Customer Bliss
FEBRUARY 23, 2016
There has been much talk in recent years about a C-Suite role for head of customer experience, or CCO — Chief Customer Officer. Even B2B brands, which traditionally focuses on sales rather than organic customer growth, are starting to adopt this head of customer experience role in droves. But how does someone become a head of customer experience?
Experience Investigators by 360Connext
FEBRUARY 1, 2016
Employee engagement is a key driver in delivering great customer experiences. Without a dedicated and engaged workforce, customer complaints increase, loyalty decreases, and the company is less successful. And while it’s of course critically important to keep employees engaged and enthused about their work, it starts with who they are. Toxic people come in many forms, […].
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InMoment XI
FEBRUARY 12, 2016
Ok. take just a minute and think about a product or service that you are engaged with. By engaged I mean… more than loyal… you would buy this product, shop at this store even if it was inconvenient, more expensive, etc. Personally, there is a grocery store chain in Utah that I am engaged with. They know my. View Article.
Bill Quiseng
FEBRUARY 1, 2016
This was originally published as a guest post on Shep Hyken’s customer service blog. . There are only two ways to make a profit in business. One way is to increase sales. The other is to reduce costs. Companies have relied on technology to reeduce one of the most expensive costs in any business – human labor. Banks have replaced tellers with ATM’s, direct deposit and internet banking.
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Beyond Philosophy
FEBRUARY 15, 2016
Everyone wants your Customers’ attention. These bids for attention surround us, in the form of advertisements to street signs to the clothes people wear or, in some cases, don’t wear! These ubiquitous pleas for attention can be overwhelming and crowd out your bid for your Customers’ attention. So it’s up to you to cut through the clutter and reach them.
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Customer Bliss
FEBRUARY 15, 2016
I recently got back from speaking at a conference where I met with many CMOs of the worlds’ largest companies. Customer experience is a priority to all. The question we discussed was; could the discipline and competencies required to lead a company through a customer experience transformation be led from marketing, by the CMO? In other words, can the CMO also be the CCO?
Experience Investigators by 360Connext
FEBRUARY 25, 2016
If your customers think you deliver an “average” service experience, there is NO shortcut to getting them to become emotionally engaged, loyal, zealots of your brand. Don’t get me wrong. A well-designed service improvement initiative MIGHT result in a temporary spike in satisfaction scores but won’t produce sustained traffic or protracted revenue increases.
ClearAction
FEBRUARY 27, 2016
5 Ways to Make Marketing More Strategic Lynn Hunsaker. As Marketing departments take a bigger role in customer experience management, a more holistic perspective allows your company rise to the top of the field. Supporting the entire customer lifecycle, for example, is a goal that most Marketing organizations still grapple with. Everyone acknowledges that customer retention is more cost-effective than acquisition, yet Marketing tends to put the majority of its resources in awareness-building and
Bill Quiseng
FEBRUARY 15, 2016
Recently in a LinkedIn group, one of the members asked the following question: “The global economy is slowing down, but you’ve been asked to do the impossible: Control costs AND improve customer service experience. How can you do it?” While I commented within the group, LinkedIn limited the space allowed for the response so I wanted to elaborate here.
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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
Beyond Philosophy
FEBRUARY 1, 2016
Do you nudge your customers? Most businesses do, whether they know it or not. A nudge propels a customer toward the behavior you want – whether it’s purchasing a product, signing up for a subscription or making a repeat visit to a retailer. The theory behind a nudge is that positive reinforcement and indirect suggestions can change people’s behavior at least as effectively as rules and instructions.
OpinionLab
FEBRUARY 25, 2016
Whenever you embark on a website redesign project, you probably have an idealistic idea in your head of creating a site that looks and works great and drives vast surges in user engagement, conversions and sales. But anyone who’s been involved in such an undertaking will know you have to overcome a number of obstacles before you achieve this objective, if you ever do.
Customer Bliss
FEBRUARY 25, 2016
Honoring “Customers as Assets” connects volume and value to customer experience ROI and growth. Your goal as CCO is to unite the leadership team in delivering one-company customer experiences and connecting the delivery to business growth. This will require the removal of survey score addiction and a shift in leadership thinking. The pivotal leadership shift occurs when you simplify the “why” behind this work so that leadership can stand behind it and communicate as their own.
