Pointillist
MARCH 20, 2019
By Swati Sahai The importance of calculating your customer experience ROI cannot be overstated—how will you build, measure and regularly optimize your customer experience efforts if you don’t know the return on your CX investments? Customer experience leaders often face hurdles in budget approval because customer experience ROI has not been forecasted or quantitatively expressed.
Retently
MARCH 18, 2019
Does your company retain its customers or take them for granted? Customer retention is one of the most important aspects of growing your company, yet it’s one that many companies overlook, focusing more on acquiring new customers. Given that, it’s 6 times more expensive to attract new customers than to keep existing ones – the ignorance shall turn costly.
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Waypoint Group
MARCH 20, 2019
Too busy fighting figurative fires? Upon benchmarking his native city of Boston to his adopted city of Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin wrote the famous line “…an Ounce of Prevention is worth a Pound of Cure…” and instilled practices that were proven to reduce fires in the first place. Franklin’s efforts included the establishment of training, standardized equipment, regular fire companies, and new prevention methods including better utilization of chimney sweeps.
The DiJulius Group
MARCH 20, 2019
[Part 1 Article] The Rise of Robo Restaurants One perhaps surprising field that has taken advantage of the shift to technology is the restaurant industry, where a shortage of available workers has driven up costs and limited the ability of some restaurants to open additional locations. Spyce, a casual fast-food place begun by four MIT. Read Full Article.
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.
CXApp
MARCH 21, 2019
Key Technologies Influencing CX Today.
Customer Experience Update brings together the best content for Customer Experience and Customer Management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
GetFeedback
MARCH 20, 2019
If you make a survey online without giving it much thought, you’ll find that your customers won’t care for it either. In fact, they’ll probably abandon your survey halfway through or avoid taking it altogether. This reaction to poor surveys is called survey fatigue. It’s not uncommon, and chances are you’ve experienced it yourself at least once. The old school, 20-question survey is no longer acceptable — customers value their time too much.
InMoment XI
MARCH 21, 2019
Engaging Customers with Video Many brands are now choosing to tell their stories through video, and it’s not surprising to see why. 90% of customers say video helps them make buying decisions and 64% of customers say that seeing a video makes them more likely to buy (Forbes). Consumers want and expect video content to. View Article.
CloudCherry
MARCH 19, 2019
“Firms will continue to regard CX as a collection of continuous improvement projects until they see an irrefutable, directly attributable connection to returns.” – Forrester, Hardwire Customer Experience 2018. This is the challenge that every CX leader needs to overcome. In order to prove their value to the company, secure the budget and buy-in they need to make changes, CX leaders must demonstrate an “irrefutable” connection to business metrics.
Experience Matters
MARCH 22, 2019
I just spent two days in Miami with a great group of executives who are part of the SAP CX Client Advisory Board. One of their presentations described the company’s technology transformation, and included a stream of activity around “decomplexing.” I loved seeing that! Complexity ends up oozing its way into all types of experiences.
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Kerry Bodine
MARCH 20, 2019
It’s the first day of spring, and we’re looking forward to enjoying a few days in our favorite Chicago season when we travel there for our Journey Mapping and Facilitation bootcamp on May 8 and 9. Day 1 mirrors that of our signature journey mapping bootcamp to help you build a strong foundation in the concepts and methods of journey mapping. Day 2 draws on the facilitation training we provide to clients during our journey map development engagements , enabling you to extend your journey mapping
InMoment XI
MARCH 19, 2019
Defining AI and Machine Learning for Enterprise CX The market is seeing a significant emphasis on the need for predictive solutions, ranging from machine learning capabilities to artificial intelligence (AI). And while many companies claim to offer these exciting new technologies, rarely do they deliver on the promise. True prediction requires more than a click.
GetFeedback
MARCH 20, 2019
The customer voice, also known as Voice of the Customer (VoC) , is at the core of any successful customer experience (CX) program. It refers to the customers’ needs, wants, and expectations as it pertains to a company’s products or services. A customer voice program focuses on capturing the expectations, likes, and dislikes of your customers. You do this by gathering and analyzing customer insights and identifying trends and strategies to improve customer experience.
