Experience Investigators by 360Connext
JUNE 1, 2017
In many ways, customer experience is still a new phenomenon. Ok that’s not really accurate, of course. Your customers have experiences with you, and judge their relationship with your brand based on how they feel about those experiences, whether you want them to or not. But the idea of investing in creating powerful, meaningful and delightful experiences is still a relatively new idea.
InMoment XI
JUNE 1, 2017
Let’s be honest with ourselves. We take customer experience way too seriously sometimes. We get wrapped up with the stress of building and designing the perfect program in hopes to get straight A’s or a 4.0 from our customers. The constant quest for perfection has the potential to make CX a drag or hum-drum—just really. View Article.
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Alida
JUNE 1, 2017
Vision Critical is headed to the Automotive CX Summit in Marina del Rey, California, on June 20 to 21. The conference promises to provide actionable information to help automakers, dealers and finance companies improve customer experience. With industry sales softening, now is a critical time to listen and implement key takeaways. Here are three of the sessions we’ll be exploring at this year’s conference: 1.
Customer Bliss
JUNE 1, 2017
There’s a new report out called “The Evolution To Real-Time Customer Experience,” which is a joint production of Forrester Research (consulting firm) and DataStax. There’s also a summary of the report here. What can we learn? Real-time data is a problem for customer experience. A whopping 95% of companies indicated they were “unable to make sense” of real-time customer insights.
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Beyond Philosophy
MAY 31, 2017
Find out what Google knows and your Customers won’t tell you: Economists hate surveys. They don’t trust them because people lie in surveys. Economists prefer to look at what people do instead, which, as we know, is what people are incented to do. Understanding these truths is critical to the work of an economist, and it is also vital to moving your Customer Experience to the next level.
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Joe Rawlinson
MAY 31, 2017
Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto coined the idea that 80 percent of results come from 20 percent of the action. The Pareto principle may date back to the 1800s, but it’s still relevant for the consumer marketplace today. Take a look at your most loyal customers. Forbes reports that most businesses find 20 percent of their most loyal customers actually make up 80 percent of their sales.
Customer Bliss
MAY 30, 2017
Episode Overview. Claudiu Coltea is the Executive Vice President and Head of Customer Experience for Citizens Financial Group. He’s a perennial customer experience leader with a background at Gallup, in health care, and in operational roles. He had several interesting takeaways on customer experience management and transforming CX throughout this interview; I’d encourage you to listen to the entire episode when you get some time.
Beyond Philosophy
MAY 29, 2017
The latest news – Graco is recalling more than 25,000 car seats that might not adequately restrain children during a crash! The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced Wednesday that the webbing in the car seat failed to meet Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards. Surely this would be an absolute minimum requirement. This will no doubt cause great concern and worry among parents who believe they have invested in a safe and reliable product to keep their child safe.
ShepHyken
MAY 29, 2017
Each week I read a number of customer service and experience 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. How good is your company’s internal customer experience? by Nicolas Maechler. (McKinsey & Company) To excel with customers, frontline employees need high-level service from core support functions.
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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
CustomerGauge
JUNE 1, 2017
Over the last half-decade the customer experience and Net Promoter Score® industry trends has changed as we know it. Customers have become increasingly empowered with technology and now demand a highly personalized and frictionless customer experience that meets their needs and expectations. In order to keep customer satisfaction and loyalty to a high standard, NPS® has […].
Kayako
JUNE 1, 2017
Over the past few years, all hands support has been touted as the pinnacle of cross-company customer service collaboration. And yet, it’s still undervalued as a tool for minimizing barriers between businesses and their customers. But all hands support has its issues too. While the expected benefits of an all hands approach are many, the notion that everyone in a company should participate in answering customer service is idealistic and naive.
Avaya
MAY 31, 2017
Change is bound to happen whether you enable it or not, whether you are ready for it or not. It will just happen. The question is: When change happens, are you making the most of the opportunities that result? Consider the customer engagement or contact center industry as it’s commonly known. What’s driving tremendous change is digital transformation.
ShepHyken
MAY 30, 2017
Nick Friedman Explains What It Takes to “Move the World”. How can you create a purpose-driven, values-based, socially-conscious company that can deliver both success and significance? Shep Hyken interviews Nick Friedman, co-founder of College Hunks Hauling Junk and Moving about how to develop a customer-focused, values-based company that can benefit you, your employees and your customers.
