InMoment XI
DECEMBER 6, 2016
It is no surprise how the advances in technology are providing unique opportunities to engage and gain insight to the customer experience like never before. This is especially true in social media. Without conducting any formal research, companies can go onto sites like Facebook, Twitter and, review sites like, Yelp to discover the most detailed.
Experience Investigators by 360Connext
DECEMBER 8, 2016
You want to create experiences customers will want to return to. It’s no sectet that learning what customers really want and need is a key component to this! But while asking a few basic questions in a monthly survey might help, it’s not enough to help you really understand your customers’ needs. For feedback that informs you on how to […].
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Alida
DECEMBER 9, 2016
A customer journey map is a simple idea that has become overly complicated. At its core, a customer journey map tells the story of a customer’s experience. It begins at initial contact, develops with engagement and forms a long-term relationship between a brand and its customers. It identifies key interactions and defines the various feelings, motivations and expectations that a customer might have at each touchpoint.
Beyond Philosophy
DECEMBER 7, 2016
Your employees have the power to make or break your Customer Experience this holiday season with the customer service they provide. However, when employees aren’t happy, customer service often suffers. It’s clear that keeping a positive work environment is crucial this holiday season—and all year long. Here are three proven ways you can stay off your employee’s Naughty list when it comes to their employee experience.
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InMoment XI
DECEMBER 8, 2016
A couple of years ago, on a day I had taken off from work, I took my car to the local dealership for some routine servicing. When I arrived the dealer said they did not have my appointment logged in their calendar and were completely booked for the day. The dealer was very apologetic and.
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Customer Bliss
DECEMBER 8, 2016
I’ve seen it a few places that the most popular time for an office holiday party is tonight (12/8), tomorrow (12/9), and this weekend. That makes sense. I know some companies and divisions that had an office holiday party last week/weekend, although early December does feel a little bit early. (Thanksgiving just ended!) Next week (12/16-12/18) is getting closer and closer to Christmas, and I’d bet a lot of people are taking part of that 12/19 week off anyway.
ShepHyken
DECEMBER 9, 2016
This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Stephan Delbos, writes about the importance of doing more than satisfying customers, you must delight them. I agree! There is a big difference between satisfied customers and loyal customers. Satisfactory is a rating. Loyalty is an emotion. – Shep Hyken. Remember the days when “another satisfied customer” was the greatest mark of success for any brand?
InMoment XI
DECEMBER 6, 2016
It is no surprise how the advances in technology are providing unique opportunities to engage and gain insight to the customer experience like never before. This is especially true in social media. Without conducting any formal research, companies can go onto sites like Facebook, Twitter and, review sites like, Yelp to discover the most detailed. View Article.
GetFeedback
DECEMBER 8, 2016
The world may be more connected than ever, but people are tuning out. If you're looking to grow organically, customer engagement has to be a priority.
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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
Customer Bliss
DECEMBER 6, 2016
Episode Overview. Camille Harrison is the Group Vice President and Chief Customer Officer for Florida Blue. She has been in the role now for almost 40 months. Starting many years ago as a customer service rep, Camille has been in the “service” lane her entire career. In our conversation we discussed her successive roles, and why in particular the Chief of Staff role prepared Camille for the Chief Customer Officer role.
ShepHyken
DECEMBER 5, 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. Beyond the Wow Factor: Why Customer Experience Management Is Not About Exceeding Expectations by Paul Greenberg & Thomas Wieberneit.
InMoment XI
DECEMBER 8, 2016
A couple of years ago, on a day I had taken off from work, I took my car to the local dealership for some routine servicing. When I arrived the dealer said they did not have my appointment logged in their calendar and were completely booked for the day. The dealer was very apologetic and. View Article.
Kayako
DECEMBER 8, 2016
CONTENTS. Intro: Word of mouth marketing. 1: The importance of getting it right first time. 2: Our experiment. 3: The results. 4: What this means for your business. 5: Is it too late to win the customer back? 6. What you can do to rectify bad customer service. Takeaways. Intro: Word of mouth marketing. Word of mouth marketing is one of the most valuable forms of marketing with 92% of consumers believing recommendations from friends and family over all forms of advertising.
