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The Money Value of Loyalty

InMoment XI

Given the lengthy purchase cycle for new cars and the intense competitiveness of the market, car dealers have a special challenge in creating loyal customers. Is it worth it? A linkage study funded by MaritzCX “showed them the money.” While all businesses would likely agree they want customers to leave happy, it can be challenging.

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Present Customer Asset Metrics in Whole Numbers of Customers, Not Retention Rates

Customer Bliss

When I ask executives if they know the volume and value of their new customers and compare it monthly, weekly and annually to the volume and value of lost customers – it’s not top of mind. “It’s in our data” is often the answer. But it’s buried data. Silos own their portion of the information, such as sales performance or marketing performance, but a one-company articulation of the growth or loss of the customer base has usually not been established or tracked.

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Yoga Pants Can Realign Customer Experience

Beyond Philosophy

Lululemon is a brand with a loyal cult-like following, but Customers began to sour on the Lululemon brand last year. However, the buzz is anything but sour on Lululemon these days. And it’s because they are realigning to their Customer-center. September 1st, the high-end yoga-wear maker introduced their new Pant Wall. The new fits are arranged according to how they feel when worn, rather than the silhouette as it was in the past.

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75 Awesome Customer Service Quotes & Tips #INFOGRAPHIC

Win the Customer

Getting people motivated to serve customers and consistently deliver exceptional customer experiences can be one of the most daunting challenges for any CX leader or service agent. In this infographic, we take a look at 75 customer service quotes and ideas that are uniquely designed to motivate and inspire you and your organization to focus […].

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The Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Customer Learning

Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your organization’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

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Forrester Forum 2015

InMoment XI

How CX Will Make or Break Your Company’s Future Last week I had the privilege of attending CXSF 2015: Forrester’s annual forum for customer experience professionals in San Francisco. Pacesetters from businesses that are Iconic for CX and entrepreneurs that are disrupting the CX space alike presented on digital CX strategies. Topics included Digital CX.

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100 Customer Experience Tips in 105 Characters (Or Less)

Experience Matters

I’ve decided to take on a personal challenge: Tweeting a new customer experience tip for 100 straight days. After accounting for the overhead in each tweet (like referring back to this post), I’m only left with about 105 characters. Hopefully I can keep up the pace and pack insight into that limited space. I’ll be using the hashtag, #CXtip, so you can follow along on twitter (or just keep coming back to this post).

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7 Keys to Successful Customer Experience Management

Win the Customer

Successful strategy is often about executing plans to develop differentiation between existing competitors. In the digital era, there is a growing consensus that most impactful differentiation depends on customer experience delivered to customers. Today’s strategy for success needs to increasingly focus more on customer experience management initiatives.

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Consistent, Quality Customer Service—Fairy Tale or Reality?

InMoment XI

Don’t Gamble with Customer Service. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Two plus two equals four. There will be a torrential downpour of rain exactly 5 minutes after you’ve finished washing your car. These are all things we come to expect in life. They are tried and true—consistent to the.

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Keep It Simple: Minimalist Marketing Messages

Joe Rawlinson

There are a number of tried and true methods that help business owners keep and attract customers. One of the most current and prominent marketing trends is minimalism. This concept can be applied to your business through website design, marketing campaigns as well as the way you publish information about your products or services. Minimalist marketing messages capture and retain your audience’s attention, as they provide a concise and clear message they will remember.

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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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Customer Satisfaction Versus Customer Loyalty

Comm100

If your business sells goods or services online, then you know that nothing beats having a new customer visit your website and then make a purchase. But, the sale is just the beginning of the journey with your new customer. Once the customer makes a purchase, you must ensure that he/she is satisfied with it. Many people confuse satisfied customers with loyal customers, and while they do share similar traits there are a few differences.

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Richard Branson: How to find the right people for your business

Win the Customer

The right person will build upon what you’ve created, but the wrong person can bring it all down very quickly – and culture can take an awfully long time to rebuild, “Ensuring that someone else can eventually run the business that you’re building depends on one key thing,” according to Richard Branson, “whether or not you find […].

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When Dinosaurs Walked the Earth (Sales Tactics That Should Be Extinct)

InMoment XI

Sadly, in some remote parts of the world the velociraptor still lives…or, in other words, sales practices that should have gone the way of the dinosaurs are still kicking. For those of us who spend our careers understanding and attempting to improve the customer experience in the automotive industry, this is hugely disconcerting. My wife.

