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#CXSecrets: Collecting Feedback IS a Touchpoint

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Whether you're a seasoned CX professional or you've never heard of CX, chances are you at least have some basic notion of the areas, or touchpoints, where customers interact with your organization. Your website, call center or storefront are all examples of possible customer touchpoints. Touchpoints vary.

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If you want a consistent experience across all touchpoints, you must ask for customer feedback at each one

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Understanding the various touchpoints (e.g., in person, digital) you have with your customers is key to delivering a memorable customer experience. Once you’ve mapped out your touchpoints, it’s often helpful to group them into channels. Field Services: customers interact with a company in their home.

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Lesson #7: CX Is NOT The Same As Customer Service. Know The Difference.

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Customer experience is the sum of all experiences, interactions, or touchpoints a customer has with a company. Customer service is employees at a company helping solve a customer’s need in some way, usually (but not always) around a problem or a question. Some of them are CS oriented, some are not.

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5 Strategies for CX Excellence

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After all, there is no cash without customers and employees! Start your customer experience feedback program with your most important touchpoint. You probably interact with customers in a variety of ways: website, app, contact center, location, field services, etc. Sean holds a Ph.D.

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Lesson #2: CX Measurement Is Hot, But It's Not What You Think It Is

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As noted previously, the term VoC is frequently used to describe the measurement of the customer experience; so is the term customer experience management (CEM). A consulting firm mentioned in the introduction, Forrester , coined a third term: customer feedback management (CFM). Sean holds a Ph.D.

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Lesson #10: B2B VoC and B2C VoC Are Completely Different

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The sales force becomes a key touchpoint in the customer experience for B2B. B2B companies are smart to want to know what their clients think of their sales process and how the expectations that their sales force established compared to their actual experience. CLV prioritizes which customers to follow up with.

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Build Your VoC Program From Where You Are: Part 1 - Building Phase

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After you know where you stand based on the results of the relationship survey, you can then start to put together the building blocks of the core of your VoC program by selecting one touchpoint to focus on with a transactional survey. Is this now a digital touchpoint? Are you measuring these digital experiences and improving them?

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