December, 2013

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Year In Review: Our Ten Most Read Blog Posts of 2013

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We covered a lot of ground here on the Allegiance blog in 2013, from program design recommendations to leadership lessons to industry trends. Here’s a chance to catch up on what you missed by reviewing our ten most read posts from this year. Enjoy! Listening Matters presents several statistics and proof points you can use. View Article.

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Welcome to the Future of Online Surveys

GetFeedback

Now any company, anywhere can instantly create and distribute visually-rich, mobile-optimized, online surveys that work perfectly on smartphones.

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3 Reasons Customer Service Management Software is More Critical Today

Win the Customer

'Customer service management software and CRM focuses on providing more efficient ways to unify business activities to carry out more effective customer service actions contributing to a better service experience. Technology is helping businesses face many of the challenges they face as they try to maintain or build market share. One of the most helpful […].

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Can You Be Product and Customer Experience Driven at the Same Time?

Aveus

Are you familiar with the phrase, “the best of both worlds?” I am. In my personal life, I’m constantly tempted to make decisions that combine multiple things I like. For instance, when I’m out to dinner – I often think, why not recommend that my dining companion order my second choice on the menu. I can have a few bites, but also enjoy my own meal. It’s the best of both worlds.

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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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The golden rules of customer loyalty

Service Untitled

'It’s well recognized amongst all business owners that it cost more money to find new customers than to keep the customers we already have while trying to attract more clients to climb aboard our growing organizations. No matter how we try to dazzle, the golden rule of presenting the best product and doing it right, continues to successfully align our future for growth and success.

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Year In Review: Our Ten Most Read Blog Posts of 2013

InMoment XI

We covered a lot of ground here on the Allegiance blog in 2013, from program design recommendations to leadership lessons to industry trends. Here’s a chance to catch up on what you missed by reviewing our ten most read posts from this year. Enjoy! Listening Matters presents several statistics and proof points you can use.

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Happy Holidays from Your Friends at GetFeedback

GetFeedback

Happy holidays! Thank you for having helped us to create the next generation of mobile-ready online survey software.

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Positive Employee Engagement Enables Great Customer Experience

Win the Customer

'Consistently delivering an exceptional customer experience requires creating employee engagement and culture that cultivates positive service actions.

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The 3 Things Every Prospect Wants to Hear

Amity

Prospects invest a great deal of time researching the right solution. For some, it’s easier because they’ve got a hot tip on a must-have service – and if that’s your service then you’ve been working really hard at customer success! Throughout the evaluation process, a number of solutions (likely your competitors) are being considered, a few individuals from different departments are weighing in ( the average decision group consists of 5.4 people ) and the prospect is really kicking the tires on

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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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Beware of the fine print in Terms of Service before you complain online

Service Untitled

'John and Jennifer Palmer of Layton, Utah are suing an online retailer over a $3,500 charge assessed to them by KlearGear.com, a Grandville, Mich. company which the Palmers posted a negative online review with Ripoff Reports.com. Perhaps you have never read the fine print in the Terms of Service when ordering merchandise, but this situation might encourage consumers to pay attention, since it is well known that litigation costs money.

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A Customer Service Rock Star!

Pretium Solutions

Today we are pleased to feature another post by guest blogger Sarah Simon. Sarah shares a recent experience with Home Depot to showcase how a potential customer service disaster can be transformed into a positive customer experience. When the right skills and behaviors are deployed you can become customer service rock star! Background. Residential flooring replacement can be stressful.

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Year In Review: Our Ten Most Read Blog Posts of 2013

InMoment XI

We covered a lot of ground here on the Allegiance blog in 2013, from program design recommendations to leadership lessons to industry trends. Here’s a chance to catch up on what you missed by reviewing our ten most read posts from this year. Enjoy! Listening Matters presents several statistics and proof points you can use.

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Customer Loyalty and the Spirit of Christmas

Touchpoint Dashboard

'Despite the weather outside being frightful (it’s a balmy 8 degrees Fahrenheit outside my office today), Christmas spirit abounds. The holiday is just a few weeks away, and extra doses of friendliness, goodwill, compassion and generosity are apparent everywhere. All of this holiday cheer has me thinking about what effect the spirit of Christmas has […].

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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 Experience Is More Important Than Advertising [Infographic]

Win the Customer

'Only 4% of customers trust advertising the most for service information, so can your good customer experience to help seal the deal with customers?

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Happy Holidays from Amity

Amity

The last 12 months have been an intense and exhilarating ride! Since Amity’s inception in July of 2012, we’ve talked to countless customer success teams, launched a private beta, sponsored two successful Customer Success Meetup events, and worked hard to continually evolve our service. Our initial beta launch occurred in July 2013 and our engaged community has provided dozens of suggestions, comments and ideas that we have used to continually improve and evolve our product.

