Bad or non-existent customer service is proven to cost more than sustainable customer experience management practices. Just look at the statistics:
+After a bad experience with a company, 22% of consumers decreased their spending and 19% completely stopped doing business with a company.
+ Compared to detractors, promoters are 4.2X more likely to buy again and 5.6X more likely to forgive a company after a mistake.
Sound impressive? It does to me. But in spite of this data, only 11% of large companies have strong customer experience programs, and 62% of companies cite inaction on customer experience (CX) metrics as their key problem.
https://blog.hubspot.com/service/customer-feedback-culture/
If you are not focused on receiving and using customer feedback, you are missing out on an amazing growth tool. Gathering feedback throughout the entire customer journey is of great importance to the buyer life cycle, marketing campaigns and the entire customer experience. Integrating your CRM and customer feedback could be the secret to your success.
According to a recent study, 86 percent of buyers will pay more for a better customer experience. And by 2020, customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator. How do you get the best experience? By listening to the customer, of course.
https://broadsuite.com/combine-crm-customer-feedback/
As information becomes more available and for free, thanks to the Internet and social media networks, product differentiation in one category is becoming more and more difficult.
As a result, businesses need to focus on customer experience to set themselves apart from their competitors. Customer experience is defined as a series of interactions between a customer and an organization throughout their business relationship. The interaction begins from the moment the customer hears about the business all the way to making a purchase of the product or service.
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/313807/
Expresso Fashion and Claudia Sträter are two well-known Dutch fashion brands with stores in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Alongside their more traditional, brick-and-mortar shops, these labels are also sold online. This omni-channel strategy makes it possible for these two webshops to not only serve as sales channels but also platforms for inspiration. Visitors can get their inspiration online and then choose to do their shopping in the webshop or in-store. In other words, their online services are critical to the success of both on- and offline channels.
https://mopinion.com/expresso-fashion-claudia-strater-customer-story/
GDPR may be one of the hottest topics in the business world today, causing many organizations to rethink and revise how they approach many of their everyday practices.
The General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR for short, aims to increase the protection and privacy of personal data, also known as Personally Identifiable Information (PII), for all EU residents.
In the age of the GDPR, consent and managing individual’s rights are crucial. Because of this, Voice of the Customer (VoC) research may become an even more important source of data and insights to marketers wanting to understand better and improve the Customer Experience (CX).
In this post, we look at why.
https://www.iperceptions.com/blog/voice-of-the-customer-gdpr/
Customer Experience (CX) is quickly becoming the key brand differentiator for organisations. To be able to compete on CX, organisations must continuously be improving on it. And, to be able to improve the CX, companies must listen to and address customer needs.
Voice of the Customer (VoC) has been defined as the process of capturing customers’ experiences and sentiments on products, services and the brand. A VoC programme is used to gauge how well an organisation is doing with its CX strategy. In fact, VoC enables organisations to deliver better experiences. Thus, organisations must have rich VoC programmes to optimise the CX.
https://www.mycustomer.com/experience/voice-of-the-customer/why-your-customer-feedback-isnt-actionable-and-what-to-do-about-it/
I just came back from hosting the CXPA’s Insight Exchange and talking all things customers. Of course, I tended to hang out in the customer journey mapping sessions. While the practice is maturing, there’s still a lot of room for improvement.
In the spirit of sharing best practices, we at Heart of the Customer put together our Top 10 Reasons that Journey Mapping Projects Fail, a la David Letterman.
Without further ado, let’s proceed!
http://customerthink.com/the-top-10-reasons-customer-journey-mapping-fails/
That’s not because we lie, although we do surprisingly often. According to a study, 60% of people tend to fib at least once within ten minutes of meeting someone new. 1 » But the truth gap between our words and feelings isn’t always deliberate. We’re just naturally bad at articulating what makes us happy.
An increasing number of marketers are abandoning questionnaires and replacing them with more scientific techniques to probe what’s really on their customers’ minds. And when it comes to measuring a better customer experience, CX professionals should do the same.
http://customerthink.com/closing-the-thinking-vs-feeling-gap-with-electrodes-not-surveys/
Our expectations for good customer experience are changing. Or are they? All we have ever really expected is to be recognized, treated respectfully and served efficiently.
In the past, delivering good experiences through our customer contact centers meant hiring and training empathetic, knowledgeable and accessible agents. Today the only way to maintain this human touch is through an intelligent combination of human and digital engagement that I call the “humanoid touch.”
https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/the-humanoid-touch-how-ai-is-changing-customer-experience/
As a customer, we’ve all experienced customer service calls that feel impossibly difficult. Maybe you couldn’t find a way to contact the company. Maybe they made you jump through hoops to get what you needed. High effort experiences are these interactions that make you work really hard to get answers. And they are one of the fastest ways a company can lose customers.
The CEB broke down the important parts of designing a low effort experience into four pillars:
https://customerthink.com/four-pillars-of-low-effort-customer-experience/
