This week, I read an online comment that Customer Experience is a part of Customer Success.
Customer Success professionals believe customer experience is a subset of customer success. Customer Experience professionals believe customer success is a subset of customer experience.
Each discipline has its own idea.
The Customer Experience vs. Customer Success debate has been an interesting one.
So, let’s back up a bit to dive into history and where we are.
https://www.m4comm.com/customer-experience-and-customer-success-converge/
As the year draws to a close, Return asks its senior team to reflect on 2017 and offer predictions for 2018. Topics raised include programmatic and shoppable video, voice search, and shifts in online search and targeting...
http://www.thedrum.com/opinion/2017/12/20/the-future-digital-marketing-predictions-2018/
Instant gratification is here to stay—at least in the customer experience world. Thanks to technological advances, most consumers now expect brands to be available at a moment’s notice. Smartphones, social media, mobile apps, and more have helped create a culture of hyper-connectivity and immediacy, making it critical for companies to provide fast and seamless customer experiences.
http://www.1to1media.com/customer-engagement/redefining-real-time-customer-experience/
It all started with a new Christmas decoration my wife had set her heart on. She’d been back and forth wondering if she should buy it. Last weekend, we found ourselves back in the store, where she eventually decided it would be ideal for a space on the hallway table.
https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/let-the-customer-experience-drive-your-technology-design/
Voice of the Customer (VoC) is much more than an actual voice. It is a combination of voices captured at various customer touch points. It is an intricate process used to capture both quantitative and qualitative information from customers. Information such as their requirements, preferences and feedback; in other words, a gold mine of data! This information is what you’re supposed to be using to chisel away what the customer don’t want and deliver the best quality product or service. What you may think is an excellent addition to your product or service may be an annoyance to the customer, and the VoC helps you identify that – forcing you to look at things from the customers’ perspective.
http://www.customerguru.in/4-simple-steps-to-make-the-most-of-the-voice-of-the-customer-voc/
There is no doubt that creating a competitive advantage in today’s business environment is about much more than having great products and attaching the right price tag. With informed customers expecting much more, CEOs are turning to customer experience (CX) strategies to build the kind of sustainable advantage that leads to business outcomes and long-term success. To establish and maintain CX as a critical business strategy, the direction and discipline naturally starts at the top.
In other words, today’s successful companies need customer-focused CEOs.
http://www.destinationcrm.com/Articles/Columns-Departments/Voice-of-the-Customer/7-Signs-Your-CEO-Is-Customer-Focused-117680.aspx/
As the customer experience profession matures, one thing has become clear: CX professionals can’t have a strong impact unless the surrounding culture is supportive. And creating such a culture is difficult.
In a forthcoming study by Walker, CX professionals listed “developing a customer-centric culture” as the most effective way to meet customers’ changing needs. Fewer than half, however, stated that customer focus has a significant influence on their company’s culture. In other words, CX professionals believe a culture focused on customers can make a big difference, but they don’t feel their colleagues are catching on.
http://www.destinationcrm.com/Articles/Columns-Departments/Voice-of-the-Customer/Who-Makes-a-Company-Customer-Focused-120042.aspx/
In many conferences in 2017, the buzz has all been around the customer experience, customer journeys or customer engagement. These topics come up in almost every presentation in a banking, hospitality, marketing or retail conference. However, there was little linkage between these “buzz” topics with loyalty nor branding. There is a correlation between the customer experience and how that impacts loyalty and an organisation’s brand. How does a brand inspire loyalty and how does the customer experience elevate a brand?
http://www.marketing-interactive.com/features/synchronizing-loyalty-customer-experience-and-branding/
Customer loyalty is critical to the survival of any business. If your customers suddenly find good reasons to start visiting your competitors, maybe it was because they weren’t satisfied with your product, or the type of service they received while with you. None of them ever told you about any problems they were having, they just stopped coming.
If that sounds strange, then consider the following statistics –
http://customerthink.com/6-reasons-your-customers-do-not-complain/
I came across an article this week that immediately caught my attention: Top Takeaways From The 2017 Customer Rage Study. While the study itself is not yet available on the Customer Care and Measurement & Consulting website, the fact that they have previously conducted similar research and you can filter articles by the subject of “rage” leads me to believe they are a bit of an expert.
http://customerthink.com/three-ways-to-avoid-customer-rage/
