For the last few weeks, I’ve been sharing some memories from my past running a call center and some of the ways in which I have observed customer service has changed. The first installment touched on how customer service was considered a necessary evil of doing business in the past. Last week, I explored how measuring the performance of customer service has evolved. The theme throughout each of these was that if your customer service was still mired in some of these past practices and conceptions, you’re doing it wrong.
https://www.business2community.com/customer-experience/youre-wrong-new-customer-service-philosophies-02025456/
Are you sending out CX (customer experience) surveys days or even weeks after the customer interaction? If so, have you considered what the consumer’s experience of that might be and how that impacts on their perception of your brand? Or have you thought about some of the great opportunities the delay in your process precludes? Do you wonder what impact the delay has on future survey engagement or worse, customer loyalty?
These are some of the questions covered up in this post. The importance of capturing feedback in real-time should not be underestimated, particularly if you want to impact CX on an individual customer basis. While it is relatively easy to achieve in an online environment, it is much more challenging in a brick-and-mortar context, so I will offer some ideas on how to do it at the end of the post.
http://customerthink.com/why-you-need-to-capture-customer-feedback-in-real-time-and-how-to-do-it-in-brick-and-mortar-businesses/
One of the questions I am often asked by organizations is “How do other companies use customer feedback?” Fortunately, the answer to that question is simple because most organizations use customer feedback to create PowerPoint reports or Excel spreadsheets to track performance. They might tie results to compensation or be used to coach front-line employees. These are all good uses of customer feedback, but in many cases, lead to chasing a score versus driving organizational change. The real question should be “How do other companies take action on their customer feedback?”
https://www.business2community.com/customer-experience/havent-able-take-action-cx-feedback-02003718/
According to the latest Customer Experience in Marketing Survey 2017: Greater Expectations, Greater Challenges, in two years 82 per cent of B2B CMOs expect to mostly or completely compete on the basis of CX, compared with 76 per cent for B2C marketers.
Meaning that competing on price and product or a combination of both is becoming much less important. This is big, really big, because creating great customer experiences will require tenacity, dedication, long term thinking, integration of data, collaboration and a cross company approach where everyone is involved. No. Mean. Feat.
https://which-50.com/why-the-customer-experience-matters/
Forrester predicts that this year alone, 20% of brands will give up on customer experience strategies and resort to price reduction to drive sales. An even more alarming amount of those surveyed, 89%, reported return on investment for customer experience isn't well established in their companies.
As retailers, you know customer experience is the name of the game. So where does CX need to go from here to be successful enough to avoid a price drop?
http://retailcustomerexperience.com/blogs/why-strategic-cx-initiatives-win-out-over-price-reduction-every-time/
Undeniably, exceptional customer experience correlates with growth. The previous statement is very important for start-ups because it allows for customer-driven scalability. Most start-ups, however, neglect the customer experience and only focus on the product.
Your overall success depends on your ability to bring in new customers while keeping already existing customers satisfied. This is why as a start-up you need to shift your attention on customer experience. Customers don’t really care about the product. They care about the value they get out of using your product.
Here is what you need to do as a start-up, for customer experience to deliver on the results it promises
https://www.surveypal.com/blog/why-start-ups-need-to-focus-on-the-customer-exprerience/
Do you feel like you’re not making the progress in your customer experience transformation efforts that you thought/hoped you would by now?
You started years (not months – it’s a journey – it takes time!) ago, but you don’t think your organization has evolved.
What’s the reason for that?
http://customerthink.com/why-cx-transformations-fail/
Being a CMO used to be straightforward, with a laser focus on branding, advertising and lead generation. Enterprise functions outside of marketing "ownership" were not a problem, as the CMO didn't report the financials, wasn't responsible for deploying technology, didn't have to approve all hires and really didn't "own" the sale in many cases.
https://www.marketingdive.com/news/why-cross-collaboration-is-critical-to-the-modern-cmos-success/513762/
Your ability to understand how to meet customer expectations has a significant impact on business strategy and overall success. A voice of the customer program provides you with insights that help deliver a superior customer experience. So, who owns the Voice of Customer? Think of the customer experience as a car. Voice of the Customer data is the fuel that allows that car to move. If you own the car you sure own the gasoline in its tank. Therefore, whoever owns the customer experience owns the voice of customer.
https://www.surveypal.com/blog/who-owns-the-voice-of-customer-success-starts-at-the-top/
Ask anyone. There are many companies out there that make use of several tools as a means for communicating with their visitors or customers on their website, be it through a chatbot, feedback form or direct review. Now, you might be thinking ‘Hey these are basically classified as customer experience tools and I have one!’ and because you already utilise one of these tools, there is nothing else you need to do to improve the customer experience. Well that’s not entirely true…
https://mopinion.com/which-website-tools-are-best-for-effectively-engaging-the-online-customer/
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