Tue.Sep 12, 2017

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Taking Ownership – key to the success of your approach to Customer Experience

ijgolding

As we head into the middle of September, as many people are reaching towards the back of their wardrobes to find their winter jumpers as are looking for their shorts and t-shirts. Whether you are revelling in the thought that summer is coming, or despairing at the reality of short days and long nights, the month of September is an annual signal of impending change.

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MaritzCX’s Brion Scheidel to Speak at Megaputer Analytics Conference

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Between work, family, and other commitments such as school or sports, there usually isn’t enough time to keep up with the nuances of our industry. However, with the nearly instantaneous changes that occur within industries, now more ever it’s extremely important to keep up to date with your subject matter. Industry events are a great. View Article.

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Building the CX Platform at Cisco, With Rachael McBrearty – CB68

Customer Bliss

Episode Overview. Rachael walks us through her path to provide Cisco with crucial information that created insights around Cisco’s customer base — and how she is building capabilities inside the organization to value customers, show impact, and focus on their priorities. . About Rachael. Rachael McBrearty is Chief Creative of Customer Insights and Experience at Cisco.

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Fundraising $6.7m for customer happiness

AskNicely

Today, we’re excited to announce a $6.7 million strategic capital raise with the fine folks at Blackbird Ventures. We’ve also launched AskNicely for iPhone – the first mobile app to allow staff to monitor and act on NPS in real-time, from anywhere. So yeah, we’ve been quite busy. Over the past year, we’ve increased revenue by almost 4X, opened offices in Portland, Oregon and Auckland, New Zealand, and grown to a team of 22 very nice people all laser focused on the pursuit of repeat,

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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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What’s Your Context? digital or omni-channel

Martin Hill-Wilson

I’m half way through facilitating the redesign of key customer journeys across a particular b2b lifecycle. As you might imagine new purchasing behaviours and online competitors have made the search for a viable business model something of an urgency. One that these days is most often summarised as needing to become a ‘digital first’ business.

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Act on What Your Customers Tell You!

CX Journey

Image courtesy of Pixabay Are you acting on what your customers are telling you? Companies listen to customers but fail to make improvements to the customer experience as a result of what they hear. There are a few reasons behind that, including but not limited to: a lack of actionable data, analysis paralysis, and not knowing what to do next or how to execute.

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Since when did CX become a “Game of Thrones”?

OpinionLab

You’d have to have been starved of internet access not to realize the Game of Thrones (or GoT for short) season finale aired recently. I’m a big fan of the show, having seen all episodes and read all the books. Maybe due to the combination of this passion and my obsession for CX (not to mention a couple glasses of Dornish wine ), it suddenly hit me: the CX landscape is as complex and changing as the power struggle in GoT.

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What’s Worse than No CX Vision? Multiple CX Visions

Heart of the Customer

Creating a compelling vision is one of the trickiest aspects of an effective customer experience (CX) program. A solid CX vision aligns teams, allowing your front-line employees to decide how best to serve the customer without needing to escalate. Capital One 360 focuses on simplicity. They refuse to implement a new program or product without […].

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Avoiding the Failure Chasm: Gaining The Most Value Possible From Digital Transformation

Natalie Petouhof

Tweet Whether you are a CEO, a CIO, a CTO, a CMO or the head of Customer Experience, Customer Service or Digital Transformation, you know software can be an amazing invention. It can be part of the key to digitally transforming your businesses in so many ways. In fact, here’s just a few of the ways digital transformations can take shape… Digital Transformation and Software can help in the area of human capital by: Increasing employee engagement, creating a passionate culture, increas

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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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Reading the Room

dscout People Nerds

10 ways to better understand group dynamics, pick-up on non-verbal cues, and keep people engaged in your next big meeting.

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Guest Post: 3 Ways CRM Predictive Analytics Can Give You a Competitive Edge

Natalie Petouhof

Tweet. Customer relationship management software has emerged as one of the most crucial tools for doing business successfully today, and the power of big data predictive analytics is making CRM more powerful than ever. The CRM predictive analytics market, valued at $4.18 billion in 2014, is expanding at a compound annual growth rate of 12.83 percent, on track to be worth $7.65 billion by 2019 , Markets and Markets projects.

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The Importance of Co-ordinated CRM and Contact Centre Strategies

Martin Hill-Wilson

Due to different owners and competing agendas, the relationship between CRM and customer service is unfortunately not always as close as it should be. Despite this, there is obviously a common element: the customer. Indeed the basis of CRM as both a business strategy and system of record is that the customer becomes the central point of focus. Isn’t it strange then that the so called 360 degree view of customers’ engagement remains beyond most organisations capabilities?

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As Branches Evolve, So Will the Workforce

Verint

Bank branches have gradually evolved over the last decade. In lieu of the traditional brick-and-mortar design with designated teller lines, sales and lobby areas, many banks are transitioning their branches into newer formats to modernize and meet market demand. Today, there are six main categories of branch formats: flagship, advisory, digital self-service, pop-ups, lounges and traditional.

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The State of Customer Onboarding 2024

Building lasting customer relationships has always been top-of-mind for businesses. However, in the last decade, organizations have recognized that the customer journey beyond the initial sale is as critical as the sale itself. Customer onboarding, or the customer’s first impression of you, is critical to forging lasting relationships and long-term success.

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Look to Industry Specific Review Sites for Hyper Qualified Prospects

Grade.us

Selling is tedious. When you’re dealing with an unsophisticated customer it can be tough. They don’t know what they don’t know, they’re not sure which questions they should ask, and they don’t know what they need. They’re relying on you to flesh that out for them ahead of time, which is where industry specific review sites come in.

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Track Brand Mentions using Hootsuite & ReviewTrackers

ReviewTrackers

Here at ReviewTrackers, we are committed to helping businesses transform the customer experience — by making it easy and simple to track, manage, and analyze online reviews and customer feedback. As part of this commitment, we have been working with Hootsuite to bring the best customer feedback management experience to the world’s most widely used social relationship platform.

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Short Video: ROI on Customer Feedback Matters in B2B Companies

Waypoint Group

I was pleased to be interviewed by Rhianna Collier, Vice President & Managing Director at the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA). In this 9 minute video interview, we discuss: Why is it important to invest in getting feedback from the right people, in the right way, at the right time? [at 2:22] What advice would you give to companies looking to […].

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5 Common Customer Service Problems and How to Resolve Them

LiveChat

Working in customer service is like solving jigsaw puzzles. Every case has a different shape, color, and there’s always one perfect place where you can put it. In the morning, you deal with a lady who has received her new phone, but it’s not working. After a lunch break, you try to calm down a man who calls for the fourth time this week to ask about his payment problem.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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Creating Experiences That Sell in The Experience Economy

SurveyGizmo

Thriving in the Experience Economy. Customer’s expectations have undoubtedly changed. Think of yourself as the customer and audit how you judge each company you provide business to. Drawing a common thread through these will show you what you perhaps inadvertently look for — friendly environment? Funny employees? Prompt service? Autonomy? Free cookies?