ijgolding

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Customer experience is important, that much we know. Readers of this blog won’t need persuading of the link between a company’s success and a great customer experience. Happy customers stay longer, buy more, they tell their friends, and your company grows. But let them down and your revenue shrinks instead. Knowing what to do is seriously valuable. So with the future health of the business at stake, it’s worth knowing how to keep each customer, and that’s where customer feedback comes in.

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BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Quick, how many services or memberships do you subscribe to? One? Two? Twenty? You know your wallet is stuffed with membership cards (roadside assistance, your local gym, and Costco) and your front porch welcomes monthly subscription boxes (Blue Apron, Trunk Club, and Honest Essentials), while your go-to entertainment is no longer cable TV but subscription-based media (Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime.

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InMoment XI

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

VMWare Inspires a Customer-Centric Culture Customer centricity is a hot topic in business these days, as more and more companies challenge themselves to foster a “customer-centric culture.” But that’s a tall order – not to mention an ambiguous one – and it raises a number of questions, such as: What is a customer-centric culture anyway? View Article.

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GetFeedback

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Companies frequently designate customer experience (CX) as the most exciting opportunity for their business, according to the Digital Marketing Trends Report. Successful customer experience strategies will lead to greater customer satisfaction, higher revenue, and diminished customer churn. Indeed, American Express research shows that a better experience is worth a higher cost for 60% of customers.

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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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Centriam Customer Experience Lab

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Managing customer experience has become increasingly difficult because an organization's experience is impacted by nearly every department. Plus, to get executive buy-in to invest in customer experience (CX), processes and technology are needed to track CX programs and quantify their impact on the bottom line.

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CloudCherry

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Key Takeaways from Forrester Report on the State of Customer Analytics. The findings of the 2018 Forrester Report on the State of Customer Analytics are based on an online survey in which 144 North American analytics and measurement pros , from a broad set of industries, took part. A vast majority of respondents make or influence decisions at their organization.

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Experience Matters

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Does your organization listen to its employees? I mean, really listen and act on what they say. Based on what our research has uncovered, it’s likely that the true answer is “no.” Check out some data from our recent research: In our Q3 2018 Consumer Benchmark Study, we found that 40% of full time U.S. employees strongly agrees with the statement, “My company asks for my feedback and acts upon what I say.” In the report, Employee Engagement Competency & Maturity,

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Lumoa

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Check the latest easy quick-win loyalty-boosting customer experience strategies to power up your CX in 2019!

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GetFeedback

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Event planning is an adventure, to say the least. Locking down the venue, getting people registered, promoting it across channels, working out the logistics… the list goes on and on. Before you know it, the day arrives. Even if it goes off without a hitch, the event doesn’t end when the clock strikes 12. Success is more than a day-of checklist.

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Kristina Evey

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Loyal employees are a key factor in developing loyal customers. People do business with those they know, like and trust … Read More Episode 38 – Loyal Employees Breed Loyal Customers. The post Episode 38 – Loyal Employees Breed Loyal Customers appeared first on Kristina Evey.

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Vonage

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Your business serves ultra-connected customers who expect a consistent experience through every channel. So, the more channels, the better, yes? Sure, but only if the customer gets treated right across the board — at any point, on any channel (even by that new chatbot your boss keeps mentioning). So how can you pull that off? . The answer is omni-channel contact center solution that allows businesses to route interactions through email, chat, SMS, video and social channels seamlessly.

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Steve DiGioia

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

While celebrating my daughter’s 20th birthday at a local steak restaurant – yes, the chicken finger & fries meals are a thing of the past, I was reminded that great service and experience doesn’t happen by accident. There must be a series of steps planned for and actions taken to allow for great service. Here is my list of 5 things you need to know about great service.

