Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

There is, of course, physical pain, the boo-boos of life, as it were. 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. Pain takes many forms.

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ClearAction

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Journey Mapping: Focus on the Customers’ Experience. Customer journey maps are all the rage. In this 3-part series, we'll look at 3 keys to getting it right: focus on the customers' experience journey, map for actionability, and apply insights everywhere.

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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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360Connext

JANUARY 5, 2022

Your company has surpassed its annual goals for customer retention, referrals, and satisfaction. C-level leadership is thrilled, and the customer experience program you helped develop was instrumental to this success. You started by defining what customer experience success meant to your organization. . Measurable.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 14, 2019

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Ten top tips for building a customer-driven company in 2019 by cp2experience. My Comment: Here’s a list of ten strong tips to help you and your organization become more customer focused. Of course you are.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 13, 2020

Understanding the process and the role your Customer Experience design plays in it is essential to providing the platform to encourage customer-driven growth. To that end, here are the five rules to bear in mind when managing customer decision-making: Embrace the fact that customers don’t always make rational choices.

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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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NobelBiz

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Both the customer experience map and the journey map are essential tools for businesses aiming to understand and improve the interactions their customers have with their brand. While they often are used interchangeably, these maps serve distinct purposes, have unique elements, and offer varying insights.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Of course, I am no different. Finally, understanding how these feelings of dissatisfaction affect customer behavior is essential. We know that many organizations have customer journey maps prepared, which is excellent for showing you a process. However, it does not show you customer behavior.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 5, 2017

Of course, we all make mistakes. Businesses need to be mindful of mistakes they make that impact their employees and customers. 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. The Six Most Dreaded Words In Customer Experience.

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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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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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ClearAction

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Journey Mapping: Focus on the Customers’ Experience Lynn Hunsaker. Customer journey maps are all the rage. In this 3-part series, we’ll look at 3 keys to getting it right: focus on the customers’ experience journey, map for actionability, and apply insights everywhere.

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CX Accelerator

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

If one of them came to me and asked, “Uncle Jeremy, I’d sure love to follow in your footsteps and pursue a career in customer experience (CX). While there are more and more schools offering degrees in customer experience or customer experience management, what if their school of choice does not?

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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

JANUARY 11, 2017

I discuss this in depth in my recent book, The Intuitive Customer: 7 imperatives for moving your Customer Experience to the next level , co-authored with Prof. Colin Shaw is the founder and CEO of Beyond Philosophy , one of the world’s leading Customer experience consultancy & training organizations.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

And unless you recognize its power, you may make critical mistakes with your customer experience. Of course, sometimes companies have to change the way they do business, and that might mean taking away some benefits and adding new ones. How This Relates to Your Customer Experience. But customers are not rational.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

One very accessible way to do that is through LinkedIn Learning , which is an offering of video courses taught by industry experts in software, creative and business skills. To help you amp up your Customer Success management skills here’s a breakdown of our top recommendations for courses to consider taking. Level: Beginner.

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PeopleMetrics

MAY 12, 2022

Customer journey mapping can make the crucial difference between driving business success and seeing flagging customer satisfaction, retention rates, and revenue. It's no coincidence that we frequently return to the businesses that offer us great experiences. Here's what we'll cover: Journey Mapping Fundamentals.

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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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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 16, 2019

We discussed Choice Architecture on a recent podcast and how it could be affecting your Customer Experience. That was a study, of course, so the stakes were not very high. A couple of principles about Choice Architecture are essential to keep in mind when designing it into your Customer Experience strategy.

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PeopleMetrics

JANUARY 24, 2025

In Listen or Die , I emphasized that customer service (CS) and customer experience (CX) are not interchangeable. CS focuses on helping customers solve problems or answer questions, while CX encompasses every interaction a customer has with your companywhether its browsing your website, using your product, or contacting support.

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CX Journey

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

What''s the difference between a customer experience lifecycle map and a customer journey map? I''ll start with the customer experience lifecycle map. The lifecycle map shows the phases of the customer''s relationship with your company. Literally. with the company.

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ProProfs Blog

MARCH 1, 2019

Here’s a sneak-peek into the interview that we conducted with Annette Franz, CCXP; founder and CEO, CX Journey Inc. Check out her insights into customer support. How to create a customer-centric business? Can journey mapping be used as a tool? Decisions are made with the customer’s best interests in mind.

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aircall

MARCH 27, 2017

This article is part two of a series on customer journey mapping. This second one explains how to plot a successful customer journey map and how to use it to your business’ and your customers’ advantage. Therefore, the approach matters less than the map’s impact. Identify customer touchpoints.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 14, 2022

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Using Customer Journey Maps and Jobs to Be Done for a Better Customer Experience by Tobias Komischke. In other words, it’s all of the interaction points the customer experiences.

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aircall

MARCH 24, 2017

This article is part one of a two-part series on customer journey mapping. Customer journey mapping is a tool to holistically improve your customer experience and your bottom line. The companion article will detail ways to develop a practical and efficient customer journey map.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

In a Customer Experience setting, a similar nudge could look like this: As you walk into a clothing store, a salesperson compliments you on your sweater. When we undertake designing a Customer Experience we look at these types of ‘nudges’ through the subconscious and psychological experience.

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GetFeedback

JANUARY 6, 2020

After Voice of the Customer (VoC) , nothing is more closely associated with Customer Experience Management (CXM) than a customer journey map (CJM). . What appears to matter more is consistency across the journey stages and thoroughness of implementing journey mapping practices.

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CX Journey

JULY 23, 2015

Did you know that journey maps can help you design, redesign, and manage both customer and employee experiences through these challenging times? Let's face it: mergers and acquisitions are hard for everyone living through them, employees and customers alike. Where are we already listening to customers?

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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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Clarabridge

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Customer journey mapping is a hot topic, but many organizations don’t get full value out of their maps. To truly unlock the potential of a customer journey map, you need to understand the role of journey analytics. A journey map is just a tool. What’s the delay?”. Ready for more?

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PeopleMetrics

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Picture this: your customer experience (CX) team has gone through your customers’ feedback, identified regular pain points in the customer journey, and found solutions to reduce friction and retain more customers. Chances are that the change in customer needs wasn’t actually sudden but a gradual shift.

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ijgolding

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Customer journey mapping and touchpoint analysis. Whilst process improvement is pretty well understood by many, Customer Experience Design is a skill set that has been less commonly deployed in organisations around the world. Process improvement methodologies and discipline. Prototyping new prescription desks.

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CX Journey

JUNE 20, 2018

Sadly, communications are often an overlooked piece of the customer experience and the overall customer experience strategy. And yet, like in any relationship, communications are often the point where the experience breaks down – or are the root cause for a breakdown. Customer experience is not customer service.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 19, 2023

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. That means that customer experience leaders have a lot of pressure on them to “get it right” from a variety of angles. My Comment: Annette Franz is a customer experience and journey map expert.

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360Connext

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The job descriptions for a customer experience leader vary between tactical analyst and strategic overlord. Defining just what a customer experience leader does can be tricky. But what’s even trickier is when you may not have customer experience or customer insights in your title.

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