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How a Potentially Positive CX Experience Turned Into a CX Rollercoaster Ride

InMoment XI

As I was wrapping up my workday on Friday afternoon, I got a call from my cable company which also provides my internet service. “Mr. Selinger, we’re calling all of our customers with 50 megabyte internet speed and offering our 100 megabyte package.” Me, skeptically: “Are you saying it’s a free upgrade, or would.

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Customer Relationships and Moments That Matter

CX Journey

Image courtesy of Corporate Traveller Are you challenged at developing lasting relationships with your customers? I was recently sent a copy of KPMG Nunwood's report titled B2B Customer Experience: Winning the Moments That Matter. The report is filled with some great nuggets, but I latched on to the phases of relationship connection and moments that matter.

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Navigating Generational Differences in the Contact Center Workforce

BlueOcean

What makes a great contact center agent isn’t as easy to define as you might expect. Yes, they need to be great communicators and they need to have the chops to navigate call center systems and software in their sleep, but the best skills and personality traits differ from agent to agent, depending on the brand, the type of customer service, and the specific support channel.

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Everything you need to know about the consumer of 2017

Vonage

The days of winning over your customers’ hearts and minds based solely on the quality of your product or service are over. In the digital age, prices and products are easily imitated. This leaves delivering a speedy, personalized and friendly customer experience as the best way to differentiate your business from its competitors. To help arm you with the information needed to thrive in this competitive environment, here are 10 stats that tell you everything you need to know about today’s consume

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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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How a Potentially Positive CX Experience Turned Into a CX Rollercoaster Ride

InMoment XI

As I was wrapping up my workday on Friday afternoon, I got a call from my cable company which also provides my internet service. “Mr. Selinger, we’re calling all of our customers with 50 megabyte internet speed and offering our 100 megabyte package.” Me, skeptically: “Are you saying it’s a free upgrade, or would. View Article.

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The cost of NOT focussing on Customer Experience

ijgolding

Last night, I received an email from a good friend of mine asking for my input into a question they had been asked by the senior leadership team of their organisation. The question was as follows: What value has our business experienced as a result of all the Customer Experience (CX) work that has been done? They are not the first senior leadership team of a company to ask a question along these lines – they are very unlikely to be the last.

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Customer Experience Leads to Recommendations (Charts For 20 Industries)

Experience Matters

If you want customers to recommend your company, make sure they have a good experience. In this post, I share data and analysis showing how customer experience correlates to customer recommendations across 20 industries. At the bottom of this post we’ve assembled a number of industry-specific data charts that you can download and use. In the […].

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How Many Stages Should be in Your Customer Journey Map?

InMoment XI

You may have read our previous blog about the basics of customer journey mapping. Now we are going to answer the commonly asked question of how many stages should be in your map. The Basic Approach There are various ways to approach defining your map structure, and it depends on what you are trying to achieve. When building. View Article.

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Expert Interview Series: Mike Wittenstein of Storyminers About the Importance of Storytelling in Business

Storyminers

This interview was conducted by John Mattone and first appeared February 7, 2017 on JohnMattone.com. Mike Wittenstein advises leaders on how changes to their customer experiences can positively transform their brand narratives and their bottom lines. He is the managing partner at Storyminers , a design pioneer, and a developer of unique methods and tools for enhancing front-line customer experiences.

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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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What does customer relationship *really* mean to you?

Alida

Most companies know what their customers buy, when they purchase and where. But few truly understand why those customers buy—why customers choose to have a relationship with companies to begin with. Business leaders need to step back and more clearly define what customer relationships mean to them. A clearer understanding of customer relationships helps align the tools a company uses with the strategy it is pursuing.

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One Piece of Customer Communication that Fails to Delight

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Customers hear from you regularly. Right? As you dwell on how often you actually connect with a customer (once a week? once every few months? never?) I want to remind you of one simple fact. Your customers, if they are truly customers, pay you regularly. They probably receive an invoice of some sort, even if […]. The post One Piece of Customer Communication that Fails to Delight appeared first on Customer Experience Consulting.

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How Many Stages Should be in Your Customer Journey Map?

InMoment XI

You may have read our previous blog about the basics of customer journey mapping. Now we are going to answer the commonly asked question of how many stages should be in your map. The Basic Approach There are various ways to approach defining your map structure, and it depends on what you are trying to achieve. When building. View Article.

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Expert Interview Series: Mike Wittenstein of Storyminers About the Importance of Storytelling in Business

Storyminers

This interview was conducted by John Mattone and first appeared February 7, 2017 on JohnMattone.com. Mike Wittenstein advises leaders on how changes to their customer experiences can positively transform their brand narratives and their bottom lines. He is the managing partner at Storyminers , a design pioneer, and a developer of unique methods and tools for enhancing front-line customer experiences.

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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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The Chief Customer Officer Role in Media, With Robert Bridge of Telegraph Media Group – CB39

Customer Bliss

Episode Overview. Media is a business vertical that is beginning to engage CX leaders. The New York Times has a leader of Customer Experience (who we will soon be interviewing), and I was pleased to see that the UK is also embracing this role. Robert Bridge is the Chief Customer Officer of Telegraph Media Company — a role which he came to after many years building up to this role from digital roles across multiple industries, including Yahoo.

