Experience Investigators by 360Connext
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
Highly-engaged employees will deliver better experiences to your customers, leading to increased loyalty, more referrals, and more business overall. Yippee! However, employee engagement is emotional and often hinged on the very last experience an employee might have – with his or her manager, with co-workers, with an angry client, or even with you. These simple moments add […].
Alida
SEPTEMBER 30, 2016
Every company today wants to be customer centric. From emerging upstarts to established conglomerates, brands of all sizes now recognize that getting closer to customers is key to long-term business success. In our customer-led world, the various types of online communities have become an indispensable tool to harness customer feedback and insight. In the last decade, online communities have taken the business world by storm.
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Customer Bliss
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
Customer complaints are everywhere, and happen all the time. The word “complaints” is a bad word, yes — on the surface. But there’s power in customer complaints, just as there’s power in any feedback. Quickly, before we get to the action items on this post: think of your favorite brands. Consider brands that you love. You buy from them all the time.
Beyond Philosophy
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
How we feel affects how we behave. Understanding the connection between our feelings and our decisions is an essential foundation for creating customer loyalty and retention. If you aren’t sure this is true, then ask yourself: would I open a Yahoo email account today? Yahoo is in the news all over the world. No longer because of their appointment of an up and coming CEO (that just happened to be female).
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ShepHyken
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016
Dr. Michael LeBoeuf on. How to Win Customers and Keep Them for Life. Shep Hyken speaks with the author of one of his favorite customer service books, professor, speaker and world famous author Dr. Michael LeBoeuf. They discuss his timeless classic that was well ahead of its time titled, “How to Win Customers and Keep Them for Life.” Dr. LeBoeuf was a pioneer of his industry, who was discussing the customer experience well before it was a trend.
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Customer Bliss
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016
I can’t believe we’re at 21 episodes of The Chief Customer Officer Human Duct Tape Show. At about one per week (plus admittedly I think I missed a week or two), that means we’ve been talking to guests for about six months now. It’s been awesome! Even though I’ve been doing this type of work since 1983, I’m consistently learning new aspects of the craft and re-energizing my own customer focus for my clients by talking to these guests.
Beyond Philosophy
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016
We all have habits. Some of them are good, and some, well, aren’t. But for good or ill, habits drive our behavior every day, and even more so when we are customers. In my latest book, The Intuitive Customer: 7 imperatives for moving your Customer Experience to the next level , Professor Ryan Hamilton of Emory University and I explore habits and their influence on how customers behave.
ShepHyken
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
QUICK REMINDER: Don’t forget about National Customer Service Week , October 3-7, 2016. For more information about the week check out these resources. Everyone wants to WOW their customers. They think that customer delight comes from going above-and-beyond or delivering an over-the-top customer service experience. I’ve always preached that the most amazing companies will occasionally deliver the above-and-beyond customer experience.
GetFeedback
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
Countless interactions make up the customer experience. Companies can use customer satisfaction surveys to start capturing those moments.
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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
Customers That Stick
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016
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transcosmos Information Systems
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016
Let’s face it. Almost everyone has gone digital—from businesses, governments, and yes, your customers. Based on the Ericsson Mobility Report , there were 2.6 billion smartphone subscribers in 2015 around the world and researchers expect the rate to grow to about 6.1 billion by the year 2020. While your customers are probably online all the time, chances are, this connectivity offers a new challenge on how to deliver exceptional customer service support for people on the go in this digital age.
ShepHyken
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016
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. Contact Center Satisfaction Negatively Impacting the Customer Experience by Andrew Berger. (Telecompetitor) Contact center satisfaction has worsened over the last two years despite investments in new customer engagement channels, according to new market research released by BoldChat.
CSM Magazine
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
In the quest to improve the customer experience and customer loyalty, it is helpful to consider the ‘cultural habits’ of successful service organizations, such as: Disney, Apple, Southwest Airlines, Wegmans, Nordstrom, and Amazon. Their cultural habits are not merely lip service; it’s how they do business. Habit #1: Delivering a great customer experience is a way of doing business – it’s not just a program.
