Fri.Mar 09, 2018

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Millennial’s Spring Break Travel Trends

QuestionPro Audience

Every year, thousands of young Americans flock to destination spots for a week of vacation during spring break. This year, 53% of millennials plan to travel for spring break. In the 90’s and 00’s, this typically meant a booze package in Florida or Mexico, but millennial consumers are veering away from the standard party vacation. We took a look at where they’re headed, and how much they’ll be spending.

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The Real Reason Men Aren’t Eco-Friendly

Beyond Philosophy

On our Intuitive Customer podcast , Professor Ryan Hamilton and I have been talking about the ways that customers are irrational in their decision making, often focusing on things that seem irrelevant. I came across an excellent example of this in a Scientific American article about men and the environment. We men, it seems, aren’t as good at being environmentally friendly as women are.

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How To Scale Service Design: Coaching

Kerry Bodine

I’ve been writing a series of posts about how to scale service design, based on my closing remarks at the 2017 Service Design Global Conference in Madrid. The first post of the series focused on technology , and the second on the ubiquity of contexts in which practitioners are now applying service design. In this third post, I’ll talk about the discipline’s need for coaching.

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Improve Customer Experience in Healthcare: 4 Podcast Interviews

Customer Bliss

Over the past 2 years, I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing numerous CCOs and CX leaders for my podcast, The Chief Customer Officer Human Duct Tape Show. I’ve noticed that within this collection of interviews, quite a few of my guests have represented the healthcare industry. This industry is so complex yet so important to our lives. Doctors, nurses, C-Suite leaders, and front-line staffers should always be thinking about how they can improve the patient and caregiver experience.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Improving NPS does not (always) equal Improving CX

ServiceDock

We recently ran a customer experience (CX) focused AdWords campaign and it amazed us how many people were searching for something like "tactics to improve Net Promoter Score" or "how to increase NPS in a restaurant?”. The questions suggest there might be an issue with the mindset of the people conducting the searches because improving NPS is not the same thing as improving CX.

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Social Media Customer Service And Its Impact On The Bottom Line

Second to None

Customer expectations within the social media space are changing as the technology platforms become more integrated in society. Specifically, the ability to provide a high level of customer service can help improve the way that online consumers perceive your brand. People have a shorter attention span than ever before, and that is especially true online, so your social media customer service team needs to be able to respond quickly and appropriately to social media interactions.

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Why Do Customers Expectations Constantly Change?

Beyond Philosophy

Diminishing Sensitivity is part of Prospect Theory. This refers to customer sensitivity to further changes based on where they have started. What are the implications for business, customer experience and designing and delivering experience? The post Why Do Customers Expectations Constantly Change? appeared first on.

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How to Build an Engaged Team and Boost Customer Service as a Result

CSM Magazine

If you want to improve the customer service experience provided to your clients, there are multiple things you can do, including understanding your target market and their needs and wants better, providing more comprehensive information, and responding to queries more quickly. However, at the end of the day, the service your customers receive comes down to the team you have, and how happy and engaged they are.

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UJET: Where Expectations Meet Reality at Enterprise Connect 

UJET

Next week, we'll be at the Gaylord in Kissimmee, FL for Enterprise Connect 2018! Stop by our booth (#2219) to talk with our team and learn how you can provide intuitive voice and chat support experiences to your customers across all their preferred connection points—over the phone, on your website, and right inside your mobile app.

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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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The Relevance of Call Center Services in Today’s Demanding Time

Grupo Noa

In today’s fast-paced environment, customers want excellent services round the clock. For any business firm, it could be both challenging and tough to live up to customer’s expectations without outsourcing its call center service. With robust technology and professional acumen, telecallers are likely to handle customer’s queries better than the company’s employees.

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4 Career Tips from 4 International Women’s Day #PressforProgress Panelists

Oracle

On International Women’s Day, the Oracle Women’s Leadership (OWL) New York/New Jersey chapter held a #PressforProgress themed event, featuring a networking session and panel discussion with local leaders Jennifer Ezring, Partner, Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP; Chris Morgan, VP and GM, Moat; Bart Richards, AVP, Engineered Systems, Oracle; and Peggy Duvette, Senior Director, Social Impact, Oracle NetSuite.

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The Relevance of Call Center Services in Today’s Demanding Time

Grupo Noa

In today’s fast-paced environment, customers want excellent services round the clock. For any business firm, it could be both challenging and tough to live up to customer’s expectations without outsourcing its call center service. With robust technology and professional acumen, telecallers are likely to handle customer’s queries better than the company’s employees.

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How to Improve Inventory Management and Customer Satisfaction as a Result

CSM Magazine

There are many things which tend to annoy customers in a retail, or related setting, including rude or unavailable support staff, difficulty accessing stores in person, finding information online, prices which don’t offer value for money, and so on. However, something that can really be a detriment to your business because it frustrates customers is having lots of damaged or broken goods, and continually running out of the most sought-after stock.

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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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6 Tactics to Affect the Buying Decision Process on Instagram

LiveChat

Wouldn’t it be great if you could sell on Instagram? As one of the fastest growing communities has rapidly grown to 800 million monthly users , the lucrativeness of using Instagram for eCommerce has increased as well. More and more companies opt for building their businesses on Instagram. Any proof needed? 80% of users follow at least one business on Instagram. 75% of Instagram users take action after visiting a post. 10x times higher engagement on Instagram than Facebook, 54 times higher than P

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UK Tops the ‘Smile’ Ranking for Customer Experience

CSM Magazine

For the first time in 14 years, the UK has topped the international Smile rankings. The UK scoried 94%, just ahead of Greece, Puerto Rico and Russia with 93%. The Smile report provides a summary of more than 1 million answers by customers to questions on B2C sales interactions with staff in 50 countries during 2017. The report is compiled by Better Business Worldwide from information supplied by mystery shopping providers around the world on frontline performance.

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Navy Federal Credit Union Offers Exceptional Customer Service to Customers Who Served

Verint

Providing one-stop financial services to current and former members of the military and the Department of Defense and their families, Navy Federal Credit Union is the world's largest credit union with more than 7.5 million members, $90 billion in assets, and 17,000 employees. The company leveraged Verint Workforce Optimization to help automate staff planning and scheduling—in turn, enjoying savings in the millions of dollars by reducing overtime and excess staffing costs.

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Helping Shape Customer Experience in the Utilities Sector

CSM Magazine

Regardless of the ongoing changes being made to the energy and utilities market in recent years, a key conundrum faced by the industry is that they are still one of the worst sectors when it comes to delivering exceptional customer experiences. Other industries have set the bar high in regards to customers’ expectations when it comes to the service they receive.

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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,