Customer Bliss

JUNE 22, 2020

During this time, I’ve been hosting weekly live conversations on LinkedIn , with C-Suite leaders, authors, and experts in their respective fields. They’ve included influential authors like Seth Godin and CEOs like Leslie Stretch. These conversations span across a range of industries but tend to have an overarching theme that comes back to the importance of leadership bravery.

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Wootric CX Blog

JUNE 1, 2020

Executives and end-users look for different things when choosing software products. An executive, for example, might be more interested in ROI and scalability, while the end-user often cares more about just getting their work done, quickly and easily. . There was a time when executives were the gatekeepers who decided which B2B software products their companies purchased while the end-user experience took a back seat—but that era has ended.

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IntouchInsight

JUNE 17, 2020

In this report, we look at the implications that COVID-19 has had on consumer habits as they pertain to the consumption of take-out and dine-in food and beverages, as well as how the restaurant industry will need to adapt in order to meet new health and safety guidelines.

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Lumoa

JUNE 8, 2020

eCommerce customer experience is vital for online businesses that want to ensure a smooth online experience for their customers. We share 4 ways to boost your eCommerce customer experience that will increase customer loyalty and satisfaction.

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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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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 23, 2020

What Does Employee and Customer Empathy Really Mean, Anyway? What do you think of when you hear the word empathy? How about customer empathy? Employee empathy? We know that the best brands in the world create empathy for both employees and customers. Organizations who fail to do so are often held back from reaching their full potential. Think about your best experiences as a customer.

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Heart of the Customer

JUNE 11, 2020

Most survey programs provide information: “Our Net Promoter Score (NPS) is 25, up from 22, compared to our competitive benchmark of 30.” While those figures might be interesting, they don’t provide the context that is essential for prompting action. As Heart of the Customer has been conducting interviews with CX pros (more than 70 so far this year!

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eglobalis

JUNE 15, 2020

Customer Experience Leadership Act boldly to protect customers and employees customer driven customer obsessed. The post Deep Leadership: Act Boldly to Protect Customers, Employees and Partners appeared first on Eglobalis.

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Kerry Bodine

JUNE 1, 2020

This post celebrates Service Design Day and everyone who’s working to create our new normal. While walking across the Millennium Bridge in London a few years ago, I noticed a group of people standing around and looking down curiously at a man who was laying at their feet. My first thought was concern: Is this man alright? Is he sick? Does he need help?

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Lumoa

JUNE 30, 2020

Acquisition and retention are of paramount importance if your business is to succeed. In this piece, find out three ways to juggle between the two seamlessly.

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GetFeedback

JUNE 29, 2020

Scale your hyper-personalized customer support program with the help of AI and chatbots.

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Steve DiGioia

JUNE 25, 2020

Regardless of your business, and no matter how hard you try to do the best for them, there will be situations where you have an upset customer who is dissatisfied with your product or service. Day in and day out, we must strive to provide the optimal experience for each customer interaction. But is this realistic? When things don’t go as planned, our customers become upset and we have failed in their eyes.

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C3Centricity

JUNE 8, 2020

The title of this week’s post might surprise you. After all, the hospitality industry should be highly customer centric, as it relies on satisfying its guests. However, it can learn a lot from consumer packaged goods (FMCG/CPG), as I shared with industry experts at a Faculty Day of one of the leading hospitality schools in Switzerland. Having spent most of my career in consumer goods, I was invited to share what the hospitality industry could learn from the industry.

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Calabrio

JUNE 29, 2020

When nominations opened for the 2020 Star Tribune Top Workplace rankings in January, no one anticipat ed the changes that would impact us, come March. In just two months, our focus on nurturing a human-centric workplace faced an entirely new challenge when we pivoted to a 100 percent work-from-home model due to COVID-19. . I ha ve title d this blog post “ Lucky Seven” but it is of course not luck that has us gaining this recognition for the seventh year running.

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Alida

JUNE 2, 2020

The events of the past week have been difficult to process and put into words. I want to foremost express my devastation and condemn the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Trayvon Martin and so many others who have been senselessly murdered for no other reason than the color of their skin. This is a recurring pattern, and the protests that have emerged in cities across the world further highlight this continuing racial divide.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 16, 2020

How can organizations help customers avoid the effort in the first place? There are 5 core methods to effectively reduce customer effort: Dive into root cause analysis. Solicit open-ended feedback. Put the customer at the center of your efforts. Look beyond the touchpoint. Walk through high-friction points often. We’ll look at each method in detail below, but first, let’s talk about why this is so critical to the well-being of your customers and your organization.

