January, 2020

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4 Things to Consider When Mapping Your Digital Customer Journey

Comm100

Whether you’re new to digital omnichannel or your company is already deep into digital transformation for customer service, it’s always important to check the health of your digital customer journey. The digital customer journey describes how your customers move across digital touchpoints as they progress from prospect to customer to advocate. Examining your digital customer journey is critical to improving your customer experience by ensuring that every touchpoint is monitored and optimized.

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A checklist for starting to measure customer experience

Lumoa

We share a simple checklist you can use to quickly start measuring your customer experience. Even if you’re already measuring customer experience, the checklist will make sure you’re hitting all the right points along the way.

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Grow Through Improving Customer’s Lives: 7 Actions of the Most Admired Companies

Customer Bliss

The most admired companies remove practices that might curb the extension of care, or limit employees to act in good conscience. They work to remove boundaries and pressures that prohibit customer-driven decision making. And they challenge themselves to walk away from practices that aren’t congruent with their values. They honor the human at the end of their decisions, establish a balanced relationship with customers and partners, and put employees in a position to act at work, like they’d act a

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When CX Is a Matter of Life or Death

Heart of the Customer

If you’re reading this, you probably already know that customer experience (CX) is important. But even the staunchest CX advocates might not realize that CX done right can save lives. Earlier this week in this space you met Lee Becker, Chief of Staff of the Veterans Experience Office (VEO) of the Department of Veterans Affairs […]. The post When CX Is a Matter of Life or Death appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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The 2023 Verint Experience Index: Retail

Reports of the death of in-store shopping have been greatly exaggerated. This year’s retail survey found that more than 60 percent of consumers start and end their journey by visiting a store. Retail customers value price above everything, but the importance of other factors varies for different brands. In-store shopping is valued highly by grocery and home improvement customers Technology retail customers place less importance on in-store experiences – for them it only ranks sixth Digital exper

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How complex does a journey map need to be?

SuiteCX

We just finished teaching a class on CX driven Journey mapping to a large and very diverse group. It was really a fascinating class – smart and discerning. There were a number of common questions and comments from both beginning and advanced CX Architects/Mappers. These following questions got me thinking: We are B2B, so we are more complex than B2C, aren’t we?

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If You Want Customers to Say Yes, Try THIS

Beyond Philosophy

Sometimes people say no to sales offers out of habit. They have rules or expectations going into the interaction that preclude them from saying yes. There are ways to overcome these habits. The scientific name for it is Escalation of Commitment, but it is also the basis of many sales techniques, and it is an excellent way to get your customers to say yes. .

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Best Customer Onboarding Experiences

ClientSuccess

When it comes to dealing with customers, there are some situations that can be a little overwhelming for both a customer success manager and the customer in question. For many, onboarding is one of those situations. From the customer side, onboarding typically involves hours or even days of training, meeting new team members, and trying to figure out why a leadership team even invested in a new solution to begin with. .

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What is Digital Self-Service?

Inbenta

Self-service: definition. Self-service is a solution or a group of solutions enabling your web users to be completely autonomous on your website or intranet. This affect actions that are usually quite simple, such as managing a contract, asking for a quote or even finding the answer to a customer support request. Self-service: to meet what need? The implementation of one or more self-service solutions becomes relevant when a client service department is facing numerous online requests, to the po

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5 Customer Validation Skills You Need in 2020

Centercode

5G, AI, self-driving cars — in no time at all, we’ll be looking back and saying, “Oh, those old things?” Today’s technology is evolving at lightspeed (though we’re still waiting on lightspeed travel), and development teams are moving just as quickly to deliver on rapidly expanding technological landscapes and increasing customer demands.

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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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Employee Experience: Seeing the Forest for the Trees

InMoment XI

Let me just qualify something here before I get started: I have good kids. Really good kids, in fact. Kids that make me proud 98.7% of the time. But then there’s the other 1.3% of the time, and all you parents out there know what I’m talking about. Yep, that’s where we begin today… My. View Article.

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How to Prioritize Customer Experience Initiatives

Lumoa

We share best practices on how to prioritize customer experience initiatives. Due to limitations in resources, organizations have to prioritize which initiatives to spend their money on. You have to consider which initiatives have the most potential to impact customer effort for your priority customers.

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40 Customer Retention Statistics You Need to Know

GetFeedback

Churn can cripple any organization. These 40 customer retention stats reinforce the growing need for effective customer experience management.

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3 Essential Lessons Leaders Must Embrace to Transform Experience

Customer Bliss

We are living in a world where customers have the megaphone. That’s actually been one of the most wonderful forcing functions: when finally it wasn’t about who we said we were; it’s about what employees and customers say we are. And these employees and customers talk about three things: Did you do what you said you were going to do? Did you improve my life?

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The State of Customer Onboarding 2024

Building lasting customer relationships has always been top-of-mind for businesses. However, in the last decade, organizations have recognized that the customer journey beyond the initial sale is as critical as the sale itself. Customer onboarding, or the customer’s first impression of you, is critical to forging lasting relationships and long-term success.

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How Do You Solve 2020’s Most Common CX Problems? Start Here.

