PeopleMetrics

MAY 12, 2015

Customer experience darling Zappos recently reported 210 of its employees have resigned. Those familiar with online shopping or customer experience know Zappos is not a common company. They’re built on customer service, and they’re a common reference for customer-centric discussion. A Call to Arms.

Employee engagement 107

Employee engagement Customer centricity Engineering Customer Experience 107

ijgolding

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Apart from being a lovely chap, like many people in the global Customer Experience (CX) community, he is as passionate and enthused about developing knowledge and education around CX competencies as I am. Was HP a customer focused organisation at that time? Is it really possible to measure customer culture?

Customer centricity 105

Customer centricity Customer advocacy Marketing Finance 105

ClearAction

AUGUST 21, 2016

If It’s Called Customer Experience, Why Is It All About the Brand? While companies clamor to get their share of revenue from new and existing customers, the delta between what brands say they do for customers and what actually happens has never been larger. Janice Cuban. See the math problem here? A: Absolutely.

Customer Experience 54

Customer Experience Journey mapping Surveys B2C 54

Playvox

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

UserVoice popularized the concept in 2008, but now there are many providers of idea management software, used by companies like Spotify , Airbnb , and Microsoft. When used with care, idea portals can be a fantastic source of customer feedback, and it’s a positive customer experience when your users feel like they have a voice.

Engineering 52

Engineering Feedback Customer centricity Management 52

Fonolo

MAY 16, 2019

Zappos is a great example of a company that has built a brand with world-class customer service. The mega-brand hit $1 billion in annual sales in 2008 and was sold to Amazon for $940 million in 2009. There are countless articles about this gesture, and the goodwill it generated for Zappos is arguably priceless.

Marketing 124

Marketing Customer Service Advertising Customer retention 124

Talkdesk

AUGUST 19, 2016

The header on the Amazon job board website is a quote from Bezos: “It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.”. Amazon clearly does this by catering to each aspect of the customer experience, from an easy to use website to achieving an 87% customer satisfaction rating.

Customer Service 41

Customer Service Customer centricity Accountability Call Center 41

Talkdesk

AUGUST 19, 2016

The header on the Amazon job board website is a quote from Bezos: “It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.”. Amazon clearly does this by catering to each aspect of the customer experience, from an easy to use website to achieving an 87% customer satisfaction rating.

Customer Service 40

Customer Service Customer centricity Accountability Call Center 40

SharpenCX

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

New research alert: The stats are in – all this talk about “happy employees, happy customers” isn’t fluff. In August, Glassdoor released a decade of research linking employee and customer experience. From 2008 to 2018, they studied the connection between reported employee satisfaction levels and CSAT scores on the ACSI index.

Contact Center 67

Contact Center Coaching Metrics Average Handle Time 67

SharpenCX

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

New research alert: The stats are in – all this talk about “happy employees, happy customers” isn’t fluff. In August, Glassdoor released a decade of research linking employee and customer experience. From 2008 to 2018, they studied the connection between reported employee satisfaction levels and CSAT scores on the ACSI index.

Contact Center 67

Contact Center Coaching Metrics Average Handle Time 67

The Petrova Experience

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Digital technology powers employee experience on the inside to deliver seamless, intuitive experience to customers on the outside. So, when you are creating Customer Experience Programs, you must plan and budget for the time and resources technology teams have to commit. Let’s break down how failure happens.

Airlines 52

Airlines Technology CRM Customer Experience 52

CX Journey

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

This quote is an abbreviated version of what Warren Buffet said to Charlie Rose in an interview about the financial meltdown of 2008: Charlie Rose asked: “Should wise people have known better?” We see this when it comes to customer experience. They do all that in hopes of attracting more customers, of growing the business.

Advertising 42

Advertising Customer centricity Engineering Customer Experience 42

ijgolding

MARCH 7, 2016

I am still regularly asked if this ‘Customer Experience thing’ is really a ‘thing’ at all. All three highlight what can happen if ‘the customer’ is not core to the strategy of a business. Just today, three prominent stories have hit the business pages in the UK.

Morale 64

Morale Customer Experience Customer centricity Marketing 64

Nicereply

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In late 2008 Malcom Gladwell published his book Outliers: The Story of Success. Great customer service agents are able to understand when these unusual situations arise and are quick to come up with workarounds or other creative ways to still provide a great customer experience. Remember, this is only temporary.

Customer Service 74

Customer Service Metrics Customer Support Construction 74

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.

Customer Experience 98

Customer Experience Customer Service Consulting Consulting 98

SmartKarrot

MAY 11, 2021

Hypergrowth is a phase of rapid expansion where companies experience a compound annual growth rate or CAGR of 40 % or higher. Izosimov in 2008 for an article in Harvard Business Review, hypergrowth means ‘the steep part of the S-curve that young industries experience that sets them from losers.’. Customer Centricity.

SaaS 10

SaaS Customer centricity Upselling Metrics 10

Fonolo

JULY 10, 2019

Customers came to MEC stores to buy the best hiking, rock climbing, and back-woods skiing gear. Back in 2008, then CEO David Labistour looked at the tea leaves and saw that “the times they were a-changin.’” While MEC’s co-op status is unique, companies are short-sighted if they focus solely on just meeting short-term revenue goals.

Healthcare 103

Healthcare Call Center Self service Engineering 103

Satrix Solutions

JANUARY 4, 2018

As the founder of a customer experience consulting firm, I admit to having a love-hate relationship with free or low-priced survey tools. That’s because I believe every company should be practicing customer-informed decision making. Imagine a CEO who truly wants to improve the customer experience.

Surveys 60

Surveys Government B2B Feedback 60