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5 Steps to Effectively Implement the Voice of the Customer

InMoment XI

The real value of customer experience programs is not in gathering customer feedback, but in putting the voice of the customer to work. While there was never a positive return on investment (ROI) for simply measuring satisfaction (no more than there is a positive ROI for taking your temperature when you are sick), today’s cost/benefit.

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Teams Score Big With Fans And Franchises!

Beyond Philosophy

Dunkin’ Donuts, Honda, and McDonald’s are all gigantic brands with huge reputations. However, each of them has something else in common. They have each partnered with a sports franchise in a brilliant play to boost the emotional engagement with the team’s fans. Each program targets specific team fans and celebrates that connection with a reward. Dunkin’ Donuts gives DD Perks® rewards program members coffee for $.87 after every win during the season in honor of Tight End, Rob Gronkowski (#87) as

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Building Customer Loyalty That Lasts

GetFeedback

Loyal customers save your company money, predict future sales, generate referrals, and gain value over time. Here are 5 ways to drive customer loyalty.

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New Leadership Role for Churches: The Pastor of Guest Experience, With Lee West [CB26]

Customer Bliss

Episode Overview. Lee West is the Pastor of Guest Experiences — a very new role in the not-for-profit “church world” (as he calls it). I was very intrigued by this role and really wanted to understand how Lee has gone about extending customer experience into faith, which is obviously a very important part of many people’s lives. Lee has taken a very deliberate path for understanding the touch points in the church member experience — based on significant research, listening and

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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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10 Reasons to Become CX Certified

InMoment XI

Setting yourself apart from the crowd in your career can be a difficult task. It requires time and effort. Certification is an important part of career development, especially for those in Market Research and Customer Experience (CX) fields. In the rapidly growing and changing field of Customer Experience and Voice of the Customer (VOC), certification.

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Building Customer Loyalty That Lasts

GetFeedback

Loyal customers save your company money, predict future sales, generate referrals, and gain value over time. Here are 5 ways to drive customer loyalty.

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Is your annual planning a free-for-all? Let’s fix it.

Customer Bliss

I’m probably a little bit late on my annual planning post here, because it’s almost Thanksgiving. When you get to that period in between Thanksgiving and Christmas at most offices, there’s a lot of year-end fiscal closeout rush, but usually the annual planning is done by then. Regardless, a lot of people come back from New Year’s and revisit their annual planning approach.

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5 Steps to Effectively Implement the Voice of the Customer

InMoment XI

The real value of customer experience programs is not in gathering customer feedback, but in putting the voice of the customer to work. While there was never a positive return on investment (ROI) for simply measuring satisfaction (no more than there is a positive ROI for taking your temperature when you are sick), today’s cost/benefit. View Article.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of November 7, 2016

ShepHyken

Each week I read a number of customer service articles from various online 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. What’s stopping your customers from being loyal? by Graham Jones. (Graham Jones) Most business leaders appreciate that 80% of their profits come from 20% of 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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Do Consumers Prefer Live Chat over Other Customer Service Methods?

Win the Customer

Great customer support has one goal; to make it easy for customers to get their problem solved painlessly and quickly. Out of all of the customer service methods available, email, phone or chat, live chat is by far the simplest, fastest and least obtrusive. It’s no surprise that almost one third of all consumers are now expecting live chat to be available on any business website.

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Eight critical omnichannel stats to inform your CX strategies

OpinionLab

Omnichannel fulfillment strategies, such as “Buy online, pick up in store” (BOPUS for short) or click-and-collect, can provide a win-win for both you and your customers. You will be able to take full advantage of cross-selling, promotions, and existing inventories – all while saving substantially on costs. For their part, your customers get what they want quicker than standard shipping and more conveniently than when they purchase off the shelf.

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10 Reasons to Become CX Certified

InMoment XI

Setting yourself apart from the crowd in your career can be a difficult task. It requires time and effort. Certification is an important part of career development, especially for those in Market Research and Customer Experience (CX) fields. In the rapidly growing and changing field of Customer Experience and Voice of the Customer (VOC), certification.

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Who Owns the Customer Experience?

Customers That Stick

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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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Surprises Await When You Pretend To Be Your Own Customer

Steve DiGioia

how else will you REALLY know what's going on? This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. Stop complaining about your customers. “They’re too demanding; always have something negative to say and they look for discounts”. Well, have you ever tried to be your own customer? According to an American Express 2011 Survey, 3 in 5 Americans (59%) would try a new brand or company for a better service experience.

