What if the customer experience you had to deliver was all about YOU? What if the customer experience you delivered was a 20-minute speech? The National Speakers Association Winter Conference sought to be an experience, and to ask professional speakers how they can be an experience. Here are some ideas I believe anyone can apply […]

For those of us who’ve studied CX for decades, seeing it featured as a “new topic” is a little jarring. It seems every business article now mentions the customer’s journey as if that’s a new revelation. “The journey is just as important as the product!” Wow! (Who knew!?) Now leaders worldwide are resolving to improve CX. […]

It also takes a bunch of traits that are often not found in one person.

I heard this question while speaking to a group not too long ago. It’s a great – and surprisingly complex – inquiry. When I quizzed the group, here are a few ideas I heard: “The minute someone decides to buy, that’s when they become a customer.” “The first time the customer has a problem or […]

She could’ve done a better job with Rule # 1 – Don’t Be Rude.

How important is customer experience in your organization? Most executives now consider customer experience a priority, but so many of them are still not ready to get serious about it. You may be among those who don’t have the resources necessary to improve the big picture, but you still have the power to improve customer […]

I have a question for you today. Think about how much effort you exert every day. You have responsibilities. You work hard, you care about the results you get, and you are a leader in a professional sense. You also have the regular responsibilities of life. You have to eat, take care of yourself, do […]

It’s become cliché to say it, but everyone does own the customer experience. If the custodian sweeping up doesn’t believe his role plays a part, then it’s easy to pull the thread and suddenly nobody thinks they own the experience overall. I ask this question a lot when I speak to groups. Who owns the […]

What a year! We’ve had an exciting year at Experience Investigators, and we’ve learned a lot. I hope you’ve had a chance to learn along with us! In case you’re just hearing about us, or you haven’t subscribed for updates, we’ve put together a heaping handful of our best customer experience posts from the past […]

Did you know customer experience is the new: marketing customer advantage trend in business user interface answer ???? No. It’s not. It’s not any of these things, and yet I keep seeing blog posts and articles and podcasts and books that make these claims. It’s not new. It’s not a trend. And it’s not only […]