November, 2014

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5 Ways to Sabotage your Customer Experience

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

'Sure, you may not intend to, but there are probably ways you, as the leader of your department or organization, are sabotaging the experience your customers have. And who can blame you? Today, leaders have more expectations with fewer resources. We’re asked to report on reporting reports, meaning we spend more time saying what happened instead of making things happen.

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Learning From An Exciting Automotive CX Transformation: Four Questions You Should Be Asking if Your Organization Wants To Transform Its CX

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Last week Sonic Automotive, the fourth largest dealership group in the US launched EchoPark, a new automotive experience focused on selling pre-owned vehicles. Their first store is in the Denver market of Thornton. In a world where pretty much every company is striving to differentiate on the customer experience, Sonic is a shining example of how to.

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Are Your Customers Lost Between Silos?

Customer Bliss

'It’s not the fact that the silos exist that’s the problem. It’s their lack of coordination and conflicting metrics. Each faction of the company continues to establish their own plans, budgets and goals. The challenge of CX work is that it cuts across the entire organization and orchestrating a new behavior isn’t often factored in by the silos. In many strong siloed organizations, there’s an upstream swim to connect on the end-to-end hand-offs required for customer experience.

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4 Actions to Exceed Customer Expectations

Beyond Philosophy

'I meet many organizations that say they want to exceed Customer expectations at every moment of contact. I tell them they are mad! No organization can afford to do this. “The first step in exceeding your customer’s expectations is to know those expectations.”. - Roy H. Williams, Author of the Wizard of Ads. For most organizations, just meeting their Customer’s expectations would provide a good experience.

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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A 3-Point Checklist for Reducing Customer Hassle

Customers That Stick

'“First, do the customer no harm.”. The Hero-Class TM Oath. One of the interesting things about writing a book are the things you leave out. I am wrapping up the final edits on my upcoming customer service book with the publisher this week, and one of the few areas I made last minute changes to were on the topic of delight, amazement, and Hero-Class TM customer service.

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SaaS Customer Experience Starts in the C-Suite

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

'In 2003 there were 30 Chief Customer Officers worldwide according to the Chief Customer Officer (CCO) Council, reaching 450 by 2011. Over time, however, there has been a gradual recognition of the importance of having an executive in the C-Suite responsible for elevating and growing the customer experience; as of this year, 22% of Fortune 100 Companies and 10% of Fortune 500 Companies have a CCO onboard.

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Customer Experience is the New Television Advertising

InMoment XI

Recently I had the pleasure of listening to futurist Daniel Burrus speak about the difference between soft and hard trends. Soft trends are those that may or may not continue and can likely be affected by events or action taken by companies, governments, or individuals. For example, based on the first few years of growth, we might expect.

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Tackle Your Top Ten CX Issues

Customer Bliss

'We have created a kind of hysterical customer feedback muscle in the marketplace by over-surveying our customers and asking (ever so thoughtfully) “How can we improve?”. Customers tell us what to do and we haven’t moved on the information. Customers read the lack of action as lack of caring and certainly lack of respect. We often over think what the customer effort should be.

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Do You Harness the Power of Habit in Your Marketing Yet?

Beyond Philosophy

'“ Most of the time, what we do, is what we do most of the time”. This is former F1 champion Lewis Hamilton stopping in the wrong team’s garage to change tires. He had recently joined the team of Mercedes who were waiting for him but his decade long habit of seeing the McLaren (his former team) mechanics outfit (cue) and stopping in for a change of tyres (routine) kicked in.

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The 2023 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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Monthly Mash and The Omnipresent Customer

Customers That Stick

'Welcome to the Monthly Mash, a mashup of tools, tales and tips on customer service and the customer experience from around the blogosphere. VOLUME 36: October 2014. Thoughts on the Customer: The Omnipresent Customer. If you are involved with customer experience at any level, you have likely heard the word “omnichannel” so many times in the last few years that you are seriously considering naming your next pet Omni.

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Gamification and Crowdsourcing Meet Customer Service

Win the Customer

'Customer service is the new battleground for business competition. Any organization that wants to remain relevant today will need to ensure that they’re ready and willing to listen, engage, and respond to customers through the customer’s preferred communication channels in real time. With customer service becoming such a hotly contested area of business differentiation, why […].

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3 Rules for Investing in Good Relationships with Customers

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

'Tomorrow Thanksgiving Day in the United States! I recently sent a letter to the CXI® Club listing some things I’m thankful for this year, but I wanted to be sure this part was not exclusive to people on our mailing list: I’m very thankful for you, reading this [letter] and our blogs each week. We get such tremendous feedback and ideas from our community, and many of you have become friends and clients.

