Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 1, 2023

When I started working in Customer Experience in 2001, people hadn’t thought about the experience economy, the customer experience, or anything else in this area. However, now Customer Experience is the context through which people look at business. It’s our lens, our context.

Accountability 195

Accountability Call Center Education Consulting 195

PeopleMetrics

AUGUST 31, 2018

Customer service (CS) is critical for delivering a great customer experience (CX). Customer service is part of the overall customer experience, not the entire customer experience. It is vital to understand the difference between CX and CS as you implement Voice of the Customer (VoC).

Customer Service 117

Customer Service Consulting Consulting Analytics 117

PeopleMetrics

APRIL 28, 2015

Between 2001 and 2013, the number of large banks grew by 29% while small banks shrank by 24% (from 8,263 to 6,279) (Source: Mercatus Center at George Mason University (c) April 2014 The Financial Brand ). To adapt your bank, you need advanced awareness of your environment, so you can build a customer experience that can survive in it.

Banking 79

Banking Customer Experience Surveys Finance 79

TechSee

JANUARY 25, 2023

Just one negative interaction with a technician can spoil a company’s reputation, so field service management must continuously find ways to meet growing expectations for quicker resolutions, shorter arrival times, and better overall customer experiences.

Automotive 41

Automotive Management Enterprise B2B 41

PeopleMetrics

JUNE 4, 2019

The sales force becomes a key touchpoint in the customer experience for B2B. B2B companies are smart to want to know what their clients think of their sales process and how the expectations that their sales force established compared to their actual experience. More confidence means you can create better customer experiences.

B2C 122

B2C B2B Real estate Airlines 122

PeopleMetrics

MAY 13, 2020

Research in employee e xperience shows that passionate, enthusiastic employees provide a better customer experience. In fact, engaged employees attract engaged customers, and higher customer engagement results in higher profits. Encourage team members to be grateful and enthusiastic about their work.

Best practices 116

Best practices Customer centricity Feedback Consulting 116

Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 27, 2022

As the new wave of Customer Science comes in, the old tide of Customer Experience (CX) is receding. I have seen it before with other influential business concepts, like Total Quality Management, Business Re-engineering, and Customer Relationship Management (CRM).

CRM 195

CRM Consulting Consulting Quality management 195

PeopleMetrics

JUNE 29, 2020

Basically, any company that is re-introducing human interactions with customers. Should we include new questions that are relevant to the “new normal” customer experience? I hope these recommendations will help you navigate the customer experience during these uncertain times. Topic: Customer Experience.

Surveys 120

Surveys Feedback Consulting Consulting 120

Momentum Telecom

JUNE 30, 2021

The superior customer experience businesses have with Momentum is the result of the high-touch approach we use with clients. We’re one of the only UCaaS providers to send an implementation team to your customers’ offices. We’ve been serving customers since 2001. We go through a unique, detailed discovery process.

Marketing 98

Marketing Sales Management Technology 98

PeopleMetrics

APRIL 9, 2018

Like many of my peers, I too broke into the customer experience space by way of the market research world—working at a large firm on a variety of highly valuable market research programs before founding PeopleMetrics in 2001. Sean has over 20 years of experience helping companies measure and improve the customer experience.

Marketing 70

Marketing Advertising Feedback Consulting 70

PeopleMetrics

MARCH 1, 2018

In this edition of #CXSecrets, I'm going to reveal how measuring customer experience can help companies more accurately predict long-term revenue. If you're not measuring the customer experience consistently , it’s like not counting the money that you’re earning every day from your customers, or keeping track of any expenses.

Finance 97

Finance Feedback Consulting Consulting 97

PeopleMetrics

AUGUST 21, 2018

As we discussed in Lesson #5 , NPS is important to include in your VoC program, but if you’re running a transactional VoC survey, you need other ways to measure the most recent customer experience alongside NPS. The more effort a customer expends on resolving their issue, the more negative the customer experience.

Surveys 82

Surveys Banking Accountability Consulting 82

ijgolding

JUNE 22, 2015

I was invited to speak by an ex colleague who I had not seen since 2001!!! Last week also saw the UK media rife with stories about fake online customer reviews. What people say and see online has transformed the way we make decisions – and the way in which companies determine and design their customer experience strategies.

