Thu.Jun 23, 2016

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Customer retention: 35 data-backed approaches

Customer Bliss

I talk often about customer experience , but recently I’ve heard from some followers that they’d like a bit more on customer retention. The first thing to understand about customer retention is that obviously it comes straight from customer experience. In short, if the customer experience is good, the customer retention is there. Also there: referral.

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Leaders Learn: 5 Things Every Strong Service Leader Does

Who's Your Gladys?

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” – John F. Kennedy. If you’ve read “Who’s Your Gladys?” or “Taming Gladys!“, you know that we espouse lifelong learning as THE key to success. A true leader – in any field – likes pursuing new ideas and innovation. They. The post Leaders Learn: 5 Things Every Strong Service Leader Does appeared first on Who's Your Gladys?

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Using consumer insight for rebranding: Q&A with Price Chopper’s Sam Trimboli

Alida

Founded in 1932, the New York-based grocer Price Chopper (known as Market 32 in some regions) operates 135 stores in the American Northeast. To accomplish a goal of elevating customer experience , the company engages with 5,000 customers through Food For Thought, a Vision Critical insight community first launched in 2012. The insight community provides ongoing feedback from customers and helps Price Chopper make better decisions about strategy, branding and marketing campaigns.

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How to Get Customer Feedback the RUF Way

Kayako

We live in an age where customers expect to be able to give their feedback on everything almost instantly. Products can be instantly reviewed on Amazon, restaurants critiqued on Yelp, hostels on TripAdvisor. If customers feel unheard, they can turn to Twitter and other social media platforms to share their opinions. So, it’s important to collect useful feedback from your customers to ensure they feel valued and also action their comments.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, 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.

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News Flash: The Next Generation Wants Digital Communication

Calabrio

Our world is digital and there’s no getting around it. We trip over it everywhere—people are on their laptops, phones and tablets searching the web, surfing social networks and downloading apps, all while walking down the street. This digital generation is also making strong judgments about the quality of service they’re receiving from brands on these channels.

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The Elusive ROI of Customer Experience

CX Journey

Image courtesy of wallstreetinvestinggroup I originally wrote today's post for Intradiem. It appeared on their blog on January 25, 2016. Have you been able to prove the ROI of focusing on the customer experience to your executives? When you're trying to get executive commitment for your employee and customer experience improvement initiatives, what's the first question they ask?

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3 Ways to Automate Customer Service with Human Connections

Win the Customer

One of the big challenges for brands using social media for customer service —and also making an effort to proactively reach out to customers with live chat and chatbots on their website—is striking a balance between customer service automation and real human connections. If you’ve ever taken a science class, you’ve probably heard of the triple-beam balance.

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Customer Service Survey Time – One More Time!

Esteban Kolsky

Hello ladies and germs, That time you were waiting for all year is finally here! The new phonebook is here!! I’m finally somebody… Sorry, The time to give me your opinions in exchange for an aggregate view of what’s going on in Customer Service is here. As a side item, 46% of people in America still use yellow pages to find business listings and 34% (kid you not) still use the phonebook to find telephone numbers for people ( I am assuming it’s so they can text them…

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Make Your Customer the Hero of Your Story

Heart of the Customer

Imagine your customer’s interaction with you as a story. It has a beginning—when your customer first contacts your company—and an ending—when their interaction with you is completed. It has a hero—your customer. And it might even have an antagonist—the problem your customer has come to you to solve. But the first question is, does your […]. The post Make Your Customer the Hero of Your Story appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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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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5 Ways to Create a Customer Service Culture

CSM Magazine

When both customers and employees are engaged, companies see a significant increase in customer service performance. . Disney excels at customer service, and the reason is that the company looks at everything through the eyes of the customer. You can too. At each step of the customer’s experience, ask what you are doing to the customer. Then, for each step, ask yourself what mediocre service looks like and what would excellent service look like.

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Webinar: Improve Your Customer Communications and Customer Experience

Topdown

Recently, I presented and my colleague Paige Tippett gave a technology demonstration on how to connect CCM to customer experience. This is an updated and expanded version of one of the top five sessions from this year’s XPLORation ‘16 conference. If you missed the conference, you will definitely want to see this webinar!

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3 Ways to Commit to Delivering First Class Customer Service

CSM Magazine

Is first class customer service a target you suddenly arrive at after years of experience, practice and research? Or, is it a commitment your business maintains consistently to reap the experience it wants? Is it the end or the means to reaching an end? First class customer service is continuous. Constant. Persistent. Ongoing. Just like any commitment, you don’t maintain it for a temporary period of time—you dedicate yourself and your efforts to it, endlessly.

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Bridgestone takes a Fresh Look at the Customer

Think Customers

What does Bridgestone have in common with Nordstrom and Starbucks? On the surface not much, but Bridgestone aspires to match the high level of customer service that companies like Nordstrom and Starbucks are known for. Yesterday, Bridgestone laid out its strategy for overhauling its customer experience by 2020. . There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.

