Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 2, 2021

So, the question I pose today is, what part of your customers’ past would they want to relive? . For example, at our global Customer Experience consultancy, we take clients on study tours. These tours are a behind-the-scenes look at organizations that we admire for their outstanding Customer Experiences.

Entertainment 221

Entertainment Construction Consulting Consulting 221

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

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 ). Brands they trust for other personal needs would be likely contenders for taking care of their financial needs as well.

Banking 79

Banking Customer Experience Surveys Finance 79

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

PeopleMetrics

JANUARY 7, 2025

Twenty-five years ago, in 2001, I founded PeopleMetrics with a clear vision: the internet was going to fundamentally change the way market research was conducted. No more waiting weeks for top-line results or for an analyst to ask the tabs person to pull a response rate report for a given project. It was like magic!

Surveys 71

Surveys Marketing Personalization Customer Experience 71

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PeopleMetrics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

On the other hand, an exceptional employee experience leads to employees who pass on their enthusiasm to customers. In fact, customers are more likely to have a positive customer experience if they are served by passionate employees. Recognize your employees’ personal accomplishments. Make it personal.

Banking 91

Banking Consulting Consulting Feedback 91

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

aircall

JANUARY 16, 2018

Fortunately, we’ve moved beyond the reliability of “2001 Skype,” and these anxieties have been firmly debunked. For example, an old-school desk phone can’t automatically pull up a customer’s profile in desk.com (or Zendesk, or Hubspot, or ServiceCloud, etc.) In fact, life is easy “in the cloud.” Will The Lines Be Ready In Time?

Interactive Voice Response 91

Interactive Voice Response voip CRM Morale 91

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. Recognize alerts should always also go to the manager of the person who delivered an exceptional experience.

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

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 12, 2018

Today's CX Secret revolves around the notion of a "Customer Experience (CX) Mindset." High-end hospitality companies have owned the CX space for years because they maintain this mindset that every touch point they have with a customer has to be excellent. Photo by +Simple on Unsplash. Think through your touch points.

Banking 63

Banking Call Center Consulting Consulting 63

PeopleMetrics

JULY 23, 2018

The best VoC programs are squarely focused on integrating all types of customer feedback related to the customer experience. The result is that VoC becomes the single source of truth for all experiential customer feedback. Did the person at the front desk greet the guests by their name and smile ?

Feedback 72

Feedback Surveys Big data Customer centricity 72

Natalie Petouhof

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

This includes Azure Machine Learning that can enable business insights so that sales reps are able to predict their customers’ needs. My POV: While we don’t always remember to connect the dots between what employees are doing and how that affects the customer experience, it’s probably one of the most important things to consider.

CRM 58

CRM Analytics Sales Accountability 58

PeopleMetrics

JULY 31, 2018

A person is tasked with reviewing a small sample (one hundred is common) of open-ended customer comments and the goal is to identify major “themes” from these comments. Then usually another person reviews the remainder of the open ends, one by one, and assigns one of the major themes to each comment. Here’s how it works.

Analytics 79

Analytics Telecommunications Wireless Feedback 79

PeopleMetrics

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

I’ve seen companies do actual internal marketing campaigns, with posters in every office, intranet articles and blog posts written by executives, and town hall meetings — complete with skits demonstrating good and bad customer experiences! Communication should be ongoing. Market researchers are centrally located in one department.

Feedback 54

Feedback Consulting Consulting Marketing 54

PeopleMetrics

JULY 17, 2018

As noted previously, the term VoC is frequently used to describe the measurement of the customer experience; so is the term customer experience management (CEM). A consulting firm mentioned in the introduction, Forrester , coined a third term: customer feedback management (CFM). Market Research vs. VoC.

Telecommunications 209

Telecommunications Wireless Surveys Feedback 209

PeopleMetrics

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Unless you’re working in a very small company, the full spectrum of VoC responsibilities are usually too much for one person. As the customer experience lead, you need to focus on how to improve the customer experience rather than managing a complex software process and providing technical support.

Surveys 59

Surveys Technical Support Analytics Consulting 59

PeopleMetrics

JANUARY 28, 2021

3 Business Lessons from Customer Experience Entrepreneur Sean McDade PhD. I joined in 2001 when I started the company on January 26, 2001 - so it's 20 years today the company was founded. Audrey Squaresky: I'm Audrey Squaresky - I'm the Director of Customer Experience here at PeopleMetrics.

Feedback 62

Feedback Surveys Customer Experience Analytics 62

Spearline

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Andy has been in the telecoms industry for over 20 years and set up Revector to combat SIM Box fraud against mobile network operators in 2001. We talk about Andy’s vast experience in the telecoms industry and we delve into the world of grey routes, fraud on telecoms networks and much more. and in Ireland. I started Revector.

Advertising 103

Advertising Banking Wireless Marketing 103

COPC

JUNE 28, 2016

This is part of our occasional series called CX Stories, which are personal accounts by COPC Inc. employees about their own positive customer experience. I have been buying shoes from Zappos.com since 2001. The customer experience has never been more important than today. They, of course, agreed.

Accountability 46

Accountability Customer Experience Personalization Customer Service 46

Avaya

JUNE 1, 2017

The optimal fan experience includes a tailored mix of digital and physical experiences that fans can explore and self-design on-site, off-site, on game days, and on days in between. But to advance and future-proof these experiences for teams and stadium operators, they need to be tied to the latest and greatest technology.

Technology 50

Technology Wireless Coaching Contact Center 50

Jon Arnold

MAY 25, 2017

Genesys, too, needs to adapt, and I really liked the overall tone of their messaging, mainly around their G-NINE framework, along with how they've branded their three core offerings - PureCloud, PureConnect and PureEngage - into a complete product family - the Genesys Customer Experience Platform. Branding update.

Chatbots 45

Chatbots Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Marketing 45

Dialer 360

MARCH 20, 2020

It also assists you in your personal branding by relationship building with these industry specialists on multiple platforms too. With over 30,000 graduates from more than 4,000 contact centers, The Call Center School has been dedicated to the personal development of contact center individuals since 2001. 3 CSM Magazine.

Call Center 35

Call Center Contact Center voip Consulting 35

Cisco - Contact Center

MARCH 21, 2019

Using the power of cloud analytics and AI to enhance your customer experiences. Hi Barbara, your connecting flight #2001 has been cancelled due to poor weather conditions. Two weeks ago I shared my view on the top five factors reshaping the contact center and customer experience.

Contact Center 40

Contact Center Airlines Analytics Self service 40

Kayako

AUGUST 18, 2016

The managerial role this person will have and who they will oversee. Then outline the minimum technical and personality skills an applicant should have to fill this role (which you can screen for with great interview questions ). We believe that customer support is more than just answering questions. Brief is the keyword here.

Customer Service 49

Customer Service Best practices Education Customer Support 49

bold360 Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The challenge – AI developers everywhere — is how to balance making AI approachable while at the same time not disappointing the end user with the promise of a true human experience that will ultimately miss that mark (i.e. On one end of the spectrum is in impersonal and soulless “Hal” from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Chatbots 40

Chatbots Brand ambassadors Virtual Agent Best practices 40

Customer Interactions

JULY 17, 2014

The date September 11, 2001 is not only a day that lives in infamy, it represents the high water mark for the corporate security industry. What is the cost of a negative customer experience due to theft of their personal data, or employee attrition due to workplace threats or violence?

Construction 32

Construction Finance Metrics Enterprise 32