GetFeedback

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Customer service and customer feedback go hand in hand: to provide the best service possible, you need insight from your customers. This means using the right customer surveys, in the right places, at the right times. And while it might be tempting to rely on your intuition when it comes to creating and placing surveys, at GetFeedback we advise against it—there’s an actual order to the madness.

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BlueOcean

DECEMBER 18, 2018

You’ve got your game face on. You’re prepared for the future of customer service. And you’re ready for your outsourced customer service RFP to hit the road and bring you some stellar options for a new contact center partner. But are you asking the right questions about artificial intelligence? While AI capabilities in the contact center are still evolving, AI offers powerful opportunities to drive cost out of your business and improve the customer experience (and let’s be real, a growing segment

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DECEMBER 19, 2018

“CX is More Than Just a Program, It’s a Way of Operating.” At Reliant, the focus is not just to be the best at energy, but to also stand out as a champion of customer service. Hear how they have improved their NPS scores 150% by differentiating the way consumers can interact with their energy. View Article.

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Customer Bliss

DECEMBER 20, 2018

“Our lives as human beings are made up of moments,” said Dan Heath in my interview with him earlier this year. As business leaders, if we can understand and think about this, we can really work to identify moments in an operation where you can stand out and be memorable. One of my most popular podcast episodes of this year features Dan Heath, co-author of the book, The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Shep Hyken’s Best Customer Service and Experience. Articles, Videos & Podcasts from 2018. Top Cartoon for 2018. Top 5 Articles to Share With Your Team: Five Customer Service Must-Do’s For 2018. A business must keep up with the times. If they don’t, they will be disrupted and find themselves either playing catch up or worse, shutting down altogether.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Water and train companies in the U.K. have come under fire recently over their lousy customer service. What do these two seemingly-unrelated industries have in common? Both are monopolies, and a monopoly is almost always bad news for the customer. Water service to homes in the U.K. is provided by regional companies that each hold a monopoly on their own territory.

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Customer Bliss

DECEMBER 18, 2018

In my 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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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Some of you may or may not know that I perform magic. Not real magic. When I was a kid I did birthday party magic shows, and in high-school and college worked in comedy clubs doing comedy and magic. I still practice card tricks. . There was a magic shop in Washington, DC owned by Al Cohen. I met Al when I was a teenager. As I started to perform more and more for money, I could afford to be a regular customer of Al’s.

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GetFeedback

DECEMBER 18, 2018

With Automated Email you can create engaging one-touch email surveys that are sent directly at specific points in the customer journey.

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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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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 20, 2018

How many words a minute can you type? 40? 60? 90? Now, if the letters, numbers, and symbols were not printed on the keys, how many would you be able to write on the correct key? 100%, right? Maybe not. You probably don’t know the answer to the second question for sure. However, participants at a study at Vanderbilt University do. The participants typed from 72 to 94 words a minute.

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OpinionLab

DECEMBER 17, 2018

The market we made. 1999 was a seminal year for the web. Y2K established the need for more agile approaches to coding. Myspace was introduced on the internet signaling a new era of social media. IE v5 launched as a harbinger of exponential growth in browser options. And, I co-founded a company named OpinionLab that pioneered the idea of empowering customers to provide feedback to companies by enabling them to proactively engage companies in their own words, on their own terms via the digital cha

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Experience Matters

DECEMBER 18, 2018

This is the time of year for holiday cheer, family celebrations, and, of course, listings of annual trends! To help me identify trends for 2019, I reached out to some of the many thought leaders across Qualtrics and asked them to share one or two of the top experience management (XM) trends they are expecting to see in the coming year. It was a great exercise.

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GetFeedback

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Three ingredients to create the perfect customer survey and improve customer service and overall experience.

