Tue.Jun 26, 2018

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No Joke! The Role of Humor in Customer Experience

Michelli Experience

Isn’t it remarkable how things we learn at one point in our life come back to us as welcome gifts later? Early in my career, I wrote a book about helping children develop humor skills ( Humor, Play and Laughter – Stress-proofing life with your kids ). I became a student on the topic because I wanted my children to learn how to constructively use humor to take themselves and the world around them less seriously.

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How to Improve Your CX Function Through Coaching

Comm100

With the World Cup in full swing, now is probably the perfect time to talk about one of the essential elements of any team – the Coach. Coaches are focused on improving performance during the moment, and the skills required for an excellent coach are very distinct. Many companies have now started to realize that excellent customer service is essential to the success of the business.

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Secrets to Incredible Customer Service with Paul R. Jones

BlueOcean

When it comes to customer experience, there’s a lot of cross-over between the hospitality industry and the contact center industry. We’re both in the business of earning a customer’s repeat business through the quality of the experience we deliver. With that in mind, we reached out to Paul Jones, an award-winning hotel manager within the Best Western organization.

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To Internet Bot or Not as Part of Your Mystery Shopping Solution

InMoment XI

Why & When to use Bots? Bots have been garnering a lot of attention recently. The majority of coverage has been positive but it has also garnered negative attention as it relates to Russian bots and their involvement with the 2016 election. Regardless of sentiment, bots are simply a software application that can perform tasks. View Article.

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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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Build your business case to invest more in Customer Experience (CX) – Drive larger financial impact

NICE inContact

In part one of the blog series, we looked at a framework for building a business case to invest in customer experience technologies. In part 2 , we looked at KPIs that drive enhanced customer experience and in part 3 , we looked at how contact centers can increase customer lifetime value. This blog will focus on true financial value of moving from a premise or hosted to a cloud native platform.

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SUPER AGENT – Saving Customer Service with Augmented Reality

TechSee

“And I shall shed my light over dark evil, for the dark things cannot stand the light… the light of… The Green Lantern!” Just as DC Comic hero The Green Lantern fought common criminals in New York City with the aid of his magic ring and the light it produced, modern superheroes can stimulate a more creative approach to problem solving by helping a business “see the light.

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What Are Your Customers Saying About Your Integrity?

Wired and Dangerous

Customers today are Picky– more cautious in their choices (and they have many more choices) and interested only in getting obvious value for their money. They are Fickle –much quicker to leave if unhappy. Customers today are Vocal– more apt to rapidly (and loudly) register concerns with their higher standards for value and their expectation of getting a tailored response.

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The leading retailer in omnichannel experience: Sephora

Customer Guru

What is an omnichannel experience? Omnichannel experience is not just a buzzword. Rather, it is a necessity for retail marketing today. Omnichannel experience is a revolutionary multichannel approach for marketing, selling, and serving customers in order to provide a cohesive customer experience. Its purpose is to create a harmonious and seamless customer experience across all touchpoints or channels – whether customers are shopping online from a desktop or mobile device, by telephone, or

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Centralized Customer Communications

natero

Today, customers interact with vendors in a variety of ways across many different channels. While this new era of communication is great for the customer, it can pose a significant challenge for Customer Success Managers (CSMs) who must keep up and stay in sync with their entire portfolio of accounts. To save CSMs time, Natero collects and organizes customer emails, chats, meetings, support tickets, and notes in one central place.

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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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Amazing Business Radio: Doug Bell

ShepHyken

Everybody Deserves a Voice. How does participation create a customer experience culture? Shep Hyken sits down with Doug Bell, a customer experience consultant and founder and CEO of The Experience Manager , to discuss the benefits of creating a customer experience movement. ? ?. Top Takeaways: A company customer experience movement starts by giving everyone in the company a way to communicate with leadership.

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What Your Luxury Retail Brand Can Gain From Mystery Shopping

Second to None

Luxury retail is a space dominated by brands with consistently great reputations, because trust serves a foundational pillar in the relationships formed between consumers and brands. Typically, due to the increased price point of dealing with a luxury brand, your team must handle inflated customer expectations, because even one sub-par interaction can quickly permeate and infect a vast pool of potential customers with a negative perception of your brand.

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Introducing Cyara 7.3: Omnichannel Testing and More

Cyara

I couldn’t be more thrilled about Cyara 7.3. It’s packed with amazing new features aligning with two overarching themes: Personalization: With our new omnichannel testing and test data management features, we make it easier to test personalized customer journeys, ensuring that data and context is passed from one channel to another, and that users can test journeys designed for different segments.

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How to Get a Google Review Window Sticker or Poster

ReviewTrackers

One of the best ways to attract new customers to your business location is to harness user-generated content and customer testimonials. Not only does this kind of engagement with customers help drive brand awareness; it can also contribute to improved brand reputation and bring to the surface key insights essential to business improvement. Online, you’ll notice top brands adding, say, a Reviews or Testimonials section to their website, sharing 5-star praises from customers across their social me

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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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When Values Are Valuable

Customer Enthusiast

Earlier today I was the guest on a leadership podcast. Among other topics, we discussed organizational values. Too often the term “values” conjures up images of the corporate orientation video or inspirational break room posters and is otherwise widely ignored in the daily execution of job functions. Today I’d like to break it down a bit in hopes of making values more practical and useful in your organization, regardless of size or sophistication.

