CloudCherry

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Social media, online reviews, product ratings—these platforms have transformed into the customer’s soapbox, empowering them to speak freely about a brand’s strengths and faults. Organizations eventually picked up on its impact, focusing now on creating delightful customer experiences for all who walk through their doors. As businesses strive for that competitive edge, they turn to customer experience management or CEM to better understand the customer’s perspective and improve based on these ins

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Promoter.io

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

I’m going to teach you a little trick — one you can use to impress your friends at dinner or your co-workers at your next meeting. What you’re going to do is draw four shapes on a piece of paper: A triangle, a circle, a square and a squiggly line. Don’t let your friends see [.]. The post Using Your NPS Data to Build An Ideal Customer Persona (and then 10x your growth with personalization) appeared first on Promoter.io Blog.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Less than one week before the release of my new book, The Convenience Revolution: How to Deliver a Customer Service Experience That Disrupts the Competition and Creates Fierce Loyalty , so I thought it appropriate to share some thoughts on how being easy – or convenient – can give you a competitive advantage over your competition. When your customers can buy what you sell from others, that’s called competition.

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Steve DiGioia

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

does your Net Promoter Score tell you enough to make a difference? This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. Net Promoter Score®, or NPS, measures customer experience and predicts business growth. This proven metric transformed the business world and now provides the core measurement for customer experience management programs around the world.

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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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InMoment XI

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Customers who complain and receive good resolution to their complaints are usually more loyal than customers who never complained at all. With that in mind, how do we identify and properly follow-up with customers who return a customer experience survey that indicates they had a problem? Our research shows that frontline personnel use customer experience.

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CloudCherry

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Social media, online reviews, product ratings—these platforms have transformed into the customer’s soapbox, empowering them to speak freely about a brand’s strengths and faults. Organizations eventually picked up on its impact, focusing now on creating delightful customer experiences for all who walk through their doors. As businesses strive for that competitive edge, they turn to customer experience management or CEM to better understand the customer’s perspective and improve based on these ins

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GetFeedback

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Our best customers are the ones who stay with us. The proof is in the numbers: a 5% increase in customer retention can lead to a 25-95% increase in profits , according to a Harvard Business School study. One Temkin Group study concluded that loyal customers are 5x as likely to repurchase , 5x as likely to forgive, 4x as likely to refer, and 7x as likely to try a new offering.

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Experience Matters

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Throughout the year, Temkin Group has been focused on making 2018, “The Year of Humanity.” As a part of our commitment to this critical theme, we developed a highly interactive workshop “Humanizing CX,” which I’ve led for 10 Customer Experience Professionals Association local networking events in cities across the U.S. and Canada.

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Alida

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

The retail apocalypse may just have to wait. Reports of the industry’s collapse have made business headlines for the past year, with one Business Insider article proclaiming, “The retail apocalypse has descended on America,” while a Bloomberg article claimed retail’s decline is “really just beginning.”. But despite predictions that more than 3,800 stores are expected to close in 2018, the death of retail, much like Mark Twain, may have been reported prematurely.

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Kristina Evey

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Frustration Drives People Away. I was recently at a business conference at a highly regarded venue. The presenter was wonderful and provided lots of strategies, techniques, and solutions for those in attendance. Participants walked away with a wealth of knowledge and takeaways ready to implement in their companies. The food was great. The venue provided a light breakfast, delicious lunches, snacks, and a wide variety of sodas and water.

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CX University

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Can you think of a business that wants untalented workers? And yet, how many businesses have figured out how to reward ambitious tendencies with real opportunity and career growth? The difference is staggering. According to a recent Gallup poll, 32% of all quitters leave due to poor career advancement and promotion opportunities. Literally one-third of retention (the largest segment by a 10% margin) is due to career advancement.

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CloudCherry

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Every company wishes that they could predict the future—it would make business plans so much easier and more straight-forward. Imagine sourcing for headcount, and moving forward with product improvements knowing exactly what was going to happen when you did? Fortunately, while predicting the future in its entirety is close to impossible, predictive analytics can help businesses like you make smarter, data-driven decisions about where they’re going without any magic powers.

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Michelli Experience

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

This the third in what I am planning to be a four-part series on service design, persona-based customer journey mapping, activating customer journey maps, and optimal future experience visioning. Given that we’ve set the framework for service design and persona-based journey mapping in prior posts, I will focus this installment on how to use a customer journey map to affect positive change in your organization.

