CloudCherry
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
Too much of a good thing? When it comes to our Finalists for CloudCherry’s 2019-2020 CX Championship, there’s no such thing! With over 100 stellar submissions to choose from- falling into either the Practitioner or the Influencer Categories- our Top 10 list quickly became our Top 12 list. And we ain’t mad about it! SO, without further ado, our Top TWELVE CX Champ 2019-2020 Winners are: In the Category of PRACTITIONERS-.
Experience Investigators by 360Connext
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
“We’re unique, and so are the CX challenges we face.” That’s what we like to believe. We like to believe this about ourselves, our brands and our customers. We have bigger and badder challenges than our competitors…because of the size of our organization, the way our company is organized, and the way our industry is regulated!
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Customer Bliss
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
Customer success is more than just a buzzword, and Guy Nirpaz , the CEO and founder of Totango , and author of Farm Don’t Hunt: The Definitive Guide to Customer Success , talks to us about how to realistically integrate customer success into customer experience. In today’s episode, Guy talks about the importance of delivering value to the customer and across the entire customer lifecycle.
Alida
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
This has been an extraordinarily bright few months for our Vision Critical business. We celebrated our customers at Insights Day events across the globe, presented our vision and business strategy at Forrester’s CX SF , and went online with Argyle to talk about the customer experience with hundreds of marketing and CX professionals. The density of conversations globally on the role of customer trust in the context of business impacting insight and action punctuate the opportunity and responsibil
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Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your organization’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.
CloudCherry
NOVEMBER 10, 2019
C-Suite…UNITE! Take up the battle cry and learn the keys to finding that oft-elusive C-Suite Unity in this week’s ‘Sweets of CX’ podcast. And, who better to lead the charge than the one and only Jeanne Bliss of Customer Bliss – 5 time Chief Customer Officer, CX Pioneer & Leadership Advisor, Speaker, Author, Cofounder of CXPA.org, and our honored guest.
CXDNA Update brings together the best content for customer experience professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
GetFeedback
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
This guide will teach you how to use the Customer Satisfaction Score metric, boost loyalty, and prove the ROI.
ShepHyken
NOVEMBER 13, 2019
It wasn’t that long ago that you would go to a store, dine at a restaurant, do business with a vendor or call a customer support center and notice how good the customer service was. A great service experience stood out. It was noticed. It was a differentiator. I started my speaking business in the 1980s. I know, I look much younger than I actually am, but it really was that long ago.
TechSee
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
Smart Home technology is expected to become a $151.4 billion market by 2024. However, it still has a long way to go before it reaches its full potential. Many consumers face significant technical challenges as they set about smartening up their homes. While in theory, smart devices should be easy to set up – most are wireless and can be remotely connected – in reality, non-technical customers are often insufficiently skilled to set up these products on their own.
Beyond Philosophy
NOVEMBER 15, 2019
Tribalism: Are You In with The In-Crowd? As humans, the need to belong is essential to us. Most of us have a deep need to feel we are part of a broader community that shares our values and interests. In other words, we need to find our tribe. Tribes are connections between people that form communities, which can be formal or informal. Sometimes tribes are associated with where you were born and from whom, which are the formal types of tribes.
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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
Joe Rawlinson
NOVEMBER 13, 2019
Machine learning is shaping the e-learning space today. Before we get started, let’s understand: what exactly is machine learning? Is it similar to AI? It’s a subset of AI and the two are closely related but each of them performs a different task. Machine Learning builds algorithms and selects models designed to provide the desired outcome. It recognizes patterns to deliver pre-defined results.
ShepHyken
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
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. 3 Ways Store Layout Decisions Impact on Customer Experience by Oisin Ryan. (ServiceDock) The following covers three of the most common and obviously non-customer-centric strategies that retailers use.
Steve DiGioia
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
Great service is comprised of many parts and each must be present to create the experience every customer desires. Let’s briefly discuss each one of my top 8 until we get to “memory”. I know you’ll agree with me that it should be near the top of your list. Training. Training for the needed service skills is an essential foundational aspect of great service in any industry.
Heart of the Customer
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
Successful customer journey maps drive customer-focused change like improving customer experience, developing a new way to deliver value to customers, or reducing the cost to serve current customers. Based on a 2016 study of customer experience professionals, over two-thirds of respondents did not rate their journey mapping project as successful. The reason?
