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Keep Them Coming Back: How a Great Culture Ensures a Great Customer Experience

InMoment XI

Our experiences as customers can be moving and memorable. Think about the last time you received above-and-beyond service. You might remember an employee who was personally engaged in problem-solving with you, truly invested in helping you reach a solution. Or maybe it was an exceptionally simple return process created via corporate policy and enabled by.

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How to Take Control of Your Blood Sucking Customers

Steve DiGioia

This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. You chase after your customers, hoping to be liked so they buy your product. In your eyes they can’t do anything wrong, you bend over backwards and give freebies to these blood sucking customers of yours. And still they complain. They do more than just complain, they make a scene in front of other customers or yell for a “manager” for no apparent reason.

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Epidemic of Emotionless Experience Design

Experience Matters

As I’ve discussed many times on this blog, customers experience interactions across three dimensions, Success, Effort, and Emotion. So how effective are companies at proactively designing for those elements? Not very. In our latest CX management study, we surveyed 252 companies with at least $100 million in annual revenues and asked them about their experience design effectiveness.

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Organizational decision-making drives customer loyalty

Customer Bliss

Deloitte recently did a study of 7,000+ companies in 130+ countries called Deloitte Human Capital Trends 2016. You can see the full report and its findings at that link, but one of the more interesting parts is represented in this graph: As Josh Bersin summarizes here on Forbes , the biggest trend in Deloitte’s research is an increasing focus on teams — as opposed to just leaders — for future business growth.

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The Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Customer Learning

Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your organization’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

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Time to Act: Creating Real Change and Action with Effective CX Programs

InMoment XI

An ancient Scottish proverb says “you can’t make a sheep fatter by weighing it”. Good CX leaders know that measuring customer experience is only one part of effecting change within the business. And just implementing a customer feedback measurement program is not enough. In a recent survey MaritzCX has conducted among key CX decision.

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5 powerful TED videos that will make you a smarter researcher

Alida

With over 2,000 videos available to the public, the TED website is one of the best free resources available for customer intelligence professionals today. If you are a market researcher, an insight professional or user of insight, TED videos could be a source of lessons and inspiration. Many people working in market research and customer intelligence have asked me for recommendations for TED videos to watch.

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Quick Take: The Power of Customer Journey Thinking (Video)

Experience Matters

In a recent Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA.org) CustomerSpark event in Dallas, I spoke about the importance of focusing on emotion. Give that we’ve called 2016 “The Year of Emotion,” this is a popular topic for Temkin Group. Here’s a short snippet from my speech (one of several quick take videos from the event), which focuses on The […].

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Solution Design Light Bites

InMoment XI

5 Reasons Why Reporting Design is Like Baking I love to bake. In fact, I find it very therapeutic after a long day and see it as a great way to escape from my normal reality. However, as I was baking my favorite chocolate fudge cake the other day, I was thinking about the similarities. View Article.

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Three Reasons Your Contact Center Needs to Go Digital

Calabrio

When you close your eyes and imagine a contact center, what do you see? Is it a dim and dusty room filled with rows of headset wearing agents, half-heartedly responding to customer complaints? Or, is it a buzzing and dynamic environment equipped with 21 st century customer engagement and analytics technology that empowers businesses to predict customer needs?

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Reimagine Your Communications With A Unified Platform

Cut complexity and boost efficiency while empowering your customers with Nextiva's unified communications platform. Nextiva streamlines workflows and centralizes customer interactions, all while simplifying business collaboration, increasing productivity, and reducing employee burnout.

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The importance of persistence – why Customer Experience can only work if it is part of a long term business strategy

ijgolding

There are a number of things that comprise the characteristics of great Customer Centric leaders – courage; vision; passion; authenticity; humility; belief; are just some of them. I am sure you can think of more as well. There is no doubt that I could write about each one in turn! However, one further characteristic always springs to mind almost immediately when I am asked – I happen to think that it is perhaps the most important characteristic of all – the characteristic of PERSISTENCE.

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Quick Take: Start Talking About Emotion (Video)

Experience Matters

In a recent speech I gave at the Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA.org) CustomerSpark event in Dallas, I talked about the importance of focusing on emotion. Give that we’ve called 2016 “The Year of Emotion,” this is a popular topic for Temkin Group. Here’s a short snippet from my speech (one of several quick take videos from […].

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Solution Design Light Bites

InMoment XI

5 Reasons Why Reporting Design is Like Baking I love to bake. In fact, I find it very therapeutic after a long day and see it as a great way to escape from my normal reality. However, as I was baking my favorite chocolate fudge cake the other day, I was thinking about the similarities.

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How Documented Procedures Can Make Your Customer Support More Effective

Kayako

This is a guest post by Owen Enaohwo of Sweet Process. Are you looking to develop trust with your support team? Without this trust, they will not be able to perform at their highest level. By creating documented procedures for them, you can build this trust and achieve consistent results. Even if your team members have previous experience in customer support, letting them improvise their day-to-day work can be dangerous.

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & AI

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

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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How are your POPS and PODS doing?

Michelli Experience

More than a decade ago marketing professors Kevin Keller and Alice Tybout advanced two concepts that not only changed the way people market their businesses but also SHOULD have changed the way we think about delivering customer experiences. They are POPS and PODS. POPS stands for “Points of Parity ” and PODS is an acronym for “Points of Distinction” In simplest terms, Points of Parity (POPS) are qualities that you share with competitive brands deemed to be excellent.

