InMoment XI
JUNE 17, 2019
Introducing the first CX Café customer and employee experience podcast: CEO of MaritzCX, Mike Sinoway, talks about emerging trends and technologies being seen in the customer experience industry. Hear how businesses can enhance customer experiences (CX) and employee experiences (EX), and what questions you should ask when starting a CX program to improve loyalty and retention.
GetFeedback
JUNE 16, 2019
Staying competitive in business today requires meeting and exceeding customer expectations. To do that, you first need to know what their expectations are. One of the best ways to find out exactly what your customers want is by collecting customer feedback through questionnaires. . By sending questionnaires to your customers, you can gather insights that will help you improve their experiences and move your business forward.
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Customer Bliss
JUNE 20, 2019
In this episode, I chat with Bob Thomas , the first chief experience officer at The YMCA of the Greater Twin Cities, about establishing a scalable CX initiative at a nationwide non-profit. Many of you may be familiar with The YMCA (the Y), either from your own experiences at the center or because of the iconic song that many of us have danced to at parties.
Alida
JUNE 21, 2019
Introducing the voice of the customer into every facet of VMware’s business is one of the most profound and exciting opportunities of my career. My team’s mission is to ignite systemic business improvements across VMware to maximize the customer (and partner, and employee) experience. In Customer Advocacy, we live by a “listen + act” philosophy: we deeply value customer input, we are always listening, and we drive real change based on what our customers tell us.
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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.
InMoment XI
JUNE 20, 2019
The term “innovation” conjures up a multitude of visions. Most people associate innovation with emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and 3D printing. Or they think of venture funded startup firms working on hot new products, such as Grail, which seeks to develop blood tests for early detection of cancers. But rarely is innovation.
CXDNA Update brings together the best content for customer experience professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
ShepHyken
JUNE 19, 2019
It’s been a while since I talked about the concepts of friction and convenience. Our customers have learned what it’s like to have a friction-free, no-hassle, convenient experience. They love doing business with the companies that make it easy. If it’s easy to switch companies, they are quick to switch when the experience is less than convenient. Perhaps the biggest friction point of all with customers is making them wait and disrespecting their time.
Beyond Philosophy
JUNE 17, 2019
As I often tell my audiences, I am blessed and cursed. I am cursed with the fact that I can’t have a Customer Experience without analyzing it and defining what they should do differently. But I am also blessed, because my Customer Experience knowledge has fed my family for 20 years! So I shouldn’t complain. But my blessing/curse does get in the way of enjoying simple things, like restaurant meals.
Experience Investigators by 360Connext
JUNE 18, 2019
Customer Experience is About Value and Values. Customer experience is not the new battleground anymore. It’s THE battleground. And it all centers around the word value. How can we provide value in what we offer to customers? How can we define and promote our values in our customer experience, so customers can align their values with ours? Finally, how can we make our customers feel valued and important?
Totango
JUNE 20, 2019
It’s been a little over a month since that enthusiastic new customer sailed through the onboarding phase. By now, they should be implementing your product into their daily workflow and enjoying the first signs of business value. Instead, your core metrics are telling you there’s something wrong. The customer’s usage rates are low. They’re not regularly accessing key features.
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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
ShepHyken
JUNE 17, 2019
Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various 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. 7 Powerful Customer Service Phrases You Need to Use by Josh Carlyle. (Qminder) Here are 7 powerful customer service phrases that can support your interaction with customers.
Beyond Philosophy
JUNE 21, 2019
Customer Journey Mapping Using Behavioral Science. Journey mapping is how organizations look at the customer journey, or the steps a customer would take from the beginning to the end in their experience. However, we would say regarding journey mapping that it is not only vital to consider the customer journey from beginning to end but also to view it from the customers’ perspective.
Wootric
JUNE 19, 2019
As a customer, how many times have you waited to get in touch with a customer support agent on the phone, listening to a monotonous tune or promotions on loop, only to get frustrated and hang up without receiving any response to your query? . Of course, you never went back to that brand again. And, why should you? According to Gartner , 89% of businesses compete mostly on the basis of customer experience.
