Experience Investigators by 360Connext
JUNE 6, 2016
Do millennials really approach everything differently than generations before them? Or are the challenges of designing for them simply the same challenges as designing and delivering experiences for any group? Yes, millennials approach the world a little differently. But so does every generation. What should we remember as we design workplaces as we update customer […].
Customer Bliss
JUNE 9, 2016
“Proactive experience reliability and innovation” — which is another way of discussing design for reliability — is one of my five customer experience competencies , which I’ve developed over 30+ years of doing this customer-driven work with companies of all sizes. In Episode 3 of my new podcast , I talk a good deal about design for reliability with Scott Dille, a Senior Vice President at Northern Trust.
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Beyond Philosophy
JUNE 8, 2016
I’m happy to report that more and more companies realize that emotions are significant to the Customer Experience. It’s an excellent first step. But it isn’t enough. Thinking that emotions are important in Customer Experience, or even that positive emotions are important to our Customer Experience isn’t enough. In general, business needs to get specific about the emotions in their Customer Experience.
Win the Customer
JUNE 7, 2016
From automated purchasing and shipping to simple returns and mobile-friendliness, these are the modern conveniences your online customers expect from your business. Today’s customer expects a lot. Online shoppers expect even more. And their expectations should not be ignored. In the United States alone there are more than 191 million online shoppers.
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Experience Investigators by 360Connext
JUNE 8, 2016
What do you think when someone tells you about something that’s “gone viral?” Do you think it’s a funny video? A cringe-worthy comment? A parody of the latest topic in the zeitgeist? I don’t know about you, but I don’t think of customer experience as a recipe for going viral. Cat videos? Absolutely. Great customer service? […]. The post Why Positive Word-of-Mouth is Insanely Powerful appeared first on Customer Experience Consulting.
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ShepHyken
JUNE 10, 2016
This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Benny Tjia shares lessons learned from the hospitality industry about creating a customer focused culture. I agree that the hospitality industry seems to be the perfect place to find excellent examples of good (and bad) business practices as well as examples of customer service. – Shep Hyken.
Beyond Philosophy
JUNE 6, 2016
I love Uber and one of the reasons is their seamless approach to payment, that included the tip, which meant I didn’t need to think about it? How much, do I have the right money, do I have any cash? However, cash tipping is now coming to Uber. The hired ride company is backing off of its previous “no tipping” policy, thanks to a proposed class action settlement in which drivers claimed the company have violated labor laws by discouraging tipping.
Michelli Experience
JUNE 7, 2016
Muhammad Ali was not only a civil rights advocate and exceptionally talented boxer – he was and will be an enduring brand. From an advertising perspective, his equity extended in commercial endorsements of brands like Louis Vuitton, Porsche, Apple, Coke, Gatorade, and Pizza Hut. So what can every business leader learn from the brand experience consistently delivered by Muhammad Ali?
Customer Bliss
JUNE 7, 2016
Episode Overview. For our 8th episode, I talked with Aisling Hassell, who is the global head of CX at Airbnb. This is a particularly challenging role in the customer experience world — although in a way, they all are — because Airbnb currently offers properties in 191 countries and 34,000+ cities. Making sure the customer experience is complete across such a wide array of contexts is one of Aisling’s challenges.
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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
Daniel Group
JUNE 10, 2016
In the past, I have written about the importance of consistency in delivering a great service experience. In my opinion, you will likely win at the service game if you deliver good, no great, customer service consistently (rather than having. Read More. The post Don’t Take Loyal Customers for Granted appeared first on The Daniel Group.
ShepHyken
JUNE 8, 2016
Customer Service Culture. There are a number of reasons that companies fail at customer service. As I read dozens of articles each week, numerous books on the topic throughout the year, as well as conduct some of my own research, there are some very clear reasons. Sometimes it’s not what you are supposed to do, but what you should avoid doing. If you’ve been following my work, some of this may seem like a review, yet we must constantly be reminded of these reasons.
Kate Nasser
JUNE 5, 2016
Use people skills smarts and communicate. It prevents voids & vacuums of trouble. Latest business leadership tips fr Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™. The post #PeopleSkills Smarts: Communicate or Become Irrelevant appeared first on KateNasser.com.
