communication

I’m pleased to have co-authored this post with Ben Motteram, aka CXpert. It was previously shared on his site on May 26, 2020.

According to TechTarget, “Customer experience management is the collection of processes a company uses to track, oversee, and organize every interaction between a customer and the organization throughout the customer lifecycle.”

Gartner defines it as “the practice of designing and reacting to customer interactions to meet or exceed customer expectations and, thus, increase customer satisfaction, loyalty, and advocacy.”

Today I'm pleased to share a guest post by Ford Blakely, founder and CEO of Zingle.

According to Google, 98% of Americans switch between devices in the same day.

Today I am pleased to share with you a guest post by Julian de Sevilla with PATlive.

An effective customer service solution has always been a tool that helps businesses stand out. However, customers recently have come to expect more from businesses in terms of service, forming a landscape that’s saturated with options, and thus hyper-competitive.

Today I'm pleased to share a guest post by Rae Steinbach.

Good internal communication can make a big difference for any company. A failure of communication can cause projects to fail, increase costs, and can contribute to an atmosphere of discontent among your staff.

FUTURELAB. Brussels, Belgium: Dec 9, 2015

As Europe's leading customer-centricity specialists, Futurelab is pleased to announce a new strategic partnership with Avaya, global leaders in customer contact centre technology.

The partnership will combine Futurelab's expertise in the design and development of customer-centric strategies and NPS programmes with Avaya's best-of-breed collaboration and unified communications solutions.  Together, Avaya and Futurelab can offer clients a faster, more seamless transition from strategy and planning through to rollout and delivery.

When you listen to customers or to employees, do you really listen? Or are you already anticipating your response or your reaction before they're finished talking?

This conversation follows on from an earlier conversation: Mazism 1: There Is Always A Price, It Is Always Paid. 

The Interplay Between Communicating & Relating

The relating that occurs between human beings is a function of the communicating that is occurring between these human beings; the communicating that is occurring between human beings is function of the relating that is occurring. Which is to say that the communicating and relating are essentially in a dynamic dance with one another.

Do you only communicate with customers when you want something?

It's primary election season here in the States, and I was just reminded of California's impending primary election when I got our election booklet in the mail last week. Along with that, I also received several pieces of marketing ("vote for me") literature from some of the candidates in my district.