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5 Methodologies to Kick-Start Your CX Program

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Editor’s note: This is a chapter from the ebook, Unlock the Value of CX. You can download the entire book here. Using analysis techniques for CX programs allows data to be transformed into information and knowledge. Although there are many broad areas for analysis, this chapter will touch on five instrumental techniques. Data Mining Data.

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How to Write a Compelling Customer Support Email

Kayako

When you’ve worked in support for a while, especially for the same company, it can feel like Groundhog Day. You feel like you answer the same questions day in and day out. That’s because you probably are! But that doesn’t mean it has to be boring. Practice makes perfect and setting yourself the challenge to improve keeps you interested. There are always things you could be doing better in your conversations.

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The Evolution of Self-Serve Customer Service

BlueOcean

Ever have one of those days when you simply don’t want to talk to anyone? That day inevitably coincides with the renewed urgency of the task you’ve been procrastinating over: calling customer service to fix your computer/check your warranty/renew your membership/reset your password. We know you hate calling tech support. We know you’d rather not “ press one for yes.

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Customer Experience – that’s all just fluffy nonsense, isn’t it?

ijgolding

For much of my career, I, like many of my peers, have had to suffer what I like to call the ‘rolling eyes phenomenon’ on numerous occasions. Usually (although not exclusively) the domain of men and women working for organisations in senior roles, the ‘rolling eye phenomenon’ often occurs when someone like me, a Customer Experience Professional, starts to talk about anything related to the Customer Experience.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

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.

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5 Methodologies to Kick-Start Your CX Program

InMoment XI

Editor’s note: This is a chapter from the ebook, Unlock the Value of CX. You can download the entire book here. Using analysis techniques for CX programs allows data to be transformed into information and knowledge. Although there are many broad areas for analysis, this chapter will touch on five instrumental techniques. Data Mining Data. View Article.

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Today’s Generation Just Can’t Give Good Service, Agree?

Steve DiGioia

This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. How can “kids” brought up with immediate access to information and short attention spans provide the service experience our “older” generation expects? Good question…. I remember watching old black and white movies where the “old guys”, sitting in front of the barber shop, would complain about the kids of today not having the same respect for others or the work ethic as they did.

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CX Competency: Employee Engagement (Video)

Experience Matters

Temkin Group has found that the only path to sustainable customer experience differentiation is to build a customer-centric culture. How? By mastering Four Customer Experience Core Competencies. This video provides an overview of one of those competencies, Employee Engagement, where the goal is to align employees with the goals of the organization. Here Are Five I’s of Employee Engagement: […].

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5 Ways to Guard Against Survey Manipulation

InMoment XI

I’ve been in the automotive industry for some time and concerns about dealership attempts to interfere with the customer satisfaction measurement process have been around for a long time as well, but lately they seem to be intensifying. Do you know how to guard against survey manipulation? My hope is this blog will give you. View Article.

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Introducing GetFeedback for Salesforce Service Cloud

GetFeedback

Customers ask for help through more channels than ever before. GetFeedback for Salesforce Service Cloud helps teams improve every service experience.

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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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How to Engage Employees in Your Customer Experience Strategy

CX Journey

I originally wrote today's post for Clicktools. It appeared on their blog on August 29, 2016. Quite simply: without employees, you have no customer experience. The linkage between employee engagement and experience and the customer experience has been proven. It's real, and your employees matter! If your employees aren't engaged with your improvement efforts - or engaged overall with the organization - it will be very difficult for them to delight your customers and deliver the experience they e

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Customer Experience Transformation to win “Sports Event of the Year”, With Lynn LaRocca – CB52

Customer Bliss

Episode Overview. Lynn LaRocca is the SVP and Chief Experience Officer of the New York Racing Association. While they hold numerous events throughout the year, their benchmark event is The Belmont Stakes. Under her leadership, they turned it into a three-day festival. In 2015, Sports Business Journal called The Belmont Stakes “The Sporting Event Of The Year.” To win that award, it beat out the Super Bowl (a pretty large event), the FIFA Women’s World Cup final, and more.

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MaritzCX Mentioned in CustomerThink Post on VoC Trends

InMoment XI

MaritzCX was recently mentioned in an article by Bob Thompson on CustomerThink. In his article entitled, “Voice of the Customer Industry Trends: Consolidation, Disruption, and the Rise of Real-Time Action,” Bob talks about five trends that are becoming more prominent in the VoC industry—convergence and consolidation, multi-channel VoC platforms, cross-channel triangulation, real time action, and.

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Omni-Channel – 2nd guide (extra content)

GetFeedback

Extra Content Why Omni-Channel Service Is Pulling Ahead Putting the right people and processes in place seems like an obvious path to.