Topdown
JUNE 9, 2016
The title of Micah Solomon’s recent Forbes article caught my eye: “ Stupid Touchpoints Are Worse Than No Touchpoints in Customer Service and Customer Experience.” It proved to be an entertaining and worthwhile read, reminding those of us in customer experience (CX) and customer communications management (CCM) to think very hard about the reasons and ways we touch customers before we start touching them inappropriately (i.e., everywhere, all the time, and turning them off in the process).
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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Think Customers
JUNE 9, 2016
When it comes to designing, delivering, and optimizing the customer experience, it's amazing how many mistakes companies make. Recently, experts in the space have been busy writing about how to avoid making such blunders. . There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.
Bob Hayes
JUNE 6, 2016
Executives use customer surveys to help them improve the customer experience. In this post, I will describe two types of customer surveys, each providing insight to help executives make better, customer-centric decisions. These surveys are relationship surveys and transactional surveys. Relationship Surveys. Relationship surveys give executives the 30,000 ft view of the customer relationship landscape.
Beyond Philosophy
JUNE 7, 2016
Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D., CMC Thought Leadership Principal, Beyond Philosophy. This week, Bob Thompson’s informative, timely blog on strategies companies can use to make customer experience a competitive advantage – and how most neither measure experience nor compete on it – puts me in mind of a line of discussion around customer experience lagniappe.
Kayako
JUNE 9, 2016
Almost everybody would like to get paid more for the work they do… but not everyone has the ability or guts to ask for a pay rise. It can be overwhelming. Particularly for humble customer support teams, who are secretly people pleasers, and find it difficult to put themselves before others for a change. Consider this: in the average annual salary review, you’ll be offered a 5% pay rise.
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
Eptica
JUNE 10, 2016
Date: Friday, June 10, 2016 Adding emotion to the customer experience. Published on: June 10, 2016. Author: Pauline Ashenden Delivering the right customer experience isn’t just about systems and processes – it is also about how the consumer feels during, and at the end of, the journey. For example, it is quite possible that a company could solve a consumer’s issue, but that the customer needs to expend so much effort to achieve it , or that the process feels so complex, that th
transcosmos Information Systems
JUNE 7, 2016
There’s no denying that customers are your lifeline—without them, there’s no business. This is why a good and efficient customer service support is a major company asset. Despite its importance, many companies still have problems with it. Below are some of the most common problems businesses face in terms of customer service support, along with suggested solutions.
ShepHyken
JUNE 7, 2016
Michael Bungay Stanier on Coaching for Customer Service. Shep Hyken speaks with coaching and retention expert Michael Bungay Stanier on coaching for customer service. They discuss coaching methods and tips from Michael’s new book, “The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More, & Change the Way You Lead Forever.” Great customer service starts by hiring the right employees.
Kayako
JUNE 9, 2016
Almost everybody would like to get paid more for the work they do… but not everyone has the ability or guts to ask for a pay rise. It can be overwhelming. Particularly for humble customer support teams, who are secretly people pleasers, and find it difficult to put themselves before others for a change. Consider this: in the average annual salary review, you’ll be offered a 5% pay rise.
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Eptica
JUNE 8, 2016
Date: Wednesday, June 8, 2016 Unhappy holidays? The state of UK travel customer experience. Published on: June 08, 2016. Author: James Gladwish The internet has transformed the way we buy our holidays and flights, with the majority of people now booking all or part of their travel online. Digital channels have also driven up the level of competition in the sector, putting downward pressure on prices as transparency increases.
Think Customers
JUNE 6, 2016
He's been called the creator of direct marketing and a pioneer in many modern marketing innovations. His storied career includes the creation of the toll-free 800-number, the magazine subscription card, and the loyalty rewards program. Advertising legend Lester Wunderman will receive a lifetime achievement award this week from the Marketing EDGE for his many accomplishments. .
NICE inContact
JUNE 9, 2016
No, this is not another story about how customers are changing because of iTunes, hands-free calling, mobile shopping, show-rooming or what Zappos and Amazon are doing now. This is a story about finding the hidden gems in your customer interaction data. And the good news is you don’t need “Big Data” to find them. Every customer interaction has value from an intelligence perspective.
Natalie Petouhof
JUNE 9, 2016
Tweet Is social CRM dead? Depends on what you consider social CRM to be. With the partnering of Lithium Technologies and Microsoft Dynamics, we will see yet a new and more extensive version of intelligent customer engagements. The partnership includes Microsoft Dynamics and Lithium’s community data, social customer intelligence and analytics. The expectation of the value of an online community is often associated with cost savings – just as call deflections can reduce the costs of customer servi
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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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