September, 2019

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Customer Experience as a Shared Service

Alida

Without customers, a business doesn’t mean much. Therefore, customer voice and experience need to be front and center in every organization. It’s imperative to have customer experience as a clearly articulated goal across the business and to solicit customer insights that are shared organization-wide to meet that goal. When customer experience is approached as a shared service, both companies and consumers benefit exponentially and you ensure longevity in the market.

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Employee Experience – Good for Employees, Good for Business

IntouchInsight

Customer experience expert, Annette Franz, explains how to achieve the connection between employee experience and business performance.

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This is How You Can Tell You’re a Customer Service Professional

Steve DiGioia

In celebration of Customer Service Week (October 7-11, 2019), this post focuses on the customer service professionals who make it all possible. Many hold the title but never seem to accomplish the task. Some tout the certification letters after their name but can’t put their knowledge to use. Others, sadly, haven’t a clue and chase away more customers than they help.

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What Customer Churn is and How to Calculate it

Lumoa

What is customer churn? It means that your customer canceled their business with you, or decided not to renew the agreement they previously had. You calculate the churn rate by dividing the # of lost customers by # of customers at the start of the defined period.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, 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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NPS, CES, CSAT: Which One is the Best Metric?

GetFeedback

NPS, CES, and CSAT are customer loyalty metrics. They’re used to measure the level of loyalty that a customer has toward your brand. Customers are considered loyal when they consistently purchase from your brand over an extended period of time. . How do you get loyal customers? A great customer experience (CX) , of course. . In recent years, research by CustomerThink, Forrester, and Gartner have found at least 70% of business leaders believe CX will help their companies differentiate in a

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3 Best Practices on Embracing the Hard Stuff from a Customer-Centric CEO

Alida

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Why an Effortless Experience Isn’t Enough for Customer Loyalty

GetFeedback

A while back, my teammates and I spent hours in a conference room mulling over the concept of effortless experience. Prior to this, we had all read the book, “ The Effortless Experience: Conquering the New Battleground for Customer Loyalty ,” and one question came out of it: Is effortless really enough? . While some data says yes, other research says no. .

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Get Inspired at the Experience Management Event of the Year

InMoment XI

EXPERIENCE FORUM 2019 NYC Whether your focus is customer, employee, or patient experience, join us for this action-packed event. This one-day free event is hosted in New York, designed to deliver best practices, inspiring idea exchanges, case studies, and expertise from top thought leaders and practitioners of experience management programs. You don’t want to miss!

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So You’re a New CX Leader? 5 Tips to Succeed in Your Role

CX Accelerator

We’ve all been there. It’s your first day on a new job and you’re trying to figure out how things work. There’s lots to be done – relationships to be built, goals to be set and plans to be drafted. You’re learning how to work in a new environment, and trying to battle the exhaustion that comes with that while remembering everyone’s names and figuring out what your priorities should be.

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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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Don’t Make Customers Do Extra Work!

Customer Bliss

In this week’s Daily Dose video, I share a short video inspired by the lessons of my most recent book, Would You Do That To Your Mother. . The following is a lightly edited transcript of the video below. There’s not much that can give me an immediate stomachache like watching that airport conveyor belt slow down and halt without my bag on it.

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K.I.S.S (Keeping it Simple Stupid)

CloudCherry

No, we’re not talking about the chocolate variety. It’s all about the delicious strategy of Keeping It Simple, Stupid…A philosophy highly recommended by Matt Dixon -Chief Product & Research Leader at Tethr , Best-Selling Author, one of the world’s leading CX Experts, and this week’s guest on ‘ The Sweets of CX’ Podcast. Customer service should be simple right?

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But Does She Have Customer Service Skills?

Steve DiGioia

a fancy resume is just not enough. This is it. This is the one. We’ve finally found someone with a good resume, hot damn. Look at it! Let’s call her up for an interview. Then someone says, Wait, does she have customer service skills? What do you mean? Just look at her resume. I don’t care what her resume says, does she have the skills we need to properly take care of our customers?

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Alexa, How are My SLAs Doing?

NICE inContact

As a large travel management company, Omega World Travel continues to break new ground operationally and in the CX it provides to customers, thanks in large part to its move to NICE inContact and the CXone cloud-native platform. The company continues to develop innovative applications, from integrating with its proprietary reporting platform, Omegalytics, to harnessing the power of CXone APIs to broadcast SLA performance through Amazon Alexa and other devices.

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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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Improving Experiences in a Patient-as-Consumer World: Part 1 of 4

InMoment XI

Creating Elite Experiences for Today’s Modern Patients In just a few short years, technology and business innovations have fundamentally changed how people interact with—and what they expect from—the services and organizations they depend on. Today, the unavoidable fact is that people make decisions and invest their loyalty based mainly on experiences, not necessarily the nuances.