Personalization 83

Personalization Feedback Customer Service Customer Experience 83

PeopleMetrics

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

in person, digital) you have with your customers is key to delivering a memorable customer experience. Contact Center: an important touchpoint where customers call for more information or assistance. In Location: refers to an actual in-person customer experience, such as a retail store, restaurant, or hotel.

Feedback 91

Feedback Interactive Voice Response Surveys Contact Center 91

Customer Guru

MARCH 7, 2018

Sonia Bhatia Salmin, Ex-Head of Customer Experience at Piramal Pharma Solutions, shares her thoughts on the importance of CX, and how she led Piramal Pharma Solutions into becoming one of the most customer-centric pharmaceutical companies in India. I completed my engineering in 2001, majoring in Electronics.

Customer Experience 65

Customer Experience Customer centricity Chief Customer Officer B2C 65

PeopleMetrics

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Sean McDade, PhD is the author of Listen or Die: 40 Lessons That Turn Customer Feedback Into Gold. He founded PeopleMetrics in 2001 and is the architect of the company’s customer experience management (CEM) software platform. As CEO, he guides the company’s vision and strategy.

Feedback 94

Feedback Surveys Consulting Consulting 94

PeopleMetrics

MARCH 4, 2020

In its most basic form, "closing the loop" means that your VoC software platform “alerts” people within the organization when something (usually negative) happened during the last customer experience. In my experience, loop closing makes transactional VoC the anti-market research. Download : The Closed-Loop VoC Process Map.

Feedback 83

Feedback Consulting Consulting Marketing 83

CSM Magazine

MARCH 20, 2024

The Southeast Asian nation, renowned for its exceptional customer service ethos, emerges as a prime outsourcing destination. In this environment, Cynergy BPO emerges as a beacon, redefining tech-enhanced customer experiences (CX) with its unmatched expertise and cutting-edge solutions.

outsourcing 52

outsourcing Customer Support Customer Experience Business Process Outsourcing 52

SmartAction

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The early 2000s recession affected the US from March 2001 to November 2001 and led to a decline in participation in the workforce. Below you’ll find a graph with data regarding the topic beginning in 1990 (when the global labor force participation began to show a steady decline) and now. In January of 2000, 67.3% It’s a solved problem.

Contact Center 79

Contact Center Virtual Agent Agent burnout Self service 79

Maru Group

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

However, traditional financial institutions and lenders continue to fall short by failing to provide a frictionless customer experience. In a market already in flux, neobanks and financial technology firms (fintechs) are maximizing this missed opportunity by providing customers with deeply satisfying experiences from start to finish.

Personalization 89

Personalization Banking Marketing Sales 89

PeopleMetrics

MAY 28, 2020

Sean McDade, PhD is the author of Listen or Die: 40 Lessons That Turn Customer Feedback Into Gold. He founded PeopleMetrics in 2001 and is the architect of the company’s customer experience management (CEM) software platform. As CEO, he guides the company’s vision and strategy.

Best practices 87

Best practices Consulting Consulting Analytics 87

PeopleMetrics

MARCH 26, 2018

Consider this: if you were your customer and you got your organization's survey (or other mechanism to provide feedback), would it be a fantastic experience? Would you recommend that experience to others? Customer experience is cumulative. Every touchpoint counts towards the bigger picture. Print this article.

Feedback 85

Feedback Surveys B2B Call Center 85

PeopleMetrics

JULY 13, 2020

Use this feedback to make changes to improve feelings of safety or to improve other areas of the customer experience. Sean McDade, PhD is the author of Listen or Die: 40 Lessons That Turn Customer Feedback Into Gold. Sean has over 20 years of experience helping companies measure and improve the customer experience.

Surveys 71

Surveys Consulting Consulting Feedback 71

PeopleMetrics

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

I was inspired to write this book because of another great book that most of you have probably heard of - Outside In: The Power of Putting Customers at the Center of Your Business by Forrester. Measuring customer experience is critical to we do here at PeopleMetrics. Purchase Outside In on Amazon.

Consulting 69

Consulting Consulting Feedback Analytics 69

PeopleMetrics

MARCH 7, 2018

As a CX leader, do you ever feel like you're spending too much time setting up users and dashboards in your feedback management platform when you should be focusing on strategic ways for your organization to improve customer experience? basically all the different parts of your company who impact the customer experience.

