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Attributes Of A CX Leader

InMoment XI

Last month the article “5 Traits of Successful Customer Experience Leaders” was featured in the Yahoo! Small Business Advisor. In short, these traits are: flexibility, business acumen, instinct, communication prowess and empathy. Similarly, customer experience leaders utilizing big data share a number of the same attributes, as well as other key traits.

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Book Review – Delivering Effective Social Customer Service: How to Redefine the Way You Manage Customer Experience and Your Corporate Reputation

ijgolding

'It is impossible to ignore the fact that customer service has gone all social on us. Our obsession with Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram and more has led to the humble consumer actively seeking to interact with companies via social networks. Although this is a fact, there are still many organisations who are yet to understand how to manage this new ‘channel’ particularly well.

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Customer Service – One of the Biggest Mistakes to Avoid

Kristina Evey

'What is one of the biggest mistakes companies make in their customer service efforts? Not asking for or not encouraging customer feedback. The customers are the people keeping you in business. Listen to them. Many of us go about our day and do business with our usual vendors day in and day out. Or, maybe we are one of those 70% who leave because we don’t like the service and find someone who does treat us better and we like the overall experience enough to stay until we find someone else.

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You Know What Happens When You Assume

CX Journey

'Image courtesy of LoBue Citrus Are you setting expectations - and delivering on them? I recently ate an interesting orange that inspired me to write this post. Yes, the image to the left is of an orange, a pink orange ! (Not a pink grapefruit, which we''ve all heard of.) Ever heard of such a thing? I hadn''t. Until I went into the grocery store the other day and saw it in the produce department.

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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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The Next Generation of Banking

InMoment XI

The banking industry is operating in a changing environment as its customer base evolves from older, traditional users to a younger, technology-driven generation. To address this changing landscape, national/regional and community banks must be willing to make the necessary investments to keep pace with technological advances and be prepared for changing expectations.

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The Top 3 Avoidable Mistakes of Customer Surveys

Michel Falcon Experience

'Every company, regardless of size or industry, must use surveys to improve their customer experience. When it comes to customer surveys, I believe there are three types of companies: The “surveys don’t work” company : This company never collects customer feedback because they are short sighted and don’t know what to do with the data.

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All This Aggravation Ain't Satisfactionin' Me

CX Journey

'A little less conversation and a little more action makes Elvis - and your customers - happy campers. Yup, Elvis! He''s my latest inspiration. Actually, I''ve been sitting on this one for a while, waiting for the right moment or topic to come up in order to incorporate this Elvis song into a blog post. The song? A Little Less Conversation. Specifically, the chorus goes like this: A little less conversation, a little more action, please All this aggravation ain''t satisfactionin'' me A little mo

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Attributes Of A CX Leader

InMoment XI

Last month the article “5 Traits of Successful Customer Experience Leaders” was featured in the Yahoo! Small Business Advisor. In short, these traits are: flexibility, business acumen, instinct, communication prowess and empathy. Similarly, customer experience leaders utilizing big data share a number of the same attributes, as well as other key traits.

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32 Customer Experience Measurements Every Bold Leader Should Know

Aveus

Every organization, no matter what you do or who you do it for, has a customer experience that can either earn you or cost you money. Once your organization embraces the fact that your customer experience drives revenue and profit (and is not a tradeoff), many things need to happen within your organization to align yourself behind your customer’s experience – among them, measuring your customer experience.

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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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5 Tips to Being a Customer Experience Rock Star

PeopleMetrics

'In an effort to discover the experts within our clients’ companies that truly understand customer experience, we used customer feedback to identify those individuals who consistently deliver an exceptional customer experience. In 2011, we launched our first annual Brand Ambassador Awards to recognize these outstanding individuals. After discovering who the best of the best are, we picked their brains to discover why they are the best of the best.

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3 Secrets to Virgin Atlantic’s Awesome Customer Service

Win the Customer

'Last week I had the opportunity to fly with Virgin Atlantic. I’ve become an addict of their sister airline, Virgin America, and was relishing the opportunity to see how the international service compared. Like most savvy business travelers, I packed my carry-on with cleverly matched outfits that would last me the week I’d be away, […].

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The Next Generation of Banking

InMoment XI

The banking industry is operating in a changing environment as its customer base evolves from older, traditional users to a younger, technology-driven generation. To address this changing landscape, national/regional and community banks must be willing to make the necessary investments to keep pace with technological advances and be prepared for changing expectations.

Banking 200
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Indifferent Service – The Silent Killer of Customer Loyalty

Dennis Snow

In this video I share the elements that differentiate caring customer service from indifferent customer service. If you received this blog post via email, you may need to click here to view the video.

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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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Unbelievable Comcast Customer Call and What You Can Do About It

PeopleMetrics

'Social media. Like most people in business, you probably fall in one of these camps: absolute adoration or total apathy. But, one day, a customer service disaster could explode and go viral. Why me? Why my company? This one customer service call is going to ruin my brand! I’ve worked so hard to build it the right way, and why, oh, why did this one employee do that one thing?!

