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Unite the Silos and Create an Internal Shared Vision When Implementing a CX Transformation

Customer Bliss

In today’s episode, I chat with Alvin Stokes , Senior VP of Customer Experience at Cable & Wireless Communications (C&W) , and we discuss how he began a CX transformation in an international telecommunications industry spanning 17 markets.

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Can you transform angry customers into loyal ones?

Alida

The experiment used Twitter data to study customer service interactions in two industries that are rife with customer service complaints: airlines and wireless carriers. “We Even more important is the speed with which you acknowledge these customers. Unhappy customers are just important as happy ones.

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Creating a collaborative contact center culture

TechSee

Modern customer-centric operations are increasingly defined by a collaborative contact center culture, with agents working together to respond to customer requests more efficiently by drawing on shared knowledge and experience. Power’s Highest in Customer Service among Full-Service Wireless Providers prize twice in a row.

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Shocking! Telecoms Fail Again!

Beyond Philosophy

AT&T, for example, sent this text to its wireless customers in Florida: “…we’d like to help out during this difficult time. In short, it would be attuned to its customers’ emotional reactions. Unfortunately, telecoms are still inwardly focused and have a long way to go to become customer-centric.

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When ‘Push’ Marketing Goes Too Far

Beyond Philosophy

A couple of years ago, our local newspaper, The Philadelphia Inquirer, ran a disturbing story about how a mortgage loan company in Phoenix had sent spam advertising messages which appeared on the screens of thousands of wireless phone customers. Not only were the messages not requested, but these customers had to pay to retrieve them.

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It’s Time to Bring Beta into the 21st Century

Centercode

These insights and methodologies take its customer-centric and product-centric cues from a wide splay of departments like Engineering, QA, CX/UX, and Support. Internet access wasn’t available in the average household. Cell phones weighed around a pound and a half. Spam was something you ate with eggs or over rice.

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How Customer Service Can Save Cable

Customers That Stick

How long before someone figures out a wireless or other technology that makes cable the old tech? The challenge with captive customers that are treated like captive customers is that, when afforded the opportunity, they tend to escape captivity as quickly as they can. But how long before that is at risk?