Customer Bliss
APRIL 18, 2018
In light of the recent Starbucks incident that occurred in Philadelphia, when a store manager called the police on two black men for trespassing , I thought it relevant and important to talk about unconscious bias, and its impact on customer and employee experiences. Listen to how I discussed this situation with Marketplace Morning Report, the morning after the incident.
Kerry Bodine
APRIL 17, 2018
A face-to-face workshop with your employees and your customers can be an organization-changing experience. But getting in a room with customers isn’t all roses. Leaders who are new to the customer workshop approach are usually apprehensive about three things: “No one will want to come!” This is by far the most common—but unfounded—fear. Customer recruiting always presents logistical challenges, but we’ve never failed to find customers who are enthusiastic about attending.
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C3Centricity
APRIL 17, 2018
Everyone is talking about customer first strategies and why they are important. However walking the talk is a different matter! An interesting article on NewMR by Ray Poynter prompted this post. He spoke about the differences between customer focus and customer centricity and the often times confusion between the two terms. That is why I tend to speak about customer first rather than customer centricity these days.
Lumoa
APRIL 17, 2018
We have been talking a lot about how important it is to take actions on customer feedback. Customer feedback is the essential unlimited source for development and inspiration for the whole company. As mentioned by Lincoln Murphy, " You can focus on adoption, retention, expansion, or advocacy; or you can focus on the customers' desired outcome and get all of those things.
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InMoment XI
APRIL 20, 2018
Focus Your CX Dollars on the Right Drivers and Experience Optimal CX Return on Investment The CX market is experiencing an over-saturation of maturity models that assess how well your company is performing in terms of CX. These maturity models do provide value, but too often they are based on a CX firm’s experience, rather. View Article.
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Kayako
APRIL 18, 2018
The online services that we use today are generally very reliable. When you want to watch something on Netflix or YouTube, you can be sure that 99% of the time, the service will be accessible. However, it is inevitable that something will go wrong at some point. When it does, it pays to have a competent and responsive support center to handle troubleshooting.
GetFeedback
APRIL 19, 2018
We talk about great survey design a lot, but besides being modern and mobile-friendly, what else can you do to keep respondents tuned in? Here are 5 survey tips that help improve response rates. Survey Tip #1: Embed questions into emails. Distributing surveys via email is a highly effective way to collect feedback. Companies usually just include a link to their survey in the body of an email, but there’s a better way to grab people’s attention.
InMoment XI
APRIL 19, 2018
Combine CX Technology and Services that Invest in Four Key Areas Organizations that run enterprise CX programs have a critical need to drive high value and high return, meaning your CX team must translate every response, dashboard, and case into lifetime value and customer loyalty. Creating CX programs that drive results is accomplished by finding. View Article.
Comm100
APRIL 17, 2018
One often overlooked aspect of customer service is sourcing customer feedback. What many managers don’t understand is that customers are often willing to give feedback to brands they have done business with and some, in fact, are eager to do so! Many companies do not take advantage of this and end up missing out on a chance to understand what their customers really want.
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Experience Matters
APRIL 16, 2018
Executive Summary: The Temkin Well-Being Index dropped from 65.9% in 2017 to 63.4% in 2018, the largest drop we’ve seen. It was caused by declines across all three areas, happiness, healthiness, and financial security. Temkin Group has been doing large-scale consumer research for several years. As part of our ongoing studies, we track many consumer attitudes.
GetFeedback
APRIL 19, 2018
Collecting feedback doesn't have to be impersonal and boring. Here are 5 survey tips you can use to start getting the data you need to succeed.
InMoment XI
APRIL 19, 2018
Combine CX Technology and Services that Invest in Four Key Areas Organizations that run enterprise CX programs have a critical need to drive high value and high return, meaning your CX team must translate every response, dashboard, and case into lifetime value and customer loyalty. Creating CX programs that drive results is accomplished by finding. View Article.
NICE inContact
APRIL 19, 2018
Contact centers should be comprised of new agents as well as agents with experience in the role. Embracing tenure diversity in the contact center provides new opportunities on all fronts, for new agents as well as those hitting anniversary milestones. Benefits of long-tenured employees. From the outside, we often have the inclination to make false assumptions about agents who have been in the same role for many years, as many view agent positions as a career stepping stone or launching pad.
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.
Experience Matters
APRIL 18, 2018
We just published a Temkin Group report, Propelling Experience Design Across An Organization. Although customer experience (CX) management has become a relatively common activity within large organizations, companies still struggle to deliver consistently positive experiences to their customers. One major issue impeding companies’ current CX efforts is that few organizations design customer interactions in a purposeful and deliberate manner.
