BlueOcean

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Customer experience is pretty much the hottest topic in the contact center and customer care space these days. Where Are Businesses Spending Money on Customer Experience? This article looks into where those priorities are, particularly as customer behavior have been permanently shifted by the pandemic.

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Customer Experience 2028 Contact Center 2020 177

InMoment XI

APRIL 11, 2022

After a whirlwind of COVID-spurred digital transformation, rapid brand expansion, and supply chain woes, consumer expectations and their relationships with e-commerce brands have changed before our eyes. So what can these brands do to get ahead of customer expectations? The key is to dive into your customer data.

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E Commerce Roadmap Customer Care 2021 370

Bill Quiseng

OCTOBER 9, 2024

So, I encourage you to remind yourself and your colleagues every day about each one of The Rule of Three QUI TAKEAWAYS to Customer Service and Customer Experience. I am here to tell you that if you’re not in the Top Three, you don’t even exist in the minds of your potential customers. Here’s why. But I digress.

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Customer Service Customer Experience Social Media Loyalty 173

BlueOcean

AUGUST 26, 2019

Blue Ocean, a North American provider of customer care solutions, is excited to announce the new face of Blue Ocean at blueocean.ca. When Blue Ocean embarked on the website redesign journey, the primary goal was to center the focus around the total customer experience. We invite you to explore the new blueocean.ca

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Customer Experience Customer Care Sales Innovation 136

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 3, 2021

He shares the four key areas that lead to elevated customer experiences while growing rapidly. Since I assumed the chief executive role, we have targeted our efforts on continuing to grow our service footprint, but doing so in tandem with delivering excellent customer care. Happy Enabled Employees = Happy Customers.

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Customer Experience Net Promoter Score 2021 Transportation 142

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

She writes about what customers expect from companies in 2021 and what they actually get. Consumers today expect speedier access to services than ever before. Customers want their concerns resolved swiftly, without having to wait in line or being handed from one executive to another. .

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Customer Experience Advertising Customer Expectations 2011 103

BlueOcean

AUGUST 30, 2018

The key is to find a true strategic partner who you trust to stay ahead of the customer experience curve. More and more customer interactions are happening without any human interaction at all. The right partner understands exactly what clients’ customers expect from these digital tools. Related Articles.

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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

ClearAction

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

10 Silos Impact Customer Experience Lynn Hunsaker. This might be the highest-ROI effort of your customer experience council, chief customer officer, chief operating officer — or better yet, every employee. And the pain of business silos is well-known to everyone, whether employee or customer.

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Customer Experience Return on Investment Chief Customer Officer Customers 106

BlueOcean

JULY 15, 2024

For many organizations, in-house customer care feels like the right choice. It keeps you close to your customers and ready to serve them with your comprehensive knowledge of your products or services. Ensuring your customer support center is up and running, no matter what, is a daunting task that organizations must prepare for.

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Contact Center Customer Care Measurement Consumers 177

Interactions

APRIL 16, 2024

How Can the Bar be Raised to Surpass Customer Expectations? In a world of high demands and countless inquiries, meeting consumer expectations isn’t just a goal; it’s a commitment. Failing to invest in customer care risks customers seeking it elsewhere.

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Customer Care Omnichannel Metrics Innovation 62

BlueOcean

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

At Blue Ocean, we have long held the position that the customer experience and the employee experience are inextricably linked. We’ve said it so often it’s become cliché, but we stand by the concept that happy employees make for happy customers, and in outsourcing, happy customers make happy clients.

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Contact Center Multi-Channel Customer Care Touchpoint 156

ClearAction

OCTOBER 4, 2015

How to Make Customer Experience Strategy Integral to Corporate Strategy. Is customer experience management in your company (a) a subset of corporate strategy, (b) unrelated to corporate strategy, or (c) a determinant of corporate strategy? The money comes from customers. Why do companies succeed? Follow the money.

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Customer Experience White Paper ROI Financial 118

Second to None

MARCH 18, 2021

Measure Across All Grocery Customer Service Touchpoints. It is vital for grocery brands to measure customer experience across all touchpoints as customer expectations rapidly evolve: online , in-app, on the phone, or in-store. Mystery Shopping measures operational standards and brand performance.

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Measurement 2021 Brands Customer Experience 113

Pointillist

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

But most companies still force these evolved customers onto engagement paths that are steeped in legacy and instantly feel outdated. Artificial intelligence can be successfully employed to provide an intelligent, convenient and informed customer experience at any point along the customer journey. Business Context.

Customer Experience 111

Customer Experience Touchpoint Customer Journey Multi-Channel 111

Kustomer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Listen and subscribe to our podcast: In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets Podcast, Gabe Larsen is joined by two CX leaders, Michael Miller and Vikas Bhambri, to discuss how to manage different types of customer expectations and service expectations during a global pandemic. Intro Voice: (00:04). Read More Hide.

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Customer Expectations Management Communication Customers 85

ClearAction

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Are Your Customer Care Metrics Customer-Centric? Customer care metrics are a barometer of performance across a variety of customer interactions such as chat, text messages, email, social media and communities. Both of these orientations tend to be company-serving rather than customer-focused.

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Customer Care Customer Centricity Metrics Social Media 54

Lumoa

AUGUST 3, 2021

As we see the business world shifting towards a more remote and digital landscape, the communication between customers and service employees is playing a more pivotal role in customer experience due to the lack of opportunity for face-to-face interactions. How to transform the experience by looking at customer journeys 1.

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ShepHyken

JULY 25, 2018

Customer service and customer experience (CX) have become as hot of topics as any in business. It’s become a customer expectation. Don’t deliver on the CX and the customer will find someone – or some company – that does. And, even if it is different, do our customers care?

