InMoment XI
SEPTEMBER 12, 2016
Though the idea of culture has been around for centuries, it is only in recent decades that corporations have begun to speak of the notion of corporate culture. Probably the best way to define corporate culture is as the deepest thoughts and beliefs a company holds about itself. This includes what it considers to be.
Customer Bliss
SEPTEMBER 15, 2016
Digital storytelling is crucial in customer experience. Before we get deep into digital storytelling and how to maximize your processes around it, let’s briefly set up why storytelling as a whole — and especially digital storytelling — is important in the current business climate. The importance of digital storytelling. Here’s a Wharton interview with Carmine Gallo , the author of a book called The Storyteller’s Secret.
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Experience Investigators by 360Connext
SEPTEMBER 13, 2016
Customers are tracking brands and how they how they interact with customers. And they’re giving their friends all the dirt they find on your brand! They’re sharing information like who to contact to get things done, and when’s the best time to call and actually get an answer. They may not contact you directly about it, […]. The post 3 Ways Customers are Tracking Brands (and Judging YOURS!
Beyond Philosophy
SEPTEMBER 12, 2016
When you ask a person why they bought something, they can always tell you straightaway. It might not be the reason, but it’s the reason they give. Is the person lying? Except for rare exceptions (politicians, criminals, celebrities learning too late that Twitter and Booze don’t mix), not at all. Many times people don’t know the real reason they did something.
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InMoment XI
SEPTEMBER 12, 2016
Though the idea of culture has been around for centuries, it is only in recent decades that corporations have begun to speak of the notion of corporate culture. Probably the best way to define corporate culture is as the deepest thoughts and beliefs a company holds about itself. This includes what it considers to be. View Article.
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Alida
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
The countdown is on for the 2016 Customer Intelligence Summit in Chicago. If you’re heading to the Summit, getting the official free event app is a must. Here’s why. Note: Instructions on how to log-in to the app, including your username and password, are sent to you via email. If you need assistance, please send us a note at events@visioncritical.com.
ShepHyken
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Mark Smith, writes about how crucial personalization can be to the customer experience. When you customize or personalize the experience, even during the sales process, you are delivering a better level of service. – Shep Hyken. Personalization, according to the definition we are now familiar with, has been around since the dotcom bubble in the late 90s.
OpinionLab
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
Gartner asserted last year that CX has become the new competitive battlefield in a much-quoted report. Despite the attention-grabbing heading, there is a lot of truth in what they said: organizations are now falling over themselves to deliver better customer experiences across all channels and are becoming increasingly innovative in their approaches.
Customer Bliss
SEPTEMBER 13, 2016
It was a busy summer for us, in part because we moved — but in part because I had the honor of doing a few keynote speeches at different organizations. I was supposed to roll out a new podcast today, but we had some timing issues (try getting people on the same page after Labor Day as FY17 strategy sessions are taking place), and I decided to do a quick post on the keynote side of my work.
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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
ClearAction
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
10 Silos Impact Customer Experience Lynn Hunsaker. Does your business have a silo detective? This might be the highest-ROI effort of your customer experience council, chief customer officer, chief operating officer — or better yet, every employee. Things that don’t make sense in the way business is done can almost always be traced to silo-ization. And the pain of business silos is well-known to everyone, whether employee or customer.
ShepHyken
SEPTEMBER 12, 2016
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. 4 ways to influence social influencers by Lyle Stevens. (internet Retailer) In an age of promotional clutter, go the extra mile to excite the influential people who are dedicated to your brand.
Steve DiGioia
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
Guest post by Ben Motteram This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. Today’s guest post is by Ben Motteram , the Principal at CXpert, a customer experience consulting company. Ben has over 20 years’ experience in customer service, and is a recognized CX thought leader. Thanks Ben! As someone deeply involved in customer service and the overall customer experience, I am interested in identifying companies that share my love of service and how they tend to the customer’s needs.
C3Centricity
SEPTEMBER 12, 2016
If you follow me on social media, you’ll know that I’ve just returned from a three-week visit to Peru. I had the privilege of being the keynote speaker at IIEX-Latam in Lima and decided to take time off to visit the country after the conference. How glad I was that I took that decision, because I discovered that Peruvians are experts in customer delight!
