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The “What’s Next” of Customer Journey Mapping

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Customer journey mapping can be a powerful tool to truly understand your customers, innovate around new ways to serve them, and identify gaps in their journey. But, that’s only if the map is used as a tool and not an artifact. CX teams spend months on a journey map only to have a beautiful poster on the wall that only tells part of the story. Some will conclude journey mapping doesn’t work because they witnessed how a lot of hard work resulted in a well-designed artifact which hasn’t served much

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Guest Post: Good Customer Service Is More Than Good PR

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Patricia Fripp, executive speech coach and sales presentation skills trainer. She writes about how one negative interaction can affect the customer’s overall experience. At a time when every customer counts, we must never forget how our customers see us. One single negative contact can ruin your reputation in the eyes of not only that one customer but also everyone he or she knows.

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Customer Success Starts Within: 6 Ways to Put Employees First

ChurnZero

Customer Success Starts Within: 6 Ways to Put Employees First. The Customer Success industry is obsessed with cracking the code on customer experience and loyalty. Afterall, an “obsessive compulsive focus on the customer” is the number-one thing Amazon’s Jeff Bezos attributes to the company’s monstrous success and near trillion-dollar valuation. So, it’s easy to see how a fixation on the customer can overshadow the very people who make that success possible: the employees.

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Interview With CX Ambassador Simon Whight

GetFeedback

Interview with Simon Whight, senior systems analyst at Zen Internet, an internet service provider in Manchester, England, about his career in the customer experience space.

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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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Blue Ocean Wins 2020 Silver Stevie® Award

BlueOcean

Blue Ocean, a world-leader in customer care solutions, was awarded a Silver Stevie® Award in the “Customer Service Team of the Year” category at the 14th annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. This is Blue Ocean’s third Stevie Award. The company won a Bronze Stevie in 2017 and a Silver Stevie in 2019. Blue Ocean’s winning entry highlighted the incredible success of one of the company’s tech support teams.

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Four Lessons From The Cult Of The Customer

ShepHyken

It’s almost here… the updated and revised edition of The Cult of the Customer. If you’re reading this article the week it’s posted, then this is a sneak preview of a few of my favorite quotes from the book. Even if it’s after the book comes out, it’s not too late to “join” the Cult of the Customer—the cult you want to belong to! I want to share some quotes from the book to get you thinking about how to amaze your customers.

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Interview With CX Ambassador April Obersteller

GetFeedback

Interview with April Obersteller, senior manager of global customer experience at YETI, a seller of premier outdoor gear, about her career in the customer experience space.

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Call Center Agent Utilization – Why Visual Tools Ensure Optimum Efficiency

TechSee

Every customer service professional knows that running a successful call center is a constant balancing act. Managers will often focus on improving employee productivity to keep customers happy and costs down. However, if they are too successful at increasing productivity, their efforts can easily backfire. Overworking employees can actually drive up call center costs by causing burnout and leading to high agent turnover.

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Are Customer Complaints Profitable?

Beyond Philosophy

Research in Harvard Business Review last year suggested that some companies with poor customer service are terrible on purpose to wear out disgruntled customers so they don’t have to fix customer problems. Moreover, the HBR authors suggest that this method makes these organizations more profitable. This episode of The Intuitive Customer explores this idea in more detail.

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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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It Is Time To Recession Proof Your Business

The DiJulius Group

1. Customer Service Feature Story It Is Time To Recession Proof Your Business I am probably one of the few business owners that actually like a recession, in some cases, prefer it over a booming economy. I know that may sound crazy, but when you really consider the advantages and disadvantages of both a great. Read Full Article. The post It Is Time To Recession Proof Your Business appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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Interview With CX Ambassador Brett Frazer

GetFeedback

Interview with Brett Frazer, head of customer service at Sun Basket, about his career in the customer experience space.

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What Is a Customer Satisfaction Score and How to Measure It

ProProfs Chat

Bill Gates, the wealthiest business tycoon, said, “ Your most unhappy customers are your biggest source of learning ”. Bill might be running one of the biggest companies that the world has ever seen; however, he too has to deal with unsatisfied and complaining customers. . According to a study conducted by Walker , customer experience will become the key brand differentiator in the coming years.

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The Effortless Experience by Matthew Dixon, Nick Toman, and Rick DeLisi (a One Win Book Review)

Customers That Stick

In this One Win Book Review, we take a look at The Effortless Experience by Matthew Dixon, Nick Toman, and Rick DeLisi. Check out the video below to hear Adam’s one win that you can take away from The Effortless Experience to improve your organization’s customer experience and customer service. About The Effortless Experience. FROM THE PUBLISHER: The idea that companies must delight customers by exceeding service expectations is so entrenched that managers rarely even question it.

