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8 Customer Service Strategies You Can Steal from Amazon

Books Were Never the Endgame Since its founding 28 years ago, Amazon has reached near mythic status for its superior ser...

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23 Ways to Amaze and Delight Your Customers

Great customer experience doesn’t just happen. It is planned, designed and mindfully delivered. That’s because there is ...

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9 Ways To Be More Customer-Centric

Designing Your World Around Your Customers’ Experiences Learning how to be more customer-centric sure sounds good. But i...

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Digital Customer Strategy & Experience Consulting Report

ALM Intelligence/Kennedy Research ALM Intelligence/Kennedy Research named McorpCX a global leader in their Digital Custo...

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5 Ways To Build A Company Your Customers Love

Ready to make your customers your priority? Here are five things to know, to build a company they’ll love. It takes effo...

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The Critical Role of Customer Experience Training for a Customer-Centric Culture.

In a customer-centric organization, everyone has an “experience influencing” role. Customer centricity is a way of doing business...
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Journey Orchestration Demystified: An interview with Graham Clark and ChatGPT

Welcome to TalkingCX, as we bring ChatGPT from OpenAI and Graham Clark, VP Market Development for McorpCX, together to discuss...
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The Importance of Human-Centric Design in Digital Transformation

Companies are investing heavily in digital transformation, with a Research and Markets report projecting the global market to be...
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6 Ways Business and IT Can Partner to Drive Next-Level Experiences

The business world has aligned on the fact that customer experience improvement is one of the most important things any...
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Seven Top Digital Customer Experience Trends for the Next Five Years

The digital transformation trends that could make all the difference in how your customers experience you. You’re almost...
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5 Ways To Build A Company Your Customers Love

Ready to make your customers your priority? Here are five things to know, to build a company they’ll love. It takes effort to...
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Managing Customer Experience Means Managing for Change

Why resiliency, responsiveness and agility are more important than ever for leaders and the companies they work for  
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Re-skill, Up-Skill and Transform Your Workforce

Align and educate your people around a digital-first, customer-centric approach Whether it’s new technology, geopolitical unrest,...
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Digital Customer Strategy & Experience Consulting Report

ALM Intelligence/Kennedy Research ALM Intelligence/Kennedy Research named McorpCX a global leader in their Digital Customer...
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6 Insights and 2 Themes to Help You on Your Customer Experience Journey

Fixing CX Potholes and Using Roadmaps for Your CX Program: Insights from Forrester CX North America 2022 The presentations at...
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How Digital Experience Practitioners Increase ROI through Customer Insights

Validations from the Field: “Smart Customers” are radically changing the game for the businesses that wish to serve them At...
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Hyper-Personalization: The Future of Customer Experience?

Radically boost brand relevance while improving experience for your customers According to Salesforce’s 2020 State of the...
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The 4 Most Common Journey Mapping Activation Gaps

If your journey mapping efforts are falling short, odds are that one of these 4 gaps are to blame. Journey mapping is one of the...
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Smart Customers, Stupid Companies | McorpCX

Michael Hinshaw’s Book on Digital Disruption and the Customer Experience Written in 2012, this book, co-authored by Bruce...
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Listening to Customers is Your Best Long-Term CX Strategy

Customer feedback is essential for making informed decisions Customers are your best source of business and market insights. By...
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6 Ways You Can Drive Proactive Customer Engagement—And Why You Should

Proactive customer engagement isn’t a one-time event Done right, Proactive Customer Engagement makes it easy for customers to...
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Strategies to Develop a Digital-First Workforce

Wharton Magazine Unless you prioritize a digital mindset in your company—from leadership in the C-suite to the newest...
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Entrepreneurship 101 for Customer-Centric Leaders and Those Who Want to Be

Entrepreneurs and startups intuitively understand the need to connect their products and services to the needs of the...
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The Upside Of Customer Experience Improvement In A Down Economy

  There’s not a lot of upbeat coverage in the media today. Business closures, social distancing woes, stock market gyrations — it...
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5 Customer Experience Trends That Won’t Change (And Will Likely Accelerate…)

