Experience Investigators by 360Connext

DECEMBER 17, 2014

'Customer experience is more than a full-time job. It’s more than a project. It’s more than a department. The best organizations spend plenty of time considering how to deliver exceptional experiences. The very best organizations then act upon those ideas quickly and with vigor. As we face the new year, I thought it would be fun to give you 15 ideas that might help you rock 2015 in a rapid fire way.

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2015 Customer Experience Customer Journey Mapping Customer Journey 306

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

'I meet many organizations that say they want to exceed Customer expectations at every moment of contact. I tell them they are mad! No organization can afford to do this. “The first step in exceeding your customer’s expectations is to know those expectations.”. - Roy H. Williams, Author of the Wizard of Ads. For most organizations, just meeting their Customer’s expectations would provide a good experience.

Customer Expectations 167

Customer Expectations Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity CEM 167

Michel Falcon Experience

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

'To be customer focused, a CEO must pay great attention to past, present and future customer behaviours, motivations and aversions. Take a moment to think. Do you work with a customer focused CEO? I mean, not one who says he is but one who backs up their word with action. Does he invest to improve the company’s customer experience on a consistent basis?

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Customer Focused Customer Centricity ROI Social Media 167

Bill Quiseng

DECEMBER 15, 2014

This week’s guest post is offered by customer service expert Nicholas Goss. We both share a commitment to help small business owners Deliver the World’s Best Customer Experience. I connected with Nicholas first on Twitter and quickly began a fan of his customer service blog. He was kind enough to allow me to publish here one of his recent posts.

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Loyalty Connections Blog Customer Service 160

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Customers That Stick

DECEMBER 18, 2014

'Meet Becky Lollar ! I grew up in Bartlett, TN and attended Union University in nearby Jackson where I earned degrees in elementary education. I taught Kindergarten for three years then chose to stay at home with my two daughters. After our first family trip to Walt Disney World, I was hooked! I now represent Magical Travel, an agency which specializes in selling Disney vacations.

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Customer Experience Travel Sports Social Media 162

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

'I have often said in the past how lucky I am to have so many people share their customer experience stories with me. Sometimes the stories are difficult to hear. Sometimes the stories are inspiring. In all cases I believe that through the use of storytelling, it is possible to bring to life the significance of the customer experience in the organisations we work and interact with.

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Customer Experience 2014 Customer Expectations Customer Retention 131

Kristina Evey

OCTOBER 8, 2014

'Which Comes First – The Customer or Your Staff? Customer service is an obvious and crucial focus for any company looking for sustainable financial success. You MUST focus on customers. You MUST value and appreciate the business, revenue, and referrals they bring you. Customers today are leaving businesses that take them for granted. Customers are looking for those businesses that understand they are only one option and make it their goal to be the BEST option in terms of customer servi

Customer Service 129

Customer Service Customers Customer Experience Management Financial 129

Experience Matters

DECEMBER 22, 2014

'I recently had the opportunity to hear Derrick Hall, CEO of the Arizona Diamondbacks , speak at the Arizona State University, Center for Services Leadership (CSL) Compete Through Service Symposium. Hall was extremely passionate about customer experience. His goal: “Treat our fans, employees, and players better than any team in sports.” Hall’s perspective as a senior executive was so refreshing that I scheduled a follow-up interview.

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PeopleMetrics

AUGUST 25, 2014

'In an effort to discover the experts within our clients’ companies that truly understand customer experience, we used customer feedback to identify those individuals who consistently deliver an exceptional customer experience. In 2011, we launched our first annual Brand Ambassador Awards to recognize these outstanding individuals. After discovering who the best of the best are, we picked their brains to discover why they are the best of the best.

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Customer Centricity 2011 Customers Feedback 124

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Maz Iqbal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

'Let’s assume that you are a member of the leadership team for your organisation. Circumstances are such that you decide that your organisation needs to focus on customers and generate “total customer satisfaction” on the assumption that satisfied customers buy more of your stuff at higher prices thus generating higher profits. How would you go about it?

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

'Sure, you may not intend to, but there are probably ways you, as the leader of your department or organization, are sabotaging the experience your customers have. And who can blame you? Today, leaders have more expectations with fewer resources. We’re asked to report on reporting reports, meaning we spend more time saying what happened instead of making things happen.

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Customer Experience Customer Journey Mapping Social Media Culture 304

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 26, 2014

'This time of year always has me thinking about the next one. It could be because I am already scheduling into January, February and so on, making next year feel even closer than it already is. Thinking about the coming year, I see trends underway that predict interesting changes in Net Promoter Score (NPS), Customer Experience (CX), and mobile digital experience for 2015, and they might surprise you.

