One Millimeter Mindset

APRIL 1, 2021

You have a marvelous professional journey awaiting you. As your traveling companion, start with these 5 One Millimeter Mindset® blog posts to guide us forward, together. Delivering Human Capital Value is Everyone’s Responsibility. Cross Functional Customer Retention Is Key To Strategy. Get started already. No fooling!

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

When one in five of your customers speak something other than English as their first language, providing bilingual customer support is critical. The impact of bilingual support on the customer experience cannot be understated. Without it, you risk taking a hit to your CSat scores, your brand loyalty, and your bottom line.

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Comm100

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Chatbots are quickly becoming a long-term solution for customer service across all industries. A good chatbot will deliver exceptional value to your customers during their buying journey. It boosts customer engagement because it’s quick, simple, and puts the user in the driver’s seat. What Is a Chatbot?

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ShepHyken

MARCH 10, 2024

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Drawing inspiration from my experiences and insights into the evolving dynamics of customer interactions, let’s explore five pivotal strategies that can elevate your small business from being good to unforgettable.

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Bold360

MARCH 19, 2020

One of the biggest challenges we face is now is engaging a remote workforce with a stay-at-home customer base. Learning to serve customers. More advanced retailers are always looking to learn from customer behaviour. More advanced retailers are always looking to learn from customer behaviour. Just look at Amazon.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 13, 2019

This week we feature an article by Darcy Alexander who shares a checklist to guide us through the process of selecting the best CX vendors for our customer experience initiatives. When embarking on a customer experience (CX) change initiative, there are few decisions more critical to success than selecting the right vendor.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 7, 2017

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Swati Kungwani, writes about the value of customer complaints to a business. Customer behavior is becoming more dynamic. According to the reports, “It is in the hands of the companies to prevent 85% of the customer churn caused due to futile poor service.”.

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Totango

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

We were recognized for our strength in end-to-end relationships, overall value, and leading features and functionality. Totango’s customer success software drives cross-functional enterprise teams toward enhanced productivity, retention, and growth. What our customers are saying With a trScore of 8.1

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

This week we feature an article by Brian Cantor who gives us a list of ways to achieve success and consistency when communicating with customers on any channel. – Shep Hyken. Making for a jointly admirable and problematic reality, the customer contact community often takes a lofty, wide-eyed approach to strategy and technology.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

This week we feature an article by Daniel Bakst who explains why competitive benchmarking is key to better serving your customer base. – Shep Hyken. Contextualizing your brand’s place amongst competitors in the industry you encompass is vital to creating a leading Customer Experience.

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ShepHyken

MAY 5, 2017

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Dan Rood, writes about the precious commodity of time and why we must use the latest technologies to help customers save time and have amazing customer experiences. That perfectly describes an omnichannel customer experience platform. Shep Hyken.

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Totango

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

As a leader in customer success, who’s your friend in the C-suite? Is the customer journey mapping exercise a worthwhile effort? Who owns the customer community for your organization? 2023, Chris Dishman , Totango’s SVP of Global Customer Success, hosted the lively Hot Takes! We hope so! At Totango Live!

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Totango

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Merging sales and customer success (CS) is a delicate art that is often challenging but necessary for driving business results and creating a frictionless customer journey. Teaming leaders from each of these functions to focus on a respective industry, these “pods” work together to build deep knowledge and vertical expertise.

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ShepHyken

JULY 26, 2019

This week we feature an article by Charles Richard who shares an article about how important it is for software development companies to have a successful customer experience strategy. We all crave for “more”- entrepreneurs expect more from their employees whereas your coworkers as well customers may expect more from you. Probably not!

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Top 10 Blog Posts from 2020. 9 Well-Meaning Yet Harmful Phrases to Avoid with Customers. This article is a roundup of the not-so-obvious phrases you should avoid saying to a customer no matter how well-intentioned or deserved. Check out this post to see if you’re inadvertently sending subliminal negativity to your customers.

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Comm100

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Customer experience (CX) is the convergence of three elements – human, process, and increasingly, technology. As more and more touch points between businesses and customers are established, the expectation to provide a seamless customer experience across channels has turned into a necessity.

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Totango

AUGUST 23, 2022

B2B Customer Journey Touchpoints: A Guide for CS Teams. B2B customer journey touchpoints mark the roadmap toward successful outcomes for clients and CS teams. In this way, customer journey B2B touchpoints serve as a powerful tool for increasing the effectiveness of your customer success strategy.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

This week we feature an article by Sawaram Suthar writes about how live chat can simplify the customer journey. Always remember that the customer just want to be taken care of, regardless of how you go about it. – Shep Hyken. Businesses often face multiple challenges with respect to how to simplify the customer journey.

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SurveySensum

JANUARY 26, 2024

When the package arrived, she found some glitches and contacted customer support for assistance. The responsiveness and effectiveness of the support team in resolving her issue became a pivotal moment in Claire’s customer journey. Claire’s story encapsulates the essence of a customer journey.

