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We need to better understand shoppers. Because retail is in crisis. Investment in brick-and-mortar stores has declined 30% in the US and a staggering 50% in Europe. In the UK 50,000 of the 500,000+, high street stores are empty , that’s a whopping 10%. MORE
Ever wonder how to get more people talking about your business? It’s simple. Offer them incredible products and services that solve their problems and fulfil their needs and desires. MORE
There are numerous reasons to record calls, but leading the pack is quality. Call recordings play a central role in monitoring, measuring, and improving call quality. A quality management program without call recordings is like macaroni without cheese. The pair belong together. MORE
The customer journey follows the complete lifecycle from awareness to loyalty. Here, we share our process and framework to map the entire customer journey MORE
Less than one week before the release of my new book, The Convenience Revolution: How to Deliver a Customer Service Experience That Disrupts the Competition and Creates Fierce Loyalty , so I thought it appropriate to share some thoughts on how being easy – or convenient – can give you a competitive advantage over your competition. When your customers can buy what you sell from others, that’s called competition. That also makes it a commodity. MORE
How to rethink your omnichannel CX strategy for 2020 and onward as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Guides MORE
The topic of the Voice of the Customer (VoC) has many branches and sub-categories. Just on the topic of surveys alone (which is only a part of VoC), there are tons of thoughts: We discuss things like the formatting of surveys, the proper response rates, how and what sorts of questions to ask, which channel we should use to survey, even whom to survey. MORE
For years, marketers like myself have long espoused the benefits of cloud platforms to help businesses gain agility. MORE
Denyse Drummond-Dunn · Is the future of retail in the stars? Never miss an episode. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts to get new episodes as they become available.”. Will the future of retail be without physical outlets? MORE
“Well, it’s because they’re different.”. The not-deliberately snarky, yet somewhat oversimplified tautological response was understandably not satisfying for the support business leader who’d asked me why I thought NPS would be different for the different lines of business his organization supported. But in the end, it’s no more complicated than that. MORE
There are articles all over the place and books overloading shelves in the business section of the stores having to do with strategies and branding. MORE
What is customer engagement, how do you measure it, and most importantly how do you improve it? Learn everything you have to know about customer engagement. Feed generated with FetchRSS MORE
There’s a meme going around LinkedIn these days about a job posting that requires of the ideal candidate experience that’s physically impossible: a history of use of a platform or programming language that’s longer than the language’s existence in the first place. There’s even been a mocking job posting put up with a cascade of similar impossibilities as requirements. MORE
I’ve written previously about different job postings with CX-sounding titles. One of those jobs is in the family of “Customer Success” positions. If you’re like me, and work in CX, you may have wondered, What, exactly, is , Customer Success? MORE
I have written previously a couple times about return on investment for CX. In fact, there are volumes of articles and books written about it. It’s almost as though there’s a sense of having to prove ourselves as CX professionals constantly. Now, in previous professional lives I’ve been part of PM teams and Process Improvement teams. Having to justify our existence is something I’ve had lots of experience doing. MORE
I’m a big fan, as you know, of negative feedback. I suggest that CX professionals be greedy for negative feedback. MORE
The world of CX is covered in platitudes and clichés. I don’t say that to denigrate it as a field of study and practice (quite the opposite), but rather just to acknowledge it so as to better combat empty words in favor of making actual impacts. Sometimes clichés are clichés because they’re right. One of those sayings that make the rounds all the time is, “if you take care of your employees, they’ll take care of your Customers.” MORE
Highlights from a recent interview with Jeanne Bliss of Customer Bliss and Erin Fenn of Intouch Insight on listening to hear, humanity, and how to grow your customer experience practices to earn trust MORE
You’ve likely heard about the concept and practice of “closing the loop” or a “closed-loop feedback” (CLF) cycle. What is it, and how does it work? There are actually a couple types of closed-loop feedback systems depending on whether you’re talking about internal or external feedback. Internal refers to an employee feedback mechanism where as an external closed-loop feedback system is geared toward the Customer’s inputs and what you do with them. MORE
I once had a mentor whose cubicle walls were covered in certificates and evidence of completion of training and qualification. People considered him a bit of an egotist and obsessed with certifications. Credentialism is a thing, after all. But I asked him once about all his accreditations. MORE