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The Rise of Mobile CX (Infographic)

Experience Matters

I’m sure you’re not surprised to hear that mobile customer experience is on the rise, but this infographic provides some more insights on what that shift looks like. It pulls from a variety of Temkin Group research, including: Data Snapshot: Channel Preferences Benchmark, 2016, Five C’s of Mobile VoC Disruption, Data Snapshot: Media Use Benchmark, 2016, and The State […].

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Voting for Over-Delivery: The Inspirational Power of Promises Fulfilled

Michelli Experience

Brand advertising, marketing, and sales efforts are all “promises”. The product and service experiences that follow those promises either fall short, deliver on, or exceed the promises made as customers choose to engage your brand. In a world where many make distorted claims, people are inspired by experiences and stories of those who meet or exceed the expectations they create.

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How tracking ecommerce metrics makes the holiday season brighter for online merchants

Bold360

They are the second greatest gift any ecommerce merchant will receive in the holiday season, after the cold, hard holiday cash that can make or break an ecommerce retailer’s entire year, of course. But, surprisingly, in the rush of business that consumes them from Thanksgiving through the New Year, a lot of retailers overlook the valuable ecommerce metrics that flow in along with the cash.

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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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Amazing Business Radio: Roy Atkinson

ShepHyken

Roy Atkinson on Amazing Technology and. Advances in the World of Customer Service. Shep Hyken speaks with HDI’s senior writer/analyst, thought leader, customer support guru, and co-host of the popular #CustServ Tweet Chat, Roy Atkinson. They discuss how technology is advancing customer service and support. From self-service options to social media, from chatbots to AI, technology is changing how businesses and their customers interact.

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Successful Business Marketing – Working Together for a Common Goal

Win the Customer

It is a lot easier to make money as a business if you give your customers what they want. However, that can be a lot easier said than done. Managing customer needs and maintaining a profitable company at the same time are things business owners have to learn to balance. What can you do to include your customers in your marketing campaigns to ensure that you say what they need to hear in order to make a confident purchase?

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Connecting with your customers across APAC

Eptica

Date: Wednesday, November 9, 2016 Connecting with your customers across APAC. Published on: November 09, 2016. Author: Vincent Giraud Traditionally brands have segmented their customer bases by demographic factors such as age, and used this information to drive specific customer experiences for each group. However, this only goes so far, as age isn’t always a good guide to customer needs.

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The Rise of Mobile CX (Infographic)

Experience Matters

I’m sure you’re not surprised to hear that mobile customer experience is on the rise, but this infographic provides some more insights on what that shift looks like. It pulls from a variety of Temkin Group research, including: Data Snapshot: Channel Preferences Benchmark, 2016, Five C’s of Mobile VoC Disruption, Data Snapshot: Media Use Benchmark, 2016, and The State […].

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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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Guest Blog: Create Amazing Impacts with 15 Minutes and 15 Dollars or Less

ShepHyken

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Andy Masters, shares a story that demonstrates the importance of doing a little something extra for someone with very little effort and time. I love this story and I think you will too! – Shep Hyken . There is a principle I want to share from my keynote program: “Kiss Your Customer: Why Sales & Service Are Just Like Dating & Relationships.” It’s a concept called “15 MINUTES OR LESS/15 DOLLARS OR LESS.

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Eight critical omnichannel stats to inform your CX strategies

OpinionLab

Omnichannel fulfillment strategies, such as “Buy online, pick up in store” (BOPUS for short) or click-and-collect, can provide a win-win for both you and your customers. You will be able to take full advantage of cross-selling, promotions, and existing inventories – all while saving substantially on costs. For their part, your customers get what they want quicker than standard shipping and more conveniently than when they purchase off the shelf.

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Nuance is never obvious

Customer Enthusiast

Last week, I read perhaps the best article that has come across my screen in 2016 on the topic of customer service: The Secret Lives of Hotel Doormen by Noam Scheiber. For me, it clarified the distinction between ordinary and extraordinary customer service. While reading the article—although it doesn’t appear anywhere in the text—I found myself drawn to the word ‘nuance’ which is defined as “a subtle difference in or shade of meaning, expression, or sound.

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The 4 Best Retention Strategies to Reduce Customer Churn

Kayako

Why worry about churn when you can just get new customers? New SaaS companies are obsessed with growth. Think of growth like hosting a party at your home. You stand out in your front yard and invite any passer by to enter, while your close friends are sneaking out the back door because you’ve not offered them a drink or a snack. Your house will fill up quickly but without hospitality, your guests will leave just as quickly.

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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.