Sat.Jan 23, 2016 - Fri.Jan 29, 2016

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Mission Statements–Is Yours 15 Words or Less?

InMoment XI

In this series, I’ll be talking about the 5 steps to building a differentiating customer experience strategy. The Customer Experience Strategy is a part of the Competency pillar within the Three Cs Framework I introduced in 2010 – Competency, Credibility and Culture. The 5 steps to building a customer experience strategy. Step 1: Understand Corporate.

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How to Bring a Customer Focus Competency to Life

Customer Bliss

Delivering a reliable and then innovative customer experience requires adding a customer focus competency to the core competencies of your business (as important as products, finance, marketing or sales). The customer-focused experience needs to be built and honed as a skill. This means: Establishing a discipline for how cross-functional teams explore and understand emerging issues and opportunities.

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7 Things Your Customers Wish You Knew About Them

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Heads up …when it comes to customer service, certain (painful) truths are universal. Customer service is such an important part in keeping people coming back to your business, and the specifics of your product or service don’t really matter. Even as technology advances, some frustrations are still not being addressed as well as they […].

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Improve customer service quality by designing with clients in mind

Vonage

I am regularly amazed by brand new facilities that are obviously user-unfriendly. Huge investments of time and money…but who are they designing it for?!If you want to improve customer service quality, every decision needs to be made with clients in mind. A new airport in the Middle East is an impressive and expensive building. It’s huge, packed with stainless steel and halogen lights and lots of fancy gold.

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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Mission Statements–Is Yours 15 Words or Less?

InMoment XI

In this series, I’ll be talking about the 5 steps to building a differentiating customer experience strategy. The Customer Experience Strategy is a part of the Competency pillar within the Three Cs Framework I introduced in 2010 – Competency, Credibility and Culture. The 5 steps to building a customer experience strategy. Step 1: Understand Corporate.

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The Top 14 Tools for Running A Successful Support Team

Kayako

Working on the frontline of a support team is a huge responsibility, and a very varied role. It involves dealing with lots of aspects of the customer experience, from customer interactions and resolving queries, through to working with the product team on useful feedback. Often in support, the pressure is on – how can you and your team achieve the best customer experience possible?

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10 Common Online Survey Mistakes & How to Avoid Them

GetFeedback

Learn about the 10 most common survey mistakes and how to avoid them to ensure your survey gets you number and quality of responses you need.

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Mission Statements–Is Yours 15 Words or Less?

InMoment XI

In this series, I’ll be talking about the 5 steps to building a differentiating customer experience strategy. The Customer Experience Strategy is a part of the Competency pillar within the Three Cs Framework I introduced in 2010 – Competency, Credibility and Culture. The 5 steps to building a customer experience strategy. Step 1: Understand Corporate.

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The Customer Minute! The simple way to get ‘Customer’ on to your agenda

ijgolding

Over the last 22 years – yes I am that old – I have sat through an immeasurable number of business meetings. Team meetings; leadership meetings; board meetings (or should I say bored meetings); entire company meetings. I have to say, when I was a child, I was fascinated by the ‘mystique’ of the very word. I will never forget phoning my dad at work, only to be told he was ‘in a meeting’ – this seemed to be a pretty regular occurrence.

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Navigating the Future: Unveiling Trends and Bold Predictions in Customer Experience

Ready to explore 2024’s CX landscape? Join experts from SMG and guest Forrester as they discuss prominent trends actively shaping the industry and dive into a stack of bold predictions for the year ahead. Will the average customer experience improve? How can leaders leverage their CX metrics to establish financial linkage? What will global firms achieve using customer-facing generative AI?

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Kayako and CoSupport Take Austin: Join Us For Elevate Summit

Kayako

Here at Kayako we’ve spent the last 14 years giving people the tools they need to support their customers. Now we’re taking things a step further. I’m delighted to announce that Kayako is now a co-producer of Elevate Summit , the new name for UserConf: the biggest conference for customer support and success professionals. We’re joining forces with CoSupport to make it bigger, better and more global than ever before.

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Emotion: The Missing Link in Customer Experience (Video)

Experience Matters

Enjoy this Temkin Group video…Filed under: Emotion, Temkin Group Video.

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Mission Statements–Is Yours 15 Words or Less?

InMoment XI

In this series, I’ll be talking about the 5 steps to building a differentiating customer experience strategy. The Customer Experience Strategy is a part of the Competency pillar within the Three Cs Framework I introduced in 2010 – Competency, Credibility and Culture. The 5 steps to building a customer experience strategy. Step 1: Understand Corporate.

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3 Ways to Lead Your Team to Customer Experience Victory

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

We’ve all had those disagreements. One person says something along the lines of “It’s not what you said. It’s how you said it.” The other person stands his or her ground. “I did NOT say it like that. No way.” This is the human experience. We often believe we said/did/behaved differently than others perceive it.

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The State of Customer Onboarding 2024

Building lasting customer relationships has always been top-of-mind for businesses. However, in the last decade, organizations have recognized that the customer journey beyond the initial sale is as critical as the sale itself. Customer onboarding, or the customer’s first impression of you, is critical to forging lasting relationships and long-term success.

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Leaving a Leadership Legacy

Michelli Experience

Whenever I consider offering customer experience consulting services for a prospective business client, I interview senior leadership and ask a lot of questions that get at motivation and their perceived purpose for the potential partnership. Early in my career I was so excited “to be considered for work” that I didn’t understand the importance of due diligence when connecting your brand with someone else’s business.

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Customer Experience Improvements - A Series of Baby Steps

CX Journey

Image courtesy of Dell's Official Flickr Page I love talking about the customer experience; I could sit for days, answering questions and discussing the finer points of this topic. So, as you can imagine, I was honored when Paolo Fabrizio asked me to be a guest on his Social Antipasti podcast series to answer some of his questions about customer experience.

