InMoment XI
MAY 4, 2018
I was in Las Vegas last month. It was a great time! Nope, not gambling and running around in “pleasure”, but attending a conference, CXFusion. This conference brings many CX professionals together to talk about their best practices in CX and hear from others. I wasn’t being facetious when I said, “It was a great. View Article.
Comm100
MAY 10, 2018
Introduction. If you work in customer service, chances are you know the signs of a complaining customer. You might recognize them by their pointed tones, their defensive, often raised voices (over email or live chat, this may present itself as all caps writing), and their creative use of insults. You may recognize the way they hold up the line at checkout, the way they demand to speak to management, or the way a look of disbelief plants itself on their faces when they hear that what they are ask
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C3Centricity
MAY 16, 2018
Why do companies still try to cheat their customers? There have been a lot of articles recently exposing the behaviors of organisations who clearly haven’t adopted a customer first strategy. Companies who still think it’s OK to try to attract customers and entice them to purchase with less than honest promises and behaviour. . I know that this has always been the case in some businesses; trying to convince the customer that what you have to offer is exactly what they need – eve
Alida
MAY 8, 2018
Chief marketing officers take note: If there’s one thing you want to excel at in your next annual performance review, it’s customer experience. . Recent research released by the CMO Council found that increasing customer empowerment is “heightening the job security risks of chief marketing officers (CMOs), who are struggling to keep up with new digitally driven ways to engage, satisfy and enrich the experience of more mobile, savvy and fickle consumers.”.
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Experience Matters
MAY 24, 2018
As an organization’s customer experience efforts mature, CX metrics become a critical guidepost for all of its activities. You can see different ways to download this infographic below. Here are links to download different versions of the infographic: Infographic: in .png format, in .pdf format 18? x 24? poster: in .jpg format, in .pdf format Here are links to the research referenced in the infographic: Five Steps For Building A Strong CX Metrics Program The State of CX Metrics, 2017.
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InMoment XI
MAY 30, 2018
Now that Summer is in full swing, many eyes are looking forward to another season of America’s Pastime, BASEBALL! As a baseball fan myself, I follow the team of my childhood, the 1992 and 1993 World Series Champions, the Toronto Blue Jays. As a fan of analytics, I enjoy delving deeper into the information on. View Article.
Lumoa
MAY 7, 2018
A story of how a startup nailed customer relationships since day one. Many startups think that customer experience management equals unnecessary work and financial costs. However, more and more startups that emphasise the uniqueness of customer relationships are growing faster than ever. Some of the familiar names include the two fastest growing companies in the world , Slack and Intercom.
QuestionPro Audience
MAY 2, 2018
Brands are learning that partner marketing is a smart way to broaden your audience and drive growth and sales. Partner marketing, which is creating mutually beneficial relationships between your brand and other businesses, is a fast-growing sector in the marketing world. As with any relationship, it is important to find the right partner for your brand: Can the partner drive sufficient traffic and sales to make it worth your investment?
Kristina Evey
MAY 15, 2018
Embed Core Values into the Customer Experience. Core Values are the fundamental beliefs of a person or organization. Core Values serve as the guiding light for how everyone in your company interacts, communicates and works with each other, external customers, and the community. The core values are the solid foundational building blocks on which your culture is built.
Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions
Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 If so, this webinar is for you! What was once a common practice in the call center is now a barrier to success. Manual call monitoring is no longer an option if you want to proactively coach your agents to ultimately improve the customer experience using data-driven insights. Join this webinar with Angie Kronlage and April Wiita of Working Solutions to discuss how you can modernize outdated, manual call review processes through the power of autom
Experience Matters
MAY 10, 2018
This week I gave a keynote at the Customer Experience Professional Association (CXPA) Insight Exchange in New Orleans. As alway, it was a great event; there’s almost nothing better than a group of enthusiastic CX professionals! We’ve come a long way since we had the first CXPA event at Fenway Park in 2011. The Overall Storyline My speech was entitled The Past, Present, and Future of CX(PA).
Customer Bliss
MAY 9, 2018
Uniting the leadership team in the purpose of delivering one-company experiences and connecting it to business growth occurs with my clients when we can simplify the “why” behind this work in a manner that they can stand behind and communicate as their own. I’ve been asked, “How do you persuade top management that customer centricity is not a cost?
GetFeedback
MAY 17, 2018
Great customer support looks very different than it did a decade ago. Technology has given support teams incredible ways to reach the modern customer. But it’s also opened the flood gates to countless new channels. Once upon a time, customer support agents would split their time between one or two channels (usually phone and email). Today, they might work several channels at once.
Lumoa
MAY 29, 2018
Happy customers are a dream of any business owner. As the famous saying goes, “Satisfied customer is the best strategy of all.” But what happens next, after you identified who your happy customers are ? Even if you don’t actively cooperate with your happy customers, they will, on average, tell nine other people about their experiences with your company (according to American Express ).
Speaker: David Nisbet, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber
Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.
QuestionPro Audience
MAY 24, 2018
Privacy and security are definitely at the forefront of consumers’ minds in today’s digital era. Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal is the most obvious and public case of a business misusing personal data, which has brought this issue to the forefront. Brands need to be cognizant of consumers’ feelings about the security of their personal information and online behaviors.