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Totango

OCTOBER 18, 2023

“Leader” in the Grid® Report for Customer Success Software and “Leader” in Grid® Report for Customer Data Platform are two of our favorites and clearly demonstrate our commitment to driving customer business results. Totango accelerates revenue retention and customer growth Last month at Totango Live! , customer health).

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Feedbackly

MAY 16, 2024

The Finnish clothing store chain Kekäle wants to differentiate itself from competitors by offering customers the best emotional experience in the industry, and measures it with the Emotional Value Index (EVI®). We needed a service that could help us understand our customer experience better,” stated Joonas Kekäle, CEO of Kekäle.

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Totango

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“Customer success is driving value to customers. Digital customer success is driving value more efficiently using a software or service that allows companies to grow and deliver value without using excessive resources” – Chris Dishman, SVP Customer Success, Totango.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 5, 2018

New Direct-to-Consumer companies are flourishing by focusing on building strong relationships with their customers that they own directly, bolstered by better experiences. Amazon customers are spoiled by choice, but they are also overwhelmed by it. Eliminate Choice. Succeed With Experience.

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Totango

APRIL 13, 2022

Selecting the right customer success platform for your organization can be challenging. To help you navigate the process, we’ve developed a four-part blog series about the mistakes you should avoid when choosing a CS platform. In this article, we’ll look at the mistake of not approaching customer success with a modern mindset. .

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Cyara

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Per the question in the title of this blog post, let’s examine the phrase, break down the meaning, and then explore how “Last Mile Assurance” is relevant to and important in the context of contact centers and customer experience. To begin, let’s think literally, taking the words at face value. CX Visibility Bad audio quality.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 23, 2017

Once representatives used to be able to physically approach customers to see if they needed their assistance, now when visitors are on a website many companies are not aware of their existence unless the visitor makes contact. Inviting customers to chat on the checkout page can be extremely useful to tackling shopping cart abandonment.

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Comm100

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

What started with Netflix’s sophisticated Machine Learning recommendation algorithms customized to every users’ preferences has now become the buzz in customer service and support. Why does personalized customer service matter? – It earns you loyal customers and boosts retention.

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Lumoa

AUGUST 18, 2022

” – a never-ending question asked to a customer in multiple ways and various forms. Somehow, it feels like it’s a DeJa’Vu moment happening daily because as what every company tells its customers, “Your opinion matters” or “You are important to us”. I mean, we get it. Undefined goals.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 4, 2019

This week we feature an article by Anand Srinivasan who writes about how important it is to have a properly trained customer service team to ensure business success. – Shep Hyken. Customer service is one of the primary drivers of growth in many organizations. Traits that define a great customer service rep.

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ShepHyken

JULY 15, 2016

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Tom Hoffman shares a personal story that translates into a great lesson for the customer experience. We must always be looking for new and different ways to improve upon the customer experience. Shep Hyken. But it does involve a willingness to try new things.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

One key is to always deliver value to your customers to keep them coming back. – Shep Hyken. Does it seem like your competitors have an advantage over you when it comes to attracting new customers? Or that too many customers are dissatisfied with your service? Overuse predefined replies (canned responses). Social Media.

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Feedbackly

JUNE 21, 2023

As customers, we experience different emotions with different brands. For businesses, these customer emotions are very important to consider. Emotional Experience (EE) looks at the aggregate of emotions that customers feel throughout the buying journey. The Emotional Value Index (EVI®) is the metric used to measure EE.

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Totango

MARCH 19, 2021

The traditional customer journey infographic envisioned the customer’s experience from a sales and marketing standpoint, visualizing a funnel marking the steps from a lead acquisition through a sale, also known as the buyer’s journey. Keep in mind that onboarding can also begin in the presales process.

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Totango

JUNE 15, 2022

While the uncertainty that comes along with rising interest rates and a falling stock market can be scary, there is a silver lining: your current customer base. During periods of economic instability, your customer base may be the only growth channel on which you can depend. Treat the Customer Journey as a Product.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 16, 2017

This week we feature an article by Felix Winstone who says that while technology has impacted our approach to customer service, the oldest channel of communication, voice, is the most important. Approaches to customer service are continually shifting to keep up with how people adopt new technology. Shep Hyken.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Listen to the podcast: Bob Black, one of our podcast listeners, loves our ideas about evoking specific customer emotions. In my experience, many organizations fail to evoke a specific customer emotion. In my experience, many organizations fail to evoke a specific customer emotion. Customer behavior can help here.

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BirdEye

AUGUST 29, 2023

Happy customers build successful businesses. You can grow, scale, and develop your business if you understand your customers’ feelings about you. Great products, the best marketing campaigns, and the costliest ads are all playing second fiddle to the power of customer satisfaction. Why is customer satisfaction important?

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