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The Business Case for a Great Employee Experience

CX Journey

Have you put the spotlight on the employee experience at your company? I've written many times about the importance of the employee experience, both on its own with regard to retention and performance and with regard to the impact of the employee experience on the customer experience. Sadly, many companies still aren't focusing on the employee experience.

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Solution Design Light Bites

InMoment XI

5 Reasons Why Reporting Design is Like Baking I love to bake. In fact, I find it very therapeutic after a long day and see it as a great way to escape from my normal reality. However, as I was baking my favorite chocolate fudge cake the other day, I was thinking about the similarities.

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Join Us for Elevate Summit in London

Kayako

After our recent success with Elevate Summit in Austin, TX. We’re delighted to announce that Elevate Summit will be coming to London! As with Austin, we promise great speakers, the most innovative customer support topics and the chance to talk and learn with all attendees (and there’s always an after party!). We can proudly present to you talks from Buffer , TalkDesk , Smooch and many more that are being confirmed every day.

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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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Today’s Most Stunningly Useful Marketing Infographics

C3Centricity

It’s been a couple of years since I shared a post on infographics, so I think we’re due for a fun and useful update, no? I have searched the web and come out with the best infographics I can find on marketing. In usual C³Centricity style, I also give you some ideas on how to implement [.]. The post Today’s Most Stunningly Useful Marketing Infographics appeared first on C3Centricity.

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How St. Jude Honors Donors as Assets, With Chief Donor Officer, Martin Hand – CB1

Customer Bliss

Welcome To The First-Ever Episode Of The CCO “Human Duct Tape Show” I decided to name the show ‘Human Duct Tape’ because I feel that’s often the role of the CCO among the executives and strategic planning of a given organization. Silos don’t unite organically. It’s not because executives and decision-makers don’t care about the customer.

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Keep Them Coming Back: How a Great Culture Ensures a Great Customer Experience

InMoment XI

Our experiences as customers can be moving and memorable. Think about the last time you received above-and-beyond service. You might remember an employee who was personally engaged in problem-solving with you, truly invested in helping you reach a solution. Or maybe it was an exceptionally simple return process created via corporate policy and enabled by.

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Re-inventing the Buyer Journey to Drive More Qualified Sales Leads

SuiteCX

Everyone wants more qualified leads, but how to find the ones that will convert, use your product and become advocates? First, it’s important to understand that leads are not prospects. They are real people with real needs who are looking for a solution to their problem. They want to be sure they purchase the product or service that is right for them, but there is fear and uncertainty that accompanies these decisions.

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11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption

Unlock the full potential of your educational initiatives with the 11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption eBook. You’ll uncover: Why measure content consumption rather than (or in addition to) completion rates and member satisfaction? What are some proven tactics to create quality learner content and raise your content consumption rates? Discover the secrets from leading experts in the field, distilled into practical tips that promise to elevate the quality of your educational offerings,

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Top 10 #CX Challenges for 2016

CX Journey

Image courtesy of Juju Insipired What customer experience challenges are you facing this year? Even though 2016 is already a third of the way over, I thought it would be interesting to share some findings about key customer experience challenges that have been identified for this year. Sadly, they are really not much different from what we've heard in recent years.

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Does Your Service Have A Great Exit?

Wired and Dangerous

The opening keynote was preceded by the safety briefing for the large banquet hall attendees. It was the usual “in case of fire” cautions and instructions. It dramatically and clearly called attention to the exit signs over the doors completely invisible in an otherwise “take it for granted” perspective. The flight attendant on the airline does the same “notice the exits” speech before every flight.

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Time to Act: Creating Real Change and Action with Effective CX Programs

InMoment XI

An ancient Scottish proverb says “you can’t make a sheep fatter by weighing it”. Good CX leaders know that measuring customer experience is only one part of effecting change within the business. And just implementing a customer feedback measurement program is not enough. In a recent survey MaritzCX has conducted among key CX decision. View Article.

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Five tips to make your VoC data actionable

OpinionLab

We’ve spoken a lot on this blog about the value of customer-initiated feedback and how this is the only way you can truly get to grips with what your customers really think about you. Undiluted feedback from empowered consumers in free text format is the key to an optimized CX. With all that being said, if your customers feel you’re not listening to them then they’re not going to want to engage with you.

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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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When SE leaves your elderly aunt without adequate heating for 11 days…

Helen Dewdney

In the Winter of 2014 my elderly aunt’s heating went off. Southern Electric responsible for her boiler cover left her without heating for 9 days. NINE! And inadequate for 11! When I got to hear of this I decided to do something about it! Obviously. I won’t bore you with the details of the email I wrote to the CEO of Southern Electric for my cousin to write but this was the summary at the end: Summary of complaint. 1) My mother is a priority customer and should have had her heating fi

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The citizen experience debate: Why you need to collect feedback

iPerceptions

Technology allows citizens the privilege of having something they never had before – the center stage to speak their truth and demand that they be heard. Before technology and the transparency, it brought, organizations and governments had limited means to get our feedback and bring awareness to topics that impacted us as a society.

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Keep Them Coming Back: How a Great Culture Ensures a Great Customer Experience

InMoment XI

Our experiences as customers can be moving and memorable. Think about the last time you received above-and-beyond service. You might remember an employee who was personally engaged in problem-solving with you, truly invested in helping you reach a solution. Or maybe it was an exceptionally simple return process created via corporate policy and enabled by.

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