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5 Epic Employee Engagement Issues You Never Noticed

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Highly-engaged employees will deliver better experiences to your customers, leading to increased loyalty, more referrals, and more business overall. Yippee! However, employee engagement is emotional and often hinged on the very last experience an employee might have – with his or her manager, with co-workers, with an angry client, or even with you. These simple moments add […].

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Customer Emotions (Joy, Anger, Sadness, and Fear) Affect Contact Center Interactions

Experience Matters

As you may know, Temkin Group labeled 2016 “The Year of Emotion” in its annual listing of customer experience trends. Why? Because emotion drives loyalty. And yet, despite its significant impact on customer loyalty, organizations do not focus on emotion enough. So to help increase organizations’ awareness of this critical area of customer experience, we […].

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What Golden Nuggets of Information Are You Missing Out On and Why?

InMoment XI

Few events in world history compare to the excitement surrounding the discovery of California gold by James Marshall, in January of 1848. The famous discovery set off one of the most important migrations ever known. One of the largest gold chunks discovered at that time was by an indigent miner named Mr. Strain who in 1851 stumbled across a 50-pound nugget.

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13 stunning stats on the ROI and growth of online communities

Alida

Every company today wants to be customer centric. From emerging upstarts to established conglomerates, brands of all sizes now recognize that getting closer to customers is key to long-term business success. In our customer-led world, the various types of online communities have become an indispensable tool to harness customer feedback and insight. In the last decade, online communities have taken the business world by storm.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with 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 proactive approach to customer complaints

Customer Bliss

Customer complaints are everywhere, and happen all the time. The word “complaints” is a bad word, yes — on the surface. But there’s power in customer complaints, just as there’s power in any feedback. Quickly, before we get to the action items on this post: think of your favorite brands. Consider brands that you love. You buy from them all the time.

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What Golden Nuggets of Information Are You Missing Out On and Why?

InMoment XI

Few events in world history compare to the excitement surrounding the discovery of California gold by James Marshall, in January of 1848. The famous discovery set off one of the most important migrations ever known. One of the largest gold chunks discovered at that time was by an indigent miner named Mr. Strain who in 1851 stumbled across a 50-pound nugget.

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Data Snapshot: Channel Preferences Benchmark, 2016

Experience Matters

We just published a Temkin Group data snapshot, Channel Preferences and Cross-Channel Activity Benchmark, 2016. The research examines consumer preferences for using different channels for completing common tasks as well as the frequency of several cross-channel interactions. Here’s the executive summary: In Q3 2016, we surveyed 10,000 U.S. consumers about their channel preferences for performing 11 different […].

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We Are All In The Perception Business!

Michelli Experience

Recently, I’ve been suggesting that “perceptions” are a key economic driver. In the course of my work as an experience designer and consultant, I have been defining customer experience strategy as a disciplined approach to brand differentiation achieved by elevating the perception of those you serve based on their interactions with you. Obviously, in today’s world, interactions are both physical and virtual and they involve our products, our people, and our technology.

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Why Have We Stopped Listening to Our Customers? Guest post by Stephen Hewett

ijgolding

Although I have spent a long time working with clients in the customer experience sector, I think it’s vital that we continually challenge the way we listen to and understand our customers. Over the last few decades, as the power of the computer has increased and we can gather more and more data about customers, often without their knowing, we have become more seduced by numbers rather than words.

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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I’m a Waiter, Not a Salesman!

Steve DiGioia

This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. Customers appreciate your positive attitude. They prefer to buy from those they like and those that have their best interest at heart. Here’s a post adapted from my book that shows it works in the restaurant industry. Assume the sale. This is one of those phrases that is drilled into the head of any good salesperson.

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What Is Customer Churn Rate and How You Can Reduce It Fast

Comm100

Is your customer churn rate burning a hole in your retention plan? If so, you’re not alone. When it comes down to it, most companies are losing far too many customers. According to this article by Frederick F. Reichheld in the Harvard Business Review, the average company loses about half its customers in a fiver-year period. Half. Can you imagine how much revenue you lose when 50% of your customers walk out the door?

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Weak Signals and Boiling Frogs

CX Journey

Image courtesy of jronaldlee How do you recognize the weak signals in your business? Have you heard the story about the boiling frog? As told in Wikipedia , it goes like this: If you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will of course frantically try to clamber out. But if you place it gently in a pot of tepid water and turn the heat on low, it will float there quite placidly.

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10 Simple Ways to Increase Customer Satisfaction

GetFeedback

Countless interactions make up the customer experience. Companies can use customer satisfaction surveys to start capturing those moments.

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The 2023 Verint Experience Index: Retail

Reports of the death of in-store shopping have been greatly exaggerated. This year’s retail survey found that more than 60 percent of consumers start and end their journey by visiting a store. Retail customers value price above everything, but the importance of other factors varies for different brands. In-store shopping is valued highly by grocery and home improvement customers Technology retail customers place less importance on in-store experiences – for them it only ranks sixth Digital exper

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Shocking! Yahoo’s data breach

Beyond Philosophy

How we feel affects how we behave. Understanding the connection between our feelings and our decisions is an essential foundation for creating customer loyalty and retention. If you aren’t sure this is true, then ask yourself: would I open a Yahoo email account today? Yahoo is in the news all over the world. No longer because of their appointment of an up and coming CEO (that just happened to be female).

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The payment engine in healthcare, with Jennifer LeMieux of Gaffey Healthcare — CB21

Customer Bliss

I can’t believe we’re at 21 episodes of The Chief Customer Officer Human Duct Tape Show. At about one per week (plus admittedly I think I missed a week or two), that means we’ve been talking to guests for about six months now. It’s been awesome! Even though I’ve been doing this type of work since 1983, I’m consistently learning new aspects of the craft and re-energizing my own customer focus for my clients by talking to these guests.