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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Customer Experience Update Submitted Articles
NOVEMBER 13, 2019
Learn how to reduce employee attrition with a successful employee loyalty program.
ShepHyken
NOVEMBER 15, 2019
This week we feature an article by Nogol Tardugno who tells us how to get our contact center interactive voice response (IVR) to deliver the best customer experience. Any reports of the death of interactive voice response (IVR) as a customer service channel have been greatly exaggerated. In 2019 businesses continue to fund their IVR call solutions as statistics both formal and anecdotal continue to demonstrate the need.
Interactions
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
Digital Transformation has become the “it” topic for senior leaders across all industries. In fact, according to IDC , direct Digital Transformation investment spending will approach $7.4 trillion between 2020 and 2023. And, with the digital native generation entering the consumer stage and the majority of consumers becoming more connected, the pressure for digital transformation is on. .
Oracle
NOVEMBER 15, 2019
Augmented reality apps may seem like a cute novelty at first glance, but they can play a valuable and even transformational role in today’s customer experience. According to the “ Impact of Emerging Technology on CX Excellence ” report from Oracle and ESG, 61% of firms using virtual or augmented reality have increased customer satisfaction metrics as a result.
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
ERDM
NOVEMBER 13, 2019
Article by Ernan Roman Featured on CMO.com Millennials and Gen Zs view traditional loyalty programs as “manipulative,” “hierarchical,” and “built around exclusions.”. image courtesy of CMO.com. Those are highlights from VoC research conducted by ERDM for Detroit-based watchmaker Shinola, which was looking to revamp its loyalty program. These points also underscore findings from similar research done for other brands, whose customers, across all generations, have knocked loyalty programs for tyin
ShepHyken
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
Create a Disney-Worthy Customer Experience. Building a magical customer experience at every level. Shep Hyken interviews Dennis Snow. They discuss how to define an organization’s level of service and company culture by looking at examples from the Walt Disney World Company. Top Takeaways: There are two steps to defining your organization’s level of service.
SurveySparrow
NOVEMBER 15, 2019
Smartphones give consumers a louder voice and bigger presence. As our readers know, SurveySparrow is always hard at work, building next-generation digital tools designed to help you enhance your Customer Experience (CX) initiatives (see our online survey tools , our offline survey tools , or our chatbot tools for example). However, from time to time, we do take a break to reach out to thought leaders who’ve influenced the niches we serve.
Answer Dash
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
(This article was originally published at Analytics Insight ) We understand that artificial intelligence is playing an important role in how organizations work. Artificial intelligence projects and services are changing everything from data accumulation and processing in the marketing division to on-boarding in the HR office. While AI and automation hold colossal value as far as time and cost reserve savings internally, there is another area wherein AI guarantees much greater, progressively impo
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Unlock the full potential of your educational initiatives with the 11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption eBook. You’ll uncover: Why measure content consumption rather than (or in addition to) completion rates and member satisfaction? What are some proven tactics to create quality learner content and raise your content consumption rates? Discover the secrets from leading experts in the field, distilled into practical tips that promise to elevate the quality of your educational offerings,
Totango
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
Onboarding is an exciting, critical phase of introductions and potential. It defines how you and your customer communicate, establish common goals, and begin the customer journey. Above all, it is an educational process. You want to teach your customers how to integrate your product into their daily workflows as quickly and thoroughly as possible. This is your opportunity to prove your product is the best solution for meeting their business goals.
Confirmit
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
Something for something. Customer relationships very much are premised on a quid pro quo between a company and its customers. That is, the customer/company relationship is an exchange of values, something for something. Customers want companies to deliver great products, services and experiences at a given price point. In turn, customers reward companies that meet and exceed their expectations with loyalty behaviors , that is the ongoing behaviors that create value for the company.
SaleMove
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
Build lasting relationships between your credit unions and your members. As consumers, we all interact with many organizations in our daily lives. Some of those conversations are good and some bad; some leave us happy with the outcome, while others have us yelling at the phone or screen. Each positively or negatively affects our willingness […].
NICE inContact
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
What do you get when you put a Baby Boomer, a Gen-Xer, a Millennial, and a Generation Z-er in a room together? A contact center ! The generational diversity in today’s contact center is incredible. Varying levels of expertise, coupled with different perspectives on organizational and customer problems, is invaluable to the contact center. But this generational diversity is also a challenge for contact center leaders as they seek the right performance management strategies to keep agents of all a
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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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