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Steve DiGioia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

can a crooked sign ruin your business? This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. You have a great product, so that’s done. Next comes finding the perfect location to set up shop and after almost a year you’re finished. Now, you’re finally open and business is flowing. All is well – but is it? Sure, you had to get over a few hurdles and you corrected some mistakes but now business is steady.

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Kayako

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Usually, when your customers reach out to you, they are already in a bad state—they’re having problems with their product or service and they want your help. Ideally, they wouldn’t have to talk to anyone. Customers would rather not have to talk to anyone when they’re running into trouble, but would ultimately rather not have any trouble at all. So, when they reach out to you, if you provide them with an experience that is less-than-stellar, it can make the whole thing feel even worse.

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One Millimeter Mindset

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

If you practice a hopscotch client retention strategy, do not get your hopes up. Making clients successful is hardly child’s play. Co-partnering in your client’s success involves more than adhering to a mostly-linear protocol. Rather, start by being better prepared to weigh risks against opportunities. As a result, serve your clients better and better over the duration of your relationship with them.

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Customer Bliss

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

“If you have a customer success job in an organization that isn’t interested in customer retention, you need to consider doing something else,” says Lucy Norris , Executive VP, Global Leader of Customer Success at Genesys , a technology company that provides solutions for customer experience, marketing, and sales. In today’s episode, Lucy and I talk about how they define customer success and customer experience at Genesys and how she’s been leading the CX transforma

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GetFeedback

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

When you decrease customer churn, it leads to more than repeat customers and referrals. It keeps your brand reputation in check. Learn how to do it.

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CX University

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

There are hundreds of best practices for employee engagement, and all of them are being practiced by firms across this good, green Earth: at some growing businesses, at some failing businesses too. My question is, “How do we know which best practices will most benefit our employee engagement initiatives? Which should I apply in my business?”. So my team and I embarked on a mission to exhume the real nuts and bolts of engagement.

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Steve DiGioia

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

no wonder why today’s service is so poor! This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. One of my biggest frustrations is that today’s “ younger generation ” doesn’t have a decent point of reference to what we call good customer service. You can’t give good service when you have a need for instant gratification and the onslaught of limited service businesses and self-service kiosks have changed the overall service experience from what it was years ago.

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Kayako

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

In the current climate, customer experience is one of the main battlegrounds for sales organisations, often out-ranking factors like product and price. This can be especially true within the field of B2B sales, where customers are more informed than ever before, have higher expectations than in the past, and where existing customers are perfectly willing to switch to one of your competitors if you fail to provide the kind of experience they demand. .

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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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Help.com

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Customer service is not supposed to be reactionary. According to Gannett CMO Andy Yost , “2018 will be the year of servicing consumer needs before they even arise. Brands leveraging the right data and analytics to deliver impactful customer experiences will rise to the top.” If you didn’t get that memo until now, don’t worry. You still have time to build the kind of support that anticipate customers’ needs rather than reacts to them.

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Customer Bliss

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

In my new 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. The following is a lightly edited transcript of the video below. On a recent episode of my podcast , I talked to Lee Roquet of Yellowfin about the importance of the Power Core, and it’s such an important topic, I wanted to expan

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GetFeedback

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Not all surveys are created equal. Learn how to upgrade your survey strategy to capture customer feedback and deliver better service at every turn.

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One Millimeter Mindset

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Do we really understand the difference between customer service delivery and customer experience delivery? Or, do we use the two terms interchangeably? At times, our self-focused perception leaves customer service delivery up to everyone with “service” as part of their job titles. That means we assume customer service is someone else’s responsibility.

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Alida

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

In a recent webinar on customer experience , we had the honor of hosting Annette Franz , founder and CEO of CX Journey Inc, for an in-depth talk about the why and the how of customer journey mapping. According to Franz, customer experience improvements have stalled. In fact, according to Bain’s research, 80% of business executives believe they deliver a superior customer experience—but only 8% of customers agree.

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C3Centricity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

How Can You Provide Better Services For Your Client? This is a great question isn’t it? It was asked recently on Quora and I answered it, as I do many posed on topics such as brand building and customer understanding. But this question is I believe very different from most of those asked on Quora. That’s because it is one that every company, product, service and brand should be asking!

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IntouchInsight

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Here are five stories of great customer experience moments recounted by employees at Intouch Insight, that would make moms across the country proud.

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