Kayako

JANUARY 5, 2017

Customers expect top-notch service, with no patience or loyalty for companies that don’t provide it. These are the five ways of providing premium customer support software to meet your customer expectations in 2017: 1. Your customers want to help themselves. ” Marketing Interactive.

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2017 Multi-Channel Loyalty Customer Service 38

Storyminers

JANUARY 24, 2017

This article appeared first January 10, 2017 at SharpenCX.com. Customer experience expert Mike Wittenstein sheds light on enhanced customer expectations, AI innovation, and more. How do you expect customer expectations to change in 2017? 2017 won’t be a year of “one thing changes one time.”

Contact Center 34

Contact Center 2017 Brands Hospitality 34

ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

The 7 Best Retailers for Customer Service b y Jamie Grill-Goodman. RIS) In today’s omnichannel climate where differentiation is increasingly difficult and customer expectations are heightened, customer service is critical for delivering differentiated shopping experiences. Learn what they are doing right.

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2017 Article Customer Service Retail 75

Bold360

JANUARY 5, 2017

Now that 2017 has come, we have to take stock of how we fared in the crazed holiday season. If a customer couldn’t reach an agent or manage to ask a question or receive support, you lost business. If traffic overwhelmed your site or your customer journey was convoluted or your cx unpleasant, you lost business.

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2017 E Commerce E-support 2014 65

ShepHyken

AUGUST 7, 2017

Is The Customer Service “Department” Becoming Obsolete? TCFCR) Let’s face it, most Customer Service Departments were created, and still exist, to deal with a mismatch between customer expectations and what a business delivers. It’s all about service, the story, the way people feel when they interact with you and more.

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2017 Article Customer Service Social Media 17

Bold360

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

The financial services industry is changing and developing at a ferocious pace, and 2017 is expected to be a year of growth, at least for those companies able to provide their customers with access to the best technology available to assist them throughout their online journey. Creating a New Self-Service Solution in Banking.

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2017 Financial Banking 2014 63

GetFeedback

JUNE 12, 2019

But if the customer experience is so paramount to the bottom line, why are many companies still lagging behind? For example, organizations focus on improving one service interaction, or one check-out experience. Ensure that you’re collecting customer data effectively. Pay close attention to negative responses along the journey.

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Touchpoint Net Promoter Score NPS Customer Journey 199

Calabrio

JANUARY 19, 2017

At Calabrio, we know that to achieve those goals, successful companies are constantly analyzing what is and is not resonating with customers and driving those insights back into the business. More and more companies are realizing that the key to happy customers is happy employees. 2017 is all about #customersatisfaction.

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2017 Customer Satisfaction Brands Contact Center 59

Storyminers

JANUARY 24, 2017

This article appeared first January 10, 2017 at SharpenCX.com. Customer experience expert Mike Wittenstein sheds light on enhanced customer expectations, AI innovation, and more. How do you expect customer expectations to change in 2017? 2017 won’t be a year of “one thing changes one time.”

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Contact Center 2017 Brands Hospitality 53

PeopleMetrics

JANUARY 23, 2025

When I wrote Listen or Die in 2017, I made the case that NPS is invaluable for understanding the overall health of your customer relationships, but its not enoughespecially in a transactional VoC survey. Building Relationships: AI can flag at-risk customers, but personalized outreach is what rebuilds trust and loyalty.

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NPS E Commerce Effort Score Metrics 118

ReviewTrackers

MAY 8, 2017

Customer experience (CX) — defined as “the cumulative impact of all interactions and experiences between your business and the customer, at every touchpoint across the entire customer journey, and viewed entirely from your customer’s perspective” — has become one of today’s most important business benchmarks.

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2017 Events Customer Experience Customer Journey Mapping 50

Customer Bliss

JANUARY 20, 2022

In today’s instant gratification age, customers expect service to be faster and more responsive than ever. But their holistic approach to being there for customers is a winning strategy, no matter the decade. First Direct’s is equally as swift, personal and helpful in mobile, social and Internet interactions.

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Banking 2017 Books Hospitality 148

CX Accelerator

JUNE 19, 2018

But what happens when we are sitting behind a computer screen looking at call centre costs racking up from repeat callers or negative customer survey results? Do we empathize with the experiences our customers are having? Gone are the days where customers’ expectations are only for their functional needs to be met.

