Mon.Mar 06, 2017

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Increasing the Efficiency of Digital Customer Service

Uniphore

Today, digital innovations have sparked a transformation in the rules of customer engagement, a new age of customer service being driven by the customers, themselves. To continue successfully serving, acquiring and keeping customers, companies need a fresh approach in order to develop and maintain the efficiency of their digital customer service, one that drives brand loyalty with happy, satisfied customers who keep coming back.

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Create your customer service mantra

Vonage

Most companies have a tagline, a phrase or sentence that describes what they are about. Sometimes that doubles as a brand promise. Along those lines, I want you to come up with a customer service promise. For some companies, their tagline is their customer service promise. For example, Zappos.com’s tagline is Powered by Service. Three words that exhibit a commitment to the customer.

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Listen Up: How Companies Can Tune In with Customer Surveys

GetFeedback

Companies have to prove that customer feedback breeds real results. Here's a look at how customer surveys help companies create positive change.

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Experience the Experience: Walking in the Shoes of Your Customers and Employees

ijgolding

In this post, I continue to explore my tips to create a customer-centric culture. Experiencing both your employee AND customer journeys is a vital component that contributes to an organisation developing and sustaining everyone’s focus on the customer and each other. Last year, I said the following on this subject (among other things): “If a business wants to transform its culture, then it is vitally important that its people at all levels understand how it FEELS to be a customer and to be an em

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with 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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Price Slashing Exposed! Low Prices Don’t Mean Better Value

Beyond Philosophy

When we meet new clients at our customer experience consultancy, they often tell us they create value for their customers by offering low prices. They think “value” means “price,” and they believe that customers want to save money more than anything else. There are two major problems with this kind of thinking. First, it doesn’t take an economist with an Ivy League degree to see that cutting prices can only go so far.

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Customer Success Story: Nicklaus Children’s Hospital

ReviewTrackers

There is a vital shift happening right now in healthcare. People are bringing technology-fueled expectations to their patient experience, and they are demanding innovation in the way care is delivered and managed. Just like in retail, travel and transportation, financial services , automotive, and nearly every industry, the old fee-for-service and fix-what’s-broken approach is no longer enough.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of March 6, 2017

ShepHyken

Each week I read a number of customer service articles from various online resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Enterprise Customer Service by Adelyn Zhou. (Forbes) As AI technology matures, businesses are jumping to include artificial intelligence in their strategic investment roadmaps.

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CCM: A Critical Part of Your Digital Customer Experience Architecture

Topdown

The level of quality, consistency, contextualization and personalization of your customer-facing communications can have a dramatic effect on customer experience – as evidenced by the brands that improved their Forrester Customer Experience Index scores the most.

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Customer Satisfaction Drives Loyalty

Middlesex Consulting

The Temkin Group loves to publish insightful information that is very important and easy to get your head around. They derive this information for what appears to be an endless stream of consumer surveys and they present it in ways that are clear and timely. In their February 23, 2017 post “Customer Experience Leads to Recommendations (Charts for 20 Industries),” the Temkin Group published two figures, which are the subject of this post.

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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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Are you interested in driving outstanding customer experiences?

Alliance by IFS

If you answered yes, then you won’t want to miss our upcoming webinar on March 9th: “Getting the Right Prescription for Driving Outstanding Customer Experiences” Digital technologies have driven radical change and disruption in the service sector. Customers are now seeking a new class of more personalized service offerings. In order to stay ahead, companies need to capitalize on these predictive and prescriptive technologies to uncover transformative outcomes.

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Five Minutes with the ACE Awards Team

Confirmit

Looking for a bit of guidance to help you with your ACE Awards submission ? No problem. Not only have we extended the deadline to March 16 th to give you more time to perfect your answers, but we’ve also got a few tips, tricks and words of wisdom for you as well. Grab a coffee and let’s get started. Why should I enter the ACE Awards? There are lots of reasons to enter – from industry recognition, to rewarding your dedicated employees to having a shiny new trophy to display to n

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Are your customer service people hurting your business?

Myra Golden

The night before a workshop I delivered last week in Charleston, SC I called the Mellow Mushroom for delivery. I removed cheese and meat from my appetizer, salad and entree. (It sounds like I ate a lot! I did.) The man on the phone asked, “Are you vegan?” To that I said, “Yes, I am.” “Me too,” he said. He then went on to explain that my Quinoa burger included a little egg as a binding and he wanted to know if that was okay.

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5 Facets White Paper

Confirmit

A well-designed and executed Voice of the Customer program is at the heart of any customer experience endeavor. But a VoC program does not simply appear, fully-formed at the heart of any organization, no matter how well planned it is. Any CX professional will be aware that their VoC program operates at multiple levels; tactical and strategic; leadership and front line; financial and operational.

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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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The Future of Work: How Companies Are Building Cultures Worker’s Love #nytnewwork

Natalie Petouhof

Tweet Human Capital As a Key Competitive Advantage. I am very excited about attending the upcoming conference on The New Work Summit #nytnewwork by the New York Times®. The very nature of how we work is changing rapidly as employees from all ages are expecting more from their workplace. With human capital as the most important part of any company (computers and phones can’t do the work without the direction of the people), the battle for top talent is intensifying.

