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CXFusion Recap: In Your Own Words

InMoment XI

Customer experience (CX) professionals, business leaders, and research experts gathered in Vegas this week to attend CXFusion. This year’s conference energized a record number of attendees with insights, connections, and tools for building and extending CX programs that deliver hard business results. Did you miss the conference? Here’s a quick recap of what we experienced.

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Three Ideas to Re-Humanize Patient Experience

Experience Matters

I was recently interviewed for an article that discusses a post where Fox News journalist John Stossel describes his experience as a lung cancer patient at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital. First of all, I hope that Stossel’s treatment is successful. And although I don’t fully agree with his analysis of the industry, I do agree with his observation […].

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What can the world of business learn from Leicester City? Why teamwork and togetherness breeds success

ijgolding

I must start this new post by apologising to all Leicester City fans! I really hope that writing about the undeniable success of your club this year will not jinx perhaps the greatest achievement of any sports team EVER… anywhere in the world. However, I do not apologise for taking advantage of an achievement that is so remarkable – and so deserving – that it should become one of the prominent examples to any organisation, in any industry, as to what can be achieved with a lot

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14 Steps to Create the Perfect Live Chat Customer Experience

Kayako

Is your organization looking for ways to improve customer experience on live chats? Perhaps there are new hires in your company who are having a hard time getting to grips with live chats. Are you looking to improve your customer handling time (CHT) on chat? In this post, I’ll share a structured workflow which you and your team can follow when handling live chats.

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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.

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CXFusion 2016 Recap: In Your Own Words

InMoment XI

Customer experience (CX) professionals, business leaders, and research experts gathered in Vegas this week to attend CXFusion. This year’s conference energized a record number of attendees with insights, connections, and tools for building and extending CX programs that deliver hard business results. Did you miss the conference? Here’s a quick recap of what we experienced.

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How to improve listening skills for customer growth

Customer Bliss

Research indicates that, if you want people to listen to you, you typically need four elements taking place: That’s: Authority, or your knowledge and expertise in an area. Empathy, or your ability to connect with others. Collegiality, or your tendency to collaborate and stay transparent. Education, or your background and ‘vetting’ This four-pronged model is based on getting others to listen to you.

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Enhance customer service experience using self-service

Vonage

When I was in college, I worked at a gas station. This was at the time when gas stations were converting from full-service to self-service. Where we previously would pump the gas for the customer as well as wash their windows and check their oil, the new procedure was that they would pump their own gas and we, the employees, would simply collect their money and say “Thank you.”.

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CXFusion Recap: In Your Own Words

InMoment XI

Customer experience (CX) professionals, business leaders, and research experts gathered in Vegas this week to attend CXFusion. This year’s conference energized a record number of attendees with insights, connections, and tools for building and extending CX programs that deliver hard business results. Did you miss the conference? Here’s a quick recap of what we experienced.

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The Hubspot-Dan Lyons saga offers lessons on employee engagement, authenticity and corporate culture

Alida

In a recent article for VentureBeat , Andrew Reid, founder and president of corporate innovation at Vision Critical, steps into the battle between Dan Lyons and Hubspot. The saga between the Silicon Valley writer and the marketing automation software company dominated tech publications this month as Lyons’ new book, Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-up Bubble , was released.

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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 to Manage Multiple Surveys with Salesforce

GetFeedback

There are two main ways to approach managing multiple surveys within Salesforce, and we’ll look at specific use cases that illustrate each one.

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The Secret Customer Service Trick One Landscaper Used To Get My Business

Steve DiGioia

find a way for your customers to make an easy decision to purchase This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. Finding a landscaper to plant some shrubs and flowers in front of your home should be an easy task. One landscaper is pretty much the same as another? Or are they? What makes one landscaper better than another? What’s the secret customer service trick?

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For Car Dealers, Consumer Satisfaction Pays

InMoment XI

Article published in WardsAuto, April 28, 2016 Author: Steve Finlay / WardsAuto There’s little point in dealers striving for high customer-satisfaction scores unless they financially benefit, an auto-retailing insider once noted. “Happy customers alone aren’t strong incentives.” Now, MaritzCX, a customer-experience software and services firm, has done a study gauging moneywise how much customer treatment.

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What Can You Do to Reduce Customer Effort Today?

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

I have a question for you today. Think about how much effort you exert every day. You have responsibilities. You work hard, you care about the results you get, and you are a leader in a professional sense. You also have the regular responsibilities of life. You have to eat, take care of yourself, do […]. The post What Can You Do to Reduce Customer Effort Today?

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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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Is it time to become a Customer ‘LUD-ite’ – guest post by Stephen Hewett

ijgolding

It is always a huge pleasure and often humbling for me to meet fellow Customer Experience Professionals. As well as being remarkably reassuring that I am not the only customer focused ‘nutcase’, I learn a considerable amount too! I am delighted to be able to share with you the musings of one such man – Stephen Hewett has been there, seen it and most certainly done it in the world of Customer Experience.