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Save Your Customer Service Team from Vampire Customers

Customers That Stick

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Do You Show Your Customers You Love Them?

Wired and Dangerous

Noted small business guru Jim Blasingame talks often on his syndicated radio about the importance of “loving up” your customers in today’s highly competitive marketplace. He encourages his listeners to be certain they train their employees on the appropriate ways to “love up” their customers and to ensure they never miss the opportunity to demonstrate their prowess at “loving up” customers.

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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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Secrets For Breaking Bad Habits!

Beyond Philosophy

We all have habits. Some of them are good, and some, well, aren’t. But for good or ill, habits drive our behavior every day, and even more so when we are customers. In my latest book, The Intuitive Customer: 7 imperatives for moving your Customer Experience to the next level , Professor Ryan Hamilton of Emory University and I explore habits and their influence on how customers behave.

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Customer Journey Mapping workshop in November!

Kerry Bodine

Join us for a hands-on customer journey mapping workshop in the heart of San Francisco! I’m thrilled to announce our next open enrollment workshop: November 2, 9:00 – 5:00 & networking cocktails. November 3, 9:00 – 4:30. Whether you’re just getting started with customer journey mapping or looking for a methodology refresh, our two-day interactive workshop will help you develop the skills and know-how you need to effectively employ journey mapping within your organization.

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Sometimes It’s Not About the WOW! It’s About the Un-WOW!

ShepHyken

QUICK REMINDER: Don’t forget about National Customer Service Week , October 3-7, 2016. For more information about the week check out these resources. Everyone wants to WOW their customers. They think that customer delight comes from going above-and-beyond or delivering an over-the-top customer service experience. I’ve always preached that the most amazing companies will occasionally deliver the above-and-beyond customer experience.

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Is this the end of targeted customer marketing?

SuiteCX

There has been a bit of a revolution going on in Marketing. Sparked by the remarkable success of a book by Byron Sharp: How Brands Grow. Sharp discusses a series of Marketing Laws in an attempt to impose science (or at least empiricism) on marketing. He questions commonly held beliefs including whether Marketers should segment their customer base, the relevance of targeting heavy users and whether loyalty programs have any effect.

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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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Consumer Reviews – Implementing Useful Business Changes

Win the Customer

Customer feedback and consumer reviews are very important aspects of any business activity. Traditionally, small retail businesses that keep a brick-and-mortar presence have been able to gather customer feedback immediately and on the spot. These days, however, large companies have many tools that can help them collect and analyze consumer reviews and feedback.

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Customer Journey Mapping workshop in November!

Kerry Bodine

Join us for a hands-on customer journey mapping workshop in the heart of San Francisco! I’m thrilled to announce our next open enrollment workshop: November 2, 9:00 – 5:00 & networking cocktails. November 3, 9:00 – 4:30. Whether you’re just getting started with customer journey mapping or looking for a methodology refresh, our two-day interactive workshop will help you develop the skills and know-how you need to effectively employ journey mapping within your organization.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of September 26, 2016

ShepHyken

Each week I read a number of customer service articles from various online 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. Contact Center Satisfaction Negatively Impacting the Customer Experience by Andrew Berger. (Telecompetitor) Contact center satisfaction has worsened over the last two years despite investments in new customer engagement channels, according to new market research released by BoldChat.

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How can NPS be used to Inform Marketing?

SuiteCX

By measuring and tracking NPS data organizations can understand the drivers of the business and begin to utilize the data to inform and drive marketing. In this white paper we investigate how you can integrate NPS with data strategy to inform data-driven marketing and drive further impact and results.

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Top 5 Ways to Optimize Your Loyalty Strategy

Speaker: Lauren Barash, Vice President, Brand Marketing

In an ever-evolving industry, building and retaining loyal customers is critical to the success of any restaurant business. Join Lauren Barash, VP of Brand Marketing at Full Course, as she delves into the world of restaurant loyalty programs, and reveals the top five essential strategies to optimize your approach! This webinar will explore: Loyalty trends and what you should be focusing on 📊 Actionable insights and ideas to help you develop the most powerful and effective loyalty program

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How to Do It Right: Guide to Delivering Customer Service in Digital Age

transcosmos Information Systems

Let’s face it. Almost everyone has gone digital—from businesses, governments, and yes, your customers. Based on the Ericsson Mobility Report , there were 2.6 billion smartphone subscribers in 2015 around the world and researchers expect the rate to grow to about 6.1 billion by the year 2020. While your customers are probably online all the time, chances are, this connectivity offers a new challenge on how to deliver exceptional customer service support for people on the go in this digital age.

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Answering the Ultimate Question: What’s a Good NPS Score?

Promoter.io

The Promoter team recently got together for a team outing — we went and saw the movie “Snowden”. If you haven’t seen it, I’d highly recommend you do. Following the movie, we all had our opinions. Some of us looked at the story that was told, others looked at how the story was told. It was […]. The post Answering the Ultimate Question: What’s a Good NPS Score?

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Amazing Business Radio: Dr. Michael LeBoeuf

ShepHyken

Dr. Michael LeBoeuf on. How to Win Customers and Keep Them for Life. Shep Hyken speaks with the author of one of his favorite customer service books, professor, speaker and world famous author Dr. Michael LeBoeuf. They discuss his timeless classic that was well ahead of its time titled, “How to Win Customers and Keep Them for Life.” Dr. LeBoeuf was a pioneer of his industry, who was discussing the customer experience well before it was a trend.

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