Last year we launched our first annual Brand Ambassador Awards. We have found over the past 10 plus years of working in customer and employee engagement that every company has individuals in it who continually go above and beyond for clients. Using customer feedback we uncover their stories.
Posts Tagged ‘Customer experience’
Brand Ambassadors: How People Bring Your Brand to Life
Thursday, January 19th, 2012Improving the Client Experience: Accounting Industry
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
At PeopleMetrics, we include one question that often strikes new clients as being rather odd, especially clients in the B2B space: “I love working with [company].” Respondents are asked to rate their level of agreement with this statement. Why do we include it? Because it adds a depth to the client/provider relationship that cannot be attained through a simple NPS score. This question cuts through all the usual business jargon, formalities, and contracts and asks a completely emotional human question – how does the company make you feel?
How Customer Feedback Can Help Create Meaningful Differentiation
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
“The truth of the matter is, true differentiation – sustainable differentiation – is rarely a function of well-roundedness;” writes Harvard professor Youngme Moon, “it is typically a function of lopsidedness.” (Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd). Youngme Moon illustrates this with stories about IKEA – a throwaway brand in a traditionally permanent industry, Dove – using pictures of average women in a traditionally photoshopped, airbrushed industry, and Google – creating a stripped down search interface in an industry cramming search pages with every button and pop-up imaginable. And while we all understand intuitively the answer to the question “Why do these brands work?,” it becomes much more difficult to answer this question about ourselves.
Beginner’s Guide to the Value of Great Customer Experiences
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011People call them “satisfied,” “loyal,” or “happy campers,” we call them “Fully Engaged.” All of us are referring to a customer who loves doing business with you. And whatever you choose to call them, the point remains - positive experiences create happy customers, and dissapointing experiences create a substantial lost opportunity.
Evaluating the Consistency and Quality of Your Customer Experiences
Monday, November 7th, 2011
We love the “wow” moments of customer service – when a committed employee goes above and beyond to make someone’s day or when a company goes out of its way to correct a service failure. But a customer experience strategy that relies only on superhero moments of great customer service is little more than a nice-sounding dream. A customer experience strategy must focus on creating experiences that are replicable and consistently great. To do this we have outlined seven important areas to evaluate: