GetFeedback

MARCH 20, 2017

Customer experience (CX) is a term we're hearing a lot about these days. But what does it really mean, and how is it different from customer service?

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Customer Bliss

MARCH 23, 2017

This will be a shorter post, as we’re working on a longer one for next week about customer experience rooms ( I call them customer rooms sometimes , and often work on them in my client work). You may be familiar with the Adobe Experience Cloud , which gives a business a suite of insights around campaign-building, ads management, customer profiles, and other centralized assets.

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Alida

MARCH 23, 2017

Telecommunication companies are under immense pressure to provide better, faster services. According to Jen Palmer from T-Mobile , “If we don’t provide the service our customers want, expect and deserve, they can leave us.” Despite this, telecoms are notorious for having the lowest rated customer service departments and representatives of any industry.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 22, 2017

To be honest, I’m not lovin’ McDonald’s food! However, I’m lovin’ their plans to overhaul their Customer Experience to regain the 500 million lost customer visits. McDonald’s plan to upgrade to the “Experience of the Future “ has much to teach us all about how to adapt to the changing expectations of today’s discerning (and demanding) customers. McDonald’s rolls out the new experience to 2,500 U.S. locations by fourth quarter 2017.

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GetFeedback

MARCH 24, 2017

On the Salesforce Marketing Cloudcast, GetFeedback CMO Kraig Swensrud explains why marketers should lead the charge on customer experience initiatives.

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Win the Customer

MARCH 20, 2017

The cost of poor customer service is going up, rising from $41 billion lost in 2013 to $62 billion in 2015 , according to research reported by NewVoiceMedia. The cloud service company reports customer experience is the key differentiator in driving retention and acquisition, as companies that thrill customers at every touchpoint of the buyer journey are the ones most likely to keep customers around.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 24, 2017

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Manuel Grenacher, writes about how using bots can help manage and improve the customer experience. Used properly, I believe bots can be an customer service excellent tool. – Shep Hyken. Booking an appointment—say, a plane ticket—used to be so easy. Just pick up the phone, dial a number, and speak to a friendly person on the other end to arrange everything.

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GetFeedback

MARCH 20, 2017

Customer experience (CX) is a term we're hearing a lot about these days. But what does it really mean, and how is it different from customer service?

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ClearAction

MARCH 21, 2017

3 Ultimate Factors of Business Performance Lynn Hunsaker. Is customer engagement, artificial intelligence, digital marketing, predictive analytics, big data, or some other “shiny object” the key to driving business performance? Certainly all of these endeavors can make a difference in revenue growth. Yet there is a bigger picture: none of these is standalone in what’s required to sustain revenue growth, and they may or may not be big influencers of profit growth.

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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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Kayako

MARCH 21, 2017

In the age of disloyalty , it’s easy for your customer to jump ship from one subscription business or ecommerce store to another. How do you make a customer feel respected and gain their trust? Customer trust is a reciprocal behavior to what they receive. Trust comes when you understand your customer’s needs, respect them, and offer relevant service.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 22, 2017

Congratulations to Squaremouth , who just won a Gold Stevie Award for Customer Service Department of the Year – for the fourth time! (For those that don’t know, the Stevie is an international business award that recognizes top performing organizations in several categories including customer service.) Squaremouth is an online travel insurance company that compares travel insurance products from every major provider in the United States.

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GetFeedback

MARCH 24, 2017

On the Salesforce Marketing Cloudcast, GetFeedback CMO Kraig Swensrud explains why marketers should lead the charge on customer experience initiatives.

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Myra Golden

MARCH 19, 2017

I was trying to check in for my American Airlines flight on my phone. I was able to get one boarding pass, but not the other. After several failed attempts, I called American and explained my problem. I was transferred quickly and the person I ended up with looked into my itinerary and then said, “Ms. Golden, this is a system error. You are checked in all the way through to Tulsa.

