Customer Bliss
AUGUST 24, 2017
I have said this over the years, and recently, several of my podcast guests have also discussed it: there is an ever-increasing need to think of employees as customers as well, i.e. internal customers. Retention rates in major companies have been dropping for years, for a variety of reasons: more flexible work options, people pursuing their own ventures or teaming with startups, bad management, etc.
Alida
AUGUST 9, 2017
More than 8,300 retail stores are expected to close all over North America in the next 12 months. And yet, according to Doug Stephens , founder of the consultancy Retail Prophet, brick-and-mortar stores still have an important role in business today. The number of stores that are expected to close in the next year, according to @RetailProphet. link] #cxblindspot pic.twitter.com/xgMHhSlcDA. Kelvin (KC) Claveria (@kcclaveria) August 3, 2017.
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Experience Matters
AUGUST 29, 2017
Temkin Group has labelled 2017 The Year of Purpose, so we have been examining the topic of purpose across many different angles. One of the areas we are interested in is the impact that a person’s level of purpose and meaning has on how they behave as an employee and customer. It turns out that it has a pretty significant impact in both of these areas. In our latest U.S.
ShepHyken
AUGUST 2, 2017
There is an old joke in the dental world that a patient asked his dentist, “Which teeth should I floss?” The dentist answered, “Only the ones you want to keep.” Customer Service is the same. All customers are good customers. Okay, maybe not all. Every business has customers – or should I call them former customers – that companies choose not to do business with. But, for the purpose of this article, let’s assume you’re willing to do business with everyone who wants to do business with you.
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Experience Investigators by 360Connext
AUGUST 9, 2017
I’m getting calls from very well-meaning business leaders lately. They are well-versed in many areas of business. Perhaps they were in marketing, or technology or operations. Or maybe they were responsible for the learning and development of thousands of employees. They have credentials and experience and are viewed as leaders of change in their organizations.
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Customer Bliss
AUGUST 31, 2017
About 500 Southwest Airlines customers were stranded at Houston’s Hobby Airport last Sunday morning once the Hurricane Harvey flooding began and the FAA shut down Hobby. What did Southwest do? Something great from a CX perspective. Step 1: They got permission from the FAA to find a way to fly out the 500 or so passengers and work with the FAA on the security and legal nature of it. Step 2: They took five stranded Boeing 737s, and loaded them with passengers.
Storyminers
AUGUST 28, 2017
I’m always curious about what makes leaders of customer experience and transformation projects invest in what’s new. Oracle , in its recent “ CX FACTOR PROGRAM ” has done much of that research for me (and for you). It’s in the form of a dozen interviews with company leaders whose brands are excelling at the customer experience. I was invited to ask questions of the customer experience leaders on their success tactics.
Heart of the Customer
AUGUST 7, 2017
I met Beth Berg—a customer experience researcher—at a journey mapping round table at this year’s CXPA Insight Exchange, and really enjoyed her approach. So, I invited her to get together and discuss her approach, and she agreed. First, tell us a little bit about yourself and your work. My area of expertise is bringing the […]. The post Bringing the Voice of the Customer into CX Design – and Interview with Beth Berg appeared first on Heart of the Customer.
ShepHyken
AUGUST 25, 2017
This week we feature an article by Reuben Yonatan who writes about how using chatbots for customer service properly can be a powerful customer service tool. Chatbots can be great for handling basic customer support functions, communicating with customers when a rep isn’t available and more. – Shep Hyken. Many small businesses are looking for ways to streamline communication. They know customers want fast, accurate information as soon as they need it.
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Experience Investigators by 360Connext
AUGUST 14, 2017
Have you ever lived through a major renovation project or lived through construction of a house or condo? I say “lived through” because it can be harrowing, on a #firstworldproblems level for sure, but harrowing nonetheless. First of all, selecting the right shade of gray or arguing with your spouse about 1-inch or 1.5-inch tile becomes exhausting.
InMoment XI
AUGUST 10, 2017
Editor’s note: This is a chapter from the ebook, Unlock the Value of CX. You can download the entire book here. Forward Our understanding that there is a connection between employee satisfaction and customer satisfaction goes back at least to the Service Profit Chain Model. We have since come to understand that the connection runs. View Article
Customer Bliss
AUGUST 29, 2017
Episode Overview. Rhonda Basler and I discuss how Hallmark Business Connections is helping companies build bonds with their customers — by extending their own products and services. A very intriguing dimension of a company we all know so well, and you’ll be intrigued to hear how customer experience is a key part of how they help companies grow. About Rhonda. Rhonda Basler currently leads the Customer Engagement team at Hallmark Business Connections, Hallmark’s B2B subsidiary.
