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. 360Connext serves mid-market companies and larger by helping them evaluate their true customer experience.

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Tricia Morris

AUGUST 21, 2015

Customer experience is how a customer feels about a company over time. – “Customer Experience (t here is no certainty of what it is or how it works, but vendors continue to promise it as the Holy Grail). Next year’s event brings these customer-focused conferences to Washington, DC, May 23 – 25, 2016.

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InMoment XI

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The following approaches will help you make the most of your bank branch to boost customer satisfaction: Create a “branch of the future” for your bank. Modern bank branches are transforming into consultation hubs. Adopt a consultative approach. You can boost your CX efforts by training the workforce to be customer-focused.

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Banking Customer Experience Financial Touchpoint 195

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Prevent customers from making negative associations with your brand by creating positive microinteractions. 5 Most Awful Customer Experience Solutions of All Time. What Does it Take to Be a Customer Focused Organization? As we scale our businesses, our focus on customers can become seriously threatened.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 9, 2015

I’ve seen plenty of Marketing, HR and Technology leaders who have made astounding improvements in the experiences they create for customers. Customer focused organizations smoke the competition. 360Connext serves mid-market companies and larger by helping them evaluate their true customer experience.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

As more leaders discuss becoming customer-centric, I wonder how many actually walk the talk and put actions into their plans. What if customer-centric ideas and tactics were included in all strategy plans ? A strategy that is truly customer customer-focused needs to include ideas like these: 1.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 24, 2015

Jeanne Bliss was one of the original Chief Customer Officers, and has held titles like that for companies including Land’s End and Allstate. For more than twenty years, she has helped organizational leadership recognize the importance of customer-focused initiatives in ways that directly impact the business results.

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Leadership Chief Customer Officer Books Social Media 247

TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

At Gartner, Michelle is a cross-practice leader of emerging theme, Digital Twin of a Customer, a co-leader of Total Experience (Top Strategic Technology Trend), and the industries lead for CX CORE (Customer Organization Relationship Experience). Jeff is truly obsessed with customer service. Follow on LinkedIn.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

They don’t care enough to invest in customer experience evaluation and improvement. Their company mission is not customer-focused, and they don’t care if your day is ruined. 360Connext serves mid-market companies and larger by helping them evaluate their true customer experience.

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eglobalis

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Additionally, creating open channels of communication where employees can share customer insights and innovative ideas ensures that these valuable perspectives are captured and acted upon. When employees are encouraged to adopt a customer-centric mindset, they are more attuned to identifying pain points and opportunities for improvement.

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InMoment XI

OCTOBER 24, 2024

InMoment excels at offering a platform that connects customer data from every channel into one easily accessible location and offers consulting services from in-house industry experts. Here are some key trends in customer engagement platforms to keep in mind as you evaluate current and future partners: 1.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Forrester: Customer obsession is key to B2B revenue and profits by Paul Demery (Digital Commerce 360) “Customer-obsessed” B2B companies build better relationships with employees and customers than peer companies without a strong customer focus, Forrester Research says.

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Article Customer Service Social Media 2024 80

InteractionMetrics

JANUARY 7, 2025

The Power of Personas and Critical Moments Effective journey maps focus on key customer personas and highlight the “moments of truth”the interactions that have an outsized impact on the customers experience and loyalty. Employee-Focused Goals: Attracting and retaining top talent by addressing employee needs and engagement.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JULY 6, 2016

Customer feedback is customer experience gold. That’s why there are transaction surveys, experience surveys, customer interviews, customer focus groups (although you know I’m not a fan) and many, many formal ways to gather feedback and use it to improve the experience.

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Consulting Feedback Customers Customer Focused 154

Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

You were just trying to market the latest brand effort to your new and existing customer base. Unfortunately, your marketing inadvertently damaged your customer focus. How you segment customers also contributes to this damage, as well as how well you understand your customers’ expectations of you. How can we help?

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Customer Focused Marketing Customer Centricity Consulting 78

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 16, 2015

Hear from the best customer experience thought leaders from companies like Confirmit, Qualtronics, Universal Mind, and more. Need a customer-focused speaker for your next event? Events for Customer Experience Excellence appeared first on Customer Experience Consulting. Register today!

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

It starts with Naïve, which are the least customer-focused companies and are unaware of it. Next come the Transactional and Enlightened stages, which are firms that now recognize the problem and are consciously working to change their behavior to have a customer-focus.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Consider this way-too-typical scenario: Marcus decides one day to stand in front of his employees and request in no uncertain terms how everyone needs to be more customer-focused. “Help customers love our company and brand more!” He promotes the idea of becoming more customer-focused. And that’s all.

