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USAA and Publix Top 2016 Temkin Customer Service Ratings

Experience Matters

USAA earned the highest score in the 2016 Temkin Customer Service Ratings for the fourth year in a row. These Ratings evaluate the customer service of 277 companies across 20 industries based on a study of 10,000 U.S. consumers (see.pdf with full list of companies). You can see all of the company data on the Temkin Ratings website. […].

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Are Your Bad Sleep Habits Ruining Your Contact Center Career?

BlueOcean

Humor us for a moment and set down that mug of steaming coffee before you keep reading. You know as well as we do that no amount of caffeine will perk you up if you’re feeling sleep deprived. Whether it’s late night work, midnight Netflix bingeing, a crying baby, or snoring partner, stress, or any other regular disruption to quality sleep, it’s likely your bad sleep habits are ruining your career.

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So You Have No Customer Experience Budget… Now What!?

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

How important is customer experience in your organization? Most executives now consider customer experience a priority, but so many of them are still not ready to get serious about it. You may be among those who don’t have the resources necessary to improve the big picture, but you still have the power to improve customer […]. The post So You Have No Customer Experience Budget… Now What!?

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How Fidelity Embedded Customer Experience Across the Business, With Parrish Arturi [CB9]

Customer Bliss

Episode Overview. In this episode, I have the pleasure of speaking with Parrish Arturi. Parrish is the SVP of Retail Service and Experience Delivery at Fidelity Investments. He’s no stranger to making the rounds on business journalism and customer experience shows — he previously appeared on the Fast Leader podcast and did a ‘Quick 6’ of questions with Customer Experience Matters.

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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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Customer Experience Commitment – 2016 Customer Centricity Research Findings

ijgolding

When it comes to the subject of Customer Experience, there are many questions I would like to know the answer to. The problem with my subject, is that very often, there is no right answer! However, over the last couple of years, I have started to conduct my own independent research: In 2013, I published the results to a survey on ‘what customers really want’ Last year, I looked into the ‘things’ that make the worlds ‘number 1 customer experience brands’ I and

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The Social Media Customer Service Opportunity

NICE inContact

Earlier this year I had an issue with an airline so, as many of us would do, I called them. I was greeted with an automated message telling me that the wait time is expected to be 90 minutes. Naturally, I did what many of my fellow millennials would do and took my issue to social media. Twitter was my platform of choice and I simply posted something to the effect of, “Hey @airlinename, I’m stuck here and need you help to resolve this, please talk to me.

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Value-add leadership development for customer experience

Customer Bliss

CCO work is really challenging. I call my podcast The Human Duct Tape Show because that’s actually how I view CCO work — we’re the duct tape of organizations. Every senior leadership team and every executive wants a good customer acquisition strategy, a good customer retention strategy, a strong lifetime value per customer, and a good overall customer experience.

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Gladys Recommends The Successful Mistake

Who's Your Gladys?

Today’s video blog offers insight into those dreaded business mistakes you might make with customers or colleagues. It’s based on a great new book THE SUCCESSFUL MISTAKE: How 163 of The World’s Greatest Entrepreneurs Transform Failure & Adversity Into Success! written by Matthew Turner, a business speaker in. The post Gladys Recommends The Successful Mistake appeared first on Who's Your Gladys?

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Market researchers: You’re more valuable than you think

Alida

Today, customers advise brands on where markets are going—not the other way around. According to a 2015 IBM CEO study , it’s “impossible to personalize products, services or experiences without a clear idea of customers’ core values and what’s happening in their lives.” Customers not only want to inform the future of products and services but also decide how, when and where they interact with brands.

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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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Countering Terror with a Service Heart

Michelli Experience

Yet again the world is rocked by a terrible and senseless mass shooting. In a community not far from me in Central Florida, innocent men and women entered a business not expecting to run out in horror, be carried out in pain, or not walk out at all. The media will spotlight the human suffering and try to understand the psychology of the shooter. Politicians will squabble about ways to mitigate future attacks and security experts will tell us how to make our businesses safer.

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Building a Business Case for Customer Analytics

Calabrio

If you are in a product or service-oriented industry, it should come as no surprise that the way you engage with your customers means everything. How well you know them, whether you can provide personalized service, and if you can earn their trust and loyalty can all mean the difference between your customers spending their money with you or with your competitors.

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4 Steps to Meet 24/7 Customer Service Expectations on Social Media

Joe Rawlinson

Social media customers have increasingly demanding expectations. About 95 percent of millennials expect brands to have a Facebook presence, and over 80 percent expect brands to be on Twitter, HubSpot research found. According to Edison Research, 42 percent of customers expect service requests made through social media to be handled within 60 minutes, while 32 percent expect a response within 30 minutes.

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Are You Keeping Up with Customer Expectations?

Wired and Dangerous

Customers are different today! Their ever changing expectations have increased over 33% in the last 12 months! They have raised the bar on how they view customer experience. They are looking for service providers who consistently deliver service experiences that drive loyalty even in an environment of customer expectations that change at supersonic speed!

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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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Retail’s Worst Nightmare – Virtual Reality!

Beyond Philosophy

Over the past few months, some retailers have been experimenting with virtual reality. With sales lagging, they‘re hoping that in-store virtual reality experiences will be the magic ingredient that lures shoppers back. Now, though, eBay has announced that it is launching the world’s first virtual reality department store. eBay’s new venture is being rolled out in Australia in partnership with Australian retailer Myer, and it requires nothing more than a free smartphone app and a pair of cardboar

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How Many of Your Customers Have Suggestions for Improving Customer Experience?

