September, 2020

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Customer Journey Mapping: A Guide for Businesses

BirdEye

Here's how you can start mapping your customer journey.

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5 Ways to Reimagine Customer Experience in the Time of COVID-19

GetFeedback

A look into the new-normal customer and how to meet their evolving expectations.

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4 C’s of CX Culture: How Well is Your Company Doing?

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

What is a Customer-First Culture, and Why is It Important? There are plenty of noble reasons for wanting to create great customer experiences. Each interaction a customer has with your brand is an opportunity to make their day even the slightest bit brighter , which is as meaningful today as ever. It’s a fact that delivering a great customer experience makes brands’ bottom lines brighter, too.

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Customer Service Fact #1 – Tip #17

Steve DiGioia

There are many “facts” in business and countless quotes and statistics are tallied-up each year. Two staple examples are “The customer is always right” and “It’s more expensive to acquire a new customer than to keep an existing one”. These are certainly true. But for me, this is… Customer Service Fact #1. I realize that my paycheck comes from the customers who buy my product or service.

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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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Guest Blog: Emphasizing the Human Side of Remote Work

Calabrio

The following post is a guest contribution summary from Kimberley Drobny of Waterfield Technologies. You can read the full post on the Waterfield blog, and register for an upcoming webinar featuring Calabrio’s Dave Hoekstra on September 15th. Let’s face it, the workplace will forever look different. Companies that would have never allowed employees to work from home – have now uncovered a well of productivity they didn’t know they had.

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Why We Think Things Are Good When They Are Bad

Beyond Philosophy

Human beings are magnificent at holding onto two contradictory beliefs in their minds. It’s a psychological phenomenon called Cognitive Dissonance, and it’s why we sometimes think that things are good when they are, in reality, bad. We discussed this phenomenon in a recent podcast and how we all do this. For example, I think the Luton Town Football Club is the best team in the world.

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How Do You Deliver Connected Experiences In the New Normal?

GetFeedback

Adapt your CX program to COVID-19 and continue to deliver great connected experiences.

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Becoming Alida: Q&A with Senior Director of Brand, Kristin Dorsey

Alida

Q&A with Senior Director of Brand, Kristin Dorsey.

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What’s Valuable To Your Customer? – Tip #14

Steve DiGioia

Remember that Seinfeld episode when George was charged a fee for not calling to cancel his doctor’s appointment? The reason: the doctor’s time is important and has “value”. If you can’t make your appointment it’s a loss of revenue for the doctor. Ok, that makes sense. But doesn’t the customer’s time have value too? As a service provider: Do you value your customer’s time?

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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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How Much Does It Cost to Give Great Customer Service?

ShepHyken

I recently wrote an article in Forbes about how to get customers to pay more. The focus, of course, was on customer service and experience. Research has irrefutably proven that customers will pay more for a better experience. Research also has irrefutably proven that customers will leave you for your competition if you don’t give them the service they expect.

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Call center cost reduction strategies

TechSee

Contact centers are always looking for ways to reduce costs. This is particularly true during periods of uncertainty and economic downturn, when call center cost savings contribute to business continuity. Since most of a contact center’s operating costs are related to staffing, the easiest and quickest ways of tightening the belt are to cut headcount or shut down live support channels.

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Aesthetics: Why This is A Vital Part of Your Experience

Beyond Philosophy

Do you still have the box your phone came in? Chances are if you own an iPhone, you probably do. It turns out, we like the look of Apple products’ boxes so much, many of us can’t bear to throw them out. It turns out that the use of color and package design, among other aesthetic elements, affects customer behavior more than you might think. .

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The 4 Elements of Great Digital UX

GetFeedback

A comprehensive guide to delivering great digital user experiences and measuring your success.

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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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7 Tips On Call Center Customer Experience Improvement

Win the Customer

Like any other industry, there’s always room for improvement in call center customer experiences. Call centers must deliver the best customer experience from jump, or else risk dealing with an unsatisfied customer, and getting negative press. Whether you rely on Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software to use helpful customer information to get ahead of your competitors, it’s still important to make improvements to continue getting this helpful information.

