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Two Things Keeping Me Up At Night: A Bad Mattress and Bad Salespeople

InMoment XI

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.” ? Ernest Hemingway Perhaps the most important factor in delivering a great customer experience is listening. A recent shopping experience left me wondering if my salesperson was wearing earplugs or if English was not his native tongue. It was time for a new mattress. My husband. View Article.

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Is your value proposition this strong?

Joe Rawlinson

'Every company, including your company, needs a strong value proposition. At the core, the value proposition is why a customer should do business with you and not somebody else. If you don’t have this differentiation, your business is doomed to struggle or die. Take a look at this email I got from L.L.Bean, the outdoor clothing retailer, and pay special attention to the big reminder they give the customer of why they should do business together: 1.

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Invest in customer service for a rainy day

Very Best Service

'Invest in customer service for a rainy day Sometimes, the trading environment for your company deteriorates considerably. This might be due to factors beyond your control such as interruption of public services, supplier failure, natural catastrophe or other unforeseen circumstances. When this happens, customer and employee loyalty becomes a major determinant of a company''s survival.

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News and Updates – June 2014

Strativity

Webcast: Accelerating Cultural Transformation. Date: June 17, 2014 Time: 3pm – 4pm EDT . Click here to register. Consistently engaged employees are the key to creating better customer experiences and loyal customers, but as companies struggle to keep up with the fast-paced world of cultural transformation they are losing the hearts and minds of their employees.

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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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Two Things Keeping Me Up At Night: A Bad Mattress and Bad Salespeople

InMoment XI

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.” ― Ernest Hemingway Perhaps the most important factor in delivering a great customer experience is listening. A recent shopping experience left me wondering if my salesperson was wearing earplugs or if English was not his native tongue. It was time for a new mattress. My husband.

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Driving Incremental Service Revenue from Customer Success

Amity

I have participated in several discussions around how to manage your Customer Success organization and the value it brings to your customer base and company. And a question I hear quite often is – is there opportunity to also drive incremental service revenue from your Customer Success staff? Traditional Professional Services offerings such as training and consulting services will likely always be offered on a cost basis, as these services are key to a successful new customer deployment, a

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The Top 3 Company Culture Fixes That Don’t Work

Strativity

People create culture- so why is it so hard for people to change it? Culture is made up of many influences over the course of a long period of time. It’s a pattern that has evolved with the people that practice it. It’s not a written law. When you’re changing culture, you’re changing the intangible. Companies know culture is important, but they tend to get a little lost when they try to make positive, lasting changes to it.

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Two Things Keeping Me Up At Night: A Bad Mattress and Bad Salespeople

InMoment XI

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.” ― Ernest Hemingway Perhaps the most important factor in delivering a great customer experience is listening. A recent shopping experience left me wondering if my salesperson was wearing earplugs or if English was not his native tongue. It was time for a new mattress. My husband.

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Discover Your Wow Factor with Customer Journey Mapping

Touchpoint Dashboard

'We’re all looking to wow our customers, right? So how are you doing in that area? Take a pop quiz and find out. Ask yourself… • Do you know what really wows your customers? • Is your company providing the wow your customers want at the exact points in their customer journey where they need […].

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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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Empowering Agents with the Right Information and Training

Brad Cleveland Blog

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The Journey to Excellence or Excellence as a Journey?

Strativity

What do you envision when you think of excellence? Is it a Nobel Prize winner? A world leader? With the FIFA World Cup right around the corner, could it be Lionel Messi… or Cristiano Ronaldo? When you associate excellence with people like that, you subconsciously put excellence out of your reach. You make the concept unattainable by relating it to people you’ve never met and only read about post-achievements.

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Video: Taking Your CE Program Global: Data Privacy

InMoment XI

Data privacy is an increasingly important issue when you’re planning and executing a global customer experience program. Some thoughts to keep in mind. Until next time. @christravell PS For those looking for thought starters regarding improving the customer experience, I would recommend customerthink.com. Bob Thompson has created a very useful central repository of ideas that.

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CS In Conversation: The Ideal Customer Success Platform

Amity

Amity sat down with Daniella Degrace, Former EVP of Customer Success at radian6 and Salesforce.com, to talk about customer success and posed a series of questions leading to the ultimate: If a development team were at her disposal what kind of customer success platform would you ask them to develop? Amity: Daniella, as a Customer Success executive what is critical to you?

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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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Empowering Agents with the Right Information and Training

Brad Cleveland Blog

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Getting Ready to Take the Text-to-911 Plunge?

Customer Interactions

'As of May 15, 2014, the four major carriers in the US – Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile – all voluntarily committed to providing text-to-911 as a service in areas where 911 call centers are prepared to receive them. While text-to-911 is a voluntary option for PSAPs, some have already taken the initiative to become text-to-911 capable.

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Video: Taking Your CE Program Global: Data Privacy

InMoment XI

Data privacy is an increasingly important issue when you’re planning and executing a global customer experience program. Some thoughts to keep in mind. Until next time. @christravell PS For those looking for thought starters regarding improving the customer experience, I would recommend customerthink.com. Bob Thompson has created a very useful central repository of ideas that.

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WHEN Do You Need a Chief Customer Officer?

CCO Council

'I am often approached by senior level executives and asked whether their company really needs a chief customer officer. Their idea seems to be that some companies need a CCO and some don''t. My answer is often in the form of a correction. Hiring a chief customer officer is not an issue of if, but of when. Every company needs a CCO. However, timing is essential if the role is to be successful.

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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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Taking Your CE Program Global: Data Privacy

InMoment XI

Data privacy is an increasingly important issue when you’re planning and executing a global customer experience program. Some thoughts to keep in mind. Until next time. @christravell PS For those looking for thought starters regarding improving the customer experience, I would recommend customerthink.com. Bob Thompson has created a very useful central repository of ideas that.

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Who Wants To Talk To Dad About Life Insurance?

InMoment XI

The life insurance business is facing an unprecedented falloff in insurance purchase rates by Generations X and Y, those born after 1965. Interestingly, these age groups know they are underinsured, especially if they have families, but they have not corrected the situation. At the same time, recruiting agents in these generations is also becoming increasingly.

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Who Wants To Talk To Dad About Life Insurance?

InMoment XI

The life insurance business is facing an unprecedented falloff in insurance purchase rates by Generations X and Y, those born after 1965. Interestingly, these age groups know they are underinsured, especially if they have families, but they have not corrected the situation. At the same time, recruiting agents in these generations is also becoming increasingly.

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Who Wants To Talk To Dad About Life Insurance?

InMoment XI

The life insurance business is facing an unprecedented falloff in insurance purchase rates by Generations X and Y, those born after 1965. Interestingly, these age groups know they are underinsured, especially if they have families, but they have not corrected the situation. At the same time, recruiting agents in these generations is also becoming increasingly.

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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,