Avaya

APRIL 10, 2019

This blog is authored by Robin Gareiss, President and Founder, of Nemertes Research. Ms. Gareiss leads Nemertes Digital Transformation research. She also is a widely recognized expert in the communications field, with specialty areas of VOIP/UC, collaboration, and managed/hosted/cloud communications services. IT and business leaders rate Artificial Intelligence (AI) as the No. 2 technology they expect to transform Digital Customer Experience (DCX), behind customer success analytics tools.

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Survicate

APRIL 10, 2019

We all remember those massive notebooks where guests and customers would leave their impressions and comments based on their experience when they’d visit a store or stay in a hotel. They were seen almost exclusively by the staff of the store/hotel in question, or by other visitors at best, when they took a moment to compare what others have experienced in the very same place.

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Social Media Customer Experience Hotels Effort Score 40

VDS

APRIL 8, 2019

Successful companies make it a strategic priority to retain customers because they know retention has a significant impact on their bottom line. When considering a company’s assets and liabilities, customers should be viewed as the greatest ‘asset’, and diligent work and time should be dedicated to making sure losing customers doesn’t hold much weight on the liability side of the balance sheet.

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GetFeedback

APRIL 8, 2019

The question of what is a good NPS score is popular among brands who value customer experience. A Net Promoter Score, or NPS, has become a necessary customer experience metric. In fact, an estimated 65% of companies track NPS scores , making it the most coveted customer experience metric measured by companies. Your NPS score is based on customers responding to one question: “How likely are you to recommend us to a friend or colleague?”.

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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.

Data

Kristina Evey

APRIL 10, 2019

Customer Experience is based on customer feedback and engagement. With the presence of review sites such as Yelp, TripAdvisor, and … Read More To Respond or Not Respond to Customer Feedback – That is the CX Question. The post To Respond or Not Respond to Customer Feedback – That is the CX Question appeared first on Kristina Evey.

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Customer Bliss

APRIL 12, 2019

Are you responsible for building an entirely new customer experience path for your organization? Monica Whiting , Vice President of Customer Experience at TECO energy , shares tactics and plans to help you strategize short-term and long-term goals for CX, regardless of your industry. TECO is a utility company that provides electric and natural gas services in Tampa, Florida, and gas services across the state of Florida.

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GetFeedback

APRIL 8, 2019

Buyer personas are often created on instinct instead of data. And let’s be honest, that doesn’t improve the customer experience. In some cases, buyer personas limit you to targeting one or two types of people, ignoring the different stages of the buyer cycle entirely. In fact, 60-70% of B2B marketers admit they don’t understand their buyers, which is exactly what buyer personas are designed to do.

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NICE inContact

APRIL 11, 2019

Today’s customers are digitally savvy, more demanding and expect instant service. Contact centers face a constant challenge in managing customer expectations. . Here are some key customer expectations and some tips towards managing them . Save my time – Have your customers spend less time on wait times by providing a self-service option where the use case is best suited.

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CX Journey

APRIL 10, 2019

Image courtesy of Pixabay I originally wrote today's post for CallidusCloud; it appeared on their blog on October 1, 2018. As I sat down to write this month's post, I reflected on several conversations I had this week that were tied together with a common thread: common VoC program mistakes. I started to reflect on what was said and then began jotting down a list that grew much longer than I thought it would!

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Customers

Kristina Evey

APRIL 9, 2019

Shownotes… Transformational Leadership for Customer Experience Success Truly understanding and embracing the CX and EX is essential for long-lasting business … Read More Episode 46 – Transformational Customer Experience Leadership. The post Episode 46 – Transformational Customer Experience Leadership appeared first on Kristina Evey.

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GetFeedback

APRIL 8, 2019

Try these deep audience research methods to uncover who your audience truly is and what they want. Only then can you give users the experiences they crave.

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NICE inContact

APRIL 8, 2019

Greeting customers. Aaaaah, that crucial first impression and what to do with it. Before we get started with the how, what, and why, let’s take a step back… Ask yourself, what is your sole purpose in your contact center? To make your customer happy? To drive revenue? The answer to this question should be a cornerstone to drive home the importance of the customers experience from the moment they connect with your company – over any channel!

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 8, 2019

Whenever I talk about Customer Experience with audiences, I begin by explaining that customers do not buy things rationally. Customers buy things emotionally and then justify the purchase with logic. Irrationality and data don’t mix. However, there are ways that people’s irrational behavior reveals a rational pattern in the data. Let’s take a look at actionable insights about people’s irrational behavior as customers and the importance of the human touch in a digital transformation.

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Communication

ShepHyken

APRIL 10, 2019

One of our Shepard Letter subscribers, who asked to remain anonymous, recently shared a story worth telling. To protect him from the backlash he’s concerned about, we’ll change his name to “protect the innocent,” as the saying goes, just in case someone from his company reads this. So, we’ll just refer to him as Bob. As part of his onboarding process, Bob was put through customer service training.

