Where Does Customer Experience Begin?

Maybe this sounds a bit like trying to find the beginning of the Nile or the Amazon.

We live in a technology age and use technology to reach, monitor, and measure how our customers engage with our business. It is what we do. Yet, way upstream, before we monitor and measure a customer’s experience with our firm, is the people side of our business.

We need people to look at the data that we use to quantify the return on a marketing or sales campaign. We need people to answer the support desk, make the outgoing follow up calls, and greet the patrons at the door.

It is this interaction that can make or break the Customer’s Experience with our company. Once their interaction with us is done, they will take to social media to tell others about it. If they buy something from us, we will have the Point of Sale transaction and their email address to evaluate what they bought and how we can expand the “share of the their wallet” in our favor. Yet, to get to that point, it is those who they meet over the phone or face to face that has the biggest impact on their Customer Experience.