PeopleMetrics

As a customer experience company, we field a lot of questions from prospects about customer feedback. In fact, it’s common for prospects to have a system for collecting feedback—from rudimentary snail-mail surveys to online survey platforms. But it’s uncommon for them to have a system for acting on that feedback. Here's the thing: If you’re not acting on customer feedback, then there’s not much reason in collecting it.

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Three Questions To Ponder on Microsoft and LinkedIn

Esteban Kolsky

Hello, Your friendly neighboring analyst (who apparently never writes anything anymore). I had to dust off the cobwebs for this one… I had such a busy day with calls and messages and emails and such – I figured it was a good time to break the streak and write something. First off, won’t comment on the price… OK, maybe just one tiny one.

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Seven Ways to Properly Give a Gift to Your Customers

ShepHyken

The After-Experience. Congratulations to my buddy John Ruhlin who has a new book that just came out, Giftology. In this book he covers the art of the appreciation gift. You may be familiar with his name if you’ve been following my work. I’ve covered some of his ideas in the past. He’s a rock star when it comes to understanding how to make people feel special and appreciated.

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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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Exposed: Lazy Employees Are Good For You!

Beyond Philosophy

We’ve all encountered these people in the workplace. The guy who wanders around joking with everyone but never seems to do any actual work. The woman who files her nails when she should be typing a report. The slacker who…well…nobody actually knows where the slacker is or what he’s doing! Co-workers label these folks ‘lazy’ and resent them for not doing their share.

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Are You a Human or a Robot?

CX Journey

Image courtesy of Spectrum Solutions Pondicherry What really happens to humans when they walk into their offices or places of employment? A couple weeks ago, I wrote a post about emotionally unavailable customers. Hat tip to James Lawther for inspiring me to actually flip the tables here and think about emotionally-challenged employees, instead. The question I posed in response to his comment on that post was: Why do we transform from humans into robots as soon as we walk into the office buildin

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Customer mobile expectations drive CX scores downwards

OpinionLab

The results published in our latest Customer Opinion Index (COI) Report say a lot about exactly what is going on in CX at the moment: namely the impact of mobile and how this is affecting customer expectations. For those of you who don’t know, our COI report features two cross-industry benchmarks based on feedback received by hundreds of the world’s biggest brands: an overall COI score (out of 1000) calculated based on omnichannel future customer behavior – such as purchasing likelihood, loyalt

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Guest Blog: The Power of Training in Customer Service

ShepHyken

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Ian Landsman writes about the importance of training and preparing customer service representatives to interact with customers. I agree that every employee should go through customer service training, and it should be ongoing. – Shep Hyken. Most of us go through training when we start a new job, learning the systems, tools and processes we need to accomplish our day-to-day responsibilities.

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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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Inside Customer Success: Moz

Amity

With more than 23,000 paying customers worldwide, Moz provides analytics software to track all of a website's SEO and inbound marketing efforts on one platform. We sat down with Ellie Wilkinson , the Senior Customer Success Team Manager at Moz, to discuss how Customer Success has evolved over the last two years. Can you tell us about your responsibilities at Moz?

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You can’t teach employees to care

Heart of the Customer

I was presenting at a healthcare conference on the importance of managing your in-clinic experience. In the Q&A session an attendee asked, “How important is hiring versus training? If you have a front-office person who isn’t that friendly, how can you teach her to be nicer?” It’s a great question, and one that isn’t asked […].

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Quick Guide to Setting Up Your Business Computer Network

transcosmos Information Systems

Every company has its unique business needs and priorities, which define the kind of computer network security it demands to meet requirements and allow team members to exchange information. As your business grows, chances are, you’ll need to update your existing network to suit your increasing necessities. If you already have a basic setup, detailing your business requirements to a vendor that offers technical support services will help you in upgrading the network.

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Amazing Business Radio: John DiJulius

ShepHyken

John DiJulius on Secret Service & The Customer Service Revolution. Shep Hyken speaks with John DiJulius, international consultant, best-selling business author and owner of the award winning John Robert’s Spa. John shares ideas from his latest book, “The Customer Service Revolution.” They discuss the radical overthrow of conventional business mentality which is transforming the employee and customer experience.

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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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All you need to know when your phone/energy bill is wrong

Helen Dewdney

It has been in the news a lot recently about Vodafone and their billing mistakes. It moved to a new billing platform and since then there have been masses of reports of serious blunders, such as direct debits incorrectly set up, people being put on the wrong tariff and credit agencies wrongly being told that customers have missed payments. So what if you are one of these customers or indeed if you receive bills of any sort what should you do?

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The Anatomy of a Detractor

Promoter.io

Have you ever had one of those experiences as a customer where you walk away swearing to never return? Where nothing about how you were treated or what you were provided seemed anywhere near acceptable? I think everyone can relate to an experience like that. In fact, some of you have probably had many experiences […]. The post The Anatomy of a Detractor appeared first on Promoter.io Blog.

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The 4Es to Cultivating Service Mindset

Up Your Service

We often hear leaders say, “We want our people to have a better service mindset.”. What is a mindset? Here is one example. People often describe other people as either ‘glass half full’ or ‘glass half empty’. What they are referring to is a mindset , a fundamental way to view the world. Mindset includes a person’s attitudes and assumptions, values, beliefs, preferences, standards, and judgments.