You know I’m all about metrics and measures. One of the things that made entering the CX profession so attractive to me was that this is a field of study that’s not only based in numbers, it’s starving for people who have an affinity for measuring. CX is a study that’s founded on measuring…from survey results to Customer habits and attitudes to top-level improvements in your CX KPIs, numbers are all around us. MORE
NPS calculation formula and interpretation of data. Articles MORE
Voice of the Customer (VoC) programs often start with a general plan on how to gather customer feedback. The plan typically includes suggestions for customer listening posts. MORE
This is part three of a four-part series of posts about the components of a world-class CX function. I began last week with an overview of the structure. Since then I’ve posted on CX strategic alignment and your Voice of the Customer program. We come now to the action part of this series of articles where I’ll emphasize what you do to improve your CX. In the last installation we’ll discuss what it takes to build and support a Customer-centric culture. MORE
Here is the final post in a series about building a world-class CX program in your organization. MORE
We sometimes have an officious way of dealing with our Customers, almost as though they’re the problem that we have to deal with. As Customers ourselves, we witness this all the time, and surely as CX professionals and leaders we’re also more aware of it when we see it. It’s interesting, then, that it ever happens in the first place, considering the positions we hold and the authority we wield. MORE
One important facet of efficiency and positive CX is making it easy for Customers to deal with you and navigate your processes. The reason this is important is because corporations are necessarily defensive entities: we create processes to protect our organizations from risk and loss. That protection can come in the form of cash-on-hand, liquidity, T&Cs, and sometimes flexibility (for us) in how we deal with our Customers. MORE
In this article I’ll explain the components needed in place to elevate an organization’s Customer Experience. I won’t go too far in depth into the four parts but rather provide an overview of how they work together with a brief explanation of what they are. MORE
What makes the digital and analytics duo particularly sleek is their partnership holds the key to the future success of your contact center. In a recent Aberdeen report, 66% of respondents said the reason they are going digital is to improve CX. MORE
This post is part of a series on the four components needed for a CX organization to be successful. An introduction to the concept can be found here , and look for briefs on the moving parts (VoC, Process Engineering, and CX Culture) coming soon. Here we’ll kick it off with a discussion about aligning your CX strategy with your overall corporate strategy. CX practitioners, and especially more-so leaders, talk a lot about aligning CX strategy with overall corporate strategy. MORE
This is part two of a series of posts on the four components of a good CX system. I introduced the concept here and my first post, on CX strategic alignment, is here. Soon I’ll write about Process Engineering and wrap up with notes on what it takes to build and maintain a Customer-centric culture. MORE
Zeisler Consulting
OCTOBER 22, 2020
I’ve written previously about different job postings with CX-sounding titles. One of those jobs is in the family of “Customer Success” positions. If you’re like me, and work in CX, you may have wondered, What, exactly, is , Customer Success?
Zeisler Consulting
OCTOBER 1, 2020
I once had a mentor whose cubicle walls were covered in certificates and evidence of completion of training and qualification. People considered him a bit of an egotist and obsessed with certifications. Credentialism is a thing, after all. But I asked him once about all his accreditations.
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Zeisler Consulting
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
I’m a big fan, as you know, of negative feedback. I suggest that CX professionals be greedy for negative feedback.
Zeisler Consulting
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
There are articles all over the place and books overloading shelves in the business section of the stores having to do with strategies and branding.
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Zeisler Consulting
OCTOBER 15, 2020
You know I’m all about metrics and measures. One of the things that made entering the CX profession so attractive to me was that this is a field of study that’s not only based in numbers, it’s starving for people who have an affinity for measuring. CX is a study that’s founded on measuring…from survey results to Customer habits and attitudes to top-level improvements in your CX KPIs, numbers are all around us.
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Zeisler Consulting
AUGUST 14, 2020
This is part two of a series of posts on the four components of a good CX system. I introduced the concept here and my first post, on CX strategic alignment, is here. Soon I’ll write about Process Engineering and wrap up with notes on what it takes to build and maintain a Customer-centric culture.
