CX Journey

APRIL 4, 2018

Are journey maps a waste of time, or can you really use them to drive CX change? Done right, you can drive real CX change with your journey maps! Done right, you can drive real CX change with your journey maps! Customer experience is a journey. Only you hold the map.

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Journey mapping Customer Experience Customer emotions 63

CX Journey

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Before you can bring the stakeholders into a room to begin your workshop, there are a few things you’ll need to do. Only your customers can outline the definitive map. And that happens during the validation process in the instance when you start with assumptive maps.

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Journey mapping Customer Experience Feedback 83

CX Journey

APRIL 25, 2018

What is Journey Mapping? Let me start with explaining what journey maps are not: they are not lifecycle maps, sales funnels, buyer funnels, buyer lifecycles, etc. Those are marketing tools and are too high level for customer experience design.

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Journey mapping Customer Experience Customer centricity Feedback 58

CX Journey

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Did you know that journey maps are more than a tool? I've written previously about 11 myths and mistakes about journey mapping: 5 Myths of Journey Mapping 6 Bonus Myths of Journey Mapping I should add one more myth, which is really the umbrella myth that likely encompasses all the others: Journey mapping is just a tool.

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Journey mapping Customer Experience Metrics Education 42

ClearAction

JANUARY 6, 2021

21 Tips for 2021 Customer Experience Excellence Lynn Hunsaker. Customer experience excellence is certainly defined a bit differently now, compared to years past. How can leaders wrap their heads around these overwhelming mandates for customer experience excellence?

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Customer Experience Customer centricity Journey mapping Best practices 77

360Connext

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Is customer experience worth it? C-level leaders want to know if customer experience (CX) is worth the investment. Customer-focused employees across marketing, sales, HR, and other departments want to know if new CX initiatives are worth pushing for. So… Is customer experience worth it?

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Customer Experience Customer Service Sales Metrics 133

Clarabridge

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Customer journey mapping is more than just a trend. Businesses are becoming increasingly aware that an “outside-in” approach to understanding customer needs, wants, and feelings is critical for improving the overall experience. What is a customer journey map? Why map the customer journey?

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NICE inContact

MARCH 24, 2016

I recently did a webinar with CRMXchange on one-page journey mapping for contact centers. In today’s hyper-modern world, understanding and managing the customer journey is a best practice for staying competitive, yet journey mapping can be time-consuming and complex and overwhelming at first.

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Journey mapping Contact Center Best practices Customer Experience 48

Netomi

JANUARY 5, 2022

This is especially true in the customer service industry. Customer Experience (CX) has catapulted into one of the most important aspects of determining business success. At Netomi, we deeply care about improving the customer experience. Can I Work a Customer Service Job from Home? Adrian Swinscoe.

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Customer Service Customer Experience Consulting Consulting 98

Customer Guru

AUGUST 21, 2018

Continuing with our list (in alphabetical order) of customer experience (CX) influencers (experts, consultants, and authors), we are sharing a few names of leaders leaders that every CX enthusiast must follow and take inspiration from. John is an “Ex-Disney Guy” and Customer Experience Coach.

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Customer Guru

AUGUST 8, 2018

Customer experience (CX) is the relationship of a customer with a business at all touchpoints during the period of the customer journey. It is widely said that customer experience is the next battleground for organizations. Adam is a globally recognized expert on customer experience.

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ClearAction

DECEMBER 31, 2016

2017 Customer Experience Resolutions Lynn Hunsaker. What’s new in 2017 customer experience management? Arrange action planning workshops for originating departments. Customer Journey Mapping — resolve to drive collaboration. Let customers give you feedback how and when they want.

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Customer Experience Journey mapping Customer Service Feedback 81

ChurnZero

MARCH 22, 2023

There are three foundational areas of CS where I see teams miss the mark: customer segmentation, journey mapping, and team structure design. Both the customer experience and cost control are key parts of a solid success program. Choose the one that has the biggest impact on your customer experience.

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Journey mapping Customer Experience Finance Benchmark 97

Interaction Metrics

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Those of us who work in B2B CX know how different this discipline is from consumer-facing / retail Customer Experience. To solve for this, I’ve started our own Zoom roundtable workshops to be held the first Thursday of each month. Knowing how distant nodes on the journey map are doing can be nearly impossible.

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Customer Experience B2B Journey mapping Surveys 48

CX Journey

JUNE 7, 2016

How are your journey mapping efforts coming along? You are mapping, aren't you? (If And you're following all of the key principles of mapping while you're doing it, right? Your maps tell the customer story accurately? Let's focus on your journey mapping workshops. And they're actionable?

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Journey mapping Customer Experience Personalization 38

Comm100

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Every company out there is trying to be more customer-centric, and the race for an excellent customer experience is heating up. Nowadays, having competitive prices and bombarding customers with advertisements and offers is not enough. Customer experience objectives. Conducting internal workshops.

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Customer Experience Customer Service Customer centricity Customer retention 118

ClearAction

OCTOBER 21, 2017

Customer Experience Management Prevents Process Silos Lynn Hunsaker. Customer journey mapping is an eye-opener about process gaps — especially when it spans the end-to-end customer life cycle. It’s the job of customer experience management to drive smooth journeys and maximize value across the life cycle.

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Customer Experience Management Journey mapping Metrics 67

360Connext

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Is customer experience worth it? C-level leaders want to know if customer experience (CX) is worth the investment. Customer-focused employees across marketing, sales, HR, and other departments want to know if new CX initiatives are worth pushing for. So… Is customer experience worth it?

