May, 2017

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How Voice Interaction and the Internet of Things are Changing User Experience

InMoment XI

Voice input and connected devices are changing how people interact with software and each other, altering our notions of UX Design. If you grew up watching Star Trek you saw Captain Kirk speaking directly to his ship. Not only did he give the ship commands, but the ship would speak back. While at the time.

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How to Write a Compelling Customer Support Email

Kayako

When you’ve worked in support for a while, especially for the same company, it can feel like Groundhog Day. You feel like you answer the same questions day in and day out. That’s because you probably are! But that doesn’t mean it has to be boring. Practice makes perfect and setting yourself the challenge to improve keeps you interested. There are always things you could be doing better in your conversations.

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The Evolution of Self-Serve Customer Service

BlueOcean

Ever have one of those days when you simply don’t want to talk to anyone? That day inevitably coincides with the renewed urgency of the task you’ve been procrastinating over: calling customer service to fix your computer/check your warranty/renew your membership/reset your password. We know you hate calling tech support. We know you’d rather not “ press one for yes.

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Customer Experience – that’s all just fluffy nonsense, isn’t it?

ijgolding

For much of my career, I, like many of my peers, have had to suffer what I like to call the ‘rolling eyes phenomenon’ on numerous occasions. Usually (although not exclusively) the domain of men and women working for organisations in senior roles, the ‘rolling eye phenomenon’ often occurs when someone like me, a Customer Experience Professional, starts to talk about anything related to the Customer Experience.

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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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Report: What Happens After a Good or Bad Experience, 2017

Experience Matters

We just published a Temkin Group report, What Happens After a Good or Bad Experience, 2017. This is our annual analysis of which companies deliver the most and least bad experiences, how consumers respond after those experience (in terms of sharing those experiences and changing their purchase behaviors), and the effect of service recovery (see last […].

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Why Are Some Companies Succeeding at Customer Experience?

InMoment XI

Brands are all hyping customer experience and many are succeeding. Enough with the tired old pitch from consultants about things like: “Why 7 out of 10 strategy implementations fail” or: “The top 5 reasons why companies improve things customers don’t care about” (I wrote that one so I am throwing myself under the bus as.

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How to Be 2 Steps Ahead in Anticipating Your Customer Needs

Kayako

This is a guest post from our friends over at FieldBoom. Josh Brown will walk you through ways to analyze your customers and their needs. Consistently exceeding expectations is what any entrepreneur or startup should aim for to increase customer bookings and enjoy growth. Companies like Virgin Atlantic, British Airways, and Zappos go the extra mile to ensure their customers receive top-notch customer service.

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Don’t replace “thinking” with “execution”

Customer Bliss

It can be common at some companies for execution to be the norm. (More on this in a second.) I’ve done 51 episodes of my podcast now, and usually the feedback I get from listeners is that they like the sections where the guests go over actionable, tactical items. In other words: execution. People want to know how to achieve something — the steps and processes — because often that’s most important to their rank/level (and theoretically most important to the company scali

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One Of The Best CX Resources Of 2017

Storyminers

Customer Experience is making great inroads into business, both in the US and in Europe. The 2017 KPMG Nunwood Customer Experience Excellence Analysis benchmarks CX efforts on both sides of the Atlantic. This CX Resource also brings crystal clear insights useful to any serious customer experience design practitioner. A multi-industry scorecard of sorts, this report shares which sectors and brands are doing the best and dives into practical details about how they do it.

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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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CX Competency: Customer Connectedness (Video)

Experience Matters

Temkin Group has found that the only path to sustainable customer experience differentiation is to build a customer-centric culture. How? By mastering Four Customer Experience Core Competencies. This video provides an overview of one of those competencies, Customer Connectedness, where the goal is to infuse customer insight across the organization. Here Are Four Strategies For Customer Connectedness: Filed under: […].

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Actions MUST speak louder than Words: United Airlines eat humble pie!

ijgolding

Last week I wrote an article on the subject of ‘common sense’ To be more accurate, I wrote about the lack of common sense and how it’s absence was continuing to destroy customer experiences all over the world. One of the stories featured in the article was about United Airlines and their much publicised PR disaster caused by the practice of overbooking flights.

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5 Methodologies to Kick-Start Your CX Program

InMoment XI

Editor’s note: This is a chapter from the ebook, Unlock the Value of CX. You can download the entire book here. Using analysis techniques for CX programs allows data to be transformed into information and knowledge. Although there are many broad areas for analysis, this chapter will touch on five instrumental techniques. Data Mining Data.

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Help Customers on the Support Journey and up the Loyalty Ladder

Kayako

Think about your ideal experience as a customer. It was smooth and quick to get in touch with a knowledgeable and friendly support person, right? You felt heard, and understood! When customer service is like that, you don’t think about excessive effort, and endless back and forth communications. And yet we more commonly experience high friction scenarios.

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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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What’s Your Idea of Perfect Service?

Steve DiGioia

This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. What do your customers expect from you? Do you live up to their expectations or only reach your own perceived “ceiling” of service? Are you “good enough”? Maybe. But good enough for whom? Once we believe we have little to learn about the needs of our customer we no longer deserve their business – and shouldn’t expect it.

