Sat.Jan 11, 2020 - Fri.Jan 17, 2020

article thumbnail

How complex does a journey map need to be?

SuiteCX

We just finished teaching a class on CX driven Journey mapping to a large and very diverse group. It was really a fascinating class – smart and discerning. There were a number of common questions and comments from both beginning and advanced CX Architects/Mappers. These following questions got me thinking: We are B2B, so we are more complex than B2C, aren’t we?

article thumbnail

How can ratings + reviews be leveraged to increase revenue and prove ROI?

SMG CX

In today’s digital world, one of the most impactful ways to boost business outcomes and quantify ROI is through an effective and efficient online reputation management solution. The financial impact ratings + reviews has on a brand is staggering.

ROI 52
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How to Identify Weaknesses in Your Customer Journey Map

GetFeedback

About eight out of ten business leaders say they want to “improve” the customer experience (CX) to be more competitive. In CustomerThink’s recent study of 200+ CX initiatives, 74% agreed: “By 2020, customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator.”. And for good reason. Briefly, the argument is that leading CX brands outperform laggards by a lot.

article thumbnail

The 2020 Guide for CX Goal Getters

NICE inContact

2020 holds massive potential for planning and achieving your CX goals! Why? Because we have access to tremendous insight on what customers are looking for in service and brand experience in the coming year. We also have access to research on what sales, service, and support organizations across the globe did (and did not) do successfully in 2019.

Sales 156
article thumbnail

Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

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.

article thumbnail

5 Customer Validation Skills You Need in 2020

Centercode

5G, AI, self-driving cars — in no time at all, we’ll be looking back and saying, “Oh, those old things?” Today’s technology is evolving at lightspeed (though we’re still waiting on lightspeed travel), and development teams are moving just as quickly to deliver on rapidly expanding technological landscapes and increasing customer demands.

More Trending

article thumbnail

5 Steps to Improve Your CX Strategy in 2020

inmoment

With two-thirds of companies currently competing on customer experience (nearly double the 36% that reported competing on customer experience in 2010), it’s no surprise that organizations are targeting CX initiatives as top priorities in 2020. . But the development and execution of a successful CX strategy can present serious organizational challenges.

article thumbnail

Customer retention is the new religion

Hello Customer

January typically is a month to forecast trends, and we believe customer retention will be an important one. Of course, this isn't a new strategy. But we see increasingly more organisations move their focus from aggressive acquisition investments to retention management. And as fashion shows us, every trend returns at some point in time. (Except for maybe Buffalo shoes, some things should stay forgotten.

article thumbnail

Guest Post: How One Bold Move Helped this Firm Survive (and Thrive!) in The Great Recession

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Bill Cates, author of Beyond Referrals , Radical Relevance , and the founder of The Cates Academy for Relationship Marketing. He shares an example of how one company was able to flourish during the Great Recession. In the summer of 1999, two teenagers changed the music business almost overnight … and forever. The code written by Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning enabled people to download music at no cost.

Industry 109
article thumbnail

CX Lessons from 5 Thriving Industries

CX University

We all understand that having a great customer experience (CX) affects everyone as customers, and an exceptional CX drives revenues and growth. SaaS consultant Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré explains that companies with superior CX saw an increase in customers and regardless of the industry, CX leaders had as much as a 26%-point lead. With that in mind, we’re going to look at 5 thriving industries and how CX has helped them excel.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Guest Post: Best Way to Engage Customers, Gather Feedback and Engender Brand Loyalty? Think Customer Advisory Boards

Heart of the Customer

Today we feature an article by Rob Jensen who writes about the benefits of customer advisory boards and how they are a way to improve executive engagement. These days, there seems to be a lot of talk about customer experience. Indeed, ensuring that companies optimize interactions with their top clients, obtain the highest level of […]. The post Guest Post: Best Way to Engage Customers, Gather Feedback and Engender Brand Loyalty?

Loyalty 97
article thumbnail

How emotions influence education

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Do you know how your learners feel about their learning experiences? The more we learn about emotions, the more we realize they influence everything we think and do. 1.Emotions drive decisions for learners and customers alike. Emotions are driving our decisions , and usually more than we believe they are. According to Harvard Professor, Gerald Zaltman , 95 percent of cognitive decisions are based in the subconscious.

Course 244
article thumbnail

Customer Delight vs Customer Satisfaction: How These Two Concepts Work Together

Totango

Satisfaction is practical. Delight is emotional. That is the big difference in the customer delight vs customer satisfaction divide. One achieves what was expected, the other delivers additional value. Customer satisfaction is the process of achieving goals and consistently delivering the value you promised. Customer delight, on the other hand, is the “wow” factor.

article thumbnail

Customer Service – The Social Way

NICE inContact

Customer service is changing rapidly and fundamentally. In their private life, Millennials and Gen Z have long since abandoned outdated ways of communicating with each other – today, “the screen” is the place to be (and interact), whether it’s Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter or any other social network. Social media is literally revolutionizing the way people live and interact – as per October 2019, there were over 3.7 billion active social media users worldwide.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

CX Consulting 101: Mobilize Your Employees to Deliver Better CX

Strativity

Throughout Strativity’s 17+ years in CX consulting, we’ve developed fundamental principles and frameworks to help our clients avoid roadblocks and accelerate success with their customer experience initiatives — and now we’re sharing what we’ve learned with CX leaders like you. With this fourth post in our ‘CX Consulting 101’ series, we look at the most important elements for bringing your customer experience strategy into the real world with successful employee activation.

