BirdEye

JULY 5, 2023

Customer acquisition is one of the biggest challenges and expenditures for businesses. However, constantly acquiring new customers without investing in strategies to retain them can prove quite harmful to the bottom line. And that is done with relationship marketing. Why does relationship marketing work?

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Examples Strategy Marketing Social Media 98

BlueOcean

JULY 5, 2016

In our world, it’s a little bit soul crushing to know that one third of people in the US would choose to clean a toilet over talking with customer service. If the call to customer care is a dreaded and distasteful last resort, how do we adapt and improve the experience? The Facts About Social Customer Care.

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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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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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Retail Analytics Guidelines Customers 100

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Your customers are already evaluating the experience you are delivering. 89% of customers will decide based on customer experience in 2016. How can you create a better customer experience now to compete in this changing marketplace? You need to understand the customer journey of today.

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Topdown

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Gartner’s content and customer communications management (CCM) analysts have been quite busy lately. In the last few articles on our blog, we’ve been going over their recommendations for contextualizing CCM and the customer experience.

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Strategy Management Customer Experience Management Communication 48

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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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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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. What strategies have you deployed to maintain and nurture your culture with a mix of on-premises, remote, and/or hybrid employees?

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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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Trends Customer Experience Wireless Entertainment 147

The DiJulius Group

JANUARY 27, 2016

You need to make 2016 the year you create an unfair competitive advantage from everyone else. Become the brand you Customers cannot live without and make price irrelevant. It needs to be […].

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Strategy Customer Experience Competitive Advantage Customers 40

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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Kerry Bodine

OCTOBER 20, 2016

That’s because the folks at the former design agency Adaptive Path (which was acquired by Capital One back in 2014) did a great job of highlighting two key things: 1) The entirety of the customer experience. Many organizations use journey maps to make improvements to customer pain points. Kudos to the Exploratorium! .

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Customer Journeys Strategy Transportation Conference 120

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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Kerry Bodine

OCTOBER 20, 2016

That’s because the folks at the former design agency Adaptive Path (which was acquired by Capital One back in 2014) did a great job of highlighting two key things: 1) The entirety of the customer experience. ” Many organizations use journey maps to make improvements to customer pain points. Kudos to the Exploratorium! .

Customer Journeys 120

Customer Journeys Strategy Transportation Conference 120

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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Engagement Strategy Entertainment Exercises 250

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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Customer Service Loyalty Customer Success Resources 124

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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Customer Journeys Self Service Customer Insights Survey 100

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.

Customer Journeys 100

Customer Journeys Self Service Customer Insights Survey 100

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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ijgolding

MAY 6, 2020

This is a post about customer experience (CX) transformation – about the incredible work being done by a bank in Eastern Europe in their quest to become sustainably customer centric. I first met Laura Tengerdi and Andrea (Andi) Hanyecz in 2016. customer insight. customer journey management. governance.

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Banking Customer Experience Customer Centricity Strategy 233

C3Centricity

JULY 30, 2018

All marketers know their marketing 5Ps, but how do you update your marketing when you adopt a customer first strategy? This is the easiest of the marketing 5Ps for a customer centric organisation to adapt because a customer first strategy is all about your customers. ” What is it? .”

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Strategy Marketing How To Customer Centricity 120

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

AUGUST 24, 2015

Did you know that by 2016, 89% of companies will compete mainly by the customer experience they provide? Are you preparing your customer experience strategy for this? Your survey data and customer dashboards only tell part of the story. The post Get Your Experience Strategy Ready for the 4th Quarter!

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Strategy Consulting Survey Customer Experience 110

iPerceptions

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

It's a new year, and the first month of 2016 has already seen a lot of interesting developments in the world of customer experience technology and strategy. CX strategists and advocates will want to know where things are headed as 2016 moves along, so here are a few of the biggest headlines and discoveries thus far.

Customer Centricity 48

Customer Centricity Customers Technology Strategy 48

Customer Bliss

JANUARY 19, 2017

Many companies talk about having a customer-centric strategy. But if you attempted to apply a customer-centric strategy in 2016 (or even have it on the radar for this year), how do you know if it’s working? You have to view customer-centric journeys and strategy in the context of transformation milestones.

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Customer Centricity Strategy Chief Customer Officer Metrics 100

Michel Falcon Experience

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

As 2016 nears, have you started to map out your customer experience strategy for next year?Will Will 2016 be the year that you fully commit to improving your customer experience?I I don’t mean that you continue to tell your customers, employees and business partners (i.e. I mean, will… Read More».

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Customer Experience Employee Experience Customer Focused Customers 60

ijgolding

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

The question was as follows: What value has our business experienced as a result of all the Customer Experience (CX) work that has been done? Wanting proof of the real financial benefit of a CX focused strategy is a very common requirement of those who run businesses – and so it should be.

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Customer Experience Poor Customer Service Financial Return on Investment 208

iPerceptions

MARCH 4, 2016

Now that the second month of 2016 has come to a close, the year's customer-centric trends and developments are beginning to take form. Let's take a closer look at what February had to offer in terms of the customer experience , from technology to strategy and everything in between.

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Customer Centricity Trends Customers Technology 48

Joe Rawlinson

MAY 31, 2017

Take a look at your most loyal customers. Forbes reports that most businesses find 20 percent of their most loyal customers actually make up 80 percent of their sales. Studies also back up the idea that retaining customers can positively impact your bottom line. But which customer retention strategies actually work?

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Customer Retention Omni-Channel Strategy CRM 98

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. Well, there are reasons for it.

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Wireless Customer Retention Call Center Advertising 210

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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Customer Experience Financial Banking Culture 193

ProProfs Chat

APRIL 5, 2019

Every brand in the market wishes to revamp its customer support strategies after a certain period of time. No wonder we come across so many articles online that speak of various strategies that organizations can implement to improve their customer service. Lindsay is the Founder CEO of Customer Thermometer.

Strategy 93

Strategy Chatbots Self Service Customer Centricity 93

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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Connections Customer Experience Customer Experience Professionals Trends 60

Think Customers

JANUARY 11, 2016

It's the time of the year again when savvy customer experience leaders are planning their strategies for 2016. Separating their organizations from their competition is no longer about price and features; instead it's about providing quality customer experiences.

Customer Experience 40

Customer Experience Trends Customers Strategy 40

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

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

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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