Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 9, 2015

'There is a really exciting change happening. Organizations across a wide range of industries are creating positions like Chief Customer Officer and Customer Experience executive. They’ve realized the importance of investing in the overall experience of customers, and that doing so generates phenomenal business results. We have only just begun the customer experience revolution, and yet, many people have decided to become experts !

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InMoment XI

MARCH 3, 2015

Boy has the world changed since 1995! Every aspect of the customer experience, from marketing and sales, to customer service and support, has been turned on its head. Customer experience has changed more in the last 20 years than in the prior 200 years combined. Not surprisingly, this has affected the part of a business.

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Customer Bliss

MARCH 3, 2015

'The information and experience you gain by working through the customer experience competencies and holding people accountable to customer metrics will condition the organization to redevelop the customer experience for greatest marketplace differentiation. Managing the corporate patience while developing the competencies required to establish a reliable experience is not easy.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 12, 2015

'I love watching what people, and Customers do. We human’s think we are so clever and sophisticated and yet much of what we do is totally irrational. When I am reviewing an organization’s experience I am on the look out for this type of irrational behavior as this will give me many clues on how to make it much better. What do I mean by irrational behavior?

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Win the Customer

MARCH 28, 2015

'Too many organizations fall short in translating the desire for great customer experience into customer service actions that create them. If more than half of customers would be willing to pay more for a better customer experience, why don’t more organizations get more from customers? Frankly, I believe that most organizations want to deliver better […].

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 4, 2015

'If you haven’t yet discovered our podcast, Crack The Customer Code, I hope you will soon. We released our 15th episode , and it’s been quite the learning experience for my co-host Adam Toporek from Customers That Stick and me! Better customer service FTW. In episode 15, we tackle the subject of how certain industries can get away with treating customers poorly and still get good business results.

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InMoment XI

MARCH 20, 2015

Let me begin with an obvious observation about customer experience excellence: Customer Journey Mapping is all the rage, it seems. Everyone is developing a journey map of customer relationships, not only the “cool kids” who pioneered this practice years ago. Even “Stalwarts” are proudly displaying their maps in their offices and sharing them amongst their.

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Customer Bliss

MARCH 12, 2015

'Often when a company talks about “listening” to customers, that notion is immediately collapsed into a “voice of the customer” (VOC) program. This is not the action I am referring to with the aptitude “make them listen.” Your job is to take customers off the spread sheets and survey results to advance a conversation within your organization about the lives of your customers – their experiences – and who they are.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 3, 2015

'In this series, professionals share the words of wisdom that made all the difference in their lives. Follow the stories here and write your own (please include the hashtag #BestAdvice in the body of your post). What is the point of doing research is you are not going to do anything with it? Let me give you an example. It was the first few days after I had been promoted to the SVP, Customer Experience for British Telecom a number of years ago.

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Win the Customer

MARCH 16, 2015

'The customer customer is so important, why do you have a machine keep you busy while you sort things out with someone else? Putting customers on hold is about more than people being patient. Hold time shows a disconnect between the customers wanting to work with you and your willingness to want to take advantage of that immediate opportunity to […].

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MARCH 24, 2015

'As I quite literally travel the world talking, listening and working with individuals and organisations who have an interest in Customer Experience, I am regularly asked who the world’s ‘best’ Customer Experience brands are. ‘Who is good at CX?’ is a pretty typical question. It is a good question to ask and one that I […].

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 26, 2015

'I’ve been traveling a lot in the month of March. I’ve been thinking about what it means to be a business traveler (who happens to be a woman) on the road. It’s easy to complain about the parts of the travel experience we don’t like, like airplane passengers who ask to switch with me so I could get the middle seat when they want the aisle seat I’m assigned.

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InMoment XI

MARCH 6, 2015

Is customer experience of equal importance across all markets? In this short video, Stephan Thun, CEO of MaritzCX EMEA, discusses customer experience in the context of different markets across the world. You can watch it below. Look out for more next week when we ask Stephan if discounting is killing loyalty.

