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.

Three Surprising Facts About Customer Experience

Three Surprising Facts About Customer Experience

Customer experience has taken the world by storm. And with it, hundreds of consultants and researchers have flooded the market with books, interviews, training programs and various methodologies. The problem? This noisy, cluttered space has led to confusing,...

Quantifying customer lifetime value

Quantifying customer lifetime value

Quantifying customer lifetime value, or CLV, provides powerful insight into the impact of customer experience initiatives. Put simply, CLV measures how valuable a customer is to your organization over time, rather than just one purchase. You can learn more about a...

Want to Deliver a Great Customer Experience? Give Your Employees a Voice

Want to Deliver a Great Customer Experience? Give Your Employees a Voice

When you think about customer experience, what comes to mind? For most people, the answer is likely that it’s an organization’s responsibility to provide customers with a great experience. This isn’t wrong, but there’s more to it. Your best-laid plans for customer...

Everyone has a role in customer experience innovation

Everyone has a role in customer experience innovation

The world is changing, and customer expectations are evolving. So, innovation is the heartbeat of customer experience. But how do you innovate? Innovation, the late Peter Drucker points out in his landmark book, The Discipline of Innovation, is the “effort to create...

Harness innovation to deepen customer relationships

Harness innovation to deepen customer relationships

When developing a customer service strategy, the final step is to innovate and align. Where are the opportunities to get even better? How do you keep day-to-day operations and every decision aligned with your customer service vision? Learn more about two common and...

Eliminate the most damaging customer service frustrations

Eliminate the most damaging customer service frustrations

The principles that guide effortless customer experiences seem basic: Don’t make me wait Make it easy to access service Provide me with a knowledgeable and helpful service team member Create easy processes Know who I am The truth is, it’s difficult to get customer...

Two types of quality standards for employees

Two types of quality standards for employees

Aren't there a million and one nuances you could focus on when establishing quality standards for customer service employees? So how do you even get started? Here is an easy, yet effective, approach. A proven way to establish quality standards for individuals is to...

Practice seeing things from your customer’s perspective

Practice seeing things from your customer’s perspective

The most successful leaders are uneasy with depending on data alone to tell them what’s happening. They take steps to put themselves in their customers’ shoes. They want to deeply understand and experience the organization— and its products, employees and...

Clarifying customer experience responsibilities

Clarifying customer experience responsibilities

An insurance company was eager to improve customer experience. They knew what was frustrating their customers, but customer satisfaction scores were stuck. They weren't moving in the right direction. After speaking with their associates, I observed that everyone was...