Customer Guru

AUGUST 21, 2018

Michelli is an internationally sought-after speaker, New York Times bestselling author of business books “The Starbucks Experience”, “The New Gold Standard”, “Prescription for Excellence”, and “Driven to Delight”, and an organizational consultant. He specializes in customer experience strategies, customer service engagement, and loyalty.

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Customer Experience Customer Journeys Consulting Customer Experience Professionals 115

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Whatever the case is for your organization right now, I can tell you this: The most Customer-centric organizations have quite different answers than the majority of companies. When we look at the answers, we often determine whether a company is more Customer-focused or more product or internally focused.

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Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity CEM 154

ijgolding

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

However (there is always one of those), Customer Experience Professionals all around the world, still seem to be fighting a justification battle – fending off attack from those who do not believe in the value of CX as a strategic priority, or from those who do not believe that any ongoing investment is required to sustain a focus on it.

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Customer Experience Poor Customer Service Financial Return on Investment 208

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 17, 2023

I speak with customer experience professionals every day. Some of them have fancy, customer-focused titles like Chief Customer Officer or Vice President of Customer Experience. Others have more common org chart regulars, like Chief Marketing Officer or Voice fo the Customer (VoC) Director.

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Leadership Customer Experience Customer Centricity How To 259

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 9, 2015

I’ve seen plenty of Marketing, HR and Technology leaders who have made astounding improvements in the experiences they create for customers. Customer focused organizations smoke the competition. 360Connext serves mid-market companies and larger by helping them evaluate their true customer experience.

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Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Customer Experience Professionals Resources 110

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

But if you're ready to take some time each day to take action in making your organization more customer-focused for everyone's benefit, this is a great free resource. My Favorite Sort-of-Free Customer Experience Courses: What the heck does Sort-of-Free mean? Visit the Course. Visit the Course.

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Course Training Customer Journeys Customer Experience 35

Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

As part of Qualtrics’ XM Institute, she focuses her efforts on helping organizations optimize their experience management (XM) programs. She leads the XM Institute’s research into CX and EX best practices and the broader organizational capabilities required for building loyalty by improving customer and employee experiences.

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Customer Experience Customer Service Social Media Consulting 147

Kayako

APRIL 15, 2019

We had the pleasure of hosting customer service and experience expert, Shep Hyken earlier this month for a half hour Q&A session on why customer experience matters so much and what businesses must do to create the best experiences for their customers.

Customer Experience 169

Customer Experience Self Service Hospitality Customer Journeys 169

ijgolding

MARCH 10, 2016

I speak and write regularly about the increasing addition of the word ‘customer’ to the typical vocabulary of business leaders. If a business has historically had a SALES focused culture – changing behaviours and mindsets is challenging. Last week I judged the inaugural Gulf Customer Experience Awards in Dubai.

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Customer Centricity Culture Customer Experience Professionals Communication 120

Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

As part of Qualtrics’ XM Institute, she focuses her efforts on helping organizations optimize their experience management (XM) programs. She leads the XM Institute’s research into CX and EX best practices and the broader organizational capabilities required for building loyalty by improving customer and employee experiences.

Customer Experience 130

Customer Experience Customer Service Social Media Consulting 130

SurveySensum

JULY 14, 2020

He is an author of Moments of Magic®, The Loyal Customer, The Cult of the Customer, The Amazement Revolution, Amaze Every Customer Every Time, Be Amazing or Go Home, and The Convenience Revolution and a creator of a customer service training program, Customer Focus , aiming to help clients build a customer service culture and loyalty mindset.

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Customer Experience Consulting Multi-Channel Leadership 132

ijgolding

MAY 23, 2016

The ability of a company to robustly and continuously capture a ‘fact based’ understanding of how capable they are of meeting customer needs and expectations is critical if they have a desire to achieve customer focused success.

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Measurement Customer Experience Customer Journeys Customers 148

Steve DiGioia

DECEMBER 5, 2016

As some companies grow, they purposely change their shift from customer focused to bottom line focused. For those that are interested in staying focused on the customer, it is more important than ever to hire the right people that fit the customer focused culture. Long term that can be a mistake.

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Industry Culture Metrics Hotels 100

ijgolding

JANUARY 24, 2017

Time after time, representatives of organisations stood in front of me and my fellow judges and brilliantly described how the customer was core/central to the strategy of the business. The big winner of the awards I had the privilege of being part of last week was the customer – consumers and businesses alike.

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Customer Experience Transportation Banking Customer Journeys 120

ijgolding

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Fortunately, the profession that customer experience has become is steadily building a burgeoning number of just such people. They would regularly be experiencing what the customer experiences to enable them to understand what works and what doesn’t work.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 8, 2016

Each week I read a number of customer service articles from various online resources. Five Questions Customer Experience Professionals Are Asking Today by Michael Hinshaw. McorpCX) Everyone is talking about customer experience. 7 Steps to a Flawless Loyalty Program by Timi Garai.

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Net Promoter Score Infographics Customer Service Loyalty Programs 48

ShepHyken

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Customer Experience Statistics: 7 Formulas You Need to Know by Brianna Langley. CMSWire) As a customer experience professional, do you have to be a trained statistician?Thankfully, As we all know, statistics play a big role in measuring customer satisfaction and tracking progress over time. Thankfully, no.

