CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Reuters Events are excited to announce the next free customer service & experience webinar: ‘Becoming a CX Visionary: How Leaders Build a Customer-Centric Culture’ featuring senior leaders from CVS Health, Comcast, Nissan NA & Bloomfire! Register now to join live or pre-order the recording!

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Customer Centricity Culture Ecommerce Government 52

Forrester's Customer Insights

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

In my past 30 years in the contact center industry at organizations like RingCentral, Genesys, 8×8, and IBM, I’ve watched the same movie over and over and over again…too many contact centers are laboring under the tyranny of being a cost center with schizophrenic goals of making customers happy while “doing more with less”.

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Culture Contact Center Customer Service Customers 66

ECXO

MAY 16, 2024

Leaders play a central role in clarifying this relationship and demonstrating how everyone contributes to the whole, inspiring employees to actively improve the customer experience, resulting in a more customer-centered organizational culture. A customer journey is always seen from the customer’s perspective.

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Customer Centricity Leadership Customer Journeys Touchpoint 69

Lumoa

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Success in customer experience (CX) can be represented by numbers. A high Net Promoter Score (NPS), a large number of new customers in a month, or fewer unsatisfactory customer service request conclusions, are just some of the metrics we use to measure an effective customer experience.

Competitive Advantage 208

Competitive Advantage Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Effort Score 208

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 13, 2023

However, embedding a customer-centric culture can be challenging when CX is isolated from other departments. I’ve seen CX teams that are solely responsible for creating and deploying customer feedback mechanisms. The advantage is that this promotes a customer-centric culture across the entire organization.

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Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Culture Customer Centricity 162

ECXO

APRIL 18, 2024

He was a Customer Success Manager at a well-known company, “TechEase” A traditional company in the city that has been there for decades, working in the same way they have always worked. Though TechEase was renowned for its innovative products, it was infamous for its lack of customer-centric culture.

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Customer Experience Customer Centricity Chief Customer Officer Culture 104

ijgolding

MARCH 20, 2018

My background was call centers and phone-based customer contact and I was one of a small team of people working with clients like AT&T, FedEx, IBM to improve their phone-based customer services. When I look back on it, this was for me the start of customer experience. I started EarlyBridge in 2004.

Customer Journeys 152

Customer Journeys Culture Customer Centricity Contact Center 152

Lumoa

APRIL 21, 2022

People who lead Customer Support functions are very well aware of the challenges. You are also very well aware of where you want to go; RevOps, with 69% of you saying your primary reason for gathering customer insights is to increase revenue and reduce churn. They help define customer journeys and emotions.

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How To Self Service Banking Customer Satisfaction 208

Lumoa

MAY 5, 2022

Most people understand the importance of creating great customer experiences —nevertheless, many struggle with the complexity of working holistically and long-term with a Customer Experience strategy. Customer Experience (CX) is far more than traditional customer service and marketing.

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Strategy Customer Experience How To Analysis 277

Lumoa

JUNE 14, 2023

Before we dive into our remedies, let’s take a look at some of the root causes that could be behind your score going south: Inadequate or Poor Customer Service Many customers tend to be unforgiving if their support experience isn’t up to scratch. Think about it. Or recommend them to your friends and family?

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NPS Effort Score Customer Centricity Loyalty 208

GetFeedback

JANUARY 15, 2020

We collect and analyze customer feedback. We channel these insights into the everyday workings of the organization to spread a customer service culture. And we use customer insights to build effortless and quality customer service. . It’s really a culture change. Meetings, haha!

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Self Service Culture Feedback Government 150

Qualtrics

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Building a customer-insights program that allows companies to listen and then act on customer feedback is essential, but isn’t easy. To be truly customer-centric you need to empower people at all levels of your organization to listen to the customer and act on insights. Celebrate great customer service.

