CX Journey

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Pundits and experts alike say that customer experience is everyone's job. If you google "customer experience is everyone's job" and "customer service is everyone's job," you'll find endless articles, blogs, and webinars with that very title. Image courtesy of Nikolai Berntsen Is it really everyone's job?

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Customer Bliss

AUGUST 16, 2018

On today’s episode, we’re talking to Lee Roquet , the Chief Customer Officer at Yellowfin , a B2B SaaS company that provides a business intelligence analytics platform. Before Yellowfin, Lee began his career at a software company call center, working his way up to team lead, manager, then a VP to handle client success.

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ijgolding

MARCH 31, 2017

So when my friend and fellow CCXP (Certified Customer Experience Professional), Mike Bartlett sent me his own story comparing Delta and Virgin, I felt that others needed to read it too! The online chat went very well but the agent confirmed I would need to call their customer service department directly to resolve the issue.

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ShepHyken

JULY 10, 2018

How to create a customer service culture that solves customers problems, increases revenue, and drives loyalty. Shep Hyken discusses frontline leadership, conflict resolution, and customer loyalty with Jim Rembach, the president of Call Center Coach. ? ?. Building A Winning Culture From Within.

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Forrester

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Unfortunately, customer experience professionals can make current problems worse -- and even cause new problems -- when they create the wrong CX standards. Remember the infamous Comcast customer-service call from the summer? But bad CX standards are worse than no standards at all.

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Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

We’re honored to be honored for our work alongside so many of our customer service and customer experience colleagues. This is especially true in the customer service industry. Customer Experience (CX) has catapulted into one of the most important aspects of determining business success.

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Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

We’re honored to be honored for our work alongside so many of our customer service and customer experience colleagues. This is especially true in the customer service industry. Customer Experience (CX) has catapulted into one of the most important aspects of determining business success.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 17, 2015

If you can find an hour, you can make these quick customer experience improvements: 1. Stop by your call center and listen in. I once made it a point to listen to just 10 incoming service calls for a client. Out of those 10 calls, 3 customers were searching for the same solution.

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GetFeedback

JULY 19, 2019

This wonderful combination is what helps us really hear the Voice in Voice of the Customer. Storytelling: Your VoC program should tell the story of your customer. Use real quotes, call center recordings, and other powerful emotional data to share what’s really going on with your customers. And guess what?

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ijgolding

MARCH 20, 2018

Today I am absolutely delighted to share my interview with passionate Customer Experience Professional, Kathy van de Laar – enjoy… Ian. While I was there, the agency started working with something called experience-based branding. When I look back on it, this was for me the start of customer experience.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

AUGUST 10, 2022

One of the most popular arrows in the quiver of a customer experience professional is the customer journey map. And for good reason…it’s a straightforward, effective way to visually depict a customer’s relationship with your organization.

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Avaya

MAY 18, 2016

Pretty much any organization today has some sort of customer experience process in place, and that process has evolved along with technology. From the traditional call center, with rows of agents handling multiple calls, we have moved on to the contact center, and multichannel communications, to the omnichannel experience.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

A look back at the past few years reveals the many significant changes in the world of customer service. The credit for these changes goes to the customer service experts who helped redefine the industry. This will help you stay up to date with the trends and best practices of customer service. Bill Quiseng.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 12, 2022

This prevents inbound calls – an important goal for any contact center, which is still widely considered a cost center.”. Second, IoT can make it easier to act upon customer concerns. Is there a cellular outage currently impacting the functionality of the product?). Goebel doesn’t see the VoP replacing the VoC.

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Avaya

JULY 14, 2016

From Jarvis, Mark Zuckerberg’s Iron Man-inspired assistant, to Microsoft’s rather unfortunate Tay experience, chatbots have been making the news this year—not least in how they are playing an ever bigger role in customer service. Customers today expect to receive an always-on personal digital experience.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

AUGUST 10, 2022

One of the most popular arrows in the quiver of a customer experience professional is the customer journey map. And for good reason…it’s a straightforward, effective way to visually depict a customer’s relationship with your organization.

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Pretium Solutions

JULY 4, 2012

It was an excellent conference with well over 100 customer experience professionals in attendance. The presentations about creating the right customer experience culture and programs were refreshing and insightful. The journey toward becoming a customer-centric organization is not an easy one. Okay, but HOW?

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Pretium Solutions

JULY 4, 2012

It was an excellent conference with well over 100 customer experience professionals in attendance. The presentations about creating the right customer experience culture and programs were refreshing and insightful. The journey toward becoming a customer-centric organization is not an easy one. Okay, but HOW?

