July, 2020

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Customers Want Personalized Experiences and Privacy: Can They Have Both?

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

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How to Bridge the CX Gap Across the Organization

GetFeedback

A Frost & Sullivan executive summary on how to bridge the CX gap that is prevalent across so many organizations today.

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5 Strategies for CX Excellence

PeopleMetrics

After writing my book, Listen or Die , which outlined 40 lessons that turns customer feedback into gold, I often got the question: "what are the small handful of strategies that provide the biggest impact or provide the most insight on driving CX excellence?". Here they are! Measuring the customer and employee experience is a continuous process, not an event.

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The Value of CX (Part 2): Advancing the Maturity of CX

Alida

A Q&A with Crystal Miceli, Vice President and Head of Product Management. Q: In your last post , you referred to NPS being a single stage in CXM maturity. Can you elaborate on the maturity model?

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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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CX Needs Change Management

Heart of the Customer

You probably moved into customer experience (CX) because of a passion for customers. You chose this space because you know that if you can improve customers’ experiences with your company, they will be happier, they’ll stay with you longer, and both the business and your customers will prosper. But actually improving the experience is hard. […].

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How to Enhance Your Customer’s Memory of Their Experience

Beyond Philosophy

I’m obsessed with memory. I love the subject and discussing the behavioral sciences that explain it. Today, we decided to address memory and how crucial it is to enhance your customers’ recollections of their experience with you. We discussed this concept on a recent podcast with guest Zoey Chen, assistant professor of marketing at the University of Miami School of Business.

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How Complexities Prevent and Improve Employee and Customer Experience

eglobalis

How Complexities Prevent and Improve Employee and Customer Experience. The post How Complexities Prevent and Improve Employee and Customer Experience appeared first on Eglobalis.

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Speaking the Customer’s Language Through the Pandemic

CSM Magazine

Edmund Ovington, VP at Unbabel , discusses the impact of the pandemic and the challenges customer service teams face to scale up and respond quickly to customer needs. The period of lockdown from which we are slowly emerging has been near catastrophic for industries like travel and hospitality, while businesses in other sectors, such as technology and gaming, have seen a huge boost in sales.

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A Boring Customer Service Experience—That’s What Our Customers Want

ShepHyken

Call me boring, but I want the same thing every time—at least when it comes to customer experience. I want it to be good. I want it to be consistent. I want to predict the experience I’m going to have with the people and places I do business with. If you ask the CEO of a big company or the owner of a small business, I bet they would say the same. We want our customers to always have a good experience with us—one they can count on always happening every time they do business with us.

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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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Interview With CX Ambassador Corrina Owens

GetFeedback

Interview with Corrina Owens, marketing and demand generation manager at SpendHQ—a leading SaaS spend analysis solution—about her career in the customer experience space.

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Your Customers Are Always Watching – Tip #5

Steve DiGioia

What do you do when you think no one is watching? Are you chewing gum, twirling your hair, or resting your foot on the wall behind you? Do you tell off-color jokes because you think no one can hear you? Is your posture one of confidence or submission? Is your face warm and welcoming to others or stern and stand-offish? Would a customer feel comfortable approaching you or rather seek out someone else for assistance?

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Mike Wittenstein Talks About Keeping Up with Constant Change, Creating Journey Maps, and Building Your Business Around Your Clients

Storyminers

Read the original article here. ———————————————————————— We sat down with some professional speakers and asked them about the challenges and keys to success in their profession. Mike Wittenstein talks to us about keeping up with constant change, creating journey maps, and building your business around your client.

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To Master Customer Experience Strategy, Master CX Mindset

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

What’s Your Organization’s CX Mindset? Customer experience leaders are often told to “create a better customer experience” with little more than a pat on the back and an annual customer survey. There is a lack of understanding around what customer experience really is, and perhaps more importantly, what it takes to deliver it.

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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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Boost Your CX Skills with Help from Calabrio and Rockstar CX

Calabrio

Our recent Evolving World of Work report showed how customer expectations are only rising. Are you prepared to tackle the challenges of our new working world? Calabrio and James Dodkins want to help! He has now made his award-winning customer experience certification program available online — and you can apply now for a sponsorship! Hear it from Dodkins himself: Throughout the program, you’ll learn valuable lessons on enhancing your personal CX profile, including: How to connect wit

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The secrets of Gymshark’s customer-centred success

Alida

With businesses fighting hard to re-engage their customers in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, Gymshark is one company that retailers could learn some lessons from, says Daniela Cicoria, senior customer success manager at Vision Critical.

