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Adapt or Lose: The New Face of the Customer

InMoment XI

Boy has the world changed since 1995! Every aspect of the customer experience, from marketing and sales, to customer service and support, has been turned on its head. Customer experience has changed more in the last 20 years than in the prior 200 years combined. Not surprisingly, this has affected the part of a business.

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Turning the Tables on Bad Customer Service

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

'If you haven’t yet discovered our podcast, Crack The Customer Code, I hope you will soon. We released our 15th episode , and it’s been quite the learning experience for my co-host Adam Toporek from Customers That Stick and me! Better customer service FTW. In episode 15, we tackle the subject of how certain industries can get away with treating customers poorly and still get good business results.

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How’s Your Experience Reliability?

Customer Bliss

'The information and experience you gain by working through the customer experience competencies and holding people accountable to customer metrics will condition the organization to redevelop the customer experience for greatest marketplace differentiation. Managing the corporate patience while developing the competencies required to establish a reliable experience is not easy.

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Best Advice: Stop Researching Your Customers — and Do Something

Beyond Philosophy

'In this series, professionals share the words of wisdom that made all the difference in their lives. Follow the stories here and write your own (please include the hashtag #BestAdvice in the body of your post). What is the point of doing research is you are not going to do anything with it? Let me give you an example. It was the first few days after I had been promoted to the SVP, Customer Experience for British Telecom a number of years ago.

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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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Stephan Thun on the importance of customer experience in different markets around the world

InMoment XI

Is customer experience of equal importance across all markets? In this short video, Stephan Thun, CEO of MaritzCX EMEA, discusses customer experience in the context of different markets across the world. You can watch it below. Look out for more next week when we ask Stephan if discounting is killing loyalty.

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Set Realistic Service Goals That Build Positive Customer Experiences

Win the Customer

'Consistently setting realistic service goals is critical to the process of developing your core customer experience. Setting goals is not simply throwing out an easy number to achieve, nor is it asking your team to achieve the impossible. Consistently setting goals is part of the process of developing your team in the organization. Goals shouldn’t be […].

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3 Examples of Change for the Better in Airlines

Beyond Philosophy

'There have been many great stories in the past couple of months about airlines doing what was right by their Customers. We can all learn a little about Customer centricity when we look at these examples from three major carriers in the US. Frontier Airlines Pilot Feeds His Passengers While Stranded on Runway. Frequent travelers have all been there…sitting on the runway, hungry, thirsty, and needing to go to the lavatory but strapped in their seat, sometimes for hours.

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Customer experience in the UK and US – Are we speaking the same language?

InMoment XI

US customers have higher expectations than UK ones, and US companies have been quicker to adopt customer experience platforms and technology. Nigel Cover of MaritzCX assesses whether the UK has anything to learn from across the Pond.

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Sometimes What Customers Need is Just a Helping Paw

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

'We at 360Connext use MailChimp to send out our updates and newsletters, and we love it for many reasons. They provide easy but robust features for building, analyzing, and sending emails to subscribers, as well as managing our contacts. But there’s another reason I love Mailchimp…. Microinteractions - small moments that can have a huge impact on the customer experience.

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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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Phones Are Important, But Live Chat is the Service Channel for Millennials

Win the Customer

'Industry surveys show that 63% of millennials prefer to have their basic customer service and support questions answered via live chat over traditional contact channels. According to a report by Accenture, purchases made by millennials will comprise 30% of retail sales by 2020. Age demographics have a real impact on preferences for customer service contact channels, and […].

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Gain Reliability with Four Targets

Customer Bliss

'Managing accountability for what you’ll deliver to customers is not rocket science, but it is overwhelming. An important element of driving accountability for customer profitability is how strategic the organization is about determining and executing customer accountability targets. Many companies that say they focus on the customer don’t take the time to wire customer priorities into annual planning.

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Video: Stephan Thun on the Importance of Customer Experience in Different Markets Around the World

InMoment XI

Is customer experience of equal importance across all markets? In this short video, Stephan Thun, CEO of MaritzCX EMEA, discusses customer experience in the context of different markets across the world. You can watch it below. Look out for more next week when we ask Stephan if discounting is killing loyalty.

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3 Moments That Can Make or Break a Banking Customer Experience

PeopleMetrics

'Exceptional and unforgettable Moments of Truth fuel customer delight and loyalty. So too do pointless and broken interactions douse brand devotion. Unfortunately, disappointment carries more weight. Research undertaken by Richard Normann several decades ago revealed that it takes twelve positive Moments of Truth to recover from one failure. Knowing this, it makes sense to prioritize efforts on removing the pointless and fixing the broken moments first for the greatest return.

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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.

