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Aligning Your Organization Around CX

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Part One: Aligning Your CX Program CX industry continues to face a very real business challenge: unifying the corporate CX strategy with the onsite, day-to-day customer interaction. Too often, customers experience uncoordinated CX touch points, which creates an appearance of disorganization for your business. In part one of this CX governance series, you will learn.

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2018 Temkin Forgiveness Ratings: USAA and ACE Rent A Car On Top

Experience Matters

Every organization makes some mistakes, so an important area of loyalty is the willingness of customers to forgive them. That’s why Temkin Group has been measuring forgiveness for eight years. This product is the dataset, in excel, for the 2018 Temkin Forgiveness Ratings (TFR).It uses feedback from 10,000 U.S. consumers to rate how likely consumers are to forgive 318 organizations across 20 industries after they make a mistake.

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Aligning Your Organization Around CX

InMoment XI

Part One: Aligning Your CX Program CX industry continues to face a very real business challenge: unifying the corporate CX strategy with the onsite, day-to-day customer interaction. Too often, customers experience uncoordinated CX touch points, which creates an appearance of disorganization for your business. In part one of this CX governance series, you will learn.

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Microsoft’s Path to Customer Obsession with Global General Manager of Customer & Partner Experience Amanda Sachs

Customer Bliss

This is the 100th episode of the Chief Customer Officer Human Duct Tape Show , and I have YOU to thank for it! I’m sending a huge, heartfelt thank you to all of the podcast guests I’ve interviewed since the launch of this podcast back in 2016. And of course, thank you to the listeners who support this show and tune in to hear all of the wonderful CX insights, lessons, and tactics discussed.

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The Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Customer Learning

Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your organization’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

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10 Educational, Funny & Thought-Provoking Customer Service Training Videos You Won’t Have Seen Before

Comm100

Have you ever experienced that feeling when you encounter a new piece of information that completely shifts your understanding of the world around you? Whether it’s a great book, an enlightening movie or a blog post with a fresh perspective you’d never considered, those moments are at the core of all great learning experiences. As a manager or trainer of a customer service team, you’ll know that excellent customer service teams aren’t born that way.

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Better Experience = Better Business | a Case Study: Vacasa

Storyminers

Businesses designed with the purpose to deliver value for their customers have been the focus of my professional attention at StoryMiners ® for more than 20 years. That’s why Vacasa , a vacation rental property management company, caught my attention. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at three key elements that make this company so successful. BUSINESS DESIGN.

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Starbucks Store Closings for Training: Déjà vu and You

Michelli Experience

As I was writing my blog last week, the news was shifting quickly on the Starbucks debacle in Philadelphia. In fact, when I put the finishing touches on that post, Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson had simply issued an apology and made a promise do a thorough investigation into the situation. Predictions Made and Predictions Overlooked. As you’ll recall from my last post (based on the limited information available at the time), I offered an opinion concerning the importance of customer service skill d

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Better Experience = Better Business | a Case Study: Vacasa

Storyminers

Businesses designed with the purpose to deliver value for their customers have been the focus of my professional attention at StoryMiners ® for more than 20 years. That’s why Vacasa , a vacation rental property management company, caught my attention. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at three key elements that make this company so successful. BUSINESS DESIGN.

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How Can The Customers Improve Customer Experience?

Customer Guru

What should customers do to claim great customer experience from any business? All this while we have been talking about how companies can improve customer experience. I believe customers play an important role in ensuring they have a great experience; after all, they are the most important stakeholder in it. Organisations expend substantial efforts to deliver and improve exceptional customer experience.

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Reimagine Your Communications With A Unified Platform

Cut complexity and boost efficiency while empowering your customers with Nextiva's unified communications platform. Nextiva streamlines workflows and centralizes customer interactions, all while simplifying business collaboration, increasing productivity, and reducing employee burnout.

