InMoment XI
MARCH 23, 2022
The news media has been rife this last year or so with stories of The Great Resignation—an unprecedented tidal wave of job market churn that has seen millions upon millions of employees quit their jobs. As with most topics related to employment and the economy, the finger-pointing over who and/or what’s behind this phenomenon has been incessant… and loud.
BlueOcean
MARCH 24, 2022
When it comes to complex B2C customer care, the customer is anything but a faceless number in a sea of consumers. These are real people with real lives that inform their expectations and define their needs with every shift and change of the world around them. B2C brands had their worlds turned upside down by the pandemic, but what does complex customer care look like now things are leveling out?
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Alida
MARCH 24, 2022
Only one in 26 customers are likely to complain about the product or service issues they are facing on their own. The rest will gradually become unhappy and leave your company without you ever getting a chance to learn what went wrong or how you could address the issue.
PeopleMetrics
MARCH 25, 2022
Customer advisory boards (CABs) can be a powerful tool in your organization's arsenal. They can help you better guide your customer experience strategy , prepare for product launches, learn more about your audience—essentially any goal or initiative that would benefit from direct customer insight. But what are customer advisory boards? How do they work?
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CSM Magazine
MARCH 24, 2022
In retail, the customer is king. It is common knowledge that the retail industry thrives on positive customer interactions and feedback, so when reviewing the ways in which organizations can grow and remain competitive in their field, it is vital to craft plans that revolve around optimizing the customer experience. For retail business, the customer journey extends far beyond the initial sales engagement.
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Kustomer
MARCH 23, 2022
In a crowded marketplace, where consumers are often bombarded with marketing claims made by brands, it can be difficult for them to know who to trust. In these situations, many turn to their peers for recommendations or advice. Recent research carried out by Kantar found friends and family to be the most trusted source of recommendations in all age groups.
ChurnZero
MARCH 22, 2022
Nowadays, marketers are hyper-aware of the importance of the customer journey and creating an intuitive user experience. In most cases, however, there are still plenty of opportunities to streamline the process and reduce customer friction. . Customer friction points are any obstacles that stand between the customer and what they want — think clunky checkout processes, complicated phone menus, or any steps that feel extra and unnecessary.
CSM Magazine
MARCH 22, 2022
The rise of automation in customer service has become more prominent within many industries. But along with the positives and time saving tasks it can provide, it can also prove to be a deterrent for its users. How many times have you needed to contact a company and struggled to find the correct department or even just a central phone number? Did you try to go though a chatbot to quickly find an answer to your question only to be directed to the FAQs, articles, or a customer forum?
Daniel Group
MARCH 23, 2022
Three Tips to Fire Up Your Customers to be Your Best Sales Force! At The Daniel Group, we are learning more and more about referral activity in the B2B world, and we now have three tips to help you increase your referral activity and fire up your customers to become your best sales force. My own Google research revealed that there are about 25 times more resources to “fire up your B2B sales force” (3.2 billion results) than there are for getting “getting referrals in B2B sales&
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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
One Millimeter Mindset
MARCH 23, 2022
There is a great professional recalibration going on. Are you experiencing it? If not, you should be. Let’s explore together, shall we? By now, you are reading plenty about the Great Post-Pandemic Resignation. This phenomenon primarily is a response to employer mandates focused on a 100% return to the office, ending many pandemic-based initiatives. Plus, some of you tell me that your employer has moved headquarters.
TechSee
MARCH 24, 2022
Well, not literally. It’s an expression used when employees, especially leadership, actually use their own products or services the same way a customer would. Here at TechSee we regularly eat dog food for quality assurance, but also because it’s fun and we really like using our products. We recently held our annual Sales Kick-Off all-hands meeting. Like so many companies today, we were unable to meet in person as we would have preferred, but we still managed to get a lot of work done and have a
ChurnZero
MARCH 25, 2022
Have you ever dealt with onboarding a new CSM to your team or having a tenured CSM leave your team — or both at once? It’s in these situations, you wish you could just hit pause until you sort it all out. But alas, time — and customer accounts — waits for no one. The show must go on. Figuring out how to shift around a CSM’s book of business is a delicate balancing act, and one of the most challenging Customer Success processes to get right.