  In a post-COVID world, the future is full of obvious challenges and less obvious opportunities. In this fast-changing...
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Why Invest In Employee Experience? Six (Proven) Reasons

Employee and workforce experience (EX for short) matters just as much as customer experience (CX). Unsurprisingly, the two are...
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Show, Know, and Grow: 3 Things to Do Now in the COVID-19 Era

Things got really strange really fast, didn’t they? I’m sure that like me, most of you are still processing what all this means –...
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14 Ways To Enable Digital Customer Experience Transformation

Customer experience leaders are documented to have greater top- and bottom-line growth than those who haven’t made customer...
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Proper CX Governance: Eating Your Customer Experience Vegetables

It’s not possible to sustain a disciplined CX mindset without clear guidelines Humans like rules — when they apply to someone...
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Why Employees Love (And Even Beg) to Work for These 4 CX Leaders

Yup. It’s that “New Year’s Resolutions” time of year again. If this reminder makes your eyes roll, then my apologies – I get it....
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The CX Innovator’s Honor Roll: The Companies That Inspire CX Pros

Everybody needs a role model, right? Individuals succeed primarily because they pick someone they admire, follow their example,...
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How to Define Your CX Strategy and Link it to Execution

What exactly is a customer experience strategy? Spend any time online trying to answer this question and you’ll see how easy it...
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Customer Experience Analytics and Tracking: CX Metrics 101

In today’s digital-first-but-not-digital-only, customer-centric world, customer experience (CX) has quickly emerged as a critical...
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McorpCX a “Top 10” CX Firm Recognized by Banking CIO Outlook

Banking CIO Outlook McorpCX is proud to be recognized as a 2019 Top 10 Customer Experience Solution Provider by Banking CIO...
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Customer Experience Management: 8 Best Practices of CXM Leaders

The Eight Best Practices of Customer Experience Management Leaders As ever-greater numbers of organizations embrace the age of...
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How “3-Dimensional” Customer Personas Radically Improve CX Design

Customer experience design professionals have recognized the power of customer persona for years. Unlike customer or audience...
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Fall in Love With Your Customers’ Pain Points - Not With Your Solutions

It’s human nature to fall in love with your solutions... it’s also one a common pitfall for business leaders, entrepreneurs and...
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Successful Customer Experience: 3 Critical Things CX Leaders Get Right

When we look at customer experience leaders today, it’s unsurprising there are a number of things they have in common. When...
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4 Ways CX Leaders Can Improve Their Customer Experience Strategy

Once you define your customer experience strategy and begin the journey down it, you'll likely find a tipping point where people,...
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Failing Your Customers Can Help You Serve Them Better

Hey, we get it – nobody wants to fail. But the hard truth is that failure is a fact of life. We try, get knocked down, and pick...
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The Eye-Popping ROI Benefits of Customer Journey Mapping

Customer journey mapping continues to gain both traction and increased relevance as organizations around the globe orient towards...
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6 Common Customer Experience Strategy Pitfalls

For any organization striving to significantly improve customer experience, they need a plan to do so. That’s because the ability...
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Brands that Excel in CX Don’t Focus on Image

Loyalty 360 Interviews Michael Hinshaw Customer Experience is widely viewed as the great differentiator among loyalty marketers....
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How Best-In-Class CX Leaders Use the Customer Experience Value Chain

For the last several years, improving customer experience has been rightfully viewed as one of the most important things any...
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How Domino’s Disrupted the Delivery Game to Lead in Customer Delight

Seven years ago, Domino’s Pizza was in the pits. Tasteless, unexciting food and an all-time low in its share price, the company...
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Where a Digital Customer Experience Fails: When It’s Not Designed…

With Thanksgiving turkey a distant memory - replaced by omnipresent holiday Muzak, elves and the tinsel-laden decorations in...
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How to Use Buyer Personas to Support Customer Journey Mapping

MyCustomer Buyer personas are a well-worn technique adopted by marketers to get under the skin of customers. But personas also...
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Customer Experience Tips: Learn to Praise Incrementalism

