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CXFusion Recap: In Your Own Words

InMoment XI

Customer experience (CX) professionals, business leaders, and research experts gathered in Vegas this week to attend CXFusion. This year’s conference energized a record number of attendees with insights, connections, and tools for building and extending CX programs that deliver hard business results. Did you miss the conference? Here’s a quick recap of what we experienced.

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How to improve listening skills for customer growth

Customer Bliss

Research indicates that, if you want people to listen to you, you typically need four elements taking place: That’s: Authority, or your knowledge and expertise in an area. Empathy, or your ability to connect with others. Collegiality, or your tendency to collaborate and stay transparent. Education, or your background and ‘vetting’ This four-pronged model is based on getting others to listen to you.

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What Can You Do to Reduce Customer Effort Today?

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

I have a question for you today. Think about how much effort you exert every day. You have responsibilities. You work hard, you care about the results you get, and you are a leader in a professional sense. You also have the regular responsibilities of life. You have to eat, take care of yourself, do […]. The post What Can You Do to Reduce Customer Effort Today?

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The Hubspot-Dan Lyons saga offers lessons on employee engagement, authenticity and corporate culture

Alida

In a recent article for VentureBeat , Andrew Reid, founder and president of corporate innovation at Vision Critical, steps into the battle between Dan Lyons and Hubspot. The saga between the Silicon Valley writer and the marketing automation software company dominated tech publications this month as Lyons’ new book, Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-up Bubble , was released.

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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.

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CXFusion 2016 Recap: In Your Own Words

InMoment XI

Customer experience (CX) professionals, business leaders, and research experts gathered in Vegas this week to attend CXFusion. This year’s conference energized a record number of attendees with insights, connections, and tools for building and extending CX programs that deliver hard business results. Did you miss the conference? Here’s a quick recap of what we experienced.

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The A-List: Customer Success

Amity

Frequently updated and always on point, the A-List is a snapshot of what's happening in the world of Customer Success. Handpicked by our editors, the list is refreshed regularly, so if you think we're missing someone, feel free to let us know. Alex Bakula-Davis. Director of Customer Success - Proven. Alex curates the Customer Success Newsletter which is a weekly curated collection of 4 helpful articles from around the Customer Success community.

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Who owns the customer?

Ian Williams

Just over four years ago, I wrote a blog post called “ Who owns Customer Experience ?”. The purpose of the post was to attempt to establish the best ‘place’ within the business to ‘house’ the Customer Experience professionals. Ultimately, the purpose of the article was to argue that customers experience the business cross-functionally, and as such can be influenced by all or any of the functions of the organisation.

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CXFusion Recap: In Your Own Words

InMoment XI

Customer experience (CX) professionals, business leaders, and research experts gathered in Vegas this week to attend CXFusion. This year’s conference energized a record number of attendees with insights, connections, and tools for building and extending CX programs that deliver hard business results. Did you miss the conference? Here’s a quick recap of what we experienced.

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Five Top Causes of Customer Attrition (and How to Deal With Them)

Win the Customer

While customer service problems aren’t always your fault, your ability to respond to a customer’s concern is within your control and is the responsibility of your organization. Being able to take action on the behalf of customers lies at the core of successful customer service experience. Today we explore five most common causes of customer attrition in customer service and how service agents can deal with them to save the customer experience and make things right for their customers

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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

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14 Steps to Create the Perfect Live Chat Customer Experience

Kayako

Is your organization looking for ways to improve customer experience on live chats? Perhaps there are new hires in your company who are having a hard time getting to grips with live chats. Are you looking to improve your customer handling time (CHT) on chat? In this post, I’ll share a structured workflow which you and your team can follow when handling live chats.

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`Sorry' Seems to Be the Hardest Word - But it Shouldn't Be

Think Customers

When companies make mistakes - and, inevitably, they will - the first thing they should do is apologize to their customers for any inconveniences it may have caused them. Unfortunately, apologies from senior management don't happen often enough, whether as a result of pride, fear of how it may impact the company's stock price, or simply that it doesn't occur to company leaders to admit when the company has erred.

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For Car Dealers, Consumer Satisfaction Pays

InMoment XI

Article published in WardsAuto, April 28, 2016 Author: Steve Finlay / WardsAuto There’s little point in dealers striving for high customer-satisfaction scores unless they financially benefit, an auto-retailing insider once noted. “Happy customers alone aren’t strong incentives.” Now, MaritzCX, a customer-experience software and services firm, has done a study gauging moneywise how much customer treatment.

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How to Give Your New Small Business a Professional Vibe

Win the Customer

If you want your new small business to be competitive against the established ventures in your niche, it’s important to pay attention to the details that will create a professional appearance. Here are a few tips for how to give your new small business a professional vibe. Get a Professionally Designed Logo. A professional, memorable logo will help to maximize the money and effort you spend on your company’s branding efforts.

