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3 Ways to Lean Into Empathy for Better CX

Finding Empathy In Customer Experience It’s easy to assume that empathy is one of those things…we should all know it, feel it, and share it. Just typing that sounds like a better world, a world in which we understand our fellow humans better. So the term empathy gets tossed around a lot in customer experience. […]

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How to Turn CX Buzzwords into Meaningful Definitions

What did you think the first time you heard the term Customer Experience? Many years ago, I was speaking with a marketing executive when they revealed how they really felt about this whole idea of “customer experience (CX).” In their view, CX was just another buzzword being tossed around as novel business jargon.  You can

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Don’t Accidentally Sabotage Customer Experience — Do This Instead

Sure, you may not intend to, but there are probably ways you, as the leader of your department or organization, are sabotaging the experience your customers have. And who can blame you? Today, leaders have more expectations with fewer resources. We’re asked to spend more time reporting on what’s happened than making things happen. Time

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5 Ways To Instill Customer Focused Values Throughout Your Organization

Customer Experience Leaders Have a Global Customer Focus Even after over a decade of helping small and large businesses alike, I still meet leaders who believe that Customer Experience is just about call-center scripts or proper protocols around customer complaints. As you and I both know, dear reader, it’s so much more than that. The

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How to Create the Best Customer Experience Solutions

Customer experience solutions are readily available these days. There are robust platforms that promise a seamless journey for your customers. There are feedback tools to help you gather JUST the perfect, most meaningful insights. And there are data sets and analytics and pivot tables, oh my! The real challenge in any customer experience scenario is

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How the Most Important Touchpoints Get Ignored, And How to Fix It

Touchpoints aren’t what they used to be. There was a time in our history when touchpoints were…finite. We could list them easily and agree easily to what they were. The list might have 5-6 things on it for a sophisticated organization. When asked, ‘how does a prospect or customer interact with your brand?’ a brand

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What You Need to Know to Reduce Customer Effort in 2019

It’s that time of year. We’re all making predictions and tracking trends in customer experience. What will happen in 2019? Which trends will matter? Which will fade away? One thing we predict will not change for a long time is the need to reduce customer effort. CCW’s latest report, 2019 Trends, highlighted many great trends,

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What Kind of Customer Experience Leader Do You Need to Be?

The job descriptions for a customer experience leader vary between tactical analyst and strategic overlord. Defining just what a customer experience leader does can be tricky. But what’s even trickier is when you may not have customer experience or customer insights in your title. Maybe you’re a survey pro or a journey mapping guide, but only

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How to Avoid Hidden Disasters in Customer Experience Design

Ever have a sneaking suspicion something just isn’t right, but you don’t know how to fix it? Is that happening with your organization’s customer experience design for service delivery? Lately, I’m seeing a lot of good intentions gone awry with customer experience. And a lot of leaders and followers defending the INTENTIONS of the design,

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The Best Brands Focus on Emotion for CX Success

What is the backbone of CX success? They say in every relationship, it’s important to have more positive interactions than negative ones. In the healthiest of relationships, the ratio of positive to negative is 2:1 or greater. The same holds true for the relationship you have with your customer. In fact, your customer needs even

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