Experience Investigators by 360Connext

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

What is a Customer-First Culture, and Why is It Important? There are plenty of noble reasons for wanting to create great customer experiences. Each interaction a customer has with your brand is an opportunity to make their day even the slightest bit brighter , which is as meaningful today as ever. It’s a fact that delivering a great customer experience makes brands’ bottom lines brighter, too.

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Totango

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Making your customers successful is ultimately about delivering value —you can create value for your customers by placing them in a position to grow their enterprise through the efficient use of your product to meet their business challenges. In strict business school translation, value is benefit minus cost. In a real-world sense, however, value is the potential for success a customer gains by partnering with you and your product.

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Advantage Communications

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

In customer service teams, attrition rates are often two or three times higher than other industries. Overall attrition averages in call centers are generally believed to be in the region of 30 and 45 percent, yet average turnover rates for US companies in all industries stood at just 22 percent in 2018.

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Customer Bliss

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Have you been keeping up with me on my LinkedIn Live conversations? If not, what are you waiting for? As many of us continue to work from home and shift working styles due to the pandemic, I’ve been interviewing practitioners and thought leaders about how we can adapt and continue to show up as our best selves in our roles. I’ve spoken to leaders in a range of industries, and they all have had incredibly useful things to say about how they’ve been working through these uncertai

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

So, what is Customer Science? Like any embryonic change, Customer Science is evolving and emerging, like Customer Experience did over the years. In my view, Customer Science is the fusion between technology (mainly AI), behavioral science, and data. These individual parts are not new, but their integration under one concept is— and it can make a massive difference in customer-driven growth.

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Doing CX Right

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

Who owns customer service? Is it strictly the companies we buy from or do consumers have a responsibility in achieving a positive outcome too? This is the theme of my newest article co-written with a psychiatrist and author, Dr. Grant Brenner. We dive deep into using emotional intelligence to have great experiences. The original article can be found in Psychology Today.

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One Millimeter Mindset

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

What happens when strategic business stories become too ambiguous to everyone, including you? Yesterday, we explored whether your compelling business stories are too specific and tactically focused. Today, let’s explore what happens when your stories get lost in the strategic clouds. When strategic business stories are too ambiguous, decision makers ask: “What do you expect me to do with this information?

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Tricia Morris

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

In two new research notes, industry analysts warn about the negative impact disparate communication and collaboration tools are having on not just the employee experience – but the customer experience, as well. Constellation Research VP and Principal Analyst Dion Hinchcliffe in a recent blog post notes “our research over the years has shown that the […].

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

I heard a new term that I think has the capability of being the next wave of change in business today. Customer Science. ‘ Customer Science’ is the fusion between technology, behavioral science and data. This new concept is forming now, making this an exciting time for all us interested in customer-driven growth. This episode of The Intuitive Customer explores this nascent concept of Customer Science and what it could mean to organizations seeking customer-driven success.

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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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Eptica

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Date: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 Author: Guest author: Martin Hill-Wilson Guest Post: Emotive CX for Customer Interaction. Published on: September 23, 2020. Author: Guest author: Martin Hill-Wilson Thanks to increased focus and investment in customer experience companies are now improving outcomes when it comes to dealing with customers and reducing the effort involved.

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CRMI

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Groundbreaking Customer Satisfaction Award Marks 20th Anniversary NorthFace ScoreBoard AwardSM Established Defining SBI Metrics for Creating World-Class Excellence in Customer Service and Support . By Bill Moore VP CXDNA Pla.

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Talkdesk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

A few years ago, a marketer named Scott Brinker coined the term Martec’s Law to explain the dissonance between technology’s exponential rate of evolution and the slower pace at which organizations change. The result? A gap that widens over time until companies fall so far behind that they need to completely overhaul their technology stack in order to support modern operational needs.

