Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 20, 2018

If you’ve never thought about how you engage customers, then what’s to stop them from becoming actively disengaged? Sometimes we set ourselves up for this! It even echoes back to us in the way we engage within our own organizations. Consider this real-life scenario: I used to have a joke with some colleagues at my first job. We were constantly walking into meetings in conference rooms with LONG agendas that could get pretty boring and stuffy.

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CX Accelerator

JUNE 19, 2018

Empathy is defined as the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. For example, we show empathy when we put ourselves in the shoes of an elderly person and give them our seat on a crowded bus. Or when we share genuine excitement with a friend who received a job promotion. Showing this type of empathy often comes naturally to us, and is ingrained in how we act in our everyday lives.

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Customer Bliss

JUNE 20, 2018

What happens when one moves from hospitality to healthcare? Shawn Smith is a Chief Experience Officer at MedStar Washington Hospital Center. Though he’s only been in this position for less than a year, Shawn is responsible for improving the experience of the hospital which spans both patient and caregiver experience, and the overall quality and safety aspect of the health care center.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 22, 2018

When I need work done at the house, I always get three quotes. I never go with the highest or the lowest, but instead, I choose the one in the middle. This shortcut, called Extremeness Aversion, helps me make an important decision—and it helps your customers make buying decisions, too. We discussed Extremeness Aversion on our podcast earlier this month.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 20, 2018

If you’ve never thought about how you engage customers, then what’s to stop them from becoming actively disengaged? Sometimes we set ourselves up for this! It even echoes back to us in the way we engage within our own organizations. Consider this real-life scenario: I used to have a joke with some colleagues at my first job. We were constantly walking into meetings in conference rooms with LONG agendas that could get pretty boring and stuffy.

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Customer Bliss

JUNE 22, 2018

Recently, during the launch of my latest book, “ Would You Do That To Your Mother? The ‘Make Mom Proud’ Standard for How to Treat Your Customers ,” I stopped at Nasdaq in Times Square for a #NasdaqSpeedReads interview with Lyanne Alfaro. We spoke about the book, how good employee and customer experience affects businesses and customers, and why technology and CX should play nicely together without removing the human element.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 20, 2018

The concept of disruption is interesting. If you ask most business people to name a company that is known for being a disrupter, you’ll hear answers like Amazon, Uber and Walmart. Walmart disrupted local businesses when they came into a community. Uber disrupted the taxi-cab industry. And, Amazon started out disrupting bookstores and eventually moved on to disrupting the entire retail world.

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Customer Guru

JUNE 19, 2018

The leaders of Starbucks , the world’s favorite coffeehouse chain, have often encouraged their customers to consider the outlets to be a “third place” – a place where people spend their time outside of homes and offices: a perfect hangout spot. However, a video released in April 2018 invoked myriad emotions in people, making them not wanting to visit a nearby Starbucks any time soon; some were infuriated, some were saddened, but most of them were just confused.

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Experience Matters

JUNE 20, 2018

The most dowloaded content that I’ve published is our free eBook, The Six Laws of Customer Experience. It’s been translated into many languages and read by 10’s of 1,000s of people. It continues to be very popular because it uses simple language and concepts to describe what we call “the fundamental truths about how organizations treat customers.” We’ve developed an updated infographic that brings the laws to life.

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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

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Answer Dash

JUNE 20, 2018

Live chat is an effective tool most organizations are using to increase both conversion rates and sales. However, success with live chat only comes when the tool is used properly. This means using the best live chat software for website that makes it possible for you to engage with customers with relevant content and provide them with necessary help as they try to make a purchase online.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 17, 2018

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various 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. 5 Common Customer Service Complaints and How to Fix Them by Swati Kungwani. (Retail Customer Experience) A retail business can never be immune from complaints.

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Oracle

JUNE 19, 2018

SmarterCX.com is proud to highlight women in technology who are driving innovation, creating the next generation of customer experience, and inspiring future leaders. We met with Niki Hall, Vice President of Marketing at Five9 , who shared with us her path to a successful career in technology and her 3 ingredients for a best-in-class team. View Niki’s interview and read the transcript below.