I was listening to a Freakonomics podcast recently, titled “In Praise of Incrementalism.” It struck a chord with me on several...
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3 Ways Your Customers Might Hate You (and You May Not Know It)

Most companies at least try to serve customers well, even if some don’t succeed. But even the best-intentioned organizations can...
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8 Customer Service Strategies You Can Steal from Amazon

Books Were Never the Endgame Since its founding 28 years ago, Amazon has reached near mythic status for its superior service and...
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Understanding the ROI of Customer Experience Journey Mapping

Customer journey mapping is, understandably, a pretty hot topic. Not just for customer experience professionals, but for all...
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Be Laser Focused on Customer Service

Loyalty360 Loyalty360 interview with Michael Hinshaw. The ability to consistently deliver a great customer experience is...
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Customer Experience Journey Mapping Hypecycle

Customer Experience Journey Mapping Many of us are familiar with Gartner’s “hypecycle,” representing the maturity, adoption and...
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The False Tradeoff Between Customer Experience and Customer Privacy

Michael Hinshaw for Content Science Review How would you answer if every company you dealt with asked you this question: “Which...
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Are You Running a Stupid Company?

Michael Hinshaw for CNBC To survive in the face of smart, connected and digitally adept customers, established firms need to...
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Six Ways to Drive a Radically Better Customer Experience

At heart, customer experience improvement is all about finding those places in the experience where pain exists, and where...
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Case Study: Delta Airlines – When Digital Customer Experience Goes Bad

There’s little debate on the critical nature of getting digital customer experience right. There isn’t a customer experience...
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Five Questions Customer Experience Professionals Are Asking Today

Everyone is talking about customer experience. What it is, why it’s important, how to deliver and how to improve it. Everyone, it...
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Customer Experience Metrics Matter

Michael Hinshaw for BAI In a world where bank customers are more likely to switch and to show less loyalty than ever, customer...
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The Customer Experience (CX) and Survival in the 21st Century

Michael Hinshaw for BAI In a world where bank customers are more likely to switch and to show less loyalty than ever, customer...
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7 Ways To Disrupt Your Industry

Michael Hinshaw & Bruce Kasanoff for Fast Company Massive disruption is coming, and the only question is whether your firm is...
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The Experience Economy

The Experience Economy published in The AMA’s Marketing Insights Providing great customer experiences at every digital touchpoint...
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What You Should Include In Your Customer Loyalty and Retention Program

We know that customers are more demanding and have higher expectations than ever. And since most corporations are working hard to...
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Bad B2B Experience? The “Anti-Customer” Model

We spend a lot of time talking about the value of things like customer centricity, transparency and the importance of designing...
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Implications of a Customer-Centric Strategy: 7 Takeaways

What happens when you make the shift to become truly customer-centric? We’ve identified seven implications you can expect during...
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Avoiding the Omnichannel Gap

Customer Experience Omnichannel: Offering customers seamless, consistent, omnichannel experiences at all customer journey stages...
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Improving Patient Experience: 5 Disruptive CX Examples

According to PwC, more than half of consumers want to shop for healthcare...but their preferred method of doing so doesn’t exist...
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Should Your CIO Drive CX?

What every CIO must know to bridge the customer experience technology gap… A couple of weeks ago, we published a white paper...
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Great Customer Experience? Good. Now, Keep It That Way.

Three ways companies with best customer experience got there—and how they stay ahead of the pack. Sometimes, the ability to...
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How Understanding Cross-Org Silos Leads to Better Customer Experiences

Why marketing (and Sales, Operations and Support…) can have a hard time seeing the “big picture.” Managing the customer...
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Customer Experience Improvement: 7 Best Practices

With much of the online conversation taking place around customer experience innovation, it almost feels like everyone is focused...
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Defining Customer Experience

When “customer experience” can mean just about anything...how do you define it for your needs? Given the prevalence of “customer...
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What Customer Experience Does – And Doesn’t – Mean

Given the prevalence of “customer experience” as a desired competitive differentiator, business discipline, and value driver,...
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Insurance Customer Experience Innovation: 5 Disruptive Examples

