December, 2017

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Listening to Customers Tells You Everything You Need to Know… - Transforming the Customer Experience

Kristina Evey

LISTEN to your Customers. Listening. We all know how to do it… but few know how to do it well … and it could be driving your customers away if you don’t do it well. Listen well and you’ll increase sales and customer loyalty. Even though communication involves two parts – speaking and listening – I believe that listening is actually 2/3 of successful communication.

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Want to Deliver the Best Customer Experience? It Takes More Than a Metric

InMoment XI

It is very refreshing and encouraging to see so many organizations with mission statements indicating their focus on the customer and their mission to deliver the best customer experience. Over the past few years, organizations have begun taking it a step further than just stating this customer focus, but have started establishing teams or divisions.

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How to Set Goals & Build a Strategy to Drive Customer Experience Improvement

Comm100

Every company out there is trying to be more customer-centric, and the race for an excellent customer experience is heating up. Nowadays, having competitive prices and bombarding customers with advertisements and offers is not enough. Customers are smarter than before, and most of them already know your products and services intimately, based on online research or referrals, before making a purchase.

Strategy 295
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Develop and Commit to a Set of Core Values to Elevate Customer Experience

Customer Bliss

Last month, Forrester released a new report, “ Predictions 2018: The Crisis Of Trust And How Smart Brands Will Shape CX In Response, ” and it was a great read – it confirmed many of the things that myself and other CX experts alike have been touting for years. There’s an increased focus on customer experience these days, and many companies are just beginning to implement a customer experience process.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with 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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Lumoa Just Got Better.

Lumoa

Wow! Have you seen the new update? We are happy to announce the product update that our team has been working on for the last months. The update touches all your favorite features and turns them into even more a productive toolset, so you can dive deeper into your customer feedback analysis and execute accurate actions based on that. Watch the video below if you want to know how to get actionable insights with the help of the new and updated features.

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NetCNS: a crucial new metric to maximise your competitive edge, by Stephen Hewett

ijgolding

The whole idea of the Net Promoter Score (NPS) is based around asking customers the question ‘How likely is it that you would recommend our company/product/service to a friend or colleague?’ and proposing to them a variety of response options based on a zero to ten scale. In the years since its introduction, NPS has become used all over the world and few organisations fail to ask their customers this question in one form or another at some point in the organisation/customer interaction.

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Bitcoin or Bust

QuestionPro Audience

After starting the year valued at $1,000, Bitcoin is aiming to end 2017 strong—on December 7th, the price per coin hit a record of $17,000, marking an increase of more than 1,700%. Bitcoin is the largest of the cryptocurrencies, which are virtual coins that are mined—the process through which new bitcoins are created and transactions are recorded and verified—by computers using complex algorithms.

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How to Use Continuous Improvement Strategies for Customer Experience Improvement

Comm100

In this day and age, all companies who want to get an edge over the competition must embrace customer experience continuous improvement as a strategy to ensure their customers receive great customer experiences. Why? Well, the customer experience is a key ingredient to getting new business and maintaining customer loyalty. But delivering excellent customer experiences isn’t something that you can measure one time and not look to improve.

Strategy 235
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The Changing Face of Customer Journeys

CloudCherry

One of the most important things a company can do is to map the customer journey. Not long ago, mapping that path was relatively easy. However, the consumer is evolving at the speed of light, and, thanks to technological advancements, the customer journey is changing just as quickly. How the Customer Journey Has Changed. The customer’s journey through a sales funnel was linear and predictable.

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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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Text Analytics as Future of Customer Experience? We Asked Jim Tincher.

Lumoa

The topic of customer experience has been trending throughout this year. More and more companies put a customer at the centre of their business operations. At Lumoa, we believe that it’s only the beginning. Customer experience and engagement are already changing the way businesses work covering larger and larger industries. To stay ahead of the time and to be successful, it is crucial to follow the newest trends in CX.

