The rise of new digital tools (like mobile, live chat, omnichannel support, self-service, social media) and a broad array of IoT devices (like activity monitors, beacons, smartwatches) and emerging technologies (like AI, AR, Machine Learning, VR, 3D printing and so on), has exponentially increased the number of customer touchpoints available to marketers.
On the other hand, chats, stories, and statistics grab today’s customer’s attention, and they get influenced by other people’s reviews and opinions and feel compelled to share their experiences of encounters with brands. Also, the customer experiences often trickle over from one industry to an entirely different sector, termed as “liquid expectations.” The rise of “always – connected” customers and their liquid expectations, has led to a common misunderstanding that businesses must rush to adapt themselves as “digital first.”
https://customerthink.com/reshape-customer-experience-by-leveraging-digital-trends-and-design-thinking/
Why does your organisation need an effective customer experience programme? Well, here’s just a few interesting statistics for insight on how Customer Experience really impacts your organisation.
80% of CEOs believe they offer a superior customer experience. Only 8% of their customers AGREE. So why the big gap in perception?
http://customerthink.com/statistical-insight-on-the-impact-of-customer-experience/
Infiniti Research, a world-renowned market intelligence solutions provider, has announced the completion of their latest list blog on the top five fundamental principles to build a strong customer experience.
Building an excellent customer experience is an important step toward success, regardless of the industry in which you operate. Organizations in different sectors are investing their money, time, and efforts into improving their customer experience management. Anything and everything a company does is to enhance the customer’s perception of the brand. Hence, customer experience management includes everything starting from the message you use, the products you sell, the sales process, and after-sale services. In this blog post, we’ll take you through the top five fundamental principles to build a strong customer experience.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180403005800/en/Top-Fundamental-Principles-Build-Strong-Customer-Experience/
Imagine a support center with a competent level 1 support team. A level 1.5 team receives warmly transferred calls and chats. Shift-left activities combined with a Knowledge Centered Service (KCS) approach ensure support processes are steadily handed off from level 2 to level1.5, level 1, and ultimately level 0. All Key Performance Indicator (KPI) targets are exceeded, met, or approached very closely. Resolution rates sky rocket to close to 90% between level 1 and level 1.5. Customer satisfaction rates are consistently high and above the 93% target. The ball seems to be hit out of the park in most, if not all respects. Support center management is pleased with the results. Might they even have become slightly complacent?
https://www.thinkhdi.com/library/supportworld/2018/understand-customer-experience-journey.aspx/
In the last several years, there is no doubt that improving the customer experience (CX) has been a top priority for any company looking to improve employee performance, drive customer value, and grow their bottom line. Yet there remains a gap between those CX leaders who successfully lead their organization in effecting CX change and those who do not. What makes the difference?
CX leaders know how to do these five things successfully:
https://www.inmoment.com/blog/5-things-successful-customer-experience-leaders-know-that-others-dont/
Customer experience has supplanted content marketing and mobile marketing as the secret of e-business success for entrepreneurs.
User experience is important from an SEO perspective as well – websites where users don’t spend more than 10 seconds, because of messed up user experience designs, fail to sustain their rankings. What’s more, a Walker study predicts that customer experience will be more important than price as well as product by 2020.
The big question, then, is – how should businesses make use of this insight and grow more than their competitors? The answer – by focusing on customer experience on mobile. Though businesses need to deliver robust customer experiences across channels, mobile is where the leverage lies.
https://www.smartinsights.com/user-experience/usability/7-ways-improve-customer-experience-mobile/
Continuous testing is a term that is commonly associated with software development. The objective of this process is to reduce the time it takes for developers to gather user feedback data and use it to tweak the product. This brings down the time it takes to fix bugs and usability issues on the user’s end and thus contributes to a better customer experience. In some ways then, continuous testing can also be looked at as a marketing strategy. In this blog, let us look at a few ways a business can keep a tab on customer experience through continuous testing.
https://hyken.com/customer-experience-2/guest-blog-how-to-keep-a-tab-on-customer-experience-with-continuous-testing/
In an increasingly connected world, a high-quality and efficient customer experience is more important than ever
And customers expect their experience to be seamless, digital, and hassle-free — emphasis on “digital.”
Businesses now find themselves in the midst of a fourth industrial revolution – the proliferation of next-generation technologies – where the growth of the cloud economy has made accessibility and shareability of resources instantaneous. This means customers will not tolerate slow or clunky processes from brands. As technology moves on, so too must the experience of the customer.
https://www.technative.io/the-three-major-problems-of-building-a-digital-customer-experience-in-the-cloud-economy/
Small business is the engine of the American economy. Fortunately, it’s growing – 69% of small business owners expected revenue growth in 2017. And it’s robust growth, too: 38% of them expected their businesses to grow by more than 5%.
So how did these owners plan to achieve that much growth?
As you can see below, they’ve got quite a few ideas. But improving existing customer experience and retention tops the list.
https://www.business2community.com/consumer-marketing/customer-experience-retention-single-best-way-increase-revenue-02043183/
Often, companies use “crosschannel,” “multichannel,” and “omnichannel” to describe the same phenomenon in customer experience (CX). There are currently no clear definitions of these industry terms, and what’s worse is that they all mean different things to different people and different organizations.
What everyone does agree on is that these terms focus on customer-centric strategies that represent different types of interactions a customer has with a business, aiming to provide the ultimate CX. Here’s a foundation for us all to reach a common definition:
https://smartercx.com/modern-cx-terms-defined-part-2-the-difference-between-omni-multi-and-cross-channel-customer-experience/
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