Win the Customer

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Customer Journey Mapping (CJM) is a powerful tool that helps businesses visualize and analyze the interactions customers have with a brand throughout their lifecycle. By mapping out these journeys, businesses can identify pain points, opportunities for improvement, and moments of delight.

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delighted

OCTOBER 22, 2024

But while ecommerce has made retail purchases more accessible, it has also disrupted the traditional, linear, retail buyer’s journey and has transformed it into a more complicated series of customer touchpoints. Mapping these touchpoints is crucial to understanding the ecommerce customer journey – and improving customer experiences.

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ShepHyken

MAY 14, 2021

This week we feature an article by Ashwini Dave, a digital marketing expert at Acquire , a conversational customer experience software platform. She shares five rules that businesses should follow to create a great customer experience. Drive customers towards self-help. Let’s jump right in.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

It’s All About The Customer. Using Journey Mapping to Put the Customer Back into the Customer Experience (CX). Annette Franz returns to Amazing Business Radio to discuss becoming more customer-centric, how to understand your ideal customer, and journey mapping. . .

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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. Before Soliciting Feedback. For example, is the goal to improve your customers’ experience, and if so, which facet? Agent Input.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 31, 2023

Without sufficient or up-to-date customer journey mapping, it’s difficult to pinpoint the origination of these weaknesses. This means that pain points can go unresolved, losing you valuable customers. Improving your customer journey doesn’t just eliminate the inefficiencies that cause dissatisfaction and churn.

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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

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Each week I read a number of customer service articles from various online resources. The Differences Between Feedback From Paying Customers vs. Free Users by Elias Torres. Drift) When it comes to being customer-driven, there’s a difference between treating people right and doing everything that people ask.

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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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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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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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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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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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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. How To Tell If A Customer Service Agent Will Help You by Christopher Elliott. Forbes) When you’re on the line with someone like Valerie Zhou, there’s no question this customer service agent will help you.

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Callminer

APRIL 20, 2018

Customer experience (CX) is evolving. As a CX leader, you also need to know which technologies will help you achieve your core objectives in managing the customer experience. As a CX leader, you also need to know which technologies will help you achieve your core objectives in managing the customer experience.

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delighted

JANUARY 7, 2021

Creating a customer journey map can help you and your company visualize how customers feel at all brand touchpoints so you can avoid potential issues ahead of time, increase customer retention, and discover key information to make the best decisions for your business. Where do I start with my customer journey map?

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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.

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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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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. Actionability is also, as we believe, one of the essential aspects of customer experience management.

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ShepHyken

JULY 22, 2016

” Plot Out Customer Journeys. Another crucial part of remodeling your customer service core is to begin using a customer journey map, if you have not already incorporated it into your workflow. When a department is not doing its share, it has negative effects on the entire 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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CCNG

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Less than half of CX execs trust their company's ability to deliver great experiences. Here are over 100 customer experience stats and trends for you to discover. 99% of Customer Experience and Success leaders believe CEM has a positive impact on their business. Only 8% of their customers agreed.

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CX Accelerator

AUGUST 19, 2019

Finally, they will also want to see the key Outcome metrics which measure what action customers took as a result of their perceptions. These are the metrics that tie customer experience to organisational goals and could include things like sales figures, number of complaints, number of positive online reviews or number of demos requested.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 7, 2021

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Customer Interviews for CX: How to Conduct Interviews & How They Can Make a Difference by Jeannie Walters. Experience Investigators) Customer interviews can highlight issues in emotional ways.

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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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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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TeleDirect

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Why Customer Experience is the New Competitive Edge for Businesses In today’s hyper-competitive market, where consumers are bombarded with options at every turn, businesses face an undeniable truth: customer experience (CX) is no longer a mere differentiatorit is the competitive edge. What is Customer Experience?

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. 10 Ways To Provide a Cutting-Edge Retail Customer Experience by Janelle Estes. Top 5 B2B Customer Experience (CX) Best Practices for 2020! Predictive AI and Customer Experience: What’s Next?

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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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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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Customer Service Life

MAY 6, 2019

During the rollout of this new style guide, we selected an issue type or contact driver that frequently aggravates customers, leading to dissatisfaction, and facilitated a journey mapping exercise to see the before, during, and after for that particular issue type. What worked. This added some awkwardness to the exercise.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 18, 2022

Investing in Customer Experience and Success Teams. Shep Hyken interviews Adrian Brady-Cesana, author of The Four CX Pillars to Grow Your Business Now: The Customer Experience Manager Playbook , and host of The CXChronicles Podcast. They discuss the four CX pillars: team, tools, process, and feedback.

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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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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. We’ll cover: What is customer experience research? What happened?

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GetFeedback

MAY 9, 2019

If you Google customer experience you’ll get about 2,340,000,000 results—articles, videos, reports—with in-depth information about the space. What is customer experience? Customer experience is how your customers perceive their interactions with your company. What is great customer experience?

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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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Global Response

MARCH 25, 2024

And the best way to do that is to start with a customer journey map. What is customer journey mapping? Customer journey mapping is a visual representation of every experience customers have with you. And it all starts with the customer journey map.

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