ijgolding

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

I am very lucky to live in a beautiful city in the North West of England. Yes… I am not actually there as often as I would like, but when I am, I do not take for granted that my children are being raised in a lovely environment. Founded as a Roman Fort in 79 AD, Chester is one of the best preserved walled cities in Great Britain. With museums, a theatre, a Roman amphitheatre, a river, a canal and mediaeval building a plenty, Chester is a not just a great place to live, but a fantastic city to vi

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Experience Matters

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Whenever we discuss Net Promoter® Score, we get a bifurcated set of reactions. Some people love NPS® and others hate it. So we decided to more quantitatively gauge the sentiment. In a recent study, Temkin Group asked more than 300 CX professionals to share their thoughts about NPS. As you can see below: Most aren’t impressed. Over half of respondents say that NPS is either just like or worse than other metrics.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Interactive voice response (IVR) has been a staple of customer service for many years. While its requiem has been composed many times in the past, it is still around, alive and kicking. Together with its “big brother”, the voice portal, IVRs have been part of contact center solutions for decades, and there is no reason to believe that they will go away any time soon.

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Kristina Evey

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Crew Takes Teamwork – Just Like CEX. Customer Experience Requires Teamwork. Teamwork was the focus of my weekend recently. Two of my kids just finished their last crew regatta of the fall season. We were up in the Leelanau Peninsula in Michigan and the scenery couldn’t have been better. We caught the last part of the colors and the temperatures were crisp and best of all… NO RAIN.

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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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NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Every year, MaritzCX hosts the premier customer experience event, CXFusion, in Las Vegas. This event provides workshops, certifications and top-of-the-line thought leaderships from the most influential people in the field. You can expect to increase your CX prowess and learn new strategies and insights from some of the world’s most dynamic experts and customer-centric brands.

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C3Centricity

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Last week I wrote about my 7-step CatSight Process for Insight Development. The first step is to identify the Category in which you are competing. I got so many comments about this step that I decided to dedicate a whole post to this important topic. If you haven’t yet had the chance to read last week’s post ( “Customer Centricity is Today’s Business Disruptor, Insights its Foundation”) I suggest you do this first, as background to this post.

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Experience Matters

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

In our Q1 2017 UK consumer benchmark study, we asked 5,000 UK consumers to rate their loyalty with the companies that they had interacted with during the previous 90 days. The analysis examined four areas of loyalty: Likelihood to repurchase, likelihood to recommend, likelihood to forgive, and likelihood to trust. Then we combined those components to calculate the Temkin Loyalty Index for 157 companies across 16 industries.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Every year, MaritzCX hosts the premier customer experience event, CXFusion, in Las Vegas. This event provides workshops, certifications and top-of-the-line thought leaderships from the most influential people in the field. You can expect to increase your CX prowess and learn new strategies and insights from some of the world’s most dynamic experts and customer-centric brands.

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Michelli Experience

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Let’s pretend I gave you a company. Awful nice of me right? Well, maybe not! The company is a chain of video stores. Remember those? If you are old enough to recall the video rental phenomena, the landscape for that industry was dominated by Blockbuster and Hollywood Video, but there were a panoply of local video providers as well – one in virtually every strip mall.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Interactive voice response (IVR) has been a staple of customer service for many years. While its requiem has been composed many times in the past, it is still around, alive and kicking. Together with its “big brother”, the voice portal, IVRs have been part of contact center solutions for decades, and there is no reason to believe that they will go away any time soon.

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Experience Matters

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

Many people who read this blog are celebrating Thanksgiving and will be exchanging “Happy Thanksgiving” greetings throughout the day. But I’m pretty sure that overdosing on turkey and stuffing is not the most expedient path to long-term happiness (although I don’t have any data to support my hypothesis). So what is a better path to happiness?

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Kerry Bodine

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

We’ve been getting multiple requests over the past few weeks about our 2018 journey mapping workshop schedule. So without further ado… We hope you’ll join us in one of these fun locations next year for our signature two-day workshop! February 27 & 28 in San Francisco. May 16 & 17 in Chicago. September 12 & 13 in Boston. Whether you’re just getting started with customer journey mapping or looking for a methodology refresh, our two-day interactive workshop will help you develop the ski

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Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

I hope you’re all taking some time to enjoy being with loved ones, eating, and relaxing. But I know many of you are busy professionals and you may even be using some of your time off to catch up on industry news or your own work. So with that said, in the event that you’re looking to hear more about customer experience and learn from other great leaders in this industry while you cook, clean, or lay back – I’m sharing 3 of my most popular podcast episodes from this past y

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NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Image courtesy of Pixabay I originally wrote today's post for CallidusCloud CX; it appeared on their blog on May 23, 2017. In this very social world, customers have a lot of options when it comes to getting support from companies about the products and services they buy: there's phone, email, FAQs, knowledge bases, forums, chat, social media, and much more.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Organizations love to talk about building relationships with customers. The trouble is, most of the time it feels like they’re just paying lip service to the idea. Was Wells Fargo “building relationships” when it opened all those unauthorized accounts? What about the car dealership that forces you to haggle over price to the point where you don’t even want a new car anymore?

