ijgolding

JUNE 14, 2016

When it comes to the subject of Customer Experience, there are many questions I would like to know the answer to. So this year, I wanted to explore another aspect of Customer Experience that I find extremely interesting. So what did people see as either enabling customer centric behaviour… or frustrating it?

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Alida

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Earlier this week, more than 400 professionals in marketing, customer experience, innovation and research gathered in Chicago for the 2016 Customer Intelligence Summit. The two-day annual conference featured keynotes and presentations by some of the world’s leading customer-centric brands.

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Alida

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

In our e-book The 10 Smartest Brands: How They Use the Competitive Advantage of Customer Intelligence , we reveal how companies like D E WALT, LinkedIn and Salomon engage with customers to make better marketing, customer experience and product innovation decisions. Increasing revenue with NewsCorp Australia.

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Forrester's Customer Insights

JANUARY 23, 2023

In 2023, Empowered Customers Are Engaging Differently With Brands In 2016, we introduced Forrester’s Empowered Customer Segmentation, based on consumer behavior we’ve been monitoring and analyzing since the 1997 launch of Forrester Analytics’ Consumer Technographics® survey data.

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Help.com

MARCH 14, 2016

A recent study by Gallup shows that only 29% of customers are fully engaged. Think about what that means for your brand. 71% of customers are ready and willing to part ways with your company. We share a few tips below that can help boost your customer engagement and create a culture of loyal, happy customers.

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iPerceptions

JULY 6, 2016

As we enter into July and the second half of 2016, marketers and brand leaders should take a moment to process some of the biggest customer experience stories and developments from last month. Summer has officially arrived.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Each week I read a number of customer service articles from various online resources. What’s stopping your customers from being loyal? Graham Jones) Most business leaders appreciate that 80% of their profits come from 20% of their customers. Keeping loyal customers is the “holy grail” of business. by Graham Jones.

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Lumoa

AUGUST 23, 2021

In any case, customer experience used to be the largest way to differentiate your brand among the turbulent sea of competition. New ways of interacting with customers A recent study from CMO found that 84% of companies were using social media for brand building and more than 54% have used it for customer retention.

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C3Centricity

JULY 2, 2016

Your brand is not what you think it is! It is what your customers think it is; its brand image, personality and its value to them. I was lecturing at Miami University a couple of weeks ago on brand image and personality. These are two vital elements of branding. Why we Buy Brands. Branding Elements.

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Conversocial

MAY 4, 2021

The legacy of 2016’s ‘ Year of the Bot ’ was too many badly designed bots, mak ing “I’m sorry, I don’t understand” a far too regular occurrence. Bots have come a long way since their inception, but consumer trust still lags behind. The result; consumer perception still being bots aren’t all that useful.

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Experience Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2016

If you’ve followed our research, then you know that organizations build and sustain customer-centric cultures by mastering the Four CX Core Competencies: Purposeful Leadership, Compelling Brand Values, Employee Engagement, and Customer Connectedness.

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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The ongoing aftereffects of the pandemic, massive political disruption, and the spiraling cost of living crisis are combining to only make it more challenging to meet customers’ needs. This has led retail brands to investigate new forms of communicating with and serving customers, notably chatbots.

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Wired and Dangerous

JANUARY 4, 2016

Welcome to 2016! We believe this year will be remembered in years to come as one in which people in the world of work embraced the spirit of consistently providing customers with great service across the entire customer journey! Great concierges are intensely loyal to a customer and consistently deliver great service. .

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Comm100

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The customer service landscape is forever changing as technologies and consumer expectations develop, but 2021 has seen a shift of proportions that we have arguably never experienced. Query volumes spiked as customers (and companies) faced unprecedented problems, placing huge stress on customer service agents.

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Trends Customer Service Chatbots Omni-Channel 206

Kayako

MARCH 14, 2017

Warby Parker are just one of many brands in the fast-growing vCommerce space who are inciting incredible customer love as a result of their their dogged focus on delivering fantastic customer experiences – and reaping the rewards: their latest funding pegs them at an eye-watering $1.2 billion valuation. billion valuation.

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Michelli Experience

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

When I was asked to do a TEDx talk about a year ago, I keyed in on the message that your brand (be that your individual brand or your corporate brand) is little more than “what people say about you when you are not around.”. Of all things for which Ed is known, “signature baseballs” is a substantial element of his brand.

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CloudCherry

MARCH 15, 2018

The customer experience wave has disrupted several industries and Telecom is one of them. Today, customers aren’t just leaving some of the biggest telecom brands in the world (Comcast ring a bell?) Customer retention is, therefore, the most pragmatic solution to tackle customer churn. It gets even better.

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Alida

JULY 11, 2017

Customer experience is middling at best, and that’s troubling for brands. Forrester’s 2017 Global Customer Experience Trends report found the vast majority of firms in digital and traditional retail, banking and insurance around the world only earned the research firm’s Customer Experience Index (CX Index) score in the “OK” range.

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Tricia Morris

JUNE 8, 2016

Below is a sneak peek of just a few of the survey responses from United States consumers polled as part of Microsoft’s 2016 State of Global Customer Service Report, which also includes responses from 4,000 additional consumers across Brazil, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom. The post INFOGRAPHIC: 2016 U.S.

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OpinionLab

JUNE 24, 2016

It was a really interesting event with some great content from some of the brightest customer experience experts at the biggest brands in the financial services industry. Working backwards with the end goal in mind provides an opportunity to improve the customer journey. 2) Become a story teller. 3) Listen, listen, listen.