Zeisler Consulting
AUGUST 10, 2020
In this article I’ll explain the components needed in place to elevate an organization’s Customer Experience. I won’t go too far in depth into the four parts but rather provide an overview of how they work together with a brief explanation of what they are.
Zeisler Consulting
OCTOBER 8, 2020
“Well, it’s because they’re different.”. The not-deliberately snarky, yet somewhat oversimplified tautological response was understandably not satisfying for the support business leader who’d asked me why I thought NPS would be different for the different lines of business his organization supported. But in the end, it’s no more complicated than that.
Zeisler Consulting
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
The topic of the Voice of the Customer (VoC) has many branches and sub-categories. Just on the topic of surveys alone (which is only a part of VoC), there are tons of thoughts: We discuss things like the formatting of surveys, the proper response rates, how and what sorts of questions to ask, which channel we should use to survey, even whom to survey.
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Zeisler Consulting
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
There’s a meme going around LinkedIn these days about a job posting that requires of the ideal candidate experience that’s physically impossible: a history of use of a platform or programming language that’s longer than the language’s existence in the first place. There’s even been a mocking job posting put up with a cascade of similar impossibilities as requirements.
Zeisler Consulting
AUGUST 27, 2020
We sometimes have an officious way of dealing with our Customers, almost as though they’re the problem that we have to deal with. As Customers ourselves, we witness this all the time, and surely as CX professionals and leaders we’re also more aware of it when we see it. It’s interesting, then, that it ever happens in the first place, considering the positions we hold and the authority we wield.
Zeisler Consulting
AUGUST 17, 2020
This is part three of a four-part series of posts about the components of a world-class CX function. I began last week with an overview of the structure. Since then I’ve posted on CX strategic alignment and your Voice of the Customer program. We come now to the action part of this series of articles where I’ll emphasize what you do to improve your CX. In the last installation we’ll discuss what it takes to build and support a Customer-centric culture.
Zeisler Consulting
AUGUST 12, 2020
This post is part of a series on the four components needed for a CX organization to be successful. An introduction to the concept can be found here , and look for briefs on the moving parts (VoC, Process Engineering, and CX Culture) coming soon. Here we’ll kick it off with a discussion about aligning your CX strategy with your overall corporate strategy. CX practitioners, and especially more-so leaders, talk a lot about aligning CX strategy with overall corporate strategy.
Speaker: Esther Kieft, Delivery Manager (Group Technology) at Domino's Pizza Enterprises
It is well known that empathy is a key ingredient in creating lovable products, yet not all products offer the best customer experience. From meeting stringent deadlines to insufficient resources being available to carry out customer research, there is a range of reasons why customer empathy could be missing in product development. Join Esther Kieft, as she breaks down using empathy at a distance to evaluate the problems that customers are experiencing during this global health crisis.
Zeisler Consulting
AUGUST 3, 2020
One important facet of efficiency and positive CX is making it easy for Customers to deal with you and navigate your processes. The reason this is important is because corporations are necessarily defensive entities: we create processes to protect our organizations from risk and loss. That protection can come in the form of cash-on-hand, liquidity, T&Cs, and sometimes flexibility (for us) in how we deal with our Customers.
Zeisler Consulting
JULY 31, 2020
You’ve likely heard about the concept and practice of “closing the loop” or a “closed-loop feedback” (CLF) cycle. What is it, and how does it work? There are actually a couple types of closed-loop feedback systems depending on whether you’re talking about internal or external feedback. Internal refers to an employee feedback mechanism where as an external closed-loop feedback system is geared toward the Customer’s inputs and what you do with them.
Zeisler Consulting
JULY 28, 2020
The world of CX is covered in platitudes and clichés. I don’t say that to denigrate it as a field of study and practice (quite the opposite), but rather just to acknowledge it so as to better combat empty words in favor of making actual impacts. Sometimes clichés are clichés because they’re right. One of those sayings that make the rounds all the time is, “if you take care of your employees, they’ll take care of your Customers.”