Today, virtually every industry is ripe for disruption. The $3.7 trillion insurance industry is no exception. In many ways a...
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3 Things You Must Do in Order to Deliver a Better Customer Experience

Every journey begins with a single step. When it comes to improving customer experience, the first step in your journey can be a...
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Your CX Management Model Requires Commitment, Not Compliance

Are your people truly committed to customer experience? Or just following orders? As organizations prioritize customer...
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5 Customer Data Lessons You Can’t Ignore

Anyone who serves customers recognizes that improving their experience with you is the key to drawing them closer. That can’t be...
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Millennial CX Gone Wild: The Marriott Room Design Edition

Millennials don’t work at desks? Really? Here’s the premise. It appears that Marriott is in the process of redesigning their...
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The False Tradeoff: Personalized Customer Experience vs. Privacy

How would you answer if every company you dealt with asked you this question: “Which is more important to you? A Personalized...
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How 44 Years in Prison Can Influence Customer Experience Design

I recently watched a pretty remarkable video on Al Jazeera about Otis Johnson, a 69-year-old man released from prison in August...
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9 Customer Experience Best Practices From Leading Champions

It’s a given that customer expectations have never been greater. Increasing recognition of this reality is a major driver of the...
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Bringing Customer Insights Into Customer Journey Maps and Personas

As you’re likely aware, the discipline of customer experience requires that organizations look at what it’s like to do business...
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Customer Experience Tips and Hacks: Thanks for the call, Kyle…

This is a short tale of two recent service experiences with wildly differing results. So you know, my goal isn’t to bash Comcast...
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Customer Experience Persona Power + 5 Success Factors

Meet Sasha “New MBA” Cruz. She’s 26 years old, a recent graduate from a top MBA program and about to move across the country for...
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Don’t Forget the Customer in Customer Success Journey Map

Do you ‘listen’ to what your customers want or need? Sorry. But it’s gotta be said. Customer success journey maps require that...
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Improving Customer Experience in Healthcare: What CX Leaders Can Learn

Understanding your customers and your costs at a granular level is key to better and more profitably serving them.
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Mobile Customer Experience Is a Must. Make Sure You Plan Accordingly

Don’t (just) listen to us on this; listen to your customers. As customer experience experts, we look at our client organizations...
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A Reflection on Fear in the Customer Experience Roadmap

The dark is not a comfortable place for a customer to be. It’s been a stressful week. We’re selling a vacation house on one lake,...
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Align Business and IT to Create a Better Customer Experience

Every company is a software company. Customer experience is a well-recognized pivot point that more and more organizations rely...
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Subway Clocks and Customer Experience

Mind the Gap A customer experience “gap” occurs when the experience a customer has doesn’t align with the experience they...
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Hard Facts: Understanding the Impact of Emotion on Customer Experience

The role of emotions will become clearer as brands recognize the importance of how customers “feel” about customer experience. We...
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It Hurts So Good: Embrace Customer Pain Points to Improve Experience

No pain, no gain. We’ve all heard this gem. Typically linked to the concept of working out ‘till it hurts before you get any...
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Innovate by Understanding Customer Needs

What do your customers want to know? What products, services or experiences will entrance them? What services might our...
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Embracing Crowd-Powered Customer Service

Mobile-led, digitally-driven disruption creates massive opportunity to raise the bar on customer experience – and service. We’re...
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Five Lessons for CX Execs From The Port Authority of NY&NJ and Uber.

Oh, the irony - I love it when material for a speech just lands in my lap. I was at NextBank USA in New York this week,...
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Don’t Delight Your Customers. (?!)

