November, 2017

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Customer V Owner – Who wins? You decide! (in other words, is the customer always right?!)

ijgolding

I am very lucky to live in a beautiful city in the North West of England. Yes… I am not actually there as often as I would like, but when I am, I do not take for granted that my children are being raised in a lovely environment. Founded as a Roman Fort in 79 AD, Chester is one of the best preserved walled cities in Great Britain. With museums, a theatre, a Roman amphitheatre, a river, a canal and mediaeval building a plenty, Chester is a not just a great place to live, but a fantastic city to vi

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Report: Five Steps For Building A Strong CX Metrics Program

Experience Matters

We published a Temkin Group report, Five Steps For Building A Strong CX Metrics Program. A robust customer experience (CX) metrics program allows an organization to systematically measure the quality of the experience it delivers to customers and provides insights that help companies spot improvement opportunities, prioritize investments, track CX progress, and unify the organization around a common goal.

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Do You Need to be Assertive to Provide Great Customer Service?

Steve DiGioia

…here’s 7 ways to get you started This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. You still haven’t learned how to speak up, huh? Maybe you’re just afraid of confrontation? I know, you don’t want to offend anyone, right? Don’t want to come across as too assertive or even aggressive; what’s the difference anyway? The service you provide has always lacked because of your fear of “taking charge” and not wanting to offend your customers.

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Mastering the Public Apology: The Most Epic Apology Letters of Our Time, and What Your Business Can Learn from Them

Comm100

rawpixel.com. From Papa John’s NFL apology to Louis C.K.’s apology (or non-apology ) for sexual assault; brands in every industry are learning that the apology letter is an extremely difficult art form to master. Whether it’s due to not wanting to admit fault, fear of losing fans or investors, or simply not knowing how, corporations and public figures often fall short of what people want and expect out of a public apology.

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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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The Emotional Foundation of Every Customer Experience

InMoment XI

Here’s the scene: Orlando, FL, where it is currently 85 degrees Fahrenheit with 100% humidity – and that’s INSIDE the airport. My family of 7 (three kids, ages 3, 9 and 10, my two parents, my husband and myself), are en route back home after a wonderful Disney vacation that had a hiccup or two.

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Interactive Voice Response – What it is, What it does, Where it’s going

NICE inContact

Interactive voice response (IVR) has been a staple of customer service for many years. While its requiem has been composed many times in the past, it is still around, alive and kicking. Together with its “big brother”, the voice portal, IVRs have been part of contact center solutions for decades, and there is no reason to believe that they will go away any time soon.

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Do Companies Like Net Promoter Score?

Experience Matters

Whenever we discuss Net Promoter® Score, we get a bifurcated set of reactions. Some people love NPS® and others hate it. So we decided to more quantitatively gauge the sentiment. In a recent study, Temkin Group asked more than 300 CX professionals to share their thoughts about NPS. As you can see below: Most aren’t impressed. Over half of respondents say that NPS is either just like or worse than other metrics.

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Customer Experience Lessons from a Crew Regatta -

Kristina Evey

Crew Takes Teamwork – Just Like CEX. Customer Experience Requires Teamwork. Teamwork was the focus of my weekend recently. Two of my kids just finished their last crew regatta of the fall season. We were up in the Leelanau Peninsula in Michigan and the scenery couldn’t have been better. We caught the last part of the colors and the temperatures were crisp and best of all… NO RAIN.

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7 Pillars of a Strong Culture

CX Journey

Image courtesy of Pixabay Culture is best defined as "values plus behavior" and is often described as "how employees act when no one is looking." Culture is such an important part of your business. It's really the foundation of the organization. I've previously defined culture as the set of values and norms that guides how the business operates; culture happens when we operationalize the values.

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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 Power of Expectations

InMoment XI

I recently stopped by for dinner at a favorite local burger joint in my hometown of Orlando, FL. The restaurant has always had an energetic and social atmosphere, attentive service and easily the best burgers in the southeast (second only to The Vortex in Atlanta). Upon entering, I could sense a change from the norm.

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Making Customer Feedback Actionable - How Can AI Help?

