Amazing Business Radio

The Intersection Between Marketing and CX Shep Hyken interviews Christoph Trappe, a digital and content marketer and the author of Is Marketing A Good Career? He talks about how marketing can support customer experience and success teams to ensure the brand story resonates with customers throughout their journey. Top Takeaways:   ·      Customer experience, including customer service, is marketing...

Striking the Balance Between Personalization and Privacy to Best Serve Your Customers Shep Hyken interviews Bill Bruno, CEO of D4t4 Solutions, a company that helps brands provide the most value for their customers using their data. He talks about responsibly utilizing customer data to provide a personalized customer experience without compromising trust. Top Takeaways:   ·      Customers have diff...

How to Know What Your Customers Feel and What to Do With It Shep Hyken interviews Anita Toth, Chief Churn Crusher at Anita Toth Inc, a Voice of the Customer Strategy, Education, and Research firm. She talks about creating an amazing experience at every stage of the customer's journey.  Top Takeaways:   ·      The customer journey is like a romantic relationship. The marketing and sales phase is li...

Utilizing Consumer Feedback to Eliminate Friction and Improve Service Shep Hyken interviews Scot Pickerill, Vice President for Inside Sales, Service, and Sales Operations in the Americas at Fender. He discusses using customer and employee feedback to evaluate and improve customer experience. Top Takeaways:   ·      Continuous improvement means identifying friction points and reaching out to every...

Why Investment in CX is Even More Important This Year Shep Hyken interviews Josh Wheeler, Strategic Director for Reuters Events Customer Service & Experience. He shares findings from the 2023 State of Experience & Service Report and what businesses should prioritize in CX and EX to remain competitive. Top Takeaways:  ·      Learn from outside of your industry. You will commoditize what you offer i...

Delivering Personalized Support with Technology  Shep Hyken interviews Paulo Almeida, CEO & Co-Founder of Clientscape, a company that helps support agents seamlessly manage customer interactions across multiple channels. He talks about how companies can adapt to changing customer expectations by leveraging data and analytics.  Top Takeaways:   ·      The optimal response time to a customer asking...

 How Customer Experience Drives Business Growth  Shep Hyken interviews Keith Meier, Chief Operating Officer at Assurant, Inc., an organization that works with companies that manufacture, sell, or finance their customers' major purchases. He shares how providing customers with a great experience in every support channel they use is crucial to business growth. Top Takeaways:  ·      Customers want d...

Putting the Human Experience First as a Business Strategy Shep Hyken interviews Carla Guzzetti, Senior Vice President for Experience and Product Messaging at Extreme Networks. She shares how companies can design a better experience, in B2B and B2C industries, by focusing on the individual needs of their customers and employees.  Top Takeaways:    ·      Diversity is key to delivering a quality cus...

Moving Customer Complaints from Frustration to Satisfaction Shep Hyken interviews Janelle Barlow, award-winning customer service and experience speaker, consultant, and author of A Complaint Is a Gift: How to Learn from Critical Feedback and Recover Customer Loyalty. She shares how to empathetically transform a customer's complaint into a positive and memorable experience.  Top Takeaways:    · Jan...

Using Conversational Data to Enhance the Customer Experience   Shep Hyken interviews Amy Brown, founder and CEO of Authenticx, a software that listens, analyzes, and activates customer voices at scale. She shares findings from Authenticx's Customer Voices Report and how organizations can use data to drive customer experience strategies. Top Takeaways:   ·      Customers want to be empathized with...

In Customer Experience, Speed Equals Caring Shep Hyken interviews Jay Baer, customer experience and marketing expert. He shares his findings from his new study, The Time to Win, and insights on how speed impacts customer experience and revenue.  Top Takeaways:    ·      Time is the only inelastic resource. Time is the only thing everyone shares equally, regardless of who they are. We all have 1440...

Understanding Your Customers Using Quantitative and Qualitative Data Shep Hyken interviews Lesley Mottla, Chief Product & Experience Officer at ButcherBox, a subscription business that delivers meat and seafood to its members. She shares how to get teams across your organization to buy into a culture of member and customer obsession. Top Takeaways:   ·      Customer experience is crucial in a memb...

