Today's post has been written by Chris Luxford, a Senior Partner at The ASPIRE! Group and an old friend and colleague. Chris is passionate about CX and loves helping organisations change to create real innovation and differentiation and deliver their strategic goals. Long ago the service a customer received
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(Image courtesy of Unsplash) In today’s post, I’m talking to customer experience managers or team leaders who have either just made a change or are about to which will make your organisation more customer centric. First of all, well done! It takes courage to make changes. And as George
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CXpert associate, Sean Heylen, steps in today to deliver his review of a brand new Customer Experience report from the US. A key study has detailed how leading businesses across a number of sectors have made Customer Experience, or “CX”, their core strategic focus, and how it is providing excellent
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I had the good fortune to win a copy of the brand new book Your Customer Rules! through Sharon Melamed and her company Matchboard a few weeks ago (thank you again, Sharon!). Written by Bill Price (Amazon’s first Global VP of Customer Service) and David Jaffe (Consulting Director and founder
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(Image courtesy of Unsplash) The news this week that Comcast’s proposed $45bn merger with Time Warner Cable hangs in the balance because of their poor customer service highlights the cost of poor CX. After 10 years of calling customers names like Bitch Dog, A**hole, Whore and Dummy (in some cases
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(Image courtesy of Pixabay) A lot of times when people talk about improving CX they speak in terms of large, sometimes ambiguous goals. Things like listen to customers, improve employee engagement, or understand your customers better. Over the holiday season I had a chance to talk with a friend
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Social media has effectively turned customers into broadcasters. We all know the old statistics that a satisfied customer will tell 2-3 people about their experience with a company while a dissatisfied consumer will tell 8-10. Platforms like Facebook and Twitter where a post or tweet can be shared thousands of
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I read a story this week about a restaurant customer who posted a negative review on Yelp which the owner of the restaurant then responded to (Woman Leaves Bad Online Review, The Owner Finds Out And Responds). It’s a ‘he said, she said’ situation so one can’t make judgements on
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(Image courtesy of Unsplash) Why does your company exist? If you answered “to put food on the table”, you need to look deeper. The money you make at work is the result of the reason. What greater benefit do you deliver to society? The answer to this question is formalised
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I’ve written in the past about the benefits of following a CX strategy and Watermark Consulting did some great analysis a couple of years back on how CX Leaders have outperformed CX Laggards on the stock market. So seeing these benefits, more and more businesses are now following a CX
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