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Brick and mortar stores can still outdo Amazon with ‘Amazon Can’t Do That’

Service Untitled

'In a study titled “Amazon Can’t Do That” polling 1,500 consumers spanning the three generations of Millennial, Gen X, and Boomers research group, WD Partners concluded that shoppers still prefer feeling, walking around, and gathering with friends and families during the holiday shopping season. Whereas Amazon is no longer just a store for books, the grand giant now sells everything that can be sold or delivered, so how do local stores compete, and what needs to be done to gain

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Don’t Wait For The New Year To Resolve To Do Better.

Annie Tsai

This time last year, perhaps you put your introspective hat on and created some New Year Resolutions for yourself. Wanted to finally run that marathon? On the list. Wanted to juice cleanse your way to inner peace? That made it too. While the New Year (and milestones in general) is a nice symbolic way to […].

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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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A Market Researcher’s Wish List to Santa

InMoment XI

If you could ask Santa for ANYTHING to make your job better, easier, help you help your clients, etc… what would it be and why? Our analysts, subject matter experts, research managers, marketing sciences gurus and account managers have quite a hefty list for old Kris Kringle this holiday.

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A Customer Service Rock Star!

Pretium Solutions

Today we are pleased to feature another post by guest blogger Sarah Simon. Sarah shares a recent experience with Home Depot to showcase how a potential customer service disaster can be transformed into a positive customer experience. When the right skills and behaviors are deployed you can become customer service rock star! Background. Residential flooring replacement can be stressful.

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Customer Experience Helps Customers Complete Their Shopping

Win the Customer

'A great customer experience is one that seamlessly integrates real-time self-service technology backed by experts who can resolve breakdowns to the process.

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Meetup Success for Developing a Customer-Centric Organization

Amity

Even a cold, snowy winter night could not keep the crowd away! Last night, the heroes of the Customer Success Meetup met for their second event. The buzz from the first meetup had definitely circulated. Over the past few months, the group membership swelled to 80 members. The room was flush with both “regulars” and new faces. From the enthusiastic discussion, we continue to hear that – despite best intentions – customer success is still very much in its infancy.

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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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Exit Lane Security Changes – What Airports Need to Know

Customer Interactions

'Come January, the TSA says it will transfer over responsibility for airport exit lane security to the airports. Because of the obvious operational and budgetary impacts, this is a deeply contentious issue and many airports are petitioning the change. Responsibility for exit lane security may be up for debate, but one thing is certain – in airports, where breaches can cause shutdowns, grounded flights, and put the safety of thousands of passengers at risk, this type of security is essentia

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Don’t Wait For The New Year To Resolve To Do Better.

Annie Tsai

This time last year, perhaps you put your introspective hat on and created some New Year Resolutions for yourself. Wanted to finally run that marathon? On the list. Wanted to juice cleanse your way to inner peace? That made it too. While the New Year (and milestones in general) is a nice symbolic way to […].

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A Market Researcher’s Wish List to Santa

InMoment XI

If you could ask Santa for ANYTHING to make your job better, easier, help you help your clients, etc… what would it be and why? Our analysts, subject matter experts, research managers, marketing sciences gurus and account managers have quite a hefty list for old Kris Kringle this holiday.

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A Customer Service Rock Star!

Pretium Solutions

Today we are pleased to feature another post by guest blogger Sarah Simon. Sarah shares a recent experience with Home Depot to showcase how a potential customer service disaster can be transformed into a positive customer experience. When the right skills and behaviors are deployed you can become customer service rock star! Background. Residential flooring replacement can be stressful.

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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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Your Legacy of Customer Service Leadership

Win the Customer

'Customer service leadership is clearly having a strategy for customer experience and bringing out excellence in others to carry out the service vision.

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Tech Trust Index shows consumers trust Google and Amazon but not Sprint and AOL

Upwave

It’s no secret that tech companies amass vast stores of user information, from tax records to snapshots of pumpkin spice lattes. What’s more ambiguous is how this personal information is used. And while major Internet companies like Google, Yahoo, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft publish transparency reports to distance themselves from NSA spying paranoia, companies like AT&T and Verizon are decidedly more opaque.

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Tackling Complex Security Operations in Brazil

Customer Interactions

'In the next few years, Brazil is preparing to host some of the world’s largest sporting events, such as the FIFA World Cup and the Olympic Games. In order to put on these events, the country will also be looking to implement scalable security programs to ensure the protection of all athletes, visitors, and venues involved. A recent study by the Security Industry Association found several trends that are shaping the Brazilian market, a few of which are: A move toward integrated security sy

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