TechSee

OCTOBER 9, 2018

A day in the life of a Millennial. Ashley rolls over, checks her Fitbit Ionic to see the quality of REM sleep she experienced last night, and reaches for her iPhone to scan her messaging apps and social networks. She tweets about her sleep quality and messages her roommate that her share of the rent has been paid with Venmo. On her way out, she checks with Alexa whether her shoes have been shipped by Amazon, grabs her ear buds, sets her smart home security system, and rides her electric scooter

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Micah Solomon

OCTOBER 9, 2018

[Originally published in Forbes.com. The author, Micah Solomon, is an author, consultant, influencer, keynote speaker, and trainer in customer service, customer experience, customer service culture, and hospitality. (Here are three ways to reach Micah: email, chat, web). In honor of National Small Business Week ( #SmallBusinessWeek ), here are five highly effective, low- or no-cost ways to amp up the quality of your customer service experience. 1.

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InMoment XI

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Multichannel CX isn’t About Saying, “We’ll get back to you” on 10 New Channels Multichannel customer engagement is a well-covered topic. A quick Google search on the topic yields over 693,000 results. Search for Multichannel Customer Experience or Multi-channel Customer Service and you’ll get more than 5 million results for each. With so much coverage, why.

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GetFeedback

OCTOBER 10, 2018

In 2003, business strategist Frederick Reichheld published an article in Harvard Business Review in which he states that “the only path to profitable growth may lie in a company’s ability to get its loyal customers to become, in effect, its marketing department.”. To identify these loyal customers, Reichheld advises implementing a Net Promoter Score (NPS) survey, which is a simple way of gauging a customer’s loyalty to your brand and a good predictor of how well your business will perform

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CX Accelerator

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Breaking free from survey mentality with unstructured customer feedback. It’s hard to say exactly when or how it happened, but the phrase “Voice of the Customer” (VoC) has become nearly synonymous with survey process. When we consider today’s customer, and the methods by which they exercise their voice, we can do so much more. Consumers are not as likely to fill out surveys as they once were.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 11, 2018

We all want to sell more. So how do we do this? A powerful sales technique exists that can help. The best sales organizations use it well; the worst, not so much. It is based on a psychological concept called reciprocity, and it might be what you need to get (or keep) your foot in the door. We discussed reciprocity in our recent podcast episode. Reciprocity is a concept in psychology that describes how people respond to a positive act with another one in return.

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Andrew Mcfarland

OCTOBER 9, 2018

(Guest post by Taylor McKinney, a Marketing Specialist at TrustRadius, a trusted website for B2B software reviews. When she is not writing about the latest tools and small business trends she is enjoying Austin’s beautiful scenery with her family.) You don’t.

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CloudCherry

OCTOBER 10, 2018

There’s a big gap that exists between asking customers for feedback and then taking relevant action. The Temkin Group recently reported that , while 60% believe they do well at soliciting feedback, only 24% of large firms believe they do a good job of taking action on these insights. That’s just not good enough. “Action is the holy grail!” says Bruce Temkin.

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Your company is quick to outsource a handful of operational functions without a second thought – think: maintenance and cleaning crews, office supplies and equipment, and coffee and catering, among many others. But the people you hire to take care of those things aren’t really “partners” in the full sense of the word. They’re not the ones who are as invested in your company’s success as you are.

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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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GetFeedback

OCTOBER 10, 2018

How to create and distribute a Net Promoter Score (NPS) survey that'll build customer loyalty, drive brand advocacy, and help your business grow.

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Customer Guru

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Before we begin our discussion into digital customer experience and how it must be improved, we must first understand what it is to be digital. In today’s world, the word digital has various meaning. While for some, digital is a new way of doing business, for others, it is an innovative way of catering to their audience, while still others believe that it is being connected to everyone at all times.

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CloudCherry

OCTOBER 10, 2018

There’s a big gap that exists between asking customers for feedback and then taking relevant action. The Temkin Group recently reported that , while 60% believe they do well at soliciting feedback, only 24% of large firms believe they do a good job of taking action on these insights. That’s just not good enough. “Action is the holy grail!” says Bruce Temkin.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The Pasta House Company is a local chain of Italian restaurants that have been around since 1974, since I was just a kid. On Monday nights they had – and still do have – an “All You Can Eat” special. I loved that. All the salad, pasta and garlic bread you could eat for one low price. When I was a teenager, my buddies and I would all meet at the Pasta House on Monday nights to take advantage of the special.

