by Brad Porterfield | Aug 13, 2018 | Client Experience Strategy, Client Success, Feedback and Analytics, Relationship Building
“I laughed.” That’s what Forrester CEO, George Colony said he did when he saw the “instant customer feedback buttons’ at Heathrow Airport. It’s not as if a frowny face, a smiley face, and a straight face are exactly sophisticated. In his post, Real-Time Customer...
by Sally Orcutt | Jul 31, 2018 | Client Experience Strategy, Client Success, Feedback and Analytics, Relationship Building
We all have brands we love because they deliver on their promise and their promise relieves us of some pain, anxiety, or frustration. In this post, I looked at some brands Client Savvy team members love to see if I can connect the dots between the customer experience...
by Ryanne Nelson | Jul 17, 2018 | Client Loyalty, Feedback and Analytics, Increase Profitability
Give your clients a voice and you’ll never be surprised again. “We don’t need a Voice of Client (VoC) program at our firm. Our project managers talk to our clients all the time.” This was what Bill, the CEO of a mid-sized engineering firm told me about nine...
by Ryan Suydam | Jul 12, 2018 | Client Experience Strategy, Client Loyalty, Relationship Building
I have a few brands I love. Like many people, I fly Southwest any chance I can – even choosing connections and higher ticket prices just to stay in the brand. But we all know these consumer brands and their stories. Southwest, along with Ritz Carlton, Amazon,...
by Kate Lucey | Jul 5, 2018 | Client Experience Strategy, Employee Experience
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...
by James Howard | Jun 26, 2018 | Client Journey Mapping, Client Success, Employee Experience, Feedback and Analytics, Growth Strategy, Increase Profitability
I heard a speaker say recently, “There is no reason for any firm to apologize for its need to make a profit.” He was right. Profitability is essential to the health of any business and necessary to enable the business to continue to grow and provide jobs for its...
by Ryan Suydam | Jun 25, 2018 | Client Experience Strategy, Client Success, Growth Strategy, Increase Profitability
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...
by Kate Lucey | Jun 12, 2018 | Client Success, Relationship Building
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...
by Ryan Suydam | Jun 6, 2018 | Client Experience Strategy, Client Success, Relationship Building
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...
by Sally Orcutt | Jun 4, 2018 | Client Experience Strategy, Client Journey Mapping, Client Success, Relationship Building
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...