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How to give your family and your wallet a holiday

Helen Dewdney

As the school holiday season approaches many of us turn our thoughts to warmer climes and getting away from it all. But with a long heatwave predicted for the UK how about holidaying here, supporting the UK economy and catch some good deals along the way. Some money bloggers reveal the best ways to save money for essentials or the treats! Use the Tourist Information UK website for ideas of where to go.

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The Benefits of Creating an Entertaining Customer Experience with Gamification

Playvox

If you're in the customer service and experience department, then you've probably heard all about gamification in the call center agents, as it boosts agent performance and engagement. Gamification has proven to be an effective strategy, which is why innovative companies have started to apply this not just for their customer service agents, but for their customers as well.

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It's not me, it's you. Why cancelling is part of CX.

5CA

When you think about Customer Experience I'm willing to bet you'll typically think about the experiences customers have when evaluating a product or service, choosing and buying it, and then actually using it.

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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,

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Why Mobile is a catalyst for future digital experience ecosystems

UserReplay

Today, firms are well aware of the fact that users are now connecting and interacting. The post Why Mobile is a catalyst for future digital experience ecosystems appeared first on UserReplay.

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An Observation

Customer Enthusiast

Several years ago, I made the following observation. In fact, it prompted me to write the book, Delight Your Customers : While employees consistently execute the mandatory job functions for which they are paid, they inconsistently demonstrate voluntary customer service behaviors for which there is little or no additional cost to their employer. Perhaps you have made the same observation?

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Seeing is Believing: Visualizing Market Research Data

Confirmit

Every day, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created. Despite this wealth of data, business leaders continue to complain that they don’t have the insights they need and demand more than ever before from Market Research organizations. They want game-changing insights in real time. According to Confirmit, this should be viewed as an opportunity for Market Researchers, rather than a threat.

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3 Enablers to Water Utility Customer Centricity

West Monroe

Over the past few years, water utilities have begun to embrace the importance of a unified customer experience strategy – one that involves technological transformation, employee engagement, and process improvements. This customer-centric paradigm shift is primarily driven by changes to regulators focus on customer satisfaction, heightened increase to conservation, and the digital effect to consumer control and the digital customer experience.

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & 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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85 Reasons to Attend PipelinePros Insight Conference

Oracle

With so many high-quality conferences and events each year for Oracle ATG, Endeca, and Commerce Cloud customers, PipelinePros pulled out all the stops to make its second annual Insight conference stand out from the crowd. Insight will take place in downtown Denver from July 30 – August 1. Designed as the only conference of its kind exclusively for Oracle Commerce organizations, Insight features hundreds of attendees, over 45 sessions, 20 exhibitors, and 20 hours of networking.

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Retailers Still Struggle To Differentiate Through Customer Experience

Forrester's Customer Insights

The barrier has never been lower for retail shoppers to compare offerings and try new companies. Superior customer experience (CX) helps foster loyalty and, at the end of the day, CX leaders grow revenue faster than CX laggards. However, we found that most retailers continue to struggle at delivering great experiences to their customers. Forrester […].

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The Power of Brand Advocacy

Brad Cleveland Blog

Do you know who your company’s brand advocates are? Do you recognize and engage with them? If you answered no to these questions, you may be missing a huge opportunity. Customer advocacy creates what some refer to as your most … Continue reading → The post The Power of Brand Advocacy appeared first on Brad Cleveland.

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Your 2018 Guide To Cyberinsurance Is Here!

Forrester's Customer Insights

Forrester’s 2018 Guide To Cyber Insurance Today, no one is 100% secure – believing otherwise is hubris of Icarian proportions. This reality is a core reason why more organizations are turning to cyber insurance. Because without it in some form (whether it’s a purchased policy or their own allocated cash reserves), they have no safety […].

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10 Questions to Ask Before Buying an LMS

Find your perfect LMS. Choosing the right Learning Management System (LMS) is crucial for your business's success. With so many options available in the market, how do you ensure you make the best choice? This guide is your key to finding the ideal enterprise learning platform for your business. Compiled by industry experts, these questions will help to clarify your needs, prioritize your most essential features, and guide you through the evaluation process.

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The Power of Brand Advocacy

Brad Cleveland Blog

Do you know who your company’s brand advocates are? Do you recognize and engage with them? If you answered no to these questions, you may be missing a huge opportunity. Customer advocacy creates what some refer to as your most powerful sales force. Learn more about the benefits of brand advocacy in this recent Lynda.

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Let’s Talk Omnichannel Content At OmnichannelX

Forrester's Customer Insights

Sometimes you hit a nerve as an analyst. Sometimes everyone you talk to about an issue says “Hey, that’s exactly what we’re focusing on right now! It’s a big deal for us, yeah, right now!” Nick Barber and I had that experience over the last several months. The issue: How far along are you on […].

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Survata ‘Tech Trust Index’ Finds Tech Brands Consumers Trust Most with Their Data

Upwave

Amazon takes top spot by wide margin, but technology least-trusted sector. In a study of more than 2,600 consumers released exclusively with Business Insider , market and advertising research firm Survata today released its “Tech Trust Index,” a ranking of the top 15 tech brands most trusted by consumers’ with their personal data. The Index, which asked consumers to rate many of the most well-known tech brands from one to five (one being most trusted; five being least trusted), found that Amazon