Vonage
APRIL 17, 2018
Today’s consumer has become more demanding. They not only want high-quality products, but they also expect high-quality customer service. However, new research has revealed that under-investment in contact centre infastructure is harming customer service. NewVoiceMedia recently partnered with the market research firm Opinion Matters to analyse survey responses from 1,000 contact centre professionals who use customer relationship management (CRM) systems.
Customer Guru
APRIL 17, 2018
With the competition in the markets intensifying, it has become increasingly tough for a brand to differentiate itself from its competitors. However, there is a solution to this conundrum too. According to a study by Walker, customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator by 2020. Further, a research conducted by Forrester demonstrates that 72% of the businesses considered improving customer experience as their priority.
Comm100
APRIL 16, 2018
A long-held belief is that exceptional customer service will bring with it extraordinary loyalty. This is something we’ve always believed to be true and accurate. After all, the customer is always right, right? This idea is so ingrained in us that 89 of 100 leaders surveyed flat out stated that their primary goal was to exceed customer expectations.
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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?
Michelli Experience
APRIL 18, 2018
__. Joseph A. Michelli, Ph.D. is a professional speaker and chief experience officer at The Michelli Experience. A New York Times #1 bestselling author, Dr. Michelli and his team consult with some of the world’s best customer experience companies. Follow on Twitter: @josephmichelli. Save Save. The post The Starbucks Experience Infographic | Challenges and Opportunities in Philadelphia appeared first on Joseph Michelli.
CX Journey
APRIL 18, 2018
Image courtesy of Pixabay Are you challenged in your efforts to implement organization-wide changes to improve your culture, the employee experience, and the customer experience. Have you considered how a Trojan Mouse might help you gain traction in these efforts? Trojan Mouse. What is it? And how does it differ from a Trojan Horse? Well, right off the top of my head it seems like "Trojan Mouse" elicits an image of smallness, speed, and agility, while "Trojan Horse" makes me think of a larger un
TechSee
APRIL 17, 2018
With all the AI hype in 2017, the customer service industry expected smart machines to truly transform the customer experience. However, while AI has not yet become the answer to all our customer service challenges, the technology is moving forward at a rapid pace, and is en route to achieving the level of impact previously predicted. AI and its enabling methodologies — Machine Learning, Deep Learning and its applications, NLP, computer vision and speech recognition — are the focus o
UJET
APRIL 19, 2018
Until recently, it was assumed that technology would replace people in customer support. Now it's clear that technology alone isn't enough. Modern customers want the organizations they work with to be their advocates, to be accountable and proactive when it comes to their needs and goals. Customers want their experience with a brand to be personalized and intimate.
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Oracle
APRIL 18, 2018
At Modern Customer Experience , we held a live Twitter tweetchat to ask top customer experience (CX) influencers and thought leaders: How can companies successfully win customers and increase brand loyalty in today’s disruptive world? In the tweetchat, CX experts shared valuable insights and tips—and now we’re going to share them with you.
Wired and Dangerous
APRIL 16, 2018
Connect with or walk into one of your favorite service providers and you immediately feel the difference in the experience that makes this establishment one of your chosen few. What is the difference? There is no doubt that the product or outcome they deliver is one you value and trust but most likely they make a strong emotional connection with you that you find meaningful.
ShepHyken
APRIL 18, 2018
Lately, I’ve been asked about loyalty programs. Any company can create a loyalty program. But, there is some confusion around what exactly a loyalty program is. A Wikipedia definition of a loyalty program summed it up well: Loyalty programs are structured marketing strategies designed by merchants to encourage customers to continue to shop at or use the services of businesses associated with each program.
Beyond Philosophy
APRIL 14, 2018
Why are you getting so many complaints? What are the hidden reasons customers complain? How can you identify what the hidden reasons are and reduce the number of complaints you receive? The post Why Am I Getting So Many Customer Complaints? appeared first on.
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.
Amity
APRIL 20, 2018
While it might sound straightforward, a Quarterly Business Reviews’ purpose is to investigate, more than simply just reviewing the past quarter. You need to focus on the key metrics that deserve to be expanded on and identify the ones to keep short and simple. The end goal of a QBR is to deepen the relationship and solidify it. As easy as it is to grasp the concept of a successful QBR, in practice, a lot of us still miss the mark.
ReviewTrackers
APRIL 17, 2018
If you’re looking to improve your business performance on social media, it’s important to know how your competitors are doing and how you’re measuring up against them. Conducting competitor analysis doesn’t have to be hard. This post will talk about how you can monitor the competition based on their activity on Facebook. Why Do Competitor Analysis on Facebook?
Retently
APRIL 19, 2018
Lifecycle emails are an important part of forming, developing and strengthening the relationship between your business and your customers. Done right, they can help you develop a closer connection between your customers and your product, increasing your customer lifetime value (CLV). The reason these types of emails are called “lifecycle emails” instead of simply “emails” is that they’re designed and crafted to achieve a specific objective at a specific point in the customer’s lifecycle.
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