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Keep working for the referral

Customer Enthusiast

'I know a successful Denver web designer whose mantra is: “Keep working for the referral.” In other words, even after he gets the business, he continues to work hard to deliver a breathtaking design to his clients in order to delight them – and inspire their referrals. But what impresses me even more about Jeff is that, when the business doesn’t go his way, he continues to keep working for the referral.

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Attributes Of A CX Leader

InMoment XI

Last month the article “5 Traits of Successful Customer Experience Leaders” was featured in the Yahoo! Small Business Advisor. In short, these traits are: flexibility, business acumen, instinct, communication prowess and empathy. Similarly, customer experience leaders utilizing big data share a number of the same attributes, as well as other key traits.

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Are customers loyal to your brand or to your points?

Arie Goldshlager

I found the following observation by Niraj Dawar very instructive. Please note particularly: “From a brand manager’s perspective, the question is what is a consumer loyal to — are they loyal to the brand that you’re selling or are they loyal to the points? If they’re loyal to the points the moment you stop those points your product will stop selling,” Dawar cautions.

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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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6 Product Design Questions Every B2B Customer Experience Manager Should Be Able To Answer

Daniel Group

'A few weeks ago, I was reading through several thousand voice-of-the-customer (VoC) comments we’d gathered for a client 1 when I was stopped in my tracks by a quote. The customer told us that while he preferred a competitor’s product, he’d purchased our client’s product instead because he preferred the experience he’d had with our client’s sales representative.

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5 Things You Must Know About Your Customer For Success

Amity

5 Things You Must Know About Your Customer For Success. Thanks to an article authored by Douglas Burdett, I not only discovered the 5 things I must know about my buyer persona to generate leads , but I was also introduced to Adele Revella, the Buyer Persona Institute and an incredible wealth of education and knowledge found on their website and blog.

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The Next Generation of Banking

InMoment XI

The banking industry is operating in a changing environment as its customer base evolves from older, traditional users to a younger, technology-driven generation. To address this changing landscape, national/regional and community banks must be willing to make the necessary investments to keep pace with technological advances and be prepared for changing expectations.

Banking 200
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Does customer behavior speak louder than words?

Arie Goldshlager

I found this note on “ Don’t listen to what your customers say, watch how they behave ” by Rita Gunther McGrath very thought-provoking. Please note particularly: “I am often asked by companies with whom I work whether focus groups, surveys or customer panels are useful in learning what customers want and more importantly, what they will pay for.

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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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Customer Experience Q&A With Carl Mogridge, Head of Digital, Australia & New Zealand, Avon Products, Inc.

Forrester's Customer Insights

'For many organizations, the digital journey is full of potential roadblocks. Successful organizations excel at overcoming traditional operational practices, approaches, and mindsets to enable change. For a well-known global brand like Avon, embracing an omnichannel approach to customer engagement was essential to continue thriving in a digital world.

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Five Key Physical Security Trends to Watch

Customer Interactions

'Dr. Bob Banerjee, Sr. Director of Training and Development, NICE Systems Sunil Jose, Product Manager - Operations Surveillance, Baker Hughes Steve Tangert, Associate Product Marketing Manager Bosch Security Systems, Inc. What are some of the hot button trends shaping the security industry? Some may surprise you. Take for example video. Historically, the most common way that organizations used video forensically was after an incident took place.

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Forget Ambush Marketing: Who are the Ninja Brand Assassins?

InMoment XI

A long time ago, lost in the mists of time, a story was told of assassins who crept up on unsuspecting victims, stole their identity and crept back into the night. I once posed a disruptive theory that a competitor brand could almost pretend to be another brand and give such an awful experience that customers.

Brands 200
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Social Media Presence vs. Social Media Customer Care

Brad Cleveland Blog

According to ICMI’s recent research report The Normalization of Social Customer Care, 73% of organizations report having a social media presence, but only 39% formally support it as a customer care channel. That leaves 34% of organizations with a presence, but without customer care for social media. Is your organization part of the 34%? If so, check out this video.

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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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Partner on the Journey to Customer Obsession – New Independent Report Cites Strativity Cultural Transformation Expertise

Strativity

Hackensack, NJ (PRWEB) August 14, 2014. Strativity Group, a global customer experience transformation firm, is listed in the August 2014 Forrester Research, Inc. report, Market Overview: Where To Get Help With Culture Transformation. The report states that “Strativity executes complex customer experience transformations.”. The report highlights Strativity’s Experience 360 tool and a client case study.

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Forget Ambush Marketing: Who are the Ninja Brand Assassins?

InMoment XI

A long time ago, lost in the mists of time, a story was told of assassins who crept up on unsuspecting victims, stole their identity and crept back into the night. I once posed a disruptive theory that a competitor brand could almost pretend to be another brand and give such an awful experience that customers.

Brands 200
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Forget Ambush Marketing: Who are the Ninja Brand Assassins?

InMoment XI

A long time ago, lost in the mists of time, a story was told of assassins who crept up on unsuspecting victims, stole their identity and crept back into the night. I once posed a disruptive theory that a competitor brand could almost pretend to be another brand and give such an awful experience that customers.

Brands 200