February, 2016

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Engagement: Isn’t Customer Satisfaction Enough?

InMoment XI

Ok. take just a minute and think about a product or service that you are engaged with. By engaged I mean… more than loyal… you would buy this product, shop at this store even if it was inconvenient, more expensive, etc. Personally, there is a grocery store chain in Utah that I am engaged with. They know my. View Article.

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5 Online Survey Types That Help Build a Better Business

GetFeedback

Learn the five most common use cases for online surveys, and how your business can use them to gather valuable feedback to improve and be successful.

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4 Ways To Preserve Customer Loyalty When Call Volume Spikes [SlideShare]

BlueOcean

As experts in forecasting, we know call volume spikes are inevitable and not always predictable. From extreme weather to product recalls, there’s an infinite number of scenarios that will flood your contact center in an instant, resulting in increased average handle times, wait times, and customer frustration. To preserve customer loyalty and sustain healthy CSAT scores, your contact center partner needs to have the right systems and safety nets in place.

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The Cloud in 2016: What’s Driving Adoption Now

NICE inContact

As I talk to many new customers about why they are moving to the cloud, I’m seeing several trends that demonstrate how we’re helping companies achieve their goals. Customer experience is rapidly evolving for organizations of any size, a result of the proliferation of digital channels and social media, mobile technology, the need to reduce customer churn and to increase loyalty of consumers.

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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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When things go wrong, how should you make it up to your customers?

Vonage

No company wants to fail their customers, but at some point it’s going to happen. You’re going to mess up, or bad luck will mess you up, or a supplier will mess you up in the eyes of your customer. So, no matter how superb your product or service is, eventually you’ll need to find an answer the following question: How should you compensate a customer for a service or product failure?

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Creating Empowered Employees

InMoment XI

The great American poet Mike Tyson once said, “Everybody’s got a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” In military parlance, we say, “No plan survives contact with the enemy.” Whether it’s boxing, combat operations or business, it’s imperative to have a plan. It’s equally imperative to have a culture where your followers know. View Article.

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9 Things to Do Before You Send Online Surveys

GetFeedback

To collect valuable feedback, you have to ask for it the right way. Before you send online surveys, check these to-dos off your list.

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The Three Most Important Questions to Ask About the Future of Customer Service

BlueOcean

One of our most popular blog posts focuses on which contact center predictions from the past few years have come true in the world of outsourced customer service. In this post, we thought we’d take a look into the metaphorical crystal ball ourselves and try to identify some major shifts coming our way over the next five years by posing three intriguing questions about contact centers and the future of customer service trends.

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My Agent eXperience Selected as 2016 Customer Product of the Year

NICE inContact

We are thrilled to announce that Customer Magazine has selected inContact My Agent eXperience™ (MAX) as a 2016 Customer Product of the Year. Each year Customer Magazine identifies outstanding achievements within the call center/CRM industry and awards the most innovative customer experience technology solutions. Launched in September 2015, MAX is a dynamic and context-sensitive interface which improves the agent experience with streamlined handling of contact center interactions, across all chan

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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The 7 Essential Differences Between Simply Responding to Customers and Providing True Customer Service

C3Centricity

A longer post than usual this week, but one that will make you smile, if not laugh out loud! It describes one recent personal example of disinterested client support, from which I have drawn seven learnings for everyone wanting to deliver true customer service. I can’t understand why any organisation would still have trouble offering [.]. The post The 7 Essential Differences Between Simply Responding to Customers and Providing True Customer Service appeared first on C3Centricity.

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Report: State of the CX Profession, 2016

Experience Matters

We just published a Temkin Group report, State of the CX Profession, 2016. This is the fifth year that we’ve examined the roles of CX professionals and the third year that we’ve done a compensation study. Here’s the executive summary: To better understand the mindset and roles of CX professionals today, we surveyed 208 CX professionals and then compared […].

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A Free CX Design Tutorial from my Barber, Johnny

InMoment XI

To immerse yourself in what good customer experience design looks like, one need to go no further than the Riviera Barber Shop in Redondo Beach, California. I used to view getting a haircut as a mundane task that had to be endured like mowing the lawn or renewing my drivers’ license. That all changed after my first visit. View Article.

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Personalize to Improve Your Customer Satisfaction & Make Your Customers Happy! - Transforming the Customer Experience

Kristina Evey

Understand WHY Customers Remain Loyal to Your Company. Improving customer service and profits… many companies make this so very complicated. Once you realize that you can design service into your processes, it makes much more sense. The magic happens when you’ve committed to the mindset and process required. Here are a few strategies to get you started… Make sure that you learn and USE your customer’s names at least once during your conversations.

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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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Do You Have a Funny Bone? The 3 Vital “Bones” Required by All Customer Experience Leaders!

ijgolding

It is with great pleasure that I enter my second calendar year as a CustomerThink Advisor. This year the focus of my exclusive column is evolving – from a generic view of the importance of doing the right thing, for customers and employees to a more specific focus on skills. In 2016, this column will feature thoughts, guidance and inspiration on how to build skills for Customer Experience LEADERSHIP – I very much hope you will enjoy reading them as much as I will enjoy writing them!

