July, 2016

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The Cost of a Bad Customer Experience for an ISP

InMoment XI

Telecom Dream Becomes Nightmare But Has Happy Ending Recently, I needed to have a hard-wired internet line installed at my house to be better able to work remotely. We already had service with this Internet Service Provider (ISP) but my wife had been involved with the original installation of the service. This time around, it. View Article.

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The ultimate report on Millennial customers: Gen Y attitudes and their impact on tech, finance, media and other major industries

Alida

It’s impossible to overstate the urgency for businesses to understand Millennials, the generation born between 1980 and 1995. In the U.S. alone, Millennials number 80 million, and control over $600 billion in annual spending. Also known as Gen Y, this cohort already has enormous impact on society and the economy. In a new comprehensive report, Vision Critical, in partnership with the insights consultancy Maru VCR&C, set out to uncover truths and bust myths about this elusive generation.

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Forget Customer Feedback!

Customer Bliss

Guest Post by Chip R. Bell. Chip R. Bell is a renowned keynote speaker and the author of several best-selling books. His newest book is Sprinkles: Creating Awesome Experiences Through Innovative Service. He can be reached at www.chipbell.com. How’s Everything? Ever had a maitre’d, waiter or waitress saunter up to your table and ask the ubiquitous “How’s everything?

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3 Ways to Expand Customer Experience Consciousness

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

You only know what you know. That’s the insurmountable truth about each human’s perspective. Our lens is just that – ours. This is a particular challenge in customer experience. Think about it. Not only do you only know what you know – but your customers are each individual human beings, too. (And yes, this also […]. The post 3 Ways to Expand Customer Experience Consciousness appeared first on Customer Experience Consulting.

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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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Stop Now! Six Mistakes Being Made With Your Digital Experience

Beyond Philosophy

In case you missed it, the world has gone online! If you haven’t gone online with your Customer Experience, too, it’s time. To be honest, if you haven’t begun, you’re late. The digital transformation of your present Customer Experience is long overdue. Consider this graph of which devices customers use at home: Nearly everyone has a computer or smartphone, and close to three quarters have a tablet.

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How to Build Customer Loyalty through Consistency

Customers That Stick

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The rise and fall of big data hype—and what it means for customer intelligence

Alida

The following is an excerpt from the e-book Big Data and Beyond. To learn more about this topic, join us at the 2016 Customer Intelligence Summit , where Lauren Meewes, senior program manager of seller at eBay, and Catherine Makk, vice president of global insights at HarperCollins, will share how to use customer feedback to give context and meaning to big data.

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Leading Customer Experience in a Service Business, With Renee Cacchillo [CB014]

Customer Bliss

Episode Overview. Welcome back to The Chief Customer Officer Human Duct Tape Show. In this episode I speak with Renee Cacchillo, who is the Senior Vice President of Customer, Brand and Technology at the Safelite Group. Renee’s path to customer experience leadership is one I like to highlight because she earned her role through the years by proving her ability to lead and run a successful operation.

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Touchpoint Mapping: Discovery, Enlightenment, and A-HA! Moments

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

One of the most rewarding parts of being a Customer Experience Investigator™ is when a client and I gather people from all departments of their organization to map the customer touchpoints. We call these CXI® Touchpoint Discovery Workshops because they are not only about the actual touchpoint mapping, but about seeing the customer journey from a […].

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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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An Amazing Experience: Personalize your CX Today!

Beyond Philosophy

Many of you will have seen this video of a little girl whose parents surprised her with a new doll? The doll is special because it has a prosthetic leg – just like its recipient. It’s hard not to get choked up as you watch her burst into tears as she hugs her new friend for the first time. The girl’s parents posted the video on Facebook and it quickly went viral.

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4 Ways Sales Psychology Influences Customer Behavior

Win the Customer

Marks & Spenser, the U.K.’s largest chain store, has decided to stop playing music in its stores following feedback from customers, the retailer announced at the end of May 2016. For the past 10 years, M&S had been playing piped music in its 852 stores, following the example of many other retailers. Complaints from customers and anti-noise groups, coupled with extensive research, prompted the policy change.

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Guest Blog: Improve Company Culture By Listening to Your Employees

ShepHyken

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Brooke Cade writes about how important communicating with your employees and listening to their insight is for improving company culture. One of my favorite ideas in the article is when employers enable employees to take ownership of their jobs and any issues that may present themselves.

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Two key takeaways from Forrester CXNYC 2016

OpinionLab

I recently attended Forrester’s CXNYC conference. Forrester’s events are a great bellwether for the state of CX. Their analysts have long been active in the CX space and conferences like CXNYC are full of CX stories from the trenches. The overarching headline from the conference was that “growth without CX is not sustainable”. Here are a couple of supporting themes I observed to this main takeaway: CX simplicity is vital but hard to achieve.