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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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Win the Customer

OCTOBER 12, 2018

The customer service landscape is changing, with technology allowing customer service to shift from call centers and direct contact solutions to self-service technology. . “Customers have begun to use, and in some cases even prefer, non-agented interactions,” says Ian Jacobs, principal analyst at Forrester. “They use knowledge bases, FAQs, mobile customer self-service, chatbots and peer-to-peer communities in increasing numbers.”.

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Customer Bliss

OCTOBER 11, 2018

In this special video episode of “The Chief Customer Officer Human Duct Tape Show” podcast, I interview Jay Baer , founder of Convince & Convert , a digital strategy consulting firm that helps prominent companies with customer retention and acquisition, and author of the new book “ Talk Triggers: The Complete Guide to Creating Customers With Word of Mouth, ” on how to operationalize experiences that creates word-of-mouth marketing for your business.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 12, 2018

What are the six strategies for making your experience convenient? Colin and Ryan interview Shep Hyken, Customer Service and Experience expert about his latest book “ The Convenience Revolution ‘ Shep reveals these strategies. The post How To Make Your Experience Convienent appeared first on.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Listen To Your Customers… Or Die. How to Turn Customer Feedback Into Gold. Shep Hyken sits down with Sean McDade. They discussed how to create a consistent customer experience, why you should listen to your customers (and what to do with what they tell you), and how you can create a customer-centric organization. Top Takeaways: Sean defines being customer-centric as, “Consistently listening to customers and empowering your organization to take what customers are saying and do something about it.

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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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ReviewTrackers

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Online reputation management for real estate agents is more important than ever. One of the major deciding factors for millennials – who are reaching the age when they’re thinking of buying a home – are online reviews at 61 percent as they tend to look online as their primary source of information on real estate agents. In order to stay successful, real estate agencies need to maintain a favorable reputation through online reviews.

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Steve DiGioia

OCTOBER 8, 2018

when you have a love of service, it's not that hard to do. This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. Many service providers have lost sight of what really matters. It’s not the ROI, the seamless journey between touchpoints, or even the capacity to personalize the product or service we offer. It’s the ability to sustain relationships that will enable long-term viability and growth.

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One Millimeter Mindset

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The quality of engagement experience is essential for fueling ongoing, high-quality customer experiences. First, the act of engaging customers encourages both customers and sellers to exchange energy with one another. Like a chemical equation, is the desired reaction balanced and controlled? Or, is the quality of the engagement forceful and overwhelming?

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 8, 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. 10 Examples Of Amazing Customer Service Departments For Customer Service Week by Blake Morgan. (Forbes) These companies make customer service a crucial part of their culture, and it shows with rave reviews and happy customers.

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ReviewTrackers

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Online reputation management for real estate agents is more important than ever. One of the major deciding factors for millennials – who are reaching the age when they’re thinking of buying a home – are online reviews at 61 percent as they tend to look online as their primary source of information on real estate agents. In order to stay successful, real estate brokerages need to maintain a favorable reputation through online reviews.

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Integrity Solutions

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Effective communication skills isn’t a “soft” issue; it’s a real business challenge with significant consequences. Effective communication skills — it sounds like a “soft” issue, right? Hardly. In fact, the inability to communicate clearly and productively with a diverse audience is creating serious business consequences for organizations every day.

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Second to None

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Establishing an excellent brand experience in the modern age is impossible without providing enhanced value to consumers that visit your online channels. This is especially true for retail brands because eCommerce availability has become omnipresent in the industry. However, simply having the option of buying your product online is not enough based on current consumer expectations.

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One Millimeter Mindset

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Our customers find us professionally boring when we are completely boring. Over time, we gradually become less than enthusiastic about serving them. For a number of reasons. And our sentiments about our customers become very obvious. As a result, as the song goes: “The thrill is gone.” It’s a two-way street. When current customers are good and bored with us, they are ripe for defection.

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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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