Futurelab

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

As customer experience professionals, the work you do to identify improvement opportunities and other initiatives to design and deliver a better experience requires you to build the business case and help your executives prioritize those initiatives – because there are typically many improvements that need to be made.

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Customer Experience 246

Futurelab

OCTOBER 17, 2021

Back then I wrote: Tags: Annette Franz (Gleneicki) alignment customer experience culture leadership Facebook Like. A couple months ago, I wrote about the difference between consensus and alignment and why that’s important to know. Linkedin Share Button. Tweet Widget.

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Customer Experience 246

Futurelab

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The Who isn’t defined by demographics but by psychographics: their (customer) beliefs, their dreams, their desires. It’s a reminder that developing personas is so important to customer experience design. And it’s a reminder that we should be finding products for our customers, not customers for our products.

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Customer Experience 246

Futurelab

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

One of the most-commonly requested needs – often as a result of CEO/executive asks – is to build the business case for the business to focus on the customer experience. It’s painful just to write that without thinking about this open letter to CEOs , excerpted from my book, Customer Understanding.) Linkedin Share Button.

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Customer Experience 245

Futurelab

AUGUST 10, 2021

The history of the Customer Success profession dates back to 1996, when a CRM vendor, Vantive, realized that their system had a high failure rate, an issue that certainly didn’t help their quest to have 100% of their customers willing to serve as references. Marie Alexander created and led a department she called Customer Success.

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CRM Customer Experience 246

Futurelab

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In 2019, I wrote about this marketing phenomenon that I kept hearing about, that customers are in control, that they have all the power. In that post, I wrote: Tags: Annette Franz (Gleneicki) co-creation customer experience design thinking innovation Facebook Like. I never felt like that was right. Tweet Widget.

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Innovation Customer Experience 246

Futurelab

MAY 2, 2022

Obviously, there are two sides to every story, and the customer’s version is the most important side of this story. How this dilemma affects customers Tags: Annette Franz (Gleneicki) acquisition customer experience customer retention marketing Facebook Like. Linkedin Share Button. Tweet Widget.

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Customer Retention Customer Experience 246

Futurelab

MARCH 20, 2022

Tags: Annette Franz (Gleneicki) culture customer experience customer-centric product design Facebook Like. Today’s post includes an excerpt of a guide I wrote for GetFeedback in November 2020. The original guide can be found here , and a video excerpt can be found here. Linkedin Share Button. Tweet Widget.

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Customer Experience 246

Futurelab

JANUARY 31, 2022

You’ve probably all heard – or read about – the Bain statistic from 2005 that goes like this: 80% of executives believe that they are delivering a superior customer experience, while only 8% of customers agree. Linkedin Share Button. Tweet Widget.

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Customer Experience 246

Futurelab

MARCH 20, 2022

Tags: Annette Franz (Gleneicki) customer experience CX profession Facebook Like. Those changes drove GetFeedback to research 2,200 professionals in the United States and Europe. Their findings are presented in The 2022 State of CX Report. Linkedin Share Button. Tweet Widget.

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CX Customer Expectations Customer Experience 246

SurveySensum

MARCH 20, 2024

Now, understand the importance of creating a positive customer experience for your customers. Well, Customer Experience Management is the solution! It includes a variety of factors like customer service interactions and surveys for personalization and user journey optimization. And how to facilitate this?

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Customer Experience Management CXM Customer Experience Text Analytics 52

Futurelab

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Companies have long been pouring disproportionate resources – human, time, effort, capital – into the top of the funnel, on attracting and acquiring new customers, while retention efforts have gotten little more than loyalty programs and discount offers. Linkedin Share Button. Tweet Widget.

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Customer Retention Customer Experience 246

Aquire

DECEMBER 1, 2021

So, it’s safe to assume there are quite a few of your customers among its users — often trying to make buying decisions with the platform’s help. And that’s why it’s important to include the Facebook customer experience as part of your overall strategy. How can I improve my customer experience on Facebook?

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Social Media Customer Experience Omnichannel Sports 105

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2022

Intercom Switch allows your customers to embrace the future of support – empowering them to seamlessly transition from phone to messaging. Upgrade your customer experience and save their time, while giving your team the tools they need to handle higher support volumes. Tag Articles for easier content management.

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Gaming Customer Feedback Customer Experience 118

Futurelab

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Tags: Annette Franz (Gleneicki) customer experience customer success Facebook Like. I originally published today’s post on Forbes. It appeared on their site on August 23, 2021. Linkedin Share Button. Tweet Widget.

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Customer Experience 130

Futurelab

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Tags: Annette Franz (Gleneicki) customer experience customer service Facebook Like. I originally published today’s post for StellaConnect. It appeared on their site on May 25, 2021. Linkedin Share Button. Tweet Widget.

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Customer Service Customer Experience 130

Futurelab

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The following is a modified excerpt from my book, Customer Understanding: Three Ways to Put the “Customer” in Customer Experience (and at the Heart of Your Business) , available now on Amazon in paperback and Kindle formats. Linkedin Share Button. Tweet Widget.

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CX Customer Experience 130

Futurelab

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Lea Boroditsky (1) Tags: HelgeTennø business design customer experience customer strategy Facebook Like. And that gives you the opportunity to ask, “Why do I think the way that I do?” “How How could I think differently?” And also, “What thoughts do I wish to create?”?—? Linkedin Share Button. Tweet Widget.

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Customer Experience 130

Futurelab

JUNE 30, 2021

As companies strive to improve their customer experience, the desire to do more than satisfy customers is becoming increasingly important. . It leaves companies with the investment for improving their customers’ experiences. It leaves companies with the investment for improving their customers’ experiences.