BlueOcean
MAY 14, 2018
You’re no stranger to RFPs. Love them or hate them, the undeniable truth is that they’re crucial to making informed business decisions about future vendors and partners. The purpose of a contact center RFP is no different: it’s an essential process to use when choosing an outsourcer. However, the contact center RFP is unique and can’t be modeled on the same old RFP template used for other services your company may procure.
CX Accelerator
MAY 16, 2018
Ten years is a great deal of time in the life of a mortal. Considering the average life expectancy of a white bloke in the state of Tennessee is only 73.94 years, this is a really long time. Apparently I’d live eight years longer if I moved to Hawaii? Something to ponder for the future. ?? For now, it’s time to explore the past. This week I’m celebrating 10 years working for the same organization.
Omnicus
MAY 7, 2018
Create a seamless customer experience to boost your revenue. Has this happened to you? You emailed a company with a customer support question, typing in a 10-paragraph message explaining the issue in detail. In response, you just got an automated reply from a robot saying that the company will get back to you in 24 - 48 hours, and you decided that you didn’t want to wait that long.
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Experience Matters
MAY 7, 2018
Voice of the Customer (VoC) programs are a critical component for many CX efforts. This infographic examines those efforts. Make sure to visit our VoC/NPS Resource Page for more help in building your VoC program. Here are links to download different versions of the infographic: Infographic: in .png format, in .pdf format 18? x 24? poster: in .jpg format, in .pdf format Here are links to the research referenced in the infographic: State of VoC Programs, 2017 Renovating Your Voice of the Customer
Experience Investigators by 360Connext
MAY 3, 2018
There are probably a million ways to improve customer experience in your organization, so where should you start? Before you do anything, think about this: Humans have a way of turning a nice idea into a complicated nightmare. Think of insurance – the idea of it is lovely. If we all chip in a little at a time, we’ll be there for each other next time something goes wrong for one of us.
QuestionPro Audience
MAY 31, 2018
The consumer trends of the millennial generation have been a hot topic for many brands, and now the focus has moved to the up-and-comers, Generation Z. Members of Gen Z—those born during the mid-1990s to the early 2000s—are generally tech-savvy, open-minded, and socially responsible. What does this mean for certain brands? We look at three industries that will likely have trouble keeping members of Gen Z as consumers.
Customer Bliss
MAY 16, 2018
Maintaining a “customer service mentality” in the marketplace has to first begin with leaders and the behaviors that they themselves exhibit. That gives the organization—throughout the organization—the ability to act and model that behavior. And this is not just limited to those on the front lines caring for customers in distress. In our lives, we remember the companies, the people and the times when we were honored…. as a friend, as a partner, as a customer.
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Steve DiGioia
MAY 7, 2018
This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. Those of us in the customer service industry have much to deal with. Payroll, purchases, inventory, market share, etc. take a lion’s share of our daily tasks. But, there’s one thing I left out: the customers. No matter what we deal with we must also deal with the occasional upset customer (whether we like it or not).
Omnicus
MAY 15, 2018
Not sure how to increase your NPS? Check out your employee morale rate for a hint! “Kids these days don’t understand the meaning of the word loyalty,” my grandfather would say as he boasted about how he worked for the same company doing the same job for over 30 years.
Experience Matters
MAY 9, 2018
We’ve heard from many of our readers that they often use our blog content, especially our videos, as part of their team meetings. They find that the information we share can initiate powerful discussions. We decided to more actively support this usage with a new offering, CX Sparks. These are free guides that we’ve created to help you drive stimulating discussions.
ijgolding
MAY 21, 2018
We live in a business world full of disruption. Whether you work in financial services, manufacturing, logistics or retail, no business today can ignore the rapid pace of change facing us all. Very much led by the never-ending advancement of digital technology, the business landscape and the challenges facing it, seem to change on a monthly basis. As little as twenty years ago, organisations could quite comfortably rely on having well-respected products and services.
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.
QuestionPro Audience
MAY 10, 2018
Food, and what consumers expect from food manufacturers and grocery stores, is evolving. Case in point: after almost a decade of discussion, the FDA is now requiring restaurants and food chains with 20 or more locations to post calorie counts. One loud voice leading this charge is the millennial generation. Here are 4 ways millennials are changing the way we eat.
Customer Bliss
MAY 23, 2018
?. “ I really, truly pride myself in surrounding myself with a team of super talented people and letting them shine and be their best selves,” says Carolyne Matseshe-Crawford , Head of Fan Experience at Fanatics. Fanatics is the world’s largest provider of officially licensed sports gear. In this episode, Carolyne speaks about the importance of employee experience at Fanatics and how that translates to a better customer experience for dedicated sports fans.
Kristina Evey
MAY 1, 2018
Definition of Culture – The sum of attitudes, customs, and beliefs that distinguishes one group of people from another. . Corporate culture refers to the shared values, attitudes, standards, and beliefs that characterize members of an organization and define its nature. Corporate culture is rooted in an organization’s goals, strategies, structure, and approaches to labor, customers, investors, and the greater community.
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