Customer Bliss
AUGUST 24, 2017
I have said this over the years, and recently, several of my podcast guests have also discussed it: there is an ever-increasing need to think of employees as customers as well, i.e. internal customers. Retention rates in major companies have been dropping for years, for a variety of reasons: more flexible work options, people pursuing their own ventures or teaming with startups, bad management, etc.
ShepHyken
AUGUST 25, 2017
This week we feature an article by Reuben Yonatan who writes about how using chatbots for customer service properly can be a powerful customer service tool. Chatbots can be great for handling basic customer support functions, communicating with customers when a rep isn’t available and more. – Shep Hyken. Many small businesses are looking for ways to streamline communication.
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Beyond Philosophy
AUGUST 23, 2017
Many organizations measure their Customer Experience (CX) in the wrong way. Chances are, you are too. So, what is it? How are you inadvertently thwarting your efforts to improve your CX? It is how you measure it and it’s one of the fundamental failures of many CX programs. Measuring is a critical part of any effort to quantify progress (or failures) when you have a goal of improving your CX.
Eptica
AUGUST 23, 2017
Date: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 Instant messaging and customer experience in Asia. Published on: August 23, 2017. Author: Vincent Giraud As I’ve discussed in previous blogs , consumers in Asia are leading the way when it comes to technology adoption, helping to drive rising expectations of the experience they receive from brands. They want to be able to make contact at any time, day or night, through their smartphone and receive a fast, comprehensive and consistent response. 42% of the po
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LiveChat
AUGUST 25, 2017
As you probably know, I’m nuts about customer service and great customer experience. Every time I’m on my holidays, I collect every single #custserv experience and try to learn from it. Same thing happened this year. In this post, I’d like to show you two examples of a service I experienced during my holidays. I booked a really nice apartment whose owner was extremely rude, and a quite gross camp truck, whose owners delivered the best customer service ever!
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Beyond Philosophy
AUGUST 21, 2017
By nature, I’m an organized person. I like things clear and orderly, laid out in black and white. So, some years ago, as a new senior manager, I asked my boss to explain what my responsibilities would be after a company reorganization. I wanted to know, with absolute certainty. But my boss just looked at me and said, “Colin, in a senior position you need to deal with ambiguity.”.
Customer Bliss
AUGUST 22, 2017
Episode Overview. Zvi Baida and I discuss his very large “hybrid” role where he runs the service operation and customer experience for Shufersal — the largest supermarket in Israel. He walks us through his customer experience formula and his attempts at uniting process, people and technology. He also shares his intriguing tactics of building a board room gallery and videos to unite the C-Suite.
Bob Hayes
AUGUST 21, 2017
Customer Experience Management (CXM) is the process of understanding and managing customers' interactions with and perceptions about the company/brand. In our Big Data world, improving the customer experience is increasingly becoming data-intensive endeavor. Consider CRM systems, surveys, social media sources, telemetry systems, and publicly available data sources; using the combined power of statistics and today’s processing capabilities, these sources of data can help businesses model the proc
CustomerGauge
AUGUST 21, 2017
Providing a consistent customer experience (CX) is hard work. Getting everyone in your organization to run the same race is harder. Part of the struggle is simply getting information in front of the right people and stakeholders so they can stay engaged, be empowered, drive action and ensure success. In a lot of ways, good […]. The post Make Your NPS® Program “Team-Oriented” appeared first on CustomerGauge.
Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions
Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 If so, this webinar is for you! What was once a common practice in the call center is now a barrier to success. Manual call monitoring is no longer an option if you want to proactively coach your agents to ultimately improve the customer experience using data-driven insights. Join this webinar with Angie Kronlage and April Wiita of Working Solutions to discuss how you can modernize outdated, manual call review processes through the power of autom
Customers That Stick
AUGUST 21, 2017
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ReviewTrackers
AUGUST 22, 2017
This article was written by Victoria Greene, a freelance writer and brand consultant. She writes her own blog VictoriaEcommerce , where she shares her best tips for gaining honest customer feedback. Your brand’s reputation matters. 4 out of 5 Americans read reviews before making purchases online and 84 percent of people trust online reviews from strangers as much as recommendations from their friends and families.
Influitive
AUGUST 22, 2017
Still relying on email campaigns to engage and communicate with your customers and prospects? These innovative B2B marketers are doing things differently. They aren’t wasting time crafting clever messaging or chasing the latest marketing fads. They’re driving retention and acquisition by harnessing the power of their customer advocates. By building engaging advocacy programs, these marketers.
Myra Golden
AUGUST 25, 2017
My website was down for 37 hours this week. Not only was the website down, but we couldn’t send or receive emails. The outage happened because something went wrong in a scheduled site upgrade on Sunday night. My hosting company was to perform a simple process that I thought would take a few minutes. I reached out to my hosting company more than a dozen times during the 2-day outage, desperately trying to get the issue resolved and to check the status of the problem.
