August, 2015

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Journey Mapping – Lather, Rinse, Repeat

InMoment XI

Many companies treat Customer Journey Mapping (CJM) as a major undertaking, and for good reason. For those who have never done CJM, a first-time journey map can provide valuable insight into how customers experience the brand. It brings employees across the enterprise to a greater awareness of customer needs. It highlights major customer pain points.

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Get Your Experience Strategy Ready for the 4th Quarter!

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Did you know that by 2016, 89% of companies will compete mainly by the customer experience they provide? Are you preparing your customer experience strategy for this? Your survey data and customer dashboards only tell part of the story. The last quarter of the year is the perfect time to set your customer experience strategy up […]. The post Get Your Experience Strategy Ready for the 4th Quarter!

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Earn Customer Desire and the Right to Grow

Customer Bliss

I’m introducing a new word for you to consider: desire. Its time to replace the word ‘loyalty’ with the word desire. What I’ve experienced and observed is that ‘loyalty’ can be something to go get from customers, rather than something to be earned. Loyalty is often defined in this manner because someone has run numbers to correlate that customers who own two products rather than one are more loyal or worth more.

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Changing Customers’ Habits

Beyond Philosophy

Your brain makes up 3% of your total body weight. However that 3% of your body weight takes 20% of your body’s energy to run. As highly evolved humans, we are always looking for ways to preserve energy, and one of the ways we do this is relying on habit. It’s important for Marketers to understand customers’ habits when marketing to them. We engage in habits every day.

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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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5 Principles for Great Restaurant Customer Service

Customers That Stick

Restaurants are one of the few truly universal industries because almost everyone has familiarity with them. From a customer service perspective, this makes restaurant customer service particularly challenging because almost every customer has both established service expectations and well-formed service triggers. Those expectations are often pegged to price or to impressions created by the physical environment.

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The Anatomy of a Successful CX Program

InMoment XI

Running a modern customer experience (CX) program has come a long way in sophistication and effectiveness from the days of paper surveys, manual reporting, and delayed response to customer feedback. Today’s modern CX programs are integrated into the customer’s journey, leverage all available interaction channels, respond to customer input in real-time, and drive iterative improvement.

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Customer Happiness Lessons for Any Company, Courtesy of Zappos

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of being invited to an event sponsored by Freshdesk as part of their Customer Happiness Tour. The intimate event was a chance to get to know customer experience leaders from brands in the Chicago area, as well as hear speakers from Zappos and Judson University. Happy to […]. The post Customer Happiness Lessons for Any Company, Courtesy of Zappos appeared first on Customer Experience Consulting.

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Three actions to drive customer listening and improve story telling

Customer Bliss

To enable a new state of customer listening, take these three actions: 1. Collect feedback from multiple sources to tell the comprehensive story of customers’ lives. When multiple sources of feedback point to the same issue or opportunity, you’ll see the company debate halt. There is power in convergence. 2. Build one-company categorization of issues, so that they roll-up to volumes that command attention. 3.

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3 Ways Customers’ Minds Plays Tricks on Them

Beyond Philosophy

I often say people are irrational, but only because they are. We all do irrational things. We like to think we make logical decisions based on rational thinking all the time, but we don’t. The truth is, your mind plays tricks on you every day, and many times, it’s in one of three ways. In “ Thinking Fast and Slow ,” Professor Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences recipient in 2002, explores why our mind plays tricks on us.

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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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TMI from Frontline Reps; It’s Deadly

Customers That Stick

We’ve all had that awkward moment. We’re shopping in a store or asking about the product we ordered, and the frontline rep we’re interacting with starts to overshare. We hear about their life story, about the seven week saga that led to the order being delayed, or about how much they hate their job. It’s a case of TMI (too much information), and in customer service, it can be deadly.

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3 Technology Keys to Boost Your Customer Service Efforts

Win the Customer

Like many aspects of business, customer service is an ever-evolving part of everyday operations that is constantly changed by developments in technology. Customer expectations have changed in the information age, and many businesses are falling behind – Fonolo reports that only 26 percent of consumers had a positive response when asked if they thought customer […].

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Advice from Ingrid Lindberg for New CX Execs

InMoment XI

Ingrid Lindberg shares three pieces of advice for people taking over customer experience roles. Ingrid has served as Chief Customer Officer of several large healthcare corporations and currently helps CXOs and others running customer experience programs throughout the country as a consultant and speaker. If you’re a CX pro, do you agree with Ingrid’s advice?

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What Customer Experience Is NOT!

