No matter how hard you try to improve your company’s customer experience, the reality is that your customers won’t remember much of it.
That’s because our brains aren’t wired like a video camera, recording every second of every experience. Rather, what we remember are a series of snapshots.
http://customerthink.com/most-of-your-companys-customer-experience-is-forgettable-heres-why/
Next is exploring how it can more effectively target customers online and offer more personalised products and services.
https://www.marketingweek.com/2018/03/23/next-increases-online-investment-as-high-street-stores-continue-to-suffer/
We all know that the customer is king (or queen) and it seems you agree, as any article that mentions UC and the customer experience (CX) is a popular one at UC Today.
https://www.uctoday.com/news/whats-new/our-most-popular-cx-posts/
Emotions are a huge part of the customer experience. Emotions drive or destroy value for a business, and often in hidden ways. Emotions influence our desire to buy or not to buy, what we choose from a company’s offerings, what we remember and share about the experience, and, perhaps most importantly, whether we will be loyal to a brand.
https://www.mycustomer.com/experience/engagement/the-20-emotions-that-drive-or-destroy-value-in-customer-experience/
When a company sets out to revamp its customer experience, it tends to focus right away on the extreme events, the big, rare customer service catastrophes: mass blow-ups online and so forth. But I actually tend to discourage them, as their customer experience consultant, from going there first. That’s because I subscribe to what could be called “the broken windows theory” of customer service and customer experience improvement.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/micahsolomon/2018/07/05/the-broken-windows-theory-of-customer-service-and-the-customer-experience/#3c68290f4b73/
In the much-cited book Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman he talks about how the brain works to create two selves, the experiencing self and the remembering self. The experience self is one that lives in the present whilst the remembering self is “the one that keeps score, that maintains the story of our life”. Based on our memory of an experience and our life it is a different entity to the experiencing self.
https://www.mycustomer.com/community/blogs/tim-wade/the-cx-benefits-of-understanding-the-two-selves-0/
'Customer experience' (CX), as a discipline, is starting to mature. What was once a fashionable buzzword which drove organisational change has now become a routine category of management reports.
https://www.econsultancy.com/blog/70149-the-future-of-customer-experience-trends-and-challenges-in-2018/
Every day is a new opportunity to learn how disconnected businesses are with their customers. But it's also a chance to discover the secret to better experience is really quite simple. All you need to do is listen.
Consider this. I recently spent 63 minutes glued to my phone trying unsuccessfully to resolve a health insurance issue. Five phone calls. A dozen transfers. Multiple hang-ups. Inconsistent information. Contradictory advice.
Come on now, I wondered. Is this any way to treat a customer?
https://customerthink.com/the-most-amazing-customer-experience-starts-with-your-ears/
It's no surprise that greater employee engagement leads to better customer experience (CX). It makes intuitive sense and data proves the point. The Temkin Group, for example, has reported that companies with stronger financial performances and better CX have employees who are considerably more engaged than their peers. Not as well-known, though, is that superior CX requires more than general employee engagement.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/deniselyohn/2018/04/18/the-secret-to-superior-customer-experience/#417403c91f2c/
To stay ahead of the customer experience curve, companies can no longer rely on voice and telephone services alone, says Stephen Ball, Senior VP Europe and Africa, Aspect Software.
Recent times have seen some hugely significant developments in industry, with these advances now coming to define how we approach the world of technology. Bitcoin, blockchain and big data have well and truly come to the fore, and AI, automation and chatbots are showing promise on a commercial scale.
These developments are having a huge impact on the ways in which businesses engage with their customers. Here, Stephen Ball, Senior VP Europe and Africa, Aspect Software, looks at the key customer experience trends that we will see developing in the coming months.
http://pressoffice.itweb.co.za/aspect/PressRelease.php?StoryID=281944/