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Optimove

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The way lottery and online lottery work – where the jackpot continues to grow after every draw with no winning jackpot ticket, causing prizes to balloon and burst – makes the lottery industry unstable and unique compared to other gaming providers. This is an example of the US Mega Millions Lottery, which its draws are held every Tuesday and Friday: The trend consists of many peaks throughout the year.

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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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Team Support

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The main focus of B2B companies is to offer unmatched support to their customers. Failing to do so will increase the likeliness of customer churn and also damage their reputation.That’s why an increasing number of businesses are leveraging AI every year to enhance their brand and provide a level of support required to stay competitive. In Part 1 of this series we introduced the first two of five ways AI is impacting the B2B customer support sector.

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Totango

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Customer success in the 2020s is a precision business. Just as resource companies have boosted yields and increased prospect success rates through the adoption of increasingly accurate scientific measurements, striking gold in customer success has become a product of data and observation. Your product adoption strategy — the process you follow to ensure your customer is achieving maximum value from their daily use of your product — should be based on solid data and driven by the pursuit of ever-

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

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. Customer Service Guide to Revenue Generation by Gladly. (Gladly) Turn your customer service department from a cost center into a revenue generator with these radically personal customer experience strategies from this guide.

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Myra Golden

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Up your customer service game! Show your boss you’re proactive. Eight classes FREE through March 2021. Opportunity.LinkedInLearning.com.

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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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Team Support

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

We’re lucky to be living in an age where technology is constantly evolving. Among all the innovations that have developed throughout the years, artificial intelligence, or AI, is one of the biggest technological breakthroughs that has ever happened to mankind. Ever since AI came into existence, it has been significantly impacting various sectors, including contact centers and the B2B industry.

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ReviewTrackers

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

If you’re into the wedding business as a supplier, you’ve probably heard of The Knot. As one of the largest online resources for wedding news, trends, information, and inspiration, TheKnot.com helps its users — couples getting married — plan the perfect wedding. The site was founded by husband-and-wife team Carley Roney and David Liu, who had realized that better resources would have made planning their own nuptials a lot less stressful.

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Steve DiGioia

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

There are many “facts” in business and countless quotes and statistics are tallied-up each year. Two staple examples are “The customer is always right” and “It’s more expensive to acquire a new customer than to keep an existing one”. These are certainly true. But for me, this is… Customer Service Fact #1. I realize that my paycheck comes from the customers who buy my product or service.

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BirdEye

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The following post is from a guest contributor. As every news article will tell you, the Coronavirus Pandemic is hardly over in the US. But after six months of being in a permanent state of crisis, individuals, businesses, and the overall economy are craving some semblance of normalcy. This is why many are happy to see their favorite local establishments reopen and some events continue to happen in creative ways.

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Heart of the Customer

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

We’re in the homestretch of my series on how to apply John Kotter’s change management work to customer experience! The penultimate seventh step, Sustain Acceleration, is an important reminder that you can’t rest on your laurels. As Kotter writes in 8 Steps to Accelerate Change in Your Organization: “So you’ve had a few wins. It can […]. The post Don’t Just Drive CX Success, Sustain It appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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One Millimeter Mindset

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

You work hard to create compelling business stories. Yet, after you exhaust yourself preparing and delivering these stories, do you accomplish what you set out to do? Recognize the gap between your own objective for telling compelling business stories. And what clients want to accomplish in hearing those stories. Bridging that gap is the key to your – and their – business success.

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

In the first post of this three part series, Effective Customer Service Can be the Key to Small Business Growth, we talked about how small businesses need to protect their existing customer base if they want to achieve meaningful, sustainable growth. Providing effective customer service, in which issues are solved competently during the first contact, is a good step in this direction.

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SurveySparrow

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Companies often suffer from departments not working well together. For smooth and efficient functioning, the different teams at any organization need to learn from each other. One of the most important teams to learn from is your sales team. They’re the ones facing the customer, and they know what sells. With a set of good sales survey questions, you can get great insights from your sales team and use them to drive conversions.

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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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