Friday, April 5, 2019

Word of the Day: customer experience management

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customer experience management

Customer experience management (CEM or CXM) is the collection of processes a company uses to optimize interactions from the customer's perspective and foster customer loyalty. CXM requires a company to create a customer-centric strategy that aggregatess data from every possible customer touchpoint and moment of truth (MOT).

There are four critical steps to creating a successful customer experience strategy:

 

Understand your customer

The first step in building a customer strategy is understanding customers' needs and behaviors and creating customer segmentation based on these factors.


Create a customer vision

Once the target audience is identified, the next step is to create a customer journey map. This helps identify customer touchpoints and anticipate how customers will interact with the product or service and could help customer retention down the road.


Develop an emotional connection

This involves creating a brand personality that evokes emotions and connections for a customer and helps establish a relationship between the customer and the company.


Capture customer feedback

It is important to measure customer satisfaction in real time. Customer feedback can help the company track customer perceptions, enable quality monitoring and measure the success of the customer experience strategy.

 

Today, there is more incoming data to process from more sources than ever before, and this data needs to be integrated with existing customer account data. The ability to combine customer relationship management (CRM) system data with financials, ERP and inventory management, as well as real-time data on social platforms, is an important consideration when purchasing software to support CXM.

 

Many companies rely on business intelligence and customer data analytics tools to learn how to market and sell to customers in a more personalized, one-to-one fashion. Personalization strategies include new technologies, such as mobile marketing, location-based services and beacons, which help companies identify where customers are and market to them in real time.

Companies also use emotional analytics to gauge whether customers benefit from their interactions with the brand. Emotional analytics software can help analyze the success of a variety of operations that are related -- but potentially tangential to -- customer service, such as inventory management or supply chain management.

Knowledge management systems are also important tools for seamless customer service. Agents can use these systems to look up product information and customer interactions with other products. Agents can also combine this information with customer data and inventory information to provide customers with account information, product education and inventory.

Quote of the Day

 
"Being able to understand all of the company's operations so you can figure out how problems can be resolved in the customer's best interests is critical to creating a good customer experience." - Art Hall

Learning Center

 

4 CX challenges facing organizations and how to address them
Organizations face many CX challenges, but most land squarely in the domain of communication. Read on to learn about these issues and how to address them.

CRM and CX management at crossroads in the customer journey
There will be a place for CRM, especially in organizations with veteran inside sales teams. But CX management gains traction as a model along with the technology supporting it as brands connect marketing to sales and e-commerce and focus on reducing friction in the process.

AWS DCX Competency vets cloud customer experience partners
Vendors see the AWS DCX Competency as a gateway credential to Amazon Personalize, a recommendations engine built from Amazon's own shopping site. A new CX ecosystem could rise to challenge current market leaders.

5 common customer support problems that affect CX
Customer support problems can greatly affect CX. Here are some common issues to keep in mind to when trying to provide a superior customer experience.

Guide to customer experience management best practices, technologies
Learn why customer experience management (CEM) is growing. Read about technologies, strategies and customer experience management best practices that businesses are applying to their CEM.

Quiz Yourself

 
The amount of money a customer invests in a service can reduce a company's churn rate and increase the chances they'll stick with around for the long ______.
A. haul
B. hall

Answer

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