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The Open CCaaS Advantage Report

Over the next 12 months, what do you think will have the biggest impact on your CX automation efforts? When asked the same question, only 10% of CX leaders surveyed by Verint chose telephony. It’s no longer the engagement channel leading CCaaS conversations. The customer engagement challenges facing organizations have changed – so a new approach is needed.

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How General Motors is Embedding Customer Experience, with Dave Mingle – CB013

Customer Bliss

Episode Overview. Welcome to Episode 13 of my podcast. (It’s lucky, don’t worry.) In this episode, I’m talking with Dave Mingle, the General Director of Global Customer Experience Execution and Planning for General Motors. In our conversation, Dave and I discuss the multi-year path that GM has been on. First, they needed to evaluate and establish the need for embedding customer experience.

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How Does Pricing Affect Customer Experience?

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Should pricing be considered part of the customer experience? YES. The post How Does Pricing Affect Customer Experience? appeared first on Customer Experience Consulting.

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Uncovering CX in China: They’re Ready, Are You?

Beyond Philosophy

As a Customer Experience consultancy, Beyond Philosophy , we have worked in China on a few occasions. We learned a few things about what to do and what not to do there, as it pertains to Customer Experience. Three Truths Every Marketer Should Know about CX in China. China is still in the early stages of Customer Experience discovery. China sees us as the thought leadership of Customer Experience.

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The good stuff on Customer Success you should be reading

Amity

Customer Support and Customer Service have been around for decades. These were the necessary evils of the traditional sector – the old-model reactive break/fix cost center – to resolve problems resulting from breaks and service interruptions. The misconception with SaaS is that there is no longer a need for a team of this nature in today’s organization.

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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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Six Reasons You Shouldn’t Lie to a Customer

ShepHyken

Customer Experience. We had a reservation Friday night at a restaurant for 7:30. We arrived on time, if not a few minutes early. There were two tables that were available, right in the middle of the restaurant. However, the hostess was looking in other parts of the restaurant. I pointed at one of the open tables and asked if we could sit there. She said, “No.

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Modernize Leadership: Engage and Empower

Experience Matters

In a previous post, I described how today’s management techniques reflect outdated assumptions of technology-enabled practices, human behavior, and the meaning of success. That’s why organizations must shift to what I’m calling Modernize Leadership. I’m writing individual posts for each of the eight key changes required to modernize leadership.

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Leadership accountability is killing your customer experience

Customer Bliss

Short post this week as I’m in the middle of moving, but I wanted to take a few seconds and discuss leadership accountability as relates to customer experience. In the writings and speeches I’ve done, I commonly refer to this as “one-company leadership.” That’s where you need to get to as an organization. The entire company, beginning with the senior leadership team, needs to be on the same page with regard to what the customer experience is — and why it’

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3 Ways to Survive Dangerously Casual Customer Reviews

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Customer feedback is customer experience gold. That’s why there are transaction surveys, experience surveys, customer interviews, customer focus groups (although you know I’m not a fan) and many, many formal ways to gather feedback and use it to improve the experience. But many customers don’t want to answer your survey questions. They’d rather tweet about […].

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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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Smelly Socks or Fresh Laundry – What Does Your CX Smell Like?

Beyond Philosophy

The other day, I walked into a coffee shop that smelled like a damp basement. It only took me a couple of minutes to decide that I didn’t really want coffee after all. That same week, I was walking through an airport when I smelled the aroma of hot cinnamon rolls. Cinnabon was calling me. Even though I wasn’t hungry, I wanted one of their hot, gooey, calorie-laden treats.

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How to Hire Motivated Customer Service Employees

Michel Falcon Experience

Delivering an amazing customer experience isn’t reserved for only customer service employees, your entire organization must be committed to it. In this video, I share tactics on how to hire employees who have a customer-centric mentality. By watching this 3 minute episode you will learn: What an employee muse is. How to create a highly targeted recruiting strategy.

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Guest Blog: 3 Proven Ways to Personalize the Customer Service Experience

ShepHyken

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Ross Clurman, writes about how important it is to personalize the customer service experience. Regardless of the type of business you are in, there is always an opportunity to personalize the customer experience. – Shep Hyken. One of the most-important factors in providing an exceptional customer service experience is personalizing each and every touchpoint between you (the business or service provider) and your customers.

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5 Reasons Why Customers Can’t Find Your Company Online

Win the Customer

Without the proper website construction and marketing campaign, your business is going to remain lost online. There are several ways to increase your exposure, and most of the methods only require a little time and effort. Paycor notes that according to SCORE, only 51 percent of companies have a website. Assuming you have a website but you’re still not getting traffic, it likely has something to do with the way your website is setup and how you’re marketing to your customers.

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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