September, 2015

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10 Steps to start your Global CX Program

InMoment XI

Implementing a locally and globally effective, yet efficient customer experience(CX) program doesn’t come easy. To be successful, such a program needs to deliver against very different needs, from the head office to local markets. The following ten steps are a guideline to a successful start of your global CX program: 1. Define what global means to your organization This.

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5 Ways to Create a Better Customer Experience for 2016

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Your customers are already evaluating the experience you are delivering. And they’re making decisions because of it. 89% of customers will decide based on customer experience in 2016. How can you create a better customer experience now to compete in this changing marketplace? 1. You need to understand the customer journey of today. You can’t improve on […].

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Keep it simple – touchpoint mapping

Customer Bliss

There are many approaches to doing touchpoint mapping. My recommendation is always to keep it simple. One client told me they had “Visio blindness” from the hundreds of hours spent mapping every customer process. That’s not going to get you traction and prove the work. This is what will get you traction: Map the stages and get to the set of initial priority touchoints along the customer journey.

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3 Things Great Companies Do for Customers

Beyond Philosophy

According to trendwatching.com, the feelings a Customer has when they are getting excellent Customer service are the same as the feelings they have when they feel love. I couldn’t agree more. Most excellent Customer Experiences leave Customers feeling valued and important, or, in other words, feeling the love. There are three things that great companies that have excellent Customer Experiences do in common to make Customers feel the love.

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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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Ways to Deal with Negative Online Customer Reviews

Joe Rawlinson

If you put yourself out there as a business, you better prepare for dealing with dissatisfied customers. Since consumers have developed a habit of checking online reviews before purchasing a product, it’s in your best interest to learn how to handle negative reviews. If you do it right, you can actually gain a lot – recovering from a mistake sometimes helps brands to develop stronger relationships with customers.

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How NOT to Engage Your Employees: What We Can Learn From Horrible Bosses

InMoment XI

Employee Engagement is a concern for any organization worried about customer retention and employee productivity. Companies want to know what they can do — what program they can roll out, what software they can implement— to increase employee engagement in order to improve customer satisfaction. Since we know that the two are linked, it is vital.

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5 Ways to Rock your Worst Case Customer Experience Scenario

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

The ideal customer journey is so tempting. It’s so magical to start designing the beautiful, happy day journey for our customers. On their best day, they fall in love with our products, they get excited at the unexpected moments of delight we offer, and they move on to become evangelists whose loyalty can’t be threatened. […]. The post 5 Ways to Rock your Worst Case Customer Experience Scenario appeared first on Customer Experience Consulting.

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Expand Customer Listening with Your Customer’s Unaided Feedback

Customer Bliss

Unaided feedback provides real-time trending on customer issues as they are occurring. Unaided feedback is the constant flow of comments, insights and issues your customers and partners volunteer to you. Unaided feedback also includes looking inside your data to understand customer behaviors across the stages of their experience, to identify trends, opportunities and customer at-risk experiences.

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The Big Mistake Most Organizations Make with Employee Engagement

Beyond Philosophy

It seems most organizations have a Customer Experience program and an increasing number have started Employee Engagement programs. The issue for me is these are not combined nor complimentary, which is a huge mistake. Why? Because the experience you give your Customers is the same experience you should give your employees. It’s not only good for employee engagement, but it can mean your Customers are more satisfied with you—and how much they spend with your brand.

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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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How to Keep in Touch with Past Customers

Joe Rawlinson

It’s never a bad idea to focus on bringing in new customers, but you need to make sure you won’t cycle through them. Retaining customers and inspiring their loyalty is what ultimately will make up a solid foundation for revenue. New customers aren’t as valuable as you may think if you don’t have a plan in place to hold onto them. A solid loyalty strategy isn’t something you can afford to do without, and the sooner you implement one, the faster your business will receive all of the benefits.

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Put an End to Customer Frustration and Build Real Loyalty

Heart of the Customer

I was talking with a call center manager who made a startling comment: “We have some problems with our website. But we deliberately don’t fix them. That way, our customers call us and we can fix their problems and delight them.” Wow. This was one of those situations where I wasn’t really sure how to […]. The post Put an End to Customer Frustration and Build Real Loyalty appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Five Things to Do on CX Day

InMoment XI

Shouldn’t every day be customer experience day? Well, yes, but even the most customer-centric companies need fresh ways to turn their good intentions into customer happiness and sustainable growth. To help solve this problem, the CXPA (Customer Experience Professionals Association) has dedicated a day to spread innovative approaches to customer experience across the world.

