Sat.Mar 20, 2021 - Fri.Mar 26, 2021

article thumbnail

How to Prepare (the Right Way) for Customer Success Software Implementation

ChurnZero

Implementation doesn’t have to be a dread-inducing undertaking that makes you contemplate if it’s even worth purchasing a new tool or switching platforms. We’ve all experienced or have heard secondhand of a software implementation gone wrong – whether it’s perpetually delayed timelines, data mapping nightmares, or miscommunicated requirements – which stirs those uneasy and queasy feelings at the very thought of the task.

article thumbnail

Follow Six Steps to a Successful Customer Journey Analysis

Totango

A customer journey analysis helps you improve SaaS client experience and increase retention by optimizing the steps customers take in their relationship with your product and brand. Today’s concept of the customer journey takes a customer-centered perspective that unifies the pre-sales (buyer) and post-sales (customer) experience of your brand into a single lifecycle.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Don’t Accidentally Sabotage Customer Experience — Do This Instead

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Sure, you may not intend to, but there are probably ways you, as the leader of your department or organization, are sabotaging the experience your customers have. And who can blame you? Today, leaders have more expectations with fewer resources. We’re asked to spend more time reporting on what’s happened than making things happen. Time is limited and people are pressured.

article thumbnail

Banks & credit unions: Improve your metrics by putting customers first

Alida

The digital revolution offers incredible opportunities for credit unions, community banks, and retail banks to deliver better customer experiences , increase engagement, and build lasting relationships. The widespread availability of digital banking features, personalized support, and self-service tools has completely changed how people do business with their banks.

Banking 130
article thumbnail

Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

article thumbnail

The Most Important Measurement In Business

ShepHyken

This is the first of a number of lessons I’ll be sharing from my newest book, I’ll Be Back: How to Get Customers to Come Back Again and Again. A few years back I wrote about the idea of measuring customer satisfaction versus customer behavior. We’re revisiting that topic with a fresh point of view. Today’s lesson is about the exciting topic of measurement and data.

More Trending

article thumbnail

Best Technologies for Small Businesses

Win the Customer

Running and maintaining a small business is a challenge. Because of limited personnel and limited financial resources, small business owners often need to wear multiple hats to keep their business afloat like the use of another address for their mailbox company. The Importance of Using a Secure Fax and a virtual office address where the service provider will forward all of your mail, this is a really good one for Modern technology has made it easier for small business owners to manage and trac

article thumbnail

5 Rules for Making Customers Feel ‘Cared For’ and ‘Valued’

Beyond Philosophy

Customer emotions are essential in Customer Experience. Being deliberate about which emotions your experience evokes is critical, too. Today, we will take a deeper dive into making your customers feel “Cared for” with the 5 Rules for Making Customers Feeling Cared For and Valued. Before we get into the rules, it’s essential to know what you’re aiming at and why.

article thumbnail

5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of March 22, 2021

ShepHyken

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. Forget Customer Experience. Forget Employee Experience. Enter Total Experience by David Roe. (CMSWire) ECM and content services, while related, are not the same.

2021 134
article thumbnail

Reflecting at the Year Mark: 3 Lessons on Leadership from a Year of Coronavirus

Customer Bliss

As we round the corner on the one-year mark of this pandemic, I want to take a moment to reflect on some of the key lessons that still hold true. Even as more people get the vaccine and we slowly edge into “normal life,” it’s vital for us not to waste this opportunity. We must take the lessons of this last year and use them to shape how we lead our organizations into the future.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Customer Retention Strategies for Banks: Customer Experience is Key

ReviewTrackers

Bank Customer Retention: Why It Matters. You’ve probably heard this more than a dozen times: retaining a customer is so much cheaper than acquiring a new one. This holds true for banks and financial services providers, too. Here are some bank customer retention statistics to consider: According to Customer Think , the costs of acquiring a banking customer are estimated to be around $200 while the typical customer generates only $150 in revenue each year.

Banking 123
article thumbnail

The 3 Stages of the Visual Transformation Journey

TechSee

With the new digital-first mentality, the need for remote support and enhanced customer engagement, brands are recognizing the need for a visual-first strategy for acquiring and keeping their customers. Yes, the Visual Transformation journey is already underway. In Part 1 of this 2-part series, we explored the key trends driving this transformation and the benefits organizations can expect when they include the visual element in their digital transformation efforts.

ROI 109
article thumbnail

Why WPS Health Solutions Puts Member Experience First

Alida

WPS Health Solutions is a not-for-profit health insurance provider with a footprint that extends across the United States. Over its 75-year history, WPS has grown from a regional player in the Wisconsin market to become a leading force in the U.S. health insurance sector. The company offers a wide range of insurance products, working closely with members, employers, and the medical community to support a higher quality of care.

