December, 2010

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Closing the Loop

InMoment XI

The design of any world-class customer feedback program should include a closed loop process that makes the customers feel that they have been heard and promotes learning about what to do to improve the business in ways that drive customer satisfaction and loyalty.

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Customer service mistakes that go bump in the night

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Every business is bound to have unhappy customers; there’s always some variable that can go wrong despite all safeguards to make things perfect. Great customer service extends beyond answering the phone after two rings, beyond the twitter and Facebook entries, and even beyond the gentle ego stroking of an already angry customer. The Society for New Communications Research, which tracks the latest trends and best practices in communication and social media, states that 59 percent of consume

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Tweets Not All Sweet on Black Friday

Customers Rock!

Social media has brought the customer experience more in-focus than ever before, and this became very apparent during the start of the 2010 holiday shopping season on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Consumers made their lists of who had the best deals, based on what they learned on Twitter and other sites. The brave ones, armed with their mobile phones, made the trek into the brick-and-mortar retail stores to fight the crowds for their coveted items.

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Customer service: giving up is not an option

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'In a harsh climate, companies'' leadership teams may decide that investment in customer service is a low priority. Whilst the motivation is easy to understand and often driven by cost management measures, it is not sustainable. After all, when the winter is over, clients will remember where their bad customer experience and this will clearly influence their decision for future purchases.

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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Overcoming Your Own "Not Me"

Annie Tsai

Remember the ghost that would run around in the Family Circus cartoons causing a bunch of mischief and get Billy, Dolly, Jeffy, and P.J. in trouble all the time? The kids all knew who he was. Time after time, Bil and Thelma would call the kids out on said naughtiness of the day and low […].

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Closing the Loop

InMoment XI

The design of any world-class customer feedback program should include a closed loop process that makes the customers feel that they have been heard and promotes learning about what to do to improve the business in ways that drive customer satisfaction and loyalty.

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Work on improving customer experiences

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The Business Impact of Customer Experience Report 2010 examines how customer experiences affect the overall success of businesses: - It affects a customer’s intent to purchase from a particular organization. - It affects the likelihood of a customer switching to a competitor. - It affects the likelihood of a customer to recommend the business or organization to a friend, coworker, or relative.

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Closing the Loop

InMoment XI

The design of any world-class customer feedback program should include a closed loop process that makes the customers feel that they have been heard and promotes learning about what to do to improve the business in ways that drive customer satisfaction and loyalty.

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Closing the Loop

InMoment XI

The design of any world-class customer feedback program should include a closed loop process that makes the customers feel that they have been heard and promotes learning about what to do to improve the business in ways that drive customer satisfaction and loyalty.

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The 2023 Verint Experience Index: Retail

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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Announcing VOCi; Voice of Customer ‘Intelligence’

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After months of client meetings, focus groups and quantitative studies, one thing stands out: data is everywhere, and VOC pros want help making decisions from their mountains of data. That’s why we are committed to accelerating the delivery of actionable business intelligence from VOC data. It’s not about gathering more survey data, it’s about the insights business leaders need to move the needle.

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Announcing VOCi; Voice of Customer ‘Intelligence’

InMoment XI

After months of client meetings, focus groups and quantitative studies, one thing stands out: data is everywhere, and VOC pros want help making decisions from their mountains of data. That’s why we are committed to accelerating the delivery of actionable business intelligence from VOC data. It’s not about gathering more survey data, it’s about the insights business leaders need to move the needle.

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Announcing VOCi; Voice of Customer ‘Intelligence’

InMoment XI

After months of client meetings, focus groups and quantitative studies, one thing stands out: data is everywhere, and VOC pros want help making decisions from their mountains of data. That’s why we are committed to accelerating the delivery of actionable business intelligence from VOC data. It’s not about gathering more survey data, it’s about the insights business leaders need to move the needle.

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Amazon.com takes first place in customer satisfaction

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A Christmas Customer Satisfaction Index survey showed Amazon as the top online retailer to best satisfy consumers during the busy holiday shopping season. The study, done by Fore See Results stated that Amazon offered the safest and best online opportunities, but also showed the lesser e-commerce sites slipping and failing to meet the improving standards of the larger companies.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

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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Make it personal to build customer loyalty

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While successful businesses have always been about price, quality, and customer service, what can an organization do to guarantee that a particular customer will keep coming back? With so much competition out there and everyone trying to outdo each other, building customer loyalty is not an easy task. No matter how you address it, customer loyalty emanates from excellent customer service.