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Customer Experience Customer Service Sales Metrics 72

ShepHyken

JANUARY 6, 2020

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. This excellent article from the good people at CCW, who put on several amazing conferences for the customer support world cover eight strategies in the contact center. Here are my top five picks from last week.

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ClearAction

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Customer Experience Professionals’ Essential Toolkit optimizecx. Customer experience tools are just as important to success as a carpenter’s tools are. Likewise, customer experience professionals need to master basic customer experience tools to get the job done. Then say it.

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Customer Experience Journey mapping Customer centricity Management 78

360Connext

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Until you can truly walk in your customers’ shoes and feel what they feel when they encounter every touchpoint, you’ll never know how these small but powerful interactions translate to the customers, and the worst ones are often invisible from the inside. Do you have a customer journey map?

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ChurnZero

MARCH 22, 2023

There are three foundational areas of CS where I see teams miss the mark: customer segmentation, journey mapping, and team structure design. Both the customer experience and cost control are key parts of a solid success program. Choose the one that has the biggest impact on your customer experience.

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Journey mapping Customer Experience Finance Benchmark 59

CX Journey

MARCH 21, 2018

Image courtesy of Pixabay What's in your customer experience strategy budget? Traditionally, customer experience professionals have no budget. Despite that, customer experience professionals still need to develop a budget for the work that they do and for the resources they need for that work.

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Journey mapping Customer Experience Consulting Consulting 108

Call Center Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2018

How does the SaaS customer experience differ from traditional business models? Any customer experience has some of the same steps in the journey. The SaaS customer journey leans heavily on the customer to understand the product before buying, and that's why trial periods are so popular.

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SaaS Journey mapping Customer Experience Feedback 136

ClearAction

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Do Customers Experience Your Internal Collaboration — or Lack of It? “Our clients helped us see that in some cases where we weren’t collaborating, they would experience our lack of collaboration,” said Senior Vice President of Insights & Client Experience at SunTrust Bank, Jeff VanDeVelde.

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Customer Experience B2B Banking Journey mapping 54

CSM Practice

AUGUST 7, 2020

This session featured VitalSource, a leading education technology solutions provider led by William Chesser, VP for Customer Success, and Shanna Daniel, Manager for Partner Success Teams. The customer journey maps allow customer success managers to feel that they can lead the customer during their journey and become more proactive.

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Journey mapping Customer retention Customer Experience Morale 81

ClearAction

OCTOBER 25, 2022

You can fast-track your customer experience (CX) maturity with gigantic financial gains, as I learned when we faced a customer crisis early in my career. What’s the point of customer experience management, ultimately? To maximize value to customers, employees, partners, and investors.

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Customer Experience Journey mapping Customer centricity Metrics 71

SmartKarrot

MAY 6, 2022

The only workaround solution for this situation is using customer journey mapping. Don’t know about customer journey mapping? This blog will answer all your questions about customer journey mapping. We will define it and will also answer the 10 FAQs about customer journey mapping.

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CX Journey

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Fact : Without your employees, you have no customer experience. The linkage between employee experience and customer experience has been proven. What is the employee experience? If employees aren't happy, engaged, and equipped with the right tools and resources to do their jobs, then the customer suffers.

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Customer Experience Journey mapping Feedback Surveys 49

Taylor Reach Group

AUGUST 29, 2017

At Taylor Reach Group, we have compiled a list with hundreds of expos, conferences and summits focused on the Call Center, Contact Center and/or Customer Experience. Digital Customer Experience Strategy Summit – September 19 -20. Employee Engagement + Customer Engagement = Next Generation Loyalty.

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Contact Center Call Center Customer Experience Journey mapping 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). If you do not BELIEVE in the significance that Customer Experience can have on every stakeholder involved in an organisation, you are unlikely to cut it as a CXP.

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Customer Experience Customer centricity Metrics Accountability 119

360Connext

AUGUST 9, 2017

” So this poor soul – the man or woman who has done such a good job that their reward is more responsibility and an exciting challenge – is asked to create a customer experience strategy out of thin air. They begin to see this customer experience thing as more than what they originally thought it was.

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Journey mapping Customer Experience Airlines Feedback 92

ijgolding

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

I regularly find myself saying that many organisations are still grappling with understanding the fact that their Customers have always had an Experience with them! Some argue that Customer Experience has existed in the world of business for years and years. The site serves 80,000+ visitors per month from 200 countries.

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ijgolding

OCTOBER 6, 2014

This blog post is written to mark the second global Customer Experience Day on Tuesday 7th October 2014. Join thousands of CX Professionals all over the world in marking the significance of Customer Experience in our lives today! The workshop proved to be as challenging as anticipated. It is so easy to do!

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GetFeedback

AUGUST 14, 2019

In customer experience (CX) terms, we often dismiss Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT) measurement as too simple. Keeping customers satisfied is more than just a nice to have. Can CSAT improve customer experience? . Customer journey mapping and CSAT scores: a satisfying match.

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Metrics Journey mapping Customer Experience Surveys 109

ClearAction

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Customer Experience for the Future — Key #4: Collaboration Earns Trust. Reality is that the customer experience journey or lifecycle is horizontal, fluid, and continuous across a company's various departments and processes. Are we in touch with reality? Yet these are truths.

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Customer Experience Morale Metrics Journey mapping 67

CSM Practice

AUGUST 7, 2020

This session featured VitalSource, a leading education technology solutions provider led by William Chesser, VP for Customer Success, and Shanna Daniel, Manager for Partner Success Teams. The customer journey maps allow customer success managers to feel that they can lead the customer during their journey and become more proactive.

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Journey mapping Customer retention Customer Experience Morale 52