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Dealing with Moaners and Complainers during Emotionally Charged Meetings

Who's Your Gladys?

Running an effective meeting isn’t always easy – especially when emotions run high. A moaner or complainer can suck the energy right out of the room, leaving everyone drained and distracted. Luckily, there are ways to handle yourself, your team, and customers to get the. The post Dealing with Moaners and Complainers during Emotionally Charged Meetings appeared first on Who's Your Gladys?

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10 Questions You’re Afraid to Ask Your Employees – Part 2

Steve DiGioia

how well did you do in Part 1? This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. Did you ask your employees any of the questions in. You must have the perfect department then, the perfect employees and have nothing to gain by this exercise, so don’t bother with Part 2 – stop reading now. Go back to your cubicle and read the paper. Check on your budget, read your emails, do anything but improve.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

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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Five proven results for increasing your customer asset

Customer Bliss

Customer asset measurement is about knowing what customers actually did to impact business growth versus what they say they might do via survey results. The role of the Chief Customer Officer is not to build and ‘pitch’ to the leadership team what these metrics are. It’s to bring them together to establish their version of customer asset metrics and customer growth behaviors that they will stand behind as a united leadership team.

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Cloud Cushions the Holiday Customer Service Crush

NICE inContact

The ability to provide an excellent customer service experience is a key differentiator in today’s Era of the Customer for businesses of any size and every vertical market. However, according to a recently released report by Harvard Business Review , where 92% of US based respondents were from organizations with more than 1000 employees, nearly half indicated that improving the customer experience was indicated as either one or two in level of priority.

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Jacob Morgan Is An Idea Thief; He Should Be Stopped

Esteban Kolsky

Imagine my surprise on waking up this morning and discovering this tweet. A Framework For How Any Company Can Design Amazing Employee Experiences #FutureofWork https://t.co/2apz47obpy pic https://twitter.com/5m1o0RNgvL. — Jacob Morgan (@jacobm) January 24, 2016. I first I thought it was a mistake, or somehow Mr. Morgan had forgotten to properly credit me for my work.

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Using Live Help to Support a CX Focus

Velaro

Live help is a great type of customer service activity to guide and strengthen your customer experience strategy. In the live help world and elsewhere, a focus on customer experience (CX, or CEX) means shifting the attention from the provision of services to the experience of the customer receiving those services. This is challenging for many organizations, as gathering information about what services your organization is providing is much easier to do than gathering information about what your

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The Open CCaaS Advantage Report

Over the next 12 months, what do you think will have the biggest impact on your CX automation efforts? When asked the same question, only 10% of CX leaders surveyed by Verint chose telephony. It’s no longer the engagement channel leading CCaaS conversations. The customer engagement challenges facing organizations have changed – so a new approach is needed.

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Retail 2016: Predictive Analytics As Value To Your Customers

Storyminers

At the end of last year, I was invited to share my customer experience predictions for 2016 with MarketForce, a sponsor-funded European Union event production company. The only guideline was to focus on what could/should happen in 2016. With the retail industry fresh on my mind as I prepared for the NRF Big Show, I […]. The post Retail 2016: Predictive Analytics As Value To Your Customers appeared first on Mike Wittenstein.

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5 Tips For a More Productive 1:1

Help.com

The 1:1 meeting is becoming ubiquitous for companies of all shapes and sizes, and there’s a reason for that. The quick meeting serves as a pulse check between a manager and employee and helps each party get a better understanding of where they stand in their team and with the company. Are they doing a good job? Where can they improve?

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Being Customer Centric Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does

Beyond Philosophy

In this series, professionals describe the skills they’re building this year. Read the stories here , then write your own (use #SkillsGap in the body of your post). There is a major skill most organizations lack: Customer centricity. But if you want to remain competitive in today’s economic climate, putting the focus on Customers is imperative to your bottom line.

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Is Your Customer Experience the New Normal?

CX Journey

Image courtesy of micahb37 Is the customer and his experience ingrained in your organization's DNA? A while back, I wrote a post titled, What the Hell is Customer Experience? The basis for that post was a story about fish responding to the question, "How's the water?" - to which the fish responded, "What the hell is water?" Reason being, water is what they live in every day; it's part of their environment, just natural for them, to the point that they don't even think about it as being separate

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Top 5 Ways to Optimize Your Loyalty Strategy

Speaker: Lauren Barash, Vice President, Brand Marketing

In an ever-evolving industry, building and retaining loyal customers is critical to the success of any restaurant business. Join Lauren Barash, VP of Brand Marketing at Full Course, as she delves into the world of restaurant loyalty programs, and reveals the top five essential strategies to optimize your approach! This webinar will explore: Loyalty trends and what you should be focusing on 📊 Actionable insights and ideas to help you develop the most powerful and effective loyalty program

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Tailoring the Customer Journey

Wired and Dangerous

Customers today are Vain — expecting treatment that telegraphs they are special and unique, not just one of the masses. This customer narcissism has been forged through the pampering provided by service providers, as well as their new-found muscle to get their way in the marketplace. We know that social media is 5 times more powerful than word of mouth and 68% of online users check out companies on social media before buying.

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Register for Journey Mapping Workshop

Experience Matters

Filed under: Customer experience.

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Big CX Idea for 2016: Not Despite but Because

Beyond Philosophy

More often these days we get calls at our headquarters with Customer Experience champions wondering what happened to the huge gains in their Customer Experience metrics they used to get. The problem is many of them have implemented Customer Experience measures, had great improvements to metrics like their Net Promoter Scores, and then watched the score plateau.