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The Key to Designing a Voice of the Customer Program

The first step in improving customer understanding is listening – to their opinions, concerns, perceptions, objectives and...

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...

6 Ways You Can Drive Proactive Customer Engagement—And Why You Should

Proactive customer engagement isn’t a one-time event.

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...

Customer-Centric Strategy Tips for Entrepreneurial Leaders

Entrepreneurs and startups intuitively understand the need to connect their products and services to the needs of the...

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...

3 Customer-Related Actions for 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 –...

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...

CX Management & Governance: Eating Your CX Vegetables

It’s not possible to sustain a disciplined CX mindset without clear guidelines Humans like rules — when they apply to someone...

Employee Experience: Why Employees Beg to Work for These 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....

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,...

How to Define & Execute Your Customer Experience Strategy

What exactly is a customer experience strategy? Spend any time online trying to answer this question and you’ll see how easy it...

CX Measurement 101: Customer Experience Analytics & Tracking

In today’s digital-first-but-not-digital-only, customer-centric world, customer experience (CX) has quickly emerged as a critical...

8 Best Practices for Customer Experience Management (CXM)

The Eight Best Practices of Customer Experience Management Leaders As ever-greater numbers of organizations embrace the age of...

How "3D" Customer Personas Radically Improve CX Design

Customer experience design professionals have recognized the power of customer persona for years. Unlike customer or audience...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

Voice of the Customer Program: Perception vs 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...

Managing Customer Expectations: How CX Led to UPS Stock Crash

The 2013 holiday season sported some nasty surprises for package delivery and logistics leader UPS. Summarized neatly in a Forbes...

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...

What Is Customer Experience Innovation?

A Month of Tweets You May Have Missed What is innovative customer experience? Experiences that make every interaction totally...

23 Ways to Amaze and Delight Your Customers

How to Delight Customers in a World of High Expectations Great customer experience doesn’t just happen. It is planned, designed...

Customer Centricity Examples: 8 Ways to Get Closer to Your Customers

If your organization has done any thinking about customer centricity, you’ve likely read buckets about the importance of enabling...

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....

The Keys to Understanding Cosutmers Needs: Emotion & Empathy

“So tell us, how did that make you feel? We care. Really, we do.” While rarely asked quite that way, virtually all customer...

The Key to Improving Customer Experience: Measuring 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...

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...

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...

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...

Ask, Listen, and Act: New Rules for VoC Research

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

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...

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...

The Key to Customer Experience Is Knowing How to Understand Customers

Knowing how to understand customers is key to creating a successful customer experience program. This lack of understanding is...

Customer Expectations: Why Focus on Customer Experience Now?

Let’s get right to it. For most companies, delivering a poor customer experience translates directly to lost customers and lost...

Benchmarking for Brand Performance, Marketing and Touchpoints (Part 2)

We made our case for benchmarking and covered the different things that your organization can benchmark against in Part 1 of this...

Know Which Customer Touchpoints Drive Customer Satisfaction

Is your organization trying to improve the experience for all customers at all touchpoints? Though this is going to sound like a...

Benchmarking for Brand Performance, Marketing and Touchpoints (Part 1)

Why benchmark? And what should you benchmark against? We were asked an interesting question during a new business pitch the other...

Proving ROI: The Impact of Customer Experience Improvement

Customer Experience Mapping – A first step to creating more positive customer experiences. In Proving ROI on Customer Experience...

Proving ROI: Increase Customer Loyalty with Data Backed CX

Four “experience investment” lenses to help you plan, measure and improve interactions with your customers, and prove significant...

Proving ROI: The Basics of Measuring Customer Experience

Customer Experience: The perfect framework to begin thinking about ways to plan, measure and improve customer interactions with...

Significant Benefits of Measuring Brand and Marketing Performance

C-Suite execs share concerns across sectors, size and geographies. In the CX business, we talk to key executives literally every...

Navigate Downturns: 10 Steps to Elevate Marketing Effectiveness

Ten Steps In Increase Marketing Effectiveness (Whether it's an Economic Downturn Or Not!)

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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