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Follow the CX Tea Leaves

InMoment XI

Capitalizing on Small Wins for Agility and Growth Unifying the customer experience across every channel doesn’t necessarily have to start with a fully baked, end-to-end CX plan. In many cases, the best evolution happens as you follow the proverbial tea leaves—reading what the future holds and letting each initiative guide you to the next. In.

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Shared value is the customer experience of the future: 5 key takeaways from the 2017 Asia Pacific Customer Intelligence Summit

Alida

On July 13 2017, over two hundred Vision Critical customers, insights, marketing and CX professionals gathered in Sydney for the Asia Pacific Customer Intelligence Summit, Vision Critical’s 7th annual customer summit. Throughout the day, one clear theme emerged: shared value. Creating shared value is essential for developing an authentic brand and truly connecting with customers.

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It’s never too late to get CX right

Customer Bliss

This will be a shorter post than normal, but I wanted to put this out there. Sometimes with clients or companies, I’ll hear a concern about launching a full-scale customer experience program because “we’re far behind on it” or, more vaguely, “we already have something like that.” The status quo wins out and sameness persists, even though it’s not engaging customers and rivals are chipping away at market share because of their experiences.

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Be Warned! Technology Isn’t Everything

Beyond Philosophy

In our customer experience consultancy, we spend a lot of time educating people about the components of a great customer experience. Some companies get it and they’re creating an emotional connection that brings them loyal fans. But many others look to technology. If customers just had a gadget that could do more or electronic kiosks they could play with in the store, or a virtual reality app – well, then the customer experience would be great.

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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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CX 360: How to Align Voice of Employee with Voice of Customer Programs

InMoment XI

According to Gartner’s research, nearly nine out of ten executives expect customer experience to be a key differentiator with today’s demanding customers. Yet a critical link — engaged employees — is often overlooked. A recent Temkin Group study revealed that CX leaders have 50% more engaged employees than laggards. Your front-line staff are the face.

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From Chief Information Officer to Chief Customer Officer, With Brian Lillie – CB60

Customer Bliss

Episode Overview. (Wow, can’t believe we’re at 60 episodes!). One of the interesting things about the CCO role in the last half-decade is that you’re seeing CCOs come from other, more-established parts of the organization. It’s often from Operations or Marketing, but in the case of Brian Lillie, he went from Chief Information Officer of Equinix , the world’s largest IBX data center and colocation provider, to CCO.

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Revealed: How To Make Loyalty Easy

Beyond Philosophy

Taking care of your best customers is an age-old concept. It has lasted all these years because it works. Loyalty programs are one of many ways you can do this for these top priority people. When it comes to loyalty programs, you cannot forget certain vital features, and according to a recent report, one of them is easier than you think. Per the 2017 Colloquy Loyalty Census, there are 3.8 billion memberships for loyalty programs.

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CX 360: How to Align Voice of Employee with Voice of Customer Programs

InMoment XI

According to Gartner’s research, nearly nine out of ten executives expect customer experience to be a key differentiator with today’s demanding customers. Yet a critical link — engaged employees — is often overlooked. A recent Temkin Group study revealed that CX leaders have 50% more engaged employees than laggards. Your front-line staff are the face.

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The Technology Industry NPS® Benchmarks

CustomerGauge

The technology industry has been continuously disrupting and leading markets when it comes to innovations and customer experience. Companies like Apple, Dropbox, Cisco, HPE Software and Veeam Software have served as real examples to other businesses for customer-centricity and above all business growth. When it comes to customer loyalty and retention, the technology sector scores an […].

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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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Do You Trust Your Customers? Do Your Customers Trust You?

ShepHyken

I just returned from Influence 2017 , the annual conference put on by the National Speakers Association. My friend and one of the world’s authorities on trust, David Horsager was one of the amazing keynote speakers. He shared an excellent customer service example that can be summed up this way: Trust your customers and they will trust you. The quick version of the story is this: A farmer owns a fruit and vegetable stand where his customers pay on the honor system.

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5 Reasons Why the Best Marketing is Great Customer Service

transcosmos Information Systems

Today’s marketing landscape is no longer brand-centric, rather is customer-centric. It’s all about what the customer wants and needs, as well as the customer’s overall brand experience. Often, this experience can make or break your brand reputation. A recent study discovered that 59% of consumers switched brands because of a negative customer experience.

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Follow the CX Tea Leaves

InMoment XI

Capitalizing on Small Wins for Agility and Growth Unifying the customer experience across every channel doesn’t necessarily have to start with a fully baked, end-to-end CX plan. In many cases, the best evolution happens as you follow the proverbial tea leaves—reading what the future holds and letting each initiative guide you to the next. In. View Article.

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Brand Reputation Protection: The Complete Guide

ReviewTrackers

For businesses of every size across every industry, online brand reputation has become one of the most powerful drivers of revenue and growth. Whether you’re managing a small- or medium-sized business with one location or an enterprise-level organization with hundreds or thousands of business locations, your ability to monitor, influence, and improve the way your brand is perceived online by existing and potential customers can spell the difference between winning and losing.

