Alida

MARCH 21, 2018

Note: This article is part of our ROI Matters series , which explores the value of research ROI to C-suite executives and leaders in product innovation , customer experience, marketing and customer insight. . It’s not enough to treat the symptoms of an illness—you need to understand the cause. Similarly, customer experience (CX) and market researchers must look beyond just fixing individual transactions and in-the-moment interactions with consumers to effectively demonstrate the return-on-invest

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ROI Net Promoter Score NPS Telecommunications 252

CloudCherry

MARCH 19, 2018

In any field, there are people who ‘claim’ to be good and then there are those that are actually good. The same holds true for businesses. You might think that your business is delivering great experiences to customers, but are customers actually finding value in it? Also, is your business able to measure tangible value from it? By value, I mean more referrals, repeat business, higher revenue, and greater profitability.

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InMoment XI

MARCH 21, 2018

Everybody who conducts surveys and collects customer feedback with the objective of measuring or improving Loyalty or Customer Satisfaction will at least consider “identifying drivers”, if not executing a method to do so. There are many ways to identify the drivers of an outcome metric such as Loyalty or CSAT. Some are more common, some. View Article.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 21, 2018

Dear future robot overlords, Please read this first. I’m on your side! I promise. Mostly. With a few exceptions. Thanks for going easy on me, -Jeannie. What a great time to be alive! We live in an age of constant discovery around artificial intelligence and the amazing ways we are sure to use it. When it comes to customer experience, there is no doubt AI is already impacting the way we do business, and I’m not just talking about hospitality bots.

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Customer Bliss

MARCH 22, 2018

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel,” is a great quote from Maya Angelou, that Claudiu Coltea , EVP and Head of Customer Experience for Citizens Financial Group, shared while answering the pay-it-forward question, that I ask in every podcast interview, “what do you know now that you wish you knew then?

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InMoment XI

MARCH 21, 2018

Everybody who conducts surveys and collects customer feedback with the objective of measuring or improving Loyalty or Customer Satisfaction will at least consider “identifying drivers”, if not executing a method to do so. There are many ways to identify the drivers of an outcome metric such as Loyalty or CSAT. Some are more common, some. View Article.

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Loyalty Customer Satisfaction Metrics Measurement 200

Win the Customer

MARCH 22, 2018

As a business owner, you understand the importance of keeping your valued customers happy; after all, a happy customer usually means a repeat customer. Thus, the last thing you want is to inadvertently drop the ball and/or anger a valued customer and have them decide to shop elsewhere due to a foul up by one of your support agents or glitchy systems.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 23, 2018

Have you been on a flight recently and found that you arrived at your destination a little early? I have, but I never thought much about it until I heard this NPR report. A Tufts University researcher named Silke Forbes thought it odd that she arrived 30 minutes early on a flight from Cleveland to Washington. She had taken the same flight a few years before, but it had taken less time back then.

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Customer Guru

MARCH 21, 2018

The days when a customer service (CS) team was strictly responsible for handling complaints from customers are long past. In this new market, your CS team has to handle plenty more than unruly and unhappy customers. Besides handling complaints, it also needs to focus on an even bigger role by taking the lead in sculpting an amazing customer experience, which ultimately cultivates high customer satisfaction that will also create customer promotion through additional recommendations and referrals

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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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CX Journey

MARCH 21, 2018

Image courtesy of Pixabay What's in your customer experience strategy budget? Traditionally, customer experience professionals have no budget. By that I mean that they have no allocated financial resources for improvements to be made as a result of the learnings from surveys and other listening posts, journey mapping, and other customer experience strategy exercises that become the catalyst for onstage customer experience or behind-the-scenes process improvements.

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Workshop Customer Journey Mapping Travel Consulting 108

UJET

MARCH 22, 2018

"Every time I order through chewy I am blown away by the speed and quality of the service." "I have never come across such an understanding company and one so willing to help and give advice." "I think Chewy is the best thing since sliced bread." "There is simply no better online business.". The quotes above are actual testimonials from customers of the online pet supply retailer Chewy, submitted by the company in connection with its nomination for the 2017 Stevie Awards Customer Service Departm

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TechSee

MARCH 19, 2018

Companies are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence (AI)-powered contact center solutions to meet consumers’ growing demand for better CX, reduce costs and alleviate pressure on agents. With AI, call centers are equipped with a wide range of voice analytics, enabling recognition of customer, accent, gender, and emotion, as well as powering conversational IVRs and voice based virtual assistants.

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Bob Hayes

MARCH 19, 2018

As users/customers engage with a company (their products, services, surveys), they generate a lot of data about their behaviors and interactions with the brand. Predictive analytics and artificial intelligence capabilities provide a way to extract insights from that data to help you improve the customer experience and optimize customer loyalty. Artificial Intelligence and Predictive Analytics.

