CX Accelerator

APRIL 11, 2018

Do you ever feel like you're in "survival mode," running from one crisis to another, just trying to get through the day? The moment you stomp out one fire, the sparks start flying in five other directions. Or, you look at your to-do list at the end of the day, and realize that it's not just that you didn't spend your time coaching your team or any of your other big priorities; your list for tomorrow is also filled with distractions that won't do anything to help your team accomplish what matters

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Customer Bliss

APRIL 11, 2018

After studying hundreds of forward-thinking organizations and leaders, I’ve observed six actions that build companies that show up as “make-mom-proud” companies: meaning that they grow, by taking actions in their business congruent to those valuable life lessons we all learned as kids. These actions are explored in my upcoming book, Would You Do That To Your Mother?

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GetFeedback

APRIL 30, 2018

Collecting customer feedback is essential if you truly want to understand the needs and expectations of your target audience. But these days, no customer wants to waste 20 minutes filling out a questionnaire. That’s why quick, transactional surveys are gaining popularity. Instead of asking customers for input once a year, innovative brands are beginning to ask questions in the moment, right after customers interact with their brand.

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TechSee

APRIL 3, 2018

Customer churn in the age of information is a fact of life for every business in every industry. Customers have unprecedented access to data, enabling easy comparisons of alternatives, as well as hassle-free provider changes with a simple click of a button. With Accenture reporting that 77% of consumers are no longer loyal to any particular brand, companies must work harder than ever to retain their customer base.

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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.

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Customer Guru

APRIL 17, 2018

With the competition in the markets intensifying, it has become increasingly tough for a brand to differentiate itself from its competitors. However, there is a solution to this conundrum too. According to a study by Walker, customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator by 2020. Further, a research conducted by Forrester demonstrates that 72% of the businesses considered improving customer experience as their priority.

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Joe Rawlinson

APRIL 25, 2018

Companies are always looking for new ways to streamline their customer support department efforts. This doesn’t strike us as a surprise. Markets worldwide are becoming more volatile and saturated as we speak, and providing excellent customer support is important for business success. In order to keep customers returning and keep that competitive edge, businesses have to use the latest software to deliver profound care.

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Customer Bliss

APRIL 9, 2018

When it comes to initiating change within an organization, you must first ask, “Are we united in how we make decisions that impact customers?” One of the first activities I often take to unite leaders during my coaching sessions is to use a customer journey framework to build an operational “code of conduct.” It gives the organization clarity about how to make decisions, and it’s a powerful first step in embedding the customer journey to inform and enable decision-m

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Michel Falcon Experience

APRIL 27, 2018

People-First Culture™: Build a business your employees and customers will admire. Customer experience, employee engagement, company culture and leadership are all extremely important factors in building an admired company/brand. The People-First Culture™ is a combination of all of these factors to assist businesses on the going down the path of becoming that admired brand in the eyes of both their employees and their customers.

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TechSee

APRIL 10, 2018

As businesses increasingly realize that leveraging the power of technology creates a clear competitive advantage, the future of the BPO industry has become dependent on its willingness to adopt new growth and BPO technology trends that will serve as a value multiplier for their offerings. BPO Technology trends: Blessing or Curse? Many BPOs that have built the core of their businesses on the provision of human labor or Full Time Equivalents (FTEs) are wary of automation and its outcome.

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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

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Customer Guru

APRIL 10, 2018

At Customer Guru, we believe that Customer Experience (CX) should be the number one priority for all the Indian businesses so that they become more sustainable and successful globally. Thus, we are on a mission to spread this awareness, inspiring and guiding professionals to adopt and inculcate a customer-centric approach. We are certain that this is a first step to help organizations WOW their customers and create raving fans for themselves.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 9, 2018

Honest feedback from your customers is the best way to improve any hiccups in your Customer Experience. Social norms, however, can get right in the way of getting that honest feedback, at least in some instances. Overcoming the obstacle of social norms is a crucial activity for today’s Customer Experience professionals. We have X surefire ways to get your customers to talk.

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Alida

APRIL 27, 2018

Last week, 120 experience leaders in innovation, insights, customer operations and digital transformation gathered for the Chief Customer Officer Summit at the Park Hyatt Melbourne to discuss the state of customer experience (CX). The standout theme across the sessions was one that is human and real: build better empathy with people. According to many of the speakers, creating empathy within your organization for employees and customers will guide you on a path to create better customer experien

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Customer Bliss

APRIL 24, 2018

This is the 100th episode of the Chief Customer Officer Human Duct Tape Show , and I have YOU to thank for it! I’m sending a huge, heartfelt thank you to all of the podcast guests I’ve interviewed since the launch of this podcast back in 2016. And of course, thank you to the listeners who support this show and tune in to hear all of the wonderful CX insights, lessons, and tactics discussed.