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This Is Why You Can’t Fill That Position

Steve DiGioia

You have a “hard to fill” open position at your job. Even after interviewing candidate after candidate, the spot has been vacant for over 6 months and you wonder if they’ll ever find someone. To make matters worse, you’ve listened to your HR recruiting manager complain for weeks about “not finding enough qualified applicants” But in reality, this is why you can’t fill that position.

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Does It Matter How You Refer to Your Customers?

ShepHyken

What do you call your customers? Do you call them “customers”? Maybe you call them clients, members, guests, patients, residents… the list can go on and on. Some people say that the term “client” implies a long-term relationship. Isn’t that what you want with all of your customers—a long-term relationship in which the customer continues to pay for what you sell?

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Is Your Professional Services in Alignment with Your Experience Management? Part I

eglobalis

Professional Services in Alignment with Your Experience Management , customer success. The post Is Your Professional Services in Alignment with Your Experience Management? Part I appeared first on Eglobalis.

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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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How Well Do You Know What You Really Want?

Beyond Philosophy

How Well Do You Know What You Really Want? Have you ever bought a book you thought you should read and then didn’t read it? Did you ever buy a variety of yogurt flavors and then throw out some of them after they expired because you never wanted that flavor when it was time to eat yogurt? We do these things because we often overestimate how much variety we want in the future.

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Harness Service Agent Feedback to Successfully Reopen Your Business

GetFeedback

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Chip R. Bell: Innovate, Don’t Imitate

Bill Quiseng

“You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.” Charlie “Tremendous” Jones. Intent on learning how to “Deliver The World’s Best Customer Experience”, I have read more books by Chip R. Bell than any other author. Several of his 24 customer service books that I highly recommend include “Kaleidoscope: Delivering Innovative Service That Sparkles,” “Sprinkles: Creating Aweso

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How Prepared Are Organizations For Remote Training?

Customer Experience Update Submitted Articles

At the risk of providing more “white noise” during the pandemic pandemonium, I wanted to share this data because I think it’s interesting.

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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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How to Turn Your Hobby into a Profitable Business

Joe Rawlinson

Do you have a hobby that you cannot wait to get home to after work? Is there a way to monetize it and turn it into a profitable business? These are questions that many people ponder as they make their way home from another dull day at the office. If you think that there is a possibility that you could turn your hobby into a business, it might be time to stop daydreaming about it and make your vision a reality.

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Customer and Employee Criticism: Your Leverage Tool for Growth

eglobalis

Use Criticism to Improve Your Customer Experience and employee experience products and services. The post Customer and Employee Criticism: Your Leverage Tool for Growth appeared first on Eglobalis.

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What is Customer Science? Is this the next wave of change?

Beyond Philosophy

I heard a new term that I think has the capability of being the next wave of change in business today. Customer Science. ‘ Customer Science’ is the fusion between technology, behavioral science and data. This new concept is forming now, making this an exciting time for all us interested in customer-driven growth. This episode of The Intuitive Customer explores this nascent concept of Customer Science and what it could mean to organizations seeking customer-driven success.

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It’s the Journey That Matters: Improving Customer Experience and Loyalty

Storyminers

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The Open CCaaS Advantage Report

Over the next 12 months, what do you think will have the biggest impact on your CX automation efforts? When asked the same question, only 10% of CX leaders surveyed by Verint chose telephony. It’s no longer the engagement channel leading CCaaS conversations. The customer engagement challenges facing organizations have changed – so a new approach is needed.

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When Surprise and Delight Becomes Surprise Without Delight

ShepHyken

We’ve all heard the expression surprise and delight. The intention is that we surprise our customers with better-than-expected service. The result is that they are delighted. But what happens when the intended surprise does not delight? That’s exactly what happened to my friend and fellow professional speaker, Beth Terry. She has a three-bedroom home.

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Are Your Strategic Business Stories too Ambiguous?

One Millimeter Mindset

What happens when strategic business stories become too ambiguous to everyone, including you? Yesterday, we explored whether your compelling business stories are too specific and tactically focused. Today, let’s explore what happens when your stories get lost in the strategic clouds. When strategic business stories are too ambiguous, decision makers ask: “What do you expect me to do with this information?

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Two key themes that are driving UK customer experience post-pandemic

Eptica

Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Two key themes that are driving UK customer experience post-pandemic. Published on: September 16, 2020. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager 2020 has been a turbulent year for everyone – but what has been the impact on customer experience in general, and contact centres in particular?