Feedback 76

Feedback Management Consulting Consulting 76

PeopleMetrics

MARCH 12, 2018

Business leaders use this all the time as a way to set standards for performance evaluation on metrics such as Net Promoter Score (NPS) or overall satisfaction; and many look to external benchmarking results as key indicators for how to improve customer experience. Interview the people who are delivering those fantastic experiences.

Benchmark 69

Benchmark Feedback Metrics Best practices 69

PeopleMetrics

DECEMBER 27, 2019

No matter how talented you are as a customer experience professional , you need a team to create a world-class VoC program. IT should be your best friend as you make your VoC program because IT controls the most up-to-date information you need about the customer experience. The Information Technology (IT) Department.

Telecommunications 81

Telecommunications APIs Analytics Feedback 81

PeopleMetrics

JUNE 8, 2020

Recognize alerts acknowledge when an employee does something special or extraordinary to improve the customer experience. A recognition program based on customer feedback is a powerful way to increase employee engagement and create a customer-centric culture. Click infographic to enlarge ). Share this Image On Your Site.

Brand ambassadors 77

Brand ambassadors Employee engagement Morale Customer centricity 77

Callminer

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

When looking at new infrastructure they need to look at how the changes in the marketplace can improve the way they run their business and improve the employee and customer experience – not simply replicate/improve what they have. His journey with Terminix began as a summer job in 1996, and ultimately became a full-time career in 2001.

call center software 210

call center software Call Center Contact Center Interactive Voice Response 210

TechSee

DECEMBER 5, 2017

According to Walker , a customer intelligence consulting firm, by 2020, customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator for B2B. This customer-centric focus has resulted in 72% of businesses reporting that their top priority is improving the customer experience, according to Forrester.

Contact Center 116

Contact Center Technology Self service Call Center 116

PeopleMetrics

JULY 29, 2020

Sean McDade, PhD is the author of Listen or Die: 40 Lessons That Turn Customer Feedback Into Gold. He founded PeopleMetrics in 2001 and is the architect of the company’s customer experience management (CEM) software platform. Topic: Customer Experience. As CEO, he guides the company’s vision and strategy.

Surveys 71

Surveys Consulting Consulting Analytics 71

CSM Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

Founded in 2001, in the West Midlands, UK, as a manufacturer of leisure machines for the hospitality industry, Intouch Games launched its first mobile casino games in 2006. AI chatbot handles peaks and supports business growth. They’re grateful that the company has invested in this technology.”. Future plans.

Chatbots 105

Chatbots Self service Interactive Voice Response Accountability 105

Natalie Petouhof

AUGUST 15, 2022

My path to a CX career started in 2001 at Peppers & Rogers Group. Their first book The One-to-One-Future (1993) described the approach of businesses nurturing relationships with each customer by collaborating with them and differentiating them. Original Article by Mila D’Antonio. The post “Empathy in Action”?

Customer Experience 52

Customer Experience Average Handle Time Coaching Enterprise 52

PeopleMetrics

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Customer Experience often lives within Marketing, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the two are always aligned. At PeopleMetrics, we advise our clients to bring customer experience together with marketing. Sean has over 20 years of experience helping companies measure and improve the customer experience.

Marketing 67

Marketing Advertising Consulting Consulting 67

PeopleMetrics

MARCH 21, 2018

This is really important in the customer experience space because now the anonymity of that feedback has pretty much gone away. In other words, if a customer has a poor experience and they put it in a survey, not only do they not mind if other people know about it, but they also expect someone to follow up and fix it.

Feedback 82

Feedback Surveys Benchmark Consulting 82

PeopleMetrics

MARCH 16, 2020

Or anything that would cause a customer to indicate at least one of these items: NPS below 7 (i.e., Poor overall customer experience on a recent visit. T hat a problem occurred during their most recent experience. Sean McDade, PhD is the author of Listen or Die: 40 Lessons That Turn Customer Feedback Into Gold.

Morale 77

Morale Upselling Surveys Coaching 77

PeopleMetrics

JUNE 17, 2020

The latter situation is applicable to almost all companies, as COVID-19 has no doubt changed something about the customer experience. In many cases, the customer experience has completely shifted to digital modes. Sean McDade, PhD is the author of Listen or Die: 40 Lessons That Turn Customer Feedback Into Gold.

Surveys 83

Surveys Feedback Consulting Consulting 83