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How to Easily Use Customer Co-creation for Profitable Growth

C3Centricity

One of my clients, who is following the 50 weekly actions for customer centric excellence as described in my book Winning Customer Centricity , recently asked me for some ideas on how to better involve their customers in co-creation. According to Wikipedia co-creation is.

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5 Ways Support Teams Can Prepare for the COVID-19 Holiday Rush

GetFeedback

How to provide the best customer service and support during this unprecedented holiday season. Guides

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How to Measure CX Impact

Heart of the Customer

We CX folks love to discuss measurement. If you want to fill a room at a conference, just put the word “metric” in your session title, and you’re good to go. Mention “Net Promoter Score” or “Customer Effort Score,” and you’ll need to order more chairs.

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How to Handle Difficult Customers

ShepHyken

Not long ago I covered six ways to handle angry customers. So, after you read this, I urge you to go back and read the original article. This is a follow-up with another half dozen techniques to manage angry and/or difficult customers.

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Retail Reimagined: What It Means To Be An Innovative Retailer

Speaker: DeAnna McIntosh, Retail Growth Strategist

Join DeAnna McIntosh, Retail Growth Strategist, for this idea-sparking session on how to multiply and diversify your revenue (and impact) with zero ad spend, how to create disruption in your industry, and how to reimagine and innovate the retail business model.

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How to Sell More to Less People: Essentials of Segmentation

C3Centricity

Denyse Drummond-Dunn · How to sell more to less: the essentials of segmentation. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts to get new episodes as they become available.”. . Businesses often make the mistake of trying to sell to everyone. Well, if you try to please everyone you end up delighting no-one. Read on to find out why. Your brand needs to appeal to a group of customers who are looking for the solution you are offering.

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Address the Argument the Right Way

Steve DiGioia

Always address the point of the argument, NOT, the emotions attached to it. Example: John is upset that his suggestions for improvements to an upcoming project weren’t adopted, so he vents his frustrations about being overlooked or undervalued. Do this before speaking to John again.

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How to Be a Better Retail Customer During the Holidays

Steve DiGioia

Time to share a meal with great company, whether family, friends, or coworkers. For them, it’s a time for stress, a time to deal with frantic shoppers looking for the perfect gift, and a time to work long hours with little time for themselves. Click To Tweet.

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How to Send the Message That You Care to be Your Best Every Day

Steve DiGioia

Next comes finding the perfect location to set up shop and after almost a year you’re finished. Sure, you had to get over a few hurdles and you corrected some mistakes but now business is steady. But for how long? Your focus is only on the things that are important to you. But what about the unspoken messages you’re sending to your customers? can a crooked sign ruin your business? This original article was written by Steve DiGioia.

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How to Make Your Customers Feel Important – Tip #19

Steve DiGioia

Their goal is to make their customers feel important and serve them well. But most servers are friendly and really try to make your dining experience enjoyable. How Do You Make Your Customers Feel Important? What is the Key to Great Service? Click To Tweet.

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Is Your CX Program Delivering the Results You Had Hoped?

When you launch a CX program, there is often an air of exuberance. A year or two later, however, it can feel like your program has flat-lined and you find it hard to make improvements. If your CX program is struggling, check out our latest whitepaper for tips on how to reverse the trend.

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How to Improve Customer Experience: A Step by Step Guide

Lumoa

How do you stand in that competition? Customer experience management brings discipline to this somewhat vague and soft area: by establishing a systematic process for collecting, analyzing, and acting on customer feedback, you’ll be able to improve customer experience altogether.

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How to Stop Giving Customer Service Like a Useless Scarecrow

Steve DiGioia

Today’s post tells you how to stop giving customer service like a useless scarecrow. These are the deadwood employees hired in a desperate attempt to quickly fill open positions and with little regard to their qualifications. He knew what to do and when to do it.

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How to Disrupt Your Competition

ShepHyken

Less than one week before the release of my new book, The Convenience Revolution: How to Deliver a Customer Service Experience That Disrupts the Competition and Creates Fierce Loyalty , so I thought it appropriate to share some thoughts on how being easy – or convenient – can give you a competitive advantage over your competition. Your customers want your product to meet their expectations. Everyone is striving to create a good experience, at every level.

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How to Measure Customer Satisfaction With CSAT

GetFeedback

Do you really know how your customers feel about your products and services? How about the quality of your customer service? The only way to really find out is to ask, which is why so many companies measure customer satisfaction regularly. The most common way is by sending customer satisfaction (CSAT) surveys, which ask customers to rate their experiences and share open-ended feedback. When to use CSAT.

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The Ultimate Guide to CX Surveys

Customer feedback is essential if you want your business to thrive – it will give you the direction to improve. Discover best practices, how to formulate a great survey, and the best customer experience survey questions to ask, all with examples!

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How to get Insights from Customer Conversations

Lumoa

Every company wants to know what its customers think of its product- but few think of simply asking them directly. Conversations with customers are the ideal way to get valuable insight and feedback into an organization’s performance.

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How To Prioritize Customer Experience Efforts

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Customer experience efforts lead to lists of action items. Creating a CX strategy means having a plan to execute that requires getting other leaders and teams on board with an aligned mission. Customer journey mapping efforts lead to areas to improve and challenges to overcome.

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How to Measure CX Impact

Heart of the Customer

We CX folks love to discuss measurement. If you want to fill a room at a conference, just put the word “metric” in your session title, and you’re good to go. Mention “Net Promoter Score” or “Customer Effort Score,” and you’ll need to order more chairs.