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Competitive Advantage Financial Conference eBook 79

Tricia Morris

JULY 18, 2016

Expectations for customer service have grown over the past few years: around convenience, speed, agent knowledge and insights, and by far, around channel availability and digital transformation. The post INFOGRAPHIC: 2016 State of Global Customer Service appeared first on Parature.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 27, 2016

Each week I read a number of customer service articles from various online resources. ON DEMAND: Microsoft’s 2016 Global State of Customer Service Report Reveal by Bill Peterson. She shared the new report, The Microsoft Global State of Customer Service. Customer experience in the age of disloyalty by Blaise Lucey.

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Net Promoter Score Customer Service NPS Report 74

BlueOcean

OCTOBER 23, 2023

(This is updated version of our most popular blogs: 52 RFP Questions (2013), 51 RFP Questions (2016), 60 RFP Questions (2020)) Every few years we update our recommended list of contact center RFP Questions. Agent Workforce An outsourcer’s ability to attract and retain the right people for your brand and your service requirements is essential.

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Customer Care Contact Center Comparison Employee Engagement 177

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 26, 2016

Each week I read a number of customer service articles from various online resources. The Hidden Costs of Poor Internal Customer Service By Joanne Wortman. Integrify) Of course, every business understands the need to maintain a high commitment to providing excellent customer service. Here are my top five picks from last week.

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Chief Customer Officer Customer Service Lifetime Customer Loyalty 83

Kayako

JANUARY 4, 2017

Boards are now seeing that great customer service does contribute to the bottom line. After all, excellent customer support can turn customers into loyal advocates resulting in more revenue. But customer service is just a smaller piece of the whole company. Customer experience is the new marketing.”.

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Hallmark Business Connections

MARCH 9, 2021

If you’re a brand marketer, that meant pivoting your strategy to account for the “new normal,” tossing out (or heavily revising) now-defunct messaging, and collaborating with teammates over Zoom rather than in person. Granted, these wheels were already in motion pre-pandemic: In 2016, 64 million people , roughly 20% of the U.S.

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Eptica

JANUARY 12, 2017

Date: Thursday, January 12, 2017 What were the top customer service trends of 2016? To help we’ve analyzed all 100+ posts published on the Eptica blog in 2016, and picked a top ten, based on a combination of readership and industry feedback. Is a lack of consistency letting your customer service down?

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Trends Customer Service Contact Center Analysis 48

Customer Bliss

AUGUST 3, 2017

Some interesting, if not surprising, news from the customer experience world recently. Forrester recently released their US 2017 Customer Experience Index , which goes through data from 120,000 online consumers to rank 300 brands across 21 industries. Twice as many brand scores fell as rose, and losses outpaced gains.

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Tricia Morris

APRIL 1, 2016

Customers’ expectations for brands and organizations delivering the right answer at the right time, whether through assisted or self-service, continue to grow. In Microsoft’s Global State of Customer Service Report, 90% of consumers surveyed now expect a company website to include a self-service application.

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Tricia Morris

JANUARY 4, 2016

“If you wonder what getting and keeping the right employees has to do with getting and keeping the right customers, the answer is everything.” – Fred Reichheld, Author, Business Strategist. A new year brings resolutions to change or improve in ways that matter, and for brands and organizations, customer service is always a key focus.

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Trends Customer Service Chief Customer Officer Self Service 40

NetBase

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

And this realization has emerging trends around remote work on the rise, and has brands rethinking how to use abandoned office space – assuming they’ll use it at all! And brands are responding accordingly. REI) is selling its custom-made new headquarters and shifting toward its employees working remotely.

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Forrester

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Last week, my colleague Rick Parrish discussed the stagnation in CX for Canadian brands from our Canada 2016 Customer Experience Index™ In this post, I'll explore another big finding from our research: The way an experience makes customers feel has a bigger influence on their loyalty to a brand than the effectiveness or ease of the experience.

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Alida

JULY 11, 2018

In a panel session moderated by our very own Karen Eisen, experts from Canadian Tire, Jamieson Laboratories, CIBC and Flipp shared how they are using customer insight to improve the customer experience. Canadian Tire: Use insight to meet the needs of different customers. Customer insight also helps reduce risks at CIBC.

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Industry Brands Banking ROI 141

Alida

DECEMBER 1, 2016

A report conducted by the tech company LinkedIn, the advisory firm Capgemini and the non-profit Efma found that half of banking customers around the world now use at least one product or service from a fintech firm. In the first quarter of 2016 alone, fintech startups saw an influx of $5.2 Establishing a customer-centric culture.

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Tricia Morris

DECEMBER 18, 2015

Jeanne Bliss: Chief Customer Officer Author and CXPA Co-founder. Sumair Dutta: The Service Council Chief Customer Officer and Former Aberdeen Customer Experience Analyst. Annette Franz: Certified Customer Experience Professional, CX Journey Author and CXPA Board Member. Tricia Morris: Parature, from Microsoft Sr. .

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Trends Chief Customer Officer Customer Service eBook 40

Comm100

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The customer service landscape is forever changing as technologies and consumer expectations develop, but 2021 has seen a shift of proportions that we have arguably never experienced. Query volumes spiked as customers (and companies) faced unprecedented problems, placing huge stress on customer service agents.

Trends 154

Trends Customer Service Chatbots Omni-Channel 154

Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Technology, human behavior, Customer Experience are intersecting through the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and taking marketing in a new direction. We spoke to Messina on a recent podcast about this concept and how it applies to customer-driven growth. In other words, brands behave like humans in these channels.

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