September, 2013

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Google Think Auto 2013 Conference – Reflections

InMoment XI

Looking for ideas to enhance the customer experience in the automotive industry is a fascinating journey. Our company spends a lot of time studying and measuring the customer experience and yesterday was special because I was at the Google Think Auto conference and it gets you thinking. A highlight was the retail expert from the UK. As. View Article.

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More to customer loyalty than just having a great product

Service Untitled

'Most of us take great pride in the excellent products or services we provide, but let’s face it – there are many great organizations and service providers who do the same thing. So how do we set ourselves apart from our competition? Better yet, how do we deliver customer service above and beyond; services and products which shoot us out of that “good” box and upward towards the big blue sky of “great”?

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The Case FOR Customer Experience as a Business Strategy

Horizon CX

'Being a Customer Experience (CX) professional and having studied and practiced the art and the science of this wonderful CX discipline for over nine years now, (all within one organization) I pause to reflect on what the net result is of all the hard and dedicated work that we CX professionals have accomplished thus far and what we are yet to accomplish.

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Customer service: could your reputation go up in smoke?

Very Best Service

'Customer service reputation One critical aspect of good customer service management is to be well aware of all the smoke signals sent by customer though all available channels including social media. If they are carefully monitored, captured and acted upon they can help create a positive feedback loop initiated by customers for the long term benefit of the company.

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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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Listen to the Customer

Aveus

I started my career as a banker during a rapid period of deregulation. Banks weren’t sure what to do. Regulators were making up the new rules and literally publishing them every Tuesday when the DIDC (Depository Institutions Deregulatory Committee) would issue the changes for the week. Seriously. And consumers didn’t understand all that was happening but were trying to find their way.

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Google Think Auto 2013 Conference – Reflections

InMoment XI

Looking for ideas to enhance the customer experience in the automotive industry is a fascinating journey. Our company spends a lot of time studying and measuring the customer experience and yesterday was special because I was at the Google Think Auto conference and it gets you thinking. A highlight was the retail expert from the UK. As.

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How not to act when customer service fails miserably

Service Untitled

'This week was a drama-filled example of a customer “gone wild” when an incredibly frustrated customer service recording from Reddit was made public on YouTube. Picture a client, who for three hours tried in vain to get an issue resolved at an alleged home security organization, and went from agent to agent until finally customer service representative Michelle left a number for the client to call.

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Today's Connected Consumers

Brad Cleveland Blog

Cisco recently produced a study based on a survey of Gen-Y-ers (respondents included were college students and workers ages 18-30 years old). Some of the interesting (if rather unsurprising) statistics include: 9 out of 10 make checking their smartphones part of their morning routine (along with breakfast and brushing teeth). 60% check their smartphones compulsively.

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Treat your customers like Royalty

Very Best Service

'Treat your customers like Royalty Should you treat all your customers like Royalty? We have written previously about whether to offer a standard customer service to all or tailor it to individual customers or group of customers. The debate rages on as tailored customer service will obviously be much more expensive to deliver. There is even an argument that tailoring is not actually required.

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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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The Six Sigma Security Connection

Customer Interactions

'I recently came across a book titled Why How We Do Anything Means Everything in Business. In this book, author Dov Seidman quotes legendary General Electric CEO Jack Welch: “There’s no secret to the what; the secret is in how. They (GE competitors) can know our model, but they cannot do it. They can’t copy our hows.” The book argues that organizations are very proficient at measuring “how much” but they struggle in measuring the “how” (in other wo

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What will happen to Walter White? We collected predictions from 700 ‘Breaking Bad’ fans

Upwave

As “Breaking Bad” careens violently toward its series finale, many plot points are still up in the air: Will Walt escape the law? Will he reclaim his money from the Aryan Brotherhood? Does baby Holly stand any chance at avoiding severe psychological trauma? As an office full of “Breaking Bad” fans, we at Upwave were curious if viewers wanted a sympathetic ending for Walt despite his moral corrosion.

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Google Think Auto 2013 Conference – Reflections

InMoment XI

Looking for ideas to enhance the customer experience in the automotive industry is a fascinating journey. Our company spends a lot of time studying and measuring the customer experience and yesterday was special because I was at the Google Think Auto conference and it gets you thinking. A highlight was the retail expert from the UK. As.

