As a business owner, you're always trying to give your customers the best experience. You can't be perfect at pleasing everyone all the time, though - each customer comes to you with different expectations, and it's impossible to predict what all those expectations might be. What you can do, however, is learn how to handle feedback in a graceful way, so that you can turn any negative customer experiences into a positive. Here are five ways to do just that:
http://www.cogointeractive.com/onlinemarketingblog/5-ways-to-turn-negative-feedback-into-a-positive/
Do you know how much small and medium-size businesses (SMEs) contribute to total GDP growth? This segment, comprised of your friends, moms, dads, and others is an enormous contributor to the general welfare of our communities.
https://customerthink.com/are-small-businesses-missing-out-on-customer-experience-as-a-way-to-grow/
Every day is a new opportunity to learn how disconnected businesses are with their customers. But it's also a chance to discover the secret to better experience is really quite simple. All you need to do is listen.
Consider this. I recently spent 63 minutes glued to my phone trying unsuccessfully to resolve a health insurance issue. Five phone calls. A dozen transfers. Multiple hang-ups. Inconsistent information. Contradictory advice.
Come on now, I wondered. Is this any way to treat a customer?
http://customerthink.com/the-most-amazing-customer-experience-starts-with-your-ears/
Research says that it costs 5 times as much to attract a new customer, than to keep an existing one while the chances of selling to an existing customer is 60%-70% and to a new prospect around 5% to 20%. To retain your existing customers its important to understand them. It is not about what you think your customer experience but how your customers feel about doing business with you. It is a pictorial representation of all the steps your customers take when they do business with you over a period of time and their thoughts and feelings at the different stages.
http://customerthink.com/how-to-map-your-customer-journey-to-delight-them-like-never-before/
Everyone is well aware of the value that customer feedback can bring to your organization. Unfortunately, many companies fall into traps that prevent them from being able to get the most value out of this feedback.
Brands often fail to realize the primary value of Voice of the Customer (VoC) data, which is that information culled via customer feedback, creates internal alignment and provides insights that allow brands to execute quicker than the competition.
https://www.iperceptions.com/blog/why-your-voc-data-is-not-actionable/
I’ve always been intrigued when I hear customer success professionals refer to customer experience as customer success.
A lot of that has to do with the fact that customer success professionals believe customer experience is a subset of customer success. Customer Experience professionals, on the other hand, believe customer success is a subset of customer experience.
The Customer Experience vs. Customer Success debate has been an interesting one.
http://customerthink.com/is-2018-the-year-customer-experience-and-customer-success-converge/
Analytics goes hand in hand with today’s optimized customer experience strategy. Analytics is a tool that can be used at every step of the customer journey—from assessing and benchmarking customer support to gauging the voice of your customer for actionable business and product decision making. As predicted by Gartner, this year 50% of agent interactions will be influenced by real-time analytics.
https://www.teamhgs.com/blog/advantages-using-analytics-customer-experience/
"In this post, we outline a few key ways that retailers can step their customer experience game up to keep their customers happy, engaged, and loyal."
https://www.business2community.com/customer-experience/retailers-can-use-customer-experience-compete-amazon-02004104/
Customer experience offered by e-commerce companies has come a long way in the past 17 years. Here is a look at what are the latest technologies companies to keep customers coming back to their site.
http://www.computerworld.in/slideshow/customer-experience-king-ecommerce/
In 2017, I discussed the importance of a solid financial business case for investment in customer experience (CX). As we start a new year and reflect on the performance of the economy over the last 12 months – and look at the uncertainty ahead – this has never been truer. One of the best ways to understand their full business impact is to look at examples of success.
Virgin Money is a case in point.
https://www.mycustomer.com/experience/voice-of-the-customer/how-virgin-moneys-customer-feedback-strategy-helped-it-top-the/
