Talkdesk

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Is your customer-centric team actively working on providing better customer service in 2015 ? Have you been searching for trends that will help them optimize customer interactions and get a leg up on your competitors ? Below are the top six customer service trends for 2015 according to Forrester : 1.

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Eptica

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Date: Monday, October 5, 2015 Linguistics – the key to customer centricity in APAC. Published on: October 05, 2015. Author: David Chew In an era of ever-more demanding consumers, organizations need to understand and engage with customers if they are to retain their business and loyalty.

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Customer Centricity Multi-Channel 2015 Social Media 65

Think Customers

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Year-over-year global mobile data traffic is expected to rise 59 percent in 2015, according to Gartner. Just 45 percent of consumers are satisfied with retail mobile applications while just 47 percent say they're satisfied with retail websites, according to a 2015 study by Adobe. Consumers' use of mobile devices continues to surge.

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GetFeedback

JULY 11, 2018

When you’re truly in sync with your customers, it shows. Customer support is frictionless. And customers are happy to send new business your way. Despite all the customer data and technology at our disposal, most companies don’t know their customers as well as they think they do.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

I meet many organizations that say they want to exceed Customer expectations at every moment of contact. The first step in exceeding your customer’s expectations is to know those expectations.”. - For most organizations, just meeting their Customer’s expectations would provide a good experience. I tell them they are mad!

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Customer Expectations Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity CEM 167

CX Journey

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

We’re one month into 2015, and it’s already apparent that Customer Experience is on everyone’s agenda - or at least on those of the 95% of retailers surveyed by Boston Retail Partners ,who identified customer experience as a top-three priority in the new year. My take: Customer experience is absolutely a powerful differentiator.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Being Customer-Centric requires rewarding those that contribute to Customer-Centricity. Too many organizations are still not rewarding Customer Experience improvement because they don’t measure it. Focusing on rewarding these, however, is not conducive to Customer Centricity. Some do both.

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PeopleMetrics

DECEMBER 18, 2015

In keeping with millennia of human tradition, let’s look back at our top ten blog posts from 2015. Without further ado, here's number 10: Starting off this list is a post for those who are confused about how to measure customer experience improvement. It examines two popular transactional customer experience metrics.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Customer centricity requires strategy to cultivate a culture that puts the Customer at the center of everything you do. As the third in our series of nine posts looking at the different parts of the organization contributing to Customer centricity, let’s look at: Customer Strategy.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Unfortunately, all that passion doesn’t translate to a sustainable customer experience strategy. Here are some ways entrepreneurs typically fail at customer experience: 1. Customer experience is not part of their mission. This inevitably leads to problems and customers disappear. They need customers.

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Tricia Morris

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Some brands overall have had competitive rivalries in sales and marketing (think of the great Cola Wars of the 1980s), but what if customer service teams, or better yet, obsessed brands began engaging in this type of competitive rivalry? Get your game-face on CEOs, CMOs, CIOs and Chief Customer Officers. Choose a rival brand.

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Tricia Morris

JULY 23, 2015

For everyone who was customer service when customer service wasn’t cool, we have arrived. Customer service and customer-centricity is definitely cool now. In the new 2015 State of Multichannel Customer Service Report , 98% of U.S. Read more about the app here.).

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 8, 2017

This week we feature an article by Mansi Bhatia who looks at ways organizations can transform contact centers into a customer engagement center. I like the idea of a customer engagement center. – Shep Hyken. Customer service has the power to make or break a company. Contact Customers on their Preferred Channel.

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Eptica

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Date: Friday, October 16, 2015 The opportunity for European customer experience. Published on: October 16, 2015. Author: Olivier Njamfa From Berlin to Bermuda, and San Francisco to Singapore, consumers increasingly demand a superior customer experience from the organizations that they choose to buy from.

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Alida

JUNE 15, 2016

Today, customers advise brands on where markets are going—not the other way around. According to a 2015 IBM CEO study , it’s “impossible to personalize products, services or experiences without a clear idea of customers’ core values and what’s happening in their lives.” Introducing the research revolution.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 28, 2014

All the little parts along the way in your experience are what make a Customer experience Customer-Centric. Putting the Customer first in everything you do applies to every part of your organization, from the way you greet them to the way you bill them. Why Systems Matter to Your Customers.

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Net Promoter Score Customer Experience Customer Centricity CEM 120

Tricia Morris

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Customer expectations are changing and growing just as rapidly as the channels and technology consumers are empowered with to engage, encouraging (if not demanding) that brands and organizations embrace a strategy of non-stop, customer-centric adaptation. 2015 Aspect Consumer Experience Survey ).

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Think Customers

JUNE 23, 2015

Organizations that deliver exceptional customer support typically have at least a few things in common. They listen closely to what customers are asking for and not only act on customer feedback but they also communicate back to customers how and whether their requests were acted on.

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2015 Customer Centricity Innovation Blog 75

Beyond Philosophy

JULY 6, 2016

As a Customer Experience consultancy, Beyond Philosophy , we have worked in China on a few occasions. We learned a few things about what to do and what not to do there, as it pertains to Customer Experience. China is still in the early stages of Customer Experience discovery. Let’s take a closer look at each of these points.