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Did you know customer experience is the new: marketing customer advantage trend in business user interface answer ???? No. It’s not. It’s not any of these things, and yet I keep seeing blog posts and articles and podcasts and books that make these claims. It’s not new. It’s not a trend. And it’s not only […]. The post What Customer Experience Is NOT!

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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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Three CX points that customers share in social media

Customer Bliss

When you deliver a reliable experience, you earn the right to your customers’ story through word of mouth. And your customers will come back because they want to have your experience again. There are three repeated customer experience points that customers talk about through social media. When the three are delivered consistently, they earn you the right to new customer growth without the acquisition cost, plus organic growth from your existing customers.

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The Role of CX in a Sales Culture

Beyond Philosophy

“ You can win more friends with your ears than with your mouth. People who feel like they’re being listened to feel accepted and appreciated. They feel like they’re being taken seriously and what they say really matters.”. – Harvey Mackay, Sales Expert, Author and Columnist. Quality sales cultures are the ones where the Customer comes before the close, like Mackay’s quote indicates here.

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at the hollows – Customer Experience Review

ijgolding

I was inspired to create my own methodology for writing Customer Experience Reviews by reading and watching the plethora of infamous restaurant critics who are regularly in the public eye. Apart from the fact that I have always been envious of anyone who gets PAID to eat in the best restaurants all over the world, I wanted to not just critique organisations I interact with, but to create a way of reviewing Customer Experiences to help others understand the significance of the ‘end to end&#

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Website Experience Mistakes That Destroy Customer Service

Win the Customer

One of the most frustrating elements of customer service online is a service provider with a terrible Website. Nothing says you don’t care about your customers or their customer experience more than by not investing in the right online experience or letting your Website commit the unpardonable sins of bad Web experience. How important is […].

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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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How to Simplify B2B Customer Experience Improvement

PeopleMetrics

Selling in the business-to-business (B2B) space is complicated. In fact, if you watch a B2B sales manager for any length of time, there’s a 97.4% chance s/he’ll stare longingly out the window, sigh, and dream about selling in a retail setting. OK, I made up that statistic. (But I’m 97.4% sure it’s true.). A B2B sales manager’s job is essentially to coax a prospect into buying a problem-solving machine.

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What Does Employee Empowerment *Really* Mean?

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

A common refrain in customer experience circles is that to deliver a winning experience, you first need to empower your employees. But does it work? And what does employee empowerment really mean? In an ideal world, employees are empowered to use their best judgment to resolve customer issues without needing to seek approvals, jump through […].

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When the Power Core is the Customer

Customer Bliss

When the power core is the customer, passion for customers prevails. Leaders are close to the customer and it’s often that leaders’ passion that built the business. Employees feel the handoff of that passion from founder through the ranks of the company is an inheritance. They know it’s theirs to pass on and nurture. Company decisions emanate from understanding what will drive the greatest value to customers in the short and long terms.

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Improving Employee Experience with Better Results

Beyond Philosophy

Performance reviews are part of most employer/employee relationships. However, recent developments show that improving employee experience involves finding new ways to give employees feedback to improve motivation and success. Annual reviews are likely to get a resigned sigh out of most managers. After a less than insightful review, most employees might sigh as well.

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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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3 Types of Customer Experience Action Essential to ROI

ClearAction

3 Types of Customer Experience Action Essential to ROI. Most things in life need ALL their ingredients to function as intended. Miss the eggs in a cake recipe, forget earbuds for your iPod nano, omit the submit button on a form, arrive at an airport without your luggage, get no sleep in a 24-hour period — you get the picture. If your recipe for customer experience ROI does not call for 3 types of action, it will probably flop.

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This is Your Brain on Product, This is Your Brain on Service

Win the Customer

Product and service focus can be like two sides of a brain, approaching customers in completely different ways and often struggling to achieve maximum customer experience potential. Product managers want to know what customers think of their product. It’s vital to be able to continue improving and making a product that people want to use, and provide […].

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When did listening to customers become so complicated?

OpinionLab

When did listening to customers become so complicated? Asking your customers what they thought about your brand used to be pretty easy. Easy for you , at least, because you defined the “when”, “where” and “how”. If you wanted your customer’s perspective on your website, you picked a random sample of visitors and popped up a feedback survey. To get an idea of how your store experience was perceived by your customers, it was easy to add a survey link to your store receipt.

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Get Your Customers Excited About Anything

Joe Rawlinson

The University of Southern California defines consumer psychology as the study of how consumers are influenced by their environment about how they think, feel, reason and select between different brands, products and retailers. It’s humbling to think that emotions are the driving force behind sales instead of logic, but study after study shows spending happens more in a state of euphoria.

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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