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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Michelli Experience
SEPTEMBER 30, 2016
Recently, I’ve been suggesting that “perceptions” are a key economic driver. In the course of my work as an experience designer and consultant, I have been defining customer experience strategy as a disciplined approach to brand differentiation achieved by elevating the perception of those you serve based on their interactions with you. Obviously, in today’s world, interactions are both physical and virtual and they involve our products, our people, and our technology.
Win the Customer
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
Customer feedback and consumer reviews are very important aspects of any business activity. Traditionally, small retail businesses that keep a brick-and-mortar presence have been able to gather customer feedback immediately and on the spot. These days, however, large companies have many tools that can help them collect and analyze consumer reviews and feedback.
ShepHyken
SEPTEMBER 30, 2016
This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague from Down Under, Warwick Merry, writes about an experience he had that demonstrates why a business must have the systems and processes in place to take care of new and existing customers. If you cannot take care of the customer, it doesn’t pay to advertise! – Shep Hyken . So many businesses are hemorrhaging money and they don’t even know it.
ijgolding
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016
I have been in the world of work since 1995. Akin to bringing up children, it is quite amazing how time flies!! When I left University all those years ago, I had little idea where my path of employment was going to take me. Today, as the master of my own destiny (a business owner), I often look back at my years as an employee with a real mixture of emotions.
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
Forrester
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
I'm happy to announce that we just released this year's Customer Experience Index report for Canadian brands. The report is based on Forrester's CX Index ™ methodology, which measures how well a brand's customer experience strengthens the loyalty of its customers. We use this methodology to create an annual benchmark of CX quality at 193 Canadian brands.
Customer Enthusiast
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
Customer Service Week (Oct. 3-7) is approaching and, since I work in the field, I suppose I should contribute to the conversation. Let me begin by saying that celebrating the customer is a good thing—especially when you consider that, without customers, there wouldn’t be much else to celebrate. The issue that I have with Customer Service Week is that, to me, it places a superficial focus on customers for one week in October that quickly returns to business as usual the following week as the ball
Avaya
SEPTEMBER 30, 2016
Next week is IP Expo, one of the UK’s main business technology events. One of the key themes of the show is Artificial Intelligence, something that shouldn’t really be a surprise considering the technology is fast becoming a reality in the enterprise, with chatbots, predictive intelligence and robot PAs. In fact, according to a new research commissioned by the organisers of IP Expo, 37% of respondents believe that AI will be a main technology focus for businesses in 2017.
Topdown
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
The J.D. Power 2016 U.S. Home Insurance Study SM was released on September 19, 2016. According to Valerie Monet, director of the insurance practice at J.D. Power, who was quoted in the company’s press release , the study showed that rates remain relatively stable, so “ insurers have shifted their competitive focus to improving communication, process efficiency , and being easier to work with as a way to solidify and grow their business.
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CSM Magazine
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
It’s not rocket science that offering a good level of customer service can have a positive effect on the way customers view your business. The same goes if you deliver poor or substandard service on a consistent basis – your customers will become annoyed and it could lead to them taking their custom elsewhere. With customer service taking place on more and more public channels than ever before (an estimated 67% of consumers are using channels like Twitter and Facebook for customer service)
Heart of the Customer
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016
Have you created journey maps? The Customer Experience Professionals Association and Heart of the Customer want to learn more about your experience! The survey is closing soon, so make sure to get your response in before it does! Whether you created the journey map for your own company or another, we’d love it if you […]. The post The CXPA and Heart of the Customer want your feedback (Last Chance!
LiveChat
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016
Jingle bells, jingle bells… yes, Christmas time is coming closer. For most shoppers it means searching for gifts they eventually will buy in the last possible moment. For you, it means more inquiries and more sales – if you only handle heavy traffic on your website and manage to send all gifts a day before Christmas Day. Relax, there’s still plenty of time to prepare everything.
Amity
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
Customer Success is a relatively nascent term, having emerged as a more critical role with the shift in focus towards customer engagement and satisfaction by SaaS companies. Given Customer Success is still in early days, there is not necessarily a set of “best practices” for how to compensate your Customer Success team. A lot of the literature available today offers helpful suggestions, but often carries a disclaimer to the effect of “results may vary” While it’s tr
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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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