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By Paula Courtney, CEO The Verde Group Creating consistently great customer experiences is a challenge. Knowing which of those experiences will lead to revenue and share growth is even more difficult. CX challenges are difficult for any business, but particularly for B2B manufacturers. As reported in MIT Sloan Management Review, “More than 80% of business […]
The customer experience (CX) trends we were seeing in late 2022 (see 2022 Customer Experience Reflections post) will continue well beyond 2023. The Verde Group has a fresh predictions on what’s in store for CX practitioners this year. With 2023 well underway, we encourage businesses to adapt and think efficiently. New ways of buying, working […]
Understanding the Customer Experience (CX) is the key to building a profitable and reputable company. The Verde Group’s bread and butter is pinpointing the friction in your business’ customer experience, AKA, we are in the business of protecting your revenue from risk. Our CX experts weighed-in on 2022 and how recovering from COVID impacted the […]
“Customer communication channel preference are evolving dramatically, especially post-COVID, and customers expect more personalized support than before.” ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… By Lori Childers, Vice President – The Verde Group The COVID-19 pandemic may be over and, in most places, life feels normal again. Family gatherings have returned. People are shopping in stores, eating in restaurants, going to […]
This blog builds on our recent piece identifying challenges with legacy CX beacon metrics. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… By Paula Courtney, CEO – The Verde Group After Fred Reichheld published The One Number You Need to Grow in the Harvard Business Review, many customer experience professionals thought they had to ask only a single question: “How likely is it that […]
“… CX Index metric correlates to changes in year-over-year financial performance and that it can serve as a leading indicator of future economic performance.” ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… By Dennis Armbruster, Executive Vice President – The Verde Group As customers return to brick-and-mortar stores, retailers face headwinds like never before — margins are tighter, finding staff remains challenging, […]
“…engaged and empowered employees are critical to the customer experience.” ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… By Candice Troupe, Senior Vice President – The Verde Group Negative experiences – or friction — are the best predictor of whether or not a customer remains loyal to a business. That’s a fundamental conclusion The Verde Group has drawn from our learnings as […]
“…much work goes into building trust and loyalty with customers and how easy it is to lose it in a single negative experience.” ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… By Paula Courtney, CEO – The Verde Group At Verde Group, my team and I have spent years researching customer experience and counselling businesses on how best to deal with their […]
By: Paula Courtney, CEO & Jon Skinner, EVP – The Verde Group Of all the business categories that Verde serves, the Utilities sector is probably the least developed when it comes to customer experience. Which makes sense, since Utilities – which for most of their history have operated as monopolies with highly regulated prices and […]
By Paula Courtney, CEO – The Verde Group Earlier this year, I booked my first post-COVID trip to Europe — three weeks in Italy with my family and long-delayed reunions with friends from Europe. It was my longest trip in 30 years and I couldn’t have been more excited. Then, two weeks before I was […]