Lumoa

In many companies, customer experience is measured, but the results are not actionable. The most widely used customer experience metric NPS (check what Net Promoter Score is about and how to use it for your company) actually gives all the necessary ingredients for the actionability. When customers are asked not only the score but also why they gave that score, they provide very useful information about the drivers of satisfaction or dissatisfaction.

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Black Friday Shopping Brings Out The Worst In Us

Steve DiGioia

…no wonder why customer service is so bad – my rant! This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. We have turned into a group of inconsiderate, rude, thoughtless, disrespectful and egocentric miserable people. The worst traits of one’s personality show when presented with a “great deal” on a TV, toaster oven or pair of sneakers. Surely, Black Friday shopping brings out the worst in us.

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Emotional Responses to Tech Support Differs Across Age Groups

Experience Matters

In a recent post, Temkin Group analyzed 10 emotions that consumers feel after completing a number of different interactions. We decided to dig deeper into one of those interactions, getting tech support for a computer. We analyzed the emotional responses across different ages of consumers after that interaction and found that: All ages of consumers are most likely to feel relieved The next most frequent emotions are happy and frustrated As you can see in the chart below: 18- to 24-year-olds: Whi

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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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How To Map All The Variations In Your Customers’ Journeys

Kerry Bodine

I got a great question this morning from some colleagues who attended of one of our recent journey mapping workshops together: “Our marketing team would like to map the prospect journey from awareness up to purchase, but there are so many entry points and no linear process. Prospects could see an ad, then read one of our whitepapers, then come to our website, and then attend a think tank—or learn about us in any other number of ways.

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5 Quick Ways to Support the Busy Customer

Kayako

There is a little irony that those of us in the customer service space have been observing since customer support first went online: Customers have become more impatient. Initially, customers wanted to be able to resolve their issues over email. Then they began to expect a response within 24 hours. Now, 39% of modern consumers expect a reply within four hours. 55% of Twitter and Facebook users expect to hear back even faster.

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Why Chatbots are the Secret Ingredient

Omnicus

What is a chatbot? A chatbot is a service that automates your interactions with your audience and customers. By using rules or even artificial intelligence to some degree, it lets you interact with your customers in a highly efficient manner. The chatbot service is available in applications like Facebook Messenger, SMS, Slack, Skype, etc. Why should you use a chatbot?

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More Than Just a Customer Experience Trend: 3 Top Shared Customer Bliss Blog Posts

Customer Bliss

As I look back at an article I previously wrote – What will CX Look Like in 2017 , I’m excited to see some of the progress that has been made in the industry. There’s a continuing focus on brands improving customer experience to lead customer-driven growth. They realize that this is an investment that will be incredibly helpful if they want to be competitive.

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Top 5 Ways to Optimize Your Loyalty Strategy

Speaker: Lauren Barash, Vice President, Brand Marketing

In an ever-evolving industry, building and retaining loyal customers is critical to the success of any restaurant business. Join Lauren Barash, VP of Brand Marketing at Full Course, as she delves into the world of restaurant loyalty programs, and reveals the top five essential strategies to optimize your approach! This webinar will explore: Loyalty trends and what you should be focusing on 📊 Actionable insights and ideas to help you develop the most powerful and effective loyalty program

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Charging More for a Better Customer Service Experience

ShepHyken

It’s almost a given that every company has some form of a customer service department. Even the smallest companies – with just one solo entrepreneur – will act as if they have a customer service department. Why do people reach out to the customer service department? Because they need help, have a question, or want to make a complaint. So, understanding that, why would a company choose to deliver an amazing customer service experience to just some of their customers and not to every customer?

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Report: 2017 Temkin Experience Ratings of Tech Vendors

Experience Matters

We just published a Temkin Group report 2017 Temkin Experience Ratings of Tech Vendors that rates the customer experience of 58 large tech vendors based on a survey of 800 IT decision makers from large North American firms. This is the sixth year of the ratings, here are links to the 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016 ratings. Here is the executive summary of the report: The 2017 Temkin Experience Ratings of Tech Vendors evaluates the customer experience of 58 large technology vendors.

