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  • Customer Experience

    Customers are grown, not captured

    Customer experience is grown, not captured. Why this blog is called what it is, what cultivation means on a Monday morning, and what you will find here.

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  • Customer Experience

    Are you standardizing your customer experience out of business?

    Standardization in customer experience scales quality and hides the customer in front of you. A core-and-edge rule for deciding which steps stay identical.

    Read more → 12 min read

  • Customer Experience

    Customer decision process: the new way buyers evaluate purchases

    The customer decision process now runs before the first call, on reviews, peers and communities. How to map it, feed it, and start the sale in the middle.

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  • Customer Experience

    Customer personas vs situations: designing for the many sides of me

    Customer personas flatten a person into a type; the same person needs different things on Tuesday morning and Saturday night. How to rewrite them as situations.

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  • Customer Experience

    Customer retention during an acquisition: will you be fired?

    Customer retention during a merger or acquisition fails because everything a customer relied on changes at once. A 30-day plan for the company and the CX lead.

    Read more → 12 min read

  • Customer Experience

    Health insurance customer experience: joining the consumer ranks

    Health insurance customer experience now decides whether members stay, as people choose plans and ratings publish how membership feels. What to fix first.

    Read more → 12 min read

  • Field Notes

    Serving up a nourishing meal

    Customer recognition, seen from a restaurant table: menus are for strangers, regulars want to be known, and scale quietly removes the difference. A field note.

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  • Field Notes

    Tennis and the art of effective customer experience

    Customer experience fundamentals from a tennis court: footwork before winners, fewer unforced errors, reading the other side of the net, a resetting scoreboard.

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  • Customer Experience

    When is your customer not your own? Listening to indirect customers

    Indirect customers buy through marketplaces, resellers and franchisees that hold the checkout and the complaint. Four ways to listen, and a partner checklist.

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Customers are grown, not captured. Practical writing on customer experience and the voice of the customer.

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Topics

  • Customer Experience 15
  • Voice of the Customer 3
  • Surveys & Research 2
  • Customer Analytics 8
  • Loyalty & Retention 4
  • Field Notes 3

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  • → Customer data quality: don't let inaccurate data stop you from acting
  • → Customer retention rate: are you measuring it correctly?
  • → Customers are grown, not captured
  • → Is customer lifetime value a waste of time? Only when misused
  • → Listening to your best customers: do you hear what I hear?

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