Posted in May 8, 2012 ¬ 7:36 pmh.Ramesh Venkat
Sites like Epinions offer consumer reviews and ratings on thousands of products. Yelp allows consumers to rate local businesses - restaurants, hair salons, car repair shops and the like. Amazon is credited with allowing consumer reviews and ratings, which in the early days of e-commerce was an important means of building trust.
Unfortunately, you can’t always [...]
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Posted in July 10, 2011 ¬ 10:36 amh.Ramesh Venkat
This post discusses short-term benefits and long-term consequences of online social couponing and proposes some recommendations.
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Posted in June 10, 2011 ¬ 1:02 pmh.Ramesh Venkat
Last year I switched to a new land-line telephone service provider. For years I was overpaying with my previous telco. Over an 18 year period, I reckon I’ve spent at least $36,000 with this company. Finally, one day I called customer service and asked them why they were overcharging me when lower rates are available. [...]
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Posted in May 29, 2009 ¬ 11:09 amh.Ramesh Venkat
The words “customer experience” don’t often pop-up in the same sentence as the words “vacuum cleaner.” It’s not a sexy category and it is a category where customer experience is often not satisfactory. I’ve had my share of unsatisfactory experiences with different brands over the years.
Dyson, which retails in Canada starting at about $500, [...]
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Posted in May 28, 2009 ¬ 7:57 amh.Ramesh Venkat
Customer experience management (CEM) is not the domain of one functional area. Product developers, marketing, sales, operations and HR all have a role to play. In Part 2 of my introduction to customer experience, I’d like to present a framework which may be of use to those who plan to study, design, implement or [...]
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Posted in May 27, 2009 ¬ 1:13 pmh.Ramesh Venkat
Every time one reads about service excellence and superior customer experience the oft-cited examples include Starbucks, Google, Virgin Airlines, Lexus and Ritz-Carlton. A recent search on Google for “customer experience” returned over 1.4 million results and a search for “customer experience management” returned over 890,000 results! Clearly there is a great deal of [...]
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Posted in May 25, 2009 ¬ 5:26 pmh.admin
Welcome to the new “thecxo.com”. We will blog here on current trends, issues and developments in customer experience.
We strongly subscribe to the view that customer experience is the route to building great brand and profitable customer relationships.
Those of you who have been to thecxo.com before may notice that some archived articles are missing and we [...]
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