October, 2016

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The Ultimate Customer Experience Infographic, 2016

Experience Matters

Once again, Temkin Group is publishing a new infographic as part of our CX Day celebration. Take a look at last year’s ultimate CX infographic. Here are links to download different versions of the infographic: Infographic: in.jpg format, in.pdf format 18″ x 24″ poster: in.jpg format, in.pdf format Filed under: CCXP3 Organizational Adoption […].

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Embedding Customer Centricity: The Customer Experience Jigsaw Puzzle

ijgolding

As someone who spent 17 years working in a corporate environment, I have experienced enough metaphors and analogies to last me a lifetime. Often, the use of both come across as either patronising, irritating, or indeed both!! That being said, in reality, I am actually as guilty as using them to get a point across as anyone else! If you are not fond of an analogy, then I suggest you spend the next five minutes of your time doing something else!!

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Increasing member engagement: 4 effective strategies for online community growth

Alida

Online communities are now an important tool in gaining ongoing customer feedback and insight. In particular, insight communities —private, online communities made up of carefully selected groups of customers who develop long-term relationships with brands—are now used by hundreds of customer-centric global brands. To get the most business value out of your online communities, you must work to keep members engaged.

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Thirty Drivers of Value Perceptions, or Why Customers Love Your Company

InMoment XI

Customers love a company because they perceive value in their interactions with its people, products, and services. As customer experience (CX) professionals, we usually measure this sense of value with the Net Promoter Score®, or NPS®, which is a nominal indication of how likely the customer is to recommend the company to another person, and. View Article.

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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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Which Channels do Customers Trust the Most?

NICE inContact

If you’re in Customer Service, you’ve heard of “omnichannel”. In fact, you’re probably sick of the term. This concept is easy to understand and the technology isn’t the real challenge. The challenge is the human interface, both the consumer wanting (or not wanting) omnichannel integration , and the agent actually incorporating all channels in the right way.

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Infusing Humanity Into CX, Discussion With Barry Schwartz

Experience Matters

It’s CX Day in New Zealand, so that’s reason enough to kick off Temkin Group’s CX Day celebration. I can’t think of a better way to start CX Day in The Year of Emotion, then to share my Q&A with Barry Schwartz. During this one hour video focused on Infusing Humanity into CX, we discuss some of Barry’s key findings about people and happiness, and […].

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Document THIS! Betrayed by Customer Experience Documentation

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Processes involving humans (that is, ALL of them) require lots and lots of reminders, revisions and revamping. The post Document THIS! Betrayed by Customer Experience Documentation appeared first on Customer Experience Consulting.

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Mastering Voice of the Customer – the VOC journey

ijgolding

Whilst there are still some business leaders around the world who are yet to believe it, most organisations have woken up to the importance of continuously listening to the perception of the customer. It seems so obvious that a company or business should constantly monitor how its customers feel about what it is doing, but it would amaze you how many are not doing so.

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Thirty Drivers of Value Perceptions, or Why Customers Love Your Company

InMoment XI

Customers love a company because they perceive value in their interactions with its people, products, and services. As customer experience (CX) professionals, we usually measure this sense of value with the Net Promoter Score®, or NPS®, which is a nominal indication of how likely the customer is to recommend the company to another person, and.

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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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New Research Confirms – Honey Preferred Over Vinegar, Part One

NICE inContact

In July of 2016, inContact conducted a survey of more than 500 Customer Service Representatives (CSRs) to gather insights about their workplace environment, motivators and challenges. This deep dive study provides a glimpse into working on the front lines of the customer service industry. Please download the full report for complete details. In honor of National Customer Service Week , let’s revisit a celebrated example of a CSR taking the “above and beyond” mantra to an all-time high: A Zappos

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Stepping To The Curb – Go Faster…Make It Easier

Michelli Experience

It will come as no surprise that consumers today demand effortless and expedited service! Online retailers like Amazon have made shopping easier (24-hours a day, purchasing from the comfort of our home, with no lines at checkout) but they make customers wait for delivery (typically relying on UPS). By contrast, brick-and-mortar businesses have products available for immediate purchase but often aggravate customers with slow or inefficient processes for completing transactions (e.g. lines at the

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Free eBook: 25 Tips For Tapping Into Customer Emotions

Experience Matters

As part of our CX Day celebration, we’re giving away this free eBook: 25 Tips For Tapping Into Customer Emotions. Here’s the executive summary: Emotions play an essential role in how people form judgments and make decisions. Consequently, a customer’s emotional response to an experience with a company has a significant impact on their loyalty to […].

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Should You Really Wait For The Perfect Employee?

Steve DiGioia

…or does it even matter? This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. After your star performer quit and left you high and dry you insisted on keeping that manager position open for three weeks. Face it; your pride got the best of you. “How dare he walk out like that? Besides, we didn’t need him anyway”. Boy, how wrong you were. No emails went out about why he left and there was no mention to the middle managers of what happened.

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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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Customer churn: The pipeline that shall save you

Customer Bliss

Customer churn is bad. You don’t want it, obviously. In a perfect utopia, all your customers would stay in the fold, retain, and refer you to other new customers. That’s the apex of a customer-driven growth engine, and it’s essentially the polar opposite of customer churn. But we all know the quote, often attributed to Warren Buffett.

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When Customers Become Customer Prospects

InMoment XI

Last week, my husband and I officially became what I call “customer prospects.” After having the same home insurance provider for over 16 years, we pulled the trigger and made the decision to make a switch. We are what the industry calls “in market,” as we look at other providers and begin to compare and. View Article.

