Sat.Oct 31, 2015 - Fri.Nov 06, 2015

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The Data Privacy Challenge – Is Your CX Program Ready?

InMoment XI

Two very divergent trends are coming to a head, which could potentially change the way the industry does business. On one hand, CX programs and customer needs are more targeted towards a dialogue with the individual customer. On the other hand, personal data and data-protection regulations are becoming more restrictive. This collision means businesses are.

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Report: 2015 Temkin Experience Ratings of Tech Vendors

Experience Matters

We just published a Temkin Group report 2015 Temkin Experience Ratings of Tech Vendors that rates the customer experience of 62 large tech vendors based on a survey of 800 IT decision makers from large North American firms. This is the fourth year of the ratings, here are links to the 2012 , 2013 , and 2014 ratings. Here is the executive summary of the report: The 2015 Temkin Experience Ratings of Tech Vendors evaluates the customer experience of 62 large technology vendors.

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Customer Service: Listening Beats the Checklist Every Time

Steve DiGioia

Guest Post by Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™ This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. Today’s guest post is by Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™, Founder & President CAS, Inc. She uses real life stories to ignite true customer focus, and here is her story. You can’t have a discussion about customer service without customers stressing the importance of listening.

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Sports Lessons – How to Turn Customers into Fans

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

For those of us who are sports fans (cough cough, Go Cubs!) it’s sometimes weird to hear about our beloved teams as “products.” This term is thrown around a lot by team owners who fight with cities over stadiums and parking lots. In the last few months, I’ve had the privilege of getting an up-close […]. The post Sports Lessons – How to Turn Customers into Fans appeared first on Customer Experience Consulting.

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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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Don’t Know Option in Surveys

InMoment XI

Your respondents might know more than you think. Including a “don’t know” option in a survey is an issue that is currently under speculation. The “don’t know” option can be explicit, as shown with the scale, or it can be implicit by the use of skip patterns within a survey. It’s a powerful option to.

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Here’s How to Keep Customers Coming Back for More

Steve DiGioia

it's really not that difficult This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. A long-term repeat customer is the goal of every business, one who continues to purchase from you time and time again. But what is it that keeps them coming back? Is it low prices, a continual stream of coupons, loyalty programs, or late night operating hours? These are all good ways to attract a customer, but are these enough reasons to gain their trust and make them truly loyal?

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How a Company Reacts to a Crisis Says a Lot About its Customer Centricity

C3Centricity

In the UK, there was a recent, highly publicised “significant and sustained cyber-attack“ on the Telecom company Talk Talk’s website. According to the news as I write this, it seems that a fifteen (!!!) year old Irish lad and a 16-year-old Brit may be responsible. They might have been able to steal information such as [.]. The post How a Company Reacts to a Crisis Says a Lot About its Customer Centricity appeared first on C3Centricity.

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Improving Auto CX by Experiencing the CX

InMoment XI

As I mentioned last week, we’re in the market for a car. As the shopping saga continues, an amazing thing is happening. If you’ve been in the industry for a long time, you tend to think you know everything. There’s nothing new and there are no new lessons to be learned. How wrong that thinking.

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A Great Customer Experience Isn't Enough

CX Journey

Today I'm pleased to share a guest post by Denise Lee Yohn. To excel in customer experience, you can't just rely on good design and solid execution. Your customer experience shouldn't just be great -- it should also be differentiated. Customer experience has evolved just as product and service did. Time was, all you needed was a good quality product.

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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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Join the webinar: Weathering the storm of crisis communications

Kayako

The founders of Sorry ™ will be joining us on November 11 to present a webinar on how to prepare your company to weather a storm of customer complaints. The Q&A will be led by Kayako’s Head of Support Sarah Chambers, and you’ll have the chance to win one of two Small Business accounts with Sorry™! Sign up for the webinar now. Did you hear about the TalkTalk data hack last week?

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Gaining Leadership Commitment is Your First CX Competency Milestone

Customer Bliss

Your work will be successful when you take a stair-stepped approach to gaining leadership clarity and commitment to the CX competency framework. As you embed the five competencies, over time, what your company stands for will shift. Starting with the lives of customers and employees will drive decision-making and elevate how your company is perceived.

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Moments of Truth: Retaining Customers Through the Frontline

InMoment XI

Katy Churches, manager of CX at American Family Insurance, discusses the importance of moments of truth in retaining your customer base.

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Saying Goodbye: 5 Rules for Ending Your Live Chat Sessions

Comm100

You’ve been there before. You go to your favorite shop and you happily make your way over to the register to make your purchase. But despite your cheery demeanor, the cashier’s not smiling back. You can feel the smile slide off your face as he stares back at you with dead eyes, like he’s looking through you. You leave the store doors defeated, receipt in hand, and you wonder why something so small like that bothered you.