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Bold360
AUGUST 24, 2017
If you’re looking to improve your customer experience in 2017, you’re not alone. In fact, in the 2017 Digital Trends Survey, completed by Adobe and eConsultancy, CX ranked as the highest priority for 63% of marketers. But why is CX so important? In the past, elements such as data driven marketing, mobile optimization, personalization or even cross-channel marketing have taken the spotlight.
Kayako
AUGUST 23, 2017
This is a guest post by our friends over at Nicereply. Viktor Magic will teach why it’s important to ace your next customer feedback survey and which mistakes to avoid. Read on for a great post! Surveys come in all shapes and sizes. Done correctly, surveys can improve all departments in your business: Your product team can use them to find product-market fit and get customer feedback.
ShepHyken
AUGUST 23, 2017
A friend of mine went to the airport rental car agency and had a chance to upgrade to a Tesla. He had never driven a Tesla so he was happy to pay the upcharge to have the experience. If you’ve ever rented a car at the airport, you typically are stopped at a gated exit where the car rental employee looks over the paperwork, checks your driver’s license and sends you on your way.
Avaya
AUGUST 25, 2017
As Hurricane Harvey approaches the coast of Texas, Avaya wants to ensure that we all review our plans to keep communication systems running at peak performance and stabilized when disaster strikes. Keeping communication systems running often includes a great partner with a deep bench of experts who have experience in many complex situations. Particularly invaluable are battle-tested IT experts who can help rebuild and stabilize communications when disaster strikes.
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.
Magellan Solutions
AUGUST 20, 2017
Outsourcing your data entry is a strategy that is growing in popularity for businesses today, as more and more entrepreneurs are recognizing the benefits of outsourcing their non-core tasks, of which data entry usually falls under. . If you are one of the entrepreneurs who perform your own business’ data entry, or delegates this task to another employee, the following five advantages might help you see why it’s much better to outsource this task instead.
Storyminers
AUGUST 22, 2017
Jon Ferrara co-founded the pre-Facebook, pre-Internet, pre-LinkedIn CRM system called GoldMine. His motivation was to connect people at a more personal level—to let them build relationships that build real value. That’s still his mission at his newer company, Nimble. Their product is what many call the “world’s first social CRM.” More than a CRM, Nimble helps companies connect the tools, silos, and customer experiences that many find difficult.
Experience Matters
AUGUST 20, 2017
I’m sorry about this somewhat political post (you can stop reading it now if you like), but I feel as though we all have a responsibility to speak up. I’ve become saddened by the apparent rise of hate across the U.S. Instead of embracing the strength of our diversity, our country seems to be giving rise to hateful rhetoric and policies that target minority groups.
Avaya
AUGUST 22, 2017
Stop me if you’ve had this customer experience before. You have a problem. You’ve rebooted the device, made sure everything was plugged in, and done all of the “by the book” ways to fix your problem, yet the problem remains. You hunt through the manufacturer’s mobile app, use your “Google-Fu,” read through countless discussion forums, and the problem persists.
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Customer experience was once considered a soft metric, or a “nice to have.” But it is now a board-level priority for many brands. The experience you provide your customers is a defining way to differentiate your business from the competition. But how can you really make CX a priority when you have competing budget and resource constraints? With customer experience automation, organizations can leverage AI and automation to make it faster and cheaper to provide a superior customer experience acro
Team HGS
AUGUST 22, 2017
HGS Webinar: Reinventing the Customer Service Model Using Bots&Brains™. Digital disruption has already revolutionized industries across the globe, and the CX industry is no exception. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been an area of increasing investment, with the AI market poised to grow to $40 billion by 2022, according to Market Research Store. During our August 17 webinar, “ Reinventing the Customer Service Model using Bots&Brains™ ,” HGS VP of Solutions and Capabilities, Lauren Kindzierski
ijgolding
AUGUST 20, 2017
Looking back through my articles over the last few months, a great number have made the connection between strong, customer centric leadership and the ability to drive an effective and sustainable approach to Customer Experience. It is no secret that I am a huge admirer of Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon – in May I wrote an article explaining why.
NICE inContact
AUGUST 22, 2017
There is plenty of advice on what companies need to provide millennials during their customer experience journey, and none of it should be new news. Given millennial customer satisfaction is only 33%, there is definite frustration within this large consumer segment. inContact’s study revealed that only 26% of millennial respondents prefer voice, yet 62% opted for inbound/outbound voice in their most recent interactions.
ReviewTrackers
AUGUST 24, 2017
This article was written by Brandon Carter, a customer engagement and loyalty writer and analyst for Access Development. Read more of his articles over on the Access Loyalty Blog. Customers and Your Business: Love at First Sight? Movies and novels throughout history have convinced us that there is such a thing as “love at first sight.”. And you know what: it’s true!
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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