Sat.Aug 11, 2018 - Fri.Aug 17, 2018

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CRM vs CEM: Where should you put the money?

CloudCherry

How do successful brands stand out from the rest of the crowd? It’s the constant and unending focus on the customer experience. The customer plays such a crucial role that organizations rely on customer data and analysis to best understand customer behavior and what gets them all the way to the end of the sales funnel. There’s such a healthy market for customer management and analysis software that they’ve now branched out into two distinctive categories: Customer Relationship Management (CRM).

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11 Customer Service Metrics to Start Measuring

GetFeedback

Customer service has long been an area of focus for marketers and support specialists. After all, 67% of consumers list bad customer experience as one of the primary reasons for churning and 39% of consumers avoid vendors for over 2 years after having a negative experience. Businesses understand that great customer service isn’t optional–it can make or break a brand’s reputation.

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Six Critical Principles Businesses Are Ignoring – Are You?

Beyond Philosophy

A theory is great. It gets you thinking, designing and planning. However, unless you take all the theory and the work you built around it and implement it, it is entirely useless. Today, I present six critical questions you need to ask when implementing Customer Experience theory in your Customer Experience reality. The concept of implementing the plans you make from theory is significant to me.

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How Robots Are Changing Retail

Oracle

At this year’s Modern Customer Experience conference, the SmarterCX team met a variety of exhibitors and learned how their companies are creating smarter customer experiences. It was a pleasure speaking with Canine Therapy Corps , Yamaha , Vitamix , as well as another one of my favorites, Pepper the Robot. Pepper is a humanoid robot manufactured by SoftBank Robotics.

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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!

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5 Customer Satisfaction Metrics You Need to Track

ReviewTrackers

Tracking the right customer satisfaction metrics will help you better understand how to retain your current customers — as well as attract new ones. In an increasingly crowded marketplace, merely being able to sell your product or service doesn’t always guarantee business growth. You also have to make customer satisfaction a top priority. It’s a key competitive differentiator that will increase your customer lifetime value, strengthen your brand reputation, and positively impact your bottom line

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Why Determining Your Power Core Focuses Your Customer Experience Strategy

Customer Bliss

On today’s episode, we’re talking to Lee Roquet , the Chief Customer Officer at Yellowfin , a B2B SaaS company that provides a business intelligence analytics platform. We chat about his progression from running a call center to becoming a CCO, and the work he’s done to get employees and leaders to view B2B operations as more than just a sales approach, but as an overall customer experience journey.

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How Does a Plant Closure Help Customer Experience?

Heart of the Customer

This is a guest post written by one of our very own Lead Consultants, Jean Fasching Recently, I ran across a Yahoo Finance post that announced the closure of a plant that produces high fructose corn syrup and industrial starch. In it, an executive mentioned that the closure would help improve Customer Experience commitments. It was a technical […].

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Celebrating CX Community: Better Together

CX Accelerator

Only a handful of months ago, CX Accelerator started with a dream to create a small virtual community exclusively for CX professionals. 400 people and 14,000 messages later, the slack work space has become something far more meaningful than anyone could have anticipated. Our wonderful members have shaped it into a fountain of knowledge and encouragement.

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Live Chat: Acing the Effortless Support Experience

GetFeedback

It’s no surprise that successful brands are built on the positive relationships they create with their customers. After all, modern consumers want more than just a product —they want a personalized experience that addresses their unique needs and expectations. And nowhere is this better reflected than the field of customer support. According to a 2016 study conducted by Ubisend , 51% of customers polled feel that brands should be reachable 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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The 2023 Verint Experience Index: Retail

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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The Future of Intelligent Decision Support Systems in Contact Centers

TechSee

Decision Support Systems (DSS) drive faster, smarter decisions based on objective data, rather than on subjective criteria or personal instinct. They offer insights and proposed courses of action to decision-makers based on problem diagnosis, previous actions taken, the outcomes of those actions and other relevant contextual info. These systems are relevant for many verticals including healthcare, finance, weather prediction, call and chat centers, desktop apps, info kiosks and more. .

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Four Ways to Sell Stakeholders on Digital Transformation

SaleMove

Engaging in online sales without built-in, comprehensive support is a lot like opening a brick-and-mortar store without floor staff. No one’s available to help find a product, explain features or help in choosing between options. It’s an experience that usually requires customers to be independently resourceful, educated and committed beyond reason to a brand, product or service.

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A #MakeMomProud Action Toolkit: 3 Steps to Earn Trust with “No Surprises” Language

Customer Bliss

My book, Would You Do That to Your Mother? The “Make Mom Proud Standard” for How to Treat Your Customers , identifies behavior that grows businesses through actions that earn customer and employee admiration. These posts continue the learning for you with ongoing #MakeMomProud behaviors that you can learn from and emulate, with quick toolkits to assist you in your customer experience and culture transformation.