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ReviewTrackers

JUNE 18, 2018

If you’re running or managing a business in the financial services industry, you’ve probably heard of Credit Karma. Founded in 2006, the website is known as a free credit and financial management platform, offering free credit scores, reports and insights, plus tools for identifying and disputing credit report errors. It gives members access to their credit scores and reports from TransUnion and Equifax, with weekly updates, as well as analyzes members’ credit profile and makes product recommend

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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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NICE inContact

JUNE 20, 2018

You may be familiar with the Hoveround name, even if you haven’t used it products. That’s because Hoveround is the largest direct-to-consumer manufacturer of power wheelchairs in the U.S., and its mission is a powerful one: The 25-year-old company is dedicated to improving and enriching lives through improved mobility. But Hoveround’s contact center, which plays a pivotal role in servicing current customers as well as calling prospects, just wasn’t keeping up.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 19, 2018

Color Your Customers’ World. How can you create strong customer loyalty while staying inspired? Shep Hyken is joined by Marilyn Suttle , conference speaker, bestselling author, and coach, to discuss her new book, Color Their World – The Art of Creating Strong Customer Loyalty. ?. Top Takeaways: The more automated things become, the more important it is to have strong customer service.

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Eptica

JUNE 20, 2018

Date: Wednesday, June 20, 2018 Author: Pascal Gauvrit How AI-based self-service can transform the customer experience. Published on: June 20, 2018. Author: Pascal Gauvrit The internet is now the primary channel for most consumers when it comes to shopping, connecting with friends and families and communicating with brands. The latest Internet Trends Report from influential venture capitalist Mary Meeker found that the average adult spends 5.9 hours per day online , up from just 3 hours in 2009.

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QuestionPro Audience

JUNE 22, 2018

The U.S. pet industry has been growing year after year, with overall sales of pet products and services rising 5% in 2017. Pet technology is a category that is growing at a rapid pace, with no signs of slowing down. It is expected to generate $233 million in 2018, marking an 18% increase from 2017, according to a study by the Consumer Technology Association.

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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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Influitive

JUNE 21, 2018

The perils of leaving customer engagement and retention to chance This is a visualization of the typical SaaS buying process, which has clear stages and great content to guide buyers toward purchasing your product: This is a thing of beauty. People in your organization are constantly examining, optimizing, and perfecting it. Now, this is a.

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ReviewTrackers

JUNE 22, 2018

Getting customers to say loyal to your business takes dedication. There’s always going to be competition. There’s always going to be another option for the consumer. Fortunately, social media allows you a direct way to strengthen connections with your fans and repair your reputation with customers who may have had a less than stellar experience. As you build your customer retention strategy, make sure your social media team is doing these five things: Include online reviews in your social media

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SurveyGizmo

JUNE 20, 2018

Why Use Lead Generation Surveys? Lead generation forms on webpages are undoubtedly an efficient way to collect data such as contact information about your prospects. These forms, however, typically fail to collect additional and useful data due to the fact that prospects are resistant to filling out a large amount of fields. Consider an example in which your goal is to facilitate lead generation for a growing business.

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Experience Matters

JUNE 18, 2018

Over the last few years, many B2B organizations have created customer success organizations that focus on ensuring that their clients are happy. These companies are realizing that customers aren’t just buying their products, they’re making purchases with the expectation that they will achieve some value from the provider’s products and services.

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Andrew Mcfarland

JUNE 19, 2018

If you are looking for a high-impact way to improve the customer experience, start with your employees. A recent article touting minimum wage increases at a Chick-fil-A carried a quote from the owner worth considering. The owner expected the increased.

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InnerTrends

JUNE 19, 2018

This is the question that is on most marketers’ mind: what are the exact paths that customers use to convert? If you manage to find the recipe to success, you can replicate it time and time again, making sure more and more clients are taking the same path. All good in theory. But what’s reality like? What marketers and product managers are hoping for is a clear step-by-step graph showing exactly how clients get from the dashboard to payment.

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8x8

JUNE 18, 2018

Today’s consumers are notoriously fickle. What’s the way to win their repeat business? In an acronym: CX. It’s all about the quality of your customer experience. Simply provide the fastest, easiest, most personalized, convenient, relevant, value-driven, mistake-free interactions. Slam-dunk, right? Sure, if you manage a team of superheroes. And now you can.

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NICE inContact

JUNE 21, 2018

79% of consumers indicate that they will leave you if you provide them just one bad customer experience. Consumers not only demand the best from your product or service, but they demand the best from your people, and your systems. There isn’t much room for error, and a lot is at stake! So, what constitutes a “bad customer experience”? Answering that question is critical.

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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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