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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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Oracle

APRIL 26, 2018

At Modern Customer Experience 2018, I was up to my eyeballs with fantastic CX insights and exciting innovations. Here are three of my top takeaways. 1. Use artificial intelligence to cycle contacts through engagement channels. Katrina Leaf, the Global Marketing Automation Manager at Fluke, covered how to improve pipeline engagement through artificial intelligence (AI) platforms.

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TechSee

APRIL 24, 2018

What is unboxing and why is it an important focus for brands? Product unboxing goes way beyond the simple act of unpacking a new device. It is an integral part of the installation, activation and operation of a newly purchased electronic device. With a growing number of DIY enthusiasts purchasing consumer electronics, this type of hands-on guidance is in high demand.

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Customer Guru

APRIL 24, 2018

What should customers do to claim great customer experience from any business? All this while we have been talking about how companies can improve customer experience. I believe customers play an important role in ensuring they have a great experience; after all, they are the most important stakeholder in it. Organisations expend substantial efforts to deliver and improve exceptional customer experience.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 18, 2018

Lately, I’ve been asked about loyalty programs. Any company can create a loyalty program. But, there is some confusion around what exactly a loyalty program is. A Wikipedia definition of a loyalty program summed it up well: Loyalty programs are structured marketing strategies designed by merchants to encourage customers to continue to shop at or use the services of businesses associated with each program.

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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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Alida

APRIL 26, 2018

According to CMO.com way, back in 2016, 63% percent of CEOs saw rallying their organizations around the customer as one of the top three investment priorities for the year. Today, customer centricity, or some notion thereof, has become the strategic posture of almost every profitable company in existence. But—and this is an MC Hammer big but—at last year’s Customer Intelligence Summit , Rick Parrish, Forrester principal analyst servicing customer experience professionals, shared results of a stu

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Customer Bliss

APRIL 11, 2018

If you look back on your career journey, do you recognize specific skills and experiences that paved the way for you to succeed in your current role? In today’s episode, I revisit conversations with two customer experience leaders in healthcare, Geeta Wilson , VP of Consumer Experience – Enterprise Transformation at Humana , and Jackie McAtee , who at the time, was vice president of marketing and customer experience for Mayfair Medical Imaging.

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Oracle

APRIL 18, 2018

At Modern Customer Experience , we held a live Twitter tweetchat to ask top customer experience (CX) influencers and thought leaders: How can companies successfully win customers and increase brand loyalty in today’s disruptive world? In the tweetchat, CX experts shared valuable insights and tips—and now we’re going to share them with you.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 13, 2018

A lot of business professionals talk about customer loyalty. However, if I’m totally honest, they often don’t know what they are talking about. Or they do know what they are talking about, but what they are talking about is not customer loyalty! Many of the organizations I have worked with say that customer loyalty means, “the customer buys everything from us.

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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.

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Customer Guru

APRIL 3, 2018

At Customer Guru, we believe that Customer Experience (CX) should be the number one priority for all the Indian businesses so that they become more sustainable and successful globally. Thus, we are on a mission to spread this awareness, inspiring and guiding professionals to adopt and inculcate a customer-centric approach. We are certain that this is a first step to help organizations WOW their customers and create raving fans for themselves.

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TechSee

APRIL 9, 2018

Visualization and automation are two fundamental innovations that are currently transforming the customer service industry. The team at TechSee is committed to the research and development of these technologies in the domain of customer care. We’ve made significant progress breaking down the customer care process from unboxing and installation through technical support and troubleshooting, with the ultimate goal of creating an autonomous Virtual Technician.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 10, 2018

Use Moments of Magic to Transform Customers Into Superfans. How can you get happy customers to become your greatest marketing tool? Shep Hyken sits down with Lars Kristensen, founder of NiceJob , to discuss the importance of customer reviews and making them effective marketing tools. ? ? ? ?. . Top Takeaways: Lars explains how marketing is often based a company’s budget, not the kind of work or product they delivered.

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Customer Bliss

APRIL 4, 2018

Have you recently become a chief customer officer? If you’re taking on a CCO role in a company, there’s a lot of work that has to be done to get your customer experience program off the ground and running. From getting executive buy-in, to understanding the inner workings of the organization itself, and looking for areas of opportunity, it can all seem so overwhelming.

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