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    <description>Converge Coffee connects you with business experts who have succeeded by constantly pivoting and staying motivated from lessons they learned. You get each speaker's actionable insights and feel their passion like you were sitting right across the coffee table. 
This podcast is about building a strong customer experience (CX) community. Each episode will be packed with information at your fingertips. Think of this podcast as talking to the speaker right across the table and walk away with content to actually use. No more list posts because most people struggle with implementation. This is about proving CX through small, simple actionable ideas that make huge impacts.
We dive deeper in the 4 go to market (GTM) success cores to achieve and prove customer experience: Messaging, Design, Tech, and Experience. These 4 essentials don't only apply to marketing. Guests have marketing, sales, customer experience, revops, recruiting, data, and product backgrounds. Today, each business function grows either through customers or employees converging back to those 4 success cores.
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    <itunes:summary>Converge Coffee connects you with business experts who have succeeded by constantly pivoting and staying motivated from lessons they learned. You get each speaker's actionable insights and feel their passion like you were sitting right across the coffee table. 
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We dive deeper in the 4 go to market (GTM) success cores to achieve and prove customer experience: Messaging, Design, Tech, and Experience. These 4 essentials don't only apply to marketing. Guests have marketing, sales, customer experience, revops, recruiting, data, and product backgrounds. Today, each business function grows either through customers or employees converging back to those 4 success cores.
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  <title>Episode 82: Creating Great Customer Experiences to Drive Industries Out of the Ashes</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>In this episode, Sean sits down with Thor Wood, CEO and co-founder of SnapShyft. They dive into why Thor co-founded SnapShyft. They go deeper into how his company works on balancing a great customer experience with a two sided market - restaurant owners and workers. Thor provides a lot of great stats on the labor force and forecasts how restaurants have pivoted and will continue to pivot with COVID. Thor also gives some interesting insight on how restaurants will be coming out of the ashes stronger.</itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>In this episode, Sean sits down with Thor Wood, CEO and co-founder of SnapShyft (https://www.snapshyft.com/). They dive into why Thor co-founded SnapShyft. They go deeper into how his company works on balancing a great customer experience with a two sided market - restaurant owners and workers. Thor provides a lot of great stats on the labor force and forecasts how restaurants have pivoted and will continue to pivot with COVID. Thor also gives some interesting insight on how restaurants will be coming out of the ashes stronger.
More About Thor. https://www.linkedin.com/in/thorwood/ 
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<p>More About Thor. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/thorwood/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/thorwood/</a></p>]]>
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<p>More About Thor. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/thorwood/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/thorwood/</a></p>]]>
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  <title>Episode 81: How to Build Customer Experience in a Slow to Change Industry</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>In this episode, Sean sits down with Jeff Wraley, founder of Groundwork. They dive into why Jeff started Groundwork and his journey to lead to creating the company. They go deeper into how he built a solid customer experience through product and strategy and the steps to get to a strong MVP. Jeff talks about his entrepreneurial mindset on to constantly improve the product for his customers. Jeff also gives some interesting insight how contractor industries were impacted with COVID.</itunes:subtitle>
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More About Jeff. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffwraley/ 
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<p>More About Jeff. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffwraley/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffwraley/</a></p>]]>
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<p>More About Jeff. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffwraley/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffwraley/</a></p>]]>
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