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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230: (Tip) Connecting Customer-Centricity to Ac...
Jeannie attacks customer experience lip service head-on with tips for turning customer-centricity into action. Walking the customer-centricity talk Business leaders talk a lot about being customer-centric, but honestly, most of them are just talking....
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229: Dan Gingiss, Social Customer Care
Adam and Jeannie interview Dan Gingiss, author of Winning at Social Customer Care: How Top Brands Design Engaging Experiences on Social Media. It's time to own social customer care Providing great customer service is important, no matter what channel...
29 min
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228: (Tip) All Customers want These Things
Adam and Jeannie share three things all customers want from the experience, regardless of what they do or do not ask for. What do customers want from your experience? All customers are different, have different goals, and may run into different...
3 min
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227: (Tip) Majoring In the CX Minors
Adam shares tips for preventing small details from spoiling an otherwise great overall customer experience. Small details are a big deal! We usually perceive the phrase “majoring in the minors” as a bag thing, but it’s different when we’re...
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226: Let's Talk About Airline Customer Service
Adam and Jeannie share some lessons we can all learn from recent airline customer service disasters. What can we learn from airline customer service? There’s been so much in the news about airline customer service, it’s time we talk about it here...
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225: (Tip) Signs of CX Success
Adam and Jeannie share tips for gauging your organization’s CX success. If you’re joining us today, your organization is either customer-focused or taking steps to deliver a better overall experience in the future. But there’s no universal road...
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224: (Tip) 3 CX-Defeating Phrases
Jeannie shares tips for recognizing and eliminating CX-defeating phrases from your organization. Is your team infected with CX-defeating phrases? One of the things we love about customer experience is that subtle changes can make a big difference....
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223: Mo Gawdat: Engineering Happiness
Adam and Jeannie discuss engineering happiness for true success with Mo Gawdat, author of Solve for Happy. Engineering happiness for true success We often think to ourselves that if we get what, where or who we want in our lives, we’ll be...
29 min
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222: (Tip) Instilling Culture Throughout the Or...
Adam and Jeannie report from Medallia’s Experience-17 conference to discuss common challenges and benefits of instilling culture throughout organizations. Instilling culture throughout big brands Creating or shifting culture is not easy in any...
3 min
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221: (Tip) The Wisdom of Your Team
Adam shares tips for leveraging the wisdom of your team as internal consultants to gain powerful customer-focused insights. Activate your internal consultants There’s no doubt that gaining the true outside-in perspective often means bringing in a...
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220: Future Customer or Present Customer?
Adam and Jeannie discuss balancing innovation around the needs of the future customer with those of the present customer at Medallia’s Experience-17 conference. Is your future customer more important than today’s? Brands are investing a lot...
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219: (Tip) Consistency Across Multiple Brands
Adam and Jeannie report from Medallia’s Experience-17 conference to bring you insights from MGM’s outstanding multi-brand consistency. Multi-brand consistency creates multi-brand loyalty We talk a lot about how to close the gaps between the...
4 min
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218: (Tip) Lessons from Former Customers
Jeannie shares tips for using insight from former customers to improve the experience for current and future customers. What can we learn from former customers? We thrive on customer feedback to continue improving service and the overall experience,...
3 min
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217: Jill Schiefelbein, Dynamic Communication
Change your perspective and approach at communication with Jill Schiefelbein, author of Dynamic Communication. Dynamic communication for dynamic experiences We communicate a lot in business, and in many ways, business is actually built on...
30 min
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216: The Right Way to Complain
Adam and Jeannie discuss how to get the best results when you complain as a customer. What do you gain when you complain? We talk a lot about how to handle customer complaints, but we’re switching it up a bit today! We’ve all had those experiences...
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215: (Tip) Losing Control of the Customer Exper...
Adam shares tips for keeping your customer experience consistent with third parties or subcontractors. Keeping customer experience consistent in a gig economy Consistency is a key element to customer experiences that drive loyalty, but that can be...
4 min
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214: Who Drives Customer Experience?
Adam and Jeannie clear the hype and buzzwords to really find out who drives customer experience in your organization, and how. Who drives customer experience? Chief Customer Officer, Chief Experience Officer, Customer Success Officer, Chief of...
13 min
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213: (Tip) Customer Experience ROI Tips
Adam and Jeannie share simple but effective tips for calculating customer experience ROI. The elusive customer experience ROI Calculating the return on any investment can be challenging. And when it comes to the ROI of customer experience, many...
5 min
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212: (Tip) Start Innovating for YOUR Customers
Jeannie shares tips for innovating when and how it’s needed the most, despite what the competition is doing. Are you innovating for the greater good of your customers? Competition is fierce! So it’s easy to think it’s necessary gauge...
3 min
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211: Marcus Sheridan, They Ask, You Answer
Marcus Sheridan, author of They Ask You Answer, shares powerful, proven ways to build trust and increase sales through content. Marcus Sheridan, Sales Lion You want to increase sales, but you don’t have unlimited funds for advertising…...
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210: (Tip) Educating Customers on Products
Adam and Jeannie share tips for educating customers to increase customer success and reduce support issues. Educated customers are return customers! Have you ever been really excited to try a new product or service, then realized it’s way more...
4 min
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209: (Tip) Do You Have the Resources for Service?
Adam shares tips to make sure you have adequate resources for service that’s consistently great. Do you have the right resources for service? We know what kind of service experience we want to deliver, but sometimes don’t consider the resources...
3 min
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208: Can You Predict Customer Behavior?
Adam and Jeannie share unconventional but powerful ways to predict customer behavior. Can you predict customer behavior? We often look to past behavior to predict customer behavior for the future. However, we often have little past behavior to build...
12 min
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207: (Tip) How to Turn Away Customers
Adam and Jeannie share tips and best practices for when you need to turn away customers for the greater good. Have you ever had to turn away customers? Maybe there was a time you really should have! When you’re over capacity or getting dangerously...
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206: (Tip) The Role of the CX Evangelist
Jeannie shares expert tips for becoming a CX evangelist or hiring the right person to fill this role in your organization. Do you need a CX evangelist? Customer experience roles are evolving and expanding like never before. Leaders know...
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