We’ve all been there. You’re standing at a concierge desk or a check-out counter or you are on the phone with customer service, and it is like talking to a wall. Some policy or procedure or bureaucratic rule has trumped common sense. A week ago, I was preparing to go on a mini vacation. After […]
Author: Ryan Suydam
Is rapid growth stressing your team?
It doesn’t have to. I recently had dinner with a client while at an industry event. He’s the young leader of a regional office for a larger firm. He shared his story: “Six hundred percent growth in just a couple years. Most of my peers would envy what we’ve done. I’m not sure my staff […]
Go beyond the numbers using linguistic analysis
From time to time, Client Savvy selects a client, takes a chunk of their recent data and conducts a linguistic analysis to give them deeper insight into what their clients are saying. We believe that as important as numerical analysis is to understanding client perceptions, linguistic analysis is useful because it focuses on more of […]
Seven reasons to join our growing CX community
At Client Savvy, one of our core values is to be community makers. Specifically, our goal is to build communities of individuals around the focus of client experience (CX). Why do we do this? To help our clients differentiate their firms, increase growth and profitability, and retain key talent. Our values and goals drive our […]
Is your firm’s client experience building trust?
What is the emotion you want your clients to feel when they think about working with you? This is the question I asked several clients recently. It’s one of those questions I thought I knew the answer to but also realized I would be looking at the answer through my lens. I needed to hear […]
Results or Experience? Which one builds brand loyalty?
People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill, they want a quarter-inch hole. – Theodore Levitt A client shared their challenge with identifying clients that would be willing to take advantage of a new technology they had adopted. This technology would allow the firm to more accurately identify the potential for inconsistencies and errors in […]
Feedback Quadrant – The missing axis of information
If you manage a professional services firm you have most likely seen numerous reports, charts, and other data measuring the financial performance of your projects. You have surely seen metrics of profitability, revenue, aged accounts, and more. These are usually mapped across an axis of time (monthly revenue, for example). However, none of these reports […]
Don’t let your clients’ experience be like a game of telephone
Do you remember playing the telephone game as a child? One friend would start with a sentence and the sentence would work its way around the circle. By the time it got to you it was a garbled circus of word entertainment. The point of the game was to illustrate how things are lost in […]
How to get buy-in from your team on a new initiative
Anyone who has worked in an office has had the experience of walking into a meeting to discover that management is launching yet another initiative, program, or system to address a need or problem in the organization. Many of us have become accustomed to watching these programs come and go without ever getting immersed in them. We […]
The Chick-fil-A® Effect and the Golden Rule
Sound fundamentals drive successful client experience. When one mentions the name Chick-fil-A®, visions of a tasty chicken sandwich and waffle fries come to mind. However, when it comes to marketing and business development, Chick-fil-A becomes synonymous with superior service. They give the customer more than they expect. Corporate Philosophy The company was founded in the […]