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Customer Service Self Service Retail Telecommunications 15

Wootric CX Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

These authors, speakers, thought-leaders and dedicated customer experience professionals have all helped contribute to the widespread adoption of CX, not just as a strategy, but as a higher goal. Kia has pioneered the art of Customer Experience by leading businesses through the transition to customer-centric organizations.

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Customer Journeys Consulting Customer Experience Professionals Chief Customer Officer 67

Lumoa

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Find someone to champion customer experience at the c-suite and give them influence and resources to actually get things done”. Bell, Customer Loyalty Keynote Speaker, Trainer, Author. This will push more aggressive change driven by Customer Experience professionals. How to overcome those challenges?

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Customer Experience Customer Centricity Culture Consulting 150

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Whatever the case is for your organization right now, I can tell you this: The most Customer-centric organizations have quite different answers than the majority of companies. When we look at the answers, we often determine whether a company is more Customer-focused or more product or internally focused.

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Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity Customer Journeys 60

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Whatever the case is for your organization right now, I can tell you this: The most Customer-centric organizations have quite different answers than the majority of companies. When we look at the answers, we often determine whether a company is more Customer-focused or more product or internally focused.

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Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity Customer Journeys 60

ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

A company’s call center is often the primary point of contact between customers and the organization. Therefore, optimizing the call center experience should be a top priority for companies that want to improve customer satisfaction and loyalty. My short answer is not to change anything that the customer would notice.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 12, 2021

Could we face a big gap between what customers expect and what organizations are prepared to deliver when we emerge from this past year? . We invited Nancy Porte, Vice president of Global Customer Experience Verint and vice-chair of the Customer Experience Professional Association (CXPA) board, to discuss this research on a recent podcast.

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Customer Expectations Technology Analytics Chief Customer Officer 88

ClearAction

APRIL 29, 2020

If “customer experience” has innumerable interpretations, the same can likely be said about the ideal role of the Head of Customer Experience. This position may also be known as Chief Customer Officer or VP of Customer [fill-in-the-blank] (e.g. Track record of customer-centric decision-making.

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Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Customer Centricity Leadership 71

Bill Quiseng

MARCH 7, 2016

Given the speed at which consumers of all ages are taking to social media to get their issues resolved, customer experience and marketing professionals like myself will need to quickly increase our understanding of how this impacts brand loyalty over the long haul. Chief Customer Fanatic and Founder, Customer Fanatix.

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Social Media Brands Customer Service B2C 60

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. Cross-Channel Campaign Management and Marketing Automation are Not Customer Focused.

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Customer Journeys Analytics How To Touchpoint 90

ClearAction

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

This will empower your company to be more proactive about retention and repurchase (loyalty and lifetime value). " Prevent waste of customers' time and your time by setting up your organization for success in aligning what they do to what customers are trying to do. Measure Customer Value the Customer's Way.

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Customer Journeys Customer Experience ROI Customers 48

ijgolding

JUNE 9, 2015

If you have followed my writing for a while, you will be very much aware that I am very proud and passionate Customer Experience Professional (CXP). One of a growing number of ‘specialists’ in the newly recognised professional field, this group of skilled, experienced practitioners is growing in number on a weekly basis.

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Customer Experience Professionals Leadership Customer Experience Effort Score 120

Kustomer

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Using customer data and feedback facilitates necessary change to improve products and services, resulting in happier customers. By assessing internally and adapting as a brand, customers tend to have their needs met resulting in long lasting customer loyalty. Driving Customer Engagement With Brand Involvement.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 8, 2022

Anita leads a team that dives into the customer insights of B2B SaaS clients and extracts actionable information from it. They then help the clients develop a customer-centric business strategy that increases customer loyalty and retention. Currently, she is the Vice President of Customer Experience at Bugcrowd.

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Customer Success Customer Journeys Chief Customer Officer Customer Centricity 21

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

His interactions provide real-world experiences to give frontline workers so they can manage customers and develop meaningful relationships and brand loyalty with them. Blake Morgan is an author, keynote speaker, and customer experience futurist with experience in customer experience leadership services.

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Customer Service Social Media Customer Centricity Tips 10

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 5, 2022

He’s also the Chief Customer Officer at AppsFlyer where he built and leads a global team of over 200 CSMs from scratch while his focus is on delivering value and building long-term relationships. Dave is the Founding Director at Customer Success Leaders Institute and the CEO of TheCustomer.Co Dave Jackson.

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Customer Success Chief Customer Officer B2B Leadership 23

Horizon CX

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The Crucial Link Between CX and Strategic Goals: Effectively advocating for customer-centric strategies involves aligning proposals with the overarching strategic goals and objectives of the organization. Strategic Milestone: Amazon’s emphasis on customer satisfaction directly contributes to its strategic milestone of market leadership.

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Bold360

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

To gain some insight into the key lessons emerging from 2016 and what’s ahead for 2017, we asked a panel of 31 customer-focused marketers and CX pros to answer this question: “When it comes to customer experience: now that we’re nearing the end of 2016, what have you learned and what will you do differently in preparing for 2017?”

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