You’re overhauling your systems and looking for solutions to streamline how your business runs. Your goal is to make the jobs of your employees easier and find a way to wow your customers and improve their overall experience. You know you need a better quoting and proposal system, but you’re wondering, What is CPQ, and Is it right for me?
Think about the last time you went to the grocery store or out to eat at a restaurant. Did you quickly check your receipt before cashing out? Most likely — consumers want to feel confident they’re paying the correct amount when purchasing goods or services. You wouldn’t want to be overcharged, and you certainly wouldn’t want to leave the building without what you ordered. The same goes for your prospects and current customers. They want the process of purchasing from you to be streamlined, and most importantly, correct. It’s important they trust your sales team’s estimates, and they understand that if a mistake does occur, it can be fixed quickly and in real time.
https://smartercx.com/what-is-cpq-and-will-it-improve-cx/
As you think about your experience management (XM) efforts, it’s important to understand how people flow through the experiences in their lives — as customers, employees, patients, fans, citizens, students, etc. To help deepen that understanding, I’ve created a simple model, the Human Experience Cycle (HxC). As you can see in the chart below, the HxC is made up of five elements:
Expectations: What a person anticipates will happen during an experience.
Experiences: What actually happens to a person during an interaction.
Perceptions: How a person views an experience based on their expectations.
Attitudes: How someone feels about the organization.
Behaviors: How a person choses to interact with an organization.
https://experiencematters.blog/2019/03/20/the-human-experience-cycle/
Every industry strives to improve their customers’ experience with their products and services. Adopting a customer first strategy is therefore in many company objectives. Unfortunately it rarely goes beyond the theory in many organisations, so I decided to help out with these six suggestions.
Hospitality is perhaps one of the most visible industries where customer satisfaction, or lack of, is quickly shared with the world. It is true that without satisfaction, customers will not return to a hotel or restaurant. And they will almost certainly share their (bad) experiences with anyone who will listen.
http://www.customerexperienceupdate.com/?open-article-id=10519687&article-title=fundamentals-of-a-customer-first-strategy-for-every-industry&blog-domain=c3centricity.com&blog-title=c3centricity/
Survey emails are one of the best ways to get customer information straight from the source. But times are changing, and getting your customer’s attention over email is difficult. 20 years ago, when the world was just discovering the email, there wasn’t a whole lot more to do than simply sending your email. These days, we get bombarded with so many messages it’s hard to keep up with everything or know what’s worth looking at in the first place. Quite simply, your customers are overwhelmed.
There are about 2.2 billion email users in the world and around 100 billion emails sent a day. The reality is that anyone you’re hoping to talk to has a ton of others also vying for their attention. There’s so much noise online it can be extremely difficult to get anyone’s attention. Even that of a current customer.
In this article, we cover 5 ways to improve your survey emails. With these tips you’ll be able to cut through the noise, gain more insight, connect deeper with your customers, and start down the path towards more loyal customers.
Read article.
http://www.customerexperienceupdate.com/?open-article-id=10496391&article-title=survey-emails--how-to-grab-your-customer-s-attention&blog-domain=getfeedback.com&blog-title=getfeedback/
When trying to improve a customer experience, most people automatically look at the conscious, rational side of things. Do customers have to wait too long in line? Is the price too high? The selection too small? Are problems and complaints being addressed in a reasonable amount of time?
These things are important, but they’re just one piece of the customer experience puzzle. All customer experiences also have a subconscious aspect that dramatically affects the way a customer feels about a company.
The Hidden Customer Experience
In more than 20 years in the customer experience field, I have learned that customer experience is based far more on emotions than on rational thought. Negative emotions like frustration and anger can destroy a customer experience, whereas positive emotions like gratitude can improve it. And while these emotions can be driven by conscious, rational factors, they are more often a result of subconscious influences.
Read the full article.
http://www.customerexperienceupdate.com/?open-article-id=10484880&article-title=the-customer-experience-you-didn-t-know-about&blog-domain=intouchinsight.com&blog-title=intouchinsight/
Here’s the unfortunate truth: in today’s business climate, odds are your customer experience (CX) just isn’t cutting it. It’s understandable. Customer expectations and new digital capabilities are evolving so fast it feels like only the Googles and Amazons of the world can keep pace. In a 2018 survey my company, West Monroe Partners, did with the Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA), 61% of respondents said their company’s ability to quickly adapt is a top strategic priority — yet only 17% thought efforts to do so were currently mature.
https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/how-to-set-your-brand-apart-through-customer-experience/
I recently took my car in for servicing and got it back the same day. But after less than an hour, the problem reappeared. I took the car back, and after some delay, the issue was resolved. While I was collecting the vehicle the service associate informed me I would be receiving a survey, and asked if I would kindly give him a 9 or 10.
After sharing my story with friends, I realized that my experience was no exception, which prompted us to launch our own survey on the premium and luxury automotive segment. We found that the customer experience (CX) with most brands was poor, yet most of them were boasting about their high customer satisfaction rates. This inevitably led to the conclusion that CX measurement is flawed.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesagencycouncil/2019/04/30/customer-experience-cx-programs-past-present-and-future/#103083671b26/
Most customers look at online reviews before they buy these days. Positive reviews are good for you. Negative reviews, not so good. Fake reviews, downright illegal.
Clearly you want honest, positive reviews and even some negative reviews that can help you improve. We’ll get to how to manage those reviews in a bit.
http://www.customerexperienceinsight.com/online-reviews-the-good-bad-and-illegal/
The online customer journey consists of more than just service, conversions and returning customers. And this complexity is precisely why listening to the Voice of the Customer (VoC) is one of the most important indicators for finding out how customers experience your online services. The Voice of the Customer is a research technique that maps out the detailed wishes and needs of your customers. In other words, it is listening to what your customers have to say about a product or service. And while capturing the VoC using customer feedback across various touchpoints along the customer journey is ideal, it isn’t always a straightforward process. For example, how do you gather good feedback without disturbing the customer journey and better yet, how can you obtain relevant insights from such large amounts of data?
This article will explain how you can start putting the VoC first by effectively collecting, analyzing and acting on your user feedback.
https://caveni.com/putting-the-voice-of-the-customer-first/
“Less is more” – you’ve probably heard this phrase a number of times. Like most of us, you might be thinking of it as a sort of a “minimalist mantra”.
This mantra has certainly imprinted itself into modern design, as minimalism remains one of the most popular design philosophies. From architecture to fashion, “the art of less”, has proven to be a tenacious influence on creators and trends.
http://customerthink.com/how-minimalist-web-design-can-improve-the-customer-experience/
