April, 2018

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6 Actions to Build a Company that Would Make Your Mom Proud

Customer Bliss

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?

2018 209
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8 irrefutable reasons why customer experience is important for growth

Customer Guru

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.

2018 141
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We Asked 30 CX Influencers if They Would Recommend the Net Promoter System

Lumoa

The Net Promoter System® (or NPS) has been a popular customer experience metric since its creation in 2003. NPS is used by the biggest companies and leaders in its industries: from Apple to Airbnb, from Amazon to Tesla. At the same time, NPS is often a subject of critics and misunderstanding.

2018 135
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Awakening CX in the Service Center

CX Accelerator

Companies these days are fixated on Customer Experience. If you’re not, I hope you’ve worked up an S.O.S. because you’re going to need one! It’s true, our customers are looking for much more than the product – they want to feel valued and be part of something special, something bigger than themselves. Leaders scratching their heads wondering how they can provide an “experience”, are turning to their Customer Service Representatives (CSRs) and counting on them to make it happen.

2018 140
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The 2023 Customer Experience Management Value Index

Ventana Research named Verint an Exemplary Leader in the 2023 Customer Experience Management Value Index, leading in multiple categories including Adaptability, Manageability, Usability and Product Experience. Download the Index.

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Drive High-Value Customer Experience Programs

InMoment XI

Combine CX Technology and Services that Invest in Four Key Areas Organizations that run enterprise CX programs have a critical need to drive high value and high return, meaning your CX team must translate every response, dashboard, and case into lifetime value and customer loyalty. Creating CX programs that drive results is accomplished by finding. View Article.

2018 200

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How Do You Unite Leadership to Make Decisions That Drive Customer Growth?

Customer Bliss

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.”

2018 166
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5 Survey Tips for Higher Engagement

GetFeedback

We talk about great survey design a lot, but besides being modern and mobile-friendly, what else can you do to keep respondents tuned in? Here are 5 survey tips that help improve response rates. Survey Tip #1: Embed questions into emails. Distributing surveys via email is a highly effective way to collect feedback. Companies usually just include a link to their survey in the body of an email, but there’s a better way to grab people’s attention.

2018 170
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5 Real Cases How Customer Feedback Influenced Business KPIs

Lumoa

We have been talking a lot about how important it is to take actions on customer feedback. Customer feedback is the essential unlimited source for development and inspiration for the whole company. As mentioned by Lincoln Murphy, " You can focus on adoption, retention, expansion, or advocacy; or you can focus on the customers' desired outcome and get all of those things.”

2018 118
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Why Survival Mode Kills The Customer Experience

CX Accelerator

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.

2018 140
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How to Leverage the Top CX Trends of 2023

Want to know where CX is heading in 2023? From the Metaverse and Web3 to how macroeconomic influences are impacting CX, this Trend Report will give you a taste of what is to come in the year ahead and beyond.

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Drive High-Value Customer Experience Programs

InMoment XI

Combine CX Technology and Services that Invest in Four Key Areas Organizations that run enterprise CX programs have a critical need to drive high value and high return, meaning your CX team must translate every response, dashboard, and case into lifetime value and customer loyalty. Creating CX programs that drive results is accomplished by finding. View Article.

2018 200
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Do Loyalty Programs Really Create Loyalty?

ShepHyken

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. Structured marketing strategies.” Now, that’s an interesting way of putting it.

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Reflecting on the Starbucks Situation: Check Your Bias at the Door

Customer Bliss

In light of the recent Starbucks incident that occurred in Philadelphia, when a store manager called the police on two black men for trespassing , I thought it relevant and important to talk about unconscious bias, and its impact on customer and employee experiences. Listen to how I discussed this situation with Marketplace Morning Report, the morning after the incident. When a company falls from grace, there are two directions they can go.

2018 163
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3 Marketing Surveys for Tuned-In Teams

GetFeedback

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. Top 3 Marketing Surveys. Website Surveys.

2018 207
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How Mature Are Your Digital Experiences? A Step-by-Step Guide to Improved CX

Read about Verint’s Digital Maturity Model, where we share real tactics and strategies to improve CX, based on what has worked for our clients around the world.

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Nuances of Delighting Customers: An Exclusive Interview with Mr. Gangadhar Krishna, Customer Service Consultant

Customer Guru

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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The Customer Journey DOES NOT EQUAL The Customer Lifecycle

Kerry Bodine

When I bumped into a former colleague at a recent conference, he was eager to chat about a journey mapping initiative his organization (a major financial services provider) was kicking off. But I got a blank look when I asked what journeys his team planned to focus on. “We We were going to do the whole lifecycle,” he told me. “We We want to map from the awareness phase all the way through retention and loyalty.”. That boil-the-ocean approach is common, but problematic.

2018 123
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Aligning Your Organization Around CX

InMoment XI

Part One: Aligning Your CX Program CX industry continues to face a very real business challenge: unifying the corporate CX strategy with the onsite, day-to-day customer interaction. Too often, customers experience uncoordinated CX touch points, which creates an appearance of disorganization for your business. In part one of this CX governance series, you will learn. View Article. General

2018 200
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Technology Based Solutions to Enhance Customer Retention Strategies

TechSee

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.

2018 141
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Is Your CX Program Delivering the Results You Had Hoped?

When you launch a CX program, there is often an air of exuberance. A year or two later, however, it can feel like your program has flat-lined and you find it hard to make improvements. If your CX program is struggling, check out our latest whitepaper for tips on how to reverse the trend.

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8 Steps to Help De-clutter and Re-think Your Customer Listening

Customer Bliss

Spring is finally here, and you know what that means… spring cleaning! Just like that full-to-the-brim closet you’ve been ignoring, the customer listening data you’ve collected can pile up until it’s more a nuisance than it is informative. By this point, you have no idea what it really contains. Let’s talk about de-cluttering your customer listening! How can we toss the old to make room for the new?

2018 181
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Top 3 Modern Customer Experience Takeaways

Oracle

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. 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.

2018 103
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Guest Blog: How to Keep a Tab on Customer Experience with Continuous Testing

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Anand Srinivasan who looks at a few ways a business can keep tabs on the customer experience through continuous testing. – Shep Hyken. Continuous testing is a term that is commonly associated with software development. The objective of this process is to reduce the time it takes for developers to gather user feedback data and use it to tweak the product.

2018 118
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10 mindsets for change from Australia’s chief customer officers and experience leaders

Alida

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.

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5 Ways to Supercharge Your CX Strategy

Want more from your customer experience program? This whitepaper outlines 5 tactics to improve your CX strategy and take your program to the next level. Download your copy now!

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Aligning Your Organization Around CX

InMoment XI

Part One: Aligning Your CX Program CX industry continues to face a very real business challenge: unifying the corporate CX strategy with the onsite, day-to-day customer interaction. Too often, customers experience uncoordinated CX touch points, which creates an appearance of disorganization for your business. In part one of this CX governance series, you will learn. View Article. General

2018 200
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How to Recruit Live Chat Customer Support Team that Delights Users

ProProfs Chat

People Helping People is a Great Job! Customer support is the most crucial aspect of determining the success of any business. Earning customer loyalty is a tough nut to crack. And, going gets tougher if a company doesn’t have a right team in place to manage the customers. The support team plays a pivotal role to ensure that you are ahead of the competitors. It’s the customer support representatives who are the face of your company. They are the ones who bind customers to your business.

2018 101
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Microsoft’s Path to Customer Obsession with Global General Manager of Customer & Partner Experience Amanda Sachs

Customer Bliss

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.

2018 129
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How to Win Customers and Increase Brand Loyalty

Oracle

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.

2018 107
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