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Life Isn’t Perfect – But Your Outfit Can Be

InMoment XI

Our family of five recently moved in with my parents while building a new home. This is an unlikely situation for several reasons: From the start, I was not an advocate of building a home. We have never built a home before. The lot we purchased was owned by the builder, so we didn’t have.

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Is Emotional Intelligence Key To Outstanding Customer Service?

Kayako

Working in customer support can leave you feeling like an unrecognized or unsung hero. Praise is often in short supply and there is a lack of awareness about areas of responsibility and how much work the support team does. Within a brief conversation the agent is expected to engage each customer, fix their problem and move on swiftly to help others.

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Free Customer Experience Training For Non-Profit Organizations

Experience Matters

I’m really excited to announce that Temkin Group has launched its Non Profit Scholarship Program (NPSP). During 2017, the company will provide free enrollment to its U.S. workshops for up to 20 employees of non-profit institutions. The NPSP will enable these employees to gain access to customer experience training that their organizations may not have been able […].

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Yes, good CX is tied to revenue gains

Customer Bliss

A question I get sometimes: “Of course we want to value customers, but is doing so definitely tied to revenue?” The answer is unequivocally yes. I’ve been talking about this for years, as have many of my colleagues, professional acquaintances, and friends. If you boost customer experience, you boost revenue. Yes, yes, and yes. But it’s still a question out there to many people.

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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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Are Your Customers Frustrated or Disgusted? Why You Should Care

InMoment XI

A typical Saturday morning starts with our routine. Get up early, get out of the house shortly after 8, and grab a quick breakfast with the 10-year old son before getting him to his piano lesson. If we get out of the house more than 30 minutes before the lesson, we may stop on the. View Article.

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Free Customer Experience Training For Non-Profit Organizations

Experience Matters

I’m really excited to announce that Temkin Group has launched its Non Profit Scholarship Program (NPSP). During 2017, the company will provide free enrollment to its U.S. workshops for up to 20 employees of non-profit institutions. The NPSP will enable these employees to gain access to customer experience training that their organizations may not have been able […].

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Are You Up for the Human/Tech Challenge?

Michelli Experience

I’m convinced that the new customer experience leadership challenge will be … (drum roll please) … integrating human and technology based service. I refer to this opportunity as the human/tech challenge. That challenge involves leveraging technology for efficiency while integrating it with the warmth of human service delivery. In my opinion, your future success will hinge, in part, on how well you provide technology-aided, human powered experiences that seamlessly deliver when and ho

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Are Your Customers Frustrated or Disgusted? Why You Should Care

InMoment XI

A typical Saturday morning starts with our routine. Get up early, get out of the house shortly after 8, and grab a quick breakfast with the 10-year old son before getting him to his piano lesson. If we get out of the house more than 30 minutes before the lesson, we may stop on the.

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FREE Journey Mapping Template

Kerry Bodine

A while back, someone asked me on Twitter whether or not you could create effective journey maps in PowerPoint. My answer is an emphatic “yes!” Here’s why: PowerPoint is robust: Sure, PowerPoint doesn’t have all the fancy bells and whistles that design programs like Photoshop and Illustrator do—but as you can see in the image above, its drawing capabilities are more than sufficient to depict the ups and downs of customer journey.

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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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Report: Engaging A Tethered Workforce

Experience Matters

We just published a Temkin Group report, Engaging A Tethered Workforce. Here’s the executive summary: Companies across a number of industries create and deliver customer experiences (CX) through a combination of traditional employees and other workers who they do not directly control – such as contractors or employees of channel partners or outsourcing partners.

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How loyal are you to your customers?

Alida

If there’s one thing your customers don’t lack, it’s options. For every Coke, there’s a Pepsi. For every Uber, there’s a Lyft. For every Scandal , there’s a Game of Thrones. In a world abundant with choice, how can companies win the long-term loyalty of customers? For many business leaders, that’s not only an important question—it is the question. A new study from the digital agency Wunderman provides some answers.

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Life Isn’t Perfect – But Your Outfit Can Be

InMoment XI

Our family of five recently moved in with my parents while building a new home. This is an unlikely situation for several reasons: From the start, I was not an advocate of building a home. We have never built a home before. The lot we purchased was owned by the builder, so we didn’t have. View Article.

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6 Ways to Motivate and Inspire Your Customer Service Team?

CX Journey

Image courtesy of Adobe Stock/Robert Kneschke Today I'm pleased to share a guest post by Elena Lockett with FM Outsource. People are motivated by very different things. Money, personal achievements, or workplace goals – it differs person to person. To ensure your customer service (CS) teams remain motivated, whatever gets thrown at them, you need to make sure you are providing them with the inspiration and tools to do their job well and be happy!

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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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Report: Engaging A Tethered Workforce

Experience Matters

We just published a Temkin Group report, Engaging A Tethered Workforce. Here’s the executive summary: Companies across a number of industries create and deliver customer experiences (CX) through a combination of traditional employees and other workers who they do not directly control – such as contractors or employees of channel partners or outsourcing partners.

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Is Net Promotor Score still the best metric for measuring Customer Satisfaction?

Uniphore

Developed and first introduced in 2003 by Fred Reicheld, Bain and Company and Satmetrix, Net Promoter Score® (NPS 1 ) has become somewhat of the definitive metric for gauging customer satisfaction and loyalty. Consistently in use by over 66% of Fortune 1000 companies and tens of thousands of customer-centric organizations worldwide, NPS has certainly had a profound influence on global marketing, business strategies, tactics and techniques.

