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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ShepHyken

JULY 15, 2016

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Tom Hoffman shares a personal story that translates into a great lesson for the customer experience. We must always be looking for new and different ways to improve upon the customer experience. Shep Hyken.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 25, 2023

Journey Mapping is an excellent tool in experience design efforts. However, I often complain that they do not include the emotional journey, which is essential to designing an experience that engages emotionally with customers in a way that promotes customer loyalty. The customer goes to the shop.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 4, 2014

In my experience, the latter is more likely than the former, leaving most organizations with a process lacking a customer focus. The Naive to Natural assessment looks at nine areas of a company to determine how Customer centric the organization is with their Customer Experience. Creating a Customer-Focused Process.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 29, 2021

Many organizations want a silver-bullet solution for Customer Experience , one quick thing they can do that will fix everything. However, there isn’t one for Customer Experience. It takes constant attention and small, deliberate changes to improve Customer Experience.

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ShepHyken

JULY 13, 2018

This week we feature an article by Christa Heibel about how investing in a personalized customer experience can create life-long customers in the B2B space. – Shep Hyken. If you’ve been habituated to think that the customer experience (CX) is strictly for B2C (business serving customers) verticals, you’re not alone.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 10, 2015

You could have a great experience with a product or service, but if something unpleasant or disappointing happens at the end of that experience, that unpleasantness is the part that you remember. It can be the screech that ruins your Customer Experience. This rehearsal should be designed into your Customer experience.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Contact Center Satisfaction Negatively Impacting the Customer Experience by Andrew Berger. Telecompetitor) Contact center satisfaction has worsened over the last two years despite investments in new customer engagement channels, according to new market research released by BoldChat. Here are my top five picks from last week.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Making for a jointly admirable and problematic reality, the customer contact community often takes a lofty, wide-eyed approach to strategy and technology. Given the importance of competing on the customer experience, the idealistic approach is an encouraging sign. Task: Identify a “gap” in the customer experience journey.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Appealing to the innate need to avoid pain has enormous implications for the remainder of your Customer Experience as well. Your customers want no pain in their experience with your product or service. When you design your Customer experience, you need it to appeal to these instinctual avoidances of pain.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 13, 2018

Your company is best served by considering every possible source of insight about customer behavior, goals, and expectations, and implementing the tools that most effectively serve your needs. For example, is the goal to improve your customers’ experience, and if so, which facet? Before Soliciting Feedback.

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ShepHyken

MAY 27, 2019

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Amazon Bringing One-Day Shipping To Prime Shows The Real Battle For Customers by Daniel Newman. My Comment: Privacy and identity issues are at the top of our customers’ minds with whom they do business.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 11, 2020

When I was in corporate life, my boss asked me to improve the Customer Experience and do it for the least cost. what is a Customer Experience?” The 5 Rules for Measuring and Managing Customer Emotions. Measure the specific emotions across the customer journey. Why do we do customer journey maps?

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 12, 2015

When it comes to the emotional journey during this new and improved process, most organizations cross their fingers and hope for the best. It is a blend of an organizations rational performance, the senses stimulated and emotions evoked and intuitively measured against Customer expectations across all moments of contact.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 17, 2015

Employee Experience and Customer Experience are linked. The Voice of the Customer (VOC) refers to the feedback you get regarding a Customer’s expectations and their experience with your organization. Engagement at an employee level is critical to creating a good Customer Experience.

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ShepHyken

JULY 22, 2016

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Boaz Amidor, shares four techniques that have striking, measurable results when it comes to the efficiency of the Customer Support Program of companies providing online and mobile customer support. ” Plot Out Customer Journeys. Shep Hyken.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 17, 2016

The ones that do reap the rewards of repeat and loyal customers. Five Ways to Caffeinate Your Customer Experience in 2017 by Scott Anderson. Here are five tips to delivering that caffeinated customer experience in 2017. My Comment: Great article about ramping up your customer experience.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 15, 2016

Evolved organizations set the dial on purpose , ( https://beyondphilosophy.com/is-your-customer-experience-accidental/ ) constantly adjusting it to achieve the highest positive customer emotions that are practical to deliver (consistently). Which dial will “move the CX needle” the most?

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 5, 2017

The emotional side of the Customer Experience (CX) is often ignored, which is a big mistake in today’s competitive business environment. When you cultivate customers’ positive emotions, it improves your CX outcomes and serves as an enormous competitive differentiator. Customers have emotions and your experience produces them.

