GetFeedback
MAY 17, 2018
Great customer support looks very different than it did a decade ago. Technology has given support teams incredible ways to reach the modern customer. But it’s also opened the flood gates to countless new channels. Once upon a time, customer support agents would split their time between one or two channels (usually phone and email). Today, they might work several channels at once.
BlueOcean
MAY 14, 2018
You’re no stranger to RFPs. Love them or hate them, the undeniable truth is that they’re crucial to making informed business decisions about future vendors and partners. The purpose of a contact center RFP is no different: it’s an essential process to use when choosing an outsourcer. However, the contact center RFP is unique and can’t be modeled on the same old RFP template used for other services your company may procure.
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CX Accelerator
MAY 16, 2018
Ten years is a great deal of time in the life of a mortal. Considering the average life expectancy of a white bloke in the state of Tennessee is only 73.94 years, this is a really long time. Apparently I’d live eight years longer if I moved to Hawaii? Something to ponder for the future. ?? For now, it’s time to explore the past. This week I’m celebrating 10 years working for the same organization.
InMoment XI
MAY 25, 2018
Dave Fish, CEO of CuriosityCX, offers an insider’s peek at his session, 10 Ways to Reboot Your CX Program, held this year at CXFusion. I had the privilege of speaking to over 100 CX professionals at the MaritzCX Customer Experience Event, CXFusion, in Las Vegas last month. Though I came back monetarily depleted, the energy I. View Article.
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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.
Customer Bliss
MAY 23, 2018
?. “ I really, truly pride myself in surrounding myself with a team of super talented people and letting them shine and be their best selves,” says Carolyne Matseshe-Crawford , Head of Fan Experience at Fanatics. Fanatics is the world’s largest provider of officially licensed sports gear. In this episode, Carolyne speaks about the importance of employee experience at Fanatics and how that translates to a better customer experience for dedicated sports fans.
CXDNA Update brings together the best content for customer experience professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Experience Investigators by 360Connext
MAY 3, 2018
There are probably a million ways to improve customer experience in your organization, so where should you start? Before you do anything, think about this: Humans have a way of turning a nice idea into a complicated nightmare. Think of insurance – the idea of it is lovely. If we all chip in a little at a time, we’ll be there for each other next time something goes wrong for one of us.
TechSee
MAY 1, 2018
AI is revolutionizing the way utilities operate, optimize and provide service to their customers. The utilities industry is shifting from a highly traditional, regulation-driven environment to a technology-driven, sophisticated marketplace. Utilities, such as energy, gas, water, and waste management, already rely on smart devices for optimization of infrastructure and the supply-demand balance.
Beyond Philosophy
MAY 25, 2018
Recently, Lorraine and I re-evaluated some of our long-term subscriptions – like cable TV, magazines and travel insurance. If you’re like us, once you sign on for something, you tend to renew without thinking much about it. Who on earth would want to deal with a new cable company or shop for insurance every year? You might expect to be rewarded for this long-term loyalty.
Win the Customer
MAY 15, 2018
Abercrombie & Fitch is counting on direct-to-consumer (DTC) sales to counter the retail apocalypse, Columbus Business First reports. Despite closing 400 stores over the last few years and the prospect of 60 percent of its U.S. leases expiring over the next two years, the fashion brand saw a 4 percent increase in sales, largely thanks to direct-to-consumer sales.
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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
Customer Bliss
MAY 16, 2018
Maintaining a “customer service mentality” in the marketplace has to first begin with leaders and the behaviors that they themselves exhibit. That gives the organization—throughout the organization—the ability to act and model that behavior. And this is not just limited to those on the front lines caring for customers in distress. In our lives, we remember the companies, the people and the times when we were honored…. as a friend, as a partner, as a customer.
Alida
MAY 16, 2018
It was the second annual CX and the City event in New York City from Vision Critical , and I spent most of the day holding my breath hoping that the storm would pass. But despite the dark-and-gloomy weather, the evening was a success. More than 100 senior leaders joined us on the Refinery Rooftop to network and hear how three industry-leading companies—BuzzFeed, Stanley Black & Decker and Group Nine Media—are transforming their company DNA to become insight-driven businesses.
Experience Investigators by 360Connext
MAY 17, 2018
The Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA) 2018 Insight Exchange offered CX experts and professionals of all kinds, various titles and comfort levels a few days to learn, connect and get inspired. I was there among them, wearing my CXPA volunteer hat and announcing some exciting things for their 60+ local networks. But per usual, I was learning from and with my peers.