Zeisler Consulting
JULY 21, 2020
I have written previously a couple times about return on investment for CX. In fact, there are volumes of articles and books written about it. It’s almost as though there’s a sense of having to prove ourselves as CX professionals constantly. Now, in previous professional lives I’ve been part of PM teams and Process Improvement teams. Having to justify our existence is something I’ve had lots of experience doing.
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GetFeedback
AUGUST 23, 2020
NPS calculation formula and interpretation of data. Articles
IntouchInsight
AUGUST 20, 2020
Highlights from a recent interview with Jeanne Bliss of Customer Bliss and Erin Fenn of Intouch Insight on listening to hear, humanity, and how to grow your customer experience practices to earn trust
C3Centricity
OCTOBER 21, 2020
We need to better understand shoppers. Because retail is in crisis. Investment in brick-and-mortar stores has declined 30% in the US and a staggering 50% in Europe. In the UK 50,000 of the 500,000+, high street stores are empty , that’s a whopping 10%.
C3Centricity
OCTOBER 7, 2020
Ever wonder how to get more people talking about your business? It’s simple. Offer them incredible products and services that solve their problems and fulfil their needs and desires.
Speaker: Rachel Happe
An online community is an increasingly vital part of many leading companies’ support strategies. Creating a branded place where your customers can ask and answer questions, interact with each other, and search for the information they need is a great way to decrease the burden on your staff and allow them to focus on the customers that really need their help. Join us at 9:00 am EST on Nov 18th for this talk by Rachel Happe, founder of industry-leading strategists The Community Roundtable, you will learn the effectiveness of community in empowering your customers, and generating value for your business.
NICE inContact
OCTOBER 14, 2020
For years, marketers like myself have long espoused the benefits of cloud platforms to help businesses gain agility.
NICE inContact
OCTOBER 27, 2020
There are numerous reasons to record calls, but leading the pack is quality. Call recordings play a central role in monitoring, measuring, and improving call quality. A quality management program without call recordings is like macaroni without cheese. The pair belong together.
NICE inContact
OCTOBER 27, 2020
What makes the digital and analytics duo particularly sleek is their partnership holds the key to the future success of your contact center. In a recent Aberdeen report, 66% of respondents said the reason they are going digital is to improve CX.
C3Centricity
SEPTEMBER 13, 2020
Denyse Drummond-Dunn · Is the future of retail in the stars? Never miss an episode. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts to get new episodes as they become available.”. Will the future of retail be without physical outlets?
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ShepHyken
SEPTEMBER 26, 2018
Less than one week before the release of my new book, The Convenience Revolution: How to Deliver a Customer Service Experience That Disrupts the Competition and Creates Fierce Loyalty , so I thought it appropriate to share some thoughts on how being easy – or convenient – can give you a competitive advantage over your competition. When your customers can buy what you sell from others, that’s called competition. That also makes it a commodity.
GetFeedback
AUGUST 31, 2020
How to rethink your omnichannel CX strategy for 2020 and onward as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Guides
Lumoa
AUGUST 24, 2020
What is customer engagement, how do you measure it, and most importantly how do you improve it? Learn everything you have to know about customer engagement. Feed generated with FetchRSS
Experience Investigators by 360Connext
OCTOBER 27, 2020
Voice of the Customer (VoC) programs often start with a general plan on how to gather customer feedback. The plan typically includes suggestions for customer listening posts.
Speaker: Donald Fan, Senior Director of the Global Office of Culture, Diversity & Inclusion at Walmart Inc.
In the digital era, rife with uncertainty and ambiguity, innovation plays an essential role in sustaining organic growth and outperforming the global competition. Research proves time and again, there exists a robust bond between innovation and diversity & inclusion (D&I); our challenge is to help our leaders understand how to plant the seeds of innovation in the fertile D&I garden in order to drive a strategic and competitive advantage from the office and in the digital landscape.
Steven Macdonald
OCTOBER 25, 2020
The customer journey follows the complete lifecycle from awareness to loyalty. Here, we share our process and framework to map the entire customer journey
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