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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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Michelli Experience

MARCH 21, 2017

Having consulted with and written two books about Starbucks ( The Starbucks Experience and Leading the Starbucks Way ), I seldom compare Starbucks with McDonald’s. Typically, I see these two iconic brands in two very different categories. From my vantage point, McDonald’s is an excellent example of a service brand which focuses on price, speed of delivery, and turnkey consistency.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 21, 2017

Diana Oreck on How to Be a Customer Service Rock Star. What lessons can we learn from rock stars in the world of customer service and customer experience, like Ritz-Carlton? Shep Hyken interviews award-winning training and development expert, international consultant and speaker, former VP of Ritz-Carlton Leadership and current Executive VP of Owner Experience at NetJets, Diana Oreck, about the traits that make for good customer service.

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ClearAction

MARCH 21, 2017

3 Ultimate Factors of Business Performance Lynn Hunsaker. Is customer engagement, artificial intelligence, digital marketing, predictive analytics, big data, or some other “shiny object” the key to driving business performance? Certainly all of these endeavors can make a difference in revenue growth. Yet there is a bigger picture: none of these is standalone in what’s required to sustain revenue growth, and they may or may not be big influencers of profit growth.

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Heart of the Customer

MARCH 22, 2017

Bottom lines are important, and a good measure of how business is doing. But there’s something that might come before the bottom line, and might make more of an impact on the strength of your business: customer service. We all know what negative customer service experiences—or poor customer journeys, as they are known—especially with the […]. The post Customer Journey Maps: How to Guide Your Leads to Customers appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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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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ReviewTrackers

MARCH 21, 2017

Given the realities of today’s customer-led market and real-time customer feedback , it’s more critical than ever for brands to track, monitor, and listen to what customers are saying online. It’s not always easy, however, to get a handle on what they’re saying — and where they’re saying it. With so many platforms and channels to choose from, your customers are more empowered than ever to share their thoughts about and experiences with your business.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 20, 2017

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. No More Nonpologies: Apologize to Customers Like You Mean It by Leslie O’Flahavan. (HDI) Sometimes, when things go wrong, when you are to blame for a problem, or when a customer is rightfully aggrieved, all you can offer is an apology, so you really must learn to do it right.

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Forrester

MARCH 22, 2017

We've been busy finalizing the agenda and speakers for the forthcoming CX Forum in Sydney on May 9 th. That's only 8 weeks away! Our focus this year is on exploring the current and emerging best practices for the design and delivery of exceptional customer experiences in digital channels. Or to put it more simply, we're going way beyond the why and what to dig deeper into how.

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ijgolding

MARCH 20, 2017

In this, my exclusive column for CustomerThink, I continue to explore in detail my perspective on seven ‘tips’ that will enable any organisation to become genuinely customer centric. It is important to stress that the ‘tips’ are in no particular order – tip number four is no less important than tip number one – although all the tips are connected to each other in some way.

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Avaya

MARCH 23, 2017

At this point, nearly every company is working overtime to realign around two simple words: customer experience (CX). So much so that nearly 90% of companies now compete solely on CX —a drastic increase from 36 % in 2010—and 50 % of consumer product investments are expected to be redirected to CX innovations—like attribute matching—by the end of this year.

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Eptica

MARCH 22, 2017

Date: Friday, March 24, 2017 4 more artificial intelligence concepts you need to know to deliver improved CX. Published on: March 24, 2017. Author: Pascal Gauvrit So far in this three part series covering artificial intelligence (AI) in customer experience I’ve explained the difference between bots and chatbots and some of the key concepts that you need to know about.

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Experience Matters

MARCH 20, 2017

We recently released the 2017 Temkin Experience Ratings that ranks the customer experience of 331 companies across 20 industries based on a survey of 10,000 U.S. consumers. Courtyard By Marriott delivers the best customer experience in the Hotels industry, according to the 2017 Temkin Experience Ratings, an annual customer experience ranking of companies based on a […].

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ClearAction

MARCH 24, 2017

Value Chain Solution to VoC ROI Lynn Hunsaker. Voice-of-the-customer (VoC) ROI can be elusive unless you’re adamantly driving customer experience transformation. The key to VoC maturity and ROI is not sophistication or breadth of market research. It’s about viewing VoC itself and VoC actions and metrics as value chains. What is a value chain?

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