ReviewTrackers
JUNE 21, 2019
One of the key aspects of reputation management that we here at ReviewTrackers continue to stress to all of our clients and partners, regardless of size, is the importance of having a holistic reputation strategy. Holistic reputation management seeks to cover all bases, ensuring that enterprises are going beyond visibility and analysis and are taking the necessary steps to make corrections to any aspect of the customer experience that might be hindering the perception of the business organizatio
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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ShepHyken
JUNE 18, 2019
Does a Bad Customer Experience (CX) Really Matter? Learning to Ask the Questions That Matter the Most. Shep Hyken interviews Mary Drumond. They discuss Mary’s recent article, “ Bad Experiences Aren’t Always the Problem for Companies ” as it pertains to customer feedback, customers’ expectations, and the entire customer experience. The Interview with Mary Drumond: It’s important to look into the reasons why customers make their decisions.
One Millimeter Mindset
JUNE 20, 2019
When you continuously are making excuses for poor product quality and performance or sub-par service and maintenance, how invested are you in client success? Regardless of whether you design, sell or serve, clients do not initially do business with you anticipating a client retention strategy focused on listening to your excuses. If you are making excuses in order to retain clients, it is time to take your professional pulse.
Heart of the Customer
JUNE 19, 2019
As our book gains traction, readers tell us they appreciate our focus on starting journey mapping by targeting an identified business problem and using this to drive customer-focused change. We interviewed dozens of CX leaders on how they did this, including Mark Smith, formerly of Element Fleet Management Corporation. Mark spoke on multiple topics, but […].
ClientSuccess
JUNE 19, 2019
If you think retaining an existing customer is expensive and unnecessary, try acquiring a new one. It will surely get your brain and bank account working overtime. Adding credibility to this statement is a research study by Invesp Consulting which suggests: Existing customers are 50% more likely to try new products and spend 31% more than new users!
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
Experience Matters
JUNE 18, 2019
I’m frequently asked to share my views about the evolution of experience management (XM), so I’ve spoken (and written) about topics such as CX establishing the foundation for XM. For some recent speeches I’ve combined my personal introduction with a broader overview of the evolution of enterprise transformation. After several requests, I’ve captured the content in this short (5 minute) video.
Interactions
JUNE 20, 2019
Deploying AI in the enterprise has driven a lot of hype over the past couple of years, with regular news articles raising fears and hopes around the possibilities of what AI can accomplish. Enterprises are being bombarded with calls to adopt AI in their company, and many are adding the new technology to their lineup. According to research from Gartner , the top three motivators for AI and Machine Learning (Ml) investment are to improve customer experience, automate repetitive or manual tasks, an
NICE inContact
JUNE 20, 2019
Traditionally quality management in the contact center has been focused on evaluating agent-assisted interactions — mainly phone. You know the routine — listen to a phone call, complete a form, send it to an agent, repeat. We already discussed the gap between the number of digital channels for CX that are supported in the contact center and the number of channels that are evaluated as part of a business’ QM programs.
ChurnZero
JUNE 21, 2019
[Q&A] How to Keep the Revenue Your Company Worked So Hard to Earn. . Companies work hard to attract and win their customers. They spend countless hours establishing key performance metrics and enforcing the appropriate disciplines so their marketing and sales teams can bring in leads and close deals to drive revenue and growth. Yet the amount of focus that leadership places on new business revenue is disproportionate to the amount of focus placed on existing customer revenue.
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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,
Ecrion
JUNE 18, 2019
According to this report 1 , 86 percent of staff members at U.S. companies experience communication issues. These problems lead to missed deadlines, a drop in productivity, and sales deals that fall through. Don’t let communication issues cause your business growth to falter. Instead, you can discover exactly what is communication in business and how to use it to your company’s advantage.
CSM Magazine
JUNE 19, 2019
Customer expectations of interactions with brands and businesses have intensified and show no sign of slowing down. Increasingly time-poor consumers often expect an organisation to know what they are contacting them about, and how to resolve any issues on demand. As such the speed of response and resolution is overly scrutinised and critiqued. To highlight this point, Hubspot research identified that 80% of customers expect companies to respond to their social media posts within 24 hours, and 5
Totango
JUNE 18, 2019
Imagine you’re a customer who’s just subscribed to a service or purchased a new product. In a perfect world, what would happen next? You’d probably begin using the product and discover it works exactly as described. The value of your purchase would be immediately apparent. There would be a dedicated customer success team that would help you learn to use all the features.
ProProfs Chat
JUNE 21, 2019
Do you have a customer retention strategy? If not, your business may be at risk. Companies focus on customer acquisition strategies, since increasing your customer count is the lifeblood of your business. But, customer acquisition won’t help, if you are unable to retain customers. The cost to acquire customers can be very high, especially if your product or service is expensive.
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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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