experience Preparedness Survey. One of our questions assessed brand maturity in terms of customer experience strategy. They deserve it.

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Roadmap Customer Experience Airlines How To 139

Blake Morgan

AUGUST 15, 2023

               In customer experience integrating innovation and personalization is key. I had the pleasure of talking with Inspirato President David Kallery, about how they are redefining the luxury travel and hospitality paradigm. Inspirato offers us a glimpse into the future of the luxury customer experience.

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Customer Experience Case Study Hospitality Innovation 52

ECXO

JUNE 11, 2023

Is your customer data out of date? Create a customer persona – creating a persona will help you tailor your messaging and design to meet the needs of your target audience. Create a customer persona – creating a persona will help you tailor your messaging and design to meet the needs of your target audience. This is urgent.

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B2B B2C Touchpoint Customer Journeys 129

CloudCherry

MARCH 19, 2019

“Firms will continue to regard CX as a collection of continuous improvement projects until they see an irrefutable, directly attributable connection to returns.” – Forrester, Hardwire Customer Experience 2018. Traditional CX metrics like customer satisfaction, customer effort and NPS are not directly tied to making money moves.

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Financial Metrics Customer Journeys NPS 218

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

APRIL 13, 2021

Customer experience leaders often talk with confidence about their Voice of the Customer (VoC) programs. They boast about how often they survey customers, collect feedback via fancy technologies, and produce reports with color-coded graphs. Customer interviews can be a key step in: Customer Journey Mapping.

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Customer Journeys How To Feedback Resources 291

Maz Iqbal

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

What Customer Experience Paths Are Organisations Taking? It occurs to me that under the Customer Experience umbrella one can pursue several distinctive paths. This almost always involves looking at way of reducing customer effort at specific touchpoints e.g. call-centre, or specific customer interactions e.g. when buying something.

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Travel Case Study Customer Experience Leadership 107

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

The North Face asked customers to walk their talk recently in Korea. In this viral video, customers who identified as those who seek adventure were given a choice. And it’s a great way to help customers identify with your products and experience. These customers had, after all, self identified as adventure seekers.

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Brands Hotels Consulting Loyalty Programs 259

Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Loyalty partnerships with complementary brands are the best way to create additional value, for customers and for your business. The majority of existing partnerships at big loyalty programs are brokered with one goal in mind: creating more value for the most frequent customers. The value can be immediate.

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Loyalty Loyalty Programs Airlines Travel 59

Comm100

JANUARY 11, 2023

The State of Automated Customer Service in 2023. As a result, customer service expectations are now sky-high as consumers demand the very best support – and will even switch brands for better service. Meeting today’s high customer service expectations can be a challenge. What are the benefits of AI in customer service?

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Customer Service Self Service Chatbots Healthcare 212

Quadient

JULY 25, 2022

Customer Journey Analysis in 6 Easy Steps. The customer experience is the sum of all the interactions that a customer has over the life of the relationship with the brand. One of the ways we understand the customer’s experience is through mapping and analyzing the journey through all customer touchpoints.

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Customer Journeys Analysis Touchpoint Effort Score 52

SurveySensum

JULY 13, 2023

According to a research report by PwC titled, “ Experience is Everything ”, 73% of the customers pointed to customer experience as an important factor in their shopping experience. Yet only 49% of the customers said that they had positive customer experiences with companies. Then this guide is for you. Why Survey?

Retail 52

Retail Survey Tools Customer Experience 52

SurveySensum

JULY 13, 2023

According to a research report by PwC titled, “ Experience is Everything ”, 73% of the customers pointed to customer experience as an important factor in their shopping experience. Yet only 49% of the customers said that they had positive customer experiences with companies. Then this guide is for you. Why Survey?

Retail 52

Retail Survey Tools Customer Experience 52

CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Carlton Retland, Principal Solutions Engineer at Applause details how brands can successfully identify and remove barriers for new customers. Poor customer onboarding hurts your bottom line, increasing customer acquisition costs and driving down customer lifetime value. Common friction points for new customers .

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How To Customer Journeys Touchpoint Entertainment 64

Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

How do you make health care more personal and customer-focused? This is a topic that comes up in my interview with Antoinette Taranto , Chief Customer Officer at The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing. Lean into Your Customers. How do you do this and engage customers as a healthcare provider?

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Chief Customer Officer System Handbook Engagement 195

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This week, we feature an article by Niraj Ranjan Rout, Founder and CEO of Hiver , a customer experience platform that helps teams collaborate and communicate across departments. He talks about how amazing customer experience can be sustainable. Customer experience (CX) has become a core operational necessity.

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Call Center e-support Travel Customer Satisfaction 59

Customer Bliss

MARCH 28, 2017

I found it interesting that our work in customer experience is now expanding to airports, and Karen Ellis of the San Antonio International Airport (previously in somewhat similar roles in Houston and Atlanta) was good enough to come on the podcast and discuss some of her initiatives and challenges. She began by selling travel insurance.

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Customer Experience Travel Touchpoint Training 100

SurveySparrow

JUNE 21, 2023

SurveySparrow compiled a list of 10 inspirational quotes to help you understand the value of excellent customer service and the influence that it has on business growth. 10 Inspiring Customer Experience Quotes with Examples 1. Bill Gates “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

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Customer Experience e-support Touchpoint Loyalty 52

Kustomer

AUGUST 28, 2023

Welcome to The Kustomer Service Pulse , a new series on the Kustomer blog where we share our point of view on customer service experiences that showcase how companies can create unforgettable moments with their customers, drive impact for their business, and elevate their brands.

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Customer Service Airlines Hotels CRM 52

Second to None

JULY 25, 2019

With new technologies and consumer trends, the concept of customer effort has evolved tremendously over the years. In the current day, customers cannot be bothered to exert any unnecessary energy, and why should they? So what exactly is customer effort and why is it important? Measuring Customer Effort.

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Innovation Effort Score Travel Transportation 80

Totango

MARCH 18, 2020

The safety of our employees and community is of paramount importance to us and as such we’ve taken steps over the last few weeks to protect all – ceasing non-essential travel and implementing a work from home policy. Your business continuity and your ability to drive value to your customers are more important than ever before.

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Customer Success Travel Touchpoint Policies 77

TechSee

MARCH 10, 2021

This remote and digital-first world has made service organizations rethink how to engage with customers. Remote visual engagement goes way beyond just ‘seeing what your customer sees’ – it’s an enabler and connector for digital transformation. Helping customers from afar is nothing new.

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Self Service Customer Service Video Engagement 109