If delight doesn’t lead to loyalty, what does?
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In Customer Experience We Trust

Earning customer trust is a business imperative It’s pretty much settled science that consistently great customer experiences...
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Millennials, Myths, the Digital Experience Divide

Why you should care about Millennials (Hint: They’re not just consumers…) Generation Y. Digital Natives. The Net Generation....
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It’s Called CUSTOMER Experience Design for a Reason

Listening to your customers can (and should) inform the ways you design interactions with them. My son – a 23 year-old...
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Walgreens Engages TaskRabbit to Deliver Innovative Customer Service

Whatcha gonna do when the flu comes for you? You’re sick in bed, feeling like crap (headache, aches and pains). You lack the...
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Why Your Bank Is Competing with Amazon and Apple (and What to Do About It)

Michael Hinshaw for Western Banker McorpCX has conducted customer experience research with thousands of banking customers for...
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Rebates and Their Impact on the Retail Customer Experience

The changing role of rebates in the era of the smart customer
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The Politics of Customer Experience Management

There are many ways you can improve the customer experience, and drive value from it. But your people need to be moving in the...
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Improve Customer Experience and Satisfaction by Reducing Friction

Where friction in your customer experience occurs (and why you should care)
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“The Dress” and Customer Experience: Perception = Reality.

Remember “The Dress that broke the internet”? Back when my son was 23, he showed me a picture on his phone and asked me what I...
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A Survey of Key Success Factors in Financial Services Marketing and Brand Management

Journal of Financial Services Marketing What challenges and opportunities do financial services marketers face as they strive to...
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In Search of the Loyal Customer

Community Banker interviews Michael Hinshaw What's the difference between customer satisfaction and customer loyalty? Everything....
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Why Customer Satisfaction Simply Isn’t Enough

Michael Hinshaw for Broker Banker Magazine If having “satisfied” customers was all it took to grow, mortgage bankers would be in...
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High Satisfaction Scores Spell Danger

Small Business Banking News Banks of all sizes rely on Customer Satisfaction Surveys to better understand their relationships,...
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Customer Touchpoint Management: Find Out Where Your Firm Stands

SmallBizCRM.com What could be more important than improving sales and your customer relationships?
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Measuring Customer Loyalty As Well As Satisfaction

ABA Bank Marketing By asking the right questions of your customers, Loyalty Mapping provides a clear picture of an organization's...
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Customers 2015: Will You Be Ready?

Sales and Marketing Management From instant ordering and social media to your competitors, control of customer relationships has...
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Controlling Touchpoints to Deliver a Better Customer Experience

American Executive No matter what industry you’re in or what product or service you provide, your customers have become more...
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Take Control of Your Customer Touchpoints

Quirks Marketing Research Review The word is “touchpoint.” And if it isn’t important to you now, it probably will be: Virtually...
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Why High Satisfaction Scores May Spell “Danger” for Your Company

1to1 Media A national telecommunications company recently tracked the buying habits of self-described satisfied business...
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Is Apple Losing Its Luster? Microsoft CX Comes from Behind to Delight

Any technology consumer (actually, businesses too) knows the answer to this question: Who delivers a better customer...
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Creating a Customer-Centric Culture: A Model Employee Handbook

Do you want to be the kind of company that customers love? The truth is, for many companies the answer is “no.” If you work for...
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Need a Customer Experience Coach?

There’s little argument that customer experience is a pretty high priority for just about everyone. The reasons are myriad –...
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How Delivering an Excellent Customer Experience Led UPS Stock to Crash

The 2013 holiday season sported some nasty surprises for package delivery and logistics leader UPS. Summarized neatly in a Forbes...
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5 Best Practices for Building an Effective Customer Experience Program

In an industry that’s growing as quickly and expanding in as many directions as customer experience (CX) is, it’s not at all...
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The Future of Customer Experience Is Now: Teach Your Company to Talk

Revolutionary at the time, late 2011 saw Apple’s Siri personal assistant introduced as an integral part of the iPhone 4s. I...
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What Is Innovative Customer Experience?

A Month of Tweets You May Have Missed What is innovative customer experience? Experiences that make every interaction totally...
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The Customer Experience Gap—Are You Clueless, or Clued In?

A few years ago, Bain and Company published the results of a survey in conducted across a variety of industries. Their report...
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CX Innovation? I do not think it means what you think it means…

Customer Experience Innovation? (You Keep Using That Word…) While the word “Innovation” is thrown around an awful lot in the...
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Designing a Voice-of-the-Customer Program: Understanding Your Customer

The first step in improving customer understanding is listening – to their opinions, concerns, perceptions, objectives and...
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How Dinner Lab Brings Customers Into the Experience Design Process

A Very Tasty Focus Group This week, I – along with another 100 or so people – paid Dinner Lab $70 each to be part of a focus...
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Dear Home Depot (and Target and eBay and…): Can You Please Protect Our Data?