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Customer Bliss

MARCH 26, 2015

'Suggesting a Chief Customer Officer may seem frivolous to leaders who believe they already focus on customers. There’s often a proliferation of tactics and projects underway. The problem is these disconnected actions don’t amount to anything significant for customers. Here are six conditions and six critical checkpoints for considering a CCO: 1. Will leaders be okay with someone (other than themselves) driving consensus on customer strategy and deliverables?

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 17, 2015

'How can you increase your sales by 47%? It’s all in the packaging. Gressingham Foods, a pre-packaged food company in the UK, wanted to change their brand image at the store. They were declining as a brand and wanted their image to project “premium but accessible.”. They hired Elmwood , a design firm that took a good look at their packaging and came up with a strategy to help them stand out.

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Win the Customer

MARCH 1, 2015

'Consistently setting realistic service goals is critical to the process of developing your core customer experience. Setting goals is not simply throwing out an easy number to achieve, nor is it asking your team to achieve the impossible. Consistently setting goals is part of the process of developing your team in the organization. Goals shouldn’t be […].

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MARCH 4, 2015

Takeaway: 6 businesses share their approach to wowing and winning back lost customers. Find out what matters most to your customers, and go beyond their expectations. Reading time: 8 minutes. Wouldn’t it be great if you could win back lost customers? If every person who came into contact with your business was bowled over by your customer service?

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Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 18, 2015

'I’ve noticed a lot of blogs and articles and general gripes lately about why SXSW Interactive has jumped the shark. It’s fashionable to post emphatically about how there’s no appeal to the massive conference tackling digital and interactive trends each March. This was my sixth visit to SXSW. It has changed dramatically in those six years. There are fewer opportunities to discover new speakers through wandering into sessions.

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InMoment XI

MARCH 30, 2015

Has the process of investigating the customer experience become part of the customer experience? Is responding to customer feedback important? In the last video of the series, Stephan Thun, CEO of MaritzCX EMEA, explains how consumers value the feedback forum and sharing opinions and therefore the importance of giving something back to the consumer to.

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Experience Matters

MARCH 3, 2015

'We published the 2015 Temkin Experience Ratings , the most comprehensive benchmark of customer experience. In the fifth year of the Ratings, we analyze feedback from 10,000 U.S. consumers to rate 293 organizations across 20 industries (we added utilities this year). Here’s the executive summary: 2015 marks the fifth year of the Temkin Experience Ratings, and this year, supermarkets dominated the ratings.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 10, 2015

'Everyone makes mistakes. You charged for the wrong plan on a Customer’s mobile bill or sent an ‘Extra Small’ instead of a Medium on the Jacket a Customer ordered online. More serious mistakes could be that as a Doctor, you misdiagnosed a life threatening condition that results in serious consequences for your patient and his or her loved ones. We all make mistakes.

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Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

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Win the Customer

MARCH 20, 2015

'Customer experience doesn’t happen by chance. It takes the right combination of insights and actions that result in the positive bottom-line impact that supports revenue positive growth in an organization. In a recent conference call is asked an organization if they had a report of their key performance metrics related to service and customer experience […].

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Customer Bliss

MARCH 19, 2015

'You can recognize disconnected silo agendas at work when short-term revenue requirements compromise long-term revenue efforts. There’s a lack of clarity on what’s really important to differentiate the company. The customer is not understood the same way by everyone in the company. There’s an imbalance between the culture to drive revenue and the understanding of including customer investment.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 5, 2015

'Humans disappoint one another. We do it all the time. We disappoint when we don’t show up for someone’s big event. Or maybe we disappoint when we do show up at an intimate dinner party without an invitation. We disappoint each other by saying what we think or by not speaking up when we should. It’s tricky, this human experience of ours.

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InMoment XI

MARCH 6, 2015

Is customer experience of equal importance across all markets? In this short video, Stephan Thun, CEO of MaritzCX EMEA, discusses customer experience in the context of different markets across the world. You can watch it below. Look out for more next week when we ask Stephan if discounting is killing loyalty.

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Customer Experience Marketing Loyalty Customers 150

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