February 2020
408: What Support Channels Customers REALLY Want
Technology comes and goes, new products are created, and after a while, they disappear as they’ve become obsolete. People get excited about them all the time, and so do businesses and leaders. And just as [...]
407: Joe Pine, The Experience Economy Revisited
About Joe Pine Joe Pine, whose amazing book titled The Experience Economy, is what got Jeannie started on her customer experience journey! B. Joseph Pine II is an internationally acclaimed author, speaker, and management advisor. [...]
406: Delta Airlines and the Stakeholder Debate
Delta Airlines have been one of the very few major legacy companies that have managed to disregard what most of its competitors are doing, and invest heavily in customer service. As you'll hear in this [...]
405: Jeanne Bliss: How Will You Be Remembered?
About Jeanne Bliss We talk about customer experience on this podcast, but we also talk about leadership. In fact, customer experience cannot go without leadership. With that in mind, we have Jeanne Bliss with us, [...]
January 2020
404: Do Leaders Lie About the Importance of CX?
They have been saying it for quite a while now, and there are plenty of stats to support this. But have these statistics been right or wrong? They are all based on surveys, and we [...]
403: Blake Morgan, The Customer of the Future
About Blake Morgan Blake Morgan is a leader in customer experience. Blake is a keynote speaker, customer experience futurist, and author of two books on customer experience. Her bestselling second book is called “The Customer [...]
402: Focusing Your CX Team in 2020
We are very excited about 2020. However, as every new year starts, organizations are trying to get back into the game after the holidays, and things like the customer-centric focus tend to get lost in [...]
401: Annette Franz, Customer Understanding
About Annette Franz Annette Franz has a wonderful new book she named Customer Understanding. Annette is a CCXP and the founder and CEO of CX Journey Inc – a customer experience consultancy. With more than [...]
December 2019
400 Episodes (and we’re still talking to each other)
Welcome to a very special episode of Crack the Customer Code – our 400th episode! For such a special occasion, we thought we would look back at history. It's been so long since we started [...]
399: Alexandra Watkins, Choosing Brand and Product Names
About Alexandra Watkins Alexandra Watkins is the author of ‘Hello, My Name is Awesome’ and Chief Executive Boss Lady of ‘Eat My Words’, a branding firm specializing in names that make people smile instead of [...]
398: Will CX Become Winner Takes All?
The customer wins, the company wins, the team wins, everyone wins! That's the beauty of CX, and that's why it's important. In this episode, we talk about the latest research that suggests that successful CX [...]
November 2019
397: Steve Farber, Love is Good Business!
About Steve Farber We are here to talk about something that’s often forgotten in the world of business – love. We are joined by Steve Farber, the former Vice President of the legendary management guru [...]
396: Kill The Siloes!
In this solo episode with Jeannie Walters, she talks about siloes – the often discussed term in the business world, and especially in customer experience. They are such a vital problem today that we often [...]
395: Guy Marion, Subscription Economy Retention
About Guy Marion Guy Marion has a unique position to give us an inside scope of the retention and subscription industry. He talks a lot about how it works and what leaders can do to [...]
394: Do You Need A CX Think Week?
Thinking about thinking matters! It's not a weird concept, and it's not a tautology, it's a valid concept which we seem to have forgotten entirely. The world of today is so hectic and distracting that [...]
October 2019
393: Antony Brydon, AI Customer Service
About Antony Brydon Artificial intelligence (AI) is a big part of our world today, and it’s affecting customer experience as well. That’s why we are here today with our guest Antony Brydon to talk about [...]
392: Don’t Let Contractors Ruin Your Customer Experience
The freelancer or contractor economy has risen with great might and has started to influence the overall customer experience in different ways. From the way it limits the delivery of excellent customer experience, to how [...]
391: Max Israel, Art + Science of CX
About Max Israel Max Israel is founder and CEO of Customerville, the design-driven customer feedback platform. Customerville blends technology with art and behavioral science to make customer experience surveys richly engaging, for customers and employees [...]
390: 3 Ways to Be More Customer Centric
Today's episode of Crack the Customer Code is a short one. Adam is flying solo at the moment, but he has a lot to say about being customer-centric. Adam shares the three main tactics that [...]
389: Tiffani Bova, Growth IQ
About Tiffani Bova Tiffani Bova is the Global Customer Growth and Innovation Evangelist for Salesforce and the author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Growth IQ: Get Smarter about the Choices That Will Make Or [...]
September 2019
388: The Tech Leader’s Role in CX
Customer experience is continuously evolving today. What's more, the use of technology goes hand in hand with it. As a direct consequence of this, the role of the chief technology officer or the CTO is [...]
387: Stan Phelps Talks Pink Goldfish
About Stan Phelps Our guest today is Stan Phelps, a long time friend, who is once again joining us on the show. We are going to continue our talk about the goldfish series. Today, it's [...]
386: Is the Customer Journey Dead?
Is the customer journey dead? According to an article in CMS Wire titled The Customer Journey is Over, it is. However, is that truly the case? Is the customer journey surely over, or is the [...]
385: Bill Guertin, The Fan Experience
About Bill Guertin The sports fan experience is so much more than it used to be. Now it involves the game, the food, comfort at the stadium, and a lot more. It has changed significantly, [...]