2019

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How to Improve Your Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT) Score

GetFeedback

Y ou know your customers are satisfied because the Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT) that you see on your daily dashboard tells you as much. The score is solid. But you aren’t satisfied; you believe it could be so much better. And rightly so — it usually can be. So, what’s a company to do to earn an even better CSAT score? Before I answer that, let’s take a look at a popular CSAT metric that was established 25 years ago: the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI).

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Building a CX Dashboard

CX Accelerator

If you’re running a CX program, you need a way of communicating your progress to your superiors and the broader organisation. We are all guilty of not communicating enough on occasion.so what’s required is something that will break down the walls of the CX department allowing everyone in the business to see how the organisation is performing relative to customer expectations and its targets.

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Don’t Make Customers Do Extra Work!

Customer Bliss

In this week’s Daily Dose video, I share a short video inspired by the lessons of my most recent book, Would You Do That To Your Mother. . The following is a lightly edited transcript of the video below. There’s not much that can give me an immediate stomachache like watching that airport conveyor belt slow down and halt without my bag on it.

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How to provide an effortless customer experience

TechSee

Imagine this scenario: It’s Amazon Prime Day and you’re thrilled to have snagged the limited-edition wireless streaming stereo system you’ve had your eye on. When it arrives, you open the box and see… a whole load of parts. There’s also a 126-page user guide that raises your blood pressure every time you turn a page, but you manage to set it up… after about an hour.

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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7 Questions That Reveal Whether Your Company is Committed to CX

Beyond Philosophy

When I started Beyond Philosophy back in 2002, I could ascertain whether a company was customer-focused or not right away. I wondered how I did that. When I thought about it, there were some common telltale cultural signs organizations share that indicate where their focus lies. This answer became my second book, Revolutionize Your Customer Experience , which explores how the culture of a company reflects how customer-centric the organization is.

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Guest Blog: Five Tips to Providing a Five Star Experience

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Katie Mares who explains how any business or organization can provide its customers with a five-star experience. The best way I can describe ‘customer service’ is by using the word transaction. ‘Service’ is what we do, it is a product or the transaction to receive the product. According to dictionary.com an experience is; “a particular instance of personally encountering or undergoing something: or the observing, encountering, or undergoing of things generally

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Why customer feedback is critical for digital transformation in 2020

Thematic

Digital transformation is one of those terms that has been taking the corporate world for the past years. Like it or hate it, it’s here to stay. Here is proof from Google trends showing the growing popularity of the search term “digital transformation”: There are some great examples of digital transformation already happening in industries that aren’t typically digital-first.

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Should You Buy Google Reviews? Read This

ReviewTrackers

If you’re trying to build your company’s online reputation, it can be tempting to take shortcuts and try to find a quick fix. This is particularly true for businesses with not-so-positive reviews and one-star ratings. After all, a stream of fresh positive reviews can quickly bury negative feedback and clear out blemishes in search results, right? This explains why there’s an increasing market for businesses looking to “buy Google reviews”: fake reviews, that is, posted under a random name and Go

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3 Tips On How To Measure Customer Experience

Lumoa

Wondering what is the optimal way to measure customer experience? Choosing customer experience metric seems to be a complex process? Don't let the variety trick you. Start collecting customer feedback and measuring customer experience with a simple and easy KPIs and metrics!

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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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The Inextricable Link Between CX & EX

Experience Matters

If you’ve followed our research, then you know that we’ve always viewed employee engagement as a fundamental component of customer experience. One of our Six Laws of Customer Experience is that “Unengaged employees don’t create engaged customers.” It just makes sense. How can you possibly expect to consistently deliver great customer experience with apathetic or disengaged employees?!?!

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5 Reasons Why Customer Satisfaction Is Important

Survicate

You should never ignore the importance of customer satisfaction. There are dozens of factors contributing to the success (or failure) of a business, customer satisfaction is one of them. It’s important to track this factor and work on improving it in order to make your customers more loyal and eventually turn them into brand ambassadors. If you don’t care about customers’ satisfaction, don’t expect them to care about your services or products.

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The Personality Of Customer Experience

CX Accelerator

When it comes to Customer Experience (CX) work, it takes a very special type of person to be successful. Consider all the skills required to thrive in the role.data crunching, storytelling, journey mapping, process improvement, change management, strategic thinking, influencing behaviors, project management.the list goes on. It's essentially impossible for any one person to be strong in all of these areas.

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Looking Ahead: the State of Customer Experience

Customer Bliss

In lieu of alieu of a regular Daily Dose video, I want to share with you an excerpt from an interview I did last year with my good friend Laura Ortman—chief customer officer of Equinix —in which we discussed a wide range of topics including the future of customer experience, our role as customer experience leaders, and the experiences of women in leadership. .

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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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3 Ways to Realign Your Organization to Focus on Customer Experience

Customer Experience Update Submitted Articles

Employees who feel cared for care for your customers. And that starts with having a defined culture.

