Experience Investigators by 360Connext

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

It’s that time of year. We’re all making predictions and tracking trends in customer experience. What will happen in 2019? Which trends will matter? Which will fade away? One thing we predict will not change for a long time is the need to reduce customer effort. CCW’s latest report, 2019 Trends , highlighted many great trends, but one of them really caught my eye: “Reducing customer effort is the #1 CX Priority in 2018, and organizations believe customer feedback, agent training and digital enga

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Alida

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

We can all agree customers are critical to a brand’s profitability. Without them, there would be no brand. No business. No profits. You know they’re important. You know you should put them first. Yet, in a highly competitive retail environment, it’s also so easy to focus primarily on product development. Creating the best, most sought-after products consumers want is often front and center.

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CloudCherry

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

A CEM platform is nothing without a little help from its friends. And we at CloudCherry say this as a full-featured CEM platform ourselves. We’ve invested a ton of time and energy into building the easiest, quickest integrations with the tools our clients already rely on. And here’s why. Businesses collect and store a lot of customer data during normal operations, but it’s stored across multiple teams, systems, and servers.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Most comprehensive customer experience programs are made up of several different types of studies, the two most common of which are Transactional and Relationship studies. Here we will describe the differences between these two types of studies. Transactional or trigger-based studies are the base of most customer experience programs. This type of study is conducted.

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Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

In my new Daily Dose video series, I explore the topics that chief customer officers must grapple with on a daily basis. Join me as I discuss what I’ve learned over the course of my 35-year career, so that you can more effectively do the work that needs to be done. Today’s video is an excerpt from my online course , inspired by my book, Would You Do That To Your Mother?

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Customer Guru

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

What is customer loyalty? Customer loyalty is when a customer chooses a particular brand over the other similar providers in the market. This is so because he believes that the product and the experience have added value to him. He believes that the experience that he has had in dealing with this brand cannot be replicated by others. Such customers act as evangelists, encouraging their friends and folks to purchase from the same brand.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

As most of you (hopefully know), my latest book, The Convenience Revolution , is all about making the customer experience as frictionless as possible. In the book, there are six Convenience Principles with plenty of examples, and many of our followers have read my articles and watched my videos on these powerful concepts. The other day I was interviewed and asked, “How does one get started?”.

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Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

As CX leaders and in our own lives, we’ve seen that sometimes, finance companies can be a little late to the customer experience train, so I think you’ll enjoy today’s conversation, as I speak to Samantha Paxson , Executive Vice President and Chief Experience Officer for Co-op Financial Services. Samantha shares how she’s used her communications and marketing background to unite leadership across silos within her organization to provide a more efficient and unified customer e

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

I just bought a new Mont Blanc pen. I like writing with it. I have a couple more, too; one is a pencil, and the other is a rollerball-type. However, the reality is, I sometimes look at my fancy pen and think, “It’s writing; I could write this stuff with a Bic or a regular pencil.”. It occurs to me that what I am really saying to people when writing with my swanky pen is that I am the type of bloke that can afford an expensive pen.

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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

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Heart of the Customer

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

This is ironic. Journey mapping is a fantastic tool to break down silos by creating a shared view of the customer experience. Except when it isn’t. The post Journey mapping is still happening in silos. appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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TechSee

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Customer Service centers have placed high hopes on chatbots, investing large sums in the technology’s automated ability to help customers help themselves. However, when the chatbot’s ability to interpret the customer’s phrases, nuances and complex reality is compromised, this limits the chatbot’s ability to help the customer solve the problem. With the growing demand for an excellent customer experience, customer service centers need innovative solutions to help their chatbots perform better in

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Experience Matters

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Well, this has been a crazy month. In case you missed it, Temkin Group was acquired by Qualtrics. We weren’t able to discuss it too much, because Qualtrics was in a pre-IPO quiet period. And then SAP acquired Qualtrics. Can you say Pac-Man?!?! A month ago, I would have provided my independent analysis of these acquisitions. I can’t do that anymore, I’m now biased.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Back to Human. How Great Leaders Create Connection In The Age of Isolation. Shep Hyken sits down with Dan Schawbel to discuss how to use technology as a bridge to a strong customer and employee connection. Top Takeaways: We are addicted and reliant on technology, so much that it gets in the way of building real human connections. Human connections matter.