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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.

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End Your Customer’s Experience on a High Note

Heart of the Customer

In his terrific book X: The Experience When Business Meets Design, Brian Solis argues persuasively for ending your customer’s journey on a high note. Excellent advice, but not often followed. The importance of starting strong is well-known—websites begin with a striking visual, stores focus on greeting customers as they come in. But what about the […].

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Two Out of Three Sucks

Middlesex Consulting

When I first became a Vice President of Manufacturing for a start up in the 1970’s, I faced many challenges getting electronic parts and components. Those were the days of a rapid explosion of electronics manufacturing and a relatively immature supply chain. As I thought about the situation, the light bulb turned on over my head and I had an epiphany; I was playing with three variables – low price, reliable delivery, and high quality.

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For Car Dealers, Consumer Satisfaction Pays

InMoment XI

Article published in WardsAuto, April 28, 2016 Author: Steve Finlay / WardsAuto There’s little point in dealers striving for high customer-satisfaction scores unless they financially benefit, an auto-retailing insider once noted. “Happy customers alone aren’t strong incentives.” Now, MaritzCX, a customer-experience software and services firm, has done a study gauging moneywise how much customer treatment.

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A Common Sense Approach to Proactive Customer Service

Think Customers

Doing what's right for customers is an easy concept to understand but fairly difficult to implement. Listening to them, anticipating their needs, and providing tailored service where and when they need it can be challenging to put into practice. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.

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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

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Dare to Care: Why You Can’t Script Sincerity in Customer Service

CSM Magazine

Learn why your customer service team must have empathy, sympathy, patience, tolerance, understanding, passion and, of course, sincerity. It’s not that hard to notice when you’re dealing with a customer support rep who is less than sincere. They tend to say some of the same things over and over, such as, “I can understand why you would feel that way and we are sorry for your inconvenience.

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Two Out of Three Sucks

Middlesex Consulting

I faced many challenges getting electronic parts and components when I first became a Vice President of Manufacturing for a start up in the 1970’s. Those were the days of a rapid explosion of electronics manufacturing and a relatively immature supply chain. As I thought about the situation, the light bulb turned on over my head and I had an epiphany; I was playing with three variables – low price, reliable delivery, and high quality.

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For Car Dealers, Consumer Satisfaction Pays

InMoment XI

Article published in WardsAuto, April 28, 2016 [link] Author: Steve Finlay / WardsAuto There’s little point in dealers striving for high customer-satisfaction scores unless they financially benefit, an auto-retailing insider once noted. “Happy customers alone aren’t strong incentives.” Now, MaritzCX, a customer-experience software and services firm, has done a study gauging moneywise how much customer.

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Three Ideas to Re-Humanize Patient Experience

Experience Matters

I was recently interviewed for an article that discusses a post where Fox News journalist John Stossel describes his experience as a lung cancer patient at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital. First of all, I hope that Stossel’s treatment is successful. And although I don’t fully agree with his analysis of the industry, I do agree with his observation […].

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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,

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What a Security Breach Could Mean for Your Business

Win the Customer

Security breaches have been making headlines lately as many major government bodies and corporations experience hacks that expose thousands of confidential documents. Although it may seem like this type of threat isn’t relevant to the smaller businesses of today, a security breach can happen to anyone. It’s important to understand the risk factors, consequences and preventative measures you can take to ensure that your business and employees are protected.

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How GM Uses Social Media to Listen and Engage Customers

Natalie Petouhof

Tweet Having worked for GM years ago and lived in Detroit, the motor capital, it was really interesting to see how GM is using social media to listen and engage customers – in marketing as well as customer service. This new case study shows the depth and strength of how GM is taking advantage of what social media can provide to the business. What’s interesting – and if you follow me, you know I am an ROI gal – is that GM was able to trace their social interactions to actu

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What can the world of business learn from Leicester City? Why teamwork and togetherness breeds success

ijgolding

I must start this new post by apologising to all Leicester City fans! I really hope that writing about the undeniable success of your club this year will not jinx perhaps the greatest achievement of any sports team EVER… anywhere in the world. However, I do not apologise for taking advantage of an achievement that is so remarkable – and so deserving – that it should become one of the prominent examples to any organisation, in any industry, as to what can be achieved with a lot

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Happy 5th CXPA! From A Proud Founder

Experience Matters

Five years ago, I announced the creation of the Customer Experience Professionals Association in a blog post called… Announcing The CXPA; Customer Experience Professionals Unite! In that post, I listed these objectives that co-founder Jeanne Bliss and I had for the CXPA: There are many customer experience networking groups, but the industry has hit a […].

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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.