CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Here are five ways AI harnesses the power to revolutionize the customer experience: Delivers proactive customer experiences. As organizations accumulate more data on customers, predictive accuracy will increase and deliver proactive customer service that anticipates and acts prior to an issue arising.

Customer Service 40

Customer Service Contact Center Call Center Customers 40

CSM Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2019

The customer service department is too often referred to as “just a cost center”. As experience overtakes price and product as a key brand differentiator, customer service is being recognized as the face of, and driver for, organization-wide strategy. The board includes: EVP, Global Customer Care, Mastercard.

Customer Service Strategies 40

Customer Service Strategies Customer Service Airlines Chief Customer Officer 40

Myra Golden

JULY 29, 2019

Listen to some calls from your customer service team and choose the best two or three, and play a portion of these extraordinary calls in your next employee meeting. Talk about how you felt when you heard these calls and how this fantastic service helps achieve your organization’s customer experience goals.

Seminar 61

Seminar Customer Service Call Center Customers 61

Michelli Experience

MARCH 2, 2016

Having worked with Starbucks since 2004, as I began my journey to my first of two books about them ( The Starbucks Experience and later Leading the Starbucks Way ), friends and colleagues are quick to contact me whenever Starbucks makes the news. 2) Drive Profitability – Every customer should be treated caringly and with respect.

Loyalty Programs 45

Loyalty Programs Loyalty 2004 Rewards Programs 45

Kustomer

MARCH 23, 2022

Customer Loyalty and Personalization. To create loyal customers, you need more than just a good product. If you want to elevate the customer experience and create brand longevity , you must cultivate a relationship. . As you learn more about your customers, you can offer even more personalized experiences.

Brands 98

Brands Social Media Reference Loyalty 98

Beyond Philosophy

JULY 11, 2020

I love the subject of customer memories. From how they form to how they change to how they drive your customer loyalty, customer memories are a crucial aspect of your Customer Experience. Define what you want a customer to remember. First, choose what you want the customer to remember.

Management 140

Management Customer Experience Design Customers Connections 140

Kustomer

APRIL 21, 2022

In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets Podcast, Gabe Larsen divulges the secrets to turning customers into brand ambassadors for optimal growth. CX and marketing go hand in hand when it comes to building brand loyalty. Encouraging customers to spread the good word is easy to do when they’re incentivized.

Social Media 98

Social Media Brands Loyalty Marketing 98

SurveySparrow

JULY 24, 2023

With customers increasingly empowered and competition heating up, you can’t afford to take your customers’ loyalty for granted. The simple truth is customer experience research isn’t just important—it’s essential. Provides qualitative insights into customer experiences.

Customer Experience 52

Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Loyalty Customer Satisfaction 52

Kayako

JANUARY 17, 2018

These interactions make up part of the customer experience, but not all of it. Customer experience encompasses the entire end-to-end journey a customer takes. That involves a whole lot more than just your customer service or support team. NPS measures customer loyalty.

Customer Experience 179

Customer Experience Net Promoter Score NPS Touchpoint 179

Myra Golden

DECEMBER 19, 2017

She didn’t want to discuss things, and she certainly didn’t want to give the customer an in-store credit. Taking things personally often is a demonstration of your loyalty to the company and your insistence on things being fair and right. I can’t wait for Monday.” . Tim O’Laughlin, The Coca-Cola Company. “I Caitlin Singer.

Customer Service Representative 45

Customer Service Representative Customer Service Workshop Customer Service Training 45

Beyond Philosophy

MAY 18, 2023

EQ is also a crucial part of your customer experience design and delivery. Today, we are discussing EQ, what it is, and how it helps your customer strategy and leadership. The same goes for customer service representatives. Having a high EQ is vital to customer service.

Management 78

Management Leadership Events Customer Service Representative 78

Michelli Experience

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

I have been slow to accept that, from a service perspective, humans will ever be replaced by computers. I’ve suggested that customers will resist “robots” and I’ve based my thinking in part on the “uncanny valley” hypothesis which postulates that the more robots look like humans the less humans will feel comfortable with them.