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Customer Experience is the New Television Advertising

InMoment XI

Recently I had the pleasure of listening to futurist Daniel Burrus speak about the difference between soft and hard trends. Soft trends are those that may or may not continue and can likely be affected by events or action taken by companies, governments, or individuals. For example, based on the first few years of growth, we might expect.

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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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Connecting Customer Profitability to Customer Experience

Customer Bliss

'Customer growth and profitability metrics must be connected clearly to customer experience to gain executive and board support and to warrant the investment of people, time and financial resources. To make this case, spend the time to understand the different accounting methods throughout the company. Forge a partnership with finance to cobble together the customer accounting approaches.

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5 Facts to End the ROI Debate on Customer Experience

Beyond Philosophy

'For many years, there has been a debate whether you could assign a dollar amount to determine the return on investment for any Customer Experience improvements. At times (more in the “old days” but every now and then it happens in present times) we’ve literally have been accused of “having religion;” i.e., believing in Customer Experience (CX) without proof and asked to show the value of CX.

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Documentation and a Tale of Four Phone Calls

Customers That Stick

'The following is a post from Tricia Keels, Content Marketing Manager here at CTS. What I like most about Tricia’s story is that it demonstrates how great systems and training can make a high effort experience as effortless as possible. While the product design could be more customer friendly (wait until the screwdriver part), the call center handled the situation like champs from beginning to end.

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The Customer Journey in 4 Stages: Real-Life Lessons From Retail

Win the Customer

'The fundamental cycle for successful customer relationships consists of developing the process through which customers experience discovery, engagement, usage and ultimately are able to influ persuasion. Where does your customer stand? A broad question that any business owner, large or small, owes to themselves to ponder. Whether your business is retail sales, IT solutions, or manufacturing, there are […].

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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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No Longer a Buzzword: Customers Redefine Transparency

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

'Cooks and the customers they serve who can see each other – literally – both feel better about the experience. A recent study found that if cooks in a restaurant kitchen could see the customers ordering and enjoying their food and the customers could see the cooks preparing it, the food tasted better. Transparency in the experience is magic!

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Customer Experience is the New Television Advertising

InMoment XI

Recently I had the pleasure of listening to futurist Daniel Burrus speak about the difference between soft and hard trends. Soft trends are those that may or may not continue and can likely be affected by events or action taken by companies, governments, or individuals. For example, based on the first few years of growth, we might expect.

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Worth Repeating: Are You There for Customers?

Customer Bliss

'Being There = Reliability. By creating reliability in the way you do business and delivering on the moments that matter (the moments of contact from the customer’s point of view), you earn the right to grow. Beloved companies think and rethink how to conduct themselves in these situation. The experience they deliver is far more than the execution of an operating plan.

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Are You Deliberate with Your Customer Strategy or Just Taking a Chance?

Beyond Philosophy

'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. All organizations are on a journey from being Naive to Natural in the way they focus on the Customer, passing through each of four stages: Naïve, Transactional, Enlightened, and Natural.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Faces of Customer Experience: Sean Hawkins

Customers That Stick

'Meet Sean Hawkins! I am a Customer Experience and Contact Center Manager with over 15 years of contact center experience. My years in contact center leadership have provided me a solid understanding of the call center environment. I have a terrific pulse on incorporating innovation into the contact center having implemented social, outsourcing partners, new technology, and new products, while maintaining an award-winning contact center.

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What We Can Learn From Top Customer Service Companies

Win the Customer

'There’s much to be learned from companies that place a value on customer service. For the small business person, there’s practical lessons, such as how to increase revenue by developing a relationship with existing customers. For larger corporations, there’s lessons to be learned about company philosophy and brand development, and how taking a customer-first approach […].

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New Report Reveals How to Build Customer Confidence in 2015

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

'Customers need reassurance. The latest Retail Customer Experience report, Retail Future Trends 2015 , highlights how both consumers and retailers are feeling about trends in retailing. The trends covered include everything from the fall of the shopping mall to the confusion around bitcoins. The survey results from consumers highlighted what customers are really seeking.

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Learning From An Exciting Automotive CX Transformation: Four Questions You Should Be Asking if Your Organization Wants To Transform Its CX

InMoment XI

Last week Sonic Automotive, the fourth largest dealership group in the US launched EchoPark, a new automotive experience focused on selling pre-owned vehicles. Their first store is in the Denver market of Thornton. In a world where pretty much every company is striving to differentiate on the customer experience, Sonic is a shining example of how to.

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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