January, 2012

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Video: Do Women Enjoy the Sales Experience More Than Men?

InMoment XI

In designing your retail experience, how men and women perceive the experience needs to be considered, especially if you’re a brand that is trying to attract more women. And women hate buying a car…right? You may find our analysis surprising.

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Using Social Media to Build Relationships

Customers Rock!

A lot of businesses love social media because they feel it helps them spread the word about their organization and what they do. And it does. However, I strongly feel one of the most effective uses of social media is to build and deepen relationships with customers – be they consumers, clients, donors, or constituents. I predict this will be a big focus for social media in 2012.

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The silent exit of poor customer service

Service Untitled

Most customers who feel they have been the recipients of poor customer service will never vocalize their feelings to a particular organization. According to First Financial Training Services and the White House Office of Consumer Affairs, only four percent of dissatisfied customers ever complain making the other 96 percent essentially ripe for the picking when another company offering similar services or products appear in the horizon.

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Customer Satisfaction Can Still Be Satisfying, Even When It’s Not Enough

Pretium Solutions

I have read several blogs and articles lately that seem to be into dissing customer satisfaction as a legitimate call service center metric. Some of the authors of these articles go to great lengths to point out the reality that satisfied customers are consistently bolting from one product to the next. We must move beyond customer satisfaction , as the thinking goes, and find a more meaningful measure to help us develop effective strategies for customer retention and profit optimization.

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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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Customer watch

Very Best Service

'At all times, it is crucial that your customer watch is in place. If your customers are in need of simple advice or find themselves in serious difficulty, you should be at hand, ready to provide immediate assistance. This will prevent a situation from deteriorating and causing irreparable damage. If successful, a rapid intervention will contribute to the establishment of a real bond which could last a lifetime.

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Video: Do Women Enjoy the Sales Experience More Than Men?

InMoment XI

In designing your retail experience, how men and women perceive the experience needs to be considered, especially if you’re a brand that is trying to attract more women. And women hate buying a car…right? You may find our analysis surprising.

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Measuring the Impact of Social Media

Customers Rock!

This post is part of the Social ROI Blog Carnival at Think Customers: the 1to1 Media blog. Visit the blog carnival post “ Calculating the ROI of Social Media ” to check out the full list of posts from numerous well-known social media thought leaders. There are many ways to measure the success of social media at an organization. Some of these metrics are often focused only on tactical results (ex: number of followers or fans).

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Customers not feeling “a little love back from Starbucks”

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Stabucks UK has a lot of unhappy customers today after the company decided to change the terms of their loyalty program. The previous rewards card offered a free drink for every 15 transactions and a discount on filter coffee. Now it seems that Facebook is buzzing with caffeinated complaints because of the changes as consumers post everything from their disappointments to threats of shredding their loyalty cards.

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Top 10 Ways to Build a Customer-Centric Organization & Profitable Business

Pretium Solutions

Satisfied customers aren’t enough. To drive profitability you must generate customer loyalty and orient your entire organization around that mission. Real customer loyalty is not a short-term proposition; rather, it is a long-term commitment to your products or services, company or brand. In order to create and build Loyal Promoters and improve customer retention , your company must be customer-centric.

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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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Customer service innovation

Very Best Service

'Customer service innovation Innovation in customer service has become increasingly valuable as a way to differentiate from the competition and avoid an all-out price war. But, which is the best way to innovate? The challenge for companies is to determine to what extent the service innovations should be radical and if they are not a rehashed copy of what someone has done before, are they achievable?

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Leading Bank Banks on NICE Situator

Customer Interactions

'With their complex security challenges and many remote locations, banks need solutions that can help them monitor and manage physical security more efficiently and effectively. In this video, Millennium BCP''s Security Manager, Mr. Vitor Monteiro explains how his bank is leveraging NICE Situator to tackle these tough security, safety and operational challenges.

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Do Women Enjoy the Sales Experience More Than Men?

InMoment XI

In designing your retail experience, how men and women perceive the experience needs to be considered, especially if you’re a brand that is trying to attract more women. And women hate buying a car…right? You may find our analysis surprising.

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Your Problems Should Never Become Your Customers’ Problems

Annie Tsai

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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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You only have one chance for a great first impression

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Making a really poor first impression with your customer is almost a guarantee that you can wave goodbye to business in the future, and sadly there are days when the best laid plans of employees and their well rehearsed skills go awry. The question is can a business deal with it so they don’t lose a customer, and how does a business make amends?

