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Thirty Drivers of Value Perceptions, or Why Customers Love Your Company

InMoment XI

Customers love a company because they perceive value in their interactions with its people, products, and services. As customer experience (CX) professionals, we usually measure this sense of value with the Net Promoter Score®, or NPS®, which is a nominal indication of how likely the customer is to recommend the company to another person, and.

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Improve the Experience by Asking the Impossible Questions

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Asking questions without limitations can lead to a better experience for your customers. The post Improve the Experience by Asking the Impossible Questions appeared first on Customer Experience Consulting.

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CX process mapping: Kill a stupid rule

Customer Bliss

We spend a lot of time in companies discussing “process mapping,” which is — theoretically, and sometimes in reality — a way to make our processes more effective. If you’ve had a number of enterprise-type jobs, you’ve probably seen the dreaded idea of “process for the sake of process,” whereby all these rules and processes are layered on top of each other before any action can be taken.

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Tesla: Intriguing Insight To Success

Beyond Philosophy

Tesla announced that all of their cars will be self-driving cars. Wednesday’s announcement, delayed two days from the original announcement scheduled for Monday October 17th, stated that all of its cars will have the ability to drive themselves, referred to as level 5 autonomy. Before the announcement, many experts and industry commentators had little idea what it would be.

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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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Thirty Drivers of Value Perceptions, or Why Customers Love Your Company

InMoment XI

Customers love a company because they perceive value in their interactions with its people, products, and services. As customer experience (CX) professionals, we usually measure this sense of value with the Net Promoter Score®, or NPS®, which is a nominal indication of how likely the customer is to recommend the company to another person, and. View Article.

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Executive leadership in the Age of the Customer

Customer Bliss

The fifth of my customer experience competencies is one-company accountability, leadership, and culture. Ultimately, this refers to executive leadership. How are they approaching customer issues? Are they on the same page? Each week on my podcast , a different CCO-level leader talks about this one-company leadership culture. One of the biggest challenges of the first few months of this work (at a high level) is making sure the executive leadership is united towards customer-driven growth.

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Revealed: Shopping Malls Fight Back!

Beyond Philosophy

When shopping malls began dotting the American landscape in the late 1960s and 1970s, they presented a new and exciting customer experience. Today, it shouldn’t be news to anyone that things have changed and malls in general are struggling. Discount retailers are partly to blame, but the real culprit is the internet. Why would you change out of your pajamas and scout for a parking place when you could buy the same stuff online, from the comfort of your couch?

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How Campaign Monitor Does the NPS® Survey at Scale

GetFeedback

Campaign Monitor uses the NPS survey to measure customer loyalty and overall sentiment. Here's how they scale the process with 200,000 customers.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of October 24, 2016

ShepHyken

Each week I read a number of customer service articles from various online 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. Increasing Sales With Personalized Marketing by Tyler Walton. (Clutch) In today’s “show me you know me” marketing world, it’s imperative that brands understand and engage their shoppers on a personal level with personalized marketing.

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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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3 huge future customer journey mapping trends you need to know about

OpinionLab

‘Customer journey mapping’ is a widely accepted practice for customer experience teams right now as they seek consistency across all channels and touchpoints. According to McKinsey, you should “(pay) attention to the complete, end-to-end experience customers have from their perspective. (Do not) focus on individual interaction touchpoints devoted to billing, onboarding, service calls, and the like.

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Report: ROI of Customer Experience, 2016

Experience Matters

We published a Temkin Group report, ROI of Customer Experience, 2016. This research shows that CX is highly correlated to loyalty across 20 industries. Here’s the executive summary: To understand the connection between customer experience (CX) and loyalty, we examined feedback from 10,000 U.S. consumers that describes both their experiences with and their loyalty to different companies. […].

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Facebook Fail: why customer service metrics matter so much for marketers these days

Bold360

Three seconds. What can you do in three seconds? Not a whole lot it would seem. Three seconds isn’t enough time to apply lipstick, nor is it enough time to check your phone. It’s not even a sufficient amount of time to update your Facebook status. But apparently it’s enough time to effectively evaluate whether or not a video has been viewed by any particular user.

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Amazing Business Radio: Peter Shankman

ShepHyken

Peter Shankman Shares Tips on How to Create Loyal Customers – and Much More! Shep Hyken speaks with best-selling author, blogger, speaker, and podcaster, Peter Shankman. They share stories about some exceptional customer service experiences and how to create loyal fans. Peter shares tips from his bestselling book on customer service, Zombie Loyalists: Using Great Service to Create Rabid Fans.

