Customer Bliss
JULY 13, 2016
Guest Post by Chip R. Bell. Chip R. Bell is a renowned keynote speaker and the author of several best-selling books. His newest book is Sprinkles: Creating Awesome Experiences Through Innovative Service. He can be reached at www.chipbell.com. How’s Everything? Ever had a maitre’d, waiter or waitress saunter up to your table and ask the ubiquitous “How’s everything?
Experience Investigators by 360Connext
JULY 14, 2016
Should pricing be considered part of the customer experience? YES. The post How Does Pricing Affect Customer Experience? appeared first on Customer Experience Consulting.
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Beyond Philosophy
JULY 11, 2016
In case you missed it, the world has gone online! If you haven’t gone online with your Customer Experience, too, it’s time. To be honest, if you haven’t begun, you’re late. The digital transformation of your present Customer Experience is long overdue. Consider this graph of which devices customers use at home: Nearly everyone has a computer or smartphone, and close to three quarters have a tablet.
Win the Customer
JULY 13, 2016
Marks & Spenser, the U.K.’s largest chain store, has decided to stop playing music in its stores following feedback from customers, the retailer announced at the end of May 2016. For the past 10 years, M&S had been playing piped music in its 852 stores, following the example of many other retailers. Complaints from customers and anti-noise groups, coupled with extensive research, prompted the policy change.
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Customer Bliss
JULY 12, 2016
Episode Overview. Welcome to Episode 13 of my podcast. (It’s lucky, don’t worry.) In this episode, I’m talking with Dave Mingle, the General Director of Global Customer Experience Execution and Planning for General Motors. In our conversation, Dave and I discuss the multi-year path that GM has been on. First, they needed to evaluate and establish the need for embedding customer experience.
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Beyond Philosophy
JULY 13, 2016
What do a Bank, an Airline, and an Online Retailer Have in Common? Consorsbank, Lufthansa, and Zalando—three very different companies—have both undertaken a Customer Experience improvement program. Consorsbank is a bank; Lufthansa is an airline; Zalando is an online clothing retailer. Whilst they each have their unique challenges, their insight on Customer Experience shows us the common obstacles that all of us face when tackling such an important facet of our business.
OpinionLab
JULY 15, 2016
I recently attended Forrester’s CXNYC conference. Forrester’s events are a great bellwether for the state of CX. Their analysts have long been active in the CX space and conferences like CXNYC are full of CX stories from the trenches. The overarching headline from the conference was that “growth without CX is not sustainable”. Here are a couple of supporting themes I observed to this main takeaway: CX simplicity is vital but hard to achieve.
Customer Bliss
JULY 14, 2016
Short post this week as I’m in the middle of moving, but I wanted to take a few seconds and discuss leadership accountability as relates to customer experience. In the writings and speeches I’ve done, I commonly refer to this as “one-company leadership.” That’s where you need to get to as an organization. The entire company, beginning with the senior leadership team, needs to be on the same page with regard to what the customer experience is — and why it’
ShepHyken
JULY 13, 2016
Customer Experience. We had a reservation Friday night at a restaurant for 7:30. We arrived on time, if not a few minutes early. There were two tables that were available, right in the middle of the restaurant. However, the hostess was looking in other parts of the restaurant. I pointed at one of the open tables and asked if we could sit there. She said, “No.
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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
Amity
JULY 13, 2016
Customer Support and Customer Service have been around for decades. These were the necessary evils of the traditional sector – the old-model reactive break/fix cost center – to resolve problems resulting from breaks and service interruptions. The misconception with SaaS is that there is no longer a need for a team of this nature in today’s organization.
Beyond Philosophy
JULY 12, 2016
Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D., CMC Thought Leadership Principal, Beyond Philosophy. The Service-Profit Chain, an enterprise performance and financial results concept introduced by Gary Loveman, James Heskett, W. Earl Sasser, and Leonard Schlesinger in 1994 in Harvard Business Review, and in a 1997 book by the last three authors, can essentially be explained as follows: It is a theory of business management which links employee satisfaction to customer loyalty and profitability.
Win the Customer
JULY 15, 2016
The saying “the customer is always right” has been around for so long that we seldom give it much thought. The real question, however, is whether or not it’s true. If you have a business, it’s crucial to satisfy your customers. It’s hard to deny that you must make your customers’ needs a priority. Let’s look at four facts that prove this assertion.