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GetFeedback

JUNE 3, 2020

HP’s Brandon McGovern shares how he’s pivoting his CX program to stay relevant in today’s circumstances in our livestream series, CX Confessions.

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Steve DiGioia

JUNE 22, 2020

In my recent post, “ 3 Reasons Why We Let Businesses Take Us For Granted ”, I asked these questions, “Do we not value ourselves enough as a customer to expect the best or at least average service? But what about indifferent service? Why is it acceptable? In today’s post, I expand on one of those reasons: “low price shoppers”. Here’s my story…. While shopping, you see a brightly colored cell phone sticking out of the back pocket of an employee or your waiter has a pack of cigarettes in his front

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Customer Bliss

JUNE 8, 2020

Recently, I was joined by Yamini Rangan, chief customer officer of Hubspot for a LIVE version of my podcast, the Chief Customer Officer Human Duct Tape Show. Be sure to subscribe here or on your favorite podcast app to get this episode when it comes out later this week. During our 45 minutes together, Yamini shared insights into her path as a perennial CCO and she answered audience questions about how she’s putting her experiences and her ability for pattern recognition to work.

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Calabrio

JUNE 30, 2020

After months in total or semi-isolation, today’s customers—especially those with less disposable income due to economic shutdowns—have an even greater need to feel heard by the customer service teams they contact. But what customers actually mean when they say they want to be “heard” might surprise you. Calabrio’s recent Evolving World of Work study —which researched how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted and will continue to impact customer service expectations and contact center operations—found i

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 25, 2020

Customer Memories are a fascinating subject. In many ways, they are what your Customer Experience is, at least from the customers’ perspective, which we also discussed on a recent podcast. They are certainly the most critical element of your customer loyalty. However, these are big ideas about memory, and the purpose of my newsletter today is not to wax philosophical about how incredible and impactful memories are.

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Heart of the Customer

JUNE 4, 2020

A key outcome of our work at Heart of the Customer (HoC) – and the essence of CX as a discipline – is to create empathy. That’s how we help our clients better understand their customers. When empathy is high, organizations are more likely to serve their customers better. They invest in the right initiatives […]. The post Empathy. appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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GetFeedback

JUNE 8, 2020

How to design a customer experience that prioritizes the always-evolving human and machine interconnection.

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Steve DiGioia

JUNE 8, 2020

Give it away, give it away, give it away, now! No, I’m not talking about the song from the Red Hot Chili Peppers – even though that song is cool. I’m talking about how the butchers and bakers used to run their businesses years ago. I remember as a kid going to the store with my Mom. The baker always had a cookie for the little ones and the butcher was happy to hand out some fresh sliced ham or turkey.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 24, 2020

Get ready to do a little math. While not my typical lesson, this is very important. It’s about customer retention—which can lead to customer loyalty. Loyal customers are important to all businesses regardless of industry or size—large, small, B2B or B2C. Most businesses know their numbers, but do they know the right numbers? It’s easy to measure customer satisfaction at different levels.

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Calabrio

JUNE 1, 2020

Over the past several weeks we’ve been hearing from a lot of you about the challenges that you’re facing due to COVID-19, especially as it relates to things like maintaining business continuity, having to rapidly deploy and manage a remote workforce, maybe adding new capabilities to address new problems, etc. For those of you that have your contact center and your Calabrio WFO solution on-premises, we understand that adjusting to these changing environments and adjusting to our new n

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 11, 2020

We do a lot of waiting in our lives. We wait to get on a plane, for our drink at a coffee shop, and on the phone to talk to “the next available representative.” Sometimes we don’t mind waiting at all; sometimes we mind very much. Your customers likely wait in your experience, too, and that may or may not be creating negative feelings about your experience.

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eglobalis

JUNE 28, 2020

Customer Experience increase Adoption and Revenue and listen to customers. The post 6 Ways to Boost Customer Experience Design Adoption & Growth appeared first on Eglobalis.

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GetFeedback

JUNE 14, 2020

Designing a customer experience that seamlessly incorporates the machines from our daily lives.

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