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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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Why Are Customers Frustrated with Omnichannel CX

Uniphore

Today’s modern, tech-savvy customers are becoming increasingly demanding in their quest for a great customer experience. They expect to be able to shop anytime, anywhere and from any device easily, and if your brand is not fulfilling these expectations, you won’t survive. Therefore, one of the critical aspects of any customer service strategy today is to deploy an Omnichannel sales and customer service approach that provides customers with an integrated experience across all channels, including

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CX Competency: Employee Engagement (Video)

Experience Matters

Temkin Group has found that the only path to sustainable customer experience differentiation is to build a customer-centric culture. How? By mastering Four Customer Experience Core Competencies. This video provides an overview of one of those competencies, Employee Engagement, where the goal is to align employees with the goals of the organization.

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MaritzCX Mentioned in CustomerThink Post on VoC Trends

InMoment XI

MaritzCX was recently mentioned in an article by Bob Thompson on CustomerThink. In his article entitled, “Voice of the Customer Industry Trends: Consolidation, Disruption, and the Rise of Real-Time Action,” Bob talks about five trends that are becoming more prominent in the VoC industry—convergence and consolidation, multi-channel VoC platforms, cross-channel triangulation, real time action, and.

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Boosting Case Deflection with Knowledge Base Surveys

GetFeedback

Maintaining a knowledge base gets exponentially more complicated as a business grows. That's where knowledge base surveys can help.

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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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Contact center KPIs: are you setting the bar high enough?

Vonage

As customer habits and expectations continue to evolve, contact centers must keep raising the bar on service quality. Keeping track of service KPIs, such as first call resolution and average call handling time among many others, is one of the best ways to ensure your contact center is up to par — because, as they say, you can’t improve what you can’t measure.

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Human Beings Are Driven By Their Personal Predictive Analytics

Experience Matters

In yesterday’s NY Times, there’s an excellent article, We Aren’t Built to Live in the Moment (written by Martin Seligman and John Tierney). It discusses how human beings process information, and the emergence of a new field called prospective psychology. Here’s a very simplified summary of what it says… Human beings: Are distinctive from other species in our […].

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Once Upon a Time People Assisted One Another…

Michelli Experience

It seems like every week I read something like: “ UiPath , a robotic process automation ( RPA ) startup that’s setting out to help companies automate repetitive tasks, has raised $30 million in a Series A round of funding. UiPath <is>…bringing automation to the ‘intelligent enterprise.’ It specializes in building what it calls ‘intelligent software robots’ that help businesses complete laborious and repetitive processes through computer vision technology and rule-based processes.”.

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Using Omnichannel Feedback to Elevate Service Quality

GetFeedback

Great customer service leads to happy customers, higher retention, and more revenue.

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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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Customer satisfaction is the enemy of exceptional customer service

Vonage

Jim Collins, author of the bestselling business book, Good to Great said, “Good is the enemy of great.”. A twist on this excellent concept is that, “Good is the foundation of exceptional.”. A good customer service experience is doing what you are supposed to do. That’s expected. In other words, it meets basic expectations. It’s satisfactory. It’s just good.

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Human Beings Are Driven By Their Personal Predictive Analytics

Experience Matters

In yesterday’s NY Times, there’s an excellent article, We Aren’t Built to Live in the Moment (written by Martin Seligman and John Tierney). It discusses how human beings process information, and the emergence of a new field called prospective psychology. Here’s a very simplified summary of what it says… Human beings: Are distinctive from other species in our […].

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Don’t Be Fooled: Digital Will Never Replace Physical!

Beyond Philosophy

With online shopping, transactions and communication as prevalent – and as easy – as it is today, it can often be tempting to focus most of your Customer Experience efforts on getting your virtual presence right. When many of your customers will engage with you solely on a virtual platform, it can make sense to favor it. However, neglecting your brick-and-mortar experience can lead to inconsistent CX and online backlash.

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The Impact of Emotion on Customer Experience

Uniphore

High on emotion! The impact of emotion on the customer experience is far greater than it would at first appear. Clearly, this is something that contact centers need to account for. Read More.

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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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CXPA Lessons learned from CXPA

SuiteCX

Most companies are struggling with Customer Experience. They have very limited resources (the average department seems to be one or two people) so their ability to tackle some of the more strategic issues is very limited. Senior management talks about customer experience and how important it is but they don’t really believe it because they don’t provide support for the CX staff and they don’t have any strategic plan for how to scale Customer Experience.

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“Fine” is the F-Bomb of Customer Service

ShepHyken

Not long ago I was interviewing Kevin Berk, founder and CEO of ServiceGuru, on Amazing Business Radio. We were talking about the word fine. He commented that it is a four letter that begins with the letter F that you never want to hear from your customer. I then joked that fine is the “F-Bomb” of customer service. Ask someone how their experience with your company is.

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Exciting New Trend: Companies Do Listen To You!

Beyond Philosophy

The last time I went to an American baseball game, the food cost more than my ticket. And what food it was! A fish sandwich that tasted too fishy to eat. A massive yet strangely bland macaroni and cheese concoction. And a $12 light beer. No wonder I don’t go to the ball park very often. Apparently, I’m not alone, and it seems that major league baseball is paying attention.

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