Experience Matters

DECEMBER 10, 2018

If you’ve followed our research, then you’ve likely seen a strong, almost inseparable link between between customer experience (CX) and competency employee (EX). We continued to find that connection in our latest consumer benchmark. In our Q3 2018 study, we asked 5,000+ U.S. employees to pick a word that best describes how their job makes them feel and split those responses based on how they judged the overall CX that their company delivers.

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Study Connections Consumers Employee Engagement 129

Kayako

DECEMBER 6, 2018

When collected and implemented properly, customer feedback can help improve your product and the services that support it.

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Feedback Net Promoter Score Survey NPS 191

GetFeedback

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Ah, the holidays. It’s the time for sugar canes, delicious eggnog, and jolly parties with loved ones, right? Well, not exactly. For us customer service folks it’s the time of the year that we call: the not-so-jolly holiday rush.

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Customer Service How To B2C Customer Experience 265

Experience Matters

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Many common beliefs about customer experience are misguided, based on oversimplifications or a lack of consideration for real-world constraints. In this series of posts, we debunk these myths. CX Myth #5: Wow Customers During Every Interaction What’s Wrong: While it may be appealing to think about creating an amazing experience every time you touch a customer, it’s just not appropriate or practical.

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Steve DiGioia

DECEMBER 3, 2018

This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. Our “purpose” is the thing, item, or person we keep coming back to even after we’ve lost our way. Through good times and bad, we find ourselves surrounded by thoughts of what makes us feel good, feel important, and feel fulfilled.

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Customer Bliss

DECEMBER 4, 2018

In my new Daily Dose video series, I explore the topics that chief customer officers must grapple with on a daily basis. Join me as I discuss what I’ve learned over the course of my 35-year career, so that you can more effectively do the work that needs to be done.

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C3Centricity

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Every few days there seems to be another customer service disaster that fills the newspapers and goes viral on social media. These usually happen when an organisation does not adopt a customer first strategy.

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Strategy Customer Experience Analysis B2C 178

Wired and Dangerous

DECEMBER 3, 2018

It all started with a party game… Those funny “what if” social games that get sillier with late night exuberance and adult beverages. What fruit would they be if all pharmacists were a fruit?” asked one guest, a deeply serious pharmacist. “If

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Transportation Customer Experience B2C Sales 151

Customer Bliss

DECEMBER 6, 2018

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Wireless Telecommunications NPS Sports 141

MaritzCX

DECEMBER 7, 2018

We researchers have done things in the past we probably wouldn’t do again. In some cases we have unintentionally erected walls that have acted to isolate companies from their customers – making the Voice of the Customer more elusive than it should have been. We need to tear down the walls that have caused the. View Article. General

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A survey of 1,000 contact center professionals reveals what it takes to improve agent well-being in a customer-centric era. This report is a must-read for contact center leaders preparing to engage agents and improve customer experience in 2019.

AskNicely

DECEMBER 6, 2018

One of the best ways to engage with your happiest customers is to invite them to refer a friend or colleague (especially if they’ve just filled in a Net Promoter Score survey saying they’d happily do exactly that!).

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Vision Critical

DECEMBER 7, 2018

View Infographic. The retail industry is only set to become more competitive. Yet, most companies are still failing to meet customer expectations and become more customer-centric.

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Customer Centricity Retail Infographics Multi-Channel 130

eglobalis

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Best Customer Experience Books of 2018 and What to Look Out for in 2019. The post Best Customer Experience Books of 2018 and What to Look Out for in 2019 appeared first on Eglobalis.

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Customer Experience Culture Customer Experience Design Customer relationships 136

inContact

DECEMBER 10, 2018

There are many reasons why starting a call center makes good business sense. But whatever the reason, taking that first step can seem like stepping into the unknown. To ease into your search, here are five things to consider when starting a new call center. . You don’t need to be a rocket scientist. As you begin your exploration you may encounter unfamiliar terms like “first call resolution” ACD, Erlang calculations, VoIP, PSTN, etc. The technology can seem daunting.

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MaritzCX

DECEMBER 7, 2018

We researchers have done things in the past we probably wouldn’t do again. In some cases we have unintentionally erected walls that have acted to isolate companies from their customers – making the Voice of the Customer more elusive than it should have been. We need to tear down the walls that have caused the. View Article. Automotive

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TechSee

DECEMBER 4, 2018

As a leading provider of intelligent visual engagement, TechSee is at the forefront of the digital CX transformation. Our goal is to partner with innovative Tier-1 companies, by providing them with digital solutions that enable them to exceed their customers’ expectations.

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Innovation Telecommunications Competitive Advantage Customer Experience 119

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Not too long ago, I had a minor outpatient procedure at a hospital. When I checked my email the next morning, there was a survey from the hospital. What did you think of your anesthesiologist?”. My first thought was that I didn’t die during the procedure, so he must have done a fine job.

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Social Media Survey Hospitality Airlines 84

ReviewTrackers

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Everyone knows that having rave reviews helps your business stand out on review sites like Google, Facebook, and Yelp, but embedding reviews on your own site can also improve SEO performance and increase conversion rates.

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To find how contact centers are navigating the transition to omnichannel customer service, Calabrio surveyed more than 1,000 marketing and customer experience leaders in the U.S. and U.K. about their digital customer communication strategies. Read the report to find out what was uncovered.

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AskNicely

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Dear Abby, How often should I be sending out surveys? Does survey frequency make a difference? Survey Frequency Depends on Your Customer Journey. I often get asked, what is the best cadence to survey customers? The quick answer to survey frequency is: it depends , but we generally recommend you touch every customer at the moments of truth in their customer journey. Moments of Truth. What exactly is a “moment of truth?”

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inContact

DECEMBER 6, 2018

SLA stands for, of course, Service Level Agreement. You could say at its most generic, an SLA is almost like a promise that a service provider makes to a customer about the quality of service they will provide. Contact center SLAs can be external, for example in a contract with a customer for an Outsourcer (aka BPO), or internal, to measure, document and communicate your contact center’s performance for stakeholders within your organization, or to compare with other contact centers.

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Contact Center Guidelines Report Interaction 100

Amity

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Winning by Design is a premier provider of strategy consulting and coaching programs for SaaS Sales and Customer Success organizations. The company was founded in 2014 as a small team in Silicon Valley and has quickly expanded across the U.S

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Customer Success Customer Experience Consulting Sales 97

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 6, 2018

James Carville, political commentator and media personality coined the phrase, “The economy, Stupid,” for Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign. Carville was talking to the team at the time to help them focus on the key messages for Clinton’s campaign.

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Forecasting is no easy task. It can be difficult to schedule the right amount of agents at the right time. Download our ebook to learn how to reduce overstaffing and understaffing, lower customer wait times and improve the customer experience with proper forecasting.

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NewVoiceMedia

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Now, more than ever, deploying an effective omni-channel strategy is critical to business success. According to research by the Aberdeen Group, companies with strong omni-channel customer engagement retain an average 89 percent of their customers, compared to just 33 percent for those companies without. Although many market solutions claim to offer a complete omni-channel solution, most fail. They focus on digital channels while excluding voice in the contact center.

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Strategy Multi-Channel Contact Center How To 131

Heart of the Customer

DECEMBER 4, 2018

We’re early in Customer Experience (CX) capability development, and I absolutely love it! We’re discovering the best practices that our successors will take for granted; “of course that’s how you do it.” Unfortunately, being in this early stage means that some “best practices” aren’t.

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Effort Score NPS Net Promoter Score Course 88

inContact

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Contact center leaders feel the relentless pressure to improve the customer experience that their teams deliver. But with a wide range of CX outcome KPIs like NPS, CSAT, CES and dozens of operational efficiency KPIs it is easy to be overwhelmed and lose the forest for the trees. End of the year planning cycles often add extra pressure and urgency to understand how your are meeting customer expectations and to identify and budget for your top 2019 contact center improvement plans.

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ClientSuccess

DECEMBER 4, 2018

As 2018 comes to a close, customer success teams are taking some time for reflection and planning. What better time than now to take a minute to review what worked from the past year, determine where changes could be implemented, and lay out some strategic goals for 2019?

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 7, 2018

There are two key ways people make decisions: intuitvely or rationally. We discuss why this is important to designing your customer experience and how this can have a key effect on customer loyalty.

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The DiJulius Group

DECEMBER 5, 2018

The next time you have a large group of your employees together, ask them this question: How many of you feel we provide a superior Customer experience? I have asked this question hundreds of times. When the audience is made up primarily of one company, nearly every hand in that audience proudly goes up. Read Full Article. The post 5 Reasons Why Your Employees Are Delivering Poor Service appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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Astea

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Astea is increasing investor awareness as company growth continues by attending this conference in Los Angeles, CA. Astea is excited to be attending several investor conferences this year, including the LD Micro 11th Annual Main Event taking place this week in Los Angeles, California.

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inContact

DECEMBER 4, 2018

At some point, every contact center faces the stark reality of needing to modernize. You may still be spending hours creating reports on spreadsheets. You’ve got teams of agents but only rudimentary quality monitoring. Maybe you’re offering limited channel choices, even voice only. If your organization is like most, you’ve been wrestling with these issues for years. But the complexity of upgrading—and sticker shock—keep you in a state of “making do.”.

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