Sat.Aug 16, 2014 - Fri.Aug 22, 2014

article thumbnail

Reputation Management: Customer Experience or Marketing?

InMoment XI

I recently took my family on a vacation to Rome and we saw some great sites and ate some amazing food, especially the fresh made pasta. During our visit, we used both Yelp and Trip Advisor extensively to help us choose the restaurants where we dined. After all there are 8,374 restaurants in Rome listed. View Article.

article thumbnail

Is it the Consumer’s Fault Customer Service is Vanilla?

Michel Falcon Experience

'We run to complain but move like snails when given the opportunity to recognize exceptional customer service. I’ve studied customer experience management for nearly a decade and have recognized a few trends. First, I believe customer service is improving. Organizations are slowly beginning to invest more into improving their customer experience to avoid paying customer service lip service.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Enterprise Rent-A-Car – Customer Experience Review

ijgolding

'The majority of readers of this Customer Experience Review are likely to have hired a car. Whether it be for business or holiday, hiring a car is commonplace all over the world. Over the years, I have hired a car from a variety of well know (and not so well-known) rental companies. Brand names like Avis, Budget, Hertz, Europcar and Thrifty are often the first we see on entering into a foreign country.

article thumbnail

The Simple Secret to the Ultimate Customer Experiences

PeopleMetrics

'In an effort to discover the experts within our clients’ companies that truly understand customer experience, we used customer feedback to identify those individuals who consistently deliver an exceptional customer experience. In 2011, we launched our first annual Brand Ambassador Awards to recognize these outstanding individuals. After discovering who the best of the best are, we picked their brains to discover why they are the best of the best.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Reputation Management: Customer Experience or Marketing?

InMoment XI

I recently took my family on a vacation to Rome and we saw some great sites and ate some amazing food, especially the fresh made pasta. During our visit, we used both Yelp and Trip Advisor extensively to help us choose the restaurants where we dined. After all there are 8,374 restaurants in Rome listed.

More Trending

article thumbnail

‘Thank You’! The two most important ‘Customer Experience’ words of all

ijgolding

'‘Thank You’ Two little words. Two words containing a total of eight letters. As a parent you spend most of your life teaching your children to use the words regularly. As a child, you are constantly reminded of their importance. It is unlikely you have ever looked up the dictionary definition of ‘thank you’ – so I have done so for you – you can thank me later: 1.

article thumbnail

Excellent Customer Service is PROACTIVELY Connecting the Dots

Kristina Evey

'One of the best ways to increase customer satisfaction and to improve the customer service skills your staff delivers is to encourage your staff to proactively “Connect the Dots” for your customers. Customers are looking to service and product providers not only to help make the purchase, but to help them accomplish their goals as quickly as possible.

article thumbnail

Reputation Management: Customer Experience or Marketing?

InMoment XI

I recently took my family on a vacation to Rome and we saw some great sites and ate some amazing food, especially the fresh made pasta. During our visit, we used both Yelp and Trip Advisor extensively to help us choose the restaurants where we dined. After all there are 8,374 restaurants in Rome listed.

article thumbnail

What Role Does Intuition Play in Customer Experience?

CX Journey

'Image courtesy of Ian Muttoo I originally wrote this post as a two - part series for InsideCXM in February 2014. A couple months ago, I wrote a post called The 15 Senses of a Great Customer Experience. The last of the 15 senses that I wrote about was the sixth sense : It doesn''t hurt to be able to perceive those things that are not seen or immediately apparent.

article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

Success Story: Increased Employee Engagement, Brand Pride, and Sales – Join Strativity’s September Webcast

Strativity

Hackensack, NJ (PRWEB) August 19, 2014. Join Automotive Management Services, Inc. (AMSI) Customer Service Development Director, Tracy Riazzi and Strativity President Lior Arussy on Tuesday, September 10th as they discuss how they went beyond a score to change company culture and improve employee satisfaction, which in turn is driving higher profits and increased customer loyalty.

Sales 40
article thumbnail

Mid-August Customer Service Awards

Help.com

Here at Help.com , we feel like there are a lot of stories about bad customer service, but not enough acknowledging the atypically excellent customer service that people experience from time to time. We had the team sit down and talk about the best customer experiences they’ve had so far in August. Here are our top five customer experiences so far: AT&T : We’ve all heard the recent horror stories about cable companies vs. the entire world.

article thumbnail

Share for Success: Using Touchpoint Dashboard as a Communication Management Tool

Touchpoint Dashboard

'Over the past month, we’ve been spending a lot of time listening to our clients. Several of you have asked if we could provide more examples of how others are using Touchpoint Dashboard in unique ways to support their customer experience initiatives. It’s a fantastic suggestion, and we’re going to start doing that here on […].

article thumbnail

That's How We Do Things Around Here

CX Journey

'Image courtesy of infinity and beyond How can a story about a few monkeys challenge the way we think about how and why policies, processes, and cultures are created? When a colleague asks you why you do things a certain way, do you find yourself responding, " I don''t know. We''ve always done it that way ?" Many years ago, I worked for a couple companies where that was the stock answer, and it was so frustrating.

