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[Experience Action Podcast] Elevating the Event Venue Experience

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

As the lights dim and the curtains part, understanding the intricate ballet of customer experience (CX) takes center stage. Let’s embark on an insightful exploration of CX in the live entertainment industry. In this episode, we tackle the challenge of crafting those electrifying moments that leave audiences craving more and performers feeling right at home.

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Communication is cheaper

Zeisler Consulting

I recently had to return a pair of shoes I’d purchased online. I realized immediately when I tried them on just after they were delivered that the size was wrong. Fortunately, the return process was super simple from a Customer’s perspective: The company had included a return label that I could slap right on the exact same box (that we wisely chose not to let the dog get hold of) in which came the original order and all I had to do was swing past any FedEx office to get it back on its way.

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Financial Services Reputation Management: Secure Lifelong Customers

InMoment XI

Did you know that over half of financial services consumers say they have low trust in their provider? And, of those consumers, only 34% of them would recommend their brand to friends and family. Financial services providers are tasked with a unique challenge. Since finances are such a personal part of our lives, consumers in the industry are the most withholding of their trust.

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Top 9 Questions: ESG & the Contact Center RFP

BlueOcean

The concept of ESG has had its place in the business world for a couple of decades, but it is only recently that it has become mainstream. One of the more complex aspects of upholding the standards a company values is ensuring its vendors are similarly committed. This holds especially true in the world of outsourced customer service, where your vendor is literally representing your brand and your values.

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The Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Customer Learning

Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your organization’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

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Medallia vs. Qualtrics vs. Lumoa: A Buyer’s Guide

Lumoa

Every interaction with your business has the power to build or damage the relationship with your customer – and can directly impact your revenue. 78% of customers have backed out of a purchase due to a poor customer experience (CX). The pressure is rising for businesses to step up their CX game. More than 80% of business leaders see customer experience as a growing priority in 2024.

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153: Improving Customer Service Reps Productivity Through AI with Juan Jaysingh

The DiJulius Group

Is your company’s watchful AI eye crossing the line into employee privacy? On this episode of The Customer Service Revolution, John tackles this contentious debate head-on, sharing his astonishment at the corporate practice of monitoring employee communications through artificial intelligence. Guest Juan Jaysingh, the brains behind Zingtree, shares the role AI plays in customer experience.

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of April 29, 2024

ShepHyken

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comments about each article and would like to hear what you think too. 5 Reasons Why VIP Customers Are the Key to E-Commerce Growth by Josh Kim (Total Retail) VIP customers significantly impact a business’ bottom line, often contributing a substantial portion of total revenue.

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Crafting Compelling Stories: The Key to Unlocking True Customer Engagement

Beyond Philosophy

Learn more about Colin Shaw : Join over 80,000 people on our LinkedIn Newsletter list or visit our website for more great podcast episodes. Listen to the podcast: Once upon a time… These four words are the unmistakable beginning of a story, and if there is one thing we humans love, it’s stories. We love them in our news, in our dinner conversations, and even in our commercials.

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Service Recovery: Four Steps to Keeping Customers

CSM Magazine

We all make mistakes. If anyone tells you they never a mistake, that’s a lie. More likely, what those people actually are telling you is that, even when they make a mistake, they won’t own it. Owning our mistakes is a critical step in service recovery—and service recovery is critical to the success of your business, no matter what that business is.

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The Verint Experience Index: Retail

Reports of the death of in-store shopping have been greatly exaggerated. This year’s retail survey found that more than 60 percent of consumers start and end their journey by visiting a store. Retail customers value price above everything, but the importance of other factors varies for different brands. In-store shopping is valued highly by grocery and home improvement customers Technology retail customers place less importance on in-store experiences – for them it only ranks sixth Digital exper

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Crafting Memorable Moments: 5 Strategies for Elevating CX Interactions

Interactions

In today’s busy, crowded world, good experiences drive loyalty. And with an endless variety of choices and never enough time, consumers will quickly move on if a business doesn’t provide frictionless, memorable, respectful, and — above all — human-centered customer service experiences. Yet, it’s easy to negatively impact CX with technology solutions that promise good service for lower costs, but end up falling short.

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From Vision to Execution: Building Your Customer Experience Dream Team

Heart of the Customer

Building Your Customer Experience Dream Team Starting Out As the leader of a customer experience team, you want your team to be the best it can be. But what makes some teams rise above the rest? What can you do to truly unlock your business’s potential? And most importantly: how can you prove your success? […] The post From Vision to Execution: Building Your Customer Experience Dream Team appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Organizational Transformation

Horizon CX

Organizational Transformation: The Role of Customer Experience Professionals Introduction Organizational transformation is often perceived as an elusive goal, reserved for C-suite executives with immense power and influence. That may be true in many instances, but the reality is more nuanced. While transformation involves reshaping an organization into something new, customer experience (CX) professionals wield significant potential to drive this change, even from positions below the C-level.

