Think Customers

MARCH 21, 2023

The power of connectivity was on brilliant display this month in Salt Lake City, where approximately 10,000 customer experience professionals gathered to soak up inspiration and new ideas to deploy upon returning home. airline in 2022 by the Wall Street Journal , which scores airlines on seven operations and customer metrics. “We

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 6, 2019

Airlines use it to help people check in for flights more efficiently, which is of great value to many passengers. To be fair, the airlines are improving their experience with customers by using facial recognition technology. Those benefits should be crystal clear to your customers. Reducing the Creepiness Factor.

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Think Customers

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Companies with customer-obsessed cultures--think USAA or Southwest Airlines--differentiate themselves in their industries and earn major financial benefits as a result.

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Forrester

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Which is one reason why I''m so excited by Forrester''s upcoming Forum For Customer Experience Professionals EMEA on November 17th and 18th in London. Read more Categories: Airlines. Customer Experience Forum. Customer Experience Forum.

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Forrester

JANUARY 6, 2015

Companies with customer-obsessed cultures - think USAA or Southwest Airlines - differentiate themselves in their industries and earn major financial benefits as a result.

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ijgolding

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

The reason why the airline became the one that most loved to hate is not very difficult to understand. He has admitted that he was wrong not to change the way the airline treated customers much sooner and is committed to making the Ryanair Customer Experience even better.

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MARCH 31, 2017

Having flown over 300 times in the last two years alone, I am well versed in the differences between airlines. In fact, one of my most read posts is a review I conducted in 2014, comparing the airlines Emirates and Etihad. Michael Bartlett is a Customer Experience professional based out of Missouri, USA and owner of MeasureOfTruth.co.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Like an ambitious salesperson, as a Customer Experience professional, I’m impatient with myself. I want the end results – the high NPS scores, the fabulous customer reviews, the customer journey that makes users smile with joy and want to tell others about your product. Who do you like to do business with?

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 1, 2017

It’s only been in the last decade that we’ve seen any companies take the time to proactively think about a customer’s journey, and only within the last 5 years or so we’ve seen a steady expansion of those with “experience” or “customer” in their titles at the upper tiers of management.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Bad profits are also when an airline charges you $200 to change a ticket for a flight six months out. The airline has no cost except the administrative effort, but they’ll charge anyway. These profits make accountants happy because they look like profits, but they make customers angry.

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CSM Magazine

MAY 19, 2023

This involves prioritizing customer needs and preferences. By focusing on providing value to customers, companies can foster long-term relationships, improve customer satisfaction, and drive business growth. This helps customer experience professionals adapt to evolving customer demands and remain proficient in their roles.

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Michel Falcon Experience

JANUARY 16, 2017

I read books on customer experience, I set up a Feedly account and read dozens of articles every day on the subject. I reached out to customer experience professionals on Linkedin and asked many questions.

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CX Journey

AUGUST 16, 2017

It's been a year or more since I've written about the ROI of customer experience. Always good to revisit this topic because it is such a hot one for customer experience professionals. Nothing wrong with that! Executives want to see hard numbers about any investments they make.

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JULY 14, 2017

We’ve all encountered these scenarios, where we’re left feeling a certain way by one supermarket/airline/store/bank and completely different by another. In scenario 1, the business understood this customer’s whole journey. Scenario 1 leaves you reassured, and looking forward. Scenario 2 leaves you anxious and looking for a plan B.

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Qualtrics

MARCH 25, 2021

Insights and customer experience professionals can then take the responses and review them for: Sentiment. Why are customers feeling a particular way? How Alaska Airlines uses video surveys. Alaska Airlines also found that stakeholders were much more invested in customer data. Key topics.

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ReviewTrackers

MAY 8, 2017

Organized by the Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA), the 2017 Insight Exchange gathers over 300 CX professionals for world-class customer experience learning and networking. CXPA Insight Exchange. When: May 16 to 17, 2017. Where: Phoenix, AZ. Forrester CXNYC. When: June 20 to 21, 2017.

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CloudCherry

MARCH 14, 2019

Bruce Temkin – Bruce is a customer experience visionary, speaker, advisor, researcher, and co-founder of the Customer Experience Professionals Association. For many industries, customer experience is really the only way you can differentiate. Take for example, credit unions and airlines.

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JANUARY 14, 2019

In 2018, the Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA) celebrated its 7th birthday. In 2011, the creation of the CXPA saw the competencies and capabilities practiced by those working in the field of customer experience as a profession for the first time. Which airline(s) were the guilty party?

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FEBRUARY 13, 2018

When that focus on customers is absent, or partial, you get coffee shop customers queueing for 15-minutes for drinks because your baristas cannot keep up with demand from your order and pay app (an issue you have been trying to fix for two years). Say what you mean.

