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When Customers Become Customer Prospects

InMoment XI

Last week, my husband and I officially became what I call “customer prospects.” After having the same home insurance provider for over 16 years, we pulled the trigger and made the decision to make a switch. We are what the industry calls “in market,” as we look at other providers and begin to compare and. View Article.

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Activate Your Customer Service Superpowers with Kayako and Zapier

Kayako

Let’s face it: customer support is a superhero role. You make customers happy, remove roadblocks, and save the day when catastrophes arise. But it can be difficult to do all of that when your faithful sidekicks (in this case, the tools you use to do your job) don’t let you achieve your full potential. There are two superpowers that are essential for modern customer service: X-Ray Vision, and Telekenesis.

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When Customers Become Customer Prospects

InMoment XI

Last week, my husband and I officially became what I call “customer prospects.” After having the same home insurance provider for over 16 years, we pulled the trigger and made the decision to make a switch. We are what the industry calls “in market,” as we look at other providers and begin to compare and.

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Not Top Of Mind But Top Of Heart – When Branding Gets REAL

Michelli Experience

Here are some important terms of art when it comes to understanding the strength of your brand: Brand Awareness – the visibility of your brand and it’s products/services in the eyes of consumers. Branding Campaigns – tactical strategies for driving brand awareness. Impressions – how many customers actually lay eyes on elements of your branding campaign.

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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Executive leadership in the Age of the Customer

Customer Bliss

The fifth of my customer experience competencies is one-company accountability, leadership, and culture. Ultimately, this refers to executive leadership. How are they approaching customer issues? Are they on the same page? Each week on my podcast , a different CCO-level leader talks about this one-company leadership culture. One of the biggest challenges of the first few months of this work (at a high level) is making sure the executive leadership is united towards customer-driven growth.

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Amazing Business Radio: Peter Shankman

ShepHyken

Peter Shankman Shares Tips on How to Create Loyal Customers – and Much More! Shep Hyken speaks with best-selling author, blogger, speaker, and podcaster, Peter Shankman. They share stories about some exceptional customer service experiences and how to create loyal fans. Peter shares tips from his bestselling book on customer service, Zombie Loyalists: Using Great Service to Create Rabid Fans.

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3 huge future customer journey mapping trends you need to know about

OpinionLab

‘Customer journey mapping’ is a widely accepted practice for customer experience teams right now as they seek consistency across all channels and touchpoints. According to McKinsey, you should “(pay) attention to the complete, end-to-end experience customers have from their perspective. (Do not) focus on individual interaction touchpoints devoted to billing, onboarding, service calls, and the like.

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Customer service training, or service education. What’s the difference?

Up Your Service

Many companies provide customer service training for some or all of their employees. But soon after the leaders of these same companies ask why everyone in the organization hasn’t embraced a true understanding of – and commitment to deliver – service excellence ? To address this gap and answer this question, we must understand the difference between customer service training and actionable service education.

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13 Haunting Customer Service Statistics

Tricia Morris

It’s frightening how much expectations for customer service have grown over the past few years. With more and more technology at their fingertips (and more amazing consumer experiences being presented each day), customers are looking for service and support so.

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The 2023 Verint Experience Index: Retail

Reports of the death of in-store shopping have been greatly exaggerated. This year’s retail survey found that more than 60 percent of consumers start and end their journey by visiting a store. Retail customers value price above everything, but the importance of other factors varies for different brands. In-store shopping is valued highly by grocery and home improvement customers Technology retail customers place less importance on in-store experiences – for them it only ranks sixth Digital exper

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Death by a Thousand Survey Questions

Clarabridge

Surveys are a great way to get customer feedback, but how many survey questions do you really need? A colleague recently told the story of an annoying survey. He spent no more than five minutes online making a purchase, and then a post-transaction survey popped up. There were more than thirty survey questions about his simple transaction. He called it “ridiculous” and closed his browser.

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Your Customers Don’t Want to Call You for Support Anymore (Infographic)

Provide Support

In spite of all the tech advancements available for businesses today, many still operate under the presumption that their customers prefer the “good old days” of picking up the phone and relying on a human agent for all their customer support needs. While there will always be place for phone in customer service, in reality the majority of customers don’t really want to go back to the “good old days” and call you to get their questions answered.

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Six Ways to Restore Customer Confidence When Things Go Wrong

CSM Magazine

My research over the last ten years has led to me uncovering a series of six simple, but remarkably effective strategies that will position organizations to keep customers coming back after even the worst has happened. 1. Courtesy. If you solve the customer’s issue, but are rude or indifferent in the process, you can still negatively impact the relationship.

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3 huge future customer journey mapping trends you need to know about

OpinionLab

‘Customer journey mapping’ is a widely accepted practice for customer experience teams right now as they seek consistency across all channels and touchpoints. According to McKinsey, you should “(pay) attention to the complete, end-to-end experience customers have from their perspective. (Do not) focus on individual interaction touchpoints devoted to billing, onboarding, service calls, and the like.

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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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Personalization Pitfall #4: Poor Historical View of the Customer

Blueshift

In this series, we cover the common pitfalls all marketers face at some point when scaling personalization in their triggered marketing. From emails to mobile push notifications to SMS to display retargeting, the common platforms used today to market across channels begin to lose efficacy when organizations try to personalize their communications to an ever […].

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Summit presentations that score big: How to make your proposal stand out

ForeSee

With 2017 Connect: The ForeSee Summit just a few months away, we’re in search of client speakers who want to share their customer experience (CX) measurement successes and inspire their. The post Summit presentations that score big: How to make your proposal stand out appeared first on ForeSee.

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Personalization Pitfall #4: Poor Historical View of the Customer

Blueshift

In this series, we cover the common pitfalls all marketers face at some point when scaling personalization in their triggered marketing. From emails to mobile push notifications to SMS to display retargeting, the common platforms used today to market across channels begin to lose efficacy when organizations try to personalize their communications to an ever […].

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Building Brand Engagement with Multichannel Services

Brad Cleveland Blog

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The Open CCaaS Advantage Report

Over the next 12 months, what do you think will have the biggest impact on your CX automation efforts? When asked the same question, only 10% of CX leaders surveyed by Verint chose telephony. It’s no longer the engagement channel leading CCaaS conversations. The customer engagement challenges facing organizations have changed – so a new approach is needed.

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Why the Best Customer Support Teams Follow-up Until Resolution

Helpware

Following up with the customer until their problem is resolved is one of the key things in amazing customer support that most companies skip over. It does take some time, but having a staff member call and ask if the installation went well or if a customer’s problem was fixed makes all the difference between good and great customer support teams. I had a team of young college graduates doing some work that boiled down to crunching numbers and sending them back out to clients.

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Building Brand Engagement with Multichannel Services

Brad Cleveland Blog

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Outsmart Your Competition With These 3 Essential Skills

Steve DiGioia

This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. Big Frankie comes into your restaurant. You know the type, big guy, hands like a baseball mitt, a loud voice and brags about almost everything. Big Frankie is always the star of the show wherever he goes and wants you to know it. Tonight he comes in with a few of his buddies. It’s show time…. You greet Frankie and his friends at the door and, since he’s a regular, he calls you by your name.

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