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Cyber Monday Sale: Save on CX Training & Coaching Through December 9
It’s Cyber Monday, and that means savings! Keep reading for four customer experience training and coaching offers to accelerate your CX and EX initiatives — and drive value for your organization — over the upcoming year. Now through Friday, December 9, 2022: Save $1000 on lifetime access to our Journey Mapping Master Class &
Customer Engagement: From Core Competencies To Business Outcomes
Pop quiz! What does it take to deliver effective, coordinated cross-channel experiences in today’s business landscape? If you answered “data,” you’re not alone. In a recent survey of 1500+ marketing leaders, customer engagement platform Braze found that three of the top four challenges that marketers face related to customer engagement
Virtual Journey Mapping Bootcamp: May 2022
Hard-hitting content. Sessions that fit into your workday. Our two-part virtual bootcamp delivers a practical primer on journey mapping that you can immediately put into action for your organization. Part 1: Introduction to Journey Mapping This introduction will help you build a solid understanding of the journey mapping methodology and how you
Catch Up On Our Most-Read (And Must-Read!) Posts From The Past Year
Every year I look back to see what blog content our readers have been most drawn to over the past year. It’s always interesting to see which new posts catch people’s attention (like #9 and #5 on the list) and which older posts (like #8 and #2) remain as enduring
Reimagining CX To Drive Real Human Connection
Recently, I was emailing with an online retailer about an item I wanted to return, and the message in their email footer struck me: “Please be kind to our team — it’s important for us to have real humans on our support and not bots. I promise all we want
Customer Experience: How To Get On The Superhighway To Business Success
Here’s how I define customer experience: It’s your customers’ thoughts, emotions, and perceptions about their interactions with your organization. These words — thoughts, emotions, perceptions — sound touchy-feely. Fluffy even. And because of that, many execs and organizations still dismiss them. But here’s what innovative organizations understand: Customer experience is the
The Happiest Employees of 2021 — And Their Connections to Customers
As I looked at Comparably’s recent ranking of the 100 companies with the happiest employees in 2021, something struck me: In one way or another, many of top-scoring companies have a strong focus on customer experience. Top ten winners in the large company category include: Peloton and Zoom, two companies
A CX Day Offer To Boost Your Journey Mapping Outcomes
Happy Customer Experience Day! I hope you and your colleagues are joining one of the many CX Day celebrations around the world. In honor of all current and aspiring CX practitioners, we’re offering a $100 discount on every seat for our upcoming October / November two-part open-enrollment virtual journey mapping bootcamp.
New Study Shows Major Disconnect Between Companies And Customers
Earlier this week I posted about a study commissioned by the CRM platform Insightly, which showed the lengths that consumers and business decision makers would go to in order to avoid stressful customer service interactions. While the consumers and business decision makers in this study were clearly aligned on their
Waiting In Line At The DMV? A Month With The In-Laws? Find Out What’s Worse Than Dealing With Customer Service
I don’t often run across survey data that makes me literally laugh out loud. But a recent — and somewhat cheeky — study commissioned by the CRM platform Insightly had me rolling in my desk chair. Thirty-one percent of U.S. adults reported that they’d rather wait in line at the DMV than