Customer Service 108

Customer Service Customers Interaction Social Media 108

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 14, 2014

How a customer feels about the company is an integral part of their loyalty to it. So to have trust, then your Customer Experience needs to include ways to build feelings of safety and acceptance to give customers the confidence in your organization that they need to form loyalty to you.

Net Promoter Score 102

Net Promoter Score CEM Books Customer Retention 102

Michelli Experience

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In his 1943 paper, “A Theory of Human Motivation”, Abraham Maslow foreshadowed a key ingredient to modern customer experience design. In essence, once you are able to meet a customers’ basic or functional need…there are higher needs you can address to drive their loyalty with your brand.

Connections 85

Connections Social Media Customer Experience Design Reference 85

Michelli Experience

MARCH 9, 2016

While political candidates have been making headlines challenging one another on the comparative “size of their hands” – a client of mine has demonstrated it really is the size of one’s heart that matters.

Magazine 45

Magazine Engagement Insurance Loyalty 45

Michelli Experience

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Relevance to Customer Experience Design. Implicit biases mean life or death in healthcare and they likely also have a meaningful impact on your customers. As a customer experience designer, I’ve been blessed to work with many Fortune 500 companies who are rich with talented “design thinkers.”

Customer Experience Design 51

Customer Experience Design Reference Hospitality Article 51

Lumoa

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

more friendly behavior in customer service) Marketing to take the info into account in better targeting (e.g. upselling to the most loyal customers) Process changes (e.g. informing the customer more often about how the repair is proceeding) Only after you have acted on feedback, customer experience processes are developing.

Definition 178

Definition Net Promoter Score Customer Experience B2C 178

Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Unfortunately, the recent UK Customer Satisfaction survey echoes those findings, indicating that it has fallen over the past couple of years, from 78.2 Joanne Causon, CEO of the Institute of Customer Service , joined me on our podcast about this downward trend in Customer Satisfaction.

Customer Satisfaction 113

Customer Satisfaction 2002 Customers Books 113

Michelli Experience

MARCH 25, 2016

If a video can’t entertain, then why can’t it inform simultaneously—specifically in the realm of customer service? Videos are very efficient in dispensing valuable information that would help the customer base enjoy and possibly encourage more transactions. So why not publish a video that addresses their needs?

Entertainment 45

Entertainment Customer Service Social Media Healthcare 45

Beyond Philosophy

MAY 31, 2019

Nobel-Prize Winning Economist and Professor Daniel Kahneman along with Barbara Frederickson theorized that what people remember most about an experience is the moment when they felt the most intense emotion and how they felt at the end. Customer loyalty is a function of customers’ memories.

Net Promoter Score 153

Net Promoter Score Connections Customers Brands 153

Michelli Experience

AUGUST 10, 2016

I love serving customers and helping businesses create loyalty-building customer experiences. HOWEVER, service does not mean customers should be given the power to ABUSE those that serve them. Customers are not always right and when they wrongly mistreat your staff they should become former customers!

Leadership 56

Leadership Hotels Loyalty Customer Centricity 56

ReviewTrackers

MAY 8, 2017

CX is also a great competitive differentiator, helping companies respond to and exceed customer expectations, improve satisfaction, drive loyalty, reduce churn, and increase revenue. For more on CX: “ Customer Experience Definition — and How CX Differs from Customer Service”.

2017 50

2017 Events Customer Experience Customer Journey Mapping 50

Wootric

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Kia has pioneered the art of Customer Experience by leading businesses through the transition to customer-centric organizations. Her methodology provides clients with a disciplined and sustainable approach to increasing customer lifetime value and loyalty. Lisa Abbott. Melinda Gonzalez. Sarang Bhatt.

Workshop 67

Workshop Consulting Customer Experience Professionals Books 67

Michelli Experience

OCTOBER 12, 2016

I’ve been doing customer experience design for a long, long time. In the old days, I would have read about some intriguing customer innovation and assumed that the attempted breakthrough was crafted on a firm foundation of customer listening and data analysis.