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New Research Confirms – Honey Preferred Over Vinegar, Part Two

NICE inContact

In July of 2016, inContact conducted a survey of more than 500 Customer Service Representatives (CSRs) to gather insights about their workplace environment, motivators and challenges. This deep dive study provides a glimpse into working on the front lines of the customer service industry. In honor of National Customer Service Week , we are going to take a closer look at things, from the CSRs’ perspective.

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Weology: We Comes Before Me - Part 1

CX Journey

Image courtesy of Peter Aceto Does your company practice Weology? Weology. What is it? If you guessed that it sounds like "the study of we," you're pretty close. The name of the concept stems from a Muhammad Ali poem, which simply goes like this: Me. we. Three unique letters rearranged into two powerful little words. The concept itself, which is also the title of a book ( Weology: How Everybody Wins When We Comes Before Me ), summarizes the leadership style of Peter Aceto , CEO of Tangerine Bank

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Navigating the Future: Unveiling Trends and Bold Predictions in Customer Experience

Ready to explore 2024’s CX landscape? Join experts from SMG and guest Forrester as they discuss prominent trends actively shaping the industry and dive into a stack of bold predictions for the year ahead. Will the average customer experience improve? How can leaders leverage their CX metrics to establish financial linkage? What will global firms achieve using customer-facing generative AI?

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Report: Translating Brand Promises into Employee Behaviors

Experience Matters

We just published a Temkin Group report, Translating Brand Promises into Employee Behaviors. Here’s the executive summary: Temkin Group has found that the companies that deliver great customer experience use their brand as a blueprint for how they treat customers, which is why Compelling Brand Values is one of our four customer experience core competencies.

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Top 5 Tips to Motivate Contact Center Agents

Calabrio

Your contact center agents are your company’s face to the outside world. They’re your frontline to your customers, the ones you trust to maintain those critical buyer relationships. But their jobs aren’t easy ones. And those roles are vulnerable to high turnover. It takes a special mindset to field complaints and calls, day after day. Without the right support, jobs like theirs can be physically, psychologically and emotionally draining.

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First 90 Days of a Chief Customer Success Officer, with Duygu Cibik – CB22

Customer Bliss

Episode Overview. Duygu Cibik has a robust history in operations and change management and transformation. So when she took on the role of the Chief Customer Success officer at Reval, she knew she needed to create a very deliberate path to gaining understanding, acceptance and traction in her role. About Duygu. Duygu has 15+ years of leadership experience in enterprise technology with a strong track record of growing 100+ million dollar B2B technology businesses with full P&L responsibility

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When Customers Become Customer Prospects

InMoment XI

Last week, my husband and I officially became what I call “customer prospects.” After having the same home insurance provider for over 16 years, we pulled the trigger and made the decision to make a switch. We are what the industry calls “in market,” as we look at other providers and begin to compare and.

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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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inContact Recognized as a Leader in Gartner’s 2016 Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) Magic Quadrant

NICE inContact

For the 2 nd year in a row, inContact was positioned as a Leader in Gartner’s annual Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) Magic Quadrant. Positioning in the Magic Quadrant is based on two criteria: Ability to Execute , and Completeness of Vision. Organizations in the leader quadrant have balanced these two important qualities and are described as: “ …those suppliers with a strong multichannel product and service capability that have already. amassed a large installed base of both larg

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Optimal Help Desk Solutions for the SMB

Omnicus

We’ve covered the help desk in detail. We’ve shown you why you need an integrated help desk, and what it can do for your larger CRM. Now, we’ll dive into the optimal help desk model for small and medium-sized businesses (SMB). The concept is the same, but the specifics differ and can make a huge impact on the efficiency of your contact center. So what’s the best help desk solution for the small and medium sized business?

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Start Talking About Emotions (Video)

Experience Matters

To help celebrate “The Year of Emotion” on CX Day (and beyond), Temkin Group created this fun, short video: Start Talking About Emotion. The bottom line: Add the Five A’s of an Emotional Response to your vocabularyFiled under: Customer Connectedness, Customer experience, Emotion, Temkin Group Video.

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Weology: We Comes Before Me - Part 2

CX Journey

Image courtesy of Peter Aceto This is Part 2 of a two-part series on my discussion with Tangerine Bank CEO, Peter Aceto. I left off on Part 1 of my conversation with Peter Aceto with questioning why so many leaders still don't get the importance of focusing on the customer and customer experience improvements. In this second part, I'll share the rest of our discussion, which revolved around change and change management, business leaders Peter admires, companies who have adopted Weology, success

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The Open CCaaS Advantage Report

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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How Campaign Monitor Does the NPS® Survey at Scale

GetFeedback

Campaign Monitor uses the NPS survey to measure customer loyalty and overall sentiment. Here's how they scale the process with 200,000 customers.

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Forrester and MaritzCX Strut Their CX Stuff

InMoment XI

MaritzCX and Forrester are partnering to make the Forrester Customer Experience Index (CX Index) pre-built survey templates across 17 industries accessible within the MaritzCX Platform. This partnership and integration is made in the name of arming businesses with easy access to the CX Index and giving them as much insight as they can possibly get. View Article.

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15 Customer Retention Strategies for Long-Term Customer Loyalty

Comm100

Your customer retention is super important to your bottom line—after all, customer loyalty is well-known for being more valuable than customer acquisition. But 68% of consumers will not go back to a provider once they’ve left, and 80% of them believe the company could have done more to retain their business in the first place. With stakes this high, it’s essential that you build a solid customer retention plan that can lead to long-term customer loyalty.