Totango

OCTOBER 12, 2022

And of course, customers can easily cancel the very second they become dissatisfied, lose interest, or feel they aren’t getting the value they expected. . Naturally, short-notice or no-penalty cancellations also greatly increase the risk of customer churn. Leading the charge. We can see this development in our recent survey.

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Enterprise Surveys Sales Customer retention 111

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

This week we feature an article by Lindsay Tjepkema who writes about how artificial intelligence marketing (AIM) is becoming more important to our success in engaging with customers. Below are a few ways AIM can create higher levels of customer engagement. There is a wealth of customer data available to marketers today.

Marketing 494

Marketing Advertising Big data Personalization 494

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

This week we feature an article by Nogol Tardugno who tells us how to get our contact center interactive voice response (IVR) to deliver the best customer experience. Any reports of the death of interactive voice response (IVR) as a customer service channel have been greatly exaggerated.

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ShepHyken

JULY 6, 2018

This week we feature an article by Natasha Postolovski who shares the idea of using sales contests to help motivate a higher level of customer experience at your organization. – Shep Hyken. Customer experience is the most important factor in the success of a retail business. Team vs. Team.

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Sales Customer Experience Upselling Management 180

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 20, 2019

This week we feature an article by Sabio who explains why developing a customer experience strategy is essential for your business to improve its bottom line. Developing a customer experience (CX) strategy for your business has never been more important. 67% would pay more for a better customer experience.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 2, 2017

As a Customer Experience professional, understanding three trends today is imperative. Without accepting these tenets, you are thwarting your success before you even begin. Recognizing that Customers decide emotionally and justify rationally. Embracing the all-encompassing nature of Customers’ irrationality.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 27, 2019

This week we feature an article by Katie Mares who explains how any business or organization can provide its customers with a five-star experience. The best way I can describe ‘customer service’ is by using the word transaction. So, What is a Five-Star Experience? Here are five tips to create a five-star experience!

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Personalization Customer Experience Customer Service Marketing 342

Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 25, 2024

Since my request, we were lucky enough to have a new one from Justin Stafford ( justin@customersmarts.co ), founder of Customer Smarts , based in Sydney, Australia, and podcast host of “Customer Smart.” Justin shared how sports can teach us a lot about how to improve your Customer Experience.

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CX Accelerator

MARCH 14, 2019

When it comes to Customer Experience (CX) work, it takes a very special type of person to be successful. a global community of Customer Experience professionals, where do we tend to excel, and where do we have critical gaps? It's essentially impossible for any one person to be strong in all of these areas.

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Personalization Customer Experience Journey mapping Education 369

Nicereply

MAY 11, 2022

Customer success is one of the most important metrics you need to track if you’re running a B2B business. It contributes to the overall customer experience, and high customer success can mean repeat business and more referrals. If your team is not performing optimally, you need to act fast.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 28, 2021

Business relationships are a lot like customer relationships. However, there are some differences between managing Customer Experience in business-to-business (B2B) relationships and business-to-consumer (B2C). Recognize that customer emotions apply. Manage different customers differently.

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Customer Experience Management B2B Customer emotions 387

Beyond Philosophy

JULY 13, 2021

Sometimes your Customer Experience requires you to outsource a portion of it to a third party. Maybe it’s an installer or a tow truck service, or even an entire call center, but whatever or whoever it is, this part of the experience is not under your control. Today, we will examine whether this is a good idea or not.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 31, 2019

With that in mind, I have some predictions for the trends in Customer Experience for 2020 and beyond. . I also shared the research I undertook in the last quarter of 2019 to position my global Customer Experience consultancy in the marketplace. . Customer Experience has matured. Ideas also get trendy.

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Customer Experience Consulting Consulting Chatbots 382

Totango

JUNE 3, 2022

Customer success email templates form a foundation for effective CS automation. While customer success management can result in a rewarding payoff, it can also be very time-consuming if you don’t use the right strategies. Customer check-ins. Sales to Customer Success Handoff Email Template.

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Feedback SaaS Surveys Accountability 110

ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

This is a guest article by Michael Su , senior consultant of Customer Success, The Success League. Customer Success is still a young field and a new concept for many companies. When I ventured out to build my first Customer Success department at a tech software company, my leadership team thought I was nuts.

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Scripts Sales Customer centricity Coaching 98

ShepHyken

MARCH 4, 2022

He shares how organizations can deliver a total customer experience. What is the total customer experience? Customer obsessive, customer-focused, customer-centric, the idea is to take customer service to a higher level. Here are four areas that help to deliver a total customer experience. .

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Customer Experience Customer centricity Sales Marketing 183

Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 25, 2021

They are all part of three news stories that, believe it or not, give you insight into improving your Customer Experience. There are many news stories that don’t seem to be about Customer Experience, but, upon second glance, really are. Moreover, you should understand the culture where your customers live.

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Customer Experience Airlines Consulting Consulting 383

ShepHyken

JANUARY 6, 2017

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Vince Jeffs, examines the hot topic of artificial intelligence (AI) and it’s impact on the customer experience. This not only drives increased revenue but also provides unexpected value to the customer. Successful companies rarely destroy jobs.

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Customer Experience Telecommunications Technology Banking 217

Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Implementation is everything in these success stories, and today I want to share the five rules for proven success with a CX implementation. Patterson shared her five rules for a successful implementation, which were: Define. Discovering this definition required talking to the team. Rule #1: Define. Rule #2: Measure.

