Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

In our recent podcast, we had a guest Bob Thompson, CEO of Customer Think Corp., an independent research and publishing firm focused on customer-centric business management and the founder and editor-in-chief of CustomerThink.com. Recommendation #4: Get feedback from sources other than surveys.

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Real Blue Sky

MAY 31, 2023

The Key to Unveiling Hidden Opportunities and Improving the Customer Experience Have you ever wondered what it’s like for a customer to do business with your brand? Quite simply, customer journey mapping is the journey our customers take when trying to do business with us. So, there you have it.

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GetFeedback

JANUARY 12, 2020

Through Voice of the Customer (VoC) surveys and many other sources of customer feedback, it can seem like a game of whack-a-mole. Just fixing everything reported by customers is not necessarily the best way to proceed. But what about customer requests that, if implemented, would undermine the brand promise?

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Clarabridge

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Customer journey mapping is more than just a trend. Businesses are becoming increasingly aware that an “outside-in” approach to understanding customer needs, wants, and feelings is critical for improving the overall experience. What is a customer journey map? Why map the customer journey?

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PeopleMetrics

JANUARY 23, 2015

Temkin Group recently predicted that this will be the year of the employee, and MCorpConsulting states that customer-centric culture is a top priority for companies serious about customer experience improvement. Customer-centricity appears to be a very real priority for CX leaders in 2015. It takes grit.

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ProProfs Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2021

This is where the importance of customer feedback plays its part. Collecting customer feedback guarantees you never stray too far from the customer’s needs. Even though it has both negative and positive sides, you’ll need both for consumer feedback to work for you. What is Customer Feedback?

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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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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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Lumoa

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The focus on enhancing customer experience has gained traction in recent years. As businesses recognize its value, the shift from a product-centered approach to a customer-centric one continues. Long-term actions are based on the analytics results of customer feedback.

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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. Creating an amazing customer experience (CX) is an intentional process. Customer journey mapping is a foundational part of that process.

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VocalCom

JANUARY 14, 2019

Helping your customers begins with taking their point of view. As more and more brands adopt a customer-centric attitude, many are also discovering the value of creating customer journey maps. As pain points are determined, your company may then design ideal customer experiences.

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CX Journey

APRIL 25, 2018

Are you listening to customers? Are you mapping their experiences? What is Journey Mapping? Let me start with explaining what journey maps are not: they are not lifecycle maps, sales funnels, buyer funnels, buyer lifecycles, etc. that support the journey and bring it to life.

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GetFeedback

AUGUST 14, 2019

Let’s look at several ways to improve your Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT). I’m going to assume you know that you must act on the feedback you’re getting from customers — and are already doing so. You are acting on the feedback, right?!). Design a customer-centric culture. FREE TOOL: CSAT CALCULATOR .

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CX Journey

AUGUST 25, 2015

In a post from earlier this month , I wrote about the most-basic and most-important rule of customer journey mapping: maps must be created from the customer viewpoint. This is a must; otherwise we perpetuate inside-out thinking that is anything but customer-centric. Why do we need to validate maps?

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360Connext

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

CCW’s latest report, 2019 Trends , highlighted many great trends, but one of them really caught my eye: “Reducing customer effort is the #1 CX Priority in 2018, and organizations believe customer feedback, agent training and digital engagement are the keys to achieving that objective. Journey Maps are not a one-and-done project.

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GetFeedback

JANUARY 19, 2020

As my trip progressed, I got email requests for feedback at each step. If I just wanted to give feedback to Expedia or the hotel, I’d probably drop out at this point. . Suggestion: make the choice of survey methods part of the customer profile. Think “Survey+” for Customer Feedback. Surveys are highly versatile.

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Contact Center Pipeline

JANUARY 9, 2020

Customer-centric brands have put considerable time and resources into honing their ability to track, understand, manage and differentiate the customer’s experience. Now business leaders are increasingly aware of just how much is at stake when there is a lack of corresponding investment in their workers and the work environment.

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Select VoiceCom Blog

AUGUST 17, 2022

According to research, 73% of companies that provide an above-average customer experience perform better financially than their competitors. Likewise, 60% of customer-centric companies are more profitable than those that don’t focus on customers. Curious to know what a customer journey map is?

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Win the Customer

APRIL 18, 2023

Like any strategic initiative, customer journey mapping is not without its challenges. In the ever-evolving landscape of customer-centric business models, the importance of mapping out the customer experience journey cannot be overstated.

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Real Blue Sky

MAY 31, 2023

The Key to Unveiling Hidden Opportunities and Improving the Customer Experience Have you ever wondered what it’s like for a customer to do business with your brand? Quite simply, customer journey mapping is the journey our customers take when trying to do business with us. So, there you have it.