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Executives Are Turning to Customer Experience as a Differentiator

Quadient

Think about your enterprise and how you might have a bigger impact in your market today. If you were to change one major item about your offering to market, to better compete and grow your market share, what would it be? More diverse product offerings, cloud-based delivery models, lower prices, a faster supply chain?

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Important Mobile Marketing Faux Pas to Learn From

Second to None

The following article is a guest post submitted by Jim Rulison from Media Loop , an organization dedicated to helping brands reach more prospects, optimize their strategize and increase sales: If you are interested in submitting a guest post to the Second To None blog, please reach out to danielb@secondtonone.com with your idea. Now is the time to get on board the mobile marketing train.

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Ten ways GDPR will help consumers

Helen Dewdney

This is a guest post by Sara Williams, an adviser at Citizens Advice who has her own website Debt Camel where she blogs about everything to do with debt and credit ratings. She also guest posted Everything you need to know about Payday loans and Bright ideas for complaining about Brighthouse (& avoiding them in the first place!). In a month’s time, On 25 th May 2018 the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force in Britain and the rest of the EU.

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LL Bean’s Decision to Heed “Cave Venditor”

Andrew Mcfarland

Earlier this year LL Bean made the news after they announced they were discontinuing their Lifetime Product Guarantee. Of course, a subset of customers were dismayed and ranted on social media channels. Instead of vilifying LL Bean, let’s applaud them.

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11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption

Unlock the full potential of your educational initiatives with the 11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption eBook. You’ll uncover: Why measure content consumption rather than (or in addition to) completion rates and member satisfaction? What are some proven tactics to create quality learner content and raise your content consumption rates? Discover the secrets from leading experts in the field, distilled into practical tips that promise to elevate the quality of your educational offerings,

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4 Contract Templates for Online Review Management Services

Grade.us

It's time to seal the deal. You've sent your prospect a proposal. Your proposal will most likely be the basis for your online review management contract. If you've done your job well, your prospect is qualified and ready to buy. This is the part agencies get wrong. They create long, comprehensive contracts spanning fifty to one hundred pages - which is a fantastic way to kill your deal.

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Five reasons why you should be using multi channel marketing software

BlueVenn

The days of plastering a message on a billboard or running an ad in a newspaper is not as effective as it once was. Not least because tracking the results of marketing spend using these traditional methods is much harder than through digital mediums. Now, marketers have to utilize all their marketing channels to ensure that a message is seen, and heard.

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The Sorry State of Digital Transformation in 2018

Forrester's Customer Insights

Software eats the world, right? We’ve been saying that for how long now? (1997 in my case, I think.) And we’re still transforming? Yep. That’s taking so long is just an indication of just how hard it is for companies to change how they operate.

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Maximize your Salesforce Integration with AEM

iCiDIGITAL

“With a tightly constructed Salesforce integration into AEM, we were able to tremendously improve our productivity along with saving money. Our leads were better organized, in a central location, and we now have a system to build a process around.” -Fortune 100 Client. Salesforce is a lead management system that has been around since the 90’s and is one of the most established and comprehensive CRM’s available on the marketplace today.

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and Guest Speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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Measuring the Customer Experience

Service Strategies

Measuring customer experience based on the services your company provides requires that several types of survey instruments be used. It is very important to your overall business health and growth potential. Happy customers lead to more sales and more referrals. The post Measuring the Customer Experience appeared first on Service Strategies.

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When Does Personalization Get Too Close For Comfort?

ERDM

Article by Ernan Roman Featured on on TheDMA.com. One of my colleagues recently had an unnerving experience with a local car dealership. She was investigating cars online and hopped on the chat. After a few questions, the chat agent said, “OK I’ll email you the information.” That caused my colleague to have an uncomfortable question… how do you know who I am and my contact information?

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Who is Confirmit Fact Sheet

Confirmit

Ready to learn more about Confirmit? Our world-class solutions enable companies to run Customer Experience programs that increase revenue, reduce costs and promote culture change. Confirmit helps businesses operationalize feedback to drive change throughout their organizations using the world’s most secure, reliable and scalable solutions for Voice of the Customer, Employee Engagement and Market Research programs.

