InMoment XI
DECEMBER 4, 2015
One of the frequent obstacles of launching a customer experience program presented by many B2B clients is the lack of a quality list of customers to contact. Client database challenges present themselves in a variety of formats: Scattered Account List. Maybe the organization grew by a series of acquisitions, or maybe no one will commit.
Experience Investigators by 360Connext
DECEMBER 31, 2015
What a year! We’ve had an exciting year at 360Connext, and we’ve learned a lot. I hope you’ve had a chance to learn along with us! In case you’re just hearing about us, or you haven’t subscribed for updates, we’ve put together a heaping handful of our best customer experience posts from the past year […]. The post Our Top 15 Customer Experience Posts of 2015 appeared first on Customer Experience Consulting.
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Bill Quiseng
DECEMBER 14, 2015
This week’s post is written by Ravi Shukle. In my posts, I provide advice to improve face to face customer interactions. But today’s customers are expecting service on-line and on the social media channels that they use. One of the great benefits of social media is connecting with people who we would otherwise not meet. Since I certainly am not an expert on how to use social media for customer service, I reached out halfway around the world to someone who is, Ravi.
Customer Bliss
DECEMBER 29, 2015
The customer experience that gains the most confidence with customers is to get the basics right. These five CX competencies work in tandem to ‘earn the right’ to customer growth: Connect to business growth. Shift attitudes from chasing the score to caring about and improving customer lives to earn the right to growth. Deliver a connected story that get leaders to focus on the important moments (versus silos picking things that they think will give them ‘lift’ on survey scores).
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GetFeedback
DECEMBER 30, 2015
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CXDNA Update brings together the best content for customer experience professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Win the Customer
DECEMBER 17, 2015
Research from Forrester has found that 80% of companies want to use customer service to differentiate themselves from the competition. So if every organization wants their customer service to be the best it can be, how do those who really stand out from the competition actually do it? Rather than just rehashing the same old suggestions that anyone can find online, we turned to the customer service experts to help answer that most critical question: What’s the #1 way to really improve custo
Experience Investigators by 360Connext
DECEMBER 23, 2015
There’s a reason we all love The Onion, America’s finest parody news source. The Onion, with their satirical and sometimes silly headlines and articles, reflect back the world many of us are seeing. In 2015, The Onion showcased customer service (and lack thereof) many times. These 5 headlines really tell the truth about what customers […].
Beyond Philosophy
DECEMBER 10, 2015
People don’t choose your product or service because of the experience they had; they choose it because of the experience they remember—and these two are not the same thing! Creating a great memory of your experience in your Customer’s mind is critical to creating Customer Loyalty. Consider this quote from Professor Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel Prize Winning Economist: “There is a big difference between an experience and the memory of an experience.”.
Customer Bliss
DECEMBER 15, 2015
After you’ve completed rating reliability of your customer experience , rate the reliability of support that employees receive across the customer journey. Ask the group to go stage by stage of your customer journey and determine how reliable the employee support is in delivering a one-company customer experience. Is the support for employees: Always reliable – support is managed across the channels, countries, and silos.
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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
Michelli Experience
DECEMBER 2, 2015
There are leaders, followers, and…well people who just get in the way! Which are you? In business today, it takes leadership to build a business that consistently engages customers. If customers aren’t emotionally connected to your brand, through the experiences you provide, you will be vulnerable to offers and solicitations from your competitors. Such was the case for Mercedes-Benz!
Experience Matters
DECEMBER 15, 2015
It’s once again the time of year for me to publish my CX trends. In my post last year I named 2015 “ The Year of Employee.” With this post, I’m declaring 2016 “ The Year of Emotion.”. In the upcoming year, CX will continue to grow in importance for companies and an even larger number of organizations will begin their CX journeys. In this environment, we expect to see: Culture Change Intensifying.
Win the Customer
DECEMBER 18, 2015
Metrics and statistics can’t measure the personality of employees, their ability to relate with callers, or the value they bring to an interaction. Concrete customer feedback metrics, KPIs and CRM systems can be considered as the ‘science’ behind call centers, but the soft skills of call center agents are considered as the art. Metrics and statistics can’t measure the personality of employees, their ability to relate with callers, or the value they bring to an interaction.
Experience Investigators by 360Connext
DECEMBER 10, 2015
It was a privilege to present at the recent Next Generation Patient Experience conference. I had never attended a conference solely focused on healthcare, so I learned a lot about what innovative healthcare systems are doing to improve the patient experience. There are definite best practices, but there are still a lot of unknowns. Healthcare […].
