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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205: Colin Shaw, The Intuitive Customer
Today we transcend the plateaus of current customer experience understanding with Colin Shaw, founder of Beyond Philosophy and co-author of The Intuitive Customer. Creating loyalty with The Intuitive Customer So many companies are...
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204: (Tip) Customer Service Leadership
Adam shares expert tips for the most effective customer service leadership in any industry. Achieving world class customer service leadership Effective leadership is more than just telling people what to do, especially if you want a team that...
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203: (Tip) B2B vs. B2C Customer Experience
Adam and Jeannie discuss key distinctions to handling B2B vs. B2C customer relationships. B2B vs. B2C customer experience Customer experience is all about people, regardless of whether it’s a B2B or B2C relationship. Core customer experience...
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202: Customer Service Tech
Adam and Jeannie look at customer service tech from the past, present and future to help you take the risks out of upgrading. Customer service tech: Helpful or harmful? Businesses of all kinds are implementing artificial intelligence and other cutting...
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201: (Tip) User Experience vs. Customer Experience
Jeannie shares tips and distinctions for delivering an excellent overall customer experience to those who your digital products and services. User experience vs, customer experience: Is there a difference? Your rock star dev team has created an...
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200: Our Special 200th Episode
Adam and Jeannie celebrate our 200th episode by sharing actionable takeaways and thought-provoking quotes from some of our most inspiring guests. 200 strong and growing! We’re thrilled to announce our 200th episode, so we thought we’d bring you...
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199: Graeme Newell, For Purpose Corporations
Graeme Newell, co-author of Red Goldfish, returns to share the secrets of building a brand following through social purpose. Building loyalty with social purpose Graeme Newell is back to talk about a growing trend with businesses today, which is...
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198: (Tip) No Cost Ways to Please Unhappy Custo...
Adam shares tips to please unhappy customers without breaking the bank. What do unhappy customers really want from you? Customers may accept and even appreciate perks and comps as part of an issue resolution, because who doesn’t like free stuff!?...
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197: (Tip) Using Customer Personas
Get amazing insights from customer personas by creating and using them better with expert tips from Adam and Jeannie. Getting the most from customer personas Customer personas are typically used as a heuristic to understand customers in a sales...
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196: Innovating with Customers
Adam and Jeannie discuss ways of innovating with customers to deliver the experiences they need the most. Are you innovating with customers? When we think of innovation, we generally think of huge product launches and paradigm-shifting technology that...
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195: (Tip) Building a CX Team
Jeannie shares expert tips and guidelines for building a customer experience team that scales efficiently and aligns with organizational goals. Building a customer experience team When it comes to building customer experience teams, leaders often...
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194: (Tip) Taking Negative Interactions Personally
Adam and Jeannie share quick tips and a little neuroscience to keep negative interactions from causing poor service and employee burnout. Are your agents emotionally trained to handle negative interactions? From dealing bad tempers to outbursts and...
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193: Amy Downs, Customer Success
Chief Customer Success and Happiness officer Amy Downs of Lifesize outlines her strategic path to a 79-point increase in Net Promoter Score. Customer success and happiness: A mini case study Customer experience is gaining traction! But when we think...
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192: (Tip) Internal Customer Service
Adam shares tips and best practices for understanding and providing great customer service through a focus on internal customer service. Internal customer service matters. A lot. Be they co-workers, vendors or partners, others are depending on you to...
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191: (Tip) Outsourcing Customer Service
Adam and Jeannie share tips for outsourcing customer service without outsourcing your integrity and values. Outsourcing customer service Outsourcing has an ambiguous reputation, often being mentioned in negative context. But whether your company needs...
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190: Social Media with Colleagues
Adam and Jeannie share facts and stories to help you decide how and when to engage on social media with colleagues and customers. Social media with colleagues Are you Facebook friends with co-workers? What about clients, or your boss? Should you be?...
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189: (Tip) Understanding Your Competitor's Cust...
Jeannie shares quick tips for gathering intelligence to better understand your competitor's customer experience and how yours measures up. Have you evaluated your competitor’s customer experience? Customers are certainly judging your customer...
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188: (Tip) Show Your Customers The Love
In this special Valentine's Day edition, Adam and Jeannie share simple ways you can show your customers the love! Show customers some love! If you’re listening today, that must mean you love your customers. Where would you be without them!? A great...
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187: Jacqueline Jasionowski, Improving Customer...
Adam and Jeannie interview Jacqueline Jasionowski about how improving customer experience at BMW is breaking the car-buying mold and differentiating the brand. Improving customer experience to stay on top BMW has a long record of...
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186: Bobby Albert, Creating Culture
Today we discuss building culture that drives both revenue and a great working environment with author Bobby Albert, author of Principled Profits—Outward Success Is an Inside Job. About our guest Bobby Albert, who led a small, local family business...
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185: (Tip) When Customers Cross The Line
Adam shares some of the best ways you and your employees can stand up for yourselves when customers cross the line into unacceptable behavior. Customers’ needs come first, until they cross the line... Customers may say some unpleasant things when...
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184: (Tip) Warming Up Cold Calls
Adam and Jeannie share helpful tips for quickly turning cold calls into opportunities to spark meaningful relationships. Cold calls: Must they be so cold!? Sometimes making cold calls is still necessary. The idea is usually to start a new...
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183: Online Reviews More Important Than Ever
We've learned some startling facts about how online reviews affect the decisions your customers make, so we're sharing tips on how to take action today. Your customer journey includes online reviews Adam and Jeannie have been...
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182: (Tip) Advocating for Customers
Jeannie shares a few simple ways advocating for customers can greatly improve overall experience and what any organization can do to get started. “Who’s advocating for customers in your organization?” No matter how buried you are in day-to-day...
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181: (Tip) Handling Outrageous Customer Demands
Adam and Jeannie discuss tips for dealing with outrageous customer demands the right way. I’m sorry, you want what? When!? People are sometimes just irrational… Or, are they? Sooner or later, you’ll eventually be faced with outrageous customer...
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