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Part 1 cont. – Brand, product or service
When I am designing the key metric question (customer satisfaction or loyalty), I take a look at what I want to improve first. These questions can be asked at multiple levels – each will mean something different to my customers and each will give me different information to drive improvements.
Brand – Product – Service
Posted in Loyalty, Metrics
Tagged brand, customer loyalty, customer satisfaction, product, service, Survey Design
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Side Note: Stuff going through my head
I’m starting a new element on my blog that I think I am going to call Side Note. Here’s where I am at with this – I love what I do and as a key part of that, I really like engaging with others in the field (picking your brain is lots of fun for me) and the chance to share my learnings and mistakes along the journey of customer experience is part of the that fun. But (you knew that was coming, right?) there is a person in The Corporate Woman and I think there’s stuff I’d like to share on that front on occasion as we go. You let me know if it gets too tangled or your not interested. I can always split the path.
Posted in Authenticity, Balance, Change, Excercise, Goals, Health, KPI, Self-Clarity, Spirit, Wholeness
Tagged Change, Clarity, Health, Journey, Progress, Scale, Weight Loss
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Part 1 – Metrics: Customer Satisfaction and/or Customer Loyalty
I thought I would begin this discussion with the same place most people start thinking about a customer experience based program – what do I measure? Some version of this question is the most frequent one that I get from people and companies starting out on their journey. And I’d like to offer a straight forward, easy answer but really the answer is… it depends.
Posted in Change, Communication, Customer Experience, Customers, Goals, KPI, Loyalty, Metrics
Tagged Change, Customer Experience, customer loyalty, customer satisfaction, Metrics, Program design
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A delay and an apology…
Well, I confess that I have gone awry in my writing as of late. My apologies for that. My confessions of ineptitude are mere excuses (life got in the way, shoulder injury, poor sleep, etc…) and I shall do my best to do better
This week, I will kick off my thoughts on the core of a successful customer experience program and I look forward to hearing from you as we go. Onwards to Part 1 of the discussion!
Posted in Announcements, Balance, Communication, Customer Experience, Listening, Self-Clarity
Tagged Customer Experience
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The core of a customer experience program
With so many customer experience programs beginning, many people are asking, “Where do I start?” It’s a question that I have heard often enough that I thought I might do a blog series on what you want to focus on in the first year of your customer experience program. And it might be interesting for those of you who are already well under way in your program.
Chief Customer Officer – My Dream Job
I have been recently reading the Forrester article titled Customer Experience Executives’ Top Priorities for 2010 and one of the things that jumped out at me is that concept that “Chief Customer Officers will become as common as Chief Marketing Officers”. Interesting thought to those of us in the field. It’s a dream job for me from a career perspective. The chance to continue advancing in the career I’ve come to love is exciting. Companies who embrace customer experience as a discipline are understanding that customer insights are a potentially untapped asset within their company and digging deep to understand your customers makes them happier and your company more financially successful long term.
Posted in Customer Experience
Tagged Chief Customer Officer, Customer Experience, Customer Insights, Forrester
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Book Review – Switch
I like to read (a lot) and the mix of books tends to vary, depending on whatever attracts me at the time. I keep a mix going, usually have at least two progressing (some on the Kindle, some from the library).
Posted in Balance, Change, Customer Experience, Listening
Tagged Change, difficult, drive, switch
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The Value of Patience
I’m not altogether certain I was patient much as a child, perhaps I was but just don’t recall but I suspect that I wasn’t. Patience as an adult hasn’t always been a strong point either but I am finally getting better at it. Last year, I declared that I was going to embark on the journey of being healthier. I finally had the surgery on my deviated septum, so I could breathe better. From there, I started modifying my eating habits. Already good, I made them better. No fast food, no junk food, no soda, no prepared food (that’s right – no cans, no boxes, nothing previously frozen). That was both harder and easier than I thought it would be. My husband is a marvelous cook and he has chosen to make the journey with me, so that has helped a lot!
Posted in Balance, Change, Excercise, Goals, Health, Social Media, Wholeness
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The Power of Listening
I recently had the opportunity to speak at a summit meeting for a SaaS firm in the area called Appfolio One of the great questions that came up during the Q&A was this (forgive the paraphrasing): “What is one of the most powerful things you can do to improve your customer experience?” My answer: active listening
Posted in Communication, Customer Experience, Customers, Listening
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A confessed customer experience geek
I recently had the opportunity to listen to Robert Stephens, of Geek Squad fame, and I was fascinated with one particular image he shared, which I immediately and shamelessly appropriated. I loved hearing him speak and then he showed a Venn diagram (shown below) and really won me over. Yes, I do enjoy a really good Venn diagram. Come on, be honest who doesn’t love them?