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What is Customer Loyalty? It Doesn’t Always Add Up

Pretium Solutions

My youngest son, Jeffrey, was never very good at math. He struggled from the earliest 3 and 4 times tables and could never find his comfort level after that. It wasn’t for lack of trying (well, maybe sometimes it was). He simply was not geared toward numbers. I remember the first few times he tried to reconcile equations – Wow, what an adventure!

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Customer service: take the helicopter view

Very Best Service

'Your understanding of the environment where your company offers its business services will be crucial in determining the success of your operation. What are the constraints? Where do the customers come from and what will be their state of mind when they finally reach you? Taking an helicopter view can often be useful to understand these factors and help you define the broad parameters before focusing on the details of your service delivery Pictur e courtesy of Claire Boyles with our thanks - [l

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Can a virtual fence be a strong defense?

Customer Interactions

'Can a virtual fence be a strong defense? In this blog published in SMT Online, Jamie Wilson, EMEA Security marketing manager for NICE Systems, examines how perimeter intrusion detection solutions have evolved.

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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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Video: The Detroit Show – One Last Look

InMoment XI

Thanks to all who have provided comments and feedback on The Ride. I really appreciate it. To keep it fresh, I want to start something new today and every Friday. It’s called “The Lighter Side” and it will highlight a video or written piece that takes us away from our regular analytic slant and toward. View Article.

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Your Problems Should Never Become Your Customers’ Problems

Annie Tsai

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Are mobile devices serving customers properly?

Service Untitled

Before I leave my house in the morning, I grab my car keys, purse and of course, my smartphone. AT&T sold 9.4 million of these in the fourth quarter of 2011. Is it any wonder that the 2X4 inch tidy packages of computer chips have revolutionized everyday behaviors including the way we shop? We read on them, play Words With Friends, make dinner reservations, buy concert tickets, and frequently text.

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How to Motivate Your Customer Service Agents

Pretium Solutions

Our front-line customer service agents are the heart and soul of our customer service operations. After all, the customer service agents are the ones who actually interact with our customers, day in and day out. Our customer service agents are the ambassadors and stewards of our brand. They are the ones who create that all-important interface with our customers.

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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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Video: The Detroit Show – One Last Look

InMoment XI

Thanks to all who have provided comments and feedback on The Ride. I really appreciate it. To keep it fresh, I want to start something new today and every Friday. It’s called “The Lighter Side” and it will highlight a video or written piece that takes us away from our regular analytic slant and toward.

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The Detroit Show – One Last Look

InMoment XI

Thanks to all who have provided comments and feedback on The Ride. I really appreciate it. To keep it fresh, I want to start something new today and every Friday. It’s called “The Lighter Side” and it will highlight a video or written piece that takes us away from our regular analytic slant and toward.

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The Six Laws of Customer Experience

InMoment XI

I want to pass something along that you might find helpful. Bruce Temkin is Managing Partner of the Temkin Group, a customer experience research and consulting firm that helps organizations become more customer-centric. He comes with a very good resume with experience at Forrester Research and GE. He has an MBA from MIT Sloan School. View Article.

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The Six Laws of Customer Experience

InMoment XI

I want to pass something along that you might find helpful. Bruce Temkin is Managing Partner of the Temkin Group, a customer experience research and consulting firm that helps organizations become more customer-centric. He comes with a very good resume with experience at Forrester Research and GE. He has an MBA from MIT Sloan School.

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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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The Six Laws of Customer Experience

InMoment XI

I want to pass something along that you might find helpful. Bruce Temkin is Managing Partner of the Temkin Group, a customer experience research and consulting firm that helps organizations become more customer-centric. He comes with a very good resume with experience at Forrester Research and GE. He has an MBA from MIT Sloan School.

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Shattering Negative Stereotypes in the Automotive Industry

InMoment XI

I’d like to introduce you to one of my colleagues, Dr. Scott Pimley. Scott is Director, Solutions Architecture and works out of our Torrance, CA office. He put together this post to shed some light on where we stand as an industry in terms of the retail experience. The automotive world frequently gets a. View Article.

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Shattering Negative Stereotypes in the Automotive Industry

InMoment XI

I’d like to introduce you to one of my colleagues, Dr. Scott Pimley. Scott is Director, Solutions Architecture and works out of our Torrance, CA office. He put together this post to shed some light on where we stand as an industry in terms of the retail experience. The automotive world frequently gets a.