Alida
AUGUST 10, 2017
Everyone working in customer experience (CX) wants to know if their time and resources are well spent. CX can be a messy space , full of different beliefs and potential paths to follow. At the same time, CX has to compete with other departments for resources. To earn credibility and influence in the organization and get more resources, CX departments need to prove their worth. This article looks at some examples of weaker and stronger evidence that CX professionals could consider.
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GetFeedback
AUGUST 7, 2017
Customer support and customer success both focus on driving customer satisfaction and loyalty, just in different ways. But will they be different for long? Articles
ProProfs Chat
AUGUST 23, 2017
The customer satisfaction depends on the customer service skills of an individual to professionally handle and deal with various consumers. If you let your customers down then there are chances of losing potential buyers. The report done by customer impact business depicted that almost 89% of consumer stopped buying products due to low customer service. Hence, it is really important to build customer satisfaction and trust in the path of their purchase by offering good customer service.
LiveChat
AUGUST 25, 2017
As you probably know, I’m nuts about customer service and great customer experience. Every time I’m on my holidays, I collect every single #custserv experience and try to learn from it. Same thing happened this year. In this post, I’d like to show you two examples of a service I experienced during my holidays. I booked a really nice apartment whose owner was extremely rude, and a quite gross camp truck, whose owners delivered the best customer service ever!
InMoment XI
AUGUST 31, 2017
For the last couple of decades that I have been around corporate enterprises, there have been too many CEO fads to count. Think about it: MRP, MRP2, ERP, Employee Engagement, Performance Management, Enterprise systems, Distributed systems, CRM, CEM and CX, OPX, Six Sigma, layered with black, green, yellow belt versions, then LEAN Project Management, and CPIM, View Article. General
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Customer Bliss
AUGUST 3, 2017
Some interesting, if not surprising, news from the customer experience world recently. Forrester recently released their US 2017 Customer Experience Index , which goes through data from 120,000 online consumers to rank 300 brands across 21 industries. Forrester is a very-vetted research brand, but it’s important to understand the ecosystem here. These are primarily digital customers, and while the sample size is great, it’s not necessarily applicable to every industry.
Alida
AUGUST 1, 2017
Eighty degrees and a nice breeze – check. Evening rooftop in New York City and specialty cocktails – check. More than 180 attendees including leaders in media, technology, CPG, beauty and auto – check. At CX and the City on July 18th, industry leaders from Refinery29, Bustle, Elizabeth Arden and Audible shared how they are approaching the biggest challenges and opportunities in customer experience.
Joe Rawlinson
AUGUST 9, 2017
Mobile technology has been changing consumer expectations for both e-commerce and brick-and-mortar retailers, making it more challenging to deliver satisfactory customer service. The 2017 IBM Consumer Experience Index (CEI) Study says only 3.4 percent of brands are delivering leading-edge customer experience , while 33.5 percent are delivering average service and 39.6 percent are lagging or falling behind today’s customer service trends.
Beyond Philosophy
AUGUST 23, 2017
Many organizations measure their Customer Experience (CX) in the wrong way. Chances are, you are too. So, what is it? How are you inadvertently thwarting your efforts to improve your CX? It is how you measure it and it’s one of the fundamental failures of many CX programs. Measuring is a critical part of any effort to quantify progress (or failures) when you have a goal of improving your CX.
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ShepHyken
AUGUST 30, 2017
There is a lot of power in a handwritten, personal note. This isn’t just about a thank you note to a customer, although those are important as well. This is also about the note of appreciation to someone who has done a great job or hit their goals. You get the idea. Anything you might want to congratulate them on. Ted Janusz is one of our amazing trainers at Shepard Presentations.
InMoment XI
AUGUST 31, 2017
For the last couple of decades that I have been around corporate enterprises, there have been too many CEO fads to count. Think about it: MRP, MRP2, ERP, Employee Engagement, Performance Management, Enterprise systems, Distributed systems, CRM, CEM and CX, OPX, Six Sigma, layered with black, green, yellow belt versions, then LEAN Project Management, and CPIM, View Article
Customer Bliss
AUGUST 17, 2017
I don’t want to discuss my next book too much, as we’re currently doing some planning and development work around it, but — as you would probably guess — the theme is customer experience. We’re going to spend a lot of time in the next book discussing the pros and cons of specific experiences, both good and bad.
ijgolding
AUGUST 9, 2017
A perennial problem for any Customer Experience Professional around the world is to find an effective way to engage people with the significance of the subject. Whilst many profess to ‘get’ Customer Experience (CX), they tend to do so instinctively, intuitively and accidentally.
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