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Customer Experience Customer Journey Airlines Customers 159

ShepHyken

JUNE 29, 2021

Top Takeaways: Many companies think that they are customer-obsessed while unaware of the customer-focused gaps within their organization. These gaps can be felt by the customers through their digital channels, interactions with people, and a variety of things in their organization.

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B2B 2017 Leadership Brands 147

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 23, 2024

Customer experience leaders are not just expected to keep up with trends in the marketplace, customer expectations, and technology, we simply MUST do so to serve customers and stay ahead of the competition. Customers often crave personal, empathetic connections and some bots simply aren’t up to the task.

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Customer Experience 2024 Omnichannel Customer Journey Mapping 143

ShepHyken

JANUARY 23, 2017

Personal touch for customer service drives retention, loyalty by Helen Leggatt. BizReport) Despite more service providers moving towards digital interaction, a more personal touch in customer service helps drive loyalty and retention, according to a global study from Verint Systems. Follow on Twitter: @Hyken.

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2017 Article Social Media Customer Service 59

ReviewTrackers

MARCH 31, 2021

Insurers can create products and services that are tailored to the needs and lifestyle of each customer. A 2017 Accenture survey showed that 44 percent of health insurance customers believe it to be important that their providers not just offer insurance packages but health advice as well. Create a product “ecosystem”.

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Insurance Customer Retention 2017 Transportation 123

Talkdesk

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

San Francisco had a busy week at Dreamforce 2017 last week. Here’s a quick rundown of some of Talkdesk’s activities from Dreamforce 2017: #1: Gadi Shamia shared five crazy ideas for transforming customer experience to a packed breakout session. 12: We rocked out to Alicia Keys and Lenny Kravitz at Dreamfest 2017.

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2017 Contact Center 2012 Demo 4

Lumoa

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence (AI) is still the same old good AI, but now it’s brought to the customer experience field. According to Finance Digest , 95% of customer interactions will be managed with AI by 2025. Now at least 80% of B2B buyers now expect the same buying experience as B2C customers.

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Definition Net Promoter Score Customer Experience B2C 167

Lumoa

JANUARY 9, 2018

Customer experience has been already a hot topic in business during 2017 and is promising to be even of higher importance in 2018. “CX It’s predicted, that by 2020 customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator when making consumer choices. Customers want unique, special and innovative.

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2018 Customer Experience Competitive Advantage 2017 133

CloudCherry

JANUARY 4, 2018

Less Face-to-Face Interaction with Customers. Thus, in 2018, we will see increasingly less in-person interaction between consumers and financial institutions. Artificial intelligence is the new buzzword and 2017 has definitely seen a lot of discussion around this technology. In fact, quite the opposite is true.

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Banking 2018 Financial Retail 170

Customer Alignment

DECEMBER 18, 2017

As I was considering ‘what to expect in 2018’, I took a step back and contemplated 2017. 2017 promised such a lot. There was the motivation and there were clear opportunities to really begin to make a significant difference for customers and close the recognised experience gap. What did we hear, what did we see?

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2017 2018 Chief Customer Officer CEM 45

Retently

JULY 28, 2023

By 2019, according to Gartner’s CXM Survey , only 11% of companies lacked a CXO and 10% a CCO – a 24% increase compared to 2017. This data reflects a growing recognition of the importance of CX leadership in driving business success and delivering exceptional customer experiences.

Chief Customer Officer 121

Chief Customer Officer Customer Centricity Call Center Metrics 121

Alida

JANUARY 10, 2018

It’s always been easier to keep existing customers than land new one, but keeping loyal customers doesn’t come without its own set of challenges. But marketers tend to have their own ideas about what drives customer loyalty, and those ideas don’t always mesh with what the customer is thinking. What is loyalty, really?

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Loyalty Marketing Net Promoter Score NPS 127

Alida

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Despite all the big data available to brands, they don’t really know their customers. Customers now expect brands to understand their needs, respond to their feedback and deliver ‘real’ interactions that make them feel like more than just a transaction. 2 – Create with the customer. The secret?

