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The term “customer experience” usually conjures up images of individual customers in retail or other business-to-consumer (B2C) environments. I am often asked about business-to-business (B2B) as a separate experience. After speaking on overall customer experience themes, for example, audience members will approach with the B2B questions: Why should we care about customer experience in B2B?
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In the old days – and even in modern times – if a customer wanted help or support, they picked up the phone and called for help. A (hopefully) friendly and competent customer service professional, also known as an agent or representative, would answer the question or resolve the problem. Today there are many ways to connect with a company. There’s the traditional phone call, email, messaging, instant chat, social channels like Twitter and Facebook, and many more.
When you write a story, what is the first thing you should think about? Your audience. The same holds true for your Net Promoter Score survey. Really, writing a survey question is just another type of storytelling. You can use your creative writing skills to make your NPS question more effective and increase your survey response rate. After all, “The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon,” according to Brandon Sanderson, author of “The
Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.
The information in this article was originally shared in the MaritzCX webinar, Mobilize Me! Click here to listen to the webinar now. New 2019 Research Reveals the Preferences of Mobile Survey Respondents Did you know that over 60% of respondents in a standard CX survey are completing the survey on a mobile device? That means. View Article.
Originally posted on the Rustici Software Blog Last month, I presented to the Nashville Network of Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA) and shared how we’ve built a remarkable place to work at Rustici Software and how that leads to providing exceptional service to our customers. While what we have built here has taken years to build and might not be totally replicated at your company, I hope it gives you inspiration or an idea to share with others in your organization.
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Originally posted on the Rustici Software Blog Last month, I presented to the Nashville Network of Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA) and shared how we’ve built a remarkable place to work at Rustici Software and how that leads to providing exceptional service to our customers. While what we have built here has taken years to build and might not be totally replicated at your company, I hope it gives you inspiration or an idea to share with others in your organization.
In this week’s Daily Dose video, I share an excerpt from a keynote I presented recently that focuses on the lessons of my most recent book, Would You Do That To Your Mother. . The following is a lightly edited transcript of the video below. What we know is: when we make it hard to do business with us, it costs a lot of money. You’ve probably seen the Siegel + Gale study , which says we’re leaving a collective $86 billion on the table when we don’t take care of customers&#
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As business and technology evolve, it’s vital that companies move from being business-driven, product-driven, or sales-driven to being customer-driven. Customers have more platforms on which to voice their opinions and share their experiences, positive or negative. They have a higher expectation of being heard and considered by the companies they patronize.
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Well, it has finally happened. After being acquired by Qualtrics this past October, we have decommissioned the Temkin Group website. And yes, I have mixed feelings. To quote a line from Winnie-the-Pooh… How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. It’s hard to say goodbye to a site and a brand that we built and nurtured since May 2010.
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As a CCO at a startup, how do you assess the work that needs to be done to begin the CX transformation? In today’s episode, we’re revisiting conversations with two CCOs who have implemented CX programs from the ground up: Chelsie Rae Lee of SnackNation and Allison Pickens of Gainsight. Both women became CCOs of their companies during a time where no formal CX work had been instituted.
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What does customer service excellence look like in 2024? According to our report with insights from CX expert Shep Hyken, customer expectations are at an all-time high, and there’s a bigger shift toward self-service and leveraging AI capabilities.
AI-powered chatbots are so 2018. This year, it’s all about agent-facing AI. The ironic thing about this statement is that it makes it sound like agent-facing AI is just a fad. No doubt there has been a lot of talk about how AI can be used to help improve customer-facing interactions – but there’s more to AI than meets the eye. Truth be told, internal uses of AI have just as much disruptive power as chatbots if not more – and are also far simpler to deploy and far quicker to generate positive ROI
Wouldn’t it be great if there was one single, relatively simple thing brands could do to motivate customers to stay loyal and spend more over the long-term? Talk about a silver bullet. There is a way that brands can encourage loyalty with demonstrable results: Make customers feel good — again and again. Customer decision-making and motivation — how customers act and why — is at the core of customer experience.
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Image courtesy of Pixabay Today I'm pleased to share another guest post by Paul Laughlin. This post originally appeared on Paul's site on March 9, 2019. This is the second in two-part series from Paul about agile working. Find the first post in the series here. In my first post on how to achieve agile working in practice, I focused on four principles that were needed - principles of attitude and culture in order to have the right mindset and approach to working this way.
Speaker: Jennifer Hodroge, Omni-Channel Strategic Leader, Forrester CX Certified
Marketers know that personalization is the key to engagement—but with limited budgets and time, how do you prioritize what, where, and how to personalize? Aligning your content, campaigns, and buyer experiences requires a deep understanding of customer needs. In this new webinar with expert Jennifer Hodroge, we’ll explore how to leverage insights and customer journey mapping to build personalization strategies that deliver real impact.
A Passion for Convenience. Striking a Balance Between Business and Consumer Needs. Shep Hyken interviews Ford Blakely. They discuss pursuing your passion, creating convenience, and balancing technology with a human connection. The Interview with Ford Blakely: When faced with a problem, it’s important to approach it from the standpoint of convenience.
As a multi-industry manufacturing company, Honeywell develops solutions around energy and efficiency. The company determined that customer experience excellence could be the catalyst for many of the business transformations it wanted to achieve. Honeywell not only established customer experience as a top priority but made it a corporate initiative. And the business focuses on making it easy for customers to do business with the company and on creating customer experiences that are memorable.
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It’s common for blogs related to customer service and customer experience to talk about how the increasing ubiquity of social media requires fundamental changes in the way that brands should conceive of customer service. That’s a good thing. Social media is a relatively new medium of communication, and brands certainly must tailor their tone of voice and style of interaction to social channels.
Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. Customer Clairvoyance: I Never Knew I Always Wanted This by Chip Bell. (Forbes) Dartmouth business school Vijay Govindarajan and author of The Innovator’s Dilemma describes three barriers to brand survival in a changing world.
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