Customer Experience Blog

Expert insights on customer experience, employee engagement, and service leadership. Stay ahead with Brad Cleveland’s blog—featuring CX trends, actionable strategies, and real-world solutions to help you improve customer satisfaction, streamline operations, and drive business success.

The best way to improve employee engagement

The best way to improve employee engagement

When you peel back the layers of any customer-centric organization, you’ll find a culture of honoring employees, encouraging their insight, and engaging them every step of the way. Customer experience is built on a foundation of employee engagement. I don’t know of...

A Structured Approach to Customer Advocacy

A Structured Approach to Customer Advocacy

Customer advocacy has the potential to strengthen your organization and transform customers into enthusiastic brand advocates. But you have to unleash it. Whether you're developing customer advocacy within a team, a department, or across the organization, you'll need...

Drive Innovation with Convenience Design

Drive Innovation with Convenience Design

One of the themes driving innovation in customer experience is effort reduction—making things as simple and easy for customers as possible. One element of reducing effort is convenience design. Digital experiences aren’t always more convenient. A colleague recently...

Managing customer feedback in real time

Managing customer feedback in real time

Managing customer feedback includes both short and long-term objectives. It involves responding to feedback as it happens and collecting and analyzing feedback from many customers to look for recurring problems and opportunities. This video explores what it takes to...

Build a Brand Advocate Pyramid

Build a Brand Advocate Pyramid

Customers are advocates for you when they positively promote your products and brand. Brand advocates, as they are often called, bring much value to your organization. As you think through the many possible alternatives for engaging with both passive and active...

Want engaged employees? Create a supporting culture

Want engaged employees? Create a supporting culture

In some organizations you can feel the energy. You can just tell employees are committed and engaged. I've seen that seven key principles are always at work in great organizations. These organizations see both employee engagement and business returns improve. I...

Customer Experience ROI: Risks of Inaction

Customer Experience ROI: Risks of Inaction

One of the most important things you can do as a customer experience leader is to illustrate the returns on improvements—or the costs and risks of doing nothing. My recommendation is to build a “toolkit” (repertoire) of methods you draw from. There are two categories...

Tell your customer’s story

Tell your customer’s story

In the earlier years of my career, I put a lot of emphasis on logic and data. I've since discovered that the best customer experience leaders wrap data in a compelling narrative. They bring it to life and stir others to action. Learn about several tools you can use to...

Collecting structured and unstructured customer feedback

Collecting structured and unstructured customer feedback

Your feedback process should act as a funnel, catching data from all the various sources and bringing it into a centralized location. This could be a database that’s part of your customer relationship management (CRM) system, a dedicated customer feedback system, a...