Lumoa

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Customer experience plays an important, if not the most important role in success of any business. Nearly all companies (89%) believe that customer experience will be their primary basis for competition. How do you stand in that competition? Customer experience management brings discipline to this somewhat vague and soft area: by establishing a systematic process for collecting, analyzing and acting on the customer feedback, you’ll be able to start taking the customer experience in control.

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InMoment XI

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

I sat there in my chair chuckling to myself as my 16-year-old daughter sighed, grumbled, and rolled her eyes continually. She had now been on hold for two whole minutes with the company that she had bought her newest shoes from. One minute later, she FINALLY gets to talk to someone. They resolve her issues. View Article.

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ijgolding

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

This year, Ian Golding (that’s me), will officially become the author of a book. A lifetimes ambition, I am beyond excited!! However, I would never have got to the point of being on the brink of achieving my ambition without the support of many people. A significant amount of support came via my crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. I feel genuinely blessed that so many people believed in what I am doing enough to pledge their support to make my dream come true.

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QuestionPro Audience

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Surveys are powerful tools that businesses rely on to learn the motivations of consumers and gain insight into their feelings towards brands. However, if the participants are responding arbitrarily, the survey instrument may need some attention in order to get the actionable data necessary to make accurate decisions. It is important to keep survey respondents engaged in order to ensure a positive experience for both parties involved.

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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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CloudCherry

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

The modern-day banking customer has evolved over the years. The dawn of the Digital Age has not only made it easier for customers to engage with banking institutions but also given them more choices. Customers are also more aware today. They’re looking for unique and delightful experiences. Experiences that make them want to keep going back to the same company.

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Infographics Banking Policies Loyalty 239

Lumoa

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The future of customer experience is decided. Isn’t it? Probably not. We asked 15 experts with world reputation in Customer experience the same question and the results might surprise you. Some time ago we released the first part of the interview answers, and this week guests are Lynn Hunsaker, Peter Lavers, Jane Treadwell-Hoye, Melinda Gonzalez, Matt Dixon, Vicki Amon-Higa and Raul Guillermo Amigo.

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Centriam Customer Experience Lab

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

To help you build or improve your business cases, Centriam built a single page summary — a map of sorts — which outlines twelve different financial gains resulting from customer experience improvements. These twelve drivers are aggregated into five categories.

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Customer Bliss

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Customer Experience implementation within an organization is a major undertaking. It often involves multiple departments, and of course, the organization’s leaders and C-Suite. I always stress to my clients that CX work has to be done in bite-sized pieces, because it’s an initiative that becomes a part of the company’s long term strategy; therefore, you can’t try to tackle it all at once.

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QuestionPro Audience

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

2017 was predicted to be the year of the smart home, and consumers are slowly integrating the new technology into their homes. With smart speakers like Amazon Echo, Google Home, and the soon-to-be-released Apple HomePod, consumers have many options when it comes to a digital voice assistant, and the ability to optimize and control lighting, heating, energy consumption, electronic devices and security features.

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Consumers Retail Report Technology 252

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CloudCherry

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Companies today want to delight customers at every interaction. However, little do they realize that great customer experiences start from the inside. Yes, the experience you provide your customers is only as good as the culture you build within the company. So, are you investing enough time and effort to create a culture that values both employees and customers?

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Experience Matters

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

We work with many of the largest technology companies, helping them bolster the experiences they deliver to customers, often focusing on their (business-to-business) B2B relationships. With the shift from on-premise to cloud-based software, technology providers have had to focus even more on customer experience. Why? Because customers buy more incrementally and make renewal decisions more frequently, forcing tech vendors to ensure that customers are continuously getting value.

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Lumoa

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

There's a company X that collects customer feedback. Company X prefers the Net Promoter Score® ( what is NPS? ), yet it could be any other metric. They ask the very familiar NPS question: " How likely is it that you would recommend [brand] to a friend or colleague? (on a scale from 0 to 10) " after each customer purchase or interaction. But guess what?

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Kayako

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

There are so many different ways to onboard new employees with a training program. It can be hard to know which way to start, especially if it’s your first time. You need to consider what kind of culture you are trying to foster, what priorities you want your team to have, and make a plan to preemptively correct problems and questions before they’ve even come up.

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GetFeedback

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

When it comes to improving CX, not all KPIs are created equal. Measuring customer effort score can prove to be the most potent source for CX insight.