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Reimagine Your Communications With A Unified Platform

Cut complexity and boost efficiency while empowering your customers with Nextiva's unified communications platform. Nextiva streamlines workflows and centralizes customer interactions, all while simplifying business collaboration, increasing productivity, and reducing employee burnout.

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5 Reasons Companies Fail at Customer Service

CSM Magazine

There are a number of reasons why companies fail at customer service. Sometimes it’s not what you are supposed to do, but what you should avoid doing. So while there are many reasons, here are five common reasons that companies fail at customer service: There’s no clear definition of what customer service looks like in the organization. You can’t just say, “Let’s give great customer service.

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How to Build a World-Class Customer Service Team (Part 3)

Provide Support

How to Build a World-Class Customer Service Team. It’s undoubtedly true that basing your business around customer service always pays off. These days, we’ve been witnessing many amazing stories of companies that made customer service a key pillar of their business and eventually the face of their brand. Have you ever asked yourself if your team can learn from these successful professionals, and what you can do to delight your customers just as well?

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Why Customer Service Employees Need Guidelines Not Just Rules

CSM Magazine

Rules are an essential part of any business. Rules are necessary to ensure we make intentional decisions. Rules are written to make sure people are treated equally and consistently. While there’s nothing wrong with this in principle, there are always going to be situations where a certain degree of flexibility is essential because people are unique.

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Social Selling: How To Use Social Media For Lead Generation

Avaya

Attracting and retaining customers today is all about giving them more choices for when and how to interact with you. With more engagement channels today than ever, omnichannel communication must be completely integrated into every strategy for customer access. This is true for all parts of the sales funnel, including lead generation. With about three quarters of the U.S. population now on social media , social selling has become an important part of the mix for generating customer interest and

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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 Service Perception Is Fact!

CSM Magazine

As business owners we can tend to fall into a big trap when we assume our customers will accept our word that our service is excellent and better than every body else’s. This is something that is wrong and it is something that needs to be understood. Just because you say it, doesn’t mean I (as the customer) will believe it. I need to try it out before I will take your word for it.

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Talkdesk for Slack: New Message Buttons

Talkdesk

Last month, we officially unveiled our latest call center integration, Talkdesk for Slack, at Opentalk 2016. We’re happy to announce today that we have added a new feature to Talkdesk for Slack. Presenting Talkdesk for Slack Message Buttons. We’re honored to have been one of the few Slack partners chosen to receive early access to this feature. Over the last few weeks, our Engineering and Product Teams have worked to incorporate Message Buttons into Talkdesk for Slack.

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At IAUG, the Experience was Everything

Avaya

Avaya invited Brenda Emerson, President of IAUG, to share her thoughts about this year’s conference: Avaya ENGAGE 2016 was, in a word, engaging. It’s great to see the best and the brightest business communications professionals gather each year. As Henry Ford once said, “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

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The Power Of Constructive Impatience – A Key To Resiliency

CSM Magazine

Rather than respond with knee-jerk reactions or lash out in frustration or anger when the status quo is unacceptable and change is needed use constructive impatience. Constructive impatience builds a case for carefully crafted actions that elicit collaboration and cooperation rather than anger. For those who abhor change of any kind, I believe there are an equal number of us who want to challenge the status quo, to move quickly and to leap ahead.

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and Guest Speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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10 Implementation Pitfalls in Sales Compensation: How to Work with Your ICM Vendor

Customer Interactions

Even well-planned sales compensation projects can go astray. It’s not only the technology scope and multiple stakeholders that can complicate things, but also the need to cooperate and work closely with an outside vendor.

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Respond to Feedback Faster With the Qualtrics App for Slack

Qualtrics

“If you ain’t first, you’re last” – Ricky Bobby, Talladega Nights. In Hollywood, the sentiment that there’s no merit to a second-place finish is one that’s often touted by flawed, self-absorbed characters, many of whom end up learning that coming in first isn’t the only thing that matters. But truth be told, the world of customer service is trending toward a “winner takes all” reality.

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3 Signs That You Should Reconsider Using Instagram for Business

LiveChat

Here’s a confession I have to make: I’m seriously addicted to Instagram. I’ve tried not to fall in love with it because I usually get hooked on all social media sites. I knew it will do no good to my free time. One day though I gave it a try, hoping I’ll be able to stop. I was not able to stop. Instagram became my black coffee in the morning, espresso in the afternoon, macchiato in the evening and caffe latte just before going to bed.

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[Infographic] The Hierarchy of Needs: Citizen Experience in the Public Sector

iPerceptions

In my previous blog posts ( The Metrics you need to Improve the Citizen Experience and What is the Citizen Experience in the 21st Century ?), I have highlighted that public satisfaction tends to improve when governments provide citizens with world-class digital services. To expand on this concept, I want to put forward a model that demonstrates the link between experience analytics and the user experience.

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10 Questions to Ask Before Buying an LMS

Find your perfect LMS. Choosing the right Learning Management System (LMS) is crucial for your business's success. With so many options available in the market, how do you ensure you make the best choice? This guide is your key to finding the ideal enterprise learning platform for your business. Compiled by industry experts, these questions will help to clarify your needs, prioritize your most essential features, and guide you through the evaluation process.