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Focusing on Customers: Lessons from Medellin

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

I admit I was nervous. Growing up in the 1980’s and 90’s, the only association with the city of Medellin or the country of Colombia was hearing about the violence on the news. The violence is what made the news, of course, and it was primarily due to the drug trade. What didn’t make the […]. The post Focusing on Customers: Lessons from Medellin appeared first on Customer Experience Consulting.

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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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Uniting Your Leadership Team begins with a Code of Conduct

Customer Bliss

The lens for making decisions varies by leader. Each has a different definition of how well the company is growing. They measure it by their own internal deliverables and metrics. This creates confusion for employees and that confusion results in the random and inconsistent treatment customers receive. Without a conversation that unites leaders in what I call their operational ‘code of conduct’ for how the company will and will not grow, employees don’t have a clear road map for how to steer the

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Seven Ways to Engage Your Customers Using Social Media

Beyond Philosophy

Social Media can level the playing field. It’s the equalizer between small and big businesses. Even solo entrepreneurial businesses can create a global presence using social media. With a strong website, optimized with the right words and phrases, a small business can make a big presence. Another benefit to social media is cost. Actually it’s the lack of cost.

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Emotional Intelligence in Customer Experience Leadership

PeopleMetrics

In a past job, my superiors were excited about what they called the “elephant-and-rider metaphor.” It comes from psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s 2006 book, The Happiness Hypothesis , and it compares your emotional, automatic mental processes to an elephant—lumbering, inflexible, and massive. And your rational mind? That’s a tiny human riding atop the elephant—well-intentioned, nimble, holding the reins and the illusion of control.

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Exemplary Customer Service: It’s All About the Journey

Heart of the Customer

“The purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer” – Peter Drucker Sometimes, it seems that companies focus exclusively on the first half of this equation. Sales to new customers are exciting, and resources are appropriately targeted to land new customers. Look at the continual offers coming from TV service and internet […]. The post Exemplary Customer Service: It’s All About the Journey appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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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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The Impact of the Digital Revolution on Retail Banking

InMoment XI

Dann Allen and Rich Dorfman discuss how the digital revolution has caused the banking industry to increase focus on customer experience. As customers become increasingly reliant on mobile apps and the internet to control their finances, CX programming can drive more personal and meaningful brand interactions between banks and their customers.

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Do WE Belong? Experience is Always Personal

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

My husband Jason and I recently took a short trip to Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, a favorite childhood destination of mine, just to unwind after several chaotic weeks of packing and moving across the city. We were seriously beat, and looking for something much more low-key than our usual trip to a theme park. We just wanted […]. The post Do WE Belong?

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Align Around Experience to Transform Accountability

Customer Bliss

Alignment Around Experience (competency 2) is not merely about doing touchpoint mapping. It’s a competency to transform accountability and the language of leaders. And here I insert a little rant and a plea: Please don’t make mapping a shiny object that you take on because everyone is doing it. For this work to be successful, it must connect to leadership language and accountability and communication.

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Key Learning from 15 Years of Net Promoter Stats

Beyond Philosophy

Did you know Netflix’s Net Promoter Score (NPS) is higher than the cable companies? It is, and it is one of the reasons we see growth in Netflix and continued dissatisfaction with cable companies. I love Netflix. It is simple. You can start and stop it when you want. My recent experiences with my cable company have been the complete opposite. This poor Customer Experience is one reason I now use Netflix more than my cable company.

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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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In Customer Service, Is Ordinary Now Extraordinary?

Customers That Stick

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In customer service, your people are NOT your most important asset.

Bill Quiseng

In the book Good to Great, Jim Collins writes that “People are not your most important asset. The right people are.”. Customer service is all about building relationships – relationships with superiors, direct reports, vendors and customers. Stephen Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, claims that success in any job is 20% knowledge and 80% interpersonal skills.

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This Week in CX – September 11

InMoment XI

A few of the web’s best articles on CX from this week (except for the CX Café articles of course; read them too!). Enjoy! 4 Reasons Retail Jobs Are About to Get Better As companies’ awareness of the importance of CX increases, so too will their focus on improving front-line employee engagement. Stagnant wages need.

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5 Ways to use Social Media for Better and More Effective Customer Service

transcosmos Information Systems

Exceptional customer service is one of the key factors to business success. In fact, a study shows that providing a bad customer service experience causes US companies a loss of an estimated $41 billion per year. Providing great customer service though is something that must extend to your social media channels. More than using social media for promotions, it can also be used to provide customer service, known more commonly as social customer care.

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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