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Michelle deHaaff

Michelle deHaaff
Michelle leads marketing at Medallia, the leader in SaaS Customer Experience Management and has over 18 years of experience in marketing, branding, product management and strategic partnering in Silicon Valley. Michelle came to Medallia from Attensity where as Vice President of Marketing and Products she led the transformation of the brand and the products to be the leader in Social Analytics and Engagement. Michelle also led Marketing at AdSpace Networks, was a GM of Products at Blue Martini Software and worked at Ernst & Young as a CRM practice manager.

What We Can All Learn From Uber’s Customer Experience

Customers aren’t willing to suffer through badly designed experiences anymore. Case in point: the cab industry. Since the public hackney coach service was launched in...

Happy 10th Birthday NPS, You’ve Grown!

Ten years ago, Fred Reichheld published an article in Harvard Business Review on the “One Number You Need to Grow“. That watershed article introduced the...

Four Customer Experience Predictions for 2014

(1) More Companies Will Explore Getting Feedback Through Mobile Apps and Something Called "Geo-fencing" For most B2C companies, no customer experience feedback is more valuable...

Beyond Black Friday: Holiday Shopping Could Cost Retailers Billions

Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday, and now…Turkey Thursday. Retailers are increasingly looking to the holiday shopping season (and the handful...

How Can Text Analytics Improve Your Feedback Program?

Customers are people and people are passionate. Whether they are talking about a recent service experience or a product they love or hate, open-ended...

Improve Your Contact Center Agent Performance Through Customer Experience Management

Customers' satisfaction rates with contact center experience have universally dropped four years in a row, Forrester Research reports. And only 26% of consumers responded...

How to Hear From Your Non-Customers: Capture In-the-Moment Feedback with Mobile

Are you a restaurant, hotel, retailer or other business trying to get a complete picture of the customer experience by also hearing from those...

Buying and Servicing Your Car Doesn’t Have to Give You Anxiety. Why Do So Few Car Companies Get This?

Most of us have, in some way, experienced buying a car. It breeds a bit of anxiety, right? Making sure you get the right...

Do You Trust Your Frontline?

Frontline TeamsQuestion: When you go into a restaurant, a store, a bank, do you know who you will meet? The CEO? The VP...

Why Would Companies Design Surveys That Can’t Be Answered? Best Practices For Improving Response Rates

Companies ask for feedback so they can get feedback. The challenge is that many surveys seem to be designed not to be answered. Since...

Can A Customer Experience Program Change Your Culture?

What's your NPS? Every month the C-suite at Gold's Gym places calls to a few gyms in its global franchise to ask whomever answers...

Predictions for Customer Experience Management in 2013

The last three years or so have flown by when you consider how quickly consumers are embracing new digital platforms. Companies like Instagram,...

What the Social World Thought of the Susan G. Komen Debacle This Week

What a week for the Susan G.Komen for the Cure foundation. An organization that I've supported for years faced a huge debacle this week...

Kindle Fire – On Fire or A Flame Out?

No, I haven't become the official Attensity blogger on consumer electronics, but I am a shopper and this season the extensive list of new...

Roku Taking Flight

If you've turned on the TV, tuned into the radio or surfed the web this holiday season it would be almost impossible to miss...

Is Facebook Your Next Customer Feedback Tool?

As CMOs try to figure out how social media fits into the marketing mix, there has been a lot of discussion in the marketing...

Social Media in Latin America

I am on vacation in Costa Rica! But I can't get away from thinking about one of my passions – the amazingly rapid...

Google+ – How many social networks do we need?

With Google opening up a large number of invites to Google+ this week, the conversation surged about this new attempt by the Internet giant....

Your Voice of the Customer Playbook

As we go down the journey of working with our customers to leverage their customer conversations as a business asset, we end up working...

Why Sentiment Doesn’t Matter – If You Don’t Know Why

Sentiment is a widely discussed topic in the social, market and customer analytics world. Most vendors and buyers talk about sentiment as the...

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