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Michel Falcon Experience

OCTOBER 23, 2014

'Back when I was hustling to become a customer experience consultant and keynote speaker, I spent 1000′s of hours researching how companies become leaders in customer experience. I examined companies like Starbucks and Zappos in awe of how they grew to become a world-renowned, customer focused organization. As I say in many of my keynote speeches, the primary reason I devoted my career to customer experience management is because it earns greater profits and revenue.

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2015 Competitive Advantage Employee Experience Customer Retention 154

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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Bill Quiseng

OCTOBER 27, 2014

This guest post is written by James Clifton , Social Media Manager at GetApp.com. This blog is all about Delivering the World’s Best Customer Experience. In my posts, I provide advice to improve face to face customer interactions. James and GetApp are focused on offering the best customer service technology solutions. As you read his post, you will see that whether it is in person or via social media, his five ways to improve customer service work for both.

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Customers That Stick

OCTOBER 2, 2014

'Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™ , is a smart, energizing, experienced speaker, coach, and workshop leader. Her work in customer experience, employee engagement, leadership, teamwork, transforms how people think, act, and interact. With 25 years in business and a Masters in Organizational Psychology, Kate has guided tens of thousands to engage in uplifting productive interactions.

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Win the Customer

OCTOBER 1, 2014

'Building a brand is all about creating a brand image and continually serving customers in a way that creates a positive perception of a business, its products and services. Effective branding means staying relevant in the minds of people via associating positive, action motivating, and emotionally engaging feelings in the hearts and minds of the customer.

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ijgolding

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

'If you are a regular reader of my blog, you will be aware that I am regularly referred to stories of both great and not so great Customer Experiences. As I am a big believer in the use of stories to bring Customer Experience to life, I feel that I am very fortunate to be allowed to share some of these stories with a wide audience. This week I have been given permission to share a story of the ‘not so great’ variety.

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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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Joe Rawlinson

MARCH 24, 2014

'The role of customer service manager means keeping both customers and employees happy. Having the right educational background and skills is a good start. But learning about your team and what makes them more effective is a priority. These suggestions will get you moving in the right direction to building an award-winning customer service team that consistently keeps their customers raving positively about them.

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Experience Matters

OCTOBER 6, 2014

'In honor of Customer Experience Day, Temkin Group created its second annual “The State of Customer Experience” infographic. You can see a vertical infographic below or: Click here to download the vertical infographic (.pdf). Click here to download as a 18″ x 24″ poster (.pdf). Here are links to the research referenced in this infographic: ROI of Customer Experience, 2014.

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2014 Net Promoter Score Customer Experience ROI 133

PeopleMetrics

MARCH 21, 2014

'Last week we wrote about a bank that has exceptional customer service in our post “ How to Amaze Banking Customers: A Simple Story ” This week we are going to focus on a story that happened right in @PeopleMetrics Twitter feed. I had read an interesting article on Barclays Kenya ''s refocused customer experience efforts. So naturally, I pulled up Twitter and fired off a tweet at the bank, curious to know what their customer experience efforts were behind the scenes.

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Think Customers

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

'Tis the season for celebration, giving, and.shopping! As Black Friday approaches and Cyber Monday nears, consumers are thinking of how to score the best deals possible, while retailers focus on delivering the best possible customer experience. Here are five tips to help boost your customer engagement and increase retention during the holiday shopping season: There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 29, 2014

'The following is a Best of 360Connext post. Do we live in a throwaway culture? Probably. It feels that way to loyal customers sometimes, thanks to customer rewards reserved for those walking in the door. When customers feel neglected, they take to the Internet , and on these companies’ very sites I found dozens upon dozens of customers voicing how frustrated they felt.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

'“ Most of the time, what we do, is what we do most of the time”. This is former F1 champion Lewis Hamilton stopping in the wrong team’s garage to change tires. He had recently joined the team of Mercedes who were waiting for him but his decade long habit of seeing the McLaren (his former team) mechanics outfit (cue) and stopping in for a change of tyres (routine) kicked in.

Net Promoter Score 167

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Michel Falcon Experience

AUGUST 13, 2014

'Every company, regardless of size or industry, must use surveys to improve their customer experience. When it comes to customer surveys, I believe there are three types of companies: The “surveys don’t work” company : This company never collects customer feedback because they are short sighted and don’t know what to do with the data.

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Forrester

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

'It's easy to get swept up in the power of the digital age , where smart mobile devices and cloud services open the door for new and exciting ways to engage customers. We think a lot about how these technologies will create enticing customer experiences (CX), making these digital touchpoints the face of the brand. I admit, as a technology fan, I'm enamored with this idea.

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