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6 Ways to Wow and Win Back Lost Customers

customer sure

Takeaway: 6 businesses share their approach to wowing and winning back lost customers. Find out what matters most to your customers, and go beyond their expectations. Reading time: 8 minutes. Wouldn’t it be great if you could win back lost customers? If every person who came into contact with your business was bowled over by your customer service?

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Report: 2015 Temkin Experience Ratings

Experience Matters

'We published the 2015 Temkin Experience Ratings , the most comprehensive benchmark of customer experience. In the fifth year of the Ratings, we analyze feedback from 10,000 U.S. consumers to rate 293 organizations across 20 industries (we added utilities this year). Here’s the executive summary: 2015 marks the fifth year of the Temkin Experience Ratings, and this year, supermarkets dominated the ratings.

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Video: Stephan Thun on the Importance of Customer Experience in Different Markets Around the World

InMoment XI

Is customer experience of equal importance across all markets? In this short video, Stephan Thun, CEO of MaritzCX EMEA, discusses customer experience in the context of different markets across the world. You can watch it below. Look out for more next week when we ask Stephan if discounting is killing loyalty.

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The Impact of Human Touch in the Customer Experience Journey

Win the Customer

'With greater insights into customer behaviour online, we can better understand our customers’ needs deliver a seamless customer journey creating more effective experiences. Anyone who has suffered the pain of being without their treasured devices for a few days understands perfectly the concept of the “always-on” world; these days access to wi-fi is almost one […].

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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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Warby Parker and the Power of Genuine Micro Customer Experiences

Michel Falcon Experience

'Is your company genuinely customer-centric or is it a marketing ploy?If your answer is the latter, it can be difficult to admit, but the reality is that most companies claim to be customer-focused when they’re not.Warby Parker is the former.Warby Parker, whose company name is derived by combining two character names… Read More». The post Warby Parker and the Power of Genuine Micro Customer Experiences appeared first on Michel Falcon Customer and Employee Experience Expert.

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Community: Where everyone knows your name

Andrew Mcfarland

'(Guest post written by Mary Greening a Customer Experience Advisor, Social Business Strategist & Community Manager who is passionate about using new technology to improve the customer/user experience.) Remember the old TV sitcom Cheers!? Sam Malone ran a bar in Boston where several regulars came together to drink and solve each other’s [.].

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Adapt or Lose: The New Face of the Customer

InMoment XI

Boy has the world changed since 1995! Every aspect of the customer experience, from marketing and sales, to customer service and support, has been turned on its head. Customer experience sofware has changed more in the last 20 years than in the prior 200 years combined. Not surprisingly, this has affected the part of a.

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Getting Employees to Care: Employee Engagement and Culture

PeopleMetrics

'Employees. You’re going to have to face them sooner or later if you’re trying to build a customer-centric culture. How do you get them in line? How do you get them to deliver on your promise? How do you get them to care about company goals? Before you bang your head on your mahogany desk, maybe you should ask yourself another question: Why should your employees care?

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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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The customer is not always right….BUT be careful how you respond when you think they are not!

ijgolding

'It is very likely you have not heard of 47 King Street West – a French restaurant based in Manchester in the UK. Although you may not have heard of it, it is possible that the eatery will become infamous as an example of how NOT to respond to customer feedback. When an organisation considers […].

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No Trust without Respect: 7 Rules to Winning Customers

C3Centricity

I got an email this week that was just so wrong I almost replied to it offering my help to the sender, as he clearly needed it. The email started, “Hello Deny, I will keep my introduction brief. I’m Scott XXX, CEO for YYY.” He was informing me about his company’s training offers, which he [.]. The post No Trust without Respect: 7 Rules to Winning Customers appeared first on C3Centricity.

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Adapt or Lose: The New Face of the Customer

InMoment XI

Boy has the world changed since 1995! Every aspect of the customer experience, from marketing and sales, to customer service and support, has been turned on its head. Customer experience has changed more in the last 20 years than in the prior 200 years combined. Not surprisingly, this has affected the part of a business.

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5 Years of Temkin Experience Ratings, First Drop in CX

Experience Matters

'As I mentioned when we released the 2015 Temkin Experience Ratings , this is the fifth year of our large-scale customer experience (CX) benchmark. If you downloaded the free report (and why wouldn’t you?), then you would have seen some data and graphics on how the industry ratings have changed over those five years. Here’s one of the key graphics… Computers is the only sector that has increased every year, while banks, credit cards, supermarkets have not had any declines.

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Your Expert Guide to CX Orchestration & Enhancing Customer Journeys

Speaker: Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor at Medallia

Join Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor, in this new webinar that will focus on: Understanding CX Orchestration Fundamentals: Gain a solid understanding of what CX orchestration is, its significance in the customer experience landscape, and how it plays a crucial role in shaping customer journeys. This includes the key concepts, strategies, and best practices involved in CX orchestration. 🔑 Connection to Customer Journey Maps: How to effectively integrate customer journey mapping into the