The Fairbanks North Star Borough is seeking the public’s feedback on upcoming changes to their website. There is a survey with seven questions located on their website asking about resident’s experiences interacting with the website. The survey is expected take about a minute.
http://webcenter11.com/content/news/Fairbanks-North-Star-Borough-seeks-public-feedback-on-changes-to-website---566991851.html/
80% of companies consider customer experience to be one of their most powerful competitive differentiators. In order to keep pace and be a disruptor in this digital customer experience battlefield, you should consider tapping into artificial intelligence. Machines and algorithms have become increasingly smart, to an extent that they can pick up the slack and speed up different business processes.
In this guest post, Qeedle’s Michael Deane shares some of the most effective ways AI-based automation tools can help you wow your customers.
https://mopinion.com/how-can-ai-based-automation-tools-improve-customer-experience/
Marketing has evolved over the years from a largely intuitive exercise based on an executive’s judgment and experience, into becoming a data-obsessed occupation. A hundred years ago, department store magnate John Wanamaker was famously quoted as saying that he knew half of his advertising spend was wasted. The problem, he said, was that he didn’t know which half. That’s not the case today.
http://securityboulevard.com/2019/12/the-changing-landscape-of-customer-acquisition-engagement-and-retention-in-2020/
Are your customers happy?
If you don’t know for sure, guessing is not the next best thing. According to a 2017 study by the folks at American Express, a person from the U.S. is going to tell an average of 15 people about a bad customer service experience.
Even worse, research by thinkJar’s CEO, Esteban Kolsky, found that only 1 out of 26 unhappy customers complain. The rest will just leave..
http://optinmonster.com/best-ways-to-collect-customer-feedback/
We hear companies throwing around common phrases like, ‘Customer centricity is at the heart of our organisation’ and ‘We’re very much in tune with the needs of our customers’. Not surprisingly, seeing as how according to a study carried out by Bain and company, 80% of organisations they surveyed believed that they were providing a superior customer experience to their customers. Meanwhile, just 8% of their customers shared this opinion. Only eight percent! This is a huge disconnect and gap in perception, one that is commonly referred to as the customer experience gap.
https://mopinion.com/what-is-the-customer-experience-gap/
Providing a good Customer Experience (CX) is on just about every organisation’s agenda these days. But where exactly is it headed? We can’t say for sure. What we can tell you though, is that this CX’s ecosystem of solutions is tethering between both expansion and consolidation. New niche solutions are sprouting up everywhere you look, from Live Chat tools and Customer Experience Management (CEM) software to Customer Success platforms and User Feedback solutions. Meanwhile, many of these same tools are being acquired by larger enterprises and ‘all-encompassing’ CX suites, such as Verint and Medallia. Movements in the market which are all attributed to trends in CX. So let’s address the question on everyone’s mind…What’s happening in CX and what lies ahead?
https://mopinion.com/state-of-customer-experience-cx/
If you’ve ever worked in the service industry I’m sure the chant “the customer is always right” still rings in your head. Customer service and the customer journey are not new concepts. However, the medium that customer service is carried out through today is new. With the eruption and growth of the internet over the past 20 years – the entire customer journey has been rewritten – no matter how long you’ve been in business or what industry you’re in. As the way we do business evolved, the customer experience evolved with it. But why has it been so difficult for businesses to transition?
https://mopinion.com/why-the-customer-experience-should-be-your-main-focus-this-year/
Customer-centric businesses put customers at the core of the business, then make policy and process design decisions centered on the needs of those customers. That customer focus compels naysayers to label customer centricity as an ill-advised business strategy.
What happens, those naysayers ask, when your heart pushes you to take action that interferes with a long and prosperous future?
For example, let’s say you need to raise fees, but your customers disagree. Or you have policies in place to secure and protect your institution’s assets, but those policies feel unfriendly to your customers. How can making a decision that is best for customers also be a smart strategy for your business?
https://www.peoplemetrics.com/blog/an-introduction-to-building-customer-understanding/
The final discipline of growth banking is all about listening and acting on feedback from your customers. This discipline requires an understanding of measure and metrics. It requires a commitment to closed-loop feedback. And it starts with the decision to either build or buy a Voice of the Customer solution for your own organization.
But it's important to note: having customer data and following up with individual customer and employee feedback is not enough to move your overall Net Promoter or Customer Loyalty scores.
Yes, you will be improving the experience for customers who share their insights and experiences with you.
But moving the overall scores will take a keen eye and a lot of analysis of customer insights. You'll need to pinpoint the one thing to do next to improve your business. Whether it's adapting a solution, adding a feature, or emphasizing a capability, it takes systemic changes to impact the experience of customer segments (or for all of your customers).
https://www.peoplemetrics.com/blog/how-to-define-your-priorities-and-build-a-plan-for-customer-centricity/
It has become all too common for B2B SaaS companies to survey their customers once a year through a moment-in-time customer relationship survey, with at least one section addressing the ultimate question of Net Promoter Score (NPS).
Assuming the results are positive, the company then proudly presents their board with the survey results compared to industry benchmarks and proceeds with the board meeting. “Let’s move on to how many new customers you acquired” is likely the next agenda item.
https://www.peoplemetrics.com/blog/saas-companies-implement-a-product-nps-program-in-5-simple-steps/