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Kerry Bodine

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Several weeks ago, I had the honor of delivering the closing remarks at this year’s Service Design Global Conference in Madrid. The video of presentation will be posted online sometime in the next few months, but I didn’t want to wait that long to share my thoughts. The theme of the conference this year was “Service Design at Scale”—and over the course of the three days in Madrid, I was inspired by the conference presentations, projects from the Service Design Award winners, and many energizing

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Comm100

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Technical support and customer service is not a picnic. It’s a difficult, sometimes grueling job with little recognition or reward, where agents often feel the brunt of unhappy consumers. Consumers can be: Unhappy with the product – “it doesn’t do what I thought it did.”. Unhappy with the bill – “it costs too much for this product that doesn’t do what I thought it did.”.

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Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Overview. Have you ever thought about the end-to-end customer experience of a student in higher education? From interfacing with the admissions department to the platforms used to register and access school resources – the overall customer and user experience impacts a student’s success and perception of the program. In this episode, I speak with Marc Riesenberg , Director of Marketing for Coding with Kids, who spoke about implementing a CX program and improving the UX while serving

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

It’s mid-November, and that means retailers’ annual holiday promotions are reaching a fever pitch. Discount department store Kohl’s will kick off Black Friday at 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving day. It plans to encourage spending by offering deep discounts and making it easier for shoppers to see how much they’ll save. Sears, Kmart, Best Buy and Amazon have all also launched aggressive price-cutting campaigns.

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Uniphore

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) has been one of the most revolutionary products of enterprise technology in the last few years, stirring the winds of change in the business world by enabling increased productivity at reduced costs, and one which will likely eventually be leveraged in just about every industry. In fact, according to a recent report by McKinsey and Company , it’s predicted that automation technologies, such as Robotic Process Automation, (RPA) will have a potential economic impac

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Maru/HUB

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Customer loyalty and advocacy have experienced a shift in gear as of late for Uber in the UK alone. This latest news of a huge hack in the US that exposed personal data of over 57 million customers and drivers is set to see many turn their backs on the ride-service provider and further damage their faltering reputation. Not only did Uber hide the massive global breach of data in October 2016 and fail to inform those affected, but they’ve also confirmed they paid the hackers to hush them.

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Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and Guest Speaker Sucharita Kodali

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

There is a place I get my car worked on. They do a great job. The repair center’s employees are friendly and knowledgeable. The car always comes back cleaner than when it goes in for service. This is the way business should be done. The head of the service department mentioned I would be getting a survey emailed to me and asked if I would take a few minutes to complete it.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D., CMC Thought Leadership Principal, Beyond Philosophy. For some time, it has been understood that, when purchasing a product or service, consumers are essentially ‘hiring’ a supplier to get a job done. The same can be said of employees. They can hire desired employers, and if things don’t turn out as expected, employees can ‘fire’ their employer, sometimes quietly, sometimes noisily, departing.

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Totango

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Get ready for two days of great content, speakers, networking and fun! So much is happening in the world of Customer Success. We’re going to bring the best and the brightest from the field to share latest trends in strategy and innovation so you and your organization can make the BIGGEST IMPACT possible in customer adoption, retention and overall customer engagement.

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mopinion

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

Still haven’t cracked the code on growth hacking? Don’t worry, it’s probably every bit as mysterious to you as the next startup – so don’t get discouraged. While the term has been around for several years now (since 2010 to be exact), the concept has not yet fully been grasped by everyone. Put simply, growth […]. The post 10 Must-Read Growth Hacking Guides appeared first on Mopinion.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

This week we feature an article by Brooke Harper who writes about the importance of using social media to provide great customer service. If you’re not monitoring what customers are saying about you and your company on social media, what are you waiting for?! – Shep Hyken. Are you paying attention to what your customers are saying on social media?

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Eptica

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Date: Wednesday, November 22, 2017 The 5 rules of Retail Christmas Customer Experience. Published on: November 22, 2017. Author: Pauline Ashenden As we approach Christmas, the festive shopping season is moving into top gear. Big retail adverts are hitting the screen, with UK companies spending an estimated £6 billion to reach shoppers as they fight to differentiate themselves from competitors.

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Strativity

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

www.chiefexecutive.net. In business, there are two things you can’t have enough of. The first one is obvious and known to all: revenues. Ask any business owner or salesperson, and they will share with you this harsh truth. It seems like an endless pursuit of an ever-increasing revenue target with very few breaks in between. Just as they meet their target, a new, higher one is set.

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