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The Value Of Experience Design Improvement Is On The Rise

Storyminers

In the last decade, many brands have used customer experience processes and perspectives to complete corporate turnarounds and experience make-overs. Some have seen their fortunes rise. Some have even stayed at elevated levels. They all use the six customer experience pillars. [SIDEBAR: The six essential disciplines of the Customer Experience Professionals Association: Customer-Centric culture, CX Strategy, Experience Design Improvement & Innovation, Metrics & Measurement and ROI, Organi

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Report: The State of CX Management, 2017

Experience Matters

We just published a Temkin Group report, The State of CX Management, 2017. For the eighth straight year, Temkin Group has evaluated the state of Customer Experience (CX) management at large companies. It includes a lot of details about customer experience within large organizations and examines their effectiveness across Temkin Group’s Four CX Core Competencies: […].

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Role model customer centric leadership: why I am a huge fan of Jeff Bezos!

ijgolding

Most human beings have a small number of people they consider to be their ‘heroes’ For some, it is a relative – their mother, father, brother or sister, husband, wife or partner – it may be a long departed uncle who flew Spitfires in World War II. Others may have heroes from the sporting arena, whether it be a football or soccer player; Muhammad Ali, or a multiple Olympic champion.

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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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4 Things That Predict Customer Sentiment After Online Interactions with Brands

InMoment XI

It’s no secret that customers are flocking to social media in droves to express their delight and disdain with the brands they buy. A key tool that cutting-edge CX practitioners use to measure their social media (SM) reputation is sentiment analysis. This indicates the relative positivity (or negativity) and strength of the attitude expressed in.

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Reduce Effort and Boost Delight with Real Customer Context

Kayako

Entering a small shop or boutique where they know your name and respect your business feels inclusive and welcoming. But as small businesses become bigger and build success, why don’t their service experiences ever scale? Think about your favorite small business. It could be a cool cafe or a specialist store. Why do you love it so much? There’s probably several qualities that won you over.

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Who Really Leads Customer Experience: What Happens When Confusion Strikes

Customer Bliss

Guest post by Blake Morgan, Customer Experience Futurist, Author, Speaker. For a customer experience program to be effective, the most senior leaders at the company must take ownership of the program. But unless the CEO appoints a chief customer officer, a chief customer experience officer, or even a chief marketing officer who is empowered to get things done for the customer, it’s hard to say who will lobby for the customer across the organization.

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“The Survey Shows” Doesn’t Mean The Survey Knows

Storyminers

Nearly 70% of shoppers will revisit a clothing store because of personalization. This from Springboard Retail , a provider of point-of-sale (POS) software with enterprise-grade retail management features. You can read the entire study here. If you follow this survey’s implied advice, you’ll spend more time and money on #1, less of your budget on #2, and so on.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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Comcast Moves Its Customer Experience Team. Does It Matter?

Experience Matters

Comcast recently moved its Customer Service and Customer Experience teams into the company’s Technology and Products division. Charlie Herrin will remain as the chief customer experience officer and Tom Karinshak will remain as the chief customer service officer, but they will now both report into Tony Werner, president of Comcast’s Technology and Products Group.

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The Most Important Thing in Customer Experience? The Customer Perspective -

Kristina Evey

We make decisions every day, every hour, about how to run our business – how to make it better, how to make it more efficient, how to motivate our staff, how to increase revenue, how to cut costs, etc. The daily decisions are endless. But – there is ONE thing that is seldom considered in these decisions. And, unfortunately, it’s the most important thing.

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Today’s Generation Just Can’t Give Good Service, Agree?

Steve DiGioia

This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. How can “kids” brought up with immediate access to information and short attention spans provide the service experience our “older” generation expects? Good question…. I remember watching old black and white movies where the “old guys”, sitting in front of the barber shop, would complain about the kids of today not having the same respect for others or the work ethic as they did.

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How to Create Successful Customer Feedback Surveys

NICE inContact

Anyone can design a customer feedback survey. It’s just a bunch of questions about things that you, your boss, your marketing department, and perhaps an executive or two want to know about your customers. Simply collect the questions from everyone who wants to know about your customers, build the survey, and wait for the results. Stop! If you believe any of what you just read and you have any type of customer feedback survey in place now, you are likely hurting your company’s reputation.

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2 Retail Sectors That Are Completely Changing the Game: FMCG & Q-Commerce

Speaker: Joe Heather, Deliverect GM (UK&I) & Noah Hayes, Deliverect GM (US&CA)

Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and Quick Commerce (Q-commerce) are two vibrant sectors that have undergone significant transformations with the advancements in digital technology. With growing internet penetration and the proliferation of smartphones, consumers' purchasing habits have unsurprisingly evolved. They now demand quick, convenient, and seamless shopping experiences, which both FMCG and Q-commerce sectors strive to provide.

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Six tips for scaling your sales and service team

Vonage

What works for six people can become a mess when applied to 60, 600 or 6,000. From the technology you use, the people you employ and the business processes you set in motion, everything has to be scalable. This is particularly true in customer service; a rapidly growing business with a stagnant customer service team can become a nightmare scenario. To offer a truly personalised experience, businesses need to think beyond the physical size of their business and instead look to the anatomical stru

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Three Secrets to Implementing an Outsourced Customer Service Program

BlueOcean

The road to choosing an outsourced contact center provider is usually a long one. It’s a strategic decision to protect your brand and put customer care in the hands of experts so you can focus your organization’s resources on your core competencies. But it’s a lengthy process loaded with informal conversations as well as the more formal call center RFP process.

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CX Competency: Purposeful Leadership (Video)

Experience Matters

Temkin Group has found that the only path to sustainable customer experience differentiation is to build a customer-centric culture. How? By mastering Four Customer Experience Core Competencies. This video provides an overview of Purposeful Leadership, where the goal is for leaders to act consistently with a clear, well-articulated set of values. Here are the Five P’s of Purposeful Leaders:Filed […].