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The Secret to Transformation Success: Let Go!

Strativity

The CEO Magazine. Organizations and executives crave predictability and consistency. Bearing the burden of accountability to stockholders and stakeholders, CEOs seek complete visibility to their companies’ operation, performance, and results. This obsession with consistency and predictability is what often keeps organizations from adapting more quickly to the changing environments in the market and to evolving customers’ tastes.

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10 Questions to Ask Before Buying an LMS

Find your perfect LMS. Choosing the right Learning Management System (LMS) is crucial for your business's success. With so many options available in the market, how do you ensure you make the best choice? This guide is your key to finding the ideal enterprise learning platform for your business. Compiled by industry experts, these questions will help to clarify your needs, prioritize your most essential features, and guide you through the evaluation process.

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Innovation Requires A Culture Of Diversity And Inclusion

Forrester's Customer Insights

Successful organizations innovate and differentiate by boosting diversity and inclusion. Diversity is too often an overused phrase and covers many facets of diversity. We think that diversity above all should be about the ability and the courage to communicate “contrarian” thoughts. This ability and courage allows organizations to create an environment where all employees feel […].

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3 Ways to Find Your Inner Child at Verint Engage

Verint

Engage18: On The Inside. Most parents would agree that the average four- to five-year-old has a mind filled with questions. They aren’t afraid to ‘let them loose,’ as the saying goes. Most children are also not afraid to get involved in activities. They love to be a part of the excitement and, often, don’t shy away from getting their hands a little dirty.

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Stop Playing “Telephone” With Data And Analytics. Change The Game With The GQMD Framework

Forrester's Customer Insights

Too many firms today are playing a data-to-insights game of telephone. In the data analytics version, the insights you deliver fail to drive many actions that improve outcomes. The insights tumble into a gap between you and your budget-holding stakeholders who drive actions and have accountability for outcomes.

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We Asked 30 CX Influencers if They Would Recommend the Net Promoter System

Lumoa

The Net Promoter System® (or NPS) has been a popular customer experience metric since its creation in 2003. NPS is used by the biggest companies and leaders in its industries: from Apple to Airbnb, from Amazon to Tesla. At the same time, NPS is often a subject of critics and misunderstanding. In doubts, I wanted to reach out to the thought leaders and influencers to know what they think of NPS, or rather, according to the best traditions of NPS, if they would recommend NPS to a fellow CX colleag

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Navigating the Future: Unveiling Trends and Bold Predictions in Customer Experience

Ready to explore 2024’s CX landscape? Join experts from SMG and guest Forrester as they discuss prominent trends actively shaping the industry and dive into a stack of bold predictions for the year ahead. Will the average customer experience improve? How can leaders leverage their CX metrics to establish financial linkage? What will global firms achieve using customer-facing generative AI?

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$122 Billion: The Marketing Technology and Services Investment Sticker Shock

Forrester's Customer Insights

At $90 Billion today and growing to $122 Billion by 2022, CMOs are pouring budgets into investments which align their organization’s operations with greater customer and experience focus. Planning and budgeting for the technology and services investments supporting these goals stands as a critical task for CMOs and will only get harder in the future. […].

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How to Recruit Live Chat Customer Support Team that Delights Users

ProProfs Chat

People Helping People is a Great Job! Customer support is the most crucial aspect of determining the success of any business. Earning customer loyalty is a tough nut to crack. And, going gets tougher if a company doesn’t have a right team in place to manage the customers. The support team plays a pivotal role to ensure that you are ahead of the competitors.

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Bank of America lowers security – removes one time passwords at payee add/change

Forrester's Customer Insights

With the latest change to the BofA online banking bill pay service (which added all sorts of unnecessary and distracting icons and ugly fonts), the bank decided to remove the one time password two factor authentication (OTP 2FA) requirement to force the customer to perform a one time password based step-up authentication before allowing the […]

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