Airlines 89

Airlines Travel Customer Experience Design Innovation 89

Michelli Experience

MARCH 1, 2016

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Loyalty Programs 45

Loyalty Programs Loyalty Customers Social Media 45

Myra Golden

APRIL 10, 2017

The second meeting was a task force to look for ways to increase customer loyalty. George was a bright, energetic, proactive frontline customer service representative. At 2:30 I have a customer loyalty task force meeting. Join me for my 60-minute webinar, How to Motivate Customer Service Employees.

Call Center 73

Call Center Management Leadership Customer Service Representative 73

Michelli Experience

JANUARY 17, 2017

Clearly, game theory has its greatest application within the “gaming industry” According to an article by Mark de Bruijn titled Level-up your customer experience: Lessons from the gaming industry , gaming has become a 100 billion dollar industry serving 1.5 billion customers. Those 3 areas are: Promotion.

Customer Experience 85

Customer Experience Banking Sports Loyalty 85

Michelli Experience

MARCH 11, 2016

Two: Mobile Loyalty Programs Work. An astounding 90 percent of smartphone users enrolled in mobile loyalty clubs have found them beneficial. Modern consumers are actively agreeing upon loyalty program participation, and companies able to host such programs are experiencing immense growth.

Technology 56

Technology Marketing Loyalty Programs Multi-Channel 56

Myra Golden

APRIL 5, 2023

It’s a crucial skill for anyone who frequently takes calls, such as customer service representatives, salespeople, or receptionists. It can improve customer satisfaction and loyalty for organizations, leading to increased sales and revenue.

Call Center 52

Call Center Customer Service Representative Healthcare Sales 52

Michelli Experience

JANUARY 12, 2016

It’s an occupational hazard of keynoting, consulting, and writing about customer service that my friends and family feel compelled to share all of their customer service nightmare stories. I’m really not complaining. I merely mention this as a set-up to a story shared with me by my son. Back to the story….

Travel 45

Travel Airlines Hospitality Consulting 45

Storyminers

JULY 29, 2016

In order to retain customers and create loyalty, you have to know what drives your particular customers. This means you have to listen to your customers, get to know them and use what engages each particular customer to build relationships and make them feel cared for. It’s all about the customer experience.

B2C 49

B2C Customer Retention Brands Social Media 49

Myra Golden

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Make sure you’re measuring what really matters to your customers. Fix what frustrates your customers . A company called me to deliver customer service training. After listening to a random sample of phone calls between customer service employees and customers, I realized the problem wasn’t a lack of soft skills.

Customer Experience 61

Customer Experience Telecommunications Call Center Metrics 61

Myra Golden

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Make sure you’re measuring what really matters to your customers. Fix what frustrates your customers . A company called me to deliver customer service training. After listening to a random sample of phone calls between customer service employees and customers, I realized the problem wasn’t a lack of soft skills.

Customer Experience 61

Customer Experience Telecommunications Call Center Metrics 61

Michelli Experience

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

It also involves a disciplined approach to seeking feedback and utilizes what you learn to further improve the experience – perceptions if you will – for those you serve. It is perceptions that drive employee retention, customer engagement, loyalty, and even brand advocacy! In the end, we are all in the perception business.

Net Promoter Score 89

Net Promoter Score NPS Financial Consulting 89

Michelli Experience

JANUARY 4, 2017

Every time I develop a customized customer service training tool for a client of mine, I caution that the tool is a “guidebook” for customer service behavior and that no tool can fit every application. As such, a customer service toolkit is only as good as the judgment and skill of the person using it.

Customer Experience 89

Customer Experience Customer Service Training Customers Customer Service 89

Michelli Experience

APRIL 20, 2016

While marketers like to call attention to aspects of a brand that they want to cement as PODS in the minds of prospects and customers, experience designers like me and business leaders like you should be thinking about DELIVERING PODS – behaving in ways that are relevant, different and valued by your customers.

Customer Experience Design 53

Customer Experience Design Brands Reference Books 53

ERDM

JANUARY 22, 2019

If the agent clicks on the avatar, a detailed dashboard with deep information about that customer is presented. The end result is better customer service and a much more natural conversation between the customer and the agent. Customers expect recommendations and content to truly reflect their preferences.

Customer Experience 53

Customer Experience Sales Customers ROI 53