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11 Customer Service Metrics to Start Measuring

GetFeedback

How do you know where you really stand with customers? Here’s a look at 11 customer service metrics that help companies measure support quality at scale.

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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.

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The Convenience Question: How Easy Am I to Do Business With?

ShepHyken

Over the years I’ve taught a concept I refer to as the One Thing Question. This is a very simple question to use in a survey as a follow-up to the simple survey question, like the Net Promoter Score question (NPS). For those that may not be familiar with the NPS survey question, it is simply this: On a scale of zero to ten, what is the likelihood that you would recommend us to a friend, colleague or family member.

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Five Ways To Plan For B2B Journey Mapping Success

Forrester's Customer Insights

Journey mapping can be an energizing and eye-opening exercise in customer empathy. As advisors to B2B CX and Marketing Leaders in the Forrester Leadership Boards (FLB), we come along on many journey mapping “journeys”. The most common question we receive from executives is, “How do I ensure the journey mapping process is actionable and aligned […].

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5 Examples of Excellent Customer Service (And What You Can Learn)

Retently

Customer service used to be something companies offered without giving it too much thought, but it has become a central point of any business strategy nowadays. There are plenty of numerous examples of excellent customer service being provided by top companies. As for why great customer service has become so important, just consider the following: 82% of consumers are likely to leave your brand because of the service they get , not your pricing or products.

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11 Customer Service Metrics to Start Measuring

GetFeedback

How do you know where you really stand with customers? Here’s a look at 11 customer service metrics that help companies measure support quality at scale.

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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

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Amazing Business Radio: Tiffani Bova

ShepHyken

The Carnival Of Business Growth Strategies. Get smarter about building your company’s future. Shep Hyken sits down with Tiffani Bova, the global growth and innovation evangelist at Salesforce. They discussed her new book Growth IQ , what the carnival can teach you about business, and the 10 simple paths of business growth. ?. Top Takeaways: While growing up in Hawaii, Tiffani worked in a roaming carnival.

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What really makes customers happy?

ijgolding

Over time, several words have been used to describe the organisational focus on customers. They include: Customer Experience. Customer Focus. Customer Centricity. Customer Service. Customer Success. Customer Outcomes. Customer Relationship Management. Customer Management. I am sure you can add more to the list! The fact that there are so many variants, at least demonstrates that the world of business does, deep down, recognise that customers are connected to the reason their organisation exists

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Do You Know How to Calculate Your Net Promoter Score?

AskNicely

You have a Net Promoter Score (NPS). How did you get that score? What does it mean? Why should you care? I know it sounds like something from Black Mirror season three’s “Nosedive” episode. You know the one where members of Charlie Brooker’s dystopian society are judged by a numeric rating given to them by their interactions with other people – better interactions can lead to a higher rating, while bad ones lead to a lower one?

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4 CX Lessons from Unusual Places

Oracle

Adapted advice from the Experience This! podcast with Joey Coleman and Dan Gingiss. Are you doing enough to stand out and be memorable with your customer experiences? In episodes 28-31 of Experience This! , a customer experience podcast series, hosts and CX experts Joey Coleman and Dan Gingiss discuss the importance of unexpected customer experiences and lessons learned from unique places.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of August 13, 2018

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. Are You Making This Critical Connection With Your Customers to Strengthen Relationships and Drive Loyalty? by Steve Bernstein.

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CX Myth #2: You Need A 360-Degree View of Customers

Experience Matters

Many common beliefs about customer experience are misguided, based on oversimplifications or a lack of consideration for real-world constraints. In this series of posts, we debunk these myths. CX Myth #2: You Need A 360-Degree View of Customers What’s Wrong: If companies had an unlimited set of resources to plow into their customer insights efforts and an equally unlimited number of people prepared to take action on those insights, then shooting for a 360-degree view of your customers woul

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4 Customer Support Myths to Avoid

Joe Rawlinson

American Express reported that, according to research, Americans will tell 15 people about their bad brand experiences but only 11 people about their good ones. To someone who sees this as generic data, the implication is that a customer would propagate a poor experience to approximately 40% more people than a good experience. This confirms the psychological phenomenon that negativity garners more lasting responses than positivity.

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Customer Feedback is Your Competitive Advantage

AskNicely

Why is Customer Obsession a Priority? A recent Gartner survey of CEOs found that 40% list growth as their number one business priority for 2018 and 2019. 28% say workforce. And 23% of CEOs list customer service as one of their top three business priorities. Savvy CEOs understand that growth and employee engagement can be created by listening to customer feedback while following one guiding principle: Be customer obsessed.

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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.