SurveySparrow

MARCH 9, 2019

Having a solid brand name amongst customers is one of the biggest dreams of brands around the world and most businesses spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to be on the top of their customer’s minds. While advertisements and relentless marketing campaigns will always be one of the ways to achieve it, companies realize that giving the ultimate experience to one’s customers can put them in an altogether different league.

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Brands Customer Experience How To Net Promoter Score 81

Michel Falcon Experience

MARCH 10, 2019

Managing employees isn’t hard! I’m not saying this to shock and awe you. I believe managing employees isn’t as hard as we make it out to be. We simply need to adhere to some sound employee management tips and strategies to become great companies. As leaders, we generally make it hard on ourselves to manage our employees and the outcome is a poor experience for our team members which negatively impacts their perception of you as their leader and paralyzes their morale and performance.

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Tips Management Culture Meeting 112

Brandwatch CX

MARCH 18, 2019

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CX Accelerator

MARCH 14, 2019

When it comes to Customer Experience (CX) work, it takes a very special type of person to be successful. Consider all the skills required to thrive in the role.data crunching, storytelling, journey mapping, process improvement, change management, strategic thinking, influencing behaviors, project management.the list goes on. It's essentially impossible for any one person to be strong in all of these areas.

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Customer Experience Customer Journeys ROI Guidelines 369

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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Lumoa

MARCH 3, 2019

There are clear reasons why companies should create an outstanding customer experience for their customers. Take a look at what you can learn from the best customer experience companies of 2019 and find out how to apply it to your customer experience work.

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Centriam Customer Experience Lab

MARCH 28, 2019

Recent articles about customer experience (CX) have included statements as grandiose as: “Customer experience is the new brand.”- Forbes. "Put customer experience at the heart of your operations.”- McKinsey. "Customer experience is the key competitive differentiator.” - Wall Street Journal. Yet, a common theme that emerges when we talk to clients about their CX efforts is the struggle with how to get started.

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Data Customer Experience Brands How To 305

CloudCherry

MARCH 8, 2019

It is International Women’s Day, a day to honor and celebrate the achievements of women who inspire us in their own unique ways. It’s a day to remember why ‘Women’ all around us are so amazing. So, let’s begin by saying this out loud-. “If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.” – Margaret Thatcher said it and we can’t agree any less!

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Customer Bliss

MARCH 12, 2019

In lieu of alieu of a regular Daily Dose video, I want to share with you an excerpt from an interview I did last year with my good friend Laura Ortman—chief customer officer of Equinix —in which we discussed a wide range of topics including the future of customer experience, our role as customer experience leaders, and the experiences of women in leadership. .

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Vonage

MARCH 28, 2019

Imagine a technology that promises to help your business but instead is poisoning your customer’s experiences. A technology that has its most deadly effect at the precise moments when your customers need you the most. A technology so overlooked that it can sap the goodwill from thousands of customers every day without anyone paying attention to it – until it’s too late!

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Kerry Bodine

MARCH 20, 2019

It’s the first day of spring, and we’re looking forward to enjoying a few days in our favorite Chicago season when we travel there for our Journey Mapping and Facilitation bootcamp on May 8 and 9. Day 1 mirrors that of our signature journey mapping bootcamp to help you build a strong foundation in the concepts and methods of journey mapping. Day 2 draws on the facilitation training we provide to clients during our journey map development engagements , enabling you to extend your journey mapping

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Experience Matters

MARCH 22, 2019

I just spent two days in Miami with a great group of executives who are part of the SAP CX Client Advisory Board. One of their presentations described the company’s technology transformation, and included a stream of activity around “decomplexing.” I loved seeing that! Complexity ends up oozing its way into all types of experiences.

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Groups Technology Brands Customer Experience 286

Centriam Customer Experience Lab

MARCH 12, 2019

Diane Magers and Ben London are the powerful duo that head up Experience Catalysts, a consultancy at the forefront of customer and employee experience. They are on a mission to help customer experience (CX) professionals transform how their organizations work to grow business value.

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Alida

MARCH 19, 2019

Big data is big business. Enterprises are spending billions on big data. They’ve been using it to drive decision making for years now. But executives are realizing that this type of transactional customer data isn’t enough.

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Customer Insights Data Customers Customer Centricity 189

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Customer Bliss

MARCH 5, 2019

In my Daily Dose video series, I explore the topics that chief customer officers must grapple with on a daily basis. Join me as I discuss what I’ve learned over the course of my 35-year career, so that you can more effectively do the work that needs to be done. Today’s video is an excerpt from my online course , inspired by my book, Would You Do That To Your Mother?