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GetFeedback

APRIL 8, 2019

Try these deep audience research methods to uncover who your audience truly is and what they want. Only then can you give users the experiences they crave.

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NICE inContact

APRIL 9, 2019

“This call may be used for quality or training purposes…” Have you ever wondered about that notification when you call a business? While it’s easy to disregard, it reveals a common business practice: Call Quality Monitoring – a practice contact centers use to review and evaluate the quality of their agents’ interactions with customers. While call monitoring may be performed live at times, it isn’t feasible when there are large volumes of calls.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 12, 2019

People like choices. They just don’t like choosing, at least not when there are too many options. However, if you give people the option of shopping where there are only two options or where there is a wide selection, people will nearly always choose to shop where there are many choices. Then, when they get there, they can’t make a decision and feel frustrated and disappointed about it.

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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?

Customer Experience

ShepHyken

APRIL 12, 2019

This week we feature an article by Joel Gottesman who shares tips to ensure that seasonal employees provide an excellent customer experience. This past season, retailers hired more than 575,000 seasonal employees to help manage the holiday rush. Macy’s planned to hire 80,000 seasonal workers, while Target promised roughly 120,000 seasonal jobs. Many of these employees were tasked with challenging customer-facing positions.

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Customer Service Tourism How To Retail 107

GetFeedback

APRIL 11, 2019

While you can’t reach out to each customer individually, it’s nice when you can get as close as possible. The.

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NICE inContact

APRIL 10, 2019

As a fast-growing, technology-driven health insurance company with 250,000 members, Oscar Health saw that its manual scheduling and forecasting process was having an unhealthy effect on productivity and customer service. So the company turned to NICE inContact for the solution: CXone Workforce Management Enterprise. Oscar Health’s 250 agents handle more than 615,000 interactions annually, mostly inbound calls from members looking for assistance with claims, benefits and the mobile app.

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Oracle

APRIL 8, 2019

This past month at Oracle’s Modern Customer Experience conference , CX leaders from 37 countries gathered in Las Vegas for three days of customer experience insights, trends, and technologies. The event featured 300+ educational sessions and 400+ speakers, including a keynote session with Oracle CEO Mark Hurd. Oracle CEO Mark Hurd has regularly spoken at Oracle Modern Customer Experience, with past keynotes available on his official YouTube channel.

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Building lasting customer relationships has always been top-of-mind for businesses. However, in the last decade, organizations have recognized that the customer journey beyond the initial sale is as critical as the sale itself. Customer onboarding, or the customer’s first impression of you, is critical to forging lasting relationships and long-term success.

Customers

ShepHyken

APRIL 8, 2019

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. To Provide the Best Customer Experience, Be Proactive by Frank Konkel. (NextGov) “Be where your customers are” and other helpful tips from customer experience professionals.

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GetFeedback

APRIL 8, 2019

The question of what is a good NPS score is popular among brands who value customer experience.

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NPS Brands Customer Experience Customers 150

NICE inContact

APRIL 11, 2019

PBX is an acronym for “private branch exchange”. It’s basically a way to connect phones in a business to the external public switched telephone network (PSTN) using plain old phone telephone service (POTS) lines. Originally, this was done using dedicated hardware installed within a business’ office, usually in something called the “phone closet”. Since it was located on the business’ site, this was referred to as customer premises equipment, or CPE (there are A LOT of acronyms in telephony).

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CX Journey

APRIL 10, 2019

Image courtesy of Pixabay I originally wrote today's post for CallidusCloud; it appeared on their blog on October 1, 2018. As I sat down to write this month's post, I reflected on several conversations I had this week that were tied together with a common thread: common VoC program mistakes. I started to reflect on what was said and then began jotting down a list that grew much longer than I thought it would!

Survey 80

Survey Metrics Feedback Social Media 80

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Tips

ShepHyken

APRIL 9, 2019

Service Utopia with Guest Jeff Nicholson. Crafting a Frictionless Service Experience for Employees and Customers. Shep Hyken interviews Jeff Nicholson. They discuss self-service, points of friction and effort, and Jeff’s newest whitepaper, “ Achieving Digital Customer Service Transformation.”. The Interview with Jeff Nicholson: Practically every industry is experiencing a shift to self-service.

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Integrity Solutions

APRIL 10, 2019

Clients may not currently view you as a partner, and that’s because success in the past didn’t depend on it. But clients’ expectations have changed, with the choice being evolve or risk being left behind. By Donna Horrigan. Over the past few years, CPAs have seen a dramatic change in the way they run their businesses, particularly as evolving technologies reshape traditional accounting.

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Alliance by IFS

APRIL 10, 2019

Join our webinar on April 18th to learn about key integration challenges faced by today’s service organizations and see how our FSM solution’s “Low-Code/No Code” Integration Toolkit can help your organization. By Michael Glaser, Director Technology Solutions, Astea North America. Today’s business back-office users are highly connected to information through multiple channels, relying on field service management (FSM), customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise res

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