Metrics & Values

  • Survey Shows Data-Driven Marketing Improves Sales Productivity and Market Share…Yes!

    What Does It Take to Become Data Savvy?

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    Survey on the impact of data-driven marketing on business performance shows improved sales productivity and market share. Read what it takes to become a data-driven marketing organization.
    May. 26, 2011
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  • Five Steps to Success in Designing a Customer-Centric Business

    Chapter 1 – Customers.com 2.0

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    A 5-step prescription for customer-centric executives to design new businesses or re-focus existing organizations and win customers for life.
    Feb. 4, 2010
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  • Building a Customer-Centric Company: Lessons Learned

    Advice to Customer Experience Executives from Aisling Hassell

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    Tips from the trenches on how to succeed as a Customer Experience executive.
    Jan. 21, 2010
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  • Self-Service CX Performance

    Response Time and Availability for Key Customer Self-Service Activities

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    From the customers’ standpoint, the most critical performance metrics are response time and availability at the customer user interface (UI). If you can’t respond within their timeframes, then they’re going to abandon you for the competition.
    Jul. 30, 2009
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  • Planning a Theme Park Vacation around a Birthday

    How Easy (or Difficult) Is It to Accomplish on the Parks' Web Sites?

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    Planning a vacation and event? See how well the Web sites for DisneyWorld, Six Flags, and Colonial Williamsburg help you achieve your goals.
    Jun. 25, 2009
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  • How Customers Want to Plan for Retirement with Financial Security

    Identifying and Measuring the Key Moments of Truth in the “Planning for Retirement” Customer Scenario® Pattern

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    Customer scenarios fall into patterns. It‘s valuable to know these patterns ahead of time so you can focus on how to differentiate the experience you offer. This report focuses on the outcome-based scenario of planning for retirement.
    May. 14, 2009
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  • How Customers Want to Learn a New Skill

    Identifying and Measuring the Key Moments of Truth in the Customer Scenario® Pattern of Acquiring a Skill

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    Customer scenarios fall into patterns. It‘s valuable to know these patterns ahead of time so you can focus on how to differentiate the experience you offer. This report focuses on the outcome-based acquiring a skill scenario.
    Apr. 30, 2009
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  • How Customers Want to Upgrade to a New "Model"

    Identifying and Measuring the Key Moments of Truth in "Product/Service Upgrade" Customer Scenario® Patterns

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    Customer scenarios fall into patterns. It's valuable to know these patterns ahead of time so you can focus on how to differentiate the experience you offer. This report focuses on a typical upgrade scenario.
    Feb. 26, 2009
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  • What Belongs on Your Customer Dashboard?

    Design Your Customer Dashboard to Monitor Performance on Customers' Moments of Truth

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    Tracking customer KPIs may be the cheapest bottom line boost available this year. Here’s what you should track, and why.
    Feb. 5, 2009
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  • How Customers Want to Plan a Special Event

    Identifying and Measuring the Key Moments of Truth in "Event Planning" Customer Scenario® Patterns

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    Customer scenarios fall into patterns. It’s valuable to know these patterns ahead of time so you can focus on how to differentiate the experience you offer. This report focuses on the event-based event planning scenario.
    Oct. 15, 2008
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  • How Customers Want to Return or Exchange a Product

    Identifying and Measuring the Key Moments of Truth in Return/Exchange/Cancel Customer Scenario® Patterns

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    Customer scenarios fall into patterns. It's valuable to know these patterns ahead of time so you can focus on how to differentiate the experience you offer. This report focuses on a typical return/exchange/cancel scenario.
    Sep. 11, 2008
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  • I Need a New Car, Fast!

    How Vehix.com Rates in an Emergency Car Buying Scenario

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    Novice car buyer, Mia Driver, looks to Vehix.com to help her identify and locate the right car for her family.
    Oct. 18, 2007
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  • New Car Insurance for a Growing Family

    Customer Experience Test Drive of: Geico and Progressive

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    Just how quick and easy is it to get an online insurance quote from Geico and Progressive? In this test drive, we see if the two auto insurers live up to their advertising promises.
    Aug. 9, 2007
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  • Selecting a Mobile Phone Family Plan for a Family in Transition

    Moments of Truth in Consumer Telecommunications

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    When the kids go off to college, a family needs a new mobile phone plan to support multiple locations. In this Test-drive, we apply the Product Select and Buy Customer Scenario pattern and its key Moment of Truth.
    Jul. 5, 2007
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  • Research, Compare, and Select a New Retail Bank

    Customer Experience Test Drive of: Bank of America, Citibank, and Wells Fargo

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    We apply the Product Select and Buy Customer Scenario pattern and its “I want to find the product or service that best addresses my requirements” Moment of Truth to a customer’s research, comparison, and selection activities for a new retail bank.
    May. 3, 2007
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  • Research, Compare, and Select Running Shoes

    Customer Experience Test Drive of: Dick's Sporting Goods, Roadrunner Sports, RunningShoes.com, and Runners Warehouse

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    In this Test-drive, we apply the Product Select and Buy Customer Scenario pattern and its Moment of Truth to retail for a customer’s research, comparison, and selection activities for a pair of running shoes.
    Apr. 27, 2007
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  • Outside In

    What’s Beyond Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0? Biz 3.0!

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    Tim O’Reilly got the world thinking in new ways about the Internet with his principles of Web 2.0. Expanding from these principles, we can define the next generation of business, or Biz 3.0.
    Apr. 19, 2007
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  • Research, Compare, and Select a Travel Rewards Credit Card

    Customer Experience Test Drive of: American Express, Bank of America, Capital One, Citi, and Discover

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    In this report, we apply the Customer Scenario pattern and its “I want to find the product or service that best addresses my requirements” Moment of Truth to financial services for a customer’s research, comparison, and selection of a credit card.
    Apr. 12, 2007
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  • Dealing with a Moment of Truth in a “Purchase a Gift” Scenario

    The Case of the Purple Flip Flops: Test Drive of Linda Anderson.com

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    A failed shopping experience at lindaanderson.com demonstrates the importance of meeting and measuring your customers’ moments of truth. It also shows the importance of empowering support staff to fix a broken relationship.
    Mar. 15, 2007
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  • Measuring the Success of Online Communities

    A Customer-Centric Approach to ROI

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    A successful community is one in which members’ objectives—their Customer Scenarios—are met. This report outlines 7 steps in building a business case, and discusses key metrics to define success for specific Customer Scenarios.
    Feb. 22, 2007
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