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Employee Experience Customer Experience Workshop Customer Service Training 91

delighted

MAY 20, 2022

The research shows that startup founders are instead prioritizing strengthening their core business and delivering customer experiences built to last. Customer experience is core to startup survival and success. So why aren’t all startups doing more with their customer experience data?

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2022 Customer Experience Net Promoter Score 2011 93

BlueOcean

JUNE 17, 2021

For many organizations, in-house customer care feels like the right choice. It keeps you close to your customers and ready to serve them with your exhaustive knowledge of your products or services. Customer care is often a 24/7/365 job, and the slightest disruption has the potential to impact your reputation and brand loyalty.

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Contact Center Customer Care Measurement 2022 177

Playvox

APRIL 21, 2023

No matter where your customers get service, they’ll expect outstanding customer experience (CX), so you’ll have to be ready. Make sure your contact center is set up for digital success behind the scenes so that you can provide the experiences your customers demand. What Is Omnichannel Customer Experience?

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Omnichannel Customer Experience Contact Center Social Media 95

GetFeedback

JANUARY 27, 2020

In today’s competitive marketplace, it’s more important than ever that companies deliver amazing customer service. Focusing on customer experience just might be the single most critical investment a company can make. A great service experience exceeds expectations, delighting the customer with a memorable outcome.

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Feedback Metrics Customer Journey Mapping ROI 221

BlueOcean

JULY 15, 2024

For many organizations, in-house customer care feels like the right choice. It keeps you close to your customers and ready to serve them with your comprehensive knowledge of your products or services. Ensuring your customer support center is up and running, no matter what, is a daunting task that organizations must prepare for.

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Contact Center Customer Care Measurement Consumers 156

COPC

APRIL 1, 2024

The challenge of keeping pace with changing customer expectations looms large. Technological advancements, notably artificial intelligence (AI), fuel customer experience transformation. Companies worldwide are grappling with leveraging technology to enhance the overall customer experience (CX).

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Customer Experience Contact Center Banking Technology 88

Opinionator

JANUARY 8, 2021

The power of ROI (return on investment) is undeniable when measuring customer experience. Even a small increase in positive customer experience (CX) can propel your revenue to new heights, increasing company profits considerably. What is Customer Experience? The interaction between customer and retail staff.

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ROI Customer Experience Advertising Return on Investment 98

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 14, 2018

An incorrect email address or a missing point of contact could be the difference between ruining a customer relationship forever and rebuilding customer trust and driving retention following a breach.”. Also, we could see new customer experience -centric security controls place a bigger strain on budgets.

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Blog Customer Experience Government Article 106

COPC

JANUARY 9, 2024

Interview with Lance Gruner, Executive Vice President of Mastercard Global Customer Care Mastercard recently achieved certification to the COPC Customer Experience (CX) Standard for Customer Operations , a first for a Fortune 500 company.

Customer Experience 74

Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Customer Care Customer Centricity 74

Call Experts

JUNE 10, 2021

Customer expectations are not uniform, nor are customer experiences. . To build an ideal experience, you want to think about various characteristics, like social expectations, how they met your company, and which channel they choose to communicate with your company. . Contact Center Reporting.

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Customer Expectations Customer Experience Contact Center Touchpoint 52

InMoment XI

AUGUST 2, 2023

In our latest report, State of Customer Experience: 2023 UK Consumer Study in partnership with NPSx by Bain & Company, we uncovered the differences between industries and brands and how each brand represents certain values. Start by delving deep into your customers’ perspectives, their pain points, and their expectations.

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NPS Customer Centricity Culture Automotive 195

Oracle

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Trend of the week: Customer care is the new marketing. This could really be the trend of the year given the ways in which brands are dealing with service changes during COVID-19 while trying to retain customers. .” Some highlights: What experience really means for brands. Responding to service signals.

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Customer Care E Commerce Retail Brands 78

Kustomer

JUNE 7, 2022

If the events of this year taught those of us in the customer experience world anything, it’s that we can never stop innovating to be more customer-centric. Visibility to Care for the Whole Customer. Now more than ever, customers feel they’ve lost control and trust. Omnichannel Customer Experience.

Customer Experience 90

Customer Experience E-support Omnichannel Contact Center 90

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This week we feature an article by Robert Occanyan who shares what successful customer support teams are doing to deliver an exceptional customer experience. . Here’s an important fact that customer support teams should always remember—people are more likely to remember negative experiences over positive ones.

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Blog Exceptional Customer Service Multi-Channel Communication 145

BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In the current landscape of customer service , brands must put themselves in the shoes of their end-users to stay competitive and differentiate themselves. The customer experience reigns, and frontline agents must deliver on customer expectations with reliability and consistency. But what about when crisis hits?

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Contact Center Customer Care 2020 Measurement 156

InMoment XI

JULY 16, 2024

Customers expect not only to be heard but also understood and swiftly responded to. With this in mind, we want to make it clear that it isn’t just about monitoring and management of these feedback channels, but actively engaging with and learning from your customers. Tips for Managing Your Online Reputation 1.

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Management Social Media Hotels Airlines 195

InMoment XI

JULY 16, 2024

Customers expect not only to be heard but also understood and swiftly responded to. With this in mind, we want to make it clear that it isn’t just about monitoring and management of these feedback channels, but actively engaging with and learning from your customers. Tips for Managing Your Online Reputation 1.

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Management Social Media Hotels Airlines 195

ClearAction

APRIL 29, 2020

VP Customer Experience Role for Growth Lynn Hunsaker. The VP Customer Experience