Thanks to emerging customer support channels like social media and live chat, as well as evolving technologies like speech recognition, there are more ways than ever for customers to initiate (and resolve) a service inquiry. Which Customer Service Predictions Came True from 3 Years Ago. MORE

Think about your ideal experience as a customer. When customer service is like that, you don’t think about excessive effort, and endless back and forth communications. Why is context missing from customer support journeys? Asking the customer less. MORE

This episode focuses on the ROI of the Customer Experience using real world examples. Using the lifetime value of your customer is extremely important for everyone within your organization. If you don’t know your average lifetime customer value, I’ll walk you through how to determine that number here and what it can bring or cost your company. This episode focuses on the ROI of the Customer Experience using real world examples. MORE

Being customer led makes for better businesses. While digital advances mean that the customer’s world is being inexorably re-imagined, the customer needs to be kept close. Customer closeness doesn’t happen accidentally. It’s as simple as that. MORE

A customer fell in love with your product, you made a deal, signed a contract, and now you both hope for many years together. But along the way, it’s easy for a customer to be amazed by the competition and try their service. Truly know your customers and tailor communication. “If MORE

Customer Experience (CX) is a messy space. Seasoned managers know that CX business cases can fall over despite listening intently to the voice of the customer. It’s about loyalty economics: we can reduce churn and improve lifetime customer value. Customer Experience CX MORE

Each week I read a number of customer service articles from various online resources. The Hidden Costs of Poor Internal Customer Service By Joanne Wortman. Integrify) Of course, every business understands the need to maintain a high commitment to providing excellent customer service. MORE

It is always important and never more so than in today’s tough economy to make sure customers know unmistakably that you do not take them for granted. If all your customers exited tomorrow (which they certainly could), how well would you fare the day after tomorrow? MORE

Lifetime warranties are a common feature of the product world. Lifetime warranties, as opposed to limited warranties, are designed to be bold statement communicating confidence in a product. What would a lifetime warranty look like for a customer service experience? MORE

From extreme weather to product recalls, there’s an infinite number of scenarios that will flood your contact center in an instant, resulting in increased average handle times, wait times, and customer frustration. Customer Service Outsourcing Lifetime Customer Value MORE

Don’t we all wish that customers came with a lifetime guarantee? In that perfect world, customer retention would be at 100% and customer turnover would be zero. Can Any One Contact Center KPI Boost Customer Lifespan? Customer Effort Score (CES). MORE

And a partner can make decisions with a comprehensive understanding of what’s important to your organization and your customers. These metrics are important, but the other side of the ledger is the customer experience – and lifetime customer value. MORE

In 1909 Harry Gordon Selfridge, the founder of Selfridge’s department store, is credited with saying, “The customer is always right”. Through the years, a number of my colleagues and I have emphasized that the customer is not always right but they are always the customer. MORE

A customer fell in love with your product, you made a deal, signed a contract, and now you both hope for many years together. But along the way, it’s easy for a customer to be amazed by the competition and try their service. Customer engagement strategies. So it happened. MORE

If your brand focuses on consistent and authentic customer service and engagement both before and after the sale, a one-time customer can become a lifetime customer who also creates additional customers. Here are seven ways customer service helps support sales: . MORE

The attitude you give out to a customer is the same attitude you will get back. If you love to sell, customers love you back. If you don’t like what you do, customers can see it, and they’re less likely to buy from you. One push too much and a customer can resign. MORE

In the past decade, we’ve seen the number of companies with an individual in the role of Chief Customer Officer (CCO) – nicely defined by Wikipedia as “the executive responsible for the total relationship with an organization’s customers” – grow from under 100 to thousands today. They are; Customer Experience and Value Optimization. Customer Insight, Data and Action Generation. Customer-related decision making is now knowledge-based, replacing intuition and guesswork. MORE

Satisfied customers aren’t enough. To drive profitability you must generate customer loyalty and orient your entire organization around that mission. Real customer loyalty is not a short-term proposition; rather, it is a long-term commitment to your products or services, company or brand. In order to create and build Loyal Promoters and improve customer retention , your company must be customer-centric. Focus on Generating Customer Loyalty. MORE

Customer executives are regularly challenged to prove the value of their initiatives. To effectively demonstrate value, customer executives need to show how their customer initiatives impact one or more of these key factors. In my previous post I described the historical retrospective approach whereby incremental per-customer or per–segment revenue gains are correlated with increasing loyalty and engagement. MORE

It’s been a while since I approached the topic of customer loyalty. All of the tips, ideas, tactics, and techniques I write about are about driving a better customer service experience, which can (and hopefully will) lead to customer loyalty. MORE

It fills me with no joy to have to write a post about companies that have delivered unacceptable Customer Experiences. Today I am sharing a story about a company that has had an overt Customer Centric culture for many years. I carried on as a happy Enterprise customer. MORE

Satisfied customers aren’t enough. To drive profitability you must generate customer loyalty and orient your entire organization around that mission. Real customer loyalty is not a short-term proposition; rather, it is a long-term commitment to your products or services, company or brand. In order to create and build Loyal Promoters and improve customer retention , your company must be customer-centric. Focus on Generating Customer Loyalty. MORE

Satisfied customers aren’t enough. To drive profitability you must generate customer loyalty and orient your entire organization around that mission. Real customer loyalty is not a short-term proposition; rather, it is a long-term commitment to your products or services, company or brand. In order to create and build Loyal Promoters and improve customer retention , your company must be customer-centric. Focus on Generating Customer Loyalty. MORE

No company wants to fail their customers, but at some point it’s going to happen. You’re going to mess up, or bad luck will mess you up, or a supplier will mess you up in the eyes of your customer. Solving an issue with a customer isn’t about fairness or justice. MORE