Building a Customer-centric Culture From the Frontlines to the C-suite   Shep Hyken interviews Diane Hopkins, Certified Experience Economy Expert, CEO of ExPeers Consulting, and author of Unleashing the Chief Moment Officers and It's Hard to be Easy. She shares how to leverage the insights of your frontline staff to design customer experiences and create a customer-centric culture.     Top Takeawa...

Creating Amazing Experiences that Make Customers Come Back (Again and Again)  Shep Hyken interviews Dominic Constandi, client services and customer success leader and Chief Customer Officer at ZoomInfo. He shares what customer service professionals can learn from their own experiences and use to create lasting value at every point of their customer's journey.  Top Takeaways:  The first impression...

Creating Loyalty through Customer-Obsession Shep Hyken interviews Marbue Brown, an accomplished customer experience executive who has worked with some of the biggest brands in the world, including JP Morgan Chase, Amazon.com, Microsoft Corporation, and Cisco Systems. He is the author of Blueprint for Customer Obsession. He shares what differentiates customer-obsessed companies from the rest and th...

How Companies Can Provide Outstanding CX From Sign-Up to Cancellation  Shep Hyken interviews Tony Sternberg, CEO and co-founder at ProsperStack, a platform that helps companies reduce customer churn and increase their lifetime value. He shares how companies can differentiate themselves by providing an excellent customer experience from the beginning to the end of their journey.  Top Takeaways:   ...

Why Businesses Should Invest in EX (Employee Experience) as Much as CX Shep Hyken interviews Liza Smyth, senior vice president of customer experience at Formstack, a company that helps organizations create workflows that enhance productivity. She shares how to make your internal and external customers feel seen and heard throughout their entire journey with your brand. Top Takeaways:   ·      A de...

Creating the Digital Experience That Builds Trust with Your Customers Shep Hyken interviews Tim Hughes, co-Founder and CEO of DLA Ignite, and co-author of Social Selling: Techniques to Influence Buyers and Changemakers. He shares how organizations can establish a strong digital brand identity, share knowledge, and create lasting relationships with their customers through social media platforms. To...

How to Leverage AI to Reduce Customer Experience Gaps Shep Hyken interviews Gadi Shamia, CEO and co-founder of Replicant, a leader in Contact Center Automation. He shares how contact centers can automate the most common customer service calls and empower human agents to focus on empathy and more complex customer issues. Top Takeaways:   ·      When you design your product, you plan for it to work...

How Memories, Experiences, and Patterns Impact Leadership Style Shep Hyken interviews Susan Drumm, CEO & Chief Empowerment Officer of Meritage Leadership Development and the author of The Leader's Playlist: Unleash the Power of Music and Neuroscience to Transform Your Leadership and Your Life. She shares how to use music to improve your leadership style and make the changes that no longer serve yo...

How Happy Employees Translate Into Happier Customers Shep Hyken interviews Temy Mancusi-Ungaro, Chief Executive Officer of Reachdesk, a global data-driven gifting platform that helps teams send gifts at a large scale and measure their impact. He shares how companies can use gifts to create morale, nurture team connections, and ensure employee retention.   Top Takeaways:   ·      From an employee's...

The Link Between Soccer (Football) and Customer Service Shep Hyken interviews Gregorio Uglioni, a customer experience specialist, host of CX Goalkeeper, and author of Customer Experience 4 (CX4). He shares how customer service teams can implement lessons and best practices that organizations can learn from soccer teams and their fans.  Top Takeaways:   ·      Customer service is a team sport where...

How Customer Experience Can Save Businesses in the Current Economy Shep Hyken interviews Mita Bedi, CEO and Co-founder of Resonate Solutions, a customer experience management platform. She shares how customers are rethinking every relationship and how leaders can make a business valuable enough to remain profitable. Top Takeaways:   ·      Delighting your customers adds value to your business beca...

How to Use Proactive Communication to Manage Increasing Customer Expectations Shep Hyken interviews Laura Bassett, Vice President of Product Marketing at NICE, a complete platform for delivering an end-to-end customer experience. Bassett shares how customer expectations have changed over the years and how companies can provide amazing customer experiences through proactive communication.  Top Take...

Creating a Culture that Gets and Retains the Best Employees Shep Hyken interviews Jon Shanahan, co-founder of Businessolver Inc., a benefits administration solution that combines technology and service to help employees get the most value out of their benefits. He discusses creating a culture that delights and retains loyal customers and the best employees. Top Takeaways:  ·      We need to create...