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Overcoming Obstacles of a Remote Workforce

NICE inContact

A few short decades ago handling the daily communications and operations of the workplace was completely different. Transmitting a file meant waiting on a fax to slowly transcribe an original paper document on the sender’s side to a flimsy, waxy roll of paper on the receiver’s end. If you wanted to meet with a team on the other side of the country, you booked flights, accommodations, and local transportation to get all the attendees in the same room.

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Retailers Who Create Value For Customers – WIN!

Storyminers

(image courtesy of info.comm-works.com). Last week’s blog covered the first of two themes that emerged for me at the National Retail Federation’s Big Show in New York. “Retailers are acting on the notion that customers’ needs are different than their own.” That blog painted a picture of how the disconnect between retail decision-makers and their customers has been eliminated and how, using technology, it’s much easier to understand what customers want.

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Customer Experience: The Path From Fluff to Tough (Infographic)

Experience Matters

Temkin Group’s research shows that companies evolve through six stages of CX maturity, but the higher levels of maturity take a significant jump in focus and commitment. What does that path look like? Take a look at this infographic. You can download (and print) this infographic in different forms: Infographic: infographic in pdf, infographic in png Poster […].

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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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Creating Empowered Employees

InMoment XI

The great American poet Mike Tyson once said, “Everybody’s got a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” In military parlance, we say, “No plan survives contact with the enemy.” Whether it’s boxing, combat operations or business, it’s imperative to have a plan. It’s equally imperative to have a culture where your followers know.

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You Can’t Microwave Customer Experience Excellence

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

If your customers think you deliver an “average” service experience, there is NO shortcut to getting them to become emotionally engaged, loyal, zealots of your brand. Don’t get me wrong. A well-designed service improvement initiative MIGHT result in a temporary spike in satisfaction scores but won’t produce sustained traffic or protracted revenue increases.

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What Twitter’s New Customer Service Tools Mean For You

Help.com

Think about the last time you had a really great customer experience- did you tell someone about it? What about a bad customer experience? Let’s say that you just got off of a really long flight only to find that your connecting flight to your final destination was overbooked. And you’re the unlucky passenger who got booted. Do you suffer in silence, or get out your phone to tweet about it?

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Why Don’t Today’s Car Dealerships Provide Service Like They Used To?

Steve DiGioia

are we buying so many cars that we are all just a number now? This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. Today’s guest post is from retired hotelier Ken Vincent, author of “So Many Hotels, So Little Time”. He shares a story of how customer service has changed from days-gone-bye. Car Dealerships. The year was 1958…. Image courtesy of [link].

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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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Back To Basics – On Empathy

Storyminers

If you’re an experience designer (or want to become one), one of the most important tools you can develop for your work is empathy for others. Empathy creates more value for customers than knowing statistical analysis programs and is often more helpful in design than having NetPromoter® scores. Caring about others simply makes you a better designer—not to mention a better person.

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Modernize Leadership: Shifting 8 Outdated Management Practices

Experience Matters

Over the previous decade, I’ve had the opportunity to work with and study thousands of companies. One of the things that I’ve noticed is that the world has changed a lot, but organizational management has stayed substantially the same. Technology has enabled entirely new practices and we’ve developed a much deeper understanding of what drives human behaviors and business success. […].

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A Free CX Design Tutorial from my Barber, Johnny

InMoment XI

To immerse yourself in what good customer experience design looks like, one need to go no further than the Riviera Barber Shop in Redondo Beach, California. I used to view getting a haircut as a mundane task that had to be endured like mowing the lawn or renewing my drivers’ license. That all changed after my first visit.

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3 Ways to Boost Your Customer Service Listening

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

You know the feeling. You see a customer heading your way to complain. Or maybe they’ve already submitted feedback and checked the “please follow up” box on the form. Or maybe your employees have warned you about the person who has complained to them already and is bringing her concerns up the chain. In any […]. The post 3 Ways to Boost Your Customer Service Listening appeared first on Customer Experience Consulting.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Customer Experience ROI – How to Introduce And Grow It

Customer Bliss

Honoring “Customers as Assets” connects volume and value to customer experience ROI and growth. Your goal as CCO is to unite the leadership team in delivering one-company customer experiences and connecting the delivery to business growth. This will require the removal of survey score addiction and a shift in leadership thinking. The pivotal leadership shift occurs when you simplify the “why” behind this work so that leadership can stand behind it and communicate as their own.

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What Was The Last WOW Customer Service Experience You Received?

Steve DiGioia

one that is still remembered years later. This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. For me it happened about 4 years ago when I got a few days off and took my family to Hershey Park in Pennsylvania. We haven’t been there since my kids were little and now it’s time for THEM to drag ME on to the roller coasters. I’m dating myself since these new-fangled rides are no longer called “roller coasters.” They’re more like “roller flips-you around-unti

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Services Before Sales Sells More Chicken! (Disney Agrees)

Storyminers

Last week’s post predicted that customers won’t stand for technology that constantly sells to them. It predicted 2016 as the year predictive analytics and other ‘sensing’ technologies will be used to serve customers first. Chick-fil-A [private], now America’s favorite chain restaurant , is proof. The Cathy family have been building their brand based on service (they say hospitality) since 1946.

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