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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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Not so EasyJet – the importance of a customer promise

Ian Williams

Now, you might be forgiven for initially thinking that this is yet another blog whinging about poor customer service from a major brand that is already well known for not offering particularly good customer service. But it isn’t. That isn’t to say that I wasn’t on the receiving end of poor service, because I actually was. However the underlying message behind this story goes a little bit deeper.

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The Changing Pattern of Consumer Communications

Experience Matters

For the past several years, we’ve been examining how U.S. consumers prefer to communicate with each other, analyzing their answers to the question, Which method would you most likely use to communicate with your friends? As you can see in the figure below: Text messages are on the rise (+8 points between 2012 and 2016), while […].

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Not Top Of Mind But Top Of Heart – When Branding Gets REAL

Michelli Experience

Here are some important terms of art when it comes to understanding the strength of your brand: Brand Awareness – the visibility of your brand and it’s products/services in the eyes of consumers. Branding Campaigns – tactical strategies for driving brand awareness. Impressions – how many customers actually lay eyes on elements of your branding campaign.

Brands 85
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Write Your Company’s Bestselling Customer Service Book

ShepHyken

Here is an idea that just about any organization can do – write a book. But, not just any book. A customer service book, written by your employees, featuring great customer service experiences, for both internal customers and external customers. One of the most popular exercises we share with our clients is something called the Moments of Magic Card®.

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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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Turning service into sales with chat

Eptica

Date: Friday, October 28, 2016 Turning service into sales with chat. Published on: October 28, 2016. Author: Angus Prentice Good customer service leads to happier, more loyal customers who stay with you longer, spend more and are more likely to recommend your business to family and friends. However, it can be difficult to measure the exact impact of individual customer service interactions on these metrics, leading to the contact center being seen as a cost, rather than a department that boosts

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Your Contact Center is a Hotbed for Customer Engagement: Here’s Why

Calabrio

We know that when a brand delivers great customer experience, customers are more likely to establish a positive connection and long-term loyalty towards that brand. Given this, most companies, including your own, spend countless hours and resources looking for ways to improve customer experience strategies. However, the customer experience is only a part of the equation.

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Here’s How to Respond to the Customer Who Asks to Speak to Your Supervisor

Myra Golden

Thanks to the Internet and social media, customers are more savvy now than ever before. Although this sounds like a good thing, the net result is an increase in stress for customer service professionals. According to Newsweek magazine, the stress level of customer service representatives is comparable to that of air-traffic controllers and police officers.

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Customer service training, or service education. What’s the difference?

Up Your Service

Many companies provide customer service training for some or all of their employees. But soon after the leaders of these same companies ask why everyone in the organization hasn’t embraced a true understanding of – and commitment to deliver – service excellence ? To address this gap and answer this question, we must understand the difference between customer service training and actionable service education.

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11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption

Unlock the full potential of your educational initiatives with the 11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption eBook. You’ll uncover: Why measure content consumption rather than (or in addition to) completion rates and member satisfaction? What are some proven tactics to create quality learner content and raise your content consumption rates? Discover the secrets from leading experts in the field, distilled into practical tips that promise to elevate the quality of your educational offerings,

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This Is What Makes Career Development In Customer Success So Difficult

Amity

After spending 8 years trying to find a fulfilling career, going from Engineer to Sales Rep, with a bit of Marketing in between, Nils Vinje finally had his “Aha!” moment with Customer Success. He first started as a Customer Success Manager and progressed to Manager, Director, and finally VP of Customer Success in less than 2.5 years. The thing is, Nils wasn’t just in the right place at the right time, so he knows very well what obstacles stand in the way of professionals trying

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6 factors driving contact center change

Eptica

Date: Wednesday, October 26, 2016 6 factors driving contact center change. Published on: October 26, 2016. Author: Dharmesh Ghedia With customer service being at the top of the business agenda for organizations, what are the trends that are impacting contact centers? To find out, analyst ContactBabel surveyed 216 UK contact center managers and directors.

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Here’s How to Respond to the Customer Who Asks to Speak to Your Supervisor

Myra Golden

Thanks to the Internet and social media, customers are more savvy now than ever before. Although this sounds like a good thing, the net result is an increase in stress for customer service professionals. According to Newsweek magazine, the stress level of customer service representatives is comparable to that of air-traffic controllers and police officers.

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3 huge future customer journey mapping trends you need to know about

OpinionLab

‘Customer journey mapping’ is a widely accepted practice for customer experience teams right now as they seek consistency across all channels and touchpoints. According to McKinsey, you should “(pay) attention to the complete, end-to-end experience customers have from their perspective. (Do not) focus on individual interaction touchpoints devoted to billing, onboarding, service calls, and the like.

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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.