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So You’re a New CX Leader? 5 Tips to Succeed in Your Role

CX Accelerator

We’ve all been there. It’s your first day on a new job and you’re trying to figure out how things work. There’s lots to be done – relationships to be built, goals to be set and plans to be drafted. You’re learning how to work in a new environment, and trying to battle the exhaustion that comes with that while remembering everyone’s names and figuring out what your priorities should be.

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Earn Positive Survey Results! Don’t Beg for Survey Scores

Customer Bliss

In this week’s Daily Dose video, I share a short video inspired by the lessons of my most recent book, Would You Do That To Your Mother. . The following is a lightly edited transcript of the video below. “Thank you for watching this video. After it’s played, you will receive a survey and I really need you to give me a ten. Anything less is not passing and I won’t get paid.” Does that sound familiar to you?

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How Global Brands use Trust and Transparency to Unlock Valuable Customer Insights

Alida

On September 24, over 100 insights, marketing, product and CX professionals gathered in New York to discuss the current state of customer insights, data privacy and trust and transparency.

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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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Can You Feel It?

Steve DiGioia

It’s there, just like a shadow. You can’t touch it, but you know it’s there. It’s a feeling. A feeling that all your efforts are finally paying off. Can you feel it? A feeling that you’ve turned the corner. Now your team has started to believe in you. You’ve wondered, maybe even doubted yourself, if you can get this group of recruits to do better, be better, perform better.

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Customer Satisfaction Continues Declining

Beyond Philosophy

Customer Satisfaction is Declining in the UK! A new report by the Institute of Customer Service indicates that Customer Satisfaction is declining in the UK. Earlier this year reports from both Nunwood and Forrester, two firms entrenched in the Customer Experience movement, presented similar sentiments. All of this disappointing news about the state of Customer Experience makes one wonder what is going on in business today?

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The Employee Experience is Crucial to a Successful Patient Experience

InMoment XI

Employee Experience and Patient Experience Go Hand-in-hand Let’s be clear: I love my job. Truly. In fact, I’m one of those people who truly enjoys going to work. Sickening? Perhaps. But hang on…here comes the punch line: it’s been A WEEK. School is back in session, which means a new and unfamiliar schedule…and necessary bedtimes. View Article.

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3 Ways to Realign Your Organization to Focus on Customer Experience

Customer Experience Update Submitted Articles

Employees who feel cared for care for your customers. And that starts with having a defined culture.

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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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Yes is More Than an Answer. It’s an Attitude!

ShepHyken

Customers don’t like to be told no. Any request or complaint that is met with a negative response may only add fuel to the fire. That’s why I’ve been intrigued for years by Cameron Mitchell’s philosophy—and also the title of his book— Yes is the Answer! What is the Question? Why did I wait so long to write about this? I have addressed this topic in several other ways.

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How to Use Your Sparq Insight Community for Your Design Sprint

Alida

Product professionals are increasingly leveraging the design sprint process to expedite their innovation with reduced risk and investment.

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Are You Prepared to Handle a Customer Service Emergency?

Wired and Dangerous

The dinner party was super important because of the particular guests invited. It was one-fifth entertainment, one-fifth showcase, and at least five-fifths big-deal sales opportunity! The caterer had delivered over-the-top hors d’oeuvres, the contracted chef had prepared a perfect meal, and the bottles of wine were perfectly chilled. Then, disaster struck!

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The 5 Essential Practices for Your Customer Experience

Beyond Philosophy

Because we have frequent thunderstorms and power outages in my Florida home, I recently decided to buy an uninterruptible power supply for my electronics. I’ve had good experiences with Apple products so I first checked to see if Apple made that sort of thing. They didn’t, so I set about comparing and contrasting the models that were available. I quickly got lost in technical specifications, so I decided that I would choose based on how long the power supply would last.

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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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Why Spirit Airlines’ and Ryan Air’s Customer Experience is Better than Yours

Heart of the Customer

I’m partway through a European holiday with my wife, celebrating 25 years of marriage. Okay, actually 26, but that’s a different story. When a friend heard we were flying Ryan Air, she told me, “Uh oh. Pay attention to the experience you receive.” Interested, I did pay attention. And I realized that Ryan Air probably […]. The post Why Spirit Airlines’ and Ryan Air’s Customer Experience is Better than Yours appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Using the Customer Experience to Drive ROI

Customer Experience Update Submitted Articles

The heart of hospitality is all about human connection and creating experiences that are both genuinely memorable and authentic.

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That “Something Extra” You Offer to Make Customers Love You

ShepHyken

In the realm of business—and especially customer service—we often talk about how to differentiate yourself from your competition. It’s those companies that manage to stand out from the crowd that end up being successful. When I work with companies, I urge them to find what makes them unique and use it as a competitive advantage. It’s always a treat when I meet people who not only agree with my philosophies but take them a step further.