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Steve DiGioia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Today’s guest post is by Ben Motteram , the Principal at CXpert, a customer experience consulting company. Ben has over 20 years’ experience in customer service, and is a recognized CX thought leader. Using a process like customer journey mapping, companies can clearly show how every role impacts the end customer.

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Nextiva

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The post How to Use a Customer Journey Map to Keep More Customers [+ Real Examples] first appeared on Nextiva Blog. Or, new visitors spend hours on your pricing page only to leave without buying. Every team — from support to sales […].

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Nicereply

JANUARY 21, 2020

Rather than treating your customer journey map like a static resource or a museum piece, treat it as an active, living example of what your team is doing. It feels like, in the past year, customer journey mapping has become the hottest thing since sliced bread. Customers are ever-changing.

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Nicereply

MAY 18, 2022

Customer journey map & customer behavior can often differ from what you expect, leaving businesses perplexed about why they do certain things, like abandoning their carts. That sudden disengagement leaves store owners disillusioned and desperate to improve their existing customer experience.

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CX Accelerator

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Collaboration with Ben Motteram and Nate Brown To transform an organization into one that is more customer centric is a complex task that requires many different skills. Customer experience is multi-disciplinary. Customer Insights/Measurement/Analytics. Customer Journey Mapping. Employee Experience.

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ShepHyken

JULY 26, 2016

of Customer Service. Shep Hyken speaks with customer experience expert, Vice President of Client Experience at Compellon and author of the popular blog CX Journey™, Annette Franz. In this high-content packed interview, they discuss seven deadly “sins” of the customer experience.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 18, 2021

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. 21 Tips for 2021 Customer Experience Excellence by Lynn Hunsaker. ClearAction) Here are 21 tips for achieving 2021 customer experience excellence in these areas and beyond.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 26, 2021

Customer emotions are essential in Customer Experience. Being deliberate about which emotions your experience evokes is critical, too. Today, we will take a deeper dive into making your customers feel “Cared for” with the 5 Rules for Making Customers Feeling Cared For and Valued.

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 1, 2019

I believe it is crucial to do more than discuss your theories about Customer Experience strategy. In other words, theories are fascinating but falderal unless you implement them in your Customer Experience. We enable this understanding through behavioral Journey Mapping , which we have discussed in the past.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 5, 2017

By owning up to a mistake, not only are you correcting the problem, but you’re also turning a negative experience into a positive one. These are issues we help discover and resolve in our Behavior Journey Mapping services. We examine what the customer is feeling coming into and during their 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. Consider all the skills required to thrive in the role.data crunching, storytelling, journey mapping, process improvement, change management, strategic thinking, influencing behaviors, project management.the list goes on.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 23, 2020

Our Emotional Signature® research moves past all this and gets under the skin of what customers truly value. When we do journey mapping in our business-growth consultancy to redesign an experience, many people at the organization are involved. So, What Does This Mean To Your Customer-Driven Growth?

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CX Accelerator

JULY 1, 2019

When you have a child on the Autism spectrum , you gain an unusual view of Customer Experience. Inclusive Design Redesigning the customer experience will require implementing inclusive design strategies. Inclusive CX posits that every individual has the right to full and equal participation in the customer experience.

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GetFeedback

JANUARY 12, 2020

About eight out of ten business leaders say they want to “improve” the customer experience (CX) to be more competitive. In CustomerThink’s recent study of 200+ CX initiatives, 74% agreed: “By 2020, customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator.”. Customer touchpoints vs. journeys.

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ChurnZero

MAY 18, 2021

This is a guest blog post by Dhruv Mehta from Acquire. Before everything else, let’s begin with understanding what customer journey mapping is all about. What is customer journey mapping? Do you know what made Google Maps so popular? Is built out of experiences. Consideration.

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GetFeedback

JULY 23, 2018

Creating an amazing customer experience through omni-channel customer journeys that engage your prospects where they are and help shuttle them through your sales funnel. What is a customer journey map? What is a customer journey map? Why create a customer journey map?

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 16, 2019

We discussed Choice Architecture on a recent podcast and how it could be affecting your Customer Experience. A couple of principles about Choice Architecture are essential to keep in mind when designing it into your Customer Experience strategy. Behavioral Journey Mapping takes regular Journey Mapping to the next level.

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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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