Totango
MARCH 24, 2022
We were thrilled to bring back our in-person Global Executive Forum last week and have the opportunity to host customer success leaders at the beautiful Carmel Valley Ranch in Carmel Valley, CA. It was refreshing to reconnect with our customers and peers in the customer success community and inspire businesses across the globe with purposeful presentations and product demonstrations, meaningful conversations and fun social interactions. “ It was one of the more productive gatherings I’ve a
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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ShepHyken
MARCH 23, 2022
I recently received a note from my friend and Shepard Letter subscriber, Michael Staenberg. He commented on the recent Never, Never, Never Be Late article and sent a list of what he referred to as Things that Require Zero Talent. At the top of the list was being on time. . I’ve seen lists like this before. They include being on time, having a good work ethic and a positive attitude, doing more than expected, and more. .
Middlesex Consulting
MARCH 23, 2022
The current labor market and gig workers As a result of both the Silver Tsunami (older workers retiring) and the Great Resignation (employees quitting in large numbers), most field service teams have many unfilled jobs. Service leaders depend on two solutions to the problem; third-party service companies and independent gig workers. Both solutions can solve […].
Joe Rawlinson
MARCH 20, 2022
Ecommerce personalization is the process of tailoring a customer’s online shopping experience to their individual preferences. This can be done by collecting data about the customer’s browsing history, purchase history, contact information, and then using that data to create a profile for the customer. Once the profile is created, the ecommerce platform can use it to personalize the customer’s experience by displaying different content, recommendations, and prices depending on
Bill Quiseng
MARCH 23, 2022
“People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.” Samuel Johnson. In the 1980s TV police drama series, Sgt. Phil Esterhaus, portrayed by Michael Conrad, cautioned his officers at the end of roll call with “Let’s be careful out there” When I was GM at The Henry Dearborn-Autograph Collection, Dearborn, MI, one of our senior sales managers ended their daily morning stand-up meeting with “Let’s be safe out there” But I told them
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
Kustomer
MARCH 24, 2022
The future. It can be a mysterious thing. If the past is any indication, our whole worlds can be turned upside down in the blink of an eye. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that change has been happening at hyperspeed over the past two years, and these developments have made it clear that preparing now for the future of CX is essential for business success.
SAP Customer Experience
MARCH 24, 2022
Customer experience is key to improving your bottom line. Today, customers have become accustomed to and have grown to expect a seamless, user friendly experience with agility and flexibility on any mobile device anywhere at any time. The better the experience, the stronger the loyalty, therefore, it is important to.
Playvox
MARCH 21, 2022
If the labor shortage has left your contact center scrambling for staff, you might have overlooked a potential goldmine of knowledgeable, eager future team members: retirees. According to research by Goldman Sachs , five million people have left the workforce since the beginning of the pandemic, and most were over age 55 (3.4 million). Researchers say 1.5 million of those older-worker exits were early retirements.
Zeisler Consulting
MARCH 23, 2022
I wrote a while back about how a big-box home improvement retailer made it less convenient for military folks to receive their in-store discount, while saying the purpose was to make it more so for us. My original comment was that, gee, it’s interesting, it seems, that every hassle I go through somehow or another always ends up benefitting them (by, for example, making their marketing to me more streamlined…again, for them ).
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ShepHyken
MARCH 21, 2022
Each week I read many 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. 15 Stats About Post-Covid Customer Service by Blake Morgan. (Forbes) As the pandemic starts to subside and the dust starts to settle, companies can move from survival mode to preparing for the future and adjusting to changes and trends in the post-Covid world.
Bill Quiseng
MARCH 24, 2022
“Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!” Tom Peters. Customers are paying for their experience, not your product or service. They buy with emotion and justify that decision with reason. And customers seek the best emotional value for their experience, not your logical best price.
The DiJulius Group
MARCH 22, 2022
Several months ago, KeyBank has been focusing on delivering an excellent customer experience, improving their customer satisfaction rate, and minimizing customer churn rates – made changes to the ATM software which allowed clients the freedom to choose their bill denominations. Historically, ATMs only provided twenty-dollar bills, regardless of the amount of the withdrawal.
Zeisler Consulting
MARCH 23, 2022
I wrote a while back about how a big-box home improvement retailer made it less convenient for military folks to receive their in-store discount, while saying the purpose was to make it more so for us. My original comment was that, gee, it’s interesting, it seems, that every hassle I go through somehow or another always ends up benefitting them (by, for example, making their marketing to me more streamlined…again, for them ).
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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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