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  • Customer experience management software has its own CX problem

    Customer experience management software keeps getting bought and merged. What consolidation does to buyers and respondents, and how to protect your program.

    Customer Experience · 13 min read

  • Customers are grown, not captured

    Customer experience is grown, not captured. Why this blog is called what it is, what cultivation means on a Monday morning, and what you will find here.

    Customer Experience · 4 min read

  • Are you standardizing your customer experience out of business?

    Standardization in customer experience scales quality and hides the customer in front of you. A core-and-edge rule for deciding which steps stay identical.

    Customer Experience · 12 min read

  • Customer decision process: the new way buyers evaluate purchases

    The customer decision process now runs before the first call, on reviews, peers and communities. How to map it, feed it, and start the sale in the middle.

    Customer Experience · 12 min read

  • Customer personas vs situations: designing for the many sides of me

    Customer personas flatten a person into a type; the same person needs different things on Tuesday morning and Saturday night. How to rewrite them as situations.

    Customer Experience · 12 min read

  • Customer retention during an acquisition: will you be fired?

    Customer retention during a merger or acquisition fails because everything a customer relied on changes at once. A 30-day plan for the company and the CX lead.

    Customer Experience · 12 min read

  • Health insurance customer experience: joining the consumer ranks

    Health insurance customer experience now decides whether members stay, as people choose plans and ratings publish how membership feels. What to fix first.

    Customer Experience · 12 min read

  • Serving up a nourishing meal

    Customer recognition, seen from a restaurant table: menus are for strangers, regulars want to be known, and scale quietly removes the difference. A field note.

    Field Notes · 4 min read

  • Tennis and the art of effective customer experience

    Customer experience fundamentals from a tennis court: footwork before winners, fewer unforced errors, reading the other side of the net, a resetting scoreboard.

    Field Notes · 4 min read

  • When is your customer not your own? Listening to indirect customers

    Indirect customers buy through marketplaces, resellers and franchisees that hold the checkout and the complaint. Four ways to listen, and a partner checklist.

    Customer Experience · 13 min read

Customers are grown, not captured. Practical writing on customer experience and the voice of the customer.

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Vaclaw Karlfeld CX, VoC and AI enthusiast

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