TechSee
MAY 15, 2018
All eyes were on the smart home market in 2017. After all, industry experts such as MarketsandMarkets predicted that the industry would be valued at to$137.91B by 2023, growing at a CAGR of 13.61%. Tech giants are all clamoring to get in on the action with Google Home , Apple HomeKit , Amazon Echo and Samsung SmartThings creating buzz, and new smart devices flooding the market at a dizzying rate.
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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Beyond Philosophy
MAY 18, 2018
A difference exists between what people say they will do and what people do. People say they want salads in theme parks but order hamburgers. People say they want to save the planet but then ignore the recycling bin. People say they want many choices but then complain that there were too many choices to decide. In short customers are irrational! We recently enjoyed debating this in our podcast Why Are Customers Irrational?
Lumoa
MAY 7, 2018
A story of how a startup nailed customer relationships since day one. Many startups think that customer experience management equals unnecessary work and financial costs. However, more and more startups that emphasise the uniqueness of customer relationships are growing faster than ever. Some of the familiar names include the two fastest growing companies in the world , Slack and Intercom.
Customer Bliss
MAY 25, 2018
As you may know, I’ve just released a new book, Would You Do That To Your Mother? The Make Mom Proud Standard for How to Treat Your Customers – and I’m excited to show you the inside of the book and its components in the video below. I specifically designed this book to be a series of toolkits for you and your team to use while transforming your company’s customer experience.
ShepHyken
MAY 23, 2018
Two years ago I reported on NewVoiceMedia’s “serial switchers” report that indicated that $62 billion was lost due to poor customer service. That number, in their new report now has that number pegged at $75 billion! That’s a lot of lost business! Here’s my take on this. Customers want and expect more than ever before – because that’s what we have we taught them.
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
Experience Investigators by 360Connext
MAY 30, 2018
If you’re creating learning paths in any workplace, the goal is ultimately to be, well, better. To be better at serving customers, better at increasing efficiency, better at employee development, and hopefully, better at staying ahead of the competition. All of that is achievable with the options in learning paths today. But how often are we really taking advantage of it?
Customer Guru
MAY 22, 2018
“Customers will never love your company until your employees love it first.” ~ Simon Sinek. It is a well-known fact that healthy employee engagement and sustained business growth are correlated. Interestingly, some might wonder whether corollary is true as well, i.e. successful organisations really have better-engaged employees? And what if the stream were to flow backward, can the success of a business result in better engagement?
Beyond Philosophy
MAY 11, 2018
I was texting with my daughter the other day and there was a pause in the conversation. I could see the three little dots. Surely she was typing a clever response to the remark I’d just made. I couldn’t wait to see it, so I sat there, phone in hand, staring stupidly at the little dots. I went on like this for maybe a minute and a half before I realized I was being silly.
Joe Rawlinson
MAY 16, 2018
A recent study by Accenture found that over 90 percent of companies today have some kind of customer loyalty programs in place. Yet, over 71% of customers surveyed by the researchers said that these programs do not really engender loyalty. One of the primary reasons for this wavering loyalty is that although investments in such programs have increased, businesses have not kept pace with understanding their customer’s responsiveness to these initiatives.
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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.
Customer Bliss
MAY 9, 2018
Uniting the leadership team in the purpose of delivering one-company experiences and connecting it to business growth occurs with my clients when we can simplify the “why” behind this work in a manner that they can stand behind and communicate as their own. I’ve been asked, “How do you persuade top management that customer centricity is not a cost?
ShepHyken
MAY 30, 2018
It’s morning and you’ve just had breakfast. What are you going to have for dinner? 49% of people in the U.S. do not know what they are going to have for dinner. That stat comes from David Portalatin’s address at the Art of Beef Summit, sponsored by Cargill. As he was addressing foodservice executives and salespeople, he emphasized that not knowing what’s for dinner, just hours before consumers are supposed to eat it, is a problem.
Lumoa
MAY 29, 2018
Happy customers are a dream of any business owner. As the famous saying goes, “Satisfied customer is the best strategy of all.” But what happens next, after you identified who your happy customers are ? Even if you don’t actively cooperate with your happy customers, they will, on average, tell nine other people about their experiences with your company (according to American Express ).
Customer Guru
MAY 30, 2018
We all know this by now that organizations must focus on being customer-centric in order to come out on top. Most customer experience leaders believe that customer centricity starts with the customers always. But they tend to ignore the importance of employee behavior in building a customer-centric organization. We are sure that inculcating the OPACE of customer-centric behavior in employees first would help any organization in ensuring customer delight at all times.
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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
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