Sat.Jan 03, 2015 - Fri.Jan 09, 2015

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Desperately Seeking Human

InMoment XI

So, let’s play a game. I’ll call it “What Do These Customer Experience Wins Have in Common?” Here goes: Customer Experience Win #1: After a storm claim debacle with our insurance company, our agent made the seemingly impossible business save by providing empathy for the claim denial, creatively finding us repair funds, and garnering us.

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8 CX Trends for 2015 (The Year of the Employee)

Experience Matters

'It’s once again the time of year for me to publish my CX trends. In my post last year, I named 2014 “ The Year of Empathy.” With this post, I’m declaring 2015 “ The Year of the Employee.”. We’ve recently seen a surge in the number of companies looking to build more customer-centric cultures and train their people on CX. Voice of the employee efforts are becoming an integral component of modern voice of the customer programs.

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Destructive Leadership Practices: Is Your CEO in Denial?

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

'The following is a Best of 360Connext post. We have a saying around here. We only work with “enlightened leaders.” I started saying that after a particularly challenging consulting exercise. I was working with a growing technology company. They had a lot of great things going for them. New revenue, lots of press and attention and a very successful new product rollout had all happened just before we worked together.

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2015 Trends in Customer Service

Who's Your Gladys?

'New realities have emerged over the past year, revealing what we can expect of customer service in 2015. As a new year begins, before you consider how these trends apply to your business, take a minute to notice these three things: What went right in.

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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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Loyal Customers, or Just Trapped?

InMoment XI

I am lucky enough to spend a lot of time working with great business leaders in the healthcare industry. We spend our time together looking at customer situations, devising market strategies, bringing customer line of sight to employees and building profit-making approaches to loyalty and growth. Surprisingly, many of the health insurers with whom I.

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Customer Experience Undercover: What Is Mystery Shopping?

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

'The following is a Best of 360Connext post. Who needs mystery shoppers? You do. If you sell anything to anyone, you would do yourself a world of good by enlisting mystery shoppers (sometimes called secret shoppers) into your customer insights mix. But I have a specific beef with the standard way mystery shopping works. But, first, let’s talk about what it is v. what it should be.

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Look Back to Look Forward

CX Journey

'Image courtesy of Gerard Fritz It''s that time of the year again. Pundits are making their predictions about customer experience, marketing, and more: what''s the next big thing coming in the new year and what should everyone be focusing on. As you know, these predictions are made every year, late in the year and as the calendar rolls over into the new year.

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Selecting the “Right” Core Customer Metric

InMoment XI

Selecting the “right” core customer metric is one of the most critical challenges organizations face as they attempt build an effective Voice of the Customer (VoC) program.

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Does Your Apology Mean Anything to Your Customer?

Customer Bliss

'Remember when you were a kid and your brother or sister punched or pinched you? Sure, he or she apologized but it didn’t mean much. Why? (a) Your parent was usually prompting the words. (b) You received an apology too many times before, just to be punched again another day. Apologies to customers get tossed about just as freely when things go wrong.

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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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How To Expand Your C-Suite Without Creating New Silos

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

'The following is a Best of 360Connext post. The titles at the highest levels of business used to be simple. CEO. COO. Then came the CTO and the CMO. And now there is much overlap and confusion over who does what , exactly? As more companies enlist the titles of Chief Customer Officer and Chief Digital Officer, the convergence becomes ever more interesting.

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"Be Positive" is Not a Strategy

CX Journey

'Image courtesy of Will S. Have you ever felt like the picture to the left describes your workplace? Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. -Thomas Jefferson When I was in sports in high school, I was told that a positive mental attitude was everything - you can''t win without it.

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Desperately Seeking Human

InMoment XI

So, let’s play a game. I’ll call it “What Do These Customer Experience Wins Have in Common?” Here goes: Customer Experience Win #1: After a storm claim debacle with our insurance company, our agent made the seemingly impossible business save by providing empathy for the claim denial, creatively finding us repair funds, and garnering us. View Article.

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Deliver 6-Star Customer Service in a 5-Star World

Win the Customer

'Highly effective and quality service like that delivered by the Ritz-Carlton Hotels is a prime example of organizations that have mastered the art of going above and beyond in the call of service through their innovative service experience. An experience with a team member at the Ritz-Carlton is different in that they will deliver a […].

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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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2015: the Year of Value – Unique

Wired and Dangerous

'Welcome to 2015! We are excited about the sparkling opportunities and shining moments that lay ahead. We believe this year will be remembered in years to come as one in which people in the world of work embraced the spirit of innovative service – consistently providing customers with a unique and unexpected customer experience creation. Value – unique is different from value – added.