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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ijgolding
SEPTEMBER 15, 2016
Chatbots – computer programs that mimic conversations with users by using artificial intelligence (AI) – are the latest technology trend to hit the webchat world. There are two types: a chatbot that functions based on certain rules , meaning it will only respond to specific commands, and a chatbot that functions by machine learning (AI).
Michelli Experience
SEPTEMBER 15, 2016
Thought leaders like Daniel Pink have provided insightful analysis of research showing three key drivers of human behavior: Purpose. Autonomy, and. Mastery. In essence, ample research shows that people will give maximal effort when they believe their effort will make a purposeful difference when they are given some level of control over the task or timeline for completing a project, and when they are provided the chance to grow and master new skills.
ShepHyken
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
I’m very excited to share this concept with you, especially as we approach National Customer Service Week. If you’ve been following me for longer than a year, then you know that Customer Service Week is the first full week of October, and this year its October 3-7. So, as we approach this year’s customer focused holiday, I want you to consider working through an exercise that will help you create a better customer service experience.
NICE inContact
SEPTEMBER 13, 2016
“You are only as good as your weakest channel.” – Nancy Jamison, Principal Analyst, Frost & Sullivan. This is one of our favorite quotes from a leading analyst in the contact center space. If you know Nancy, you may have heard her say it yourself. It speaks to the changing customer landscape and the importance of staying up-to-date on what technology customers actually want to use – not the technology you think they want to use.
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
ijgolding
SEPTEMBER 13, 2016
Since I have been writing, summer holidays have been a regular feature in my posts. As someone who tends to use his own experiences to bring the principles of Customer Experience to life, this is not surprising! The following are my five favourite articles to date: ‘We only want one room!’ Will your summer holiday experiences create the right memories?
Heart of the Customer
SEPTEMBER 13, 2016
The intangibles matter. Don’t let bad research ruin your customer experience. Bad research can wreak havoc with your customer experience. It can lead you to ignore a critical moment of truth while working on something with less impact. In one journey map project, we were hired to extend a Big Research Company’s research. They had […]. The post Just because your customers say it isn’t important doesn’t make it so appeared first on Heart of the Customer.
ShepHyken
SEPTEMBER 13, 2016
Bill Gessert Shares Tips to Make. National Customer Service Week a Success. Shep Hyken speaks with writer, speaker, and President of the International Customer Service Association ( ICSA ), Bill Gessert about National Customer Service Week. (This year the dates are October 3-7, 2016.) They discuss the background and history of this week, which includes a Presidential Proclamation, and discuss the importance of appreciating both your external and your internal customers (the people you work with)
Eptica
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
Date: Friday, September 16, 2016 Balancing investment between digital and traditional customer service. Published on: September 16, 2016. Author: Derek Lewis Many organizations are embracing digital transformation , making investments to enhance the customer experience they deliver on these digital channels, such as email, chat, the web and social media.
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Magellan Solutions
SEPTEMBER 13, 2016
This September 2016, Magellan Solutions is celebrating its 11 years in the BPO industry. It is 11 years of helping SMEs and large corporations deliver great customer experiences around the world. Its formal operations started in August 2005 as an inbound call center with just 14 agents and 1 team leader from its first office. “We work as one,” said Fred Chua, Magellan Solutions CEO in his closing speech during the Magellan Solutions 11th year anniversary party.
Experience Matters
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
We just published a Temkin Group report, Tech Vendor NPS Benchmark, 2016, The research examines Net Promoter Scores and the link to loyalty for 62 tech vendors based on feedback from 800 IT decision makers in large North American organizations. We also compared overall results to our benchmarks from the previous four years. Here’s the executive summary: For the […].
Kayako
SEPTEMBER 15, 2016
I have always wondered how someone who loves to help people can ever get bored of that at some point in their career. Perhaps you entered a career in customer service for the wrong reasons? Maybe you’re trying to transition to a different department? Or maybe your helpdesk is limiting you to reactive customer service? Satisfaction for working in customer support has been sinking.
Avaya
SEPTEMBER 15, 2016
Victor Bohnert is the Executive Director of the International Avaya Users Group. He has nearly 20 years of experience in building and managing customer communities in the tech sector and has led several organizational turnarounds and mergers. Before joining IAUG, he was Executive Director of the International Nortel Networks Users Association, and helped guide three independent groups through the merger that resulted in IAUG.
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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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