Experience Matters

JANUARY 4, 2016

We’ve got a lot of CX work to do in 2016, which we’ve labeled as The Year of Emotion. As you start down the path of making 2016 a banner year for CX in your organization, I want to share my wishes for you: May you focus on your customers’ needs , even when internal priorities push them to be ignored.

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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.

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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

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Online communities are now an important tool in gaining ongoing customer feedback and insight. In particular, insight communities —private, online communities made up of carefully selected groups of customers who develop long-term relationships with brands—are now used by hundreds of customer-centric global brands.

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NICE inContact

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

We are thrilled to announce that Customer Magazine has selected inContact My Agent eXperience™ (MAX) as a 2016 Customer Product of the Year. Each year Customer Magazine identifies outstanding achievements within the call center/CRM industry and awards the most innovative customer experience technology solutions.

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Storyminers

JANUARY 26, 2016

At the end of last year, I was invited to share my customer experience predictions for 2016 with MarketForce, a sponsor-funded European Union event production company. The only guideline was to focus on what could/should happen in 2016. With the retail industry fresh on my mind as I prepared for the NRF Big Show, I […].

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InMoment XI

MAY 4, 2022

We all know that employee loyalty is important , but oftentimes we forget how employee loyalty is connected with customer loyalty and how loyal employees contribute to the success of the entire business. Profit and growth are stimulated primarily by customer loyalty. Loyalty is a direct result of customer satisfaction.

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Experience Matters

MARCH 29, 2017

We just published a Temkin Group report, Employee Engagement Benchmark Study, 2017. The research is based on an online survey on Q3 2016. Take a look at our Employee Engagement Resource Page). This is the sixth year that we’ve published the benchmark of U.S. For the sixth year in a row, Temkin Group used the […].

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Calabrio

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

With 2016 behind us, we’re wondering what we can glean from the flurry of predictions, prophecies and prognostications for 2017. According to Gartner’s annual CMO spend survey, as customer experience becomes the key to gaining a competitive advantage, CMOs will spend more on tech to support their CX goals. Ready for 2017 and beyond?

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Experience Matters

JANUARY 19, 2016

We just published a Temkin Group report, Lessons in CX Excellence, 2016. This report has rich insights about both B2B and B2C customer experience. The report provides insights from eight finalists in the Temkin Group’s 2015 CX Excellence Awards. Here’s the executive […].

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Comm100

JANUARY 14, 2016

Consequently, as newer technologies enable more ease in performing business transactions, consumers will have higher expectations when it comes to customer service and sales support. In recent years, consumers have placed greater importance on the quality of customer service than on the price and quality of products alone.

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CX Journey

MAY 24, 2017

It appeared on their blog on August 29, 2016. Quite simply: without employees, you have no customer experience. The linkage between employee engagement and experience and the customer experience has been proven. Employees are critical to the customer experience, which is critical to the success of the business.

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Storyminers

JUNE 3, 2022

Kampyle, now part of Medallia, published this interview as a kick-off to their Emerging Trends in Customer Experience series in 2016. Steve Haeckel (the guy who taught me systems thinking applied to enterprise design) introduced me to Lou Carbone (the guy who helped me fall in love with customer experience). 2016 Answer.

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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 Engagement What is your annual agent attrition rate companywide (list both voluntary and involuntary turnover numbers)?

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CX Journey

APRIL 21, 2016

Image courtesy of Juju Insipired What customer experience challenges are you facing this year? Even though 2016 is already a third of the way over, I thought it would be interesting to share some findings about key customer experience challenges that have been identified for this year. That's pointless.

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SuiteCX

JANUARY 2, 2017

As 2016 rapidly draws to a close, Customer Experience continues to be a “hot topic” on everyone’s agenda, but companies are having trouble making progress. The primary disconnects are how Customer Experience professionals present and communicate Customer Experience to the C Suite. Customer Insight.

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SuiteCX

JANUARY 2, 2017

As 2016 rapidly draws to a close, Customer Experience continues to be a “hot topic” on everyone’s agenda, but companies are having trouble making progress. The primary disconnects are how Customer Experience professionals present and communicate Customer Experience to the C Suite. Customer Insight.

