Customer Experience & VOC
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Three Mistakes that Make Customer Co-Design a Waste of Time and Money
Don’t Bother If You Aren’t Going to Take Advantage of Your Customers’ Input
by Ronni MarshakNot every customer co-design initiative nets improved customer relationships and financial gains. Avoid these costly errors to reap the rewards you and your customers want. -
There’s Gold in Those Customer Metrics!
Mine Them Well and Reap the Benefits of Loyalty and Increased Business
by Ronni MarshakWhat do your customers care about and how do they measure how well you help them succeed? The key is capturing Customer’s Success Metrics. Once you have, you can keep track of how well you’re doing and identify new opportunities for your company. -
10 Characteristics of Customer-Centric Execs
How Many Do You Embody?
by Ronni MarshakHere are 10 characteristics that every customer-centric executive should demonstrate. They range from having a customer vision to monitoring what matters to customers. How well do you stack up? -
How Customers Want to Find and Purchase Your Products/Services
Identifying and Measuring the Key Moments of Truth in "Select & Buy" Customer Scenario® Patterns
by Ronni MarshakEach customer’s context is different, but there are patterns to what they care about in common scenarios. Measure how well you meet these customer priorities to ensure success. -
How Customers Want to Buy More of Your Products
Identifying and Measuring the Key Moments of Truth in Reorder/Renew/Replenish Customer Scenario® Patterns
by Ronni MarshakWhat happens when a customer runs out of the needed product he gets from you; or a values service expires? There is a common set of action that customers want to happen to reorder and ensure that they never run out again. Learn more about this customer scenario pattern! -
The History of Customer Scenario Design
Co-Designed and Evolved with Customers
by Ronni MarshakHear the story of how we co-designed our Customer Scenario Mapping methodology with our lead customers. -
Secret to Successful Customer Engagements
Beware of These Four Things that Will Doom Your Customer-Centric Initiatives
by Patricia SeyboldIf you want to involve customers in co-designing products, services, and/or customer-impacting business processes, you should know about, and avoid, these four common pitfalls. -
10 Requirements for Personal Information in Health & Fitness Apps and Patient Portals
Personal Health Records Will Flip Control in the Healthcare Industry from Payers to Patients
by Patricia SeyboldCustomers want control over their health and medical information. What’s needed for a new wave of health & fitness apps? -
Getting the Desired Outcome Right
Citizens Bank Did a Good Job Selling a Prospect, but Couldn’t Meet the Ultimate Goal
by Ronni MarshakDo you consider a prospective customer’s scenario when pitching them? Do you understand the desired outcome, the priorities, and the emotional concerns they have? If you do, you can sell much more effectively. -
Customer Experience and Operational Excellence Success in B2B
by Andrew SpanyiRead why it's best practice to combine your Customer Experience initiatives with your Operational Excellence initiatives. You'll streamline business processes and reduce cycle time in the areas that matter most to customers. -
Unsubscribe Me!
How Easily Do You Let Customers Go, and How Well Do You Entice Them to Come Back?
by Ronni MarshakSuffering from email overload? Start using those unsubscribe links on most email communications. But you will find that it is easier to get off some companies’ lists than others. -
Creating Customer-Centric Websites
Ensure that Your Customers Can Easily Accomplish What They Came to Do
by Ronni MarshakYour web site should clearly demonstrate that you understand what it is that your customers are trying to do—their key scenarios—as they relate to your products and services. Are you putting your customers’ scenarios front and center? And are you allowing them to progress through their scenarios without any detours or obstacles? -
Co-Designing Health & Care with a Community
How a Prospective Provider in Boothbay Maine Is Gathering Customer Requirements
by Patricia SeyboldBoothbay Region Health Care is a start up non-profit chartered to provide primary healthcare for the residents and visitors in their region. They’re in the strategic planning stage of their project. Customer co-design is part of their planning process. -
Salesforce Service Cloud
Capabilities for Self-Service, Assisted-Service, and Social Customer Service
by Mitchell KramerSalesforce Service Cloud provides a broad and deep collection of customer service capabilities across self-service, assisted-service, and social customer service channels, earning an excellent evaluation. Read the specifics in our 50-page evaluation. -
Unreasonable Customer Policy Stories from a Real Customer
Why Justified Indignation Can Lead to Losing Business
by Irene KopelHave you encountered customer-alienating policies from otherwise respected service providers? Our guest columnist, Irene Kopel, eloquently details her frustrations with ADT Security and PayPal. -
How Good Is Apple Pay’s Ecosystem?
How Well Does Apple Pay’s Ecosystem Meet Consumers’ and Partners’ Critical Needs?
by Patricia SeyboldHow viable is the Apple Pay ecosystem? Will all 15 categories of players required to support mobile payments play together nicely? Will all of these partners align to support consumers’ four critical moments of truth for mobile payments? -
Framework for Evaluating Customer Service Software
Delivering Answers and Solutions; Creating and Resolving Cases
by Mitchell KramerUse this new version of our Framework for Evaluating Customer Service Software Products to produce actionable evaluations, comparisons, and selection. It’s adaptable to every type of customer service application. -
Secure for “Your Own Good!”
Cumbersome Security Measures Create Difficult Customer Experiences
by Ronni MarshakBank of America doesn’t streamline customers’ address changes across BoA product lines. Comcast sets long, arbitrary router passwords and discourages customers from changing them—using “security” as a flimsy excuse. -
Contractor Do’s and Don’ts
Why Customer Experience Is So Important When Choosing a Contractor
by Ronni MarshakThere are a lot of missteps that service providers can make when trying to win someone’s business. Here are tips on what to do and what not to do. -
Desk.com from Salesforce.com
Customer Service for Small and Growing Businesses
by Mitchell KramerDesk.com, from Salesforce.com, provides case, account, and knowledge management capabilities across assisted-service, self-service, and social customer service channels for very-small, small, and mid-sized businesses. Read our evaluation in this report.
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