Experience Investigators by 360Connext
FEBRUARY 3, 2016
Managing time and workload will be the biggest challenge that customer support professionals face in 2016. With the rise of multichannel support, there’s a risk that support professionals will burn out if they don’t take steps to manage their workload more effectively. A new study by Kayako looked into the state of the customer support […].
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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Win the Customer
FEBRUARY 13, 2016
To innovate and get ahead of competitors and market trends, it’s critical for customer experience leaders to continually evaluate their vision of customer experience and perceive potential technologies that could accelerate the ability to deliver exceptional service experiences. At a recent Opticon conference, Mary Hamilton, Managing Director of Accenture Technology Labs , described the near future where our offerings could be enhanced by sensors, supported by data, and automated to deliv
Steve DiGioia
FEBRUARY 2, 2016
you won't be successful without them. This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. The world of business is fraught with a myriad of theories, quotes and snippets of information all designed to help wide-eyed junior entrepreneurs become successful. Then there are the wise sages who are paid handsomely to bestow others with their experience and long-held beliefs.
Beyond Philosophy
FEBRUARY 10, 2016
When Rafat Ali, CEO and Founder of Skift, went to book a trip one morning, he was prepared. He knew he needed patience and perseverance to book travel online. What he wasn’t prepared for was the hostility he encountered from various travel entities, including Delta and Avis, to name a couple, or as he later calls it: #hateselling. #Hateselling announces there is a problem with your Customer Experience.
Experience Matters
FEBRUARY 18, 2016
Over the previous decade, I’ve had the opportunity to work with and study thousands of companies. One of the things that I’ve noticed is that the world has changed a lot, but organizational management has stayed substantially the same. Technology has enabled entirely new practices and we’ve developed a much deeper understanding of what drives human behaviors and business success. […].
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
FEBRUARY 18, 2016
How does your organization utilize the journey map? As the framework to consistently drive company focus that lines up your customer listening, improvement, and planning efforts? Or are the silos still promoting their internal processes as a “journey”? Lesley Mottla was part of the management team that developed Zipcar’s award-winning customer experience and technologies.
Maz Iqbal
FEBRUARY 14, 2016
What is it to be a human being? There are many answers. I find myself attracted to the answer provided by the philosopher Martin Heidegger. A human being is necessarily a being-in-the-world. One of the key characteristics of human worlds is the presence / absence of others. So one can say that a human being … Continue reading "Dancing With Customers: Rodolphe Renwart And The Art Of Hospitality".
Win the Customer
FEBRUARY 1, 2016
Gartner reports that failure to respond to customer service requests on social media may result in a 15% churn rate, which can mean millions lost. If your customers come to you via social media seeking support, not responding in a timely manner can greatly impact your bottom line. The hard part is that social media never sleeps. When customer service phone lines aren’t operating, consumers with problems may message brands on networks such as Facebook or Twitter in hopes of reaching a repre
Customers That Stick
FEBRUARY 25, 2016
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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.
Beyond Philosophy
FEBRUARY 17, 2016
Conventional wisdom says that a product priced at $99.99 will seem less expensive than a product priced at $100. Researchers have also found that a precise price, like $99.37, is more believable and appears to offer a greater value than a round price like $100. Based on this, you might conclude that round prices – the ones that end in zeros – are always a bad idea.
ijgolding
FEBRUARY 4, 2016
How do you become a Customer Experience Professional? I cannot imagine that there are young children all over the world who wake up dreaming of becoming one!! I personally wanted to be a police officer when I was a little boy – my life did not quite work out like that! I think it is fascinating to understand how people end up doing something like CX…… and so I am absolutely delighted to share with you one professionals story in this post.
Customer Bliss
FEBRUARY 22, 2016
We’ve talked before on this blog about the need to be a customer-focused CEO. But since CEOs are often the major decision-maker within an organization, it’s important to understand the decision-making styles of customer-focused CEOs. Because the C-Suite as a whole tends to make dozens (if not hundreds) of decisions in a given week, having an understanding on what specific decision-making styles make for leaders with a stronger customer focus is going to be helpful as you grow your ow
Michelli Experience
FEBRUARY 2, 2016
There’s accountability and there’s ACCOUNTABILITY. Try this one on for size…. Would you be willing to be held to a standard (which I refer to as the “tremble effect”) when it comes to the quality and consistency of experiences you and your team provide to your customers? The “tremble effect” seems an apt description of something that a former AT & T Chariman C.
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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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