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QuestionPro Audience

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Ridesharing services like Lyft and Uber are here to stay. According to a recent report from SharesPost , consumers are using ridesharing services more than ever before. In fact, U.S ridesharing adoption jumped 15 points to 53% in 2017. This is in part due to the continued popularity among millennials, who make up 57% of all rideshare passengers. They have embraced ridesharing more than any other demographic, driving the growth in the ridesharing economy.

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CloudCherry

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Companies have forever been collecting feedback from customers. It’s never the intent that is under question. It’s the outcome – which is where most companies haven’t covered themselves in glory. Despite listening to customers endlessly, they still don’t know how to act on all that feedback. In addition, they’ve set up processes and policies in the name of a Voice of Customer program in order to capture customer expectations and create products/services accord

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Infographics Voice of Customer Policies Feedback 230

Experience Matters

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Employee Engagement is one of Temkin Group’s Four CX Core Competencies. In other words, you can’t be customer-centric unless you have a highly engaged workforce. Make sure to visit our Employee Engagement Page. 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: Employee Engagement Competency & Maturity, 2017 Empl

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

No matter what language they speak, there’s typically a barrier between the language brands use internally and the language customers use while trying to get something done. Yet it really isn’t what they hear, but how it makes them feel and what it makes them want to do next. Does it drive the next best action, or leave them scratching their heads and dropping out of the journey?

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Kayako

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Support reps get tons of training from the moment they start their job—whether it’s on products, new feature launches, or soft skills like communication. This is great. Training gives new hires a solid baseline to start their jobs and do them well. While training is vital, it isn’t enough to help employees grow professionally at your company or in their careers.

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GetFeedback

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Empowering your support team by using the right feedback solution is crucial to a company's success. Here are five customer support surveys to use.

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QuestionPro Audience

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Attention, small businesses! According to the U.S. Small Business Administration , there are currently 28.8 million small businesses in the United States. These businesses have played a major role in economic growth because they create so many jobs (1.4 million in 2014!), but getting the business off the ground is a struggle. About two-thirds of small businesses survive 2 years, half will survive 5 years, and one-third will make it to 10 years.

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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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CloudCherry

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Companies with the best-in-class Voice of Customer (VoC) programs achieve 10 times higher YOY increase in revenue compared to other firms. Furthermore, they retain 55% more customers, experience an average drop of 23% in YOY customer service expenses, and boast employee engagement rates that are 292% higher. So, if your Voice of Customer isn’t delivering noteworthy results, then it’s time to take a hard look at what’s going wrong.

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Experience Matters

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

It’s hard to keep up with everything that Temkin Group published in 2017, so we put together a couple of infographics to highlight some of the key data insights. The initial infographic examined CX efforts and ROI. In this infographic, we examine 12 factoids on CX ratings, people, and leadership. Below the infographic you’ll find links to download the graphic (as well as a poster), along with links to the referenced content.

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Infographics Leadership ROI Groups 205

BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

If you answered the headline with a yes – give yourself a major pat on the back. You are out there setting the standard for others to follow (And please, get in touch so we can get you signed on for a guest blog spot). If you answered “no, our social customer care is most definitely not kicking ass” – don’t worry, you’ve come to the right place. We’ve curated five thought-provoking blogs that will help you get on the path to best-in-class social customer care.

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C3Centricity

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

A recent post by John Ollila on Loyalty Lobby about customer journey maps and touchpoints in the leisure industry prompted me to share with you, an experience I had recently with the Hilton Group. And more importantly the lessons we can all learn from such disasters! Each year around Christmas time, my family get together for a weekend of fun somewhere in Britain.

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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.

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NICE inContact

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Watch first-hand how the customer experience differs for customers using a traditional, multi-channel routing customer service solution, compared to a true omnichannel customer experience in this video. Follow the twins, Jimmy and Johnny, to see for yourself what happens as each of them tries to execute a quite mundane task: reschedule a service appointment for their cars.

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QuestionPro Audience

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Every good idea should be supported by extensive research. Businesses can’t afford to go to market with a new product that hasn’t been properly researched. If you’re unconvinced, let us remind you of “new Coke”, which was launched in 1985 after Coca-Cola lost market share to their rival, Pepsi. Coke’s decision to alter their traditional recipe resulted in major outcry from consumers, who inundated the company’s call centers with more than 400,000 complaints.

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CloudCherry

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Markets and businesses today are evolving rapidly. What doesn’t change is that building loyalty and retaining customers in the long-term is the only way brands can drive profitability. The attention span of customers is dwindling as a consequence of stiff competition. Delivering great customer experiences has become a lot more integral to improving loyalty.

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Employee Engagement Culture Policies Training 191