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.
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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InMoment XI
AUGUST 17, 2017
Creating better executive alignment can skyrocket CX program ROI Is your company still struggling with getting executive buy-in for customer experience initiatives? If so, you’re not alone. Today, the customer experience (CX) has become the competitive battleground and differentiator for all businesses. By delivering a consistent, memorable experience, companies can create a competitive advantage that.
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.
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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?
CXDNA Update brings together the best content for customer experience professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
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. You may see a company one day go through a total customer experience/PR flame-out (United Airlines is a recent example, or Volkswagen) and wonder to yourse
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.
Beyond Philosophy
AUGUST 9, 2017
A Canadian food chain Iq Food Co. is like most of the others. It has an assortment of food choices ranging from snacks to meals and even coffee and tea. But if you want to buy anything at their soon-to-be eleven locations, your money is no good there—quite literally. Iq Food Co. does not take cash. The restaurant’s founder Alan Bekerman said it was one less thing to think about when he made the decision back in February 2016.
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.
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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
QuestionPro Audience
AUGUST 31, 2017
It’s no secret that happy, loyal customers are your business’s most valuable asset; a loyal customer is worth up to 7x more than a new one! For that reason, consumer-facing companies find it essential to have some type of customer loyalty program. From the ubiquitous and tech-savvy Starbucks App to the paper punch card at the cafe down the street, there’s a solution available for every type of business at every price point.
Beyond Philosophy
AUGUST 21, 2017
By nature, I’m an organized person. I like things clear and orderly, laid out in black and white. So, some years ago, as a new senior manager, I asked my boss to explain what my responsibilities would be after a company reorganization. I wanted to know, with absolute certainty. But my boss just looked at me and said, “Colin, in a senior position you need to deal with ambiguity.”.
Bob Hayes
AUGUST 21, 2017
Customer Experience Management (CXM) is the process of understanding and managing customers' interactions with and perceptions about the company/brand. In our Big Data world, improving the customer experience is increasingly becoming data-intensive endeavor. Consider CRM systems, surveys, social media sources, telemetry systems, and publicly available data sources; using the combined power of statistics and today’s processing capabilities, these sources of data can help businesses model the proc
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Win the Customer
AUGUST 7, 2017
In today’s world, more and more small business owners are realizing that they need to develop substantive, savvy online marketing strategies. In addition to optimizing conversion rates, taking this course of action can make the brand more influential and cutting edge. Below you’ll find just five of many strategies you can implement to make your web-based efforts sophisticated and successful: Pay-Per-Click Advertising.
ShepHyken
AUGUST 11, 2017
This week we feature an article by Borge Hald who writes about the importance of being a customer obsessed company and how it is the key to success. We need to obsess about creating such an amazing customer experience that our customers will want to do business with us and nobody else. – Shep Hyken. In a recent letter to shareholders that went viral, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos talked about customer obsession and its criticality to remaining a Day 1 company.
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.
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. In other words, they ‘understand’ what CX is, but do not necessarily think that there is anything that they or their organisation need to do to continuously improve the way they manage CX and educate their people in INTE
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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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