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Customer Centricity Culture Exercises Customer Service Representative 24

CSM Magazine

JANUARY 30, 2024

In today’s fast-paced marketplace, this vision is a reality for some, and it all centers around the compass of customer service. Recognizing the pivotal role customer service plays in this quest is the first step towards a more rewarding consumer journey. Apple Inc.,

Customer Centricity 111

Customer Centricity Exceptional Customer Service e-support Case Study 111

Lumoa

MARCH 8, 2023

Granular and Refined Insights are Valuable While telcos spend a lot of money on gaining customer insights, they often just end up in a report, and little action is taken. Telcos need to be more critical about how insights are gained and used productively. The work environment makes a tremendous difference here.

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Industry Customer Centricity Telecommunications Feedback 208

Vonage

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Customer insight: Start with customer insight gathered from your most important target customers – uncover the functional and emotional factors that drive retention and word of mouth referral. Design a Branded Customer Experience: That the organisation can deliver seamlessly across all channels.

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Tips Brands Customer Experience Competitive Advantage 267

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 28, 2020

First, understand the true costs of NOT investing in customer experience. Your leadership team and executives probably understand that it’s not acceptable to simply skip investing in sales, marketing or customer service. Related: How to Improve Customer Service Training with Simple Metrics. Communicate.

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Customer Journeys Net Promoter Score ROI Metrics 250

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

APRIL 11, 2023

Related: 4 C’s of CX Culture: How Well is Your Company Doing? This is where you hear the opposite from customers regarding the experience. For example: We love the products, but customer service is terrible. We used to be loyal customers, but the last few times we tried to get help were disasters.

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Customer Journeys Banking B2B Healthcare 162

Lumoa

JANUARY 19, 2023

We’ll walk you through the key steps to building a successful customer experience department in this guide. We will discuss topics such as defining the department’s goals and objectives, assessing the current state of customer service, and developing a strategy. It’s hard work, we know!

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Customer Experience Net Promoter Score How To Customer Journeys 236

Retently

JULY 28, 2023

How do you approach customer happiness in your company? Do you simply rely on the generic “the customer is always right” speech, or do you have a customer-centric culture in place that’s overseen by a professional who understands how customers think and feel, and who knows how to get that point of view across to other employees too?

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Chief Customer Officer Customer Centricity Call Center Metrics 142

Retently

MARCH 18, 2024

Through carefully crafted service survey questions, businesses can glean insights into customer sentiment, measure the impact of their customer service team, and understand the shades of customer satisfaction and loyalty. Whether through a simple “How satisfied were you with our service?”

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Survey Customer Service Strategy Effort Score 141

Help Scout

JANUARY 27, 2019

Instead, Help Scout offers two broad paths for customer support career growth: Generalist and Specialist. Every new member of the Customers Team starts in a Generalist role, as they learn about Help Scout’s products and approach to customer service. Culture Specialist. Generalists. Product Specialist.

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Customer Service Culture Consulting Social Media 40

SurveySensum

JANUARY 9, 2024

I believe that today’s consumers are more attentive to the quality of the service they receive rather than the product itself. More than 90% of customers are likely to make repeat purchases from companies that provide excellent customer service. CSAT score. Now, do you think the rating is well- deserved?

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Effort Score Metrics Customer Satisfaction Policies 52

ShepHyken

AUGUST 21, 2020

The challenge lies in understanding today’s changing reality and employees and customer insights and needs, so that you can equip your people with the right skills and tools. Revise culture starting with the C-Suite. Nothing is static, thankfully. Now You Are Ready to Respond to Change and Challenges.

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Customer Experience How To Culture Groups 248

CloudCherry

JANUARY 22, 2020

Direct feedback from customers can still come from surveys, focus groups, and interviews, all of which are important for product development. But voice of the customer data can also come in real-time. Your VoC program isn’t just a project for the marketing or customer service department — it affects the entire company.

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How To Social Media Analysis Feedback 243

Lumoa

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Short termism is mostly the result of a product-centric and “numbers focused” culture, which inevitably results in a “race to the bottom”. Customer centricity is the answer, backed with a credible customer profitability lens that gives an alternative view to traditional product sales/market share KPIs.