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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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Guest Blog: How to Hire Live Chat Agents Who Delight Your Customers

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Jason Grills about how to use live chat agents properly in order to delight your customers. I believe that as a quick first line of support, live chat is a great alternative. – Shep Hyken. The implementation of live chat software is an easy task to achieve. The important thing to understand is that it is only a tool.

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What is Service Education?

Up Your Service

Service education leads to creative thinking and practical action. This action produces new and greater service value. What happens in effective service education? 1. A new understanding of service value. Service education shifts a person’s point of view and enables her. to truly see the world from the customer’s perspective. This is. achieved by applying fundamental service principles to observe. and appreciate the customer’s experience from an outside-in perspective.

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3 Types of Customer Experience Action Essential to ROI

InMoment XI

This is a snippet of an article originally published on CustomerThink. You can read the full article here. Most things in life need ALL their ingredients to function as intended. Miss the eggs in a cake recipe, forget earbuds for your iPod nano, omit the submit button on a form, arrive at an airport without. View Article.

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Credit Crunch 10 Years On – Four Seismic Changes in Customer Experience Management

Peter Lavers

This blog coincides with the 10 th anniversary of the first signs of the Credit Crunch, which has impacted and continues to affect all our lives. Readers in their mid-thirties and under may not have experienced anything in their professional lives that hasn’t had an ‘austerity’ cloud hanging over it, and I’m sure that a lot will be written in the coming days, weeks, and months to mark the sad occasion.

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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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6 Habits of Highly Successful Customer Service Representatives

CSM Magazine

At the heart of every business is a great customer service team, always striving to deliver an exceptional service to their clients with the goal of turning a first-time customer experience into repeat business. Richard Branson truly is the face of customer service. He believes that if you keep your employees happy, they will, in turn, take care of your customers.

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Your employees don’t care about service targets. And here’s why!

Up Your Service

This blog post assumes that YOU, as a leader, understand the importance of building a service culture and your role in making it happen. If you are not sure, I strongly suggest you read this and this first. Businesses and communities for years have developed countless theories and ‘best practices’ to either Get Employees Who Care (Service Recruitment – Building Block #3) or to Get Employees To Care (Rewards and Recognition – Building Block #5).

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3 Types of Customer Experience Action Essential to ROI

InMoment XI

This is a snippet of an article originally published on CustomerThink. You can read the full article here. Most things in life need ALL their ingredients to function as intended. Miss the eggs in a cake recipe, forget earbuds for your iPod nano, omit the submit button on a form, arrive at an airport without.

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Happiness Affects How Consumers View Companies

Experience Matters

After an inspiring weekend at the 2017 World Congress of Positive Psychology in Montreal, I decided to take a look at some of our data that connects positive psychology with customer experience. I started by examining the question: Does the innate happiness of a consumer influence how she perceives her experiences with companies? The answer is yes! I analyzed the happiness of consumers (based on the degree to which they agree with the statement “ I am typically happy “) and the Temki

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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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Winning Customer Experience – Simple Matters of Trust

Michelli Experience

Customer Experience and Trust…hmmm. Here’s three quick questions to engage your brain. 1) How would you answer the following? “Most people can be trusted” – True or False? 2) What percentage of Americans answered “True” to that question in 1964? and, 3) What percentage of Americans answered “True” to the same question in 2016? If I were a betting man, I would guess you answered “No” to question 1, underestimated on question 2, and may have been close on question 3.

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3 Ways Retailers Can Improve Customer Experience With Their Contact Center

Calabrio

No one ever said working in retail was easy. There are long hours, narrow margins, heavy competition and the threat of loss at every turn. You spend most of the year in the red, hoping for a big holiday season, and sometimes it doesn’t happen. Succeeding in retail is tough and these days it’s much more difficult. Online retailers — of which Amazon is the most notable, but hardly the only — have completely changed the market landscape and put yet another pressure on this difficult market.

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Customer service expectations – comparing Asia and the West

Eptica

Date: Wednesday, July 19, 2017 Customer service expectations – comparing Asia and the West. Published on: July 19, 2017. Author: Vincent Giraud Across the world consumer expectations are continually rising when it comes to the service they receive from organizations. However, there are still significant differences between what consumers demand in different regions and cultures.

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[QUIZ] How Customer-Centric Are You?

iPerceptions

Nowadays, a well-executed Customer Experience (CX) program is becoming a must for companies looking to get a step up on their competitors. But what does it take to be able to launch, manage and optimize a CX program?

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The Open CCaaS Advantage Report

Over the next 12 months, what do you think will have the biggest impact on your CX automation efforts? When asked the same question, only 10% of CX leaders surveyed by Verint chose telephony. It’s no longer the engagement channel leading CCaaS conversations. The customer engagement challenges facing organizations have changed – so a new approach is needed.