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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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6 Voice of the Customer Best Practices You Should Implement

Totango

Voice of the Customer best practices turns words into action. The feedback your VoC efforts provide are the unique perspective of your own customers, and the actions you take based on that feedback add value to their experience. Today’s on-demand, subscription-dominated marketplace requires that enterprises pay closer attention to what their customers want from their products—and there’s no clearer indication than their own words.

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How Artificial Intelligence is Helping Retailers Keep Up With Customers

GetFeedback

In this article, we will explore how AI can improve the customer experience, increase the revenue for your retail company, and why your business needs an app.

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Amazing Business Radio: Bill Cates

ShepHyken

The Radical Relevance of Customer Experience. Crafting Your Message to Deliver a Consistent Internal and External Experience. Shep Hyken interviews Bill Cates. They discuss his new book, Radical Relevance: Sharpen Your Marketing Message – Cut Through the Noise – Win More Ideal Clients , and how companies can create the message that best defines their customer experience.

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3 Psychological Triggers to Prevent in Retail Customer Service ?

Customers That Stick

Do our customers have hot buttons? Types of interactions that immediately trigger a negative emotional reaction? When I ask these questions in our customer service trainings , the answer is always YES. However, we often tend to thing of these triggers as individual. But this is only one type of trigger. Each person has their own triggers that set them off, and one of the most important things we can do in customer experience is learn about our customers, what their preferences are, what drives t

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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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HOW TO COACH MIDDLE MANAGEMENT ON CORE VALUES AND CULTURE FT. RAJ SUPPIAH

Michel Falcon Experience

EPISODE #4 OF BREAKING IT DOWN FT. HEALTH CARE ENTREPRENEUR RAJ SUPPIAH IS LIVE! Here’s what we get into on this week’s podcast: 1️⃣ How To Communicate Without Micro-Managing. 2️⃣How To Coach Middle Management On Culture and Core Values. 3️⃣ How To Create and Maintain Culture Across Multiple Locations and Shift Workers CLICK HERE FOR APPLE PODCAST!

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Build an Effective Customer Effort Score Program

GetFeedback

If you want to make a real impact on customer loyalty, it starts with measuring Customer Effort Score (CES). Let’s talk about how to do just that.

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Chatbots Make These 3 Customer Experience Improvements Possible

Oracle

The chatbot age is here. According to Gartner , the average person will have more conversations with bots than their spouse by 2020. What’s more, Gartner also found that the top three emerging technologies expected to have the biggest impact on CX projects in the next three years include artificial intelligence (53%), virtual customer assistants and chatbots (39%), and omnichannel engagement solutions (37%).

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Why is Customer Service Important?

Customers That Stick

The data is in and customer experience leads to all sorts of favorable outcomes. Companies that deliver superior experiences have been found to have better employee engagement, better retention, better profitability, and even higher stock market valuations than their competitors. If we’re talking about customer service specifically, as opposed to customer experience, it is important because it is one of the most important and crucial aspects of customer experience.

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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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Keep Your Customers Amazed

Eptica

Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2020 Author: Guest author: Shep Hyken Keep Your Customers Amazed. Published on: March 04, 2020. Author: Guest author: Shep Hyken In our latest guest post, noted customer service expert Shep Hyken explains the importance of amazement to keeping your customers happy and loyal. The good news is that delivering amazement doesn’t require over the top customer experience, but instead relies on: Consistency and predictably good service Handling any issues that arise succ

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How to Hyper-Personalize the Customer Experience

GetFeedback

What is hyper-personalization and how to achieve it in your CX program.

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5 Positive Things SaaS CEOs And Leaders Should Do To Get Through COVID-19

Gainsight

Last Friday, as the COVID-19 anxiety was just starting to take over the national conversation in the US, a teammate asked me a simple question: “Have you ever been through something like this?”. My glib retort was, “No—actually this is my first worldwide pandemic. I was pretty young during the 1918 Spanish flu!”. But even as those words were coming out of my mouth, one of my most indelible memories was waking up.

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How Contact Centers Support Plumbing Businesses

Call Experts

The number one rule for any business is to keep your customers happy! Every plumber or home services professional knows how important it is to deliver high-quality services. But, only part of the job is providing excellent services; the other key to keeping your customers happy is outstanding customer support. Timely response to customer inquiries, availability during emergencies, and ease of appointment setting can create a competitive advantage for your business.

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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.