Mon.Jul 11, 2016

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Pokémon Masters: Gotta Catch ‘Em All

InMoment XI

“Gotta catch ‘em all” is the challenge Nintendo customers have in the new augmented reality gaming experience, Pokémon GO. Everywhere you look there are hubs of gamers with phones in front of their faces, collecting Pokémon. Pokémon GO is not only changing the way that customers interact with Nintendo as a company, but the way.

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Here’s Why My Cat Can Never be a Customer Service Leader

Steve DiGioia

This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. A touch of independence mixed with patience, possessing a definite superiority complex and territorial. These are some characteristics associated with the common house cat. But what if we in the customer service industry held these same traits dear to our heart? My cat is not responsible for anyone other than herself.

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Pokémon Masters: Gotta Catch ‘Em All

InMoment XI

“Gotta catch ‘em all” is the challenge Nintendo customers have in the new augmented reality gaming experience, Pokémon GO. Everywhere you look there are hubs of gamers with phones in front of their faces, collecting Pokémon. Pokémon GO is not only changing the way that customers interact with Nintendo as a company, but the way. View Article.

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The ‘Always On’ Enterprise

Storyminers

For well over 100 years, businesses leaders have made decisions based on what is right for the business. Business profitability first. Everything else second. Why not buy cheap chairs for the restaurant? Why not focus on the efficiency of the call center instead of delivering better customer outcomes? Much of this thinking comes from entrenched systems and processes.

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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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Pokémon Masters: Gotta Catch ‘Em All

InMoment XI

“Gotta catch ‘em all” is the challenge Nintendo customers have in the new augmented reality gaming experience, Pokémon GO. Everywhere you look there are hubs of gamers with phones in front of their faces, collecting Pokémon. Pokémon GO is not only changing the way that customers interact with Nintendo as a company, but the way.

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What Attitude Are Your Employees Choosing?

Wired and Dangerous

You are in complete control of your attitude. Victor Frankl in his classic book, Man’s Search For Meaning , described how prisoners at the Auschwitz concentration camp in World War II determined their longevity by the way they imagined their future. The book has sold over 10 million copies. Camp survivors did not let their cruel guards determine their attitude toward life.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of July 11, 2016

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. “Oh when you smilin’, when you smilin’ The whole world smiles with you” – do happy customers = better customer experiences? by Ian Golding.

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How to complain about a non/late delivery

Helen Dewdney

Goods must be delivered within the time frame agreed with the seller. If one hasn’t been agreed (you have agreed a time frame if the listing supplies a time frame) the trader must deliver ‘without undue delay’ and at the very latest not more than 30 days from the day after the contract is made. After this time you are entitled to a full refund. A common mistake people make is to contact the courier and some retailers will try and fob you off and make you do this.

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Stop Counting Paperclips!

Customer Enthusiast

Last month, I returned to one of my favorite hotels in New York City. It was my first stay since the hotel completed an extensive renovation in 2012. I’ll withhold the name of the hotel because it’s not important. What matters are the observations below – which apply to countless businesses, lodging and otherwise, in New York City and beyond. Let me say first that management made a lot of great decisions with regard to the renovations of the guest rooms and public space.

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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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7 Writing Tips For Exceptional Customer Support

Talkdesk

This is a guest post from Kostas Papageorgiou, a content marketer at Userlike. Everyone has their own voice. Whether face-to-face, over the phone, or in writing, our voice reflects our uniqueness. The same can be said about brands having their own voice too. Customer service representatives are an important element of that voice. They’re the voice that speaks directly with existing and potential customers.

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How to Use Hashtags on Twitter and Rock Your Social Media World

LiveChat

#YOLO, #throwbackthursday, #summer, #chillout, #nofilter, #nocomment. Hashtags are everywhere. We use them on Instagram, Facebook (are they even working there?) and on Twitter. Hashtag this, hashtag that. What is a hashtag? It’s any word or phrase with the # symbol immediately in front of it. This symbol turns the word into a link that makes it easier to find and follow a conversation about that topic.

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Customer Journey Mapping: How it can be used to Create Change in your Organization

Strativity

Over the past 10 years, Customer Journey Mapping has been a critical part of strategically transforming an organization’s customer experience. Taking part in a cross-functional journey mapping workshop can be exciting, fun, and inspirational. Recently, while facilitating a journey mapping workshop for a healthcare company on the east coast, we saw constant light bulb moments.

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Best Practices for Recruiting, Hiring and Training

COPC

Posting 1 of 2 in a Series—Call Center Best Practices for Recruiting, Hiring and Training. To improve performance and provide a superior customer experience, call centers often focus on the three main functions of operational management, quality, and workforce management. While these areas are important, your strategy regarding recruiting, hiring and training is also crucial to your call center’s performance and ability to meet customer expectations.

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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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IBM recognises Peter Lavers as a Futurist

Peter Lavers

Peter Lavers has been recognised by IBM as a Futurist and top influencer in the field of Customer Experience. IBM have carefully selected a small group of experts in the fields of marketing, customer experience, retail and user experience under the #ThinkMarketing banner, and Peter will contribute to their dedicated thought leadership site https://www.ibm.com/think/marketing/.

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Customer Journey Mapping: How it can be used to Create Change in your Organization

Touchpoint Dashboard

Over the past 10 years, Customer Journey Mapping has been a critical part of strategically transforming an organization’s customer experience. Taking part in a cross-functional journey mapping workshop can be exciting, fun, and inspirational. Recently, while facilitating a journey mapping workshop for a healthcare company on the east coast, we saw constant light bulb moments. […].

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How to improve customer experience by designing for reliability

MyCustomer

Engagement. How to improve CX by designing for reliability.

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Performance Reviews vs. Performance Management

Customer Interactions

Nearly 10 years ago, Harvard Business School professor James L. Heskett noted that performance reviews “rank alongside root canal dental work on our list of things we look forward to as managers and employees.” Yet despite near-universal frustration with the process, the HR-mandated performance review has long been a mainstay in the modern business world.

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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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Customer experience design: How to improve CX by designing for reliability

MyCustomer

Engagement. How to improve CX by designing for reliability.

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Your Own Personal Assistant? It All Adds Up!

Avaya

If you’re a highly paid CEO of a large multinational, then you probably already have a personal assistant taking care of your life, so you won’t need to read any further. If you’re not—and let’s face it you almost certainly aren’t—then imagine what life would be like if you did have such a personal assistant, your very own Jarvis. For those who haven’ seen the Iron Man movies—also highly unlikely—Jarvis is Tony Stark’s artificial intelligence personal assistant.