July, 2010

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Customer Experience is Here to Stay

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Companies can no longer buy customer loyalty and assume customers will stay. It is easy for customers to “click away” and buy from another vendor. Customer Experience Management is now a formal process that involves multiple processes and departments. It requires the mapping of customer touchpoints, and combines operational and CRM data with customer service and marketing information.

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Is Your “Lack of Remarkable” Preventing Customer Loyalty?

Customers Rock!

Today we have a guest blogger with us here on Customers Rock!, Nate Bagley. Nate is the Social Media Expert at Mindshare Technologies. Mindshare is a leader in the Voice of the Customer industry, helping companies foster consumer satisfaction, build customer loyalty, and support employee retention. Click here to learn more about Mindshare. Is Your “Lack of Remarkable&# Preventing Customer Loyalty?

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Building customer relationships.

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Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. Home About Service Untitled Subscribe for Free Consulting Contact Archives Building customer relationships part of American Express improved services Cheryl July 07, 2010 Behind the Scenes , Customer Service , Employees , Hiring & Training , Specific Companies No Comments In a time when consumers have a heightened awareness of the entire credit card industry, where there is a drop in corporate spending an

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Tailored customer service or one size fits all

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'One of the challenges when defining the attributes of a customer service strategy is to decide whether the approach should be the same for all customers or whether a degree of flexibility is possible. If companies chose to offer a tailored customer service to all, costs are becoming a major issue and the products and services become uncompetitive, unless the client is prepared to pay for it.

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The Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Customer Learning

Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your organization’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

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9-1-1 Public Safety Communications is more than just technology

Customer Interactions

'As Director of the Fairfax County, Virginia Department of Public Safety Communications, I have the distinct honor of heading up a new full-service, state-of-the art, next generation 9-1-1 public safety communications center that serves Fairfax County. Our center is co-located with 3 other agencies (the Virginia State Police Dispatch Center, the Fairfax County Office of Emergency Management and Emergency Operations Center and the Virginia Department of Transportation Traffic Management Center).

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Customer Experience is Here to Stay

InMoment XI

Companies can no longer buy customer loyalty and assume customers will stay. It is easy for customers to “click away” and buy from another vendor. Customer Experience Management is now a formal process that involves multiple processes and departments. It requires the mapping of customer touchpoints, and combines operational and CRM data with customer service and marketing information.

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Employee Satisfaction Surveys – Should Managers Be Rewarded on Results?

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For any VOC initiative, it is just as critical to conduct employee surveys as it is to survey customers. Employee engagement drives customer engagement, and without understanding the hearts and minds of your employees, your VOC initiative will be incomplete.

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Employee Satisfaction Surveys – Should Managers Be Rewarded on Results?

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For any VOC initiative, it is just as critical to conduct employee surveys as it is to survey customers. Employee engagement drives customer engagement, and without understanding the hearts and minds of your employees, your VOC initiative will be incomplete.

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Employee Satisfaction Surveys – Should Managers Be Rewarded on Results?

InMoment XI

For any VOC initiative, it is just as critical to conduct employee surveys as it is to survey customers. Employee engagement drives customer engagement, and without understanding the hearts and minds of your employees, your VOC initiative will be incomplete.

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The 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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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Hospitals need better customer.

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Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. Home About Service Untitled Subscribe for Free Consulting Contact Archives Hospitals need better customer service to help patients Cheryl July 26, 2010 Angry Customers , Customer Satisfaction , Customer Service , Customer Service Experience 1 Comment An appendicitis attack landed my friend Linda in the hospital a few months ago.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Advantages of using customer.

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Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. Home About Service Untitled Subscribe for Free Consulting Contact Archives Advantages of using customer loyalty programs Cheryl July 30, 2010 Customer Service , Proactive No Comments I was just at Petco to buy dog food, and the cashier asked me if I wanted to join their customer loyalty program.

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Transaction Surveys – The Basics

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Transactional surveys are a great way to capture customer feedback immediately following a transaction or event. Companies can use them to gain a better understanding of a customer’s experience and perceptions of service quality.

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Transaction Surveys – The Basics

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Transactional surveys are a great way to capture customer feedback immediately following a transaction or event. Companies can use them to gain a better understanding of a customer’s experience and perceptions of service quality.

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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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Transaction Surveys – The Basics

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Transactional surveys are a great way to capture customer feedback immediately following a transaction or event. Companies can use them to gain a better understanding of a customer’s experience and perceptions of service quality.

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Engage7 Product Updates

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New Features available late July include clickable/drillable charts, and new filter capabilities on standard reports.

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Engage7 Product Updates

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New Features available late July include clickable/drillable charts, and new filter capabilities on standard reports.

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Engage7 Product Updates

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New Features available late July include clickable/drillable charts, and new filter capabilities on standard reports.

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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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Have you “NERCed” your utility?

Customer Interactions

'The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC for short) is an organization whose mission is to ensure the reliability of the bulk power system in North America. Founded in 2006, NERC does this through a set of standards and through its strong enforcement program. NERC’s standards specify requirements for planning, operating and maintaining the bulk power system.

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Today’s Electrical Contractor is Tomorrow’s Integrator

Customer Interactions

'“The deal is a lock. The customer loves us and we’re written into the RFP by name,” or so the sales guy told me. So you can imagine how surprised I was when several weeks later I received an anxious call from the same sale guy. “Our partners aren’t bidding. They say the deal will go to an electrical contractor. What are we going to do?

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Video in School Systems Can Extend Reach to Law Enforcement

Customer Interactions

'Some questions are easy to ask but hard to answer, like how dangerous are our schools? In 2007 the CDC reported 5.9% of surveyed US students admitted to carrying a weapon (gun, knife, etc.) into school within the past 30 days. It also reported that 7.8% of students admitted to having been threatened or injured by a weapon in the past 12 months and that 12.4% had actually been physically involved in fight at least once.

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Clery Act — Minimum Compliance or More? Where do you Stand?

Customer Interactions

'The Clery Act is the governing regulation that requires institutions of higher education to release campus crime statistics and security policies and give timely warnings of crimes that represent a safety threat to students and employees. The law was named after Jeanne Clery, a 19-year old student who tragically, was raped and murdered in her campus residence hall in 1986.

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How Intent Data Helps Marketers Convert A-List Accounts

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.

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Security Insomnia: What’s Keeping You Up At Night?

Customer Interactions

'Security has evolved at an almost dizzying pace. Technology, scope, management, processes, are all in flux. Meanwhile, the stakes have never been higher. The cost of a breach can include the loss of assets, even loss of life. And then there are litigation and regulatory compliance penalties. What do you see as the underpinnings of the security business?

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Stars are Aligning for Next Gen 9-1-1 and for NG 9-1-1 Panel Discussion at APCO

Customer Interactions

'The stars seem to be aligning for Next Gen 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1). NG9-1-1 standards are taking shape and, by all reports, some emergency communications centers will be ready to receive live Next Gen 9-1-1 type calls as early as this year. Still, the looming migration to Next Gen 9-1-1 will impact many areas – technology, funding, and operations to name a few – and there are still questions to be answered.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Book Review: The Retail Doctor's.

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Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. Home About Service Untitled Subscribe for Free Consulting Contact Archives Book Review: The Retail Doctor’s Guide to Growing Your Business Cheryl July 16, 2010 Book Reviews , Customer Satisfaction , Customer Service , Employees , Hiring & Training , Interviews No Comments I just finished reading The Retail Doctor’s Guide to Growing Your Business - A Step-By-Step Approach to Quickly Diagnose, Tr

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