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Calabrio

JUNE 9, 2016

At Calabrio, we like to stay ahead of the curve so we can meet our customers where they want to be tomorrow, instead of where they were yesterday. One of the places I look for trends is in the 2016 Dimension Data Global Contact Centre Benchmarking Report , the most extensive global contact center survey in the industry.

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Calabrio

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

With 2016 behind us, we’re wondering what we can glean from the flurry of predictions, prophecies and prognostications for 2017. According to Gartner’s annual CMO spend survey, as customer experience becomes the key to gaining a competitive advantage, CMOs will spend more on tech to support their CX goals. Ready for 2017 and beyond?

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Calabrio

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

With 2016 behind us, we’re wondering what we can glean from the flurry of predictions, prophecies and prognostications for 2017. According to Gartner’s annual CMO spend survey, as customer experience becomes the key to gaining a competitive advantage, CMOs will spend more on tech to support their CX goals. Ready for 2017 and beyond?

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Michelli Experience

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Here are my 6 commitments for 2016, I will be asking you to share your targets at the end of this post: Show-up : Surely, you have run across people who perpetually make excuses or you’ve had interactions with those who seem to be in a constant state of “trying.” Does that mean (in the words of Charlie Sheen) you are “winning?”

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TechSee

JULY 3, 2018

According to research and consulting company Tractica , expanding use cases for mobile AR will lead to growth from 343 million unique monthly active users (MAUs) globally in 2016 to nearly 2 billion MAUs by 2022. Forward-thinking enterprises are using visual AR to enhance the entire customer journey. Unboxing and installation.

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CX University

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

The fundamental thing is engagement with employees. In 2016, they lost 340 patent examiners, allowing them to boast a 96% retention rate. But despite the organization’s clear focus on technology and innovation, the primary focus of employee engagement initiatives is much broader. The Science of Listening.

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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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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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Totango

JANUARY 10, 2019

At its core, customer success is simple: take care of your customers and they’ll take care of your business. Nurture relationships, and not only will customers receive excellent service and well-supported products, but your enterprise will be financially healthy in the long-run. And what new capabilities are available?

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 7, 2016

We have had a significant increase in the number of organizations contacting us for help with their Customer Experience program. In many cases the initial focus on Customer Experience and new customer measures, like Net Promoter, delivered some improvements but they have been short-lived. We Need New Thinking. My Prediction.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 7, 2016

We have had a significant increase in the number of organizations contacting us for help with their Customer Experience program. In many cases the initial focus on Customer Experience and new customer measures, like Net Promoter, delivered some improvements but they have been short-lived. We Need New Thinking. My Prediction.

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Tricia Morris

MARCH 29, 2017

Expectations for customer engagement continue to grow at an exponential rate. According to Microsoft’s 2016 State of Global Customer Service Report which surveyed 5,000 customers across Brazil, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, 72% of customers already.

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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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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The post 5 Ways to Improve the Patient Experience in 2016 appeared first on Customer Experience Consulting. I had never attended a conference solely focused on healthcare, so I learned a lot about what innovative healthcare systems are doing to improve the patient experience. Healthcare […].

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CSM Magazine

MAY 23, 2016

This in-depth research report written by CX Network looks at the key customer experience trends, challenges and investments for the next 12 –18 months and the digital transformation of organisations. Customer loyalty and retention, online customer experience, and data and analytics are also the top trends predicted by practitioners.

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Customercount

OCTOBER 22, 2018

To Nominate now [link] INDIANAPOLIS, IN January 20, 2016 – CustomerCount? has announced it will sponsor and present an award recognizing outstanding members of the customer engagement profession.

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Think Customers

DECEMBER 15, 2015

One of the undisputed thought leaders in the customer experience space is Bruce Temkin, customer experience transformist and managing partner at Temkin Group as well as co-founder and initial chairman of the Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA). 1to1Media.com/weblog.

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Influitive

JANUARY 27, 2017

To start 2017 off strong, we’re reviewing some of Influitive’s biggest B2B marketing campaigns from 2016 to see what went well and what we could improve on. (If January is the perfect time to review the past year’s ups and downs—both personally and professionally—to see how you can do better. If you’re curious about previous years,

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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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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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