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Are You Working for The Right Company?

Beyond Philosophy

'The list of the top 50 Best Places to work in 2015 was published last week by Glassdoor, the career community based in California. Not surprisingly, Google is in the number one spot. Other companies on the list included Southwest Airlines and Disney along with other big brand names. All of these companies have something in common: their employees are happy and engaged with their brand promise and they provide a good Customer Experience.

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Desperately Seeking Human

InMoment XI

So, let’s play a game. I’ll call it “What Do These Customer Experience Wins Have in Common?” Here goes: Customer Experience Win #1: After a storm claim debacle with our insurance company, our agent made the seemingly impossible business save by providing empathy for the claim denial, creatively finding us repair funds, and garnering us.

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6 Opportunities for Proactive Customer Service

Win the Customer

'Customer service is an important facet of any business. Consumers expect a level of responsiveness when they purchase a product. It not only means taking care of the customer at the point of sale, but before, during and after the transaction is executed. Based on surveys conducted by Right Now and Harris Interactive, 89 percent […].

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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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‘Tis the Season to Surprise and Delight

Help.com

This month, instead of spotlighting companies who have given our team members outstanding customer service, we decided to highlight our favorite “surprise and delight” campaigns from the 2014 holiday season. The customer service approach is a great way to humanize your business and show your customers that there are people on the other side of the screen.

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Omnichannel Customer Service with the Human Touch

Customers That Stick

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Authenticity: The #1 Trait of Good (or bad) Customer Experience

InMoment XI

In the spirit of full disclosure and transparency I’ll tell you I generally enjoy eating from time to time at the restaurant chain Red Lobster. While not fine dining, it’s usually enjoyable and more than ‘good-enough’ dining for my taste. That is, until last night. My wife is away traveling on business this week so. View Article.

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Top Brands Are Missing the Social Customer Experience Opportunity

Win the Customer

'78% of top brands today completely ignore their customers online and fail to respond to customer requests on social media channels. Social media offers brands a fantastic opportunity to engage with their customer community and provides an easy channel for enhanced customer experience and customer relationship development today. Most brands today have jumped on board […].

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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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Creating An Effective Call To Action

Joe Rawlinson

'Let’s shoot from the hip here: if any part of your job or business uses the Internet for marketing purposes and you don’t include a Call To Action (or CTA for short), then you’re wasting your time online. You can create the pithiest tweet, the most compelling blog post, the most awesome article, but if you’re trying to win over customers, all of that content is incomplete and ultimately ineffective without a CTA.

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3 Tips for Becoming the Company Every Customer Loves in 2015

Think Customers

'With each passing year, customer expectations become increasingly daunting. Companies find themselves racing to keep pace with the latest strategies and technologies. Yet, often times, the greatest innovators are those who keep things simple. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.

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It’s About Me: Customer Narcissism

InMoment XI

So now that the holidays festivities are over, the dreaded January clean up begins. Shortly after the wrapping paper stopped flying, I spent time in my garage breaking down all of the boxes that came in the mail with our holiday treasures. What was sobering was the sheer volume that came from Amazon. There is. View Article.

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Social Analytics Can Help You Better Address Customers If You’re Willing To Experiment

Forrester

'*This post was originally posted on the Destination CRM Blog. Thanks to digitization and inexpensive storage, businesses can now collect incredible amounts of information on their customers, competitors, and other market factors. But you only profit from this bounty if an employee can find the right data nugget when they need it. And here lies our problem: The average information worker lacks tools to cull disparate data repositories for useful information.

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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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CX people are digital, customers and employees are analog

Heart of the Customer

'There’s been an ongoing discussion on the CXPA’s LinkedIn group around an article listing the most effective journey mapping tools. Tools mentioned were Visio, a presentation tool and a spreadsheet. But this discussion isn’t really just about journey mapping. It goes to the heart of how we communicate with the rest of our organization.

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The Most Memorable Customer Experiences of 2014

Think Customers

'What constitutes a great customer experience? According to The Temkin Group, it''s a combination of three aspects of a customer''s interaction with a company--functionality, accessibility, and emotionality. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.

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Authenticity: The #1 Trait of Good (or bad) Customer Experience

InMoment XI

In the spirit of full disclosure and transparency I’ll tell you I generally enjoy eating from time to time at the restaurant chain Red Lobster. While not fine dining, it’s usually enjoyable and more than ‘good-enough’ dining for my taste. That is, until last night. My wife is away traveling on business this week so.

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