I was recently asked what my personal, key tenants or beliefs are about providing a great customer experience. After pondering this for a few moments, I came up with 4 primary themes which evolved into this week’s blog post on 4 Key Tenants That Drive Positive Customer Experiences: 1) Employees first: We won’t make any progress if we focus on the customer experience without first ensuring that we have a team of satisfied and engaged employees with the right training, tools, leadership and information to succeed. Employees deliver the customer experience. Therefore, employees are the customer experience. 2) Communicate, communicate, communicate: Any customer facing situation, noRead More →

The data is clear. Both B2B and B2C buyers are willing to pay more for a better customer experience. So, why do we keep treating customer experience (quality, delivery, people) like a cost center? Every other week I drive about 8 miles out of my way to visit my favorite nail salon for a manicure. There are literally hundreds of nail salons all around the area where I live and where I work, and I keep going back to the same place. When I first moved from Boston to Atlanta almost 2 years ago, I tried a number of different nail salons. I read Yelp,Read More →

Are you looking for the most interesting and active Customer Experience thought leaders on Twitter? I have created a list of some of my favorites who share high quality content about retention, support, wow experiences etc., on a regular basis. If I missed anyone, please add his or her Twitter handle to the comments section. I find that Twitter is a fantastic tool to stay up to date on client experience trends and to learn about local and global CX events and conferences.  In addition to following these 15 thought leaders, you may also want to try searching for client experience related key words in the Twitter feedRead More →