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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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Oracle

MARCH 23, 2018

Companies were previously slow to adopt CPQ solutions because they were at one time difficult to use. But now, CPQ solutions have evolved to become easy to use, easy to implement, and instrumental in achieving high levels of productivity and ROI. Today’s CPQ market consists of companies in various industries such as insurance, automotive, travel, and financial services, who use the tool to achieve high levels of ROI.

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Document Automotive ROI Insurance 97

Second to None

MARCH 20, 2018

Interactions between brands and consumers are changing across virtually every industry, making it more important than ever that your organization is striving to encourage consistency within every moment of the customer journey. Increased accessibility has changed the expectations of the average customer, and as a result brands have a whole new set of responsibilities that did not exist even ten years ago.

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Brands Social Media Voice of Customer Consumers 85

ShepHyken

MARCH 23, 2018

This week we feature an article by Denise Graziano who explains how essential clear, consistent, authentic communication is for companies to use when dealing with difficult news. – Shep Hyken. What professional skill is highly overlooked, underrated, often treated as an afterthought, yet is as vital as fuel for any vehicle on a company’s road to success?

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Communication Blog Leadership Airlines 81

Customer Guru

MARCH 22, 2018

At Customer Guru, we believe that Customer Experience (CX) should be the number one priority for all the Indian businesses so that they become more sustainable and successful globally. Thus, we are on a mission to spread this awareness, inspiring and guiding professionals to adopt and inculcate a customer-centric approach. We are certain that this is a first step to help organizations WOW their customers and create raving fans for themselves.

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B2C Customer Centricity Management B2B 65

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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transcosmos Information Systems

MARCH 20, 2018

We’re living in a digital world where changes in the customer service industry happen by the day. Over the recent years, the focus has been on enhancing customer support in every contact point so that the overall customer experience is always a positive one. Since this trend is poised to continue for a long time, businesses should adapt and come up with different strategies to better serve customer demands and needs.

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2018 Customer Service E Commerce E-support 76

Second to None

MARCH 19, 2018

Regardless of the many differences that make up our society, brands need to strive to treat every individual interaction with a customer the same. Customers with hearing impairments deserve the same level of customer service as every other segment, and brands need to prove that they are willing to put forth an effort to provide this level of performance.

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Banking Customer Centricity Voice of Customer Brands 81

Bob Hayes

MARCH 19, 2018

As users/customers engage with a company (their products, services, surveys), they generate a lot of data about their behaviors and interactions with the brand. Predictive analytics and artificial intelligence capabilities provide a way to extract insights from that data to help you improve the customer experience and optimize customer loyalty. Artificial Intelligence and Predictive Analytics.

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Loyalty 2018 Travel Insights 74

Customer Guru

MARCH 22, 2018

At Customer Guru, we believe that Customer Experience (CX) should be the number one priority for all the Indian businesses so that they become more sustainable and successful globally. Thus, we are on a mission to spread this awareness, inspiring and guiding professionals to adopt and inculcate a customer-centric approach. We are certain that this is a first step to help organizations WOW their customers and create raving fans for themselves.

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B2C Customer Centricity Management B2B 63

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ReviewTrackers

MARCH 23, 2018

Some businesses are still reluctant to embrace online customer reviews posted on sites like Yelp, Google, Facebook, and TripAdvisor. Maybe one of the previous comments they saw had caused a little PTSD. Or maybe there aren’t enough reviews coming in for management to make a fuss about. It could go the other way, too: too many reviews to manage and make sense of.

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Second to None

MARCH 22, 2018

The ongoing battle between brick-and-mortar stores and online retail is now on more even ground than ever before. The traditional arguments for both sides relate to the convenience provided by online shopping, and the immediate service provided by employees within the in-store atmosphere. While it is certainly being pushed more to the side, brick-and-mortar retail still has immense value in the marketplace.

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Experience Matters

MARCH 20, 2018

2018 marks the eighth straight year that we’ve published the Temkin Experience Ratings, a cross-industry, open standard benchmark of customer experience. To generate these Ratings, we asked 10,000 U.S. consumers to rate their recent interactions with 318 companies across 20 industries and then evaluated their experiences across three dimensions: success, effort, and emotion.

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Oracle

MARCH 21, 2018

Because of the speed customer experience (CX) is moving, executives leading the charge often have mixed up perceptions about their own proficiencies and how prepared they are to face the future. Rapidly changing data and smarter technology keeps changing what customers expect from brands. As we previously reported , we set out to hear from the field directly, analyzing survey responses from over 350 CX professionals to get a better handle on their actual state of CX.

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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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