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Customer Experience Consulting Consulting Customer retention 243

Comm100

JUNE 15, 2022

If you want your brand to stand head and shoulders above the competition, developing an unbeatable customer experience is essential. However, consistently achieving customer satisfaction across all aspects of your business is a considerable challenge. What is a customer experience (CX) program?

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Customer Experience Journey mapping Surveys Feedback 91

Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

This connection is essential to understand to create a winning customer strategy. . The same is true for customer data. A larger strategy for using your data is equally as crucial to your gained insights as improving experiences for customers is for connecting to your bottom line. .

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 13, 2019

What we know from early research on employee engagement is that if you have happy employees, chances are you’re going to have satisfied customers. My new ebook, Happy Employees Make Happy Customers , explores this concept in great detail. So how do you get happy employees and how does it affect Customer Experience?

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Customer Experience Consulting Consulting Employee engagement 413

Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 2, 2019

I recently read two pieces of research about Customer Experience that worried me. The first was from Nunwood , a UK-based research company with a Customer Experience index, and it showed that improvements in Customer Experience were not happening. The Seven Reasons Customer Experience is Dying.

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Customer Experience Consulting Consulting Education 390

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Is Customer Experience dying? At the very least, Customer Experience is dying as we know it. Customer Experience as we know it is dying because of a few factors. Organizations want to fix one thing and then go on about their business with an improved Customer Experience. . Maybe it is.

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Customer Experience Morale Consulting Consulting 243

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague from Down Under, Warwick Merry, writes about an experience he had that demonstrates why a business must have the systems and processes in place to take care of new and existing customers. If you cannot take care of the customer, it doesn’t pay to advertise!

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Advertising Entertainment Marketing Personalization 297

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

This week we feature an article by Andy Steuer who shares valuable information about how to use virtual web assistants to optimize productivity in areas of customer service, customer support, CRM management and more. – Shep Hyken. Customer Service. Email and Phone Support. Product Listing Audits.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 6, 2014

We work with Customer Experience (CX) professionals around the world and train them on how to go about implementing CX programs. The main reason that an organization fails to improve their CX is because of their lack of Customer Centricity. The symptom is a poor experience; the cause is their lack of Customer centricity.

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Customer Experience Customer centricity Journey mapping Consulting 387

ShepHyken

OCTOBER 21, 2022

She’s also a web design consultant focusing on customer experience and user interface. She shares how customer experience is a valuable marketing strategy. Then you describe your general marketing efforts as customer experience marketing. However, customer-centric marketing takes all of that a step further.

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Marketing Customer Experience Customer centricity Consulting 183

Beyond Philosophy

JULY 2, 2020

There are three different groups of organizations regarding opening up again after the pandemic: Organizations that are reacting to things: This group is changing the Customer Experience to respond to the crisis, but believe the present environment we are experiencing is temporary. We know that customers usually want easy things.

Customer Experience 488

Customer Experience Airlines Journey mapping Consulting 488

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Carville was talking to the team at the time to help them focus on the key messages for Clinton’s campaign. I decided that for people working in Customer Experience, we needed a way to stay on message, too. Measuring your results is vital to your success in Customer Experience. Not everyone is a complainer.

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Customer Experience Benchmark Customer retention Personalization 410

OctopusTech

MARCH 28, 2022

Getting an effective customer success team is not always easy as it requires ensuring that their success in a particular product pays off with a long-term customer experience. It requires strong leadership and a clear vision to guide your team towards success. Role of a customer success team.

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Feedback Surveys Upselling outsourcing 62

Totango

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Customer Success team accountability isn’t something you just worry about figuring out later once your CS team is up and running. As a manager, when your organizational best practices and your customer’s goals align with your employee’s actions and responsibilities, you have the perfect conditions for growth. .

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Accountability SaaS Best practices Enterprise 93

Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 23, 2021

We recently spoke to Customer Experience experts who shared an interesting insight. They all say they wish people understood that there was no one thing to do, no silver-bullet-solution for Customer Experience. Many factors affect how it works and what it does to customer behavior. We couldn’t agree more.

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Customer Experience Consulting Consulting Surveys 221

Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 12, 2015

I dedicate my career to helping organizations take their current Customer Experience to the next level, or Beyond the Philosophy of it and into the “real world.”. Philosophy drives my actions, of course , including the following five: Philosophy #1: Experiences are not just about the “what” but also the “how.”.

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Customer Experience Employee engagement Consulting Consulting 409

ShepHyken

AUGUST 16, 2019

This week we feature an article by Michelle Jarsen who shares seven ways your support team can learn and practice essential communication skills. It’s crucial that your support team learns and practices new ways of exchanging information and ideas. improve team cohesion ?. Directions: Make teams of two. Hugh Beaulac, ?

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Personalization Customer Service Marketing Sales 221

Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 12, 2015

With all the focus on Customer Experience over the years, and the increasing resource that organizations have put into improving the Customer Experience, what have been the results? The American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) uses an overall U.S. Trend #3: Creating a Customer Experience Team for your company.

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Customer Experience Customer centricity Employee engagement Call Center 343

Totango

APRIL 18, 2022

Selecting the right customer success platform for your organization can be challenging. To help you navigate the process, we’ve developed a four-part blog series about the mistakes you should avoid when choosing a CS platform. Customer success is a fast-paced industry. Quick Adoption is Key to Success.

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Best practices Self service Consulting Consulting 94