The CX Blog

So Biz Travelers: just a word of advice. If you select that Early Bird check in option, remember to print the confirmation page as you are processing your reservation (I’m not entirely sure which page that is, I’m just repeating Jean’s advice above), cuz the charges will not show up anywhere else.

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Cone, Inc releases a study on social media use in America.

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Ever since Web 2.0 took hold following the dot.com bubble burst, followed by Enterprise 2.0 when it was coined by Harvard prof McAfee, seems like every industry is learning to fold the 2.0 promise into its thinking. While the 2.0 moniker might be tiresome, the trend is good. It means companies and sectors [...]

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Library Journal has an interesting review of social knowledge sharing tools in a recent article entitled 2.0 for Readers. The article focuses on the “RA,” or Reader’s Advisory services which include reader and library staff notes, reviews and overviews of books in the stacks, making the information librarian that much more prepared to help patrons [...]

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With the proliferation of web based applications to enable contextual networking, it’s easy to think blogging is a thing of the past already…and really, it hasn’t been around that long.  It’s even easier to think of blogging as so-15-minutes-ago when it’s being picked up so broadly inside of corporations and outside, not to mention the [...]

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Most customers, if they care at all about the product or service they’ve purchased from you, have at least one good idea to share with you about how things could be better.

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I have to amend the post below with late breaking news.  Washington Energy Services sent a guy, Mark, out today to view the damage to our deck, inspect the installation and generally get an idea of how the whole project went.  He gave me some tips on the heat duct covers we have, checked things [...]

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Mulling the news today re a Harris poll and the problems with online shopping, specifically:
Forty-two percent of consumers who experienced problems during an online transaction switched to a competitor or completely abandoned their effort….
Another 52 percent who have experienced bad service from a contact center after they had a problem online have completely [...]

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A while back (thanks for the tip, Bri), Ask the Wizard posted an article about his recent experience flying with an airline that-oddly enough–was delayed, and a hotel that was excellent. The airline touts its customer focus at every opportunity–in advertisements, on its website, on the tickets themselves. The hotel, conversely, makes no mention [...]

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Here’s a great read: A Perfect Mess by Eric Abrahamson and David Freedman. In it you’ll find plenty of reasons for letting that pile on your desk self-organize, those books and CDs find their own way, and that kitchen table with all the papers, mail, and stuff–just let it be.
Lest any neatniks out there [...]

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