October, 2019

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Welcome Aboard! 7 Tips for Building CX into New Employee Onboarding

CX Accelerator

The first days and weeks are so critical when it comes to employee engagement and helping the employees buy in to the mission of their new company. Imagine the employee that shows up to a new job, is ushered to an office where they sit alone for hours poring over paperwork, waits a week for IT to set them up with a computer, and goes hours without meaningful human interaction with colleagues.

Culture 296
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How Chat is Revolutionizing Customer Service

CloudCherry

Let’s Chat. About Chat, that is. On this week’s ‘ Sweets of CX ’ Podcast, CloudCherry’s James Gilbert got to sit down with a true millennial expert on how Chat is revolutionizing Customer Service. Kaye Chapman is the Learning & Development Manager at Comm100 , an internationally-experience writer and trainer, a Contact Centers Specialist, and this week’s honored guest.

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The Top 4 Customer Experience Challenges and How to Overcome Them

GetFeedback

The phrase Customer Experience (CX) didn’t become en vogue until 2008 when it surpassed Customer Satisfaction as the primary customer-focused keyword. . Rather than just satisfaction , customer experience refers to the whole ecosystem of the customer journey. From the first experience, customers have with your website, to the last time they pay you—it’s all encompassed under the large umbrella of experience. .

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The Future of CX: Five Customer Experience Trends for 2020 and Beyond

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

What Does the Future of CX Look Like? It’s crystal ball time! If you know how critical Customer Experience is to the happiness of your customers and your team (and if you’re reading this, I’m willing to bet you are,) you’re probably already trying to anticipate the next big trends in CX. What sort of predictions can we make to better prepare for the future of Customer Experience in 2020 and beyond?

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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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7 Tips and Resources for CCOs and C-Suite Customer Experience Leaders

Customer Bliss

Last year, Walmart added a chief customer officer role to better align its digital and brick-and-mortar business, especially as competition from Amazon continues to increase. Their goal is to keep the customer at the center of its operations. Mastercard, Neiman Marcus, and many others have added this high-level position to their C-suite as well, increasing their focus on customer growth and relationships.

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Emotional Affinity, Customer Service, and Collecting

CX Accelerator

When I was 12 years old, I discovered basketball cards, I loved them so much I collected over 5,000 of them in one summer. I grew up watching Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, and Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Once I started collecting, I had to have their rookie cards and then a card for every year after. I loved basketball and memorized all the statistics of every player in the league.

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Game Changing Methods to Optimize Your Customer Experience

CloudCherry

Game Changers. We’re always on the lookout for the ones that will make the biggest impact. And, on this week’s “Sweets of CX ” podcast, we’ve got the expert. Lynn Hunsaker – Chief Customer Officer at ClearAction Continuum & co-founder of ClearAction Value Exchange, CustomerThink Hall of Fame Author, Professor, award-winning Performance momentum expert, and MORE- shares her wealth of knowledge.

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Optimize Your Customer Experience Management Strategy

GetFeedback

Learn what is a successful customer experience management strategy and how to optimize CX across your company to boost customer loyalty over time.

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Sparq Fall ’19 Release Empowers Brands in Today’s Data Privacy Landscape

Alida

It’s hard not to notice what’s going on in the world of data privacy these days. From new regulations on the table in multiple jurisdictions globally to huge brands being fined millions of dollars in massive penalties due to data breaches and lack of compliance with existing regulations, the free-for-all consumer data collection practices are being left by the wayside for a more transparent customer experience.

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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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Make Customer Experience Development as Important as Product Development

Customer Bliss

Today, leaders in just about every industry understand that improving customer experience is essential for ease of customer interactions, reputation management, business efficacy, and overall success. Customer experience is already a core focus for many retailers, but diverse organizations including governmental bureaus , grocery stores , and financial service institutions are implementing CX changes to better accommodate customer needs.

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Guest Blog: How to Engage Customers with Your Brand

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Dwayne Charrington who writes about how to engage your customers in personalized, meaningful, and relevant ways. What is most important for any business today? Customers, employees, lead generation, or profit. Well, the best answer is customer engagement. No business can survive without engaging its customers. These are not only customers but brand loyals.

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Emotional Affinity, Customer Service, and Collecting

CX Accelerator

When I was 12 years old, I discovered basketball cards, I loved them so much I collected over 5,000 of them in one summer. I grew up watching Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, and Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Once I started collecting, I had to have their rookie cards and then a card for every year after. I loved basketball and memorized all the statistics of every player in the league.