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Customer Experience Customer Centricity Self Service Culture 324

Comm100

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Here is a detailed step-by-step guide to setting goals and strategizing for customer experience improvement. Free Download] 50 Customer Service Training Activities for Live Chat and Telephone Teams. The activities in this eBook can be great training materials to improve customer service or morale in your team.

Strategy 291

Strategy Customer Experience How To Customer Journeys 291

Lumoa

APRIL 7, 2022

With all of this in mind, it’s clear that  measuring and tracking customer NPS is essential for any business  wanting to keep tabs on the health of its customer relationships (and improve them over time) and utilizing a customer insights platform such as Lumoa makes this a significantly more manageable task.

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NPS Net Promoter Score Industry How To 208

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JULY 6, 2021

Include any leader who will have direct accountability over the most likely actions required to improve the customer journey. This typically includes leaders from marketing, product development, customer success and customer service. Invite team members from other areas that are close to the customer experience.

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Effort Score Customer Journeys Net Promoter Score Government 358

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 1, 2017

Instead, find ways to connect the dots between each employee’s individual success AND the team’s success with customer success. Money talks, but so do customers. Karen Mangia , VP of Customer Insights at Salesforce , shared the entire secret to becoming a company of $50 billion in revenue.

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Net Promoter Score Effort Score Innovation Culture 165

Eptica

AUGUST 19, 2020

However, while businesses know they need to be customer-centric, achieving it consistently is not always easy. The company-wide approach Rather than centralising customer experience and potentially introducing silos, other experts argue that businesses need to adopt a customer-centric culture across the organisation.

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Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity Chief Customer Officer Culture 82

SurveySensum

JANUARY 30, 2024

Asking about metrics gives insights into their understanding of the company’s goals and values. Assessing the CX Culture: Leveraging Feedback for Excellence “Can you describe a recent initiative where you used customer feedback to improve the experience?”

Customer Experience 52

Customer Experience Customer Satisfaction Metrics Feedback 52

Lumoa

AUGUST 23, 2021

A UJET survey done in early 2020 revealed that “72% of consumers age 18 to 64 said having the ability to text with a live agent in real-time would improve their overall customer service experience.” Gaining feedback is half the battle itself, as it requires customers’ willingness to participate.

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Customer Experience Social Media Video Analytics 236

SurveySensum

DECEMBER 4, 2023

That involves: Valuing Customer Input: Everyone in the organization needs to understand the importance of customer feedback at all levels. That involves: Valuing Customer Input: Everyone in the organization needs to understand the importance of customer feedback at all levels. Let’s go!

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Feedback Strategy Net Promoter Score Social Media 52

SurveySparrow

JULY 26, 2023

By designing targeted questionnaires and collecting feedback at different touchpoints, you can gather a comprehensive set of customer insights. # 2: Analyze and Interpret Data Once you have collected the customer feedback, the next step is to analyze and interpret the data. What are a few Voice of Customer techniques?

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Voice of Customer Social Media Customer Journeys Competitive Advantage 52

Lumoa

DECEMBER 19, 2023

They manage an extensive dataset comprising hundreds of thousands of daily customer requests and a knowledge repository containing answers to potential customer inquiries. T-Mobile employs AI-powered sentiment analysis to detect and resolve issues, reducing customer complaints.

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Analysis Social Media Trends Feedback 208

InteractionMetrics

MAY 16, 2024

Interaction Metrics is a customer experience research firm. We combine the principles of science with cutting-edge technology to deliver specific, actionable insights. Our methods include workshops, customer service evaluations, and a wide range of surveys. Customers today have higher expectations than ever before.

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Net Promoter Score Customer Experience How To NPS 52

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

AUGUST 9, 2022

Customer experience goals are loose and ill-defined. Leaders might toss out terms like “delivering exceptional customer experiences” or “achieving best-in-class customer service.” Teams crave real direction and are told again and again to just “do customer experience better.”

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Customer Journeys Effort Score Net Promoter Score Metrics 143