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Customer Guru

JANUARY 3, 2018

Mr. Patel is a leading Customer Service Consultant in India. Having worked with leading organizations such as ClearTax and Amazon, and across multiple industries, he has closely observed the impact that customer experience has on the growth of any business.

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Consulting Customer Service Customer Centricity Transportation 83

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 2, 2018

But what’s even trickier is when you may not have customer experience or customer insights in your title. Being a customer-focused leader is a tall order. So how can you lead by example to make the experience better for your customers, regardless of where you are on the org chart?

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ShepHyken

APRIL 6, 2021

An Amazing Customer Experience, Guaranteed . How to Get Customers to Gain Trust and Confidence in Your Brand. Shep Hyken interviews Jeff Toister , a customer service author, consultant, and trainer. They discuss how making or breaking promises effects the customer experience. . Top Takeaways: .

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ShepHyken

JULY 5, 2021

They may even make you rethink how you email your customers. 7 ways leaders can model great customer service by Jeff Toister. Toister Solutions) You have to walk the talk if you want your employees to be customer-focused. Something simple as a login should never create friction for your customers.

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Article 2021 Customer Service Loyalty Programs 155

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

From my perspective, at least, experiences that drive customers’ emotional brand trust and bonding can be both shaped and sustained. That’s largely a function of organizational culture, customer-focused processes – – and the direct and indirect contribution of employees through ambassadorship behavior.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 6, 2019

When I started Beyond Philosophy back in 2002, I could ascertain whether a company was customer-focused or not right away. This answer became my second book, Revolutionize Your Customer Experience , which explores how the culture of a company reflects how customer-centric the organization is. I wondered how I did that.

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Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity Airlines 2002 171

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

All organizations are on a journey from being Naive to Natural in the way they focus on the Customer, passing through each of four stages: Naïve, Transactional, Enlightened, and Natural. Naïve companies are the least customer-focused and Natural companies are the most customer-focused.

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Customer Guru

AUGUST 8, 2018

While there are many experts on this field, we have created a list (in alphabetical order) of customer experience influencers (experts, speakers, consultants, and authors) who are leaders. Adam is a globally recognized expert on customer experience. Do follow these experts to learn from the best in business!

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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.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 1, 2015

And when this package travels beyond Bodybuilding.com’s control and into the care of a shipping company, it’s kind of like saying “You can keep us happy by keeping our customers happy.”. Customer-focused. It’s not about being the best at what they do, it’s about the experience the customer has with the brand.

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Strativity

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Throughout Strativity’s 17+ years in CX consulting, we’ve developed fundamental principles to help our clients avoid roadblocks and accelerate success with their customer experience initiatives — and now we’re sharing what we’ve learned with CX leaders like you. Build understanding and engagement with Customer Journey Mapping.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

If you want to keep your customers, it’s a good idea not to do things that make them feel disappointed. As Customer Experience Consultants, we advise our clients to learn to take an outside-in approach to their Customer Experience. Designing a Customer-Focused Process. Then, fix it!

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 23, 2020

However, if you want to be one of the 75 percent that is still working at making your organization more customer-focused, and you want to show that your programs well, work, here’s what you have to do: You need to engage in research on what drives value for customers in reality. Follow Colin Shaw on Twitter @ColinShaw_CX.

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Return on Investment Customer Experience Professionals Leadership Consulting 177

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

If you’d like to put this power in your team’s hands and turn your whole organization into a customer-focused powerhouse, why not have a workshop to help them understand the mindset, approach, techniques, and many unconventional ways to get more ROI from a living customer journey map? And, it’s fun!

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Touchpoint Customer Journey Mapping Workshop Customer Journey 207

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JULY 1, 2015

A customer-focused leader might wish to try the service from the end-user’s perspective, regardless of how robust the screenshot and demo are. More Posts - Website Follow Me: The post How Stripe Features the End-User Experience to Enhance B2B Sales appeared first on Customer Experience Consulting.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

I talk a lot about Customer-centricity of organizations. We use a model called Naïve to Natural that measures how an organization is oriented toward Customers, with the Naïve not having a Customer focus and the Natural having the most Customer focus. Follow Colin Shaw on Twitter & Periscope @ColinShaw_CX.

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Customer Centricity Retail Consulting Leadership 142

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.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Those that have excellent experiences, the kind that makes their brand name a household one, demonstrate actual customer-centricity in their CX. In our global Customer Experience Consultancy, we developed a Customer Experience Assessment model called Naive to Natural to determine a company’s level of customer centricity.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

By focusing on the customer. Many organizations who claim they are customer-focused are still operating from a product-focused environment. We need to move from the inside-out to become truly customer-focused and rein in these tricky touchpoints. How can we take on the impossible list of touchpoints?

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