Using (and protecting) Data for Good On the drive to work yesterday, I heard a now-familiar story on the news: Home Depot, it...
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Getting Your CX to Deliver on Your Brand Promise: An Action List

Recognizing that your customer experience is an integral aspect of brand isn’t a new notion. For years, companies ranging from...
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Customer Experience and Big Data (5 Ways to Leverage Your Information)

What if you were able to know, with near certainty, that your customer would prefer one specific product over another – and that...
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Anticipating Your Customers' Needs, Amazon (and Smart Customers) Style

Either Mr. Bezos and his team of strategists read our book (did you get the copy we sent you, Jeff?) and/or Bruce Kasanoff and I...
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23 Ways to Amaze and Delight Your Customers

Great customer experience doesn’t just happen. It is planned, designed and mindfully delivered. That’s because there is no ‘one...
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Why Silos Suck: Break Down Organizational Barriers for Better CX

Most large companies (and many that are mid-size or even small) have been struggling to overcome customer service and data silos...
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8 Ways Customer-Centric Organizations Get Closer to Their Customers

If your organization has done any thinking about customer centricity, you’ve likely read buckets about the importance of enabling...
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Customer Insights in a Day: ‘Voice of the Business’ Journey Mapping

For many organizations, an understanding of where customer interactions occur is stuck inside functional or organizational silos....
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Why Customer Experience Matters Now More Than Ever

Curt Finch, Small Business Trends In the last few years, we’ve seen that the ways customers interact with and think of companies...
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How to Find—and Close—Vision, Culture, and Experience Gaps

Most companies we work with have some sort of performance gap. Some are known and easier to see, others less obvious. Some big,...
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How Do You Ask Your Customer’s Opinion in a Way They’ll Give It?

When it comes to customer experience insights, the phrase “outside-in” – in reference to getting the customers’ view of the...
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Customer Experience Is Emotional? Oh, Yes. Always Has Been, Always Will Be.

“So tell us, how did that make you feel? We care. Really, we do.” While rarely asked quite that way, virtually all customer...
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5 Things You Need to Know If You Want to Deliver on Your Brand Promise

A couple of years ago I wrote an article titled “The Role Of Brand In Customer Experience.” In it, I repeat something that’s been...
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Focus on Your Touchpoints, But Don't Miss the Whole Customer Journey

Strolling through the ever-expanding body of published work on customer experience, I’ve recently come across a few articles that...
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The Case for Improving Employee Experience: Love and Money

Over the last few years, the case for improving customer experience has been gaining significant traction in executive suites...
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Simplicity-Minded Customer Experience

Make A ‘Simplification Promise’ Simple customer experiences are better customer experiences. Sounds logical, doesn’t it? After...
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Might You Need a Customer Experience Coach?

There’s little argument that customer experience is a pretty high priority for just about everyone. The reasons are myriad –...
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To Improve Customer Experience, Measure What Matters

I don’t know what Albert Einstein was thinking of when he said, “Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything...
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5 Customer Experience Lessons from the Interactive Mirror

Where might you end up if you set out to deliver an immersive, in-store shopping experience for cross-channel, fashion-obsessed...
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Smart Customers Demand Smart Customer Service

The rise of smart customers has influenced the very nature of the relationship between customers and the companies that wish to...
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Understanding The Role of Empathy in Customer Experience

If you haven’t read the 2011 book Thinking, Fast and Slow, I’d suggest you do. Author and 2002 Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman...
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Just How High Is the Price for Delivering a Poor Customer Experience?