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Pretium Solutions

JULY 4, 2012

It was an excellent conference with well over 100 customer experience professionals in attendance. The presentations about creating the right customer experience culture and programs were refreshing and insightful. The journey toward becoming a customer-centric organization is not an easy one. Okay, but HOW?

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Kustomer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

How do you empower your customer service agents to deliver a great experience and delight customers? Michael is the Principal and founder of the consultancy The Pace of Service , which helps organizations to realize the full benefit of Customer Service, Social Business, Business Process Management, and People Leadership.

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Pointillist

APRIL 26, 2018

Around one in three respondents highlight a lack of single customer view and real-time customer insights as something holding them back from CX optimization , making it the most frequently experienced customer experience challenge. Use this information to seamlessly engage with each customer across touchpoints.

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Michel Falcon Experience

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

bctt tweet=” If you’re going to have a successful career as a customer experience professional you need a strategy.”] ”] I remember the day when I first recognized that customer experience management would be “my thing.” I wanted to visit them, ask questions and learn.

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Kustomer

APRIL 23, 2020

Listen and subscribe to our podcast: Mary Drummond, CMO of Worthix, a specialist at improving customer experiences, joins Gabe Larsen on the Customer Service Secrets podcast to discuss the fundamental elements of building beneficial relationships between companies and customers. The Value Of Time Well Spent.

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SurveySensum

JULY 14, 2020

Meet the Top 150 Global Customer Experience Thought Leaders and Influencers of 2020. Adam Toporek – Customer Service Expert, Keynote Speaker, Trainer, Strategic Advisor . Annette Franz – Customer Experience Consultant, Keynote Speaker, Author . LinkedIn : [link]. Website : [link].

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Thematic

MAY 22, 2019

CXPA or the Customer Experience Professionals Association is an organisation dedicated to cultivating the CX profession. If your CX project reduces the amount of time that agents have to spend on the phone, that is a significant cost saving for support and call center teams. Check them out.

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Customer Guru

MARCH 7, 2018

So, I joined a call center – a technical voice based one – and my profile was that of a technical consultant to customers outside India. But in a call center, you don’t talk to a customer face to face; you do it over a phone. For this reason, the service one provided was all the more important.

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Pointillist

MAY 23, 2018

More and more marketers and customer experience professionals are now looking for the best customer journey analytics platform to understand and engage with individual customers at a personal level, at scale. According to a recent Forrester survey, 88% of CX pros are doing customer journey mapping.

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Pointillist

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Today, the utilization of speech data is largely confined to recording call center transcripts. For instance, did the customer raise his voice? The ability to understand and accurately predict your customers’ emotions is precious to you as a customer experience professional.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 8, 2016

Each week I read a number of customer service articles from various online resources. Five Questions Customer Experience Professionals Are Asking Today by Michael Hinshaw. McorpCX) Everyone is talking about customer experience. What Exactly Is The Future of Customer Service?

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TechSee

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

If 2018 was a year when customer experience professionals came under intense pressure to map out tangible results from heavy investment, 2019 is shaping up to be the year when next generation customer experience will deliver on the promise of a wide range of new technologies.

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Chattermill

JUNE 25, 2019

Cost-to-Serve: Improving customer experience has a direct impact on reducing the cost to serve customers as it results in streamlined processes, a reduced volume of complaints and refunds to the customer call center and greater efficiencies company wide. Not Connecting with Customers on Multiple Channels.

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Pointillist

APRIL 17, 2019

Finally, while they ingest and integrate data from multiple sources for analysis, Customer Analytics tools still ask for your data to be mapped to their internal data model, which may require the assistance of vendor or third party service providers.

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Russel Lolacher

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Let’s call this customer experience Professionals Association. And she’s been a been a bunch of top this and top that list for customer experience leadership. Connect and learn more about Stacy on her platforms: Twitter. Wow, another acronym. Hello to you, Stacy. Stacy Sherman.

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Vonage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

The whitepaper “Why Silos Damage Customer Experience” , from Amy Scott, Director of Sedulous Consulting, looks at the impact silo mentality is having on customer experience. Let’s hope nuisance calls are making their long goodbye. The $62 billion customer service scared away [INFOGRAPHIC].

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Talkdesk

AUGUST 20, 2015

Modern customers expect a seamless customer service experience. Customers are more demanding than ever and more willing to defect after a poor experience. Tincher is the mapper-in-chief and founder of Heart of the Customer , which aids companies in increasing customer engagement.

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