Culture 64
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

4 Common Mistakes When Doing “In-House” Client Surveys

Daniel Group

'Every company longs to create more loyal customer and increase word of mouth referrals. If you want to increase your performance in these areas, you need to first find a way to measure your performance and then act on it. To get the measurement you need feedback from clients. Enter Voice-of-the-Customer surveys or VoC surveys. It’s healthy and natural to have a bias towards doing these in house.

article thumbnail

CS in Conversation: Creating a Success Plan for Your New CSM

Amity

Amity sat down with Dana Lacey, customer success team lead at ScribbleLive , to get an understanding on how they onboard their CSMs. Do they have success plans for them as well? Seems staffing a customer success team continues to be as hot a topic as customer success itself. Earlier this year in an open letter response from a SaaS in need of saving , Amity’s Chief Customer Officer Louise Philp provided some valuable insights on how to build a team of customer success heroes.

article thumbnail

The Edge of Glory

InMoment XI

Generation Edge fascinates me. For anyone not familiar with this term, it was coined by Ian Pierpoint of The Sound Research. Pierpoint defines Gen Edge as “the younger cousins of the Milllennials,” or those born after 1995. He summarizes nicely the unique characteristics of Gen Edge. (Note: I’m providing a link to external content; please. View Article.

Article 200
article thumbnail

When to Begin Forecasting and Planning Chat

Brad Cleveland Blog

article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

Are We Doing Employee Onboarding All Wrong?

Michel Falcon Experience

'Employee onboarding is the design of what your employees feel, see and hear after they have been hired. Often, companies confuse onboarding with training. While training does have a role within onboarding it doesn’t represent the entire scope of the process. Say yes or nod your head if you felt lost during your first few days with your past or current company.

article thumbnail

Recent FCC Ruling on Text to 911 a Step in the Right Direction

Customer Interactions

'A speedy 911 response is the difference between life and death in many emergencies. Recently, the FCC voted to ensure citizens have even more options for contacting 911 by mandating that all wireless carriers and some message services support Text to 911 by the end of the year. This not only provides another option for the public to contact the authorities in an emergency when it’s not possible or safe to call, but also supports those more reliant on texting, including the 48 million Amer

article thumbnail

Happy Employees Equal Happy Customers

InMoment XI

Angela Ahrendts, former CEO of Burberry and newly appointed senior vice president of retail and online stores for Apple said, “Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first.” Some businesses are so consumed by consumer trends and behavior that they overlook one of their most.

Retail 200
article thumbnail

When to Begin Forecasting and Planning Chat

Brad Cleveland Blog

article thumbnail

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,

article thumbnail

Strativity Named to Inc. 5000 List of America’s Fastest Growing Companies Second Year in a Row

Strativity

Hackensack, NJ (PRWEB) August 19, 2014. Strativity Group, Inc., a global customer experience research and consulting firm specializing in driving employee engagement, performance and cultural transformation, has been named to Inc. magazine’s annual Inc. 5000 ranking of America’s fastest-growing private companies. The list represents a comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy—America’s independent-minded entrepreneurs. “What surprises me, even though I know it’s comin

2010 40
article thumbnail

The Edge of Glory

InMoment XI

Generation Edge fascinates me. For anyone not familiar with this term, it was coined by Ian Pierpoint of The Sound Research. Pierpoint defines Gen Edge as “the younger cousins of the Milllennials,” or those born after 1995. He summarizes nicely the unique characteristics of Gen Edge. (Note: I’m providing a link to external content; please.

Article 200
article thumbnail

Happy Employees Equal Happy Customers

InMoment XI

Angela Ahrendts, former CEO of Burberry and newly appointed senior vice president of retail and online stores for Apple said, “Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first.” Some businesses are so consumed by consumer trends and behavior that they overlook one of their most.

Retail 200
article thumbnail

The Edge of Glory

InMoment XI

Generation Edge fascinates me. For anyone not familiar with this term, it was coined by Ian Pierpoint of The Sound Research. Pierpoint defines Gen Edge as “the younger cousins of the Milllennials,” or those born after 1995. He summarizes nicely the unique characteristics of Gen Edge. (Note: I’m providing a link to external content; please.

Article 200
article thumbnail

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.