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Journey mapping Airlines Customer Experience Customer centricity 52

Real Blue Sky

MAY 31, 2023

The Key to Unveiling Hidden Opportunities and Improving the Customer Experience Have you ever wondered what it’s like for a customer to do business with your brand? Quite simply, customer journey mapping is the journey our customers take when trying to do business with us. So, there you have it.

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Journey mapping Airlines Customer Experience Customer centricity 52

ClearAction

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Customer-Centric Marketing: Step-Up Performance Lynn Hunsaker. Customer-centric marketing is necessary, yet far from sufficient — from customers’ and investors’ perspectives. Typical roles adopting customer-centric marketing are in the marcom area: digital, content, automation, intelligence, retention, advertising.

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ijgolding

APRIL 9, 2020

In my previous article , I discussed how we have reached the limits of what a static journey map can yield in terms of business value. You have invested a considerable amount of time, energy and resources in creating this map, but you have no way of capitalising on all of this investment and making it last and evolve.

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VocalCom

JULY 15, 2019

To identify these moments, it’s essential to create a customer journey map. These maps allow brands to gain a visual understanding of the entire customer experience, anticipate problems that may arrive at each step, and ultimately find solutions proactively. To better understand customers’ feelings.

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CX Journey

APRIL 3, 2019

Image courtesy of Pixabay If you don't know by now, customer understanding is the cornerstone of customer-centricity. Customer-centricity means putting the customer at the center; customer understanding is how you'll achieve that. What is customer-centricity? How will it make her feel?

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Lumoa

MARCH 20, 2018

Customer experience has been on the rise during the last couple of years. From the traditional product-oriented businesses we’re moving towards customer understanding and customer-centric approaches. Whether you’re new to customer experience or coming for little inspiration, this is the right place.

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Contact Center Pipeline

AUGUST 21, 2019

It has been almost 15 years since Bain & Company delivered its jaw-dropping statistic on the customer experience delivery gap. The firm’s research showed that while 80% of companies surveyed believed that they provided a superior experience to their customers, a mere 8% of customers held that same view.

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The Petrova Experience

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Before we dive into customer journey mapping tools, we must keep in mind that, by itself, journey mapping is not a customer experience product or service. A journey map is a visual representation of your end-to-end customer experience. Think of a journey map as a diagnostic tool.

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Russel Lolacher

JUNE 15, 2021

The customer calls it “shopping elsewhere.”. The customer sees it as wait time. Sharing the same vocabulary with your #customer puts you on the path to a more customer-centric culture. Sharing the same vocabulary with your #employee puts you on the path to a more employee-centric culture. Try it and see. #cx

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GetFeedback

AUGUST 14, 2019

But I see a place for Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT), based on organizational goals, resources, and structure. Customers and their experiences are complex and nuanced, so there’s no perfect metric. So consider CSAT as one of many tools available to help you improve your customer’s experience. . Goal 2: Coach employees.

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ijgolding

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

So with the future health of the business at stake, it’s worth knowing how to keep each customer, and that’s where customer feedback comes in. But there’s a big problem with the way customer feedback and satisfaction surveys have traditionally been done which means they don’t deliver this enormous benefit.

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GetFeedback

MAY 9, 2019

What this actually looks like will vary by company, but the goal of CXM is always to increase customer satisfaction, loyalty, and brand advocacy while cutting costs. Stage 4 —O perationalize: You begin to re-design your company’s operational processes based on customer insight and other customer experience metrics.

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CCNG

OCTOBER 19, 2022

(Accenture, 2018) By industry, supermarket chains provide the best customer experience, while TV and Internet service providers provide the worst. times more likely to have CX efforts in marketing not primarily focused on the path to purchase but on the journey after acquisition. PwC, 2017).

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ClientSuccess

APRIL 25, 2017

3 Ways How to Build a Customer’s Perspective Journey Map. All customer success professionals have an idea in their minds about what the ideal customer journey map looks like. Customer Journey Map. View a high rez version of the customer journey map.

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ClearAction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Customer Centric Service Design Lynn Hunsaker. Imagine the power of pictorially summarizing your customer survey results so that stakeholders can understand possible customer experience improvements within 10 minutes! 3) How will the solution work for the customer? 2) What is going to be built?

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Lumoa

AUGUST 3, 2021

In fact, it’s common to see customers report very high satisfaction with specific channels and touchpoints, yet low satisfaction with the overall experience. This inconsistent feedback can be confusing. How can you improve the customer experience if it’s not clear what customers are frustrated with?

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PeopleMetrics

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

You''ve got your Voice of the Customer program in place. Your Client or Customer Advisory Board is humming along. You have built a discipline around customer journey mapping. You have the attention and support of leadership for customer experience improvement. The answer is likely right in front of you.

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