I once wrote that to be joyful we must capture the natural occurring humor of reality. Extrapolating the idea of seizing natural occurring opportunities, I’m a fan of gleaning customer experience lessons from news headlines.
Here are three quick examples of customer experience lessons just waiting to be plucked from recent news stories:
+Only one Blockbuster Video store remains
+Papa John’s Pizza removes likeness of the company’s founder in the aftermath of his use of a racially offensive word
+Voice search is on the rise
http://customerthink.com/so-many-customer-experience-lessons-so-little-time/
How you listen matters. Unfortunately, some might be overlooking this particular detail of their Voice of the Customer (VoC) programs, which could end up impacting just how successful their program is in providing the insights they need to improve their Customer Experience (CX).
In a world where CX is becoming increasingly scrutinized, the importance of collecting customer feedback to fuel your Customer Experience Management (CEM) efforts cannot be understated. It is a crucial first step for any organization wanting to inject more customer-centricity in their business decisions.
However, there is an aspect of VoC that organizations may sometimes gloss over, despite its potential to have a significant impact on the quality of the feedback they get in return: the method you use to engage your customers for their feedback.
https://www.iperceptions.com/blog/aspect-of-voc-you-should-not-overlook/
Many customer experiences would be far more enticing if companies could better understand just who their customers really are and what they are experiencing. However, superior customer experience requires that data be delivered from multiple sources, to the right place, to the right decision maker or application, at the right time. And then that data needs to be tied together to form one cohesive view of the customer—something far easier said than done. Unfortunately, many companies still struggle to make sense of the data they have surging through their systems.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/insights-treasuredata/2018/07/10/fine-tuning-the-firehose-finding-the-customer-data-that-really-matters/
If tere’s one thing we know for sure, it’s that customer experience is the fundamental driving force behind eCommerce as we know it. Gartner predicted that by this year, more than 50% of organisations would implement significant business model changes in a bid to improve their overall customer experience. So clearly we’re not just talking about the importance of having a picture-perfect online store here. Not even close. Because, in reality there isn’t a single aspect of the eCommerce journey where customer experience isn’t important. From website navigation to the checkout process, to shipping and logistics, to returns – there’s an opportunity at every step of the process to provide your customers with a positive experience or a negative one.
https://internetretailing.net/customer/customer/4-ways-that-online-retailers-can-gather-quality-feedback-to-improve-customer-experience-18019/
There many fascinating insights from a new study conducted by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services in conjunction with SAS, Intel and Accenture Applied Intelligence. The study is a quick, insightful read of 16 pages that combines survey findings and enterprises’ marketing results.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/louiscolumbus/2018/07/08/how-to-improve-customer-experiences-with-real-time-analytics/#2851c71e6e82/
Sir Richard Branson once said “Employees come first. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of the clients”
Is Employee experience (EX) and Customer experience (CX) linked? I would emphatically say a YES to that question. Ideally, the EX should reflect the same experience that we are trying to provide to our clients. It is becoming increasingly evident that the two experiences are so very closely linked, that one affects the other in every level. It is also common sense. Without employees we will not be able to provide any sort of CX and if the employees are not happy and committed they certainly will not be able to provide client delight to our valuable clients.
https://www.dqindia.com/customer-experience-employee-experience/
Voice of the Customer (VoC) programs have become a strategic asset for the most forward thinking and customer-centric CEOs, CMOs and customer experience leaders. In fact, in the most recent Best Practices of the Best Marketers Research Report, Chief Marketing Officers whose performance ranked them in the top quartile used VoC programs a whopping 48% more often than their lower performing peers.
It’s been my experience that most companies think they know what their customers’ want—and more often than not they are either partially correct or incomplete. Either scenario results with a cascading effect that degrades product R&D, marketing communications, sales effectiveness, services delivery and customer experience (CX) objectives. The negative financial impact incurred in any one of these areas is a significant hidden loss than goes unrecognized by most business leaders.
http://www.crmsearch.com/voc.php/
There is no clear way of predicting when a customer will make a purchase, but you can be sure today’s connected customer wants it all.
Customers want to be able to browse products on any device and purchase on another later that day. If the customer can’t find what they are looking for in store, they want assistants working on the shopfloor to locate that item and have it delivered to a place of their choosing the next day – all while earning loyalty points.
https://www.retail-week.com/retail-voice/top-30-international-retailers-customers-drive-digital/7029187.article?authent=1/
Journey mapping is an excellent tool that organizations can leverage to depict customer experience. The goal of journey mapping is to learn what customers care about the most – from initial product awareness, all the way through renewal or repurchase. A key component of building a journey map is using employees and internal teams to think like customers and detail out the important aspects of the customer journey. However, this exercise should not be 100% company-centric. In fact, without enough outside perspective – either from an objective facilitator or reliable voice of the customer—journey maps can easily become nothing more than process maps that document steps with little emotional insight into customer pain points, frustrations, gaps in service or moments of truth.
http://customerthink.com/is-your-journey-map-all-process-and-no-emotion/
The method used to engage with customers for their feedback can have a significant impact on the nature of the feedback you collect and, consequently, the metrics you report.
Engaging with customers and collecting their feedback is a competitive edge available to any enterprise willing to invest in data management, process optimisation, and creative design. Insights from customers collected through surveys and other feedback mechanisms are the backbone of Customer Experience (CX) management.
https://www.mycustomer.com/experience/voice-of-the-customer/customer-feedback-how-collection-methods-skew-results/