article thumbnail

Call Center Automation Depends on Collaborative AI

TechSee

The global drive toward digital transformation has made its mark on contact center processes and operations, with Salesforce predicting last year that the use of AI by customer service teams would see a 143% increase by 2020. AI-driven call center automation has had a significant impact on the efficiency and performance of individual agents, as well as on overall KPIs.

article thumbnail

6 Experts Share How They Use Customer Feedback to Build a Better Product

Gainsight

There is no shortage of feedback these days. But what is everyone doing with it? When you’re trying to deliver an exceptional product, it’s easy to get lost in the constant deluge of customer feedback. Your users are likely communicating with your company through multiple channels and it can seem like feedback gets lost in a black hole. So we asked 10 experts the following questions to learn more about how they collect and prioritze customer feedback: What are some of the effective w

Feedback 117
article thumbnail

Call Center Tech: What are the Top 4 Benefits of AI-powered Customer Service?

Advantage Communications

The be-all and end-all of your organization is customer service. Whether your business is customer facing or B2B, delivering a world-class customer experience (CX) is what will set your company up for future growth and increased profitability. Finding ways to improve your customer service strategy, however, can be difficult. Many organizations don’t have the resources, budget or investment necessary to implement a truly modernized in-house customer service program.

article thumbnail

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?

article thumbnail

4 Steps for a Better Digital Experience

Interactions

Consumers are more connected than ever before. In the last few years, businesses have been in a race to add channels of communication to better reach their customers where they are. And it has worked, to an extent. I now have the capability to schedule a doctor’s appointment through an app. I can pay my credit card bills through my smart speaker, without even having to pick up my phone.

article thumbnail

Connecting Research to Results #3 – Where is Your Customer Retention Leaking? And How Do You Fix it?

Gold Research

Companies spend over $1 Billion every year to retain the customers they have acquired. A few companies understand the key logical and emotional drivers of customer loss or measure the impact of their efforts beyond basic VoC statistical analysis or “rescue program” calculations.

article thumbnail

Employee Experience: Seeing the Forest for the Trees

InMoment XI

Let me just qualify something here before I get started: I have good kids. Really good kids, in fact. Kids that make me proud 98.7% of the time. But then there’s the other 1.3% of the time, and all you parents out there know what I’m talking about. Yep, that’s where we begin today… My. View Article.

article thumbnail

How to Identify Weaknesses in Your Customer Journey Map

GetFeedback

Steps to dentifying the weaknesses in your customer journey that, if improved, will lead to improved customer satisfaction and better business performance. .

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

3 Essential Lessons Leaders Must Embrace to Transform Experience

Customer Bliss

We are living in a world where customers have the megaphone. That’s actually been one of the most wonderful forcing functions: when finally it wasn’t about who we said we were; it’s about what employees and customers say we are. And these employees and customers talk about three things: Did you do what you said you were going to do? Did you improve my life?

article thumbnail

Onboarding Customers and Employees: Why a First Impression is Everything.

CloudCherry

Ah First Impressions. We all know we don’t get a second chance to make ‘em. And when it comes to Onboarding, a topic that- surprisingly- doesn’t receive a whole lot of attention, first impressions can make or break it for both Customers AND Employees. But, not to worry. On this week’s ‘Sweets of CX ’ Episode, we brought in expert Stacy Sherman. to shed some serious light on the subject.

B2C 195
article thumbnail

The Importance of Onboarding in the Automotive Industry: Part 1

InMoment XI

The Automotive Employee Journey Let’s start with some good news. According to Tinypulse.com, 91% of employees are retained by an organization with an effective onboarding process and 69% of new hires are likely to stay for three years if there is a well-structured onboarding programme in place. But here’s the bad news – 22% of. View Article.

article thumbnail

The Three Stages to Developing a Customer-Centric Culture

CX Accelerator

A customer-centric culture is the “make or break” component of any customer experience initiative. It was great getting to let loose on this all-important topic alongside Ryan Floersch of Gladly during our recent CXPA webinar. We discussed all kinds of ways to begin working toward an enhanced culture, or (if you’re lucky enough to have the beginnings of it in your organization already) how to accelerate the positive momentum you’ve already garnered.

article thumbnail

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,

article thumbnail

Interview With CX Ambassador Myshka Sansoin

GetFeedback

Interview with CX Ambassador and expert Myshka Sansoin of BRP. She reveals her successes, challenges, and pains from her many years in the CX industry.

Industry 195
article thumbnail

Just Say No To Silver Platters — And Yes To Co-Creation

Kerry Bodine

I worked at an advertising agency for just over a year. (A year and a day to be exact.). Here’s how our typically engagement worked: The client would provide a brief. We’d quickly get to work on it, far out of sight from the peering eyes of our client. And when we were ready, we’d deliver our ideas to the client, much the way a grand meal is presented on a silver platter at a fancy restaurant or state dinner.

article thumbnail

Uncovering Cloud Options for Your Organization

NICE inContact

Since 2006, cloud computing has expanded and advanced in incredible ways. While cloud computing is a staple in numerous organizations, less than half of contact centers have any form of investment in cloud technology. But, we see the rate of cloud adoption in contact centers rising every year now. Is your contact center ready to make the leap to cloud computing?