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

PeopleMetrics

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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#CXSecrets: Collecting Feedback IS a Touchpoint

PeopleMetrics

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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CEMs vs. CRMs (And Why You Need Both)

PeopleMetrics

Customer Experience Management (CEM) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) are the same, right?”. While it may be true that at their core, both systems revolve around the key interactions a customer has with your brand, CRMs and CEMs serve distinctly different purposes and operate from two contrasting angles.

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Defining the Value of Customer Experience: A Guide for Creating CX ROI in A Constantly Changing World

Experience Investigators

CX leaders today face a long list of challenges, including adapting to a dynamic market environment and ensuring every stakeholder, supervisor, and employee in the business is aligned with the customer-centric vision. Understanding Customer Experience Management (CEM) Let’s start at the beginning. It’s time to make your case.

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

PeopleMetrics

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).

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5 Strategies for CX Excellence

PeopleMetrics

After writing my book, Listen or Die , which outlined 40 lessons that turns customer feedback into gold, I often got the question: "what are the small handful of strategies that provide the biggest impact or provide the most insight on driving CX excellence?". After all, there is no cash without customers and employees!

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

PeopleMetrics

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. CX is holistic and covers a wide number of touchpoints.

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