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How to Use Psychology to Build Customer Loyalty That Creates ROI

Beyond Philosophy

In this episode, Colin and Ryan tackle a listener’s question about the psychology of customer loyalty , delving into its emotional and relational aspects. Loyalty, they explain, goes beyond mere repetition of behavior; it is rooted in deep emotional attachment and often requires sacrifice. Drawing parallels to personal experiences, such as loyalty to sports teams (Lutown Town Football Club, recently reinstated in the Premiership) and brands like Apple (naturally), they highlight the import

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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Graphisoft Recognised for Its Business Transformation Investment in Project with Sabio Group

CSM Magazine

Leading software firm, Graphisoft, has been recognised for its transition from a perpetual business model to a cutting-edge Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model. In a project with Sabio Group, the digital customer experience (CX) transformation services specialist, the Hungarian firm was awarded a ‘Project Falcon’ Innovation Award for its transition path to a subscription business model.

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How to Manage and Monitor Online Reviews: 7 Steps (2024)

SurveySparrow

Online reviews are like a digital mirror for your business – they reflect perceptions of your brand through the eyes of your customers. Like the magic mirror in ‘Snow White’, they also have immense power, because they are the factor that will help a customer decide whether to choose you or your competitor. That’s why monitoring online reviews is crucial for any business.

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Make the Complicated Simple

ShepHyken

Earlier this year, I wrote an article about the hard work it takes to make something look easy. I quoted several people from sports, entertainment and business. The gist of the article was that we work hard to make doing business with us easy. Consider the quote I used from Steve Jobs of Apple, who said, “It takes a lot of hard work to make something look simple.

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Emotional Intelligence in CX: Connecting Beyond Transactions

CX University

Delivering exceptional customer experiences (CX) goes far beyond mere transactions. It requires a deep understanding of customer emotions and the ability to connect with them on a personal level. This is where emotional intelligence (EQ) emerges as a critical skill for CX professionals. Emotional intelligence, defined as the ability to recognize, understand, and manage one’s own emotions as well as the emotions of others, is the backbone of successful customer experiences.

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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CX Tech Top-ups: Exciting IntouchCheck® Updates Revealed!

IntouchInsight

At Intouch Insight, we're dedicated to improving our software so our users can keep delivering top-notch customer experiences. This month, we're thrilled to unveil new features within the Intouch Insight Platform.

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Hybrid Working: The Key to a Happier Customer Experience

CSM Magazine

Hybrid work is where office life meets your home comfort zone, making sure you get the best of both worlds. Far from being merely a band-aid solution during challenging times, combining remote work with regular office environments is carving its path as an enduring setup beneficial to everyone involved. Shifting towards flexible working spots is flipping the script on traditional office life and, it’s actually boosting how we serve up happiness to customers.

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Top 5 Game Changing Student Feedback Tools for Teachers

SurveySparrow

First and foremost, high five! Being here demonstrates that you are lovely and want to improve your students’ learning. Yes, Teaching, like us, is constantly growing! These days, gathering input is more than simply those tiny slips. It is about providing a more advanced environment in which students may genuinely open up. Why? Because their voices hold the key to improving teaching techniques and providing a more enjoyable learning experience for everybody This blog will introduce you to t

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Trends Shaping the Insurance Agent-Carrier Relationship

SaleMove

Based on research with more than 500 insurance agents, these are three top trends shaping the agent-carrier relationship. The post Trends Shaping the Insurance Agent-Carrier Relationship appeared first on Glia Blog | Digital Customer Service Explained.

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How Intent Data Helps Marketers Convert A-List Accounts

One of the biggest challenges for any B2B marketer is understanding your prospects’ next move — who is most likely to buy and when. Without these insights, marketing campaigns can feel more like guesswork, with high investment and little return. We’re here to tell you there’s a better way. By tracking buyers’ digital footprints and online activity, such as website visits, product reviews, and spikes in content consumption, you can engage prospects with a message that really resonates.

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Inspire employee engagement—on purpose

Customer Enthusiast

According to a recent Gallup article, by the end of 2023, 33% of U.S. employees overall were highly engaged, meaning they were highly involved and enthusiastic about their work and workplaces. Unfortunately, engagement levels slipped in the first quarter of 2024, dropping 3 percentage points to 30% among both full- and part-time employees.

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Improving Team Efficiency: The Power of Simplified Ticket Management

Team Support

Businesses today cannot afford to lag in response times or fumble with clunky support processes. That's where the magic of simplified ticket management comes into play. Enter TeamSupport: a game-changing support ticket system that is revolutionizing the way support agents interact with customers, emphasizing ease of use, personalized support, and operational efficiency.

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How Digital Transformation in Healthcare Is Revolutionizing Patient Engagement

CSM Magazine

As technology speeds ahead without looking back, it’s overhauling life as we know it—from everyday habits to job workflows down to basic human connections. One of the industries having the most profound impact is the healthcare sector. Digital innovation here is about fundamentally redefining the patient experience and engagement. Here, we’ll examine how digital transformation in healthcare changes patient engagement and improves health outcomes.

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Understanding Technical Support Outsourcing: A Quick Guide

Magellan Solutions

As your business grows, integrating technology to automate processes becomes essential. The challenge arises if you find it difficult to provide technical support while managing core operations. You may have heard about technical support outsourcing as an option since hiring an in-house support team to handle technical support is associated with significant financial investment that may burden small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

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11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption

Unlock the full potential of your educational initiatives with the 11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption eBook. You’ll uncover: Why measure content consumption rather than (or in addition to) completion rates and member satisfaction? What are some proven tactics to create quality learner content and raise your content consumption rates? Discover the secrets from leading experts in the field, distilled into practical tips that promise to elevate the quality of your educational offerings,