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Customer Bliss

FEBRUARY 19, 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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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Touchpoints aren’t what they used to be. There was a time in our history when touchpoints were…finite. We could list them easily and agree easily to what they were. The list might have 5-6 things on it for a sophisticated organization. When asked, ‘how does a prospect or customer interact with your brand?’ a brand team might list something like the following. advertising. signage. in-store interactions. packaging. customer service calls.

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Customer Experience Update Submitted Articles

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Customer centricity is proportional to customer success. Read on to know how you can make your organization become customer-centric with videos.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Customer Experience as an industry is at a crossroads. As I have written before , the results that we should be seeing are not there. It’s time to put up or shut up. If we as an industry do not turn it around, we might see our budgets and headcounts reassigned somewhere else. In our recent podcast, we had a guest Bob Thompson, CEO of Customer Think Corp., an independent research and publishing firm focused on customer-centric business management and the founder and editor-in-chief of CustomerTh

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Valentine’s Day is tomorrow. This is the day where we send our spouses, partners, and loved ones a gift. Often it is out of obligation. I have plenty of friends who tell me if they don’t get their spouse some flowers and a card, they will pay for it. So we feel obligated to express our love and appreciation to those close to us. I’ve written several articles about this before, and my favorite one is called The Valentine Obligation.

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Kristina Evey

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

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Customer Bliss

FEBRUARY 12, 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 a keynote speech, The 5 Leadership Competencies of Beloved Companies , which I recently presented at Cult the Gathering. .

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Eptica

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Date: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 Author: Guest author: Shep Hyken Earn Your Customers’ Trust, And Loyalty Will Follow. Published on: February 20, 2019. Author: Guest author: Shep Hyken Do your customers trust you? How do you even know if they do, and why is it important? On a very basic level, people want to do business with other people that they know, like and trust.

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Oracle

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Artificial intelligence (AI) took off in some inspiring new directions over the past year, from c hatbots using conversational AI to algorithms that can identify abnormalities in patient x-rays. Here, retail executives, market analysts, and industry experts share some interesting quotes about artificial intelligence. Disruptive innovation. “Technology is going to disrupt the future of work, perhaps sooner than we thought.

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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

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Organizations cannot afford to be operationally driven. A Customer Experience focus is a necessity of survival in today’s hyper-competitive and disrupted retail market. That said, not every organization realizes this fact yet, which I find disappointing. I was talking to the C-Suite of a retailer (who shall remain nameless) about Customer Experience.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Earlier this year, I had the pleasure and honor of being the keynote presentation for River Valley Bank, soon to be Incredible Bank , as they merge the names of their brick-and-mortar banks and their online bank. I love that word, incredible , almost as much as my favorite word, amazing. If someone told you the customer service at a bank was incredible, you would only think positive things.

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Prophet

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In today’s digital, always-on world, words are an increasingly powerful currency for brands to create real-time value and demonstrate relevance. But finding the right words—and using them effectively—requires rigor and structure. Deploying a thoughtful verbal branding strategy (sometimes called a verbal identity) can help bridge your brand strategy to in-market execution through content, communications and […].

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Customer Bliss

FEBRUARY 26, 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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Survicate

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Congrats! You’ve got plenty of people downloading your app. But, are you paying attention to how people engage with your service? Converting new prospects to download your app is only part of the job. If you slack off and don’t keep track of how your users engage with you, you run the risk of losing them. When a notification pops up on their screen, alerting them of their impending storage deficit, they’ll look at the apps they don’t use or need.

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Oracle

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Imagine this: 4 individuals sit down in a conference room to build a customer experience strategy. The first one starts and says, “Let’s begin by considering ways to engage our audience.” The second shakes their head and says, “No. Converting leads is where we should focus our attention.” The third interrupts to point out that fulfilling expectations is the most important part of any strategy.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

There is a big challenge when measuring customer emotions as you are asking customers how they felt in an experience, as this is done retrospectively, a while after they had the experience. Many times, Customers don’t remember how they felt or, for several reasons, they don’t want to tell you. Using technology, you can now measure customer’s emotions in real time!

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