Insurance 130
article thumbnail

There is a More Dangerous Pandemic Happening with No Vaccine

The DiJulius Group

5 Quick Tips to Help you Make Price Irrelevant 1. Customer Service Feature Story There is a More Dangerous Pandemic Happening with No Vaccine I was recently in Florida enjoying a few days of vacation and warm weather. One of the many things I have always loved about being at a vacation place is how. Read Full Article. The post There is a More Dangerous Pandemic Happening with No Vaccine appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

Article 119
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

4 simple strategies for improving customer retention

delighted

It takes a lot to earn a customer’s loyalty. And once you bring someone into your company’s ecosystem, the last thing you want to do is lose them. By emphasizing customer retention as a key performance indicator (KPI) for your business, you can ensure your priorities are in the right place. What’s your customer retention rate? Before you can focus on improving customer retention, you must benchmark how you’re currently doing in this department.

article thumbnail

5 Tips to Build a World-Class B2B Customer Support Organization

Team Support

A customer can be very satisfied with the products and services of a company, but that doesn't mean they’ll remain loyal. Competitors can attract them by offering better customer benefits, including proactive customer support. Customer experience is decisive for both satisfaction and loyalty. However, most companies do not offer great customer experiences.

B2B 105
article thumbnail

How Cross Functional Opportunities Redefine Professional Value

One Millimeter Mindset

How many cross functional opportunities do each of us have every day? Because these opportunities can redefine our professional value, moving forward. Cross functional opportunities are created both intentionally as well as arising quite unintentionally. Often, because we do not realize we are in the midst of such an opportunity. Mostly because we seem to toil on teams with people who may not bring out our professional best.

article thumbnail

Pink Guava - Untitled Article

Pink Guava

What’s the right way to keeping your Customers First! Keeping the customer first and foremost in the decision-making for organizational endeavors is an effective strategy for business success. Organizations across the globe have been able to build and grow with a “Customer First" approach; for example, Amazon, Apple, and the list can go on and on. This is simply because a business's prime function is to serve the customers through its products and services and the "Customer First" approach suppo

article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

What Does an Allergy Have To Do With Customer Service?

Steve DiGioia

Those of us in the customer service industry focus much on procedures, ease of use, product availability, and the steps of service, to name a few, all in the hopes of providing our customers the best overall experience. When we have these processes down pat, we believe that’s “all we need” to ensure a steady stream of satisfied customers. But we’re leaving out a significant aspect of service and something very valuable for a customer in need.

article thumbnail

How appointment scheduling can help you deliver a superior customer experience and improve retention

BirdEye

The following post is from a guest contributor. People never forget how you made them feel! This holds true for your customers. Delivering a positive customer experience will call for efforts, but yield you great returns in the long run. . Customers today have a huge number of choices at hand, and it’s very easy for them to choose a competitor over your business.

article thumbnail

Are Vaccine Passports A Key Enabler to Help End the Pandemic or Not?

Beyond Philosophy

Welcome to Why Customers Buy, my weekly LinkedIn Newsletter series that explores how customers make decisions. It reveals ways to unlock what customers really want with new concepts and practical tips that drive value. Subscribe today right here. Consider this. You and some friends decided to go to see a movie. As you enter you are asked to prove you have had the vaccine, only people who have had the vaccine can enter.

article thumbnail

The Podcast So Far This Season

Customers That Stick

The spring season of the Crack the Customer Code podcast is over halfway done, and we’ve had some amazing guests and discussions this season. Below is a recap of the episodes so far this season. Make sure to check them out on your favorite podcast player or using the links below. Check Out Our Season Sponsor (and get a free report). In order to reap the benefits of CX (while simultaneously managing limited budgets and external expectations), the pros need to learn to prioritize.

2020 78
article thumbnail

How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

article thumbnail

Amazing Business Radio: Howard Tiersky

ShepHyken

The Customer Love Formula. How to Make Your Customers Love Doing Business with You. Shep Hyken interviews Howard Tiersky, Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Winning Digital Customers: The Antidote to Irrelevance. They discuss how valuable customer love is to succeed in an ever-changing world of business. Top Takeaways: The reality of today’s digital world is that the transformation of technology is never done.

B2C 78
article thumbnail

Birdeye’s new podcast: The Modern Experience Marketer

BirdEye

Today Birdeye is officially launching its new podcast, The Modern Experience Marketer , designed with the multi-location marketer in mind. The podcast helps marketers make sense of the new world of Experience Marketing , one in which businesses no longer set the terms of engagement for customer experiences, but rather are having the terms set for them by customers themselves.

article thumbnail

Delivering Human Capital Value is Everyone’s Responsibility

One Millimeter Mindset

Are you delivering human capital value to your organization? Constantly, continuously, accountably and responsibly? That’s a Big Idea and a question to ask yourself every day. Especially as the light at the end of the pandemic tunnel becomes brighter each day. To get to where you really need to go, ask yourself bigger questions. You are worth it. Human Capital Value describes the intangible qualities or assets which are not able to be included on an accounting spreadsheet.

article thumbnail

Quantitative versus Qualitative

Zeisler Consulting

I just got off the phone with a colleague and we were having a conversation about data. He brought up some good questions and points and so I figured I’d jot a few of them down here before they went right out of my head again. The gist of the discussion was the difference between quantitative and qualitative data. He was having some trouble explaining the difference to his boss.

article thumbnail

Your Expert Guide to CX Orchestration & Enhancing Customer Journeys

Speaker: Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor at Medallia

Join Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor, in this new webinar that will focus on: Understanding CX Orchestration Fundamentals: Gain a solid understanding of what CX orchestration is, its significance in the customer experience landscape, and how it plays a crucial role in shaping customer journeys. This includes the key concepts, strategies, and best practices involved in CX orchestration. 🔑 Connection to Customer Journey Maps: How to effectively integrate customer journey mapping into the