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Introducing The Year of Humanity (2018)

Experience Matters

Every year, Temkin Group identifies a theme that we believe deserves the attention of the entire CX community. We focused on Elevate Purpose in 2017, Intensify Emotion in 2016, Engage Employees in 2015, and Amplify Empathy in 2014. We’ve decided to label 2018 as “The Year of Humanity.” With all of the discord and tension throughout the world, it seems like a good time for all of us to refocus on what’s most important, our collective humanity.

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6 Reasons to Store Customer Feedback in Salesforce

GetFeedback

Is your customer feedback sitting in an Excel spreadsheet? You're not alone. Get more from customer feedback by integrating your surveys with Salesforce.

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Wearables: Technology on the Rise

QuestionPro Audience

The wearable technology market is growing at a rapid pace, with 1 in 5 Americans owning a wearable tech device. This technology encourages wearers to be more engaged in their health and lifestyle choices. In addition to being a fashionable accessory, wearables collect pertinent data that can be sent to the wearer’s physician. In contrast to a one-time blood pressure reading at an appointment, wearables provide data taken over a period of time, such as sleep patterns, heart rate, and activity lev

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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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Tailor Your Retail Strategy to Your Customer Experience Goals

Centriam Customer Experience Lab

Using conclusions drawn from Centriam’s 2017 Retail Study, we have proposed areas of focus to enhance customer experience for two common NPS objectives.

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Drawing Toast, Powering Outcomes and Delivering Delight

CloudCherry

Startups by nature are ever evolving. Everything in nature is. Believers in Darwinism would vouch for the benefits of evolving faster than the ecosystem. Startups with a short half life would do well to read up on the Origin of the Species and fast forward to today. That was the overarching thought with which the management team decided to shun data and connectivity to solve some wicked challenges confronting us using the power of Systems Thinking.

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Carvana: CX And Car Buying Finally Meet!

CX Accelerator

How Carvana is leveraging customer experience principles to revolutionize the process of buying a car. Last night began in standard fashion…I consumed a spicy chicken sandwich from Chick-fil-A and wandered around the kitchen for a bit. Things took a turn for the crazy, however, when we headed out to buy a new car out of a giant vending machine. Yes, I’m speaking of Carvana, “The New Way to Buy a Car” as their tagline says.

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Report: The State of CX Metrics, 2017

Experience Matters

We published a Temkin Group report, The State of CX Metrics, 2017. Temkin Group surveyed 169 companies to learn about how they use customer experience (CX) metrics and then compared their answers with similar studies we’ve conducted annually since 2011. We also had them complete our CX Metrics Program Assessment that evaluates the degree to which these efforts are Consistent, Impactful, Integrated, and Continuous.

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The State of Customer Onboarding 2024

Building lasting customer relationships has always been top-of-mind for businesses. However, in the last decade, organizations have recognized that the customer journey beyond the initial sale is as critical as the sale itself. Customer onboarding, or the customer’s first impression of you, is critical to forging lasting relationships and long-term success.

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My Rock, My Story: How Airbnb Uses Customer Listening to Determine Goals

Customer Bliss

The following post is an excerpt from my book: Chief Customer Officer 2.0. Below, I share a “My Rock, My Story” snippet – which is one of many featured throughout the book. These stories come from CCOs who have faced numerous challenges, yet persevered in pushing their metaphorical “rock up the hill” by uniting their leadership teams, working through challenges, and ultimately achieving success in doing so.

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What are Online Survey Panels?

QuestionPro Audience

With the kind of competition that’s coming up in the market every day, it becomes crucial for organizations to be on the edge of things and be better than the best. New strategies and options to leverage on competition are developed to gain maximum benefits. Market research is one of the most reliant ways to keep up with the ever-changing market. For a market research to have a reliable and productive outcome, understanding the roadmap of activities from the responses received from the database

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The Reason this Chess World Champion Is Stepping Away From Her Titles

Alida

Anna Muzychuk is taking a stand for women’s rights at her own expense. The Chess Grandmaster won the 2016 Women’s World Rapid Chess Championship and the Women’s World Blitz Chess Championship. She’s currently ranked the number two woman by Fédération Internationale des Échecs ( FIDE ), which governs international chess competitions.