As executives, we all want to deliver the best experiences to our customers. While this is an intuitive response because we want...
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Relevance (Not Just Orange) Is the New Black

Your customers crave relevancy. Business or consumer buyers, your customers are overloaded with messages on a daily (as well as...
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In a Connected World, Touchpoints Need More than a Fresh Coat of Paint

Email messages, social media, targeted ads, mobile apps, and SMS all make it possible for companies to stay in contact with...
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CX: Why Driving Authentic Connections Is Now Part of the Marketing Mix

The majority of us (I hope) understand the importance of improving customer experience. Without our customers, we couldn’t even...
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Making Lemonade: Learning From Sour Customer Experiences

Have you ever had a dismal customer experience and thought, "This Company has no clue what they're doing, do they?" Sadly, you’re...
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Confessions of a Former Pizza Boy: Sometimes, Experiences Don't Need to Be “Improved”

Today, there are three basic ways to get food prepared by others. One, go to a restaurant. Sit, order and eat. Two, call ahead...
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For Data-Driven Insights, Marketers Flunk the Customer-Centricity Test

Do you think it’s possible for a company to do a good job meeting customer needs if they don’t try to understand what those needs...
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Lego Missteps, Leaving Adult Fan’s Experience Out In The Cold

Lego, maker of those beloved bricks, sent an unintended message to an important customer (and customer segment) this week: “Go...
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Understanding Your Customers Is Key: 5 Segmentation Lessons from CVS

The New York Times ran a piece recently on the ways that CVS drugstores are using big data to revolutionize their business. The...
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Is Tesla’s Customer Experience Driving Car Dealers Over the Edge?

Car dealerships have long had a reputation for anticompetitive tactics and influential lobbyists. So it’s no surprise that Dealer...
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CRM Systems Don’t Capture Customer Experience: Just Ask Oracle

If CRM is your company’s “solution” for improving customer experience, you’re making a big (and shockingly common) mistake. Why?...
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The Dogfood Diet: Three Easy Steps to a Leaner Customer Experience

A few weeks back, CBS wrapped up another season of the show Undercover Boss. If you’re not familiar, the premise is that CEOs and...
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Secrets of Providing Kick-Ass Customer Experience for Low-Cost Leaders

What’s your strategy for business success? If, like Southwest and Costco, you're competing primarily on price—and have aligned...
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A Digital Customer Experience Case Study: Sephora’s Supremacy

A few years ago, I wrote Digital Experience: The New Heart Of Customer Engagement that makes the point that digital experience...
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Dark Patterns: the Dark Side of the Digital Customer Experience

When it comes to customer experience, my personal mission has always been crystal clear: help companies act more intelligently....
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Big Retailer Plays with Big Data and Narrowly Avoids Getting Bit

Customer experience pioneer and retail giant, Nordstrom, recently found itself in hot water over customer privacy. They’d been...
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Do Happier Employees Really Mean Happier Customers?

Conventional wisdom says not just “yeah” but “hell, yeah.” That said, an issue with the “conventional wisdom” is that people...
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How One Growing Company Impressed 559,861 People Last Weekend

If you aren’t a gamer, then there’s a good chance you’ve never heard of Razer. Until last weekend, the company was mostly known...
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Did Poor Customer Experience Get Ron Johnson Fired?

Last week, SEC filings revealed that Ron Johnson, chief executive officer of JC Penney, saw his 2012 compensation fall 97...
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Ask, Listen, and Act: New Rules for Voice-of-the-Customer Research

From dorm room start-ups to the Fortune 500, there’s a common thread among the most successful businesses: give your customers...
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Five Ways to Earn Customer Trust

Earn Customer Trust It’s difficult enough that companies are losing influence with their digitally-enabled smart customers. Even...
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What Is Your Customer Relationship Lifecycle?

For your customers and prospects, your customer relationship lifecycle is the basis for their experiential “journey” with your...
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Must You Have “Executive Support” to Begin CX Improvements?

Common advice for starting a customer experience transformation journey suggests executive support for the entire program must be...
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Can You Measure The Value Of A Single Touchpoint?