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Why The Intensity of Customer Emotions is Crucial to Your Customer Loyalty

Beyond Philosophy

Customer emotions have a strong influence on your Customer Experience outcome. From our research in our global Customer Experience consultancy, we know that over 50 percent of experience is about how a customer feels. . Organizations don’t consider customer emotions enough. Moreover, they also fail to recognize the intensity of that emotion. Understanding the significance and managing the power of customers’ emotions is essential to your Customer Experience outcome.

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What is Proactive Customer Service and How to Implement It?

ProProfs Chat

“Instead of focusing on the competition, focus on the customer,” Scott Cook. With the ever-changing scenario of business globalization, companies are thriving hard to retain their brand’s loyalty by creating cutting-edge product sales strategies. There was a time when offering a good product at a reasonable price was enough for a company to stand out from competitors.

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Amazing Business Radio: John Rossman

ShepHyken

Think Like Amazon. Innovation from the World’s Leading Customer-Obsessed Company. Shep Hyken interviews John Rossman. They discuss John’s new book, Think Like Amazon , and how to utilize the key factors that drive Amazon’s success. The Interview with John Rossman: Innovation and success come from developing and committing to systems. Be deliberate in how you approach your work and have a “playbook” you can pull from for any situation.

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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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Calculating the ROI of CX: Complete Guide 2019 [Includes Spreadsheets]

Thematic

This blog is a comprehensive guide that will tell you everything you need to know about calculating the ROI of Customer Experience (CX) to move from insights to action. It includes a step-by-step guide to help you calculate the ROI of CX. We’ve also created spreadsheets just for you that you can use to calculate two financial models: the impact of Net Promoter Score (NPS) on company revenue and on customer acquisition costs.

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10 Quotes from Oracle CEO Mark Hurd on Evolution of Sales and Customer Experience at ModernCX

Oracle

This past month at Oracle’s Modern Customer Experience conference , CX leaders from 37 countries gathered in Las Vegas for three days of customer experience insights, trends, and technologies. The event featured 300+ educational sessions and 400+ speakers, including a keynote session with Oracle CEO Mark Hurd. Oracle CEO Mark Hurd has regularly spoken at Oracle Modern Customer Experience, with past keynotes available on his official YouTube channel.

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Kustomer Raises $60 Million Series E to Accelerate Transformation of Customer Service

Kustomer

Yesterday, we announced our $60M Series E funding round led by Coatue. I wanted to take a few minutes and talk about reimagining customer service and the future of Kustomer. I’ve always been passionate about great customer experiences. I live it everyday in my personal life when buying from companies that make it easy to do business with them and I’ve founded three companies dedicated to changing the way businesses serve their customers.

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New Research Shows Strong ROI of CX

Experience Matters

The XM Institute has published new research that examines the impact that customer experience has on the loyalty of U.S. consumers across 20 industries. You can download these reports for free: The ROI of Customer Experience. This research examines the correlation between customer experience and the likelihood of consumers to exhibit the following behaviors: purchase more products or services, recommend a company, forgive a company, trust a company, or try a company’s new product or service.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Empathy Is the Most Critical Soft Skill and Has Been for at Least a Century

CX University

In the Bible of Self-Help Books, “How to Win Friends and Influence People,” by Dale Carnegie, the author spends at least two out of every three chapters discussing an aspect of empathy. Two out of every three. The rest he spends on communication tactics you can employ to make it easier for people to follow your advice. But two out of three boils down to empathy: how to listen, how to consider someone else’s point of view, how to validate their point of view.

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9 Customer Experience Conferences that You shouldn’t miss in 2020

SurveySparrow

Customer Experience conferences are always a source of joy for us, CX enthusiasts. The in-depth learning sessions, the opportunity to meet and have penetrative conversations with visionaries and of course, the hands-on workshops on cutting-edge technologies, etc. are all the next-level experiences that these events deliver, aiding you to reinforce and bolster up your customer experience tactics.

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Care for Your Employees, So They Can Show Care to Customers

Customer Bliss

In my Daily Dose video series, I explore the topics that chief customer officers must grapple with on a daily basis. Join me as I discuss what I’ve learned over the course of my 35-year career, so that you can more effectively do the work that needs to be done. Today’s video is an excerpt from my online course , inspired by my book, Would You Do That To Your Mother?

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Using the Customer Experience to Drive ROI

Customer Experience Update Submitted Articles

The heart of hospitality is all about human connection and creating experiences that are both genuinely memorable and authentic.

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7th Annual CX Report by The Northridge Group Uncovers Priority Training Focus

JUST RELEASED! New research reveals 92% of business leaders would like to provide additional training to their customer service representatives. Soft skills training stands out as a priority area of investment and/or improvement. Check out The Northridge Group’s latest CX research report —the 7th annual CX survey of 1,000 customers and 250 business executives—to see additional statistics as well as insights that businesses can use to benchmark their customer service and improve the overall exper