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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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Heart of the Customer

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

What is journey mapping? That may seem like a strange question from a blogger whose title is “Mapper-In-Chief,” but there’s so much confusion on the topic that it’s a question that needs to be asked. This confusion is fueled by vendors who offer “journey mapping workshops.” This is a half- or full-day workshop where you […]. The post Too many see journey mapping as an employee workshop. appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

There is a commodity that you can’t see or touch, but it is very valuable. Everyone gets the same amount of it each day and can spend it as they choose. What is it? Time. Customers value their time, and if you can find a way to respect that – in effect, using less of it so they have more to spend in other ways – they will appreciate you and most likely reward you with repeat business.

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One Millimeter Mindset

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

We instinctively know that collaborative storytelling is profitable. Except, we don’t have time to discover valuable client stories. Or, tell these stories, compellingly, while acquiring or retaining customers. Consider the impact of our not having time to capture these stories on productivity, profitability and customer retention? Collaborative storytelling becomes profitable storytelling.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

This week we feature an article by Jim Iyoob who talks about how and why technology has changed consumer behavior and how you need to reinvent strategies to keep up with consumers. – Shep Hyken. As we all know, nowadays, consumer behavior is prejudiced by various aspects. With technological advancements, the market has seen a tremendous shift in consumer behavior.

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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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Heart of the Customer

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Journey mapping is now the go-to customer experience tool, and has been discussed in Forbes, the Harvard Business Journal, and countless other journals. The post Journey mapping has become a must-have approach to customer experience appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

What are the best statistics to help you prove ROI for your customer experience program? These are the best statistics that will help you create ROI. Colin reveals how you can download his ebook ‘Unlocking the Hidden Customer Experience’ for free! The post Key stats to prove your ROI – It’s About The ROI Stupid! appeared first on.

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RapportBoost

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

By Tony Medrano and Scott Moberly. At Customer Contact Week in Austin last month, we noticed how the discussions surrounding chat training and onboarding stood out far more than in previous conferences. Good reasons exist for this. . Research tells us that 92 percent of customers have a positive experience using Live Chat compared to other forms of contact.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. 7-Eleven is testing new ‘scan-and-go’ technology by Ilyse Liffreing. (Digiday) 7-Eleven is making more moves to go cashierless — or at least give customers the option to.

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Heart of the Customer

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Most journey mapping projects fail to drive change. One leading success factor is selecting the right journey to map, and it’s the first place that problems occur. The post We still have challenges navigating trade-offs when deciding what to map. appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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One Millimeter Mindset

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

At the end of each business day, our clients do not care about our job titles. And neither should we. First, our clients do not know what our job titles “mean.” How many times have we sat in a meeting or conference with colleagues who also carry the same job title that we do? The same job title in different organizations carries a different weight to it.

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Call Center Pros

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

One size rarely fits all. It seems obvious, right? Well, apparently it is not, judging by the frequency with which companies have a customer service strategy that forces its agents to treat everyone based on the same template, the same speech, and the same rules… We are in times when customers are empowered. They know what they want, when they want it and how they want it.

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ReviewTrackers

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

What is a Yelp Sticker? Online review site Yelp has collected over 100 million reviews of almost every type of local business, from hotels, bars, boutiques, and restaurants to dentists, doctors, mechanics, and plumbers. If your business is listed on Yelp, your listing, at some point, will have its own reviews from users (if it doesn’t already). This is where having a Yelp sticker comes in handy: it can help you inspire shopper confidence and gain credibility by letting customers know that others

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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.

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