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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Customer Bliss
DECEMBER 6, 2016
Episode Overview. Camille Harrison is the Group Vice President and Chief Customer Officer for Florida Blue. She has been in the role now for almost 40 months. Starting many years ago as a customer service rep, Camille has been in the “service” lane her entire career. In our conversation we discussed her successive roles, and why in particular the Chief of Staff role prepared Camille for the Chief Customer Officer role.
Beyond Philosophy
DECEMBER 5, 2016
Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D., CMC Thought Leadership Principal, Beyond Philosophy. All of the changes in customer decision-making dynamics, and influences on corporate and brand perception over the past decade or two, have brought business-to-business and business-to-consumer marketplaces to a new frontier. There is an increasingly critical connection between brand promise, corporate trustability and reputation, the customer experience as created by people and processes, and downstream customer beh
ShepHyken
DECEMBER 6, 2016
Noah Fleming on The Customer Loyalty Loop. Shep Hyken speaks with consultant, speaker and bestselling author, Noah Fleming, about customer loyalty and his new book, “ The Customer Loyalty Loop: The Science Behind Creating Great Experiences and Lasting Impressions.”. Not only do they review the four steps of the customer experience, but they also provide tips to make every step a success and how that leads to customer loyalty.
Steve DiGioia
DECEMBER 5, 2016
This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. Businesses across the land champion their great service and the positive experience given to their throngs of loyal customers. They tout the benefits of their product and how they tend to the specific needs, wants and desires of their customers. But as time passes many forget their original stated intent and lean more toward reducing payroll, lowering operational/product costs and finally to increasing profit as their primary goal.
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
Michelli Experience
DECEMBER 6, 2016
I’ll admit it, as a customer experience consultant I have a tendency to see improving customer experience as a cure for all business ills. As the saying goes, if you have a hammer everything looks like nails. Over time, I have come to concede that product development, finance, and other business disciplines are equally essential to business success.
Experience Matters
DECEMBER 9, 2016
Lots of people talk about the power of service recovery, and now we have the data to prove its value. Not only does a good response to a bad experience cut down on sales loss, but it also increases loyalty for some customers. In the Temkin Group report What Happens After a Good or Bad Experience, 2016, we […].
ShepHyken
DECEMBER 7, 2016
Most companies have a tagline, a phrase or sentence that describes what they are about. Sometimes that doubles as a brand promise. Along those lines, I want you to come up with a customer service promise. For some companies, their tagline is their customer service promise. For example, Zappos.com ’s tagline is Powered by Service. Three words that exhibit a commitment to the customer.
Eptica
DECEMBER 7, 2016
Date: Wednesday, December 7, 2016 The art of dating your customer in Asia Pacific. Published on: December 07, 2016. Author: Vincent Giraud Often when describing the customer relationship, companies talk about beating competitors to win and retain consumers. This is obviously true at a basic level – after all, you will be judged against rivals in terms of factors such as speed of service, helpfulness of staff and price of products.
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Amity
DECEMBER 9, 2016
Ever log on to your computer in the morning and immediately get that sense that you’re drowning? The sheer abundance of information we’re exposed to online can overload even the fastest and most voracious readers—some of which include your prospective customers. While wading through this endless sea of content, I’ve recently read a few amazing articles that speak about how to market to your current customers in order to increase retention and help them continuously succee
ijgolding
DECEMBER 5, 2016
As anyone with young children will attest, the well-known TV character ‘Bob the Builder’ is best known for coining the phrase ‘can we fix it?’, followed by the cry of ‘yes we can!!’ True to these words, Bob and his trusty sidekicks, Scoop, Roley and Dizzy (among others), do indeed fix things. So what (I hear you think to yourselves) has a child’s cartoon got to do with the subject of Customer Experience?
OpinionLab
DECEMBER 9, 2016
Growth in mobile usage and its impact on both consumer habits and customer experience is not a new story. But more and more this mobile growth is translating into hard dollars. On Cyber Monday 2016, sales completed through mobile devices for the first time smashed through the $1 billion barrier , growing 29% year over year and accounting for 27% of total digital commerce that day.
PeopleMetrics
DECEMBER 9, 2016
You’re probably familiar with the classic customer satisfaction survey. In fact, it’s become the new normal for companies to bombard us with their requests for feedback. So, here at Interaction Metrics, we asked ourselves: sure companies ask their customers to share, but do companies really care about what their customers have to say? To get an answer, we did a study.
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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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