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Customer Experience 147

Futurelab

JUNE 7, 2021

There are so many different customer experience roles these days that I wrote a post a few months ago called “ Customer [Insert Term Here]: What Do They All Mean? ” In the past, I’ve written a few times about the difference between customer experience and customer service.

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Customer Service Customer Experience 130

Futurelab

JUNE 7, 2021

Back in 2019, I shared an excerpt from my book, Customer Understanding: Three Ways to Put the “Customer” in Customer Experience (and at the Heart of Your Business , that outlines the various types of maps that you may encounter or use in your work to understand and redesign the customer experience.

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Customer Experience 130

Customer Service Life

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Assign a tag to each issue – In our ticketing system we can add tags to tickets. I’m not sure if it’s an infinite amount of tags but it’s a lot. For the sake of this article, our tags include names like featurerequest, bug, and then unique tag names for the various products in our line that we upsell.

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Contact Center Engineering Customer Service Sales 83

Futurelab

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Tags: Annette Franz (Gleneicki) customer experience customer-centric culture Facebook Like. I’ve seen this culture many times over the last year or so (and prior, for sure, but examples overwhelmingly landed on my desk this year). If you haven’t read that post, it’s an important precursor to this one. Tweet Widget.

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Sales Customer Experience 130

Futurelab

OCTOBER 18, 2021

After all, customer experience management really is (all about) change management. Tags: Annette Franz (Gleneicki) alignment change change management leadership Facebook Like. I’ve written about change and change management several times over the years , especially last year. Change is hard. Well, it can be.

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Customer Experience Management Customer Experience 130

Futurelab

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Ultimately, “create and nurture customers” must come down to helping customers solve their problems, complete the jobs they are trying to do, and achieve the outcomes they desire by using your products or services. Linkedin Share Button. Tweet Widget.

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Technology Technology Customer Experience 246

Taylor Reach Group

MARCH 10, 2020

Over the past number of years, the customer experience (otherwise known as “CX”) has become a profession unto itself. Roles like Chief Customer Officer, Customer Experience Director, Manager, Customer Success have been popping up. Increasingly, brands understand the importance of the customer.

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Customer Experience Customer Journey Map Customer Retention NPS 123

Futurelab

MAY 11, 2021

As a follow on to the post, Four Actions to Take on Customer Effort Feedback , you’re likely going to need to prove the ROI of reducing customer effort. Tags: Annette Franz (Gleneicki) customer effort customer experience ROI Facebook Like. In this post, I’ll talk about five steps to prove the ROI.

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Customer Experience 147

Ameyo Callversations

JUNE 9, 2022

Truecaller for Business is one such digital tool that helps businesses on multiple fronts, like enhancing customer experience and business communication. A series of features on the platform enables businesses to effectively reach out to their customers and provide great value and service. Boost your CX With Truecaller Business.

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Customer Experience Real Estate Finance Actionable Insights 52

Futurelab

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Those words could not be truer when it comes to customer experience and to your business. Tags: Annette Franz (Gleneicki) customer experience customer feedback survey design Facebook Like. Author and businessman Harvey Mackay once said : “You learn when you listen. Linkedin Share Button. Tweet Widget.

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Customer Feedback Customer Experience 130

Futurelab

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

These companies… Tags: Annette Franz (Gleneicki) customer experience customer-centric sales Facebook Like. How do you know when a company is sales-centric? Linkedin Share Button. Tweet Widget.

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Sales CX Customer Experience 130

Futurelab

JULY 21, 2021

The topics of customer trust and customer confidence have come up in conversations a few times recently, especially as it relates to pandemic and post-pandemic actions by several companies. Tags: Annette Franz (Gleneicki) culture customer experience customer-centric culture trust Facebook Like.

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Start-ups Customer Experience 130

CommBox

JANUARY 4, 2022

Customer experience is one of the most important factors in business success. According to Deloitte, a whopping 88% of businesses are now prioritizing customer experience in their contact centers. And on top of that, over two-thirds compete with customer experience as their primary basis.

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Customer Experience Social Media Entertainment Sales 105

Futurelab

AUGUST 10, 2021

Where does it apply in your customer experience work? Tags: Annette Franz (Gleneicki) alignment commitment decision making leadership Facebook Like. Back in 2015, I asked a similar question about buy-in and commitment – and, importantly, why knowing the difference matters.

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CX Customer Experience 130

Futurelab

JANUARY 10, 2021

How do you define customer trust? How do your customers define trust as it relates to your brand? Tags: Annette Franz (Gleneicki) customer experience core values trust Facebook Like. Linkedin Share Button. Tweet Widget.

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Customer Experience 130

Futurelab

APRIL 4, 2021

It’s the sub-title that struck me: “The Experience a Company Provides Is as Important as Its Products or Services.”. Aren’t products and services part of the experience? Tags: Annette Franz (Gleneicki) customer experience customer journey Facebook Like. I had to pause a moment. Linkedin Share Button.

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CX Customer Experience 147

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2020

We’ve always used Intercom to provide support for our customers and, as our customer base has grown, we’ve seen first hand the needs for better reporting and workflows in Intercom. These new features have supercharged our team’s efficiency while preserving our customer experience.

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Engineering Gaming Sales Customer Feedback 211

Futurelab

MARCH 17, 2021

According to Salesforce , 51% of customers expect that brands will anticipate their needs and make relevant suggestions before they make contact – by 2020. Tags: Annette Franz (Gleneicki) customer experience personalization personalized Facebook Like. Well, here we are! Linkedin Share Button. Tweet Widget.

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Customer Expectations Customer Experience 130