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How loyal are you to your customers?

Alida

If there’s one thing your customers don’t lack, it’s options. For every Coke, there’s a Pepsi. For every Uber, there’s a Lyft. For every Scandal , there’s a Game of Thrones. In a world abundant with choice, how can companies win the long-term loyalty of customers? For many business leaders, that’s not only an important question—it is the question. A new study from the digital agency Wunderman provides some answers.

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Yes, good CX is tied to revenue gains

Customer Bliss

A question I get sometimes: “Of course we want to value customers, but is doing so definitely tied to revenue?” The answer is unequivocally yes. I’ve been talking about this for years, as have many of my colleagues, professional acquaintances, and friends. If you boost customer experience, you boost revenue. Yes, yes, and yes. But it’s still a question out there to many people.

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Are You A Liar? If you do this, you are!

Beyond Philosophy

I have lied about this. I’d wager you have, too. Moreover, per Groupon’s latest survey, most people lie about being happy about the gifts they receive at the holidays. When I read this study, I wondered if we lie to people about our gift receiving experience, isn’t it also likely we lie about other experiences too? Does that also mean our customers lie to us about how they feel about their Customer Experience?

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For Amazing Customer Exprience Insights, Kindly Step Outside

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Gathering and acting on customer experience insights from analytical data, surveys, and other resources inside your organization is one thing. But stepping into your customer’s shoes to understand what they need the most is another! Getting a different perspective on the true customer experience is harder than it sounds and much more challenging than most believe it should […].

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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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Is Emotional Intelligence Key To Outstanding Customer Service?

Kayako

Working in customer support can leave you feeling like an unrecognized or unsung hero. Praise is often in short supply and there is a lack of awareness about areas of responsibility and how much work the support team does. Within a brief conversation the agent is expected to engage each customer, fix their problem and move on swiftly to help others.

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Amazing Business Radio: Scott McKain

ShepHyken

Scott McKain Talks About How to Stand Out in a Hypercompetitive Marketplace. Show business is a multi-billion dollar (and thriving) industry. What can we learn from show business that we can apply to our own business? Shep Hyken speaks with Scott McKain who states that all of us, no matter what our business is, are in show business. And here’s why. The purpose of entertainment is to create the desired emotional response from the audience.

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Are You Up for the Human/Tech Challenge?

Michelli Experience

I’m convinced that the new customer experience leadership challenge will be … (drum roll please) … integrating human and technology based service. I refer to this opportunity as the human/tech challenge. That challenge involves leveraging technology for efficiency while integrating it with the warmth of human service delivery. In my opinion, your future success will hinge, in part, on how well you provide technology-aided, human powered experiences that seamlessly deliver when and ho

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5 Trends and Predictions Shaping the Next-Gen Customer Support

transcosmos Information Systems

Customer service has gone a long way, and it doesn’t look like it’s turning back in any way. Decades ago, we have seen companies engage their customers through switchboards and physical stores, followed by customer service outsourcing and online shopping services a few years later. Then, about three to five years earlier, we started seeing businesses get serious in scaling up their customer support to be attuned with the web technology era.

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Anxiety and Stress – the secret killer of employee and customer experiences

ijgolding

I want to start this blog post by asking a rather profound question: Are you happy? Whether you feel that these three words constitute a profound question or not, have a think about it for a moment. If it is not a question that you can answer quickly, then it warrants greater time to consider. I meet a lot of people as I travel around the world – I rarely ask them this question.

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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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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of January 30, 2017

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. Southwest’s Communications Chief Shares Her Top 3 Crisis Management Tips by Social Media Today. (Social Media Today) Nearly half of all organizations make the mistake of not planning for a crisis, thinking it’s either superstitious or somewhat futile.

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The Best Customer Experiences Are All About Heart

Customers That Stick

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Free Customer Experience Training For Non-Profit Organizations

Experience Matters

I’m really excited to announce that Temkin Group has launched its Non Profit Scholarship Program (NPSP). During 2017, the company will provide free enrollment to its U.S. workshops for up to 20 employees of non-profit institutions. The NPSP will enable these employees to gain access to customer experience training that their organizations may not have been able […].