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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CSM Magazine
MAY 30, 2017
Customer service is not just about how a representative reacts to an individual customer; it’s about how a company as a whole reacts to its customers on a long term, sustainable basis. “Sustainability” defines a process that can be maintained at a certain level indefinitely. Most recently, the term has been applied to energy production that involves renewable resources or does not harm the environment and thus, is sustainable.
Influitive
MAY 29, 2017
When you’re looking for ways to improve your branding and reach with consumers, some of your most important assets are (literally) sitting right in front of you: your employee ambassadors. In some shape or form, all employees have interactions with customers, be it directly (sales and customer service reps) or indirectly (developers, fulfillment workers, and.
OpinionLab
MAY 30, 2017
<Warning: This blog contains spoilers for a 36-year-old movie> My parents purchased their first VCR in 1984, and one of the first movies they bought on VHS was Raiders of the Lost Ark. I must have watched Indiana Jones do battle with the Nazis a dozen times that first week alone, and three plus decades later I still count it as one of my all-time favorites.
ShepHyken
MAY 31, 2017
I’m often asked, “How many people in an organization does it take to create a culture focused on Customer Amazement?” The short answer is: all of them. But, the process has to start somewhere. Usually it’s at the top with leadership. But sometimes it can come from someone inside the organization at a different level. I refer to that person as The Force Within.
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
Calabrio
JUNE 1, 2017
It’s no secret that smart businesses are prioritizing customer needs above all else, and putting the customer first is imperative for them to compete. Consumers have high expectations for a great experience no matter where they interact with brands, therefore businesses are now forced to stop thinking about loyalty in terms of brand name and start thinking of it in terms of experience.
CSM Magazine
MAY 29, 2017
You may have great products but you can still have customer service problems caused by equipment failures or human error. While you can’t control external events, you can control what you say to upset customers. Certain phrases will serve to either diffuse or inflame. Here are my top ten worst things to say to unhappy customers (from least offensive to worst), along with tips for regaining trust. 10.
Topdown
MAY 30, 2017
Chatbots are rapidly proliferating across many industries, and their use is expected to continue to increase for the foreseeable future. Consequently, chatbots and other autonomous customer service channels are a hot topic for customer communications managers. But while many companies, particularly enterprises, are eagerly adopting and deploying chatbot technologies for the obvious benefits of cost savings and customers’ convenience, many questions about their efficacy remain.
Team HGS
MAY 31, 2017
In Conversation with a Chatbot : Speaking the Language of Today's CX. By Mandeep Kwatra, HGS VP of Solutions and Capabilities In today’s virtual world, it seems bots are the latest sensation. You may have met your first bot as a customer, as service is on the frontier of the growing superpower of artificial intelligence (AI), in terms of how it enables better interaction between customers and brands.
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Experience Matters
MAY 30, 2017
Temkin Group has found that the only path to sustainable customer experience differentiation is to build a customer-centric culture. How? By mastering Four Customer Experience Core Competencies. This video provides an overview of one of those competencies, Customer Connectedness, where the goal is to infuse customer insight across the organization. Here Are Four Strategies For Customer Connectedness: Filed under: […].
CSM Magazine
MAY 30, 2017
I love when great hotels offer nice amenities. Some include a newspaper in the morning, complimentary bottles of water, a piece of chocolate on the nightstand—you get the idea. Notice I didn’t say expensive or fancy hotel. I used the word “great.” Sometimes you don’t have to be expensive or fancy to WOW the customer the way expensive and fancy hotels do.
iPerceptions
MAY 30, 2017
In today’s world of the ever-demanding and empowered customer, organizations need to adapt quickly to stay relevant. As a result, the customer experience (CX) is paramount, and a key differentiator. No longer can the customer experience be an afterthought. To succeed, the customer experience has to be at the epicenter of a brand's DNA.
Clicktools
MAY 30, 2017
By CallidusCloud CX Guest Blogger, Jeannie Walters. ~~~. Your best customers don’t need rewards. But they might like them. And the rewards that have the most meaning to them might not be what you think! Your most valuable customers are loyal to your organization because they feel like your product or service simply works best for them. They understand how to get the outcomes they are seeking and clearly understand how to get there.
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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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