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Winning the Game: Why Global Professional Development in Customer Experience and Employee Engagement Are Key

CX University

In today’s global business environment, customer experience (CX) is one of the most important factors that determine the success or failure of a company. A positive customer experience can lead to customer loyalty, repeat business, and positive word-of-mouth advertising, while a negative experience can have the opposite effect.

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Amazing Business Radio: Diana Oreck

ShepHyken

First Up: In Shep Hyken’s opening comments he relates an experience from the customer service workshops his company conducts for client companies. In these workshops, attendees are asked, “What is a quality that all customer-focused employees possess?” What are the qualities of a customer-focused employee?

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Connecting Satisfaction With Behavior: Does The Service-Profit Chain (or The Employee Engagement-Profit Chain) Still Work?

Beyond Philosophy

Earl Sasser, and Leonard Schlesinger in 1994 in Harvard Business Review, and in a 1997 book by the last three authors, can essentially be explained as follows: It is a theory of business management which links employee satisfaction to customer loyalty and profitability. Customer Loyalty on the other hand has two definitions.

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Customer Experience Influencers You Must Follow – Part 2

Customer Guru

He helps brands achieve improved customer experience, customer loyalty, and branding by his keynote speaker presentations and workshops. She has published the training e-manual “Five Steps To The More Loyal Customers” and has had numerous articles published and products produced on customer retention, satisfaction, and loyalty.

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“U.S. Employee Engagement Reaches Three-Year High.” Where Customer Experience and Value Delivery Are Concerned, Shouldn’t We Ask: ‘So What?’

Beyond Philosophy

However, when this organization, and others in the employee engagement research, training and consultation space, makes claims that engagement, in and of itself, contributes to customer value and loyalty behavior, two important questions need to be asked. Those question are: 1) Really? correlation.

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So You Want to Deliver Outstanding Customer Experiences… | Driven to Delight

Michelli Experience

So if you want to drive an elevated customer experience that differentiates your business from the competition, increases the loyalty of your customers, and results in more referrals, you are certainly not alone ! So what did leaders at Mercedes-Benz do that might help you with your customer experience elevation?

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3 Ultimate Factors of Business Performance

ClearAction

Research of 10,000 companies across 25 years proved that a strong customer culture drives over 35 business performance measures , including ROI, growth, customer retention, market share and sales. When you think about it, that makes a lot of sense: 40-70% of customers switch loyalty due to a perceived attitude of indifference.

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