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CX Journey

MARCH 13, 2019

Image courtesy of CX Network Today I'm pleased to share a guest post by Chanice Henry of CX Network. According to CX Network’s latest Annual Global State of CX Report , showing return on investment (ROI) from CX projects is one of the top challenges troubling CX practitioners. The report saw nearly 270 responses from the CX community, with each participant providing insight on the trends, challenges, and investments shaping customer experience.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 28, 2019

A consistent finding in psychology is that people don’t like uncertainty or risk. It’s called Risk Aversion, and we all have it to some degree. To be fair, we are not risk averse all the time. We also enjoy risky behavior, like gambling, smoking, or playing fast and loose with food expiration dates. However, as a general rule, we don’t like risk. Managing our risk aversion and the risk aversion of our customers is a significant part of providing an excellent Customer Experience.

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Experience Matters

MARCH 8, 2019

In honor of International Woman’s Day, I decided to compare the difference in well-being across gender and age by dissecting the 2018 Temkin Well-Being Index (TWBI). I examined the overall TWBI, as well as the three elements that make up the index—the percentage of consumers who agree that they are: Typically happy Healthy Financially Secure As you can see in the charts below: Young females have the lowest level of well-being.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 27, 2019

The other day I was driving by a Chick-fil-A restaurant at lunchtime. I was blown away by how many people were in the drive-through lane. There had to be at least 20 cars. I thought to myself, “That’s a long line. You really have to love Chick-fil-A to brave that line at lunchtime.”. Then I noticed they had four people on the lot taking orders from the people in the drive-through.

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Alida

MARCH 22, 2019

In most organizations, the market research or customer insight department is seen as a support pillar for multiple divisions and as a cost center.

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Customer Bliss

MARCH 21, 2019

“Don’t look at yourself, look at your customer. Be sure you have your customer in mind when you create something. Be sure it’s customer-focused, not self-focused,” says Horst Schulze , Founder, Chairman & CEO of the Capella Hotel Group, and Co-founder & Former COO of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co. Do you know what it takes to be a high-quality leader?

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Hotels Employee Experience Customer Experience Leadership 192

CX Journey

MARCH 27, 2019

Image courtesy of Pixabay Do employees believe in the core values? Do they even know their company's core values? Core values are the fundamental beliefs of an organization; they guide executives and employees in identifying which behaviors and actions are right and which are wrong. Everything you do must be aligned with your core values, and core values should be integrated into everything you do.

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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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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 8, 2019

One thing many positive Customer Experience stories people tell have in common is they involve a moment that surprised and delighted customers. Customer loyalty consultants refer to it as Innovative Customer Experience, and it is the key to getting your customers to talk about your experience to everyone they know. Author, speaker, and customer loyalty expert Dr.

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Experience Matters

MARCH 13, 2019

Last week, I gave two presentations at the Qualtrics X4 Summit that focused on how to adopt experience management (XM). Here’s a glimpse of that content… First of all, let’s get aligned: what do you expect to see in the future? More or less demanding customers? (I say more) More or less demanding employees? (I say more) More or less access to data and analytics?

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Esteban Kolsky

MARCH 1, 2019

if you are a fan of Gartner, and who among us is not – right?, you know about the hype cycle. image above, copyright Gartner, Inc. funny, well – i think it is, was that when i used to present as a G analyst i used to call it the marriage cycle… you meet someone (trigger), you date them for a while and you think they are the ones you need to spend your life with (peak of inflated expectations), you get married and — poof!

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Social Media Technology Meeting Examples 121

Alida

MARCH 22, 2019

According to data from the McKinsey Global Institute , only one product idea out of seven will yield a successful product.

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Data Management Innovation 188

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Customer Bliss

MARCH 26, 2019

I’ve been so pleased with the response to my recent video on looking ahead at the state of customer experience, which sparked a lively conversation on LinkedIn and gotten more than 13,000 views so far (wow!). Since I’ve received so many thoughtful comments and questions especially about the work of leading the experience practice in various organizations, I wanted to share a few of my favorite lessons that I’ve gleaned over the years. 1.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 26, 2019

From AI to “HIMI” Human-Inspired Machine Intelligence. Shep Hyken interviews Dr. Natalie Petouhoff. They discuss AI in business—what works and what doesn’t work, how it can help companies and employees succeed, and how we can best utilize it. They also discuss the need for diversity and inclusiveness in the workplace. In Shep’s Opening Monologue… He discusses the pros and cons of chatbots.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 25, 2019

At British Telecom (BT), we were buying a CRM system. I was leading the project and we had 15 people around the table to make this choice. It was a significant decision for a lot of money. So, as it was a business decision, you would think we were logical about it. However, we weren’t. We were irrational about it. Your customers are irrational, too.

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