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Social Media 2002 Multi-Channel Customer Centricity 113

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 30, 2015

With the personalized service, outstanding selection and in-store cafe options, they’ve built a loyal following of customers. But once a month, while recording our podcast Crack The Customer Code , I get my lunch from the Mariano’s across the street. No customer wants soup that has spilled all over the bag.

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Eptica

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2015 The importance of customer service to midsize businesses. Published on: December 02, 2015. Given these challenges, how are they coping with becoming more customer centric? recently released a new report aimed at helping them deliver customer service excellence.

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ijgolding

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Followers of my blog will know that I am keen to share others perspectives on the subject of Customer Experience when the opportunity arises. ” The big question is HOW do you achieve it – how do you transform an organisation to become Customer Centric? I am delighted to be able to do just that in this post.

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Eptica

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 3 ways of reducing customer query volumes. Published on: October 21, 2015. This rising volume of customer interactions, covering everything from questions about products and post-sales queries, to complaints and positive feedback , threatens to overwhelm many organizations.

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Contact Center Social Media 2015 Consumers 74

Customer Guru

MAY 1, 2018

At Customer Guru, we believe that Customer Experience (CX) should be the number one priority for all the Indian businesses so that they become more sustainable and successful globally. Thus, we are on a mission to spread this awareness, inspiring and guiding professionals to adopt and inculcate a customer-centric approach.

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SuiteCX

OCTOBER 22, 2015

While research has proven that a focus on improving customer experience directly impacts the bottom line, achieving the organizational and cultural change required to become fully customer-centric is not an easy process. It is critical to get all key departments aligned on your customer experience strategy.

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Customer Journey Mapping Customer Journey 2015 Customer Centricity 40

ClearAction

JANUARY 12, 2022

Customer-centered management is straightforward business sense,” declared the first article 1 in this six-part CEO’s Guide to Growth series. Modern corporate governance replaces shareholder primacy with balanced attention among five vital stakeholders: customers, employees, suppliers, communities and shareholders.

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Government 2019 Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity 62

Eptica

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Date: Monday, September 28, 2015 The evolution of contact center performance. Published on: September 28, 2015. Author: Pauline Ashenden In the past contact centers were often viewed as a cost cente r, meaning that the primary goal of companies was to run them as efficiently as possible while still responding to customers competently.

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Contact Center Net Promoter Score Call Center 2015 81

Eptica

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Date: Friday, September 4, 2015 Why your CEO should work a shift in the contact center. Published on: September 04, 2015. Author: Anne-Merete Jensen In competitive markets, customer service is often the most important differentiator. You need to make customer service everyone’s job.

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Contact Center Chief Customer Officer Social Media 2015 68

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

APRIL 30, 2015

We know this technique as the peak-end rule , which not only helps retain customers after things go awry, but often has the power to forge stronger loyalty from an otherwise bad experience. Letting customers call the shots. Michaels put some real thought into this- not as an exit point, but as an important customer touchpoint.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 10, 2020

As SaaS gets more serious about Customer Success, their representation on the executive and C-suite level will follow (as envisioned in our 2020 Customer Success predictions ; see #2). Based on LinkedIn research, Customer Success r oles saw 34% annual growth —qualifying them as one of the top emerging jobs in 2020.

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SuiteCX

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

One of the most compelling reasons to conduct a journey mapping exercise is to get various employee representatives around the room, engaging with one another and finding ways to make positive organizational change. Customer Journey Mapping: Three Ways Journey Mapping Can Drive Employee Engagement. suitecx ©2015, suitecx Inc.

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CSM Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2017

Being customer led makes for better businesses. While digital advances mean that the customer’s world is being inexorably re-imagined, the customer needs to be kept close. The Forrester Report ‘The Insights-Driven Business’ forecasts that insight-driven businesses will grow from $333 billion in revenue in 2015 to $1.2

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Steve DiGioia

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Businesses across the land champion their great service and the positive experience given to their throngs of loyal customers. They tout the benefits of their product and how they tend to the specific needs, wants and desires of their customers. The first question was to ask if what they were doing was right for the customer.

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Second to None

MAY 15, 2018

Still, customers’ perceptions of a brand is an even more important part of the equation. To put it in a nutshell, brand equity can be defined as a value of a brand in terms of how customers perceive that particular brand and feel about it based on their experiences with it. What is brand equity? distrust social media.

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ClearAction

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Customer-Centric Marketing: Step-Up Performance Lynn Hunsaker. Customer-centric marketing is necessary, yet far from sufficient — from customers’ and investors’ perspectives. Typical roles adopting customer-centric marketing are in the marcom area: digital, content, automation, intelligence, retention, advertising.

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Customer Centricity Marketing 2017 Consumers 59

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

DECEMBER 29, 2014

We had a great 2014 but more importantly, customers did, too! Leaders of all types of organizations began to walk the talk around improving their customer experience. Are you ready to make 2015 even better? Understanding customer touchpoints is essential to delivering a superior customer experience.

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Peter Lavers

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

We believe that competitive advantage will be won by the companies that deliver distinctive and profitable customer experiences across all their channels of engagement, and that understanding and meeting customer expectations are fundamental to that success. Changing Landscape and the “Amazon and Uber Effect”. Forget patience!

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