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How Educated Customers Raise the Bar on Retail Experience

Customers love the ability to shop anywhere — online, in the store, or over the phone. What they hate is the fact that often they feel they don’t have all the information they need to make an informed decision. Or worse, they feel they’ve been misled. Retailers should consider that their customers usually aren’t wrong. […]

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Beware Cross-Culture Comparisons In International Research

The other day one of my clients forwarded to me a research report citing that 68% of Chinese shoppers were “happy or overjoyed” with their shopping experiences, versus only 48% of American shoppers. While this is an interesting factoid, the data point suggests a more important topic: how to manage the complexities and risks of […]

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The Problem With Not Fixing Customer Problems

Nobody likes to hear bad news, but successful companies recognize that negative feedback is a vital mechanism for improving their products and customer service. So when they hear that there’s bad news that customers aren’t telling them, many companies assume it is product or service-related. They should be asking another question, though. Why aren’t customers […]

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Tomorrow is Fine. Free is Fine. What Else Can You Do?

Customer Insight: How Logistics Raises the Bar on Customer Expectations Ask any customer shopping online when they want their order delivered, and it’s a good bet they’ll answer ‘tomorrow’. Thanks to masters of logistics like Amazon and Zappos, customers have come to expect 2-day or even 1-day shipping, sometimes at no cost. They want things […]

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Why Do We Lose Customers?

Every business knows the value of keeping their customers. Yet despite companies’ best efforts customers still leave, and the reason often feels like a mystery. Why do they go? They experience a problem This is by far the biggest reason customers move on. 68% to 73% of customers stop doing business with companies because they […]

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The Four Biggest Mistakes Companies Make When Implementing a Customer Measurement Program

Transform your customer insights by avoiding these common errors  Technology and analytics have provided companies the means to understand their customers in ways they couldn’t have imagined even a few years ago. Almost every large organization invests heavily in customer measurement programs, yet many don’t achieve the customer insight they’re looking for. Why? It turns […]

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Making Your Customer Experience Research Matter

Find the difference between interesting and actionable insights By now, the notion that customer experience matters to market success is nearly universal. A 2016 Gartner survey found that 89% of companies expect to compete primarily on the basis of customer experience — up from 36% in 2012. Most companies make significant investments in customer research […]

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To Change or Not to Change? That is the Question

Consumers are creatures of habit, often seeking out their favorite restaurant, hotel or store, because they know they’ll have a positive experience. These positive experiences make them loyal — whether it’s a perfectly grilled steak, a service associate who helps you find that perfect gift, or the ease of pre-selecting your hotel room in advance […]

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Customer Experience Is Not Our Responsibility

Recently a client asked me how to engage Human Resources, Legal/Risk and Finance in their customer experience journey. When my client had approached these groups about their contributions to the customer experience, the response was essentially: “We are very in favor of focusing on the customer experience and are glad that our sales and customer […]

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2 Steps to Create Customer Service Heroes

Customer service. Customer experience. Focus on the customer. The customer is at the centre of everything we do. Why do we hear this so much? Because time and again we see that selling something of value at a fair price is not enough. The customer must find the seller easy to do business with at every […]

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