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Strativity

JULY 16, 2014

The program is designed to provide a multifaceted, interactive and overall empowering experience that will ensure participants are equipped with the tools they need to make Customer Centricity an organizational success. To register for the Orlando, FL program, October 21-23 2014, visit this link.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Whilst many of the people who have had to endure my ramblings are aligned to my passion for the subject of Customer Experience, there will always be some who have a different perspective. I do not want to fly with airlines who could not care less how they treat me. It is not a right to have customers.

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Horizon CX

OCTOBER 2, 2023

A customer has purchased $4,500 of lumber and doors, three carts full and all is paid for. The customer then waits 40 minutes because only one employee in the store has a key to open the loading door to allow the customer to exit. An airline Gate Agent is asked by a passenger to check-in for a same-day, earlier flight.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

That is why I also advise people that I am a Customer Experience ‘Specialist’ – not an ‘expert’ – as I believe that anyone who champions a profession should be continually developing their specialism. Continuous professional development never ends!! South West Airlines. British Airways.

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Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

Prior to joining Temkin Group, she implemented the CX strategy and managed the Voice of the Customer program for Crowe Horwath LLP, one of the top 10 public accounting and consulting firms in the US. He is an expert in transforming how employees work with customers through multiple digital marketing strategies. Annette Franz.

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ijgolding

JULY 15, 2016

It is indisputable that listening to the perceptions of your customer is vital for any aspiring customer centric company – yet are companies really set up to actually listen? Last week I had the pleasure of talking to an incredibly passionate Customer Experience Professional called Julia Forsyth.

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CX Journey

MARCH 12, 2015

Organizational Culture: The “We” Point of View We like Herb Kelleher’s (former CEO of Southwest Airlines) definition of organizational culture: “Culture is what people do when no one is looking.” But both areas are essential for the customer experience professional and for organizational leadership.

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Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

Prior to joining Temkin Group, she implemented the CX strategy and managed the Voice of the Customer program for Crowe Horwath LLP, one of the top 10 public accounting and consulting firms in the US. He is an expert in transforming how employees work with customers through multiple digital marketing strategies. Annette Franz.

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Kitewheel

MARCH 25, 2019

With your CX data in hand, marketers and CX Professionals need to highlight what is most immediately concerned for their customers. For a retailer, this might mean rethinking stocking practices so that customer feedback lets you keep up with the latest trends before they fizzle out. Grow beyond crisis communications.

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ijgolding

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

In 2008, Dave Carroll’s guitar was broken by United Airlines. However, it is only a matter of time before a viral customer experience public relations disaster could hit any business…… and that leads me very nicely on to a story that might just be the next one to do it… Meet Maggie and David Wheeler.

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ProProfs Chat

JANUARY 17, 2020

Not only did they report this news of United Airlines, but they also reported that the passenger faced severe injuries. . The anger among customers grew when Diane Mager, the CEO of the Customer Experience Professionals Association, talked about the incident but didn’t pinpoint the problems that needed to be discussed.

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MAY 5, 2017

But it really is by no means the only driver, particularly when recruiting for Customer Experience professionals. At CX Talent Ltd we recognise that businesses can find it difficult to find the right candidate for Customer Experience roles. Most obviously, there is a huge budget!

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Pointillist

MAY 23, 2018

More and more marketers and customer experience professionals are now looking for the best customer journey analytics platform to understand and engage with individual customers at a personal level, at scale. Customer-centric companies are now mining journey insights. By Steve Offsey.

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Customer Guru

MARCH 7, 2018

Even when I was heading this crew, my evaluations of them would be on how customer-centric they were – whether my crew was engaging meaningfully with customers was always important to me. There is also this pleasant memory with the airline that I would like to share. I was the only one who got four in a year!

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Alida

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

MARU/VCR&C’s Matt Kleinschmit moderated a session featuring market research leaders from World Vision Canada, Warner Bros Home Entertainment, Southwest Airlines and PepsiCo, who said implementing new technologies and methodologies is necessary to adapt to the evolving consumer market. MARU/VCR&C (@maru_vcrc) September 20, 2016.

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Qualtrics

JULY 18, 2019

Sometimes, depending on the way you’ve received the customer feedback, it may be more appropriate to respond to customers in a general way, like through a written, open letter. We’ve seen these in the opening pages of in-flight magazines like Southwest Airlines , for example. Free Customer Satisfaction Survey Template.

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Pointillist

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Sentiment and intent can be particularly useful for a number of use cases, such as determining why customers churn. Airline X never responded to my complaint. The ability to understand and accurately predict your customers’ emotions is precious to you as a customer experience professional.

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SuiteCX

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Using the MOT concept, Normann was highly instrumental in the turnaround of Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) in the early 1980s. They also earned the rank of “top Airline” the same year, and held that distinction for many years. The customer journey is part of the co-creation ecosystem and systems thinking needs to be applied.

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