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Competitive Advantage 2017 2025 Customer Journey 100

Storyminers

JULY 7, 2020

How do you expect customer expectations to change in 2017? Customers will expect most of their vendors to serve them as well as their favorite vendors do. Prefer the customized recommendations you get from Nordstrom? It’s simply natural to let expectations creep between brands.

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Contact Center Customer Expectations 2017 Management 59

ProProfs Chat

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

As leading researchers indicate that organizations lose about $62 million every year due to poor customer service , you can’t expect any good with an average customer support. No matter how great your product your service is, you can’t sustain market competition without a top of the line customer service. Take a look. .

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2018 Omnichannel 2017 Customer Centricity 111

Talkdesk

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

This post is part of Talkdesk’s live-blogging series for Dreamforce 2017. To see all of Talkdesk’s Dreamforce 2017 highlights, visit our Dreamforce 2017 landing page. Customer experience is the sum of every interaction with a brand. One reason we kept it as a closed conversation is for the privacy of our customers.

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2017 Technology Sales Contact Center 41

Forrester

APRIL 3, 2017

Successful business leaders drive their organizations to create experiences that continually meet or exceed customer expectations. More than 50% of our customer interactions are now digital.

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Chief Customer Officer 2017 Events Omnichannel 66

Ann Michaels and Associates

DECEMBER 27, 2018

. • Nearly 95% of shoppers read online reviews before making a purchase (Spiegel Research Center, 2017). • 94% of customers read online reviews (Fan and Fuel, 2016). • 93% of local consumers use reviews to determine if a local business is good or bad (BrightLocal, 2017). • The importance of replying to customer reviews. •

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2018 2017 2016 B2B 73

Talkdesk

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

This post is part of Talkdesk’s live-blogging series for Dreamforce 2017. To see all of Talkdesk’s Dreamforce 2017 highlights, visit our Dreamforce 2017 landing page. 3 Top Technology Trends from Dreamforce 2017: It’s About Artificial Intelligence. Customer experience is the sum of every interaction with a brand.

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2017 Technology Sales Contact Center 41

Customer Bliss

JANUARY 26, 2018

“More and more customers are willing to use live chat when contacting brands, but their general satisfaction rate has gone down slightly.” This is a finding from the recently released LiveChat Customer Service Report 2018 , comparing results from 2017 to 2016. That's what your customer expects #CX #CustServ Click To Tweet.

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2018 Chief Customer Officer Touchpoint Customer Journey 114

CloudCherry

JULY 25, 2018

The MIT Technology Review: Getting To Iconic report is based on surveys conducted with over 550 business executives at global firms—including retail, IT, logistics, healthcare, IT, and more— in over 30 countries between May and July 2017. Over 60% of them managed relatively large operations with more than $1 billion in annual revenue.

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Technology Brands Customer Experience Omnichannel 170

Talkdesk

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Opentalk 2017 was packed with thought leadership from some of the most customer-centric leaders and companies of our time. The Opentalk 2017 Video Library is your team’s chance to re-experience those speaking sessions. Customer Expectations Are Rising . “55% Customers Expect Effortless Experience.

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Contact Center 2017 2009 Advertising 40

Oracle

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Investing in better customer experience (CX) may significantly contribute to revenue growth and customer loyalty. According to Gartner , “More than two-thirds of marketers responsible for CX say their companies compete mostly on the basis of CX, according to the 2017 Gartner Customer Experience in Marketing Survey.

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Definition Customer Experience 2017 Customers 87

Joe Rawlinson

JULY 25, 2018

If you feel like you may need to think about hiring dedicated customer support here are three indicators that you may be right. Customers expect excellent service when making purchases. Not only do they expect to be served, but they expect to be served within what they consider to be a reasonable amount of time.

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Social Media 2017 2014 Poor Customer Service 84

NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Fast forward to 2017: an astounding 15 million plus text messages are sent every minute of the day across the globe, but only a fraction of all those texts are customer service related. Customer expectations are fairy straight forward, as they use SMS / text on a daily basis. A true case of 1+1=3.

Contact Center 67

Contact Center Omnichannel 2017 Interaction 67