Does Social Media mean More or Better?

Does Social Media mean More or Better?

August 30, 2010 |  by Tim Sanchez  |  Customer Experience, Featured, Social Media  |  View Comments

How are you using social media with regards to your relationships? Do you use the power of social media to connect with more people or to build better relationships? Is it both, and if so, at what point does that become unscalable? Continue Reading

What Am I Reading...and Where's the Real Value?

What Am I Reading…and Where’s the Real Value?

A recent post titled, Do Your Daily Habits Include Reading a Book? by Annie Tsai got me thinking about my reading goals for this year. My plan was to read 24 books (two per month), and I felt like that was a worthy and attainable goal. Continue Reading

How LEGO does Customer Experience

How LEGO does Customer Experience

I visited a LEGO store opening in Austin, TX last weekend. It was a family affair, as my mom, wife, two sons, brother, sister-in-law, and their three sons were all in attendance. The line to enter the store stretched for several hundred feet and some people waited up to an hour to get in. Whatever marketing they had done for the grand opening worked famously. Continue Reading

Angry to Evangelist - A Free Guide to Help with Angry Customers

Angry to Evangelist – A Free Guide to Help with Angry Customers

I wrote a post a few months ago with some thoughts on how to deal with an angry customer.

Since then, it’s repeatedly been a top-viewed post and consistently gets a lot of search traffic. It seems a lot of people are searching for advice on how to handle angry customers. That’s not surprising since it’s always awkward and never fun. Continue Reading

Customer Experience Simplified

Customer Experience Simplified

July 27, 2010 |  by Tim Sanchez  |  Customer Experience, Featured  |  View Comments

Customer Experience is a broad and elaborate subject. Trying to manage something so complex can make you feel like Homer on a bad day at the office. Thankfully, a bad day for us won’t cause a nuclear meltdown, but sometimes it feels like that.

My last post on the Value of Customer Experience attempted to explain the three large components of customer experience, but it was a lot to chew on. Continue Reading

Managing the Value in Customer Experience

Managing the Value in Customer Experience

July 21, 2010 |  by Tim Sanchez  |  Customer Experience, Featured  |  View Comments

Friendly debates on the definition of customer experience never seem to end. They’re due in part to the conceptual nature of the topic, but most of the confusion can be attributed to the sheer size of the customer experience umbrella. Continue Reading