Comm100

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Buzzwords come and go in the customer experience world, but while we lose our patience with most, there are some that rightfully stick around. In 2013, Forrester Research landed on one such phrase – the ‘age of the customer’. Customers have more power than ever to get their voice heard and listened to. Brands are forever fearing that one viral tweet could severely damage or even destroy their carefully constructed brand image in a fleeting yet far-reaching flurry of complaints. .

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Kerry Bodine

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

I’m a strong proponent of including a short description of the customer persona on each journey map. (Otherwise, how do you know whose journey is being represented?) That practice often brings up a question during client conversations: To what degree should our personas represent different races, genders, religions, sexual orientations, etc.? It’s Black History Month here in the United States, and that seems the perfect time to answer this question in a public forum.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Is customer experience worth it? This is a question I get all the time. C-level leaders want to know if customer experience (CX) is worth the investment. Customer-focused employees across marketing, sales, HR, and other departments want to know if new CX initiatives are worth pushing for. Even organizations with running CX programs are often wondering how those efforts are paying off.

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GetFeedback

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

From customer service to customer satisfaction and loyalty, here are 14 quotes to motivate you to deliver a great experience.

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eglobalis

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Customer Experience Five fundamentals to re design AI transformative experience as competitive advantage. The post Five fundamentals to re design AI transformative experience as competitive advantage appeared first on Eglobalis.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

In job descriptions and resumes, there are new required skills for candidate’s resumes in Behavioral Science. These jobs might be the most important new jobs in business today. But why? Behavioral science and the scientists that use it will tell you that understanding the “why” of what customers do has become table stakes in some industries today.

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Steve DiGioia

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The Mandalorian. The blockbuster hit on the Disney Channel. A keen and faithful observer can see many takeaways that relate to the way we offer service. I’ve already written about Bigfoot Customer Service and Landscaper Customer Service. Those two articles highlight the unique aspects of service the two groups offer and how they hurt or help our service efforts.

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The DiJulius Group

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

5 Quick Tips to Help you Make Price Irrelevant 1) Customer Service Feature Story The Six Components of a Customer’s Experience In order to create brand loyalty and customer evangelists, you must 1) operate at a high level in six distinct areas of business and 2) constantly evaluate your company’s customer service across each category, Read Full Article.

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GetFeedback

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The ultimate guide for using VoC surveys to improve the customer experience.

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Heart of the Customer

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

One of the most critical findings from our 100+ interviews with CX pros over the course of 2020 was the importance of selecting one emotional outcome for your experience and using it as a design target. This is because emotions are the heart of your customer experience. But for some reason, few programs deliberately measure […]. The post Learn From West Elm’s Missed Opportunity appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. Improve Your Customer Outcomes With 5 Customer Service Best Practices from Leading Consumer Shipping Brand FedEx by Veronica Krieg.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

A lot of the behavioral sciences can feel intimidating. However, it doesn’t have to be. The Five Rules Podcast Series is our attempt at giving you an easy entry point into the complex and messy world of Behavioral Science. Customers buy habitually, and that’s great when their habit is to buy from you. The problem is sometimes they aren’t buying habitually from you, but instead from your competition.

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Steve DiGioia

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

If you can smile for every customer even though you recently faced your own personal tragedy, If you can keep your promise to a customer even if it costs you more money, If you can be accountable to follow through on a customer’s difficult request even though it takes you away from other responsibilities, If you can overlook the sometimes rude comments made by a customer who believes they’ve been wronged and still treat them with respect and kindness, If you can hold your tongue and allow an ups

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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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Daniel Group

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Butler Ag Equipment. Lynn Daniel, CEO, The Daniel Group, interviews Jodi Phillips, Marketing Manager, Butler Ag Equipment. They discuss how Butler “realized years ago it isn’t just about the scores in those surveys, it’s about how we’re treating customers. And that obviously affects every piece and portion of our business. So, over the last few years, customer experience has taken more of a front seat with Butler. ” Transcript.