Customer experience is the result of a series of interactions between your company and those you serve. These interactions–the...
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Digital Experience: The New Heart of Customer Engagement

We all know (don’t we?) that digital customer experience is being driven by the many disruptive forces changing the face of the...
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5 Lessons Your Company Can Learn From the Cupcake ATM

What do we want? Sugar! When do we want it? Now! Earlier this year, Los Angeles-based cupcake bakery Sprinkles launched the...
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Why 'Sorry, We're Closed' May Close You Forever

Yesterday’s customers were future-oriented. “When can you get this to me?” they asked. Prices were fixed, customers came to you,...
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Customer Journey Mapping: 10 Tips for Beginners

Most executives know the importance of becoming more customer-centric. They’re also aware of the increased significance of...
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Where Customer Experience ‘Top Performers’ Turn For Outside Expertise

In last week's post, “How Customer Experience ‘Top Performers’ Get There: Outside Expertise,” we talked about the reasons why...
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How Customer Experience Top Performers Get There: Outside Expertise

Why is customer experience improvement such a hot topic? Because it significantly drives revenue. Directly tied to increased...
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The Future Of Customer Experience? It’s Getting Personal

No matter what business you’re in, a growing percentage of your customers are nearly always connected, with instant access to...
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The Key to Customer Experience Is Knowing How to Understand Customers

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How Smart Are Your Touchpoints?

Touchpoints are increasingly interactive (and smarter). As with the many disruptive technological innovations that came before,...
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9 Ways To Be More Customer-Centric

Designing Your World Around Your Customers’ Experiences Learning how to be more customer-centric sure sounds good. But if you’re...
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Are Your Touchpoints Pushing Customers Out the Door?

Every time your company or your brand interacts with a customer—online and off, in-person or not, between or about your...
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The Secret to Improving Your Touchpoints? Journey Mapping.

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Three Ways to Act Smart, Beat Your Competitors, and Win More Customers

Today, even the youngest, most modest consumers have broadband Internet access, carrying powerful, interconnected mobile devices...
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How Not to Treat Your Customers

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Customer Experience: Why Now?

Let’s get right to it. For most companies, delivering a poor customer experience translates directly to lost customers and lost...
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Instagram vs. Kodak: Smart Customers Sidestep Stupid Companies

When a pre-revenue company with about a dozen employees gets a $1 billion Silicon Valley payday, tongues wag. Did Facebook pay...
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There are myriad reasons why companies treat customers poorly. One of the most common, costly – and most easily resolvable – is a...
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Redefining Customer Experience: CRM, VRM and “Disruptive Technologies”

Last Thursday morning, Bruce Kasanoff and I did a webinar for CustomerThink’s Thought Leadership Webinar series titled...
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CX Isn’t a Function or a Department — It's the Center of All You Do

The competitive landscape is changing dramatically, as companies realize that customers really are the center of their universe....
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Are Customer Experience and Brand Research Problems Wicked?

For anyone who’s involved in customer experience management, brand research and consulting projects and/or other complex, cross...
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Benchmarking for Brand Performance, Marketing and Touchpoints (Part 2)

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Know Which Customer Touchpoints Drive Customer Satisfaction

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Why benchmark? And what should you benchmark against? We were asked an interesting question during a new business pitch the other...
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Strategic Planning for Brand, Marketing and Customer Experience

Why strategic plan before you dive in to do the work? Strategic Planning brings multiple perspectives into focus with an eye on...
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Proving ROI on Customer Experience (Part 3)

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Proving ROI on Customer Experience (Part 2)

Four “experience investment” lenses to help you plan, measure and improve interactions with your customers, and prove significant...
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Customer Experience: The perfect framework to begin thinking about ways to plan, measure and improve customer interactions with...
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Significant Benefits of Measuring Brand and Marketing Performance

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10 Steps to Increase Marketing Effectiveness in an Economic Downturn

Ten Steps In Increase Marketing Effectiveness (Whether it's an Economic Downturn Or Not!)
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How B2Bs Are Leveraging Social Media Touchpoints

While there are still some B2B executives who dismiss social media as an effective tool for engaging key audiences, the truth is...
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Four Steps to Delivering a Branded Customer Experience

Key to the successful delivery of brand experience is your ability to drive ownership and delivery of your brand from the inside...
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New Rules for Actionable Voice-of-the-Customer (VOC) Research

In today’s “experience-based” market space, organizations should leverage research programs to move beyond data and information...
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