Beyond Philosophy

JULY 19, 2018

We all have a Status Quo Bias when it comes to decision making. Also called Status Quo Inertia, the Status Quo Bias is our preference to keep things the same or maintaining a previous decision. Your customers have one, too, and you can use it to get them to do what you want in your Customer Experience. In the 80s, two professors, William Samuelson and Richard Zeckhauser wrote an article for the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty called, “ Status Quo Bias in Decision Making.

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Kristina Evey

JULY 17, 2018

Customer Journey Mapping. Map the Experience Your Customers Have. This concept is nothing new… yet so many company leaders have not done it… or – at least- have not done it effectively. Leaders tend to get overwhelmed with the process, and no wonder. Many folks, myself included, used to map out every single touchpoint the customer encounters and then map out all of the operational logistics necessary behind the scenes and while these looked impressive, they would impress you st

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Horizon CX

JULY 20, 2018

The following article is a guest post by Larry Reed of DesignRush obtained through Tenfold – www.tenfold.com. . Tenfold powers better customer conversations. In the last several years, the rise of customer experience as the main focus of most digital marketing campaigns has resulted in the proliferation of various CX myths. Many inexperienced marketers who are just starting out can easily fall prey to some of these myths that reference half-researched articles and make potentially harmfu

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Kristina Evey

JULY 16, 2018

The Customer Has Their Own Perspective Of Your Company. Customer Perspective is really the only thing that matters in Customer Experience (CX) work. I know this seems a bit extreme… please bear with me. I know that you are doing what you think is best for your business and your customer. I know that most of you are looking to create solid experiences for your customers that will bring them back to you time and time again.

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Quadient

JULY 19, 2018

Digital business transformation is a must if financial institutions want to keep pace with customer experience expectations. According to Peter Wannemacher, Principal Analyst at Forrester, many financial institutions are moving towards an omni-channel, digital experience but, unfortunately, they are not keeping pace with shifting customer behaviours and expectations.

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UJET

JULY 19, 2018

It's Friday. You're queuing up emails for next week's big product announcement when all of a sudden your email service stops working.

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GetFeedback

JULY 19, 2018

Customer feedback makes Salesforce even more powerful. When survey results live on the customer record, you not only gain visibility into your customer experience, but you can use those insights to drive action across your business. Today, we’ll share a few simple tips on improving visibility and driving action with Salesforce survey data. 1. Create a Salesforce survey dashboard.

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InMoment XI

JULY 19, 2018

This is an article written by MaritzCX in which the nature of survey questions are examined and connections to business results are illustrated. The placement of certain key survey questions – particularly the overall satisfaction question in a customer satisfaction questionnaire – has been extensively debated among academics, suppliers, and clients.

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PeopleMetrics

JULY 17, 2018

The following is an excerpt from Listen Or Die by Sean McDade, PhD. As noted previously, the term VoC is frequently used to describe the measurement of the customer experience; so is the term customer experience management (CEM). A consulting firm mentioned in the introduction, Forrester , coined a third term: customer feedback management (CFM). In this book , you’ll see VoC more than any other term, though you can use each of these terms interchangeably.

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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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CloudCherry

JULY 18, 2018

Customer experience is becoming an increasingly popular topic, with many forward-thinking businesses thinking it can set them apart in today’s highly competitive landscape. And they’re right — a recent study by Forrester showed that organizations with a cross-team CX approach were nearly twice as likely to have exceeded their top 2017 business goals.

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GetFeedback

JULY 14, 2018

A blog survey is simple but powerful way to learn more about your audience. With just a few questions, you can measure reader satisfaction, promote new content, and convert more blog traffic. Here are step-by-step instructions on launching an awesome blog survey in under 30 minutes. Building a Blog Survey. Step 1: Create a new survey. In the GetFeedback builder, select “Create from Scratch.”.

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InMoment XI

JULY 17, 2018

A few days ago, I found out that I need to get surgery on my right elbow. It’s been hurting a long time now, during the course of which I’ve seen various medical experts in hopes they would have a solution. The healthcare industry is something that everyone utilizes even though it has a bad. View Article.

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AskNicely

JULY 17, 2018

As a product team, you require a deep understanding of your customers’ complex problems. Without it, how do you know if you’re innovating in the right direction? Are you fixing real pain points, or are you spending time and money on features that might not actually matter to your customers? Collecting real-time feedback not only enables you to get a quick temperature-read on your customers, but it gives your team authentic, actionable insights that you can apply to your roadmap for quicker innov

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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?

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Experience Matters

JULY 17, 2018

Emotion is one of the three components of a customer’s experience (along with success and effort), so it’s a fundamental element for companies to track. In this post, I examine the eight annual Temkin Emotion Ratings for U.S. companies. It’s one of the components of the overall Temkin Experience Ratings, the open standard CX metric.