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How to Overcome Declining Survey Response Rates

InMoment XI

This is especially true right now, when survey response rates are declining due to a litany of new and unprecedented causes. Today, we’re going to go through those causes, how their impact goes far beyond surveys, and what brands like yours can do to respond to this continuous drop in numbers.

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How Mature Are Your Digital Experiences? A Step-by-Step Guide to Improved CX

Read about Verint’s Digital Maturity Model, where we share real tactics and strategies to improve CX, based on what has worked for our clients around the world.

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How to Use ChatGPT in Omnichannel Marketing?

SmartMessage Blog

OpenAI’s smart bot ChatGPT continues to attract millions all around the world. Competitors start to take the scene as well. This article will examine how we can achieve good results in omnichannel marketing and automation with ChatGPT. Who hasn’t heard of ChatGPT?

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How to Manage Like a Great Movie Director

Steve DiGioia

Now children, we are going to have free time. Each of you will be able to do whatever you want until class is over” said the teacher. Adaptability is rampant to suit the client’s wishes/needs. And the bosses want to be a “friend” to their subordinates. Any great business must run like a movie set where each employee is an actor with a specific role to play. The director, or senior management, sets the tone for all to follow. But to what extent?

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How to Re-energize Your VoC Program

Lumoa

While most VoC efforts start strongly, many tend to lose their traction over time— especially if the program isn’t properly implemented or the company becomes complacent. The good news is that there are still ways to get VoC programs back on track.

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How to Kickstart the Next Digital Experience Trend

InMoment XI

Are you still using a paper map to direct you when you’re driving to work? Of course not, you’re using your smartphone that tells you where you are, when to turn, and if there is an accident up ahead. 3 Steps to Start the Next Digital Experience Trend.

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5 Ways to Supercharge Your CX Strategy

Want more from your customer experience program? This whitepaper outlines 5 tactics to improve your CX strategy and take your program to the next level. Download your copy now!

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How to Become an Expert Survey Builder with InMoment

InMoment XI

From the very beginning, they’re thinking about outcomes such as: Why does this matter to my customers? How will I act on this feedback? However, if your survey isn’t set up to ask the right questions at the right time, the data becomes irrelevant.

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How to Build a Customer Experience Persona

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

In my work consulting, training, and running workshops , one consistent theme I find is teams are super eager to begin the Customer Journey Mapping process. But in order to do so, those journey maps must be built on a foundation of a true picture of your customer.

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How to Build Chatbot for Facebook?

kommunicate

He told me about an experience he had on Facebook when he set out to understand what to consider as a career. He came across a university page and decided to have an interaction with a messenger bot. The post How to Build Chatbot for Facebook?

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3 Reasons Why Successful Teams Earn Your Trust

Steve DiGioia

Now she’s starting to annoy me… I was having a conversation with a few of my old hotel friends and we were discussing some of the silly things that have happened to us over the years. Here’s a story I brought up that happened to me. There is no need to write it down.”

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How to Leverage the Top CX Trends of 2023

Want to know where CX is heading in 2023? From the Metaverse and Web3 to how macroeconomic influences are impacting CX, this Trend Report will give you a taste of what is to come in the year ahead and beyond.

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What is Voice of the Customer? [+ how to get data analysis]?

Lumoa

With all relationships, taking the time to listen is crucial to its success. Without listening to the voice of your customer, you’ll be like a ship without a rudder or a compass…lost and drifting without direction. Customers don’t always take the time to express their feelings.

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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.

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How to provide more personalized customer experiences

GetFeedback

Insights and steps on how to deliver a better personalized customer experience based on key findings from The GetFeedback 2022 State of CX Report.

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How to Create Winning CX Surveys for Bank Customers

InMoment XI

Constant engagement is key to creating a quality, meaningfully improved customer experience (CX). Banks can and should engage with customers via CX surveys and other feedback methods to see what customers love about the experience and what might need a little tweaking.

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Customer Advocacy and Community

Speaker: Liz Richardson and Deena Zenyk

If you’re a marketer, or you need more information and understanding on how to turn customers into advocates, you need this upcoming webinar. You will learn: best practices for architecting a customer advocacy program, key outcomes & measurements, how to identify and recruit advocates from your community, and incentive types and how to use them. Register now for October 6th, 2021, at 12:00pm EDT.

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How to Create Winning CX Surveys for Bank Customers

InMoment XI

Constant engagement is key to creating a quality, meaningfully improved customer experience (CX). Banks can and should engage with customers via CX surveys and other feedback methods to see what customers love about the experience and what might need a little tweaking.

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How to Improve Customer Retention

InMoment XI

There is something to be said about how vital it is to leverage market research to understand your non-buyers so you can convert them into customers. But focusing on how to improve customer retention is just as important, if not more.

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How to Control Calls

Myra Golden

In this course, I explain why customer calls get out of hand and introduce a simple process to get you back in control. You’ll leave the course with actionable tips to turn long, problematic phone calls into polite and efficient interactions.

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3 Staff Motivation Challenges & How to Combat Them

InMoment XI

Anytime you enter a retail store or dine at a restaurant, we bet you have some very definite expectations, one of which is to have a pleasant interaction with the staff. The reverse is also true: When employees are not satisfied, they become liabilities to your brand.

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Artificial Intelligence in Cloud-Based Solutions

Speaker: Rick Nucci, Co-Founder & CEO of Guru

With the advent of chatbots, artificial intelligence, interactive voice response, and machine learning, novel technologies continue to disrupt the contact center industry. How to leverage AI to drive cloud-based solutions in contact centers.