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Mayday! Customer service guaranteed to rescue users in times of need

Service Untitled

'Amazon is stepping up the customer service game for users of the new Kindle Fire HDX. For those of us who might be a tad technologically challenged or for any problem that might occur, Mayday is a built in remote support and instant helpline available to the consumer 24/7/365 days a year. So if you’re confused by the predecessors and have used YouTube videos or Googled your questions for years, the new age of customer service may be setting Amazon apart from their competition.

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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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Today's Connected Consumers

Brad Cleveland Blog

Cisco recently produced a study based on a survey of Gen-Y-ers (respondents included were college students and workers ages 18-30 years old). Some of the interesting (if rather unsurprising) statistics include: 9 out of 10 make checking their smartphones part of their morning routine (along with breakfast and brushing teeth). 60% check their smartphones compulsively.

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Size Matters

InMoment XI

Whether good or bad, businesses are interested in what you have to say. For example, fast food establishments want to hear your thoughts to improve the customer experience—from the food itself, to the promptness of service, to the accuracy of the order—because what you say matters. Recently I took an online survey from a popular. View Article.

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Size Matters

InMoment XI

Whether good or bad, businesses are interested in what you have to say. For example, fast food establishments want to hear your thoughts to improve the customer experience—from the food itself, to the promptness of service, to the accuracy of the order—because what you say matters. Recently I took an online survey from a popular.

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Size Matters

InMoment XI

Whether good or bad, businesses are interested in what you have to say. For example, fast food establishments want to hear your thoughts to improve the customer experience—from the food itself, to the promptness of service, to the accuracy of the order—because what you say matters. Recently I took an online survey from a popular.

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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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Becoming a Jedi Master with Data: These aren’t the visualizations you’re looking for

InMoment XI

Why do we use charts or data visualizations? It’s to display some set of data in an engaging way that helps the audience identify patterns or trends in the data, in order to gain some kind of insight or to make some kind of decision. So, it should be both interesting and useful. Interesting to.

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Becoming a Jedi Master with Data: These aren’t the visualizations you’re looking for

InMoment XI

Why do we use charts or data visualizations? It’s to display some set of data in an engaging way that helps the audience identify patterns or trends in the data, in order to gain some kind of insight or to make some kind of decision. So, it should be both interesting and useful. Interesting to.

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Becoming a Jedi Master with Data: These aren’t the visualizations you’re looking for

InMoment XI

Why do we use charts or data visualizations? It’s to display some set of data in an engaging way that helps the audience identify patterns or trends in the data, in order to gain some kind of insight or to make some kind of decision. So, it should be both interesting and useful. Interesting to.

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One Question that Leads to Misguided Customer Experience Management

InMoment XI

The last time I checked, the reason we do customer experience research is to understand how a company delivers a great experience to its customers. We also want to understand what can be done to improve that experience, creating stronger customer relationships and in turn, stronger business performance. Recently, my colleague Randy Brandt, published a.

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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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One Question that Leads to Misguided Customer Experience Management

InMoment XI

The last time I checked, the reason we do customer experience research is to understand how a company delivers a great experience to its customers. We also want to understand what can be done to improve that experience, creating stronger customer relationships and in turn, stronger business performance. Recently, my colleague Randy Brandt, published a.

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One Question that Leads to Misguided Customer Experience Management

InMoment XI

The last time I checked, the reason we do customer experience research is to understand how a company delivers a great experience to its customers. We also want to understand what can be done to improve that experience, creating stronger customer relationships and in turn, stronger business performance. Recently, my colleague Randy Brandt, published a.

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View from the CrowsNest: American Banker Regulatory Symposium

InMoment XI

A few months ago, I posted a blog about the ABA Regulatory Compliance Conference and a new product we had rolled out. Well, I just wrapped up attending the American Banker’s Regulatory Symposium in Arlington, Virginia and NOT surprisingly the same key theme that emerged over and over – as discussed by Richard Cordray and. View Article.

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NPS and KPI’s…Do They Really Belong Together?

InMoment XI

Recently, I was talking to my son about my research and training in the area of Net Promoter Score®. I told him how I had found it to be a great metric that companies can use to gauge satisfaction. As I talked, I noticed the look on his face turn rather menacing. I asked him. View Article.

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7th Annual CX Report by The Northridge Group Uncovers Priority Training Focus

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