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Forrester, Oracle, and others predict plenty of customer experience challenges for the near future. Anxiety is ramping up for senior leaders focused on customer experience, and it’s not difficult to understand why. Image credit: Forrester. According to Forrester’s 2020 Predictions , 1 in 4 customer experience professionals will lose their job this year.

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You Must Be Padding Your Resume ‘Cause You Can’t Be That Good

Steve DiGioia

I saw this written on a resume the other day. One of her past job duties was “ Joyfully greeted guests “ My first reaction was, “What kind of B.S. is that to write? You must be padding your resume ‘cause you can’t be that good. Then I started to think… How does one joyfully greet a guest (customer)? I ran a scenario through my mind of someone browsing through rack after rack of clothes when a store employee pounces over and says “Hey, good afternoon.

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Cracking the Patient Experience Conundrum

InMoment XI

The Innovative Approach to Amplifying the Patient Experience Providing a patient experience that exceeds expectations has become increasingly important within the healthcare industry. Many patient experience programs struggle due to the inability to effectively measure the patient journey, the lack of flexibility in data collection and internal reporting, and inadequate action plans.

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Brand Portfolio Secrets to Success (The 5 Things You Need to Know)

C3Centricity

How do you know when you have too many variants in your brand portfolio? In my opinion, the answer is that it’s when you can’t answer that question! Can you? One of the most popular evergreen posts on C3Centricity is “The Beginners Guide to Brand Portfolio Management.” It seems that we all suffer from a deep-rooted fear in managing and reducing our brand portfolio, especially when it includes many historic or regional variants.

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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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5 Strategies to Improve Customer Retention With Social Media

GetFeedback

Although customer retention is cheaper than acquisition, it’s easier said than done. It takes a lot of commitment and dedication to get customers to stay loyal to your business. In this article, we are going to talk about how to use social media to attract and retain customers. Customers have multiple options at their disposal. Besides, the competition for customers is fierce these days than ever.

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Six Types Of Experience Data (X-Data)

Experience Matters

One of the key building blocks of Experience Management (XM) is X-data, which helps establish an understanding of how people think, feel, and behave. In almost all circumstances, organizations lack the X-data they truly need. So how should organizations go about instrumenting their operations to collect the right data? To identify the required X-data, it’s important to first understand how data flows from people’s experiences.

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How emotions influence education

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Do you know how your learners feel about their learning experiences? The more we learn about emotions, the more we realize they influence everything we think and do. 1.Emotions drive decisions for learners and customers alike. Emotions are driving our decisions , and usually more than we believe they are. According to Harvard Professor, Gerald Zaltman , 95 percent of cognitive decisions are based in the subconscious.

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Sparq® Winter '20 Further Enables Brands to Excel in Customer Trust

Alida

It’s hard to believe we are already at the end of January and what a compelling first month of 2020 we’ve had at Vision Critical. We’ve had exciting leadership changes and with them comes an invigorated sense of purpose for our entire organization. As our SVP of global marketing, Erin Avery , likes to say, “Today is another great day for Vision Critical.

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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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Innovation Lessons from the Miracle Mets of 1969: Part 2 of 3

InMoment XI

How the Worst Team in Baseball History Innovated to Win the World Series 50 Years Ago The New York Mets of 1969 Even if you’re not a baseball fan, the magical tale of the Miracle Mets of 1969 is captivating. It’s one of those, “you’d never believe it if it didn’t actually happen” stories that. View Article.

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Why Your CX Job is Probably on the Line This Year

Beyond Philosophy

Forrester predicted that one in four Customer Experience Professionals will lose their job in 2020. It is a bold prediction, and I agree with it. Why are so many Customer Experience professionals facing the ax this year? They have neglected to focus on return on investment for the initiatives they have implemented. . We discussed this problem in a recent podcast.

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How to Identify Weaknesses in Your Customer Journey Map

GetFeedback

Steps to dentifying the weaknesses in your customer journey that, if improved, will lead to improved customer satisfaction and better business performance. .

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New Research Digs Into Industries And Consumer Feedback Patterns

Experience Matters

The XM Institute is kicking off the year with a research bang. In a previous post, I mentioned two reports from late last year that show the business value of CX, The ROI of CX and What Consumers Do After a Bad Experience. Since then, we’ve actually published a number of new research reports with an emphasis on industry-specific data. These reports are based on a survey of 10,000 U.S. consumers and examine almost 300 companies over 20 industries.

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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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3 Ideas to Improve Your Voice of the Customer Methodology

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

How do you make your Voice of the Customer plan more meaningful? Four words: More customer, more voice. Quick Voice of the Customer Overview. You are probably familiar with the term Voice of the Customer, often referred to with the shorthand “VoC.” The idea behind a true Voice of the Customer program is to consistently, reliably and intentionally gather customer feedback.

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How Canadian Tire and Salomon Achieve CX Success through Data Integration

Alida

According to a recent Forrester report , “consumers are more aware than ever that companies collect and use their personal data for marketing and advertising purposes.”.

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What is Required for Great Customer Experiences!

Wired and Dangerous

Walk into one of your favorite service providers and you immediately feel the difference in the experience that makes this establishment one of your chosen few. What is the difference? There is no doubt that the product or outcome they deliver is one you value and trust but most likely they make a strong emotional connection with you that you find meaningful.