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Should It Be Painful for Customers to Cancel?

There is a booming industry around subscription services right now. Birchbox is possibly the best known and one of the most successful business models. But the list of subscription products is a long one now. You can order monthly boxes of video games, curated outfits, beer, razors, or anything else you desire. In today’s hectic […]

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3 Ways Your Org Chart Creates B2B Customer Nightmares

Customers don’t care who owns what part of their business, but organizations often do. This conflict leads to customer frustration and decreased loyalty. Think about it. Your org chart most likely is split into what the business sees as logical groups. Marketing might include web site teams and digital marketing departments, but probably doesn’t include recruiting.

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Your Journey Map is Incomplete without Competitors

Mapping the journey your customers take with you from their perspective can be a very powerful tool. In B2B experiences, journey maps can become very complicated, very quickly. Who is the customer, exactly? Are we mapping for the purchaser of our product or the person who decides the purchase is acceptable? What if that person

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5 Ways Everyone Wins with Proactive Social Media Engagement

Social media as a customer service channel is now a given. Customers turn to this method when they are frustrated, and aren’t afraid to air their grievances publicly. 67% of consumers have used a company’s social media site for servicing, according to J.D. Power.  Marketers and other business leaders could actually prevent customer service issues

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How to Increase Marketing Reach: Activate Your Advocates Now!

Organizations long for brand advocates. Advocates love their products, provide valuable feedback, and want to spread the news about their favorite company to others! Yet many companies don’t really do much for or with the advocates they have. I myself have been invited into special VIP or customer councils that do little else except flood my inbox!

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This Is What an Epic Customer Experience Fail Looks Like

Spring Break! Fun in the sun! Time away! And then that time you fly home with your family…only to be mistreated so incredibly that writing this blog seems like the only recourse I have. Let me present the facts. We booked a flight to Puerto Vallerta, Mexico in October. We flew from Chicago’s O’Hare airport

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Emotions are the Best Customer Metrics After All!

It’s Day two at the Next Generation Customer Experience conference. (You can catch up on my takeaways from day one here!)   Today I was asked to share insights around emotional feedback, along with Kathryn Churches from American Family Insurance. It was a great discussion, and I think the emphasis on emotions underlines one of the biggest

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