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A practical guide to Customer decision making

Beyond Philosophy

A practical guide to Customer decision making. When the Nobel-prize winning economist professor Daniel Kahneman wrote his book Thinking Fast and Slow , he introduced the concept that we had two ways of thinking about things. He named them System 1 and System 2. The two systems work together to help us make decisions about things. When we applied these concepts to decision-making in Customer Experience for our book, The Intuitive Customer, we renamed them.

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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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How to Calculate the ROI of Customer Experience

GetFeedback

This guide will teach you how to quantify the value of your CX initiative through a step-by-step process of calculations.

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5 Key Takeaways from Forrester CX SF 2019

Alida

We all want to improve our customer experience. We’ve created customer journey maps and tried to focus on improving the whole experience and the Forrester CX Index is telling us that across the board in all industries, the customer experience is not improving. What are we missing?

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Why Good Customer Experience Starts With Your Internal Culture

Customer Bliss

How does the diversity of your team affect their output and synergy? In today’s episode, I chat with Leslie McNamara , who is the Chief Marketing Officer and Managing Director in workforce development at Citi Retail Services. In her role, Leslie merges workforce development with marketing, working directly with retailers. Leslie’s work involves partnering with stores that have chosen Citi as their private label and/or co-brand card provider.

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Live Up to a Higher Standard of Service

ShepHyken

A friend of mine recently told me about their bad experience at a restaurant. The server was very nice and extremely apologetic about the problems that happened throughout the evening—but there were still problems. The food took a long time to get to the table. When it got there, it wasn’t prepared properly. On the next attempt, the food came out uncooked.

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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 News is No Longer Good News

Heart of the Customer

Domino’s went and spoiled it. And then Amazon made it worse. It used to be that customers were patient and okay with waiting on your processes. Whether shipping a product, going through underwriting, or applying for a loan, we were okay with waiting in the dark. We didn’t like it. But we accepted that companies […]. The post No News is No Longer Good News appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Airbnb Gets It. Do You? Learn About The Airbnb Way.

Beyond Philosophy

The latest thing I am into is Airbnb. Airbnb properties have character, at least the ones that we chose. I like that when we use Airbnb, we stay places where we wouldn’t typically. I find Airbnb fascinating because it is an organization that is disrupting the hospitality industry. I wondered what the secret was to their success. After all, let’s face it, having a business predicated on the idea that people would let strangers stay in their home sounds like a doomed venture.

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How to Run a Successful CX Program With Salesforce

GetFeedback

Learn how to seamlessly integrate GetFeedback’s powerful analytics with Salesforce to optimize your customer experience program.

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Regence Gets a 360 View to Improve Member Experience

Alida

The foundation of an excellent healthcare experience is the ability to repeatedly connect with consumers and their families. This connection needs to be transparent, consent-based , and ongoing to uncover insights that allow teams to validate ideas, develop programs, and continually iterate and improve.

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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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5 CX Technologies for Modern Ecommerce Stores to Employ

Oracle

The global ecommerce market continues to present a massive opportunity for retailers. According to eMarketer , the global ecommerce market is expected to grow by 20.7% in 2019 to $3.535 trillion, and by 2023, the industry is expected to be worth US$6.54 trillion gross merchandise value (GMV) worldwide. These staggering statistics, however, bely the tremendous pressure today’s online retail businesses are facing.

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Bad Timing or Bad Decision

ShepHyken

Recently, my wife and I went out to dinner. We planned to go to a movie afterward but couldn’t decide what to see. Easy solution—we decided to go home and watch one of our favorite shows on Netflix. We arrived home, got comfortable, turned on the TV and… nothing. The TV went on, but there was no cable or Internet signal. There was an outage. Obviously, the cable company didn’t do this on purpose.

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A Guide to Customer Journey Optimization

Totango

Being a customer-centered enterprise means acting as a trusted advisor and helping your customers get greater business value from your product. The aim is to create customer lifetime value by nurturing sustained expansion over time for mutually beneficial growth. But sustained growth is hard to achieve without a clear path forward. . Customer journey optimization is a way of not only mapping the stages of customer progression but also identifying ways to add customer value along the way.

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What is the Secret of Airbnb?

Beyond Philosophy

What is the Secret of Airbnb? I would never be an Airbnb host. Having a stranger staying in my house doesn’t fit with my personality. That said, there are a lot of people that would do it. Airbnb has over seven million listings in 100,000 cities worldwide and reported revenues of $1 Billion (with a b) in the second quarter of this year. They are so successful; they have plans to become publicly traded in 2020.

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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