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The Greatest Show on Earth is Still a Memory Maker

Steve DiGioia

how create the memorable experience that your customer will hold dear and carry for years to come. This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. After 146 years, the show that has created memories for countless children of all ages will finally come to a close. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, citing a “variety of factors” will end its spectacular traveling road show in May of this year.

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WEBINAR: Elevating Service for the Connected Customer

Kerry Bodine

Salesforce Research’s Second Annual State of Service study surveyed over 2,600 global service professionals to understand what trends are driving the future of customer service, and what practices set high-performing teams apart from the rest. Join me, Vala Afshar, Chief Digital Evangelist at Salesforce, and Peter Gaylord, Senior Director of Salesforce Research, for an interactive presentation as we discuss key findings of this year’s report and what service leaders can do to propel their orga

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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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Zebra Technologies Expands Global Customer Service With inContact

NICE inContact

Zebra-brand printers are used by more than 90 percent of Fortune 500 companies, which means Zebra Customer Support has an important role in delivering amazing customer experiences. Zebra Technology manufactures and sells computer printing technologies for a variety of sectors, all over the world. They service over 52 different countries and 17 different languages.

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Is Net Promotor Score still the best metric for measuring Customer Satisfaction?

Uniphore

Developed and first introduced in 2003 by Fred Reicheld, Bain and Company and Satmetrix, Net Promoter Score® (NPS 1 ) has become somewhat of the definitive metric for gauging customer satisfaction and loyalty. Consistently in use by over 66% of Fortune 1000 companies and tens of thousands of customer-centric organizations worldwide, NPS has certainly had a profound influence on global marketing, business strategies, tactics and techniques.

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Are You A Liar? If you do this, you are!

Beyond Philosophy

I have lied about this. I’d wager you have, too. Moreover, per Groupon’s latest survey, most people lie about being happy about the gifts they receive at the holidays. When I read this study, I wondered if we lie to people about our gift receiving experience, isn’t it also likely we lie about other experiences too? Does that also mean our customers lie to us about how they feel about their Customer Experience?

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The Five Phases of Decision-Making - Part 2

CX Journey

How well does your decision-making process work for you? Are you able to go from decision to solution to action with ease? This is the second part of my two-part series on Peter Drucker's five phases of decision-making, which he outlines in his book, The Practice of Management. If you missed the first part , which covers the first three phases, be sure to visit that post to read about them.

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How Personalized Customer Experiences Drive Retail Growth and Revenue

Speaker: Shaunna Bruton - Associate Director of Product Strategy at Orium | Sam Panzer - Director of Industry Strategy at Talon.One | Frank Passantino - Director of Product Management at Bloomreach

More and more, customers are expecting a better personalized CX. But can retailers actually deliver? Data from McKinsey shows that companies that excel in personalization increase their revenue by 40%, but despite these numbers, retailers struggle to implement customer personalization strategies. So what are the potential solutions? Join us to gain a better understanding of the current retail landscape and learn what you can do to translate personalization strategies into practical implementatio

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Understanding Customers Through Anthropolgy

Wired and Dangerous

What would he see or think if you brought in Dr. Indiana Jones to help you better understand your customers? Or, better still, if Margaret Mead or Ruth Benedict was your customer anthropology coach? At the core, anthropology is the study of humanity. Social or cultural anthropologists seek to understand how a culture, tribe, family or clan link together through language, myths, mores, beliefs, rituals and symbols.

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Buddy. You’d better build a better bot

Uniphore

The proliferation of ‘Chat Bots’ or Virtual Agents has rapidly created a new frontier of competitive advantage, or one that carries with it severe penalties. If your Bot or VA just isn’t good enough, sure as eggs is eggs, your customers will drop you. Read More.

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For Amazing Customer Exprience Insights, Kindly Step Outside

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Gathering and acting on customer experience insights from analytical data, surveys, and other resources inside your organization is one thing. But stepping into your customer’s shoes to understand what they need the most is another! Getting a different perspective on the true customer experience is harder than it sounds and much more challenging than most believe it should […].

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The Best Customer Experiences Are All About Heart

Customers That Stick

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The Open CCaaS Advantage Report

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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Drive Revenue With Great CX — And Math!

Forrester

In our Drive Revenue With Great Customer Experience, 2017 report, we describe how great customer experience (CX) drives revenue. After reading the report, you may be wondering, how did we link revenue to CX? We followed a rigorous, academic approach that started with the premise that improving CX drives customer loyalty. Using our Customer Experience Index (CX Index™) survey questions about customers' loyalty to and spending with a particular brand and combining them with industry-level nu

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Is your IVR an Irritating Voice Response?

Uniphore

Those very first few seconds when customers engage with our organization can be make-or-break of either a new relationship or the end of what may well have been a long and mutually beneficial association. (And perhaps hugely profitable to the organization.) It begs the question: Is your IVR good, bad or very ugly? Read More.

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Amazing Business Radio: Scott McKain

ShepHyken

Scott McKain Talks About How to Stand Out in a Hypercompetitive Marketplace. Show business is a multi-billion dollar (and thriving) industry. What can we learn from show business that we can apply to our own business? Shep Hyken speaks with Scott McKain who states that all of us, no matter what our business is, are in show business. And here’s why. The purpose of entertainment is to create the desired emotional response from the audience.