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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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Empower Employees to Increase Productivity

CX Journey

Image courtesy of hattie.burgher I originally wrote today's post for Intradiem.It appeared on their blog on May 21, 2015. When we empower employees, does that impact their productivity? Employee empowerment is one of those phrases that often causes people to groan. Is it just another piece of employee lingo or a catch phrase? No, absolutely not. It's an important concept to both reducing employee effort and increasing employee engagement.

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Mapping the Maturity of Your Customer-Driven Growth Engine

Customer Bliss

The five competencies of your customer-driven growth engine are comprised of a series of actions and decisions that impact both the operation of your business and its cultural disposition. Over time, the customer experience competencies will move from being disruptive to part of business as usual. In this evolution, leadership and employee behavior will mature from requiring facilitation to natural collaboration once skill sets have become embedded throughout the organization.

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Dr. Gary Rhoads: Listening to the Voice of the Customer

InMoment XI

Dr. Gary Rhoads, co-founder of Allegiance, discusses the importance of creating an environment where your customers feel smarter after having an interaction with your frontline employees.

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8 Reasons Why You Need a Live Chat Script

Comm100

Would you accuse a play of being bad just because the actors used a script? Of course not. The same should apply to a quality customer service chat. Sure, it’s a little different from theater–you are responding to a customer’s immediate questions and needs, and not just providing entertainment. But a successful live chat script is like a play with a choose-your-own-adventure twist.

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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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What My Boss Taught Me about Leadership

Beyond Philosophy

Let me set the scene. My career was plateauing. I had done well, but things had started to get a bit stale. Then, I had a meeting/interview with Neil Hobbs. Neil would have the biggest impact on my professional life. Neil had a reputation of being a tough boss. He set high standards and expected people to achieve them. He didn’t suffer fools gladly.

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Episode 10 – Would Your Business Survive If You Doubled Your Sales in One Year? - Transforming the Customer Experience

Kristina Evey

Everyone dreams of more customers, more sales, more profits. But would your business survive that growth? This podcast walks you through the dream of growth and helps you take a hard look at the areas you need to consider focusing on to be sure you grow effectively and don’t ever hear from your customers… “They grew so fast they forgot about me. So I left and found a company that cares.”.

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Don’t Know Option in Surveys

InMoment XI

Your respondents might know more than you think. Including a “don’t know” option in a survey is an issue that is currently under speculation. The “don’t know” option can be explicit, as shown with the scale, or it can be implicit by the use of skip patterns within a survey. It’s a powerful option to.

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Negativity Bias and Customer Service

Customers That Stick

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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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6 Customer Service Support Lines That Scream ‘Robot!’

Win the Customer

In today’s customer-centric world, empathy, efficiency and sincerity in customer communications is non-negotiable. We’ve heard them all – from, “Thank you for being a valued customer” to “I understand your frustration.” Traditional, scripted support lines are not only sound inhuman, but they tend to upset customers even further.In today’s customer-centric world, support should still carry […].

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More Cloud Stuff (Links To A Great, Long Interview)

Esteban Kolsky

I wrote last week about a framework to have better cloud discussions. I said two things: it took me over a year to be able to write that short piece (which is true), and I will write many more things along those lines. I also did an interview with an old colleague of mine who is now the CMO at Logikcull. Started as a short discussion on industry cloud – but ended up being a full-on discussion on cloud concepts and misconceptions.

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Don’t Know Option in Surveys

InMoment XI

Your respondents might know more than you think. Including a “don’t know” option in a survey is an issue that is currently under speculation. The “don’t know” option can be explicit, as shown with the scale, or it can be implicit by the use of skip patterns within a survey. It’s a powerful option to.

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Six Steps to Best-in-Class Customer Experience

SuiteCX

The Customer Experience (CX) ?eld is growing, and companies are realizing that it makes clear business sense. For companies that practice CX, MarketsandMarkets.com predicts a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17.3% from 2014 to 2019. But how do you ensure the investment you place in CX will be well spent?

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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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From Millennial to Alpha: Adapting for the Next-Generation Customer

Win the Customer

Millennials and Alphas are beginning enter into they period buying power. From boomers to alphas, the changing customer base signals the need for business owners to adapt and implement new marketing strategies. Over the last century, statisticians and researchers have organized age groups into cohorts that seem to carry buying and value trends. In population and workforce representation, […].

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Do You Offer a Service Guarantee?

Wired and Dangerous

Lifetime warranties are a common feature of the product world. They essentially say, “we guarantee that the object you bought will work as long as you own it. If the product ever fails, we promise to replace it or repair it to your satisfaction.” Lifetime warranties, as opposed to limited warranties, are designed to be bold statements communicating confidence in a product.

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Improving Auto CX by Experiencing the CX

InMoment XI

If we want to improve the customer experience, we have to go through the customer experience. As I mentioned last week, my wife and I are in the market for a car. As the shopping saga continues, an amazing thing is happening. If you’ve been in the industry for a long time, you tend to think. View Article.

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