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How customer insights can shape marketing strategies and improve customer experiences

Bold360

In one sense, customer insights is something like those paint by numbers books every kid once had, at least before childhood went digital. By paying close attention to what the numbers were telling you and taking the appropriate action in response, you could create a masterpiece of a still life or a landscape. And that’s where the numbers that undergird customer insights are something like those children’s art projects.

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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: Kaleidoscope Service

ShepHyken

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Chip Bell, shares his concept of kaleidoscope service with some great examples. Kaleidoscope service, I like it! – Shep Hyken. When I grow up, I want to be a kaleidoscope! Kaleidoscopes are addictive. They make you privately ooh and ah as you turn the animator and behold the patterns of colorful glass that charm you.

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Customer Communication Should Be for Customers

Customers That Stick

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Free Customer Experience Training For Non-Profit Organizations

Experience Matters

I’m really excited to announce that Temkin Group has launched its Non Profit Scholarship Program (NPSP). During 2017, the company will provide free enrollment to its U.S. workshops for up to 20 employees of non-profit institutions. The NPSP will enable these employees to gain access to customer experience training that their organizations may not have been able […].

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POS, Promoters and Perfect 10s: Upcoming Webinar – Customer Experience in Retail

CustomerGauge

POS, Promoters & Perfect 10s On February 8th, CEO and co-founder of CustomerGauge, Adam Dorrell, will join Senior Manager of GUEST Services and Training for AREAS, Cary Self, to deliver a special webinar on customer experience in retail. They’ll cover best practices for Net Promoter® in Multi-Channel Retail and insight into measuring and improving customer (“guest”) experience with […].

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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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Groundhog Day – 2017

Andrew Mcfarland

Sometimes we subject our employees and customers to the same dismal treatment day after day as if they should accept it willingly. Instead, many would prefer a fast end to the perpetual misery of buying from (and dealing with) us.

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Zebra Technologies Expands Global Customer Service With inContact

NICE inContact

Zebra-brand printers are used by more than 90 percent of Fortune 500 companies, which means Zebra Customer Support has an important role in delivering amazing customer experiences. Zebra Technology manufactures and sells computer printing technologies for a variety of sectors, all over the world. They service over 52 different countries and 17 different languages.

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Report: Engaging A Tethered Workforce

Experience Matters

We just published a Temkin Group report, Engaging A Tethered Workforce. Here’s the executive summary: Companies across a number of industries create and deliver customer experiences (CX) through a combination of traditional employees and other workers who they do not directly control – such as contractors or employees of channel partners or outsourcing partners.

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Video: How Real Estate Brokerages Can Deliver a Premium Customer Experience

Michel Falcon Experience

In December 2016, I went on a 3-city speaking tour with LJ Hooker (Australia’s largest real estate company). This video shares the strategies and tactics that I believe real estate brokerages and agents could use to improve their company’s customer experience. If you require a keynote speaker for an event, conference or workshop, I would love to be considered.

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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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6 Common Customer Experience Strategy Pitfalls

McorpCX

For any organization striving to significantly improve customer experience, they need a plan to do so. That’s because the ability to design and deliver great customer experience doesn’t “just happen.” It’s planned. Which is where a customer experience (CX) strategy comes into play.

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Life Isn’t Perfect – But Your Outfit Can Be

InMoment XI

Our family of five recently moved in with my parents while building a new home. This is an unlikely situation for several reasons: From the start, I was not an advocate of building a home. We have never built a home before. The lot we purchased was owned by the builder, so we didn’t have.

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Report: Engaging A Tethered Workforce

Experience Matters

We just published a Temkin Group report, Engaging A Tethered Workforce. Here’s the executive summary: Companies across a number of industries create and deliver customer experiences (CX) through a combination of traditional employees and other workers who they do not directly control – such as contractors or employees of channel partners or outsourcing partners.

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Topdown in 2017 Gartner CCM Magic Quadrant

Topdown

The Gartner Magic Quadrant for Customer Communications Management Software just came out, and we’re extremely pleased to have been included in the “Other Vendors to Consider” section this year. Though we do not meet all of the criteria for inclusion on the Magic Quadrant itself (for example, we currently serve the US and Canada), the Gartner analysts found us worthy of recognition as a possible best choice for some customers.

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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.