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How Liberty Mutual Engaged the C-Suite & Built their Customer Room, With Chief Customer Officer Margie Dillon – CB2

Customer Bliss

Episode Overview. In this episode, I speak with Margie Dillon, the EVP and Chief Customer Officer for Liberty Mutual , about her unusual path from Chief Financial Officer to Chief Customer Officer. We discussed her very deliberate path to engage the C-Suite and the specific actions that did and did not work. And she shared her “tipping point” where leaders began to personally engage, and how she used that commitment to build a 130-person company-wide cross functional team.

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For Car Dealers, Consumer Satisfaction Pays

InMoment XI

Article published in WardsAuto, April 28, 2016 Author: Steve Finlay / WardsAuto There’s little point in dealers striving for high customer-satisfaction scores unless they financially benefit, an auto-retailing insider once noted. “Happy customers alone aren’t strong incentives.” Now, MaritzCX, a customer-experience software and services firm, has done a study gauging moneywise how much customer treatment.

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Guest Post: Springtime Renewal in the Contact Center

Calabrio

Springtime is traditionally a time of renewal, refreshment and rebirth. We think about spring cleaning our homes, offices, cars and anywhere else we have spent a lot of time during the long and often gloomy winter days. And now that spring has sprung we see flowers in bloom, hear birds singing once again, and look forward to spending time learning about our new contact center software and solutions.

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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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The Key to Performance Management Success

NICE inContact

Setting goals can be challenging at any level of the organization. Contact center professionals are asked to balance costs with quality, service and the increasing demand across new channels. While each contact center’s goals vary depending on factors like size, location, line of business, or present technology, these goal setting principles can work across many different situations.

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When Customer Loyalty Goes Missing, What Should You Do Next?

Who's Your Gladys?

Customer loyalty is important for a successful business. And when you move mountains to make customers happy, you expect them to reward you with ongoing business, right? But what happens when a loyal customer isn’t so loyal? When they give their business to a competitor. The post When Customer Loyalty Goes Missing, What Should You Do Next? appeared first on Who's Your Gladys?

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For Car Dealers, Consumer Satisfaction Pays

InMoment XI

Article published in WardsAuto, April 28, 2016 [link] Author: Steve Finlay / WardsAuto There’s little point in dealers striving for high customer-satisfaction scores unless they financially benefit, an auto-retailing insider once noted. “Happy customers alone aren’t strong incentives.” Now, MaritzCX, a customer-experience software and services firm, has done a study gauging moneywise how much customer.

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How to Hack Customer Empathy Like an Apple Store Genius

Comm100

“Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves.” – Steve Jobs. A few years back, the internet erupted when the people at Gizmodo got their hands on the copy of the Apple’s Genius Training Manual. While the article was rife with criticism towards the iconic company’s training tactics, it’s worth noting that Apple is generally categorized into the upper echelon of excellence in customer service.

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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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Being a “Yes and” Person in a “No but” World

Michelli Experience

About 20 years ago I had a rather transformative experience while pursuing a hobby. I didn’t suspect that the class I was embarking upon would have such broad impact on my life. As a professional speaker, I envisioned possible stage benefits from learning improvisational comedy skills but I hadn’t appreciated the benefits that improv training would provide me in my role as a leader or as a consultant charged with helping organizations increase the quality of experiences they provided to their cu

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Customer Experience Design in 7 Minutes

Storyminers

How much can you learn about the present and the future Customer Experience Design in 7 minutes? Find out by reading an interview I did with Marketforce 20/20, a European Union producer of customer experience conferences. In it, you’ll find practical info to help you with your own customer experience designs and answers to these […]. The post Customer Experience Design in 7 Minutes appeared first on Mike Wittenstein.

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Unique Challenges of B2B CX

InMoment XI

Over the past 10 years or so, I have seen the shift around the client experience. It was at one time, a nice to have, a check the box, but with an ever-increasing global marketplace forcing a shift in how companies view and evaluate their client experience, it has evolved into a must have ! Personally. View Article.

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Have Your Journey Maps Failed You?

CX Journey

Image courtesy of GMC Software Have you gone through some journey mapping exercises, only to find that the maps don't deliver what they experts said they would? Have your maps failed you? What happened? Did you pick a scenario, put some paper on the wall, distribute Post-It Notes, and tell people to start writing down the steps to for said scenario?

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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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End Your Customer’s Experience on a High Note

Heart of the Customer

In his terrific book X: The Experience When Business Meets Design, Brian Solis argues persuasively for ending your customer’s journey on a high note. Excellent advice, but not often followed. The importance of starting strong is well-known—websites begin with a striking visual, stores focus on greeting customers as they come in. But what about the […].

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It Takes a Country to Deliver Great Service!

Wired and Dangerous

Customers are different today! Their expectations have increased over 33% in the last 12 months! They have raised the bar on how they view customer experience. They are looking for service providers who consistently deliver service experiences that drive loyalty! Service providers focused on delivering GREAT service! The kind of service that takes the customers’ breath away!

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Unique Challenges of B2B CX

InMoment XI

Over the past 10 years or so, I have seen the shift around the client experience. It was at one time, a nice to have, a check the box, but with an ever-increasing global marketplace forcing a shift in how companies view and evaluate their client experience, it has evolved into a must have ! Personally.

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