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Evolution of the support rep: from outsourced to in-office

Kayako

The customer support rep role has travelled the world and back. It’s taken many different forms from outsourced, to remote work, and now it’s back to the office. Labor that was once seen as cheap and necessary is now a highly regarded role. Here at Kayako, we were built in India. We had two main offices before our London team was even born, and we are in no way outsourced (if anything, we’re offshored to Europe!).

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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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Why All Experts Should Be Two-Handed Economists

Customers That Stick

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Domo Proves that Generous Maternity Leave Is Good Business

Think Customers

In recent months, companies like Netflix and Google have set the standard for maternity and paternity leave policies by launching generous packages and lengthy leaves. Domo, a 5-year-old startup, is proving that small brands can stand up to the big boys when it comes to offering competitive policies and benefits. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.

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Consistent, Quality Customer Service—Fairy Tale or Reality?

InMoment XI

Don’t Gamble with Customer Service. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Two plus two equals four. There will be a torrential downpour of rain exactly 5 minutes after you’ve finished washing your car. These are all things we come to expect in life. They are tried and true—consistent to the. View Article.

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Customer Experience Design: 3 essential (design) skills for creating a great customer experience

ijgolding

One of the six competencies required in the armory of all Customer Experience Professionals is defined by the Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA) as ‘Experience Improvement & Design’ To become a Certified Customer Experience Professional (CCXP), you would need to have knowledge of the following: Design thinking and customer co-creation approaches.

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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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9 Stellar Referral Program Examples

Influitive

Referrals are an important part of a healthy B2B sales pipeline. According to LinkedIn, 84% of B2B decision makers start the buying process off with a referral. Referred prospects are also 30% more likely to convert than leads generated through other marketing channels, and have a 16% higher customer life-time value. But starting a referral program from scratch can seem like a daunting task.

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4 Ingredients for Improving Service and Reducing Churn

Think Customers

Consumers have countless options at their fingertips in today's competitive market. From tables to tablets, the choices are endless across industries. Such possibilities, however, put the consumer in control, giving them the power to drive (or harm) long-term loyalty and retention in the end. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.

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Consistent, Quality Customer Service—Fairy Tale or Reality?

InMoment XI

Don’t Gamble with Customer Service. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Two plus two equals four. There will be a torrential downpour of rain exactly 5 minutes after you’ve finished washing your car. These are all things we come to expect in life. They are tried and true—consistent to the.

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The cheapest, easiest, and fastest change in customer support is language

Kayako

Last week, Sarah Hatter of CoSupport and Sarah Chambers of Kayako joined forces to present a fantastic live webinar about the top five customer support mistakes all businesses make, and how to conquer them. Sarah Hatter founded CoSupport in 2011, and in 2014 released her first book The Customer Support Handbook. Sarah also hosts UserConf, a designated forum for support professionals hosted in several different cities.

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11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption

Unlock the full potential of your educational initiatives with the 11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption eBook. You’ll uncover: Why measure content consumption rather than (or in addition to) completion rates and member satisfaction? What are some proven tactics to create quality learner content and raise your content consumption rates? Discover the secrets from leading experts in the field, distilled into practical tips that promise to elevate the quality of your educational offerings,

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Customer-Centric Roundup: October 2015

iPerceptions

The competitive arena of customer experience continues to influence how brands develop and evolve. Leaders across industries need to recognize how the customer experience is changing with time, and ensure that they make strides to improve their own programs.

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Customer Experience Planning: Do This, Not That

ClearAction

Customer Experience Planning: Do This, Not That. The annual planning cycle is an opportunity to review pluses and minuses in what’s currently in play, take a look at what’s new, and request resources to take your customer experience performance to the next level in the new year. And it’s more than that: it’s the time when you should step back and assess alignment.

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Forrester Forum 2015

InMoment XI

How CX Will Make or Break Your Company’s Future Last week I had the privilege of attending CXSF 2015: Forrester’s annual forum for customer experience professionals in San Francisco. Pacesetters from businesses that are iconic for CX and entrepreneurs that are disrupting the CX space presented on digital CX strategies. Topics included digital CX and.

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Hey Leader, Dodge! (What Is Successful Leadership?)

Win the Customer

For every business, large or small, the kiss of death is ineffective execution of projects. There’s a bullet coming your way! Actually, it’s a cannonball and if you don’t stop it, it will destroy you and could also destroy what your organization has worked so hard to achieve. For every business, large or small, the […].

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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.