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
DECEMBER 22, 2015
Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D., CMC, is Thought Leadership Principal for Beyond Philosophy. As they are gathering information to help in day-to-day brand decision-making, consumers want, crave, desire, seek, and value content from marketers – as long as it is reasonably altruistic, informative and objective, and minimizes the ‘look of sponsorship’ and the three most readily identifiable sales ‘P’s’: push, pitch, and puff.
Customer Bliss
DECEMBER 29, 2015
The customer experience that gains the most confidence with customers is to get the basics right. These five CX competencies work in tandem to ‘earn the right’ to customer growth: Connect to business growth. Shift attitudes from chasing the score to caring about and improving customer lives to earn the right to growth. Deliver a connected story that get leaders to focus on the important moments (versus silos picking things that they think will give them ‘lift’ on survey scores).
Maz Iqbal
DECEMBER 15, 2015
During November, whilst on business, I stayed at Homelands Bed & Breakfast and thoroughly enjoyed my experience. It was so good that staying at Homelands occurred as staying at a home away from home. My experience lived up to the five star rating that Homelands has earned on TripAdvisor. Here’s what I think the hotel … Continue reading "What Can The Hotel Industry Learn From Homelands B&B?".
Think Customers
DECEMBER 8, 2015
As we race towards 2016 and the U.S. labor market continues to gain strength, industry observers are forecasting an upsurge among employees who jump ship from their workplaces. Strictly from a compensation standpoint, an increase in employee turnover is understandable. According to Mercer, Towers Watson, and other human resources firms, salary increases for employees are expected to rise 3.0 percent or less next year.
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
Win the Customer
DECEMBER 18, 2015
An effective CRM system can help a business maximize the value of their customers through improving every aspect of the customer relationship. Many businesses wonder if they should invest more into customer relationship development and the systems and tools that enable greater automation of relationship management in the contact center. While too much automation can lead to lack of personalization, the right balance between effective software tools and careful consideration from real customer ag
Experience Investigators by 360Connext
DECEMBER 15, 2015
The holiday season will be over before you know it. Your customer pain points are showing! In the past several weeks, your customers have become more and more hurried and stressed as they try to find the perfect gifts. Has your retail experience been able to handle it? Do you have a working customer journey map? If you don’t, the […]. The post ‘Tis the Season to Find Pain Points in Your Customer Journey appeared first on Customer Experience Consulting.
Beyond Philosophy
DECEMBER 8, 2015
Creativity is essential to business today, particularly when the things that differentiate all of us from our competition decrease each year. A creative approach to business, to art, and to life will serve any individual well moving forward. I have written five books to date and will soon deliver number six. It occurred to me that I have learned a few things writing these books.
Customer Bliss
DECEMBER 22, 2015
A Chief Customer Officer is successful when he or she can simplify how the organization works together to achieve customer-driven growth, engage the leadership team and connect the work to a return on investment. Sustainable transformation will only occur when this work goes beyond project plans and status updates, and is grounded in caring about customers’ lives.
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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.
Joe Rawlinson
DECEMBER 10, 2015
Sixty-one percent of marketers planned to increase their spending on email this year, making email a higher priority than social media, mobile marketing or any other channel, StrongView’s 2015 Marketing Trends Survey found. Marketers are focusing on automated email marketing methods, especially email triggered by recipient actions and emails geared toward stages in the customer lifecycle.
Think Customers
DECEMBER 14, 2015
When the New York Times published an article in August shining a spotlight on Amazon's bizarre company culture, it triggered a barrage of comments and articles about the importance of culture in engendering engagement. Personal accounts of 1 a.m. conference calls, strongly encouraged 60-hour work weeks, and a culture that appears to throw people under the bus to advance in the organizational hierarchy are just a few of the strange experiences employees at Amazon reported and which also fly in th
Win the Customer
DECEMBER 26, 2015
There’s an immense difference between aspiring to deliver exceptional customer service and actually delivering winning customer service. The right team can make the biggest difference in exceptional service experiences. Every time I review customer submitted feedback, I always look for key terms that establish patters for successful customer service interactions or potential negative trends in customers’ experience.
Experience Investigators by 360Connext
DECEMBER 17, 2015
We’re moving into an age that is becoming more and more mobile. Every conference speaker I’ve seen for the past several years has discussed the importance of designing customer experiences around our obsession with mobile devices. Who doesn’t want to deliver a personalized mobile experience for each customer via those tiny screens?
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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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