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Customer Service Skills: What You Need To Master

Omnicus

In this post, we will dive deeper into the realm of customer service and explore some specific skills. Our last post detailed how to talk to customers, and included points on attitude control and willingness to solve problems. Now, we will look at three vital “skills” that when coupled with the above, will ensure a fantastic customer experience, every time. 1 Learn to listen This may seem like an obvious point.

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How Many Stages Should be in Your Customer Journey Map?

InMoment XI

You may have read our previous blog about the basics of customer journey mapping. Now we are going to answer the commonly asked question of how many stages should be in your map. The Basic Approach There are various ways to approach defining your map structure, and it depends on what you are trying to achieve. When building.

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Creating a Case Closed CSAT Workflow with Salesforce

GetFeedback

Measuring customer service quality with Salesforce is crucial, and you can do it seamlessly with a case closed CSAT survey workflow in Service Cloud.

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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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Surveys Results are Great, but What About the “Untold” Feedback?

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Consistently gathering customer feedback is a great way to see patterns around satisfaction, loyalty and other key performance indicators, but some of the most valuable information hides beyond typical survey results. There are important questions customers would love to answer for you, should you ever happen to ask! There are answers they want to give you, […].

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The Gift of Gab: How To Talk And Be Nice To Customers

Omnicus

Customer service is a skill. Some industry veterans may even argue that it is an art, similar to sales. Whatever the case, like any skill it requires time, experience, and an unwavering dedication. Learning how to speak to your customers and how to be nice to your customers is vital. Following the above commitments will lead to superior customer service.

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Report: State of the CX Profession, 2017

Experience Matters

We just published a Temkin Group report, State of the CX Profession, 2017. This is the fifth year that we’ve examined the roles of CX professionals and the third year that we’ve done a compensation study. Here’s the executive summary: To understand the mindset and roles of customer experience professionals today, we surveyed 237 CX professionals and then compared […].

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Memes to explain the connected customer

Vonage

I’m a millennial. This isn’t a confession, just a fact. And as a millennial, I enjoy an insider perspective. Every year, for the past few decades, market experts have speculated on the wants, needs and desires of the millennial generation. Consider me the status quo. I tend to embody the average millennial in many ways – my love of social media, my overzealous emoji use, my pref for abbreviated vernacular…. … And Salesforce’s State of the Connected Customer report hit the nail on the head.

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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 Story: Clearlink Maximizes Service Levels with inContact

NICE inContact

Customer Story: Clearlink Maximizes Service Levels with inContact. Clearlink provides marketing technology and customer acquisition services to large national brands such as Dish, Verizon, AT&T, CenturyLink and Progressive. With their contact center playing a critical business role, Clearlink needed a powerful portfolio of cloud-based contact center solutions.

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A micro-case study in CX: CoSchedule

Customer Bliss

I blog ( and podcast ) a lot around customer experience, and I’m usually on the go working with clients or at conferences/speeches/etc. Sometimes, though, a micro-case study in customer experience drops right into my lap. This can happen at airports (actually often happens at airports based on how the brands are interacting with harried travelers) or other random places.

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Understanding Patient Feedback: A guide for Healthcare Professionals

Feedback

Healthcare providers often learn how they’re doing directly from their patients in person. Body language, facial expressions, and even verbal communication give doctors a (generally) good idea of how their patients are doing and how they view the care they’re receiving. But… how can physicians know what their patients are really thinking? And how can doctors use that information to better their skills and their practice’s performance?

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Digital Strategy: 5 Best Practices to Improve Customer Service

Uniphore

Digital Strategy: 5 Best Practices to Improve Customer Service. Today’s digital landscape has ushered in a new age in customer service. As companies use digital interfaces to engage with customers and build relationships, customer interactions are spanning across an ever-expanding array of touch points, with customers often using various channels in the quest to get the service that they need when they need it.

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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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How U.S. Bank Successfully Keeps Track of Reviews

ReviewTrackers

Whether it’s in the form of a detailed review on Google, an overall star rating on Credit Karma or Lending Tree, personalized recommendations on MyBankTracker, or a candid comment on Facebook, the opinions, experiences, and feedback shared by banking customers have the power to influence the behavior of those shopping for banking and financial products.

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Are You Listening for Customer Discontent?

Wired and Dangerous

Sitting by the window on the top floor of a high-rise Dallas hotel provides an amazing panoramic view. Weather becomes up close and personal. We watched a major rain storm crawl across the distant plains and deliver a hard punch to downtown Dallas streets. It sent pedestrians scurrying for cover. Cars slowed to a snail’s pace; streets gorged with torrents quickly looked more like a river than a freeway.

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How Are You Helping Your Customers Self-Confirm the Sale?

ShepHyken

Just imagine if you were the Director of Sales for a private jet company. Would that be a dream job? Jordan Zabel deals with high-end customers who expect high-end customer service because he is the Director of Sales for Jet Linx , a private jet company that offers their services to corporate and private members. As you might imagine, anyone that can afford to fly in a private jet has very discerning taste. and often along with it, sky-high expectations.

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