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GetFeedback

JULY 19, 2018

Customer feedback makes your CRM even more powerful. Here are a few simple tips on improving visibility and driving action with Salesforce survey data.

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Retently

JULY 17, 2018

One of the most frequently asked questions that we get is “What is a good Net Promoter Score®?” And even though we repeatedly tell our clients that the score itself is irrelevant , we do understand the idea that comparing performance to other companies can help them show a more accurate picture of where they are standing at in a competitive landscape.

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ijgolding

JULY 18, 2018

During the last ten years, I have attended many Customer Experience (CX) events around the globe. In the early part of that decade, I would always leave conferences with at least one ‘nugget’ of inspiration. As the decade moved on, the search for ‘gold’ has become tougher and tougher. I am therefore very excited to be able to share the news that Incite Group’s Customer Service & Experience Summit Europe (18-19 Sept) comes to London for the first time.

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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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NICE inContact

JULY 19, 2018

Efficiency. It’s a buzzword that has been around a long time in the business world. We are constantly asked to do more and increase efficiency. There is no department where this is more true than in the contact center, and one way to increase efficiency is with integrations. The customer experience can be improved upon by making a multitude of information available to contact center agents, while also increasing efficiency.

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GetFeedback

JULY 20, 2018

If your customer survey is just so-so, you might be missing out on meaningful insights. Here are 4 foolproof ways to harness the power of smarter surveys.

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Kayako

JULY 20, 2018

At Kayako, we want to help you create effortless customer support experiences. Before we launched, it was obvious that traditional help desk solutions weren’t doing enough to help businesses improve their customer support. The world was changing. Markets got more crowded, consumers got more discerning, and seamless customer experience became a competitive advantage.

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Kristina Evey

JULY 16, 2018

Hiring Right – Episode Number 007 Shownotes… So much of this work is dependent on hiring the right people to execute the desired customer experience. If you have people that aren’t concerned about customer service and making the customer happy enough with their experience doing business with you, then you have a little additional work to do.

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TechSee

JULY 17, 2018

IVR technologies are limited without sight. Interactive voice response (IVR) is a technology that allows a computer to interact with customers through the use of voice and touch-tone telephone keypad. Today, IVR is a core technology well entrenched in call centers that has transcended way beyond its role as a simple customer routing system. . A range of emerging technologies have effectively transformed IVR from a frustrating customer waiting experience to an effective process with self service

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CX Journey

JULY 18, 2018

Image courtesy of Pixabay Is there a linkage between corporate culture and the bottom line? In a nutshell. yes. Corporate culture is linked to so many business decisions and business outcomes. You might be surprised! Today's post is a follow-on to last week's post, A Fish Rots from the Head Down , in which I wrote about the need for company leadership to model the behaviors they want to see from their employees in order to transform, inspire, and drive the company's intended culture.

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ReviewTrackers

JULY 17, 2018

Managing the customer experience (CX) has become a top priority for many of today’s business organizations. Not so long ago, simply having the highest-quality product, the savviest marketing, the greatest convenience, the best customer service, or the most bang for the buck was considered the key to business success. But times have changed. Now, CX has become the key growth driver and competitive differentiator.

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Forrester's Customer Insights

JULY 20, 2018

The legendary R&B singer and songwriter Ben E. King got it so right in the Drifters 1960 recording of “This Magic Moment.” The song is timeless because it tells a classic tale of a first kiss. And also captures a moment in time in words and song that reminds us of the power of storytelling, […].

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Over the next 12 months, what do you think will have the biggest impact on your CX automation efforts? When asked the same question, only 10% of CX leaders surveyed by Verint chose telephony. It’s no longer the engagement channel leading CCaaS conversations. The customer engagement challenges facing organizations have changed – so a new approach is needed.

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Oracle

JULY 20, 2018

The field of customer experience management isn’t new, but companies are still evaluating what exactly this functional area means for the future of business. The umbrella of CX is broad, encompassing a range of touch points from early acquisition to post-purchase experiences. You can think of CX as the mechanism that shepherds buyers from problems to solutions, questions to answers, and from indecision to action.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 20, 2018

Colin Shaw and Prof. Ryan Hamilton discuss how emotions drive customer behavior. So, what is an emotion? How are they evoked? How can you deliberately evoke a customer’s emotions? How is an emotion different to a mood and what you should do about it? The post Why Do Customer Emotions Matter? appeared first on.

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ReviewTrackers

JULY 20, 2018

If you’re trying to build your company’s online reputation , it can be tempting to take shortcuts and try to find a quick fix. This is particularly true for businesses with not-so- positive reviews and one-star ratings. After all, a stream of fresh positive reviews can quickly bury negative feedback and clear out blemishes in search results, right? This explains why there’s an increasing market for businesses looking to “buy Google reviews”: fake reviews, that is, posted under a random name and

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