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You’re Not Competing In The Category You Think You Are! (How to Find Out)

C3Centricity

Last week I wrote about my 7-step CatSight Process for Insight Development. The first step is to identify the Category in which you are competing. I got so many comments about this step that I decided to dedicate a whole post to this important topic. If you haven’t yet had the chance to read last week’s post ( “Customer Centricity is Today’s Business Disruptor, Insights its Foundation”) I suggest you do this first, as background to this post.

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Infusing Live Chat Support with Your Brand’s Personal Touch

Kayako

A few weeks ago, my cable bill came and it was more than I expected. I tried to figure out why, but eventually I needed to chat with the service team of a certain notorious cable company. I thought live chat would be the easiest way to get information on the extra charges. It wasn’t. Impersonal, inattentive, and inefficient – a study in all the things that customer service shouldn’t be.

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How Personalized Customer Experiences Drive Retail Growth and Revenue

Speaker: Shaunna Bruton - Associate Director of Product Strategy at Orium | Sam Panzer - Director of Industry Strategy at Talon.One | Frank Passantino - Director of Product Management at Bloomreach

More and more, customers are expecting a better personalized CX. But can retailers actually deliver? Data from McKinsey shows that companies that excel in personalization increase their revenue by 40%, but despite these numbers, retailers struggle to implement customer personalization strategies. So what are the potential solutions? Join us to gain a better understanding of the current retail landscape and learn what you can do to translate personalization strategies into practical implementatio

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Blockchain, the Internet of Things and other top tech trends for 2018

Alida

Which emerging technology trends will shape the business world in 2018, and how will they change consumer behaviors and expectations? This time of the year invites tech predictions from analysts, futurists and advisory firms. For 2018, experts believe smarter, cutting-edge technology will enable companies to provide better customer experiences and get more useful insight and data.

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Transform Your B2B Company From A Product-Centric Culture to Customer-Centric Culture with Sami Nuwar – CB79

Customer Bliss

Overview. How do you transform the culture and operations of your company to benefit the lives of your customers? In this episode, I chat with Sami Nuwar , the vice president of customer experience transformation at American Bath Group , about how his newly established role at ABG allowed him to create processes and operations that switched the company focus from being product-driven to being customer-driven.

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Missing Customer Feedback? 9 Tips for Effectively Promoting Your Customer Satisfaction Survey

Comm100

It was a Friday afternoon and Rodrigo, my Uber ride, was pulling up in a black Chevrolet Onix. Like the other times I had used the controversial cab service , I popped him a smile and a casual greeting as I swung into the back seat of his car. “Candy?” Rodrigo offered me as he started driving. He nodded towards the cup holder, which held at least ten colorful lozenges.

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My First Experience At Amazon Books

Experience Matters

Last week I visited Amazon Books in Dedham, MA, one of the online giant’s 13 physical retail locations. I was intrigued to see what Amazon.com would do with a physical bookstore. I didn’t know what to expect, but my initial thoughts jumped to the scene from 40 Year Old Virgin where Jonah Hill tries to buy something at an “eBay store.” The experience was great from the beginning.

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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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We Have a Crisis in Leadership

CX Journey

Image courtesy of Pixabay Why is employee engagement at an all-time low? Why is turnover as high as it is? Why are employees constantly looking for better opportunities? When you think about those questions, combined with what I wrote in my post on Employee Engagement: A Confluence of Passion and Purpose. That engagement comes from within the employee, and yet the company has a role in it, as well.

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3 Ways to Politely Reject Customer Requests

Kayako

We all know that emotionally, people don’t respond well to “no.” As customers we hate it, so why would you straight up say “no” to a customer request? A by-product of saying “no” is that it often results in lengthy conversations, anger, and escalations. These conversations drag on for longer than they have to and get more people involved than needed.

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Average Talk Time: The Little Metric with Big Insights

NICE inContact

Average talk time (ATT) is often a neglected little contact center metric. Overshadowed by its bigger, louder counterpart, Average handle time (AHT), it often stays in the background, waiting for someone to notice it and realize its potential. Let’s get something straight right off the bat—ATT and AHT are different, and serve distinct purposes. While average handle time takes into consideration things like hold time, wrap up work and anything else related to the interaction, average talk time is

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