Customer Experience News & Trends

How to sweeten the customer experience – even when we social distance

So, you can’t interact with customers these days. That doesn’t mean you can’t make the customer experience feel intimate. Here’s how to sweeten the experience while social distancing. 

3 ways to get your customer experience message right

There’s a lot of buzz about the importance of empathy and why businesses must harness it to improve their customer experience (CX) and build loyalty. Yet what’s largely missing from the equation is what being empathetic means for customer-obsessed brands, and how to embrace and effectively create it. 

6 ways to build a customer service culture that rocks

If you’re going to build a customer service culture, you might as well build one that rocks.

What customers really want – and how to deliver it

For everything you do to build relationships with customers, you’ll probably be surprised to see what they really want from you.

Can you build loyalty when customers are only buying online?

It’s pretty easy for customers to “cheat” on you when you have a mostly anonymous online relationship. So is it possible to build true loyalty when you don’t personally interact?

Are you ready for what customers want next?

Since the days soda machines and salad bars were invented, self-service has been embraced. But your customers want more than to help themselves all the time. Are you ready for what else they expect?

The problems with personalization – and how to avoid them

Personalization is the talk of the town in the customer experience industry. But it has its limits and drawbacks, new research shows. 

6 ways to surprise and delight customers

While customers appreciate a professional and personal experience, they remember ones that make them feel good. 

Top reasons customers opt out – and how you can keep them interested

Customers’ patience with your communication has its limits. Here’s what takes them to the breaking point — that is the point at which they want to opt out and/or end the relationship.

4 unique ways to build customer loyalty

Companies have shown their thanks to customers through loyalty plans longer than Thanksgiving has been an official holiday. And while Thanksgiving hasn’t evolved much — we still eat turkey and pumpkin — loyalty plans have.