Customer Bliss
MARCH 21, 2019
“Don’t look at yourself, look at your customer. Be sure you have your customer in mind when you create something. Be sure it’s customer-focused, not self-focused,” says Horst Schulze , Founder, Chairman & CEO of the Capella Hotel Group, and Co-founder & Former COO of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co. Do you know what it takes to be a high-quality leader?
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Alida
MARCH 19, 2019
Big data is big business. Enterprises are spending billions on big data. They’ve been using it to drive decision making for years now. But executives are realizing that this type of transactional customer data isn’t enough.
NICE inContact
MARCH 18, 2019
According to Mark Smith, CEO and Chief Research Officer at Ventana Research, over two thirds of organizations today, and in the future, indicate customer experience as their top way to compete for customers. Let that sink in for a moment. When it comes to growing their business, these organizations are betting that customer experience is more important than product or branding.
GetFeedback
MARCH 18, 2019
When done right, self-service support material help your customers complete tasks on their own.
Kayako
MARCH 18, 2019
Introduction. While most customer service and support interactions are different on a day-to-day basis, there are a few scenarios and responses that come up every day. While there may be some that are very specific to your company (that have to do with your product or service), there are also several that are uniform across support. In this article, we’ll talk about ten of those such customer service and support complaints, and how you can address them.
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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?
Alida
MARCH 22, 2019
In most organizations, the market research or customer insight department is seen as a support pillar for multiple divisions and as a cost center.
TechSee
MARCH 19, 2019
Once upon a time, measuring customer service success was straightforward. Hire some agents, train them, and use standard contact center KPIs to measure how well they perform. No longer. Modern contact centers are made up of a complex combination of humans and virtual assistants – using both natural and artificial intelligence – operating over multiple channels and using a wide range of tools to solve customers’ issues.
GetFeedback
MARCH 22, 2019
Happy employees result in happy customers. To identify the happiness level of your employees, you should use these two job satisfaction survey templates.
Kerry Bodine
MARCH 20, 2019
It’s the first day of spring, and we’re looking forward to enjoying a few days in our favorite Chicago season when we travel there for our Journey Mapping and Facilitation bootcamp on May 8 and 9. Day 1 mirrors that of our signature journey mapping bootcamp to help you build a strong foundation in the concepts and methods of journey mapping. Day 2 draws on the facilitation training we provide to clients during our journey map development engagements , enabling you to extend your journey mapping
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.
Alida
MARCH 22, 2019
Customer validation is a key part of agile product development. It helps you understand whether you have a product your customers will want to buy, as well as a roadmap to sell it.
Comm100
MARCH 21, 2019
Live Chat is a great tool for helping to increase sales, decrease resource and make your customers happier. So once you’ve taken the plunge and introduced Live Chat software, it’s natural that you’ll want to make the most of your new customer service capabilities. Here are some best-practice tips for helping to get extra value from your live chat system and increase the number of satisfied customers through this channel.
GetFeedback
MARCH 22, 2019
Happy employees result in happy customers. To identify the happiness level of your employees, you should use these two job satisfaction survey templates.
Kerry Bodine
MARCH 20, 2019
It’s the first day of spring, and we’re looking forward to enjoying a few days in our favorite Chicago season when we travel there for our Journey Mapping and Facilitation bootcamp on May 8 and 9. Day 1 mirrors that of our signature journey mapping bootcamp to help you build a strong foundation in the concepts and methods of journey mapping. Day 2 draws on the facilitation training we provide to clients during our journey map development engagements , enabling you to extend your journey mapping
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Alida
MARCH 18, 2019
With endless concerns surrounding data privacy and safety, companies today are faced with a new dilemma surrounding experience personalization. While customers might expect their data to be collected and used to enhance their experiences, they don’t want to be spied on in order for it to be obtained. Leveraging available data without being perceived as an entity that is spying on individuals is, and has always been, a tricky balance to manage.
Comm100
MARCH 21, 2019
Live Chat is a great tool for helping to increase sales, decrease resource and make your customers happier. So once you’ve taken the plunge and introduced Live Chat software, it’s natural that you’ll want to make the most of your new customer service capabilities. Here are some best-practice tips for helping to get extra value from your live chat system and increase the number of satisfied customers through this channel.
GetFeedback
MARCH 20, 2019
Find out how to make a survey online that your customers will want to take and that will boost response rates and help you make smart business decisions.
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