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ReviewTrackers

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Reputation marketing is a way of thinking about your reputation in the same way you think about your marketing – the more positive your brand’s reputation, the more growth you can deliver. Companies like Apple get a huge value from their reputation as a user-friendly company that provides great customer experience. Of course, the idea of reputation marketing is nothing new.

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Kustomer

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Great customer experiences depend on great agent experiences. Giving agents the right tools and knowledge is critical to empowering agents and facilitating customer-centric, empathetic support. And as studies have shown, good customer experiences have a direct impact on topline revenue, driving retention, loyalty, and word-of-mouth marketing. However, according to Forrester, agents on average spend 35% of their time searching for information, and another 15% performing repetitive, manual tasks.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Here’s a true story shared by my friend and speaking colleague Beth Terry. The short version is that there is a doctor, who is probably a good doctor. But he’s a terrible boss. When a patient – as in his customer – complains about something, he listens and then goes back to his employees, and in a knee-jerk reaction, he berates and punishes them by taking away their incentives.

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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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BirdEye

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

We’re well into 2021 and while a new year brings lots of change, some things remain the same. After winning multiple awards in January, Birdeye continues to be the most-awarded and highest-rated reputation management software for businesses of any size. . G2 2021 Best Software Awards. G2’s Best Software Awards ranks the world’s best software companies and products based on authentic reviews from real users.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

. As we think ahead to how we want 2021 to go, you might be thinking about professional goals and ways to grow your skills over the next year. One very accessible way to do that is through LinkedIn Learning , which is an offering of video courses taught by industry experts in software, creative and business skills. What makes LinkedIn Learning so attractive is it is all on-demand to allow you to view courses anytime that works with your schedule, also when you complete a course you earn a certi

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SaleMove

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

It’s a simple question. Innocuous, really. Asked in all sincerity, and with all the best intentions. But for an increasing percentage of customers, it’s a question that can set a service interaction off on a negative high-effort note from the first word: “How may I help you?”. How could that possibly be harmful? It’s the question that initiates virtually every live customer interaction, and it has for years.

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The DiJulius Group

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

6 Quick Tips to Help you Make Price Irrelevant 1. Customer Service Feature Story People with the Strongest Relationships are the Most Happy When you have the ability to make an instant connection, get people to instantly like you, make them feel comfortable, and fully develop relationships of all kinds, you are likely to have. Read Full Article. The post People with the Strongest Relationships are the Most Happy appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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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Totango

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Totango, Inc., the largest and fastest-growing customer success platform, today announced that G2 has recognized the company as one of the Top 50 Best Software Companies for 2021. G2, the largest software marketplace and review platform, annually names its list of best software companies based on authentic, timely reviews from real users. “We are honored to be named to G2’s prestigious Top 50 Software list for 2021,” said Guy Nirpaz, CEO and Founder of Totango.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Not long ago I wrote about how small improvements can make a big difference. Even just a 1% improvement can make an impact. And, if you focus on 1% (or more) again and again, over time you will make big improvements that will have a positive impact on your customers, employees, internal processes, and your bottom line. You’ll find ways to save money, make money, develop better ways of doing business and much more.

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delighted

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

When you start setting up a customer experience program, one of the first things you’ll consider is how many customer surveys to send out. This handy guide by Sean Mancillas, the head of our Customer Concierge Team, navigates you through statistics concepts like survey sample size and margin of error, equipping you to ballpark the survey and response volumes you’ll need for a best practice CX program.

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Inbenta

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Even though there is no “real” benchmark for automated self-service solutions, we’re going to try to give you some indications of the kind of results you can realistically expect from such solutions. But first, what is customer self-service? Customer self-service is a solution or a set of solutions that enables web users to access information or even perform some simple tasks autonomously, without requiring the assistance of a customer service representative.

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JUST RELEASED! New research reveals 92% of business leaders would like to provide additional training to their customer service representatives. Soft skills training stands out as a priority area of investment and/or improvement. Check out The Northridge Group’s latest CX research report —the 7th annual CX survey of 1,000 customers and 250 business executives—to see additional statistics as well as insights that businesses can use to benchmark their customer service and improve the overall exper

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