Crack the Customer Code
Crack the Customer Code is dedicated to helping business professionals, small business owners, and customer-facing professionals learn the ins and outs of creating great customer experiences. With interviews and insights from a wide range of experts in the field, Crack the Customer Code will explore both timely and timeless topics, from how to increase customer loyalty through social media to why customers are more prone to lose control with companies nowadays. Crack the Customer Code provides a peek behind the curtain of what customer experience professionals really know about customers and how to make them happy and keep them loyal.
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255: (Tip) Your Org Chart vs. Your Customers
Jeannie shares 3 tips to prevent organizational structure from negatively affecting the customer experience. How organizational structure creates bad experiences A solid organizational structure is essential to delivering great customer experiences,...
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254: Rocky Romanella, Tighten the Lug Nuts
Jeannie and Adam interview Rocky Romanella, author of Tighten the Lug Nuts:The Principles of Balanced Leadership. Achieving balanced leadership Leadership in business means gearing not only yourself, but those around you for success. Too often,...
25 min
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253: (Tip) Situational Awareness in Customer Se...
Jeannie and Adam report live from the National Speakers Association’s Influence 2017 conference to discuss the power of situational awareness in customer service. Employees aren't really empowered without situational awareness Are your employees...
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252: Alison Herzog, Dell Customer Experience
Adam and Jeannie interview Alison Herzog, head of global social business strategy at Dell, about "deep listening" on a large scale. The art of “deep listening” in social business One of the most important elements to designing experiences is...
25 min
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251: (Tip) 3 OTHER Customer Segments
Jeannie and Adam explore critical customer segments that typically get ignored when designing customer experiences. Are you overlooking critical customer segments? Creating customer segments is a great way to help deliver an easier, more...
6 min
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250: (Tip) Speed Up Your Customer’s Experience
Adam shares 7 ways to deliver a faster customer experience without sacrificing quality, vital details, or personalization. Who doesn’t want a faster customer experience!? With more on their plates and fewer resources, customers are busier than ever...
5 min
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249: How Customer Service Training Goes Wrong
Adam and Jeannie discuss several ways customer service training goes wrong, how that impacts the customer experience, and what you can do to fix it. Customer service training done right Companies talk or even brag a lot about the ways they train,...
10 min
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248: (Tip) 3 Moments of Truth
Adam and Jeannie explore some universal customer tipping points, or moments of truth in the customer journey, for you to examine today. 3 Powerful moments of truth in every customer journey Where are your customers when they decide whether to stay on...
5 min
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247: (Tip) 3 Powerful Questions
Jeannie shares 3 powerful questions to get actionable feedback from customers. Powerful innovation starts with powerful questions Honest customer feedback is the key to maintaining a strong culture around delivering great experiences, but customers...
3 min
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246: Chase Clemons, Basecamp’s Customer Service...
Adam and Jeannie discuss Basecamp’s customer service ethic and tackle some of the top challenges faced by support professionals. Fine-tuning your customer service ethic If there's one thing customer service leaders need support with, it's...
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245: Vicky Smitley, Business Plans and CX
In this special edition “live” from C-Suite Network conference, we discuss the importance of including customer experience in business plans with Vicky Smitley, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Hearthside Food Solutions. Why is customer...
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244: (Tip) The Magic of 1-to-1 Experiences
Adam shares his thoughts on the importance of 1-to-1 experiences as we hand parts of the experience over to technology. 1-to-1 or 1-to-none? Customers interact with your brand on many channels at countless touchpoints, whether there’s a human on...
3 min
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243: How Corporate Myths Hurt Customers
Adam and Jeannie explore how corporate myths affect culture and customer experience, ways to identify them, and what you can do to set things straight. Corporate myths create bad experiences for your customers. It may sound silly, but organizations...
10 min
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242: Jason Forrest, The Power of Customer Certa...
In this special edition live from C-Suite Network conference, three-time Stevie Award winner Jason Forrest unlocks the power of customer certainty. Customer certainty and the keys to loyalty We talk a lot about the correlation between sales and...
12 min
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241: (Tip) Understanding Customer Touchpoints
Jeannie shares tips for understanding customer touchpoints from the customer’s perspective and taking action. Understanding customer touchpoints for what they really are is essential to mapping and evaluating the true customer experience. But...
5 min
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240: Matt Dixon, Kick-Ass Customer Service
Bestselling author and customer service expert Matt Dixon to uncovers surprising facts and common misconceptions about delivering low-effort service. Think you’re delivering low-effort service? It seems so simple: Reduce customer effort, then...
34 min
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239: Customer Survey Mistakes
Adam and Jeannie share common customer survey mistakes and how to avoid them to get thoughtful responses. Losing our way with customer survey mistakes Customer surveys are great for getting the feedback we need, learning how to improve our...
14 min
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238: (Tip) Pay Attention to Your Customers, Or ...
Adam shares tips for embracing showrooming to compete with online retailers. Showrooming is not your worst enemy If you’re a brick-and-mortar retailer, it’s likely that showrooming is becoming a big, if not the biggest. Every day, you open...
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237: Peter Friedman, Customer Service Messaging...
Adam interviews Peter Friedman, CEO of LiveWorld, a social customer experience company, about the changing landscape of customer service messaging. The age of messaging Today Peter Friedman, CEO of LiveWorld, joins us for a fascinating update on the...
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236: (Tip) Customer Experience Sprints
Adam and Jeannie share 3 powerful ideas to make quick progress with customer experience sprints. Streamline your goals with customer experience sprints Have you heard of business sprints? The idea is to put most long-term goals aside, then focus...
6 min
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235: Customer Experience Touchpoint Tips
What is a customer experience touchpoint? Jeannie shatters common myths and shares tips for a more customer-centric and actionable approach. How does a CX pro define "customer experience touchpoint?" Customer touchpoints make up your...
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234: Tips for Customer Service Bots
Are you using customer service bots? So much can go wrong! With Adam and Jeannie to help, you can use them to save time AND deliver better experiences. Customer service bots create customer service nots! If you’ve been a regular listener, then you...
7 min
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233: (Tip) Beware of Organizational Conformity
Adam explains the neuroscience behind different types of organizational conformity, how they help or harm your business, and how to strike a good balance. Organizational conformity: The good and the bad Adam says, “the impetus to conform is strong...
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232: Negative Emotions Have a Bigger Impact on CX
Adam and Jeannie discuss neuroscience and new study data to better understand the emotional impact on CX. Understanding your impact on CX We hate to be a downer, but improving customer experience isn’t all about thinking positive. As you push...
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231: (Tip) Undercover Bosses
Jeannie attacks customer experience lip service head-on with tips for turning customer-centricity into action. Undercover bosses in the real world Are you familiar with the CBS television show Undercover Boss? CEOs literally go undercover as...
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