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What Happened To The Dining Experience We Used To Receive?

Steve DiGioia

do you still care about customer service or is it all about the money This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. Being in the hospitality business for over 20 years, I have seen some of the best and worst at their trade. But the dining experience sure has changed…. From the hardworking, studious college kid that was very driven and worked as a waiter 6-days a week to put himself through school; the gravelly-voiced divorced mom of 4 grown kids that needed to pay her bills and get her lif

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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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The Customer Experience ‘7 Year Itch’! A frank and honest assessment of the CX profession

ijgolding

As we approach the end of another calendar year, it is always appropriate for bloggers, writers, thought leaders and professionals in general, to reflect on what has passed, as well as what is to come in the future. As a prolific writer on the subject of Customer Experience, I feel as though every article I publish is a reflection of sorts. However, when we reach the end of the year, it does seem sensible to combine all of my thoughts together to see if they make some kind of sensible conclusion

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Young Employees Are Most Impacted By Purposeful Leaders

Experience Matters

As many readers of this blog know, Purposeful Leadership is one of Temkin Group’s Four CX Core Competencies. How do leaders demonstrate this characteristic? By mastering what we call the 5 P’s of Purposeful Leaders: Persuasive, Passionate, Propelling, Positive, and Persistent. In a recent post, we showed how Purposeful Leadershipaffects the behaviors of employees.

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Here’s an Idea: Put Millennials’ Needs First

BlueOcean

The oldest Millennials are now hitting their late 30s (gulp… really?) They make up more than 30% of the workforce with a cohort that consists of 75 million people. What does that mean for outsourced contact center employers? In our opinion, it means we better be doing a good job setting up an employment experience that meets the average Millennial’s needs, and we better be shaping our industry to support engagement of this demographic for the short term and the long term.

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Top 5 Money Management Apps Every Millennial Needs

QuestionPro Audience

Millennials get a tough rap. If it’s not a news story about how entitled they act, they’re being told they’ll never be able to afford to buy a house because they spend their money on avocado toast. Maybe it’s not actually the toast—maybe they’re not able to purchase a home because 63% of millennials have more than $10,000 in student loan debt. According to a study on millennial student debt , 83% of non-homeowners believe their student loan debt has delayed them from buying a home.

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Top 5 Ways to Optimize Your Loyalty Strategy

Speaker: Lauren Barash, Vice President, Brand Marketing

In an ever-evolving industry, building and retaining loyal customers is critical to the success of any restaurant business. Join Lauren Barash, VP of Brand Marketing at Full Course, as she delves into the world of restaurant loyalty programs, and reveals the top five essential strategies to optimize your approach! This webinar will explore: Loyalty trends and what you should be focusing on 📊 Actionable insights and ideas to help you develop the most powerful and effective loyalty program

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How Cadillac drives customer centricity in the luxury market

Alida

Cadillac is a brand that needs no introduction. It is an iconic company—a larger-than-life brand that people associate with luxury. But Cadillac’s legacy is also its biggest challenge. When consumers think of the future, they don’t necessarily think of Cadillac. Many people associate Cadillac with the yesteryears—back to the era of Marilyn Monroe and Elvis—but not with the innovation leaders of today.

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Four Common Journey Mapping Mistakes

Heart of the Customer

Journey mapping isn’t easy. That’s why almost 2/3 of journey maps fail to drive change. A failed journey mapping project is a huge waste – not just because of the dollars and energy that went into it, but also because one failed journey mapping project makes it less likely that your company will try again. So here are four […]. The post Four Common Journey Mapping Mistakes appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Recipes for Leadership Behaviors that Drive Customer Experience Transformation

Customer Bliss

Over the many years that I’ve spent doing customer experience work, every leader I’ve worked with has asked for explicit actions that they can take to show their commitment to CX transformation. I’ve spent plenty of time developing these actions through tried and tested methods, and decided to turn them into “recipe cards.” Recipe cards came to mind because I grew up in an Italian household with grandmothers who always cared for my siblings and I, and kept us fed.