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A Journey Mapping Glossary

Terms associated with Journey Mapping Every discipline has its own set of rhetoric, catch-phrases and dreaded TLAs (three-letter acronyms).  We thought we would take a moment to define some of the terms that are commonly used within the customer experience and journey mapping disciplines. 360 …

Guest Post from David Raab on suitecx

David M. Raab, marketing technology consultant and analyst, is Principal at Raab Associates Inc. His blog is named for the Customer Experience Matrix, a tool to visualize marketing and operational interactions between a company and its customers.  He is also author of the annual Raab …

A Graceful Goodbye

I won’t let the door hit me on my way out If you love somebody, set them free. It’s not just a Sting lyric, but also a wise CX philosophy! Today was admin day, the day to deal with invoices, billing, etc. Leading a startup …

360 Degree Customer Experience Webinar

We are thrilled to be collaborating with Data University on various CX topics, the first of which features Valerie and our recent thought leadership on how to achieve a holistic customer experience.

Mobile Carrier Road Rage – a #sweetcx and #sourcx comparison

Sweet and Sour CX This is the first publishing in of a new program we are launching at suitecx to highlight customer experiences at a more personal level. Many of us work with story telling as a tool in our practices and companies but rarely …

Now What? Executing on your CX Strategy

I spoke recently at the Total Digital Experience conference in San Francisco on a topic we haven`t seen a lot of in the CX world: how to actually execute once you have a CX strategy/team/toolset in place. Here`s a link to the SlideShare, which includes …

Experience Mapping in Complex B2B Ecosystems

Valerie and I are hot off the conference trail, and we’re thrilled that Customer Experience Mapping is finally getting the attention it has long deserved. It`s gone from a “maybe” to an “of course!” in terms of strategic priority at many companies. At the CXPA …

No Pain(point), No Gain

Years ago when I started out in my Customer Experience improvement career, a friend gave me a book entitled A Complaint is a Gift. It was one of those single-message books that really only require a skimming to get the point. As I look back …

When Customer Policy clashes with Customer Reality

If you work with customer facing personnel you have likely heard something like: “Well, what I did was bend the rules, and made my customer happy. Just because the system wouldn`t let me give her cash back, that didn`t mean I couldn`t do a cash …