ShepHyken
JULY 11, 2016
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. “Oh when you smilin’, when you smilin’ The whole world smiles with you” – do happy customers = better customer experiences? by Ian Golding.
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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Michel Falcon Experience
JULY 9, 2016
While in my early 20’s I got a job as a customer service agent working within a call centre. I didn’t grow up aspiring to be a call centre agent but I recognized that it would be a springboard to other career opportunities (if I applied myself). In this video I share how I was able to get promoted four times in just under six years. I also share ways that I continuously improved my customer service skills as an employee which has led to a fulfilling career.
Think Customers
JULY 12, 2016
There's a goldmine of valuable data in the cross-channel interactions customers conduct. 1to1 Media's Tom Hoffman recently met up with Jason Rose, Gigya Senior Vice President, Marketing, to discuss key trends in customer identity management and how information shared by customers in their omnichannel interactions can be used to deliver more personalized customer experiences.
ijgolding
JULY 12, 2016
Have you ever wondered why it is still more common than not for us to have to endure experiences as a customer that fail to meet our basic expectations? On an almost daily basis, customers are faced with companies across a multitude of industries who fail to deliver promises; provide service from employees with a less than acceptable attitude; confuse and disappoint by inflexible rules and procedures… I could go on.
ShepHyken
JULY 15, 2016
This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Tom Hoffman shares a personal story that translates into a great lesson for the customer experience. We must always be looking for new and different ways to improve upon the customer experience. – Shep Hyken. My daughter Caroline’s class recently had their 8th grade formal. Leading up to the dance, her friends informed her that a certain boy was planning to invite her.
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
Customer Enthusiast
JULY 11, 2016
Last month, I returned to one of my favorite hotels in New York City. It was my first stay since the hotel completed an extensive renovation in 2012. I’ll withhold the name of the hotel because it’s not important. What matters are the observations below – which apply to countless businesses, lodging and otherwise, in New York City and beyond. Let me say first that management made a lot of great decisions with regard to the renovations of the guest rooms and public space.
Forrester
JULY 13, 2016
CX and marketing leaders, mark your diaries! I'm excited to announce that Forrester's CX Marketing Singapore 2016 event is less than 6 weeks away. As all organizations operating in Singapore and in South-East Asia understand, customer experience (CX) is fast becoming the only competitive differentiator for their business. The lines between brand, marketing, and customer experience (CX) disciplines are blurring as customers gain access to companies, services and products on their own terms.
Kayako
JULY 12, 2016
One week ago, we launched the new Kayako. And what a week it was – from overwhelming site traffic on Day 1 to being featured on Product Hunt on Day 2, it’s been a rollercoaster for our entire team. Needless to say, we are really grateful for the positive response, and thrilled to see how many customers both new and existing identify with Kayako’s mission.
Natalie Petouhof
JULY 12, 2016
Tweet Obviously no one plans on implementing a project that will fail. However, statistics show that over the past 20 years a very large percentage of technology projects do fail to result in the business outcomes that they were expected to meet. The real issue is that leading change (implementing new technology, whether it be CX, transitioning to the cloud, IoT, etc…) is different than the role of leading in general.
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Storyminers
JULY 11, 2016
For well over 100 years, businesses leaders have made decisions based on what is right for the business. Business profitability first. Everything else second. Why not buy cheap chairs for the restaurant? Why not focus on the efficiency of the call center instead of delivering better customer outcomes? Much of this thinking comes from entrenched systems and processes.
Steve DiGioia
JULY 11, 2016
This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. A touch of independence mixed with patience, possessing a definite superiority complex and territorial. These are some characteristics associated with the common house cat. But what if we in the customer service industry held these same traits dear to our heart? My cat is not responsible for anyone other than herself.
Bold360
JULY 13, 2016
Customers reach out to organizations and businesses in a variety of ways today, including text, web, mobile, social media, email, and phone. Businesses that provide customer service on all of these channels in an integrated way, rather than in silos, deliver the consistent experience consumers crave. Multi-channel retail experiences simply imply the use of multiple channels when delivering customer experience.
ShepHyken
JULY 12, 2016
Tricia Morris On What’s Changing In Customer Service. Shep Hyken speaks with customer service thought leader, author, Sr. Product Manager at Microsoft, and one of the top customer service influencers of 2016, Tricia Morris, about global customer service. Tricia shares stats and facts from Microsoft’s State of Global Customer Service Report and how customer service is changing globally.
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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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