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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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TechSee

DECEMBER 19, 2018

With Google Home, Apple Homekit and Amazon Echo creating buzz around connected devices, smart home products have become increasingly popular. While in theory, smart devices should be easier to set up – most are wireless and can be remotely connected; in reality, the setup of smart devices can present significant challenges to the consumer. Successful onboarding of new smart devices is dependent on the consumer to choose the right location for the device, to connect correctly to the current infra

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Retently

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Potential customers often ask us — “what makes Retently better than the competition?”. This is something we think about a lot. After all, answering this question well leads to acquiring new business, while responding poorly sends potential customers fleeing for whichever competitor they’re comparing us to. Comparing Retently to the competition is quite a challenge.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2018

As the year draws to an end, Philip Say, VP of Innovation Product Management at Sutherland Labs makes his CX predictions for 2019. 1. Contextual awareness will redefine the customer experience. As companies show no slowdown in collecting data from consumers, customers are increasingly expecting brands to use this data to create a more personalized, streamlined experience, demanding timely, proactive responses and suggestions.

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Myra Golden

DECEMBER 17, 2018

No one likes to deliver bad news to customers, but for a lot of us, giving bad news is a regular part of business. You know the feeling – you probably get nervous, or you have to transfer a call to your supervisor because the customer won’t accept your word as final. It’s time to figure out how to fix that! For more than 20 years, through my workshops, I’ve worked with customer service professionals just like you who struggle with how to say things to customers that they don’t

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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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Bold360

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Well, it’s that time again (can you believe it?). The time where we look back and reflect on the year that was and discuss what we can expect from the year to come. So here it goes. 2018 was the year that AI moved from an experiment for many companies to a critical way that companies engage with employees and customers alike. We saw companies, like ours, making the technology much more approachable and as a result, there were some really great real-world successes.

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Retently

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Disloyal customers are costing businesses billions. But what actually triggers disloyalty? Former CEB Global’s research (now part of Gartner), explained that the level of effort consumers put into interacting with a brand has a direct impact on loyalty levels. In fact, according to CEB Global, it seems that around 96% of consumers that reported having difficulty solving a problem were more disloyal.

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Oracle

DECEMBER 19, 2018

For many shoppers in the U.S., holiday shopping is a ritual. In fact, according to the National Retail Federation , retailers earned as much as one-fifth of their annual profits from holiday shoppers last year — and the trend shows no sign of stopping as this year comes to a close. While shopping is nothing new for consumers, this year, the experience is changing: consumers are now more likely to interact with a chatbot during their search for presents than ever before.

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One Millimeter Mindset

DECEMBER 19, 2018

These 18 ways create a more effective customer retention strategy. However, they are contrary to everything you have learned as a sales professional. Or a sales engineering professional, a customer service professional, or any other professional engaged in acquiring and retaining customers. Which is just about everyone in the organization. Sshhhh…. This is super-secret stuff.

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The DiJulius Group

DECEMBER 19, 2018

It is a shockingly high percentage of companies that look at customer service as an expense rather than an investment. Whether you are a two-man start up or a Fortune 500 company, customer service affects every portion of your business, and investing in it is mandatory for your success. No matter how great your merchandise. Read Full Article. The post 5 Ways to Improve your Customer Service appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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Heart of the Customer

DECEMBER 18, 2018

As defined by RationalWiki, “survivorship bias is a cognitive bias that occurs when someone tries to make a decision based on past successes, while ignoring past failures. It is a specific type of selection bias.” Applied to CX, it’s when you focus only on existing customers and ignore those who have left. Let’s look at an example. There’s a national sports bar which saw its CX scores continually improving. […].

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The Attitude of Excellence. Growing Your Organization to Deliver Superior Customer Service. Shep Hyken sits down with his longtime friend, Dr. Willie Jolley and discuss the strategies he used to help Ford avoid bankruptcy, why you and your organization should be constantly improving, and the 10 Commandments of Superior Service. Top Takeaways: •Dr. Jolley shared five key points great CEO’s focus on in their organizations: Always develop leaders at every level of your organization.

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Oracle

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Holiday traditions like Black Friday continue to engage shoppers across generations. However, where malls and parking lots were once the only congested places, now online waiting rooms contain consumers hoping to check big-ticket items off their lists. The rise of the online holiday shopping experience even lead to the introduction of Cyber Monday –Black Friday’s digital counterpart–in 2005.

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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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