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Customer experience trends engraved in social media channels

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Paul Stockford, president of Saddletree Research, an organization that gauges industry change trends, notes that the changes of customer experience management will continue an upward movement in social channels. Interestingly enough, the social trends since 2008 have grown exponentially. In 2008, social media and customer service were not even on the radar; in 2009 it grew to 13%, and this year 40% of contact centers actively use social media in their customer service.

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How to improve customer satisfaction

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This year may be fading away swiftly, but a better, new one is on the horizon. So what does that mean? Well, it means that we all make plans for a successful new adventure into a promising new time, however the basic ingredients of success haven’t changed nor does it change with the drop of a brightly lit ball in Times Square at the stroke of midnight.

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Tis the season for customer service

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We’re approaching home plate for the 2010 shopping season with the best opportunity to realize a profit after a challenging year of budget minded shoppers. Tis the season for shopping, that’s for sure, and chances are businesses will meet new shoppers they have never met before. Why not use the opportunity to attract new customers? A customer’s first impression is the most important part of the initial sales experience.

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

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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What do re-stocking fees say about a retailer?

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Christmas is the time for good will toward shoppers, and with that in mind, Target, Wal-Mart, and Best Buy have dropped their re-stocking fees to boost customer service. Ethan Jones, a customer service administrator for Best Buy assures customers that as long as everything is returned in the original box, all re-stocking fees will be waived. Other stores, in an effort to boost customer loyalty offer generous return policies.

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Customer service examples

Very Best Service

'Customer service examples : Here are a few quotes by @ Thoughtbuddy giving us his take on good customer service: " For me, an example of @ verygoodservice is when the shop assistant walks around from behind the counter/till to hand over your purchase(s)." "Also think it''s @ verygoodservice when assistant refers to you by name using details on your payment / loyalty card.

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Customer experience with Keurig is the sum total of the whole

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Customer experience doesn’t just begin and end with a visit to the store, an interaction with a sales representative, and the subsequent purchase of the product. It’s made up of details; lots of details both intentional and unintentional. Our overall customer experience is the quality aggregate of an entire organization. Let us take the example of Keurig and the Special Edition Keurig Brewer and assume that I was attracted to the product from advertisements I saw on television; a bus

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Customer service: relationship management

Very Best Service

'For better or for worse. Customer relationship management is all about working together, not imposing what suits one party or the other. Irrespective of the initial engagement, companies which can demonstrate flexibility, and wish for the relationship to succeed, will stimulate their customers to adopt the same behaviour. And, long after the wedding day all will live in harmony in the long term.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Overcoming Your Own "Not Me"

Annie Tsai

Remember the ghost that would run around in the Family Circus cartoons causing a bunch of mischief and get Billy, Dolly, Jeffy, and P.J. in trouble all the time? The kids all knew who he was. Time after time, Bil and Thelma would call the kids out on said naughtiness of the day and low […].

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Saying “Bon Voyage” to Your Customers

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As service professionals, we all understand the commitment and effort needed to acquire new and retain our existing customers. But what about the customer who has decided to leave? What do we typically do for them? In his book It’s Your Ship , Michael Abrashoff talked about how important it was to give a warm send off and thank you for Navy personnel who served under him but opted not to re-enlist.

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Marriott employees keep guests coming back

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Since it’s getting cold in most of the United States, I thought I might end the week with a few words about the Key West Marriott Beachside Hotel which has just been awarded the Marriott’s Customer Excellence Award for demonstrating exemplary guest services. It is classified as a luxury AAA 4 Diamond hotel on seven and one-half acres of waterfront property.

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Warm thoughts for customer service during the holidays

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You’re most likely sending out emails, brochures, and promotions with greetings of the season, but what happens after the lights are removed and the tree is packed away? Are you still showing your customers that you appreciate their business all year round? You want to show sincere appreciation for customer patronage and want them to feel valued for making the choice of spending their hard-earned money at your organization.

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7th Annual CX Report by The Northridge Group Uncovers Priority Training Focus

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