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Voices For Professional Services Consulting Fact Sheet

Confirmit

Leading organizations around the globe rely on Confirmit to transform customer feedback into better business results. Our Professional Services and Consulting team provides expert assistance in designing effective Voice of the Customer programs, helping clients significantly impact business performance for more than a decade. As your trusted partner, your Confirmit team collaborates with you to tailor the feedback programs that best achieve your goals.

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Say Hello to Eva—HDFC Bank’s New Customer Service Chatbot

CSM Magazine

Indian Bank HDFC has launched an artificial intelligence-driven chatbot for customer service called Eva. Eva can answer millions of customer service questions over multiple channels and is thought to be India’s first AI chatbot for the banking industry. The chatbot Analyzes and learns from thousands of sources and is able to provide simple answers on the bank’s products and services almost instantly.

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Voices Analyze And Act Fact Sheet

Confirmit

Confirmit Voices is a 5-stage customer engagement model that gives you the power to: Listen to the Voice of the Customer (and/or the Employee), Integrate that voice with existing data to generate powerful insight, Take action that will deliver real business change. The Analyze and Act stages provide powerful, tailored reporting and action management capabilities that give you the ability to analyze the data you gather and automatically generate alerts to tell you when you need to act quickly, sa

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Mapping Digital Transformation: Retail’s Strategic Shift

Speaker: Jennifer Wright, Michael Scholz, Jasmin Guthmann, and Scott Canney

Digital transformation in retail is so much more than new technology. You need to get your whole organization, from entry-level workers to executives, on board with the new tech, new skills, and culture changes that digital transformation brings. Leading this mindset shift can be a daunting task… but that’s where this webinar comes in! Join our panel of experts as they guide you through the challenges of digital transformation, preparing you to avoid common mistakes and make the most of incredib

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Beyond Surveys: 5 Methods to Learn More About Your Customers

Verint

Do your customers know you are really listening to them? These days it’s more important than ever that organizations respond in a timely manner to their customers’ concerns and ideas. It's quite likely that customer surveys have provided a valuable reference point for any other feedback-gathering initiative your organization has taken.

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Video Capture Fact Sheet

Confirmit

Video is a rich data source that allows you to gather powerful, qualitative insights into the behavior, attitude and opinions of the participants in your Market Research studies or feedback programs, whether they are for Voice of the Customer (VoC) or Voice of the Employee (VoE). By capturing video you can gain deeper insights and a clearer understanding of your respondents to help drive effective decision making.

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How to Perfect the Shopping Cart Checkout

LiveChat

Web marketers talk a big game about bounce rates, click funnels, and traffic patterns. Sure, all of these are unquestionably valuable, but let’s face it. What really matters is how well your site performs at the close. At the end of the day, closing the sale is how you get paid. Shopping cart checkout is an eCommerce business’ closer. This is where a minor tweak can make the difference between zero and hero.

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Confirmit W5 GNI Case Study

Confirmit

W5 is Ireland’s first ‘full-service’ customer experience design, measurement and engagement consultancy. The company works in partnership with clients to design and measure customer and employee experiences that differentiate and add value. Voice of the Customer.

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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3 Best Practices to Retain Customers and Stop Churn

CustomerGauge

In our most recent eBook and How to Become a Customer Retention Champion infographic, we walked through best practices for retaining your customers and stopping churn. We’ll expand upon these lessons learned and highlight the main takeaways. Lesson 1: Know Your Numbers One of the biggest mistakes a company can make is not holding retention to as […].

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Challenging the Status Quo: Driving CATI Operations to the Next Level

Confirmit

Technology is at the heart of CATI operations. It facilitates your staff’s workflows, helps you deliver on the promises you’ve made to clients, and drives management decisions. Subpar system performance and technical limitations can have dire consequences for your business. So, when was the last time you thoroughly evaluated the technology that supports your CATI operations?

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Challenging the Status Quo: Driving CATI Operations to the Next Level

Confirmit

Technology is at the heart of CATI operations. It facilitates your staff’s workflows, helps you deliver on the promises you’ve made to clients, and drives management decisions. Subpar system performance and technical limitations can have dire consequences for your business. So, when was the last time you thoroughly evaluated the technology that supports your CATI operations?

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SmartHub VoC Fact Sheet

Confirmit

Confirmit SmartHub enables you to capture, analyze and respond to customer feedback in real-time from a single, centralized hub. For the first time, you can easily capture and map all customer data from all your customer touchpoints into an intelligent hub. By moving beyond survey results and adding customer data such as call center interaction, social media and past-purchase information, you can generate new insights and initiate tactical and strategic actions to drive business performance impr

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2024’s Retail Odyssey: Going Small, Artificial, and Augmented!

Speaker: Kelly Goetsch - Chief Strategy Officer at Commercetools | Jason Cottrel - CEO & Founder at Orium | and guest speaker Brendan Witcher - VP, Principal Analyst at Forrester

Significant modifications are on the horizon for digital commerce in retail and customer experience come 2024. The pace of tech shifts will intensify, businesses are set to defund legacy solutions, and attractive opportunities will surface as social and retail media players join forces. To stay ahead of the curve, digital leaders are experimenting with less risky initiatives and scaling back on outdated projects that no longer yield impactful results.