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How to Bridge the Gap for CX Across the Organization

GetFeedback

Leverage key CX metrics to demonstrate the value of customer experience and build partnerships across departments.

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Are Your Pet Peeves Putting Your Job in Danger? – Tip #9

Steve DiGioia

First off, what’s a “pet peeve”? Well, according to Merriam-Websters dictionary, it’s “something that annoys or bothers a person very much” Are your pet peeves putting your job in danger? I hope not. You know, let’s be honest… Each of us knows someone that drives us nuts. That crazy uncle that tells the worst jokes, that neighbor who’s always sticking her nose in your business, or how about that coworker that constantly tries to “one-up

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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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Caitlin Delohery – Interview with Mike Wittenstein

Storyminers

Describe the day-in-the-life of a professional speaker. A professional speaker doesn’t just speak, they run a business. Often, they run every part of their business. Each day, you’ll be involved in all the things that matter – from finding clients to building new content, from staying up to date on current trends to providing thought leadership for your audiences, and from setting up your back-office Web services to handling mundane accounting chores.

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5 Must-Hear Conversations About Leadership and Relationship-Building

Customer Bliss

Throughout these uncertain times of the pandemic, I’ve been fortunate to bring you conversations with incredible business leaders, authors, and experts through my podcast, The Chief Customer Officer Human Duct Tape Show , and through LinkedIn Live. These individuals have all had insightful advice and anecdotes to help us think through how to approach current business models and future ones, given how rapidly things are changing in the world.

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The Best of the Best: Calabrio Customers Are Finalists for SWPP WFM Pro of the Year (We Have a Winner!)

Calabrio

Update: Sharon Jones of National Debt Relief was named the winner! Stay tuned for a special profile of Sharon and her accomplishments. Original post on all the finalists below: It’s always wonderful to see our customers recognized as industry leaders. As companies are adjusting to the new way of working in 2020, the Society of Workforce Planning Professionals has recognized three Calabrio customers as finalists for their Workforce Management Professional of the Year Award.

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Support Customers Faster, Better and Cheaper with Community

Vanilla Forums

All companies look for ways to deliver customer support that's faster and better than their competitors because that's what customers want. And when customers get what they want, they're less likely to leave. But most companies also think that delivering superior customer services comes with a hefty price tag. These companies, as it turns out, are happily mistaken.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

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.

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The Complete Guide to User Experience Metrics

GetFeedback

Learn how to use the most popular UX metrics, improve the user experience, and prove the ROI of your efforts.

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According to Steve #3 – Remember When

Steve DiGioia

Remember when you’d fall asleep on the living room couch and wake up after midnight to a TV that was all static because the stations when off the air ? Remember when the 5-second rule applied for almost any food that fell on the floor? Remember when your mom said, “ I don’t care that Jimmy isn’t wearing a coat. You’re not going out without one” ? Remember when Jordache Jeans were the big fashion wear in the ’70s and early ’80s?

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Re-Imagining Your Customer Experience in a Time of Change

Beyond Philosophy

Some people watch things happen, some make things happen, and some say, “what happened?” Some organizations out there concerning the pandemic (and maybe other things, too) are falling into that third category. In this issue, we will discuss how to avoid being one of them. There’s a silver lining in everything, even this pandemic. We discussed this subject in a recent podcast.

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The Secret of CX Success

Heart of the Customer

Swing for the fences! Shoot for the Moon! You got this! During my many years as a high school and collegiate lacrosse player and coach, I heard (and said) encouraging platitudes like these more times than I can possibly count. But I think many CX professionals – myself included – could benefit from a reminder of just how much confidence […].

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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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Would You Fight to Make Your Customers Happy?

ShepHyken

These are the kind of people—and the kind of company—you want to do business with. First, a little background. I was having a conversation with a colleague and came up with the idea that you shouldn’t have to fight with a company to get your problem resolved or for them to make you happy. They should want to make you happy. Just a couple days later I saw this idea in action, but with a twist.

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Customer service: what you can learn from great business leaders

Eptica

Date: Thursday, July 2, 2020 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Customer service: what you can learn from great business leaders. Published on: July 02, 2020. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager In previous posts we’ve identified insights that modern customer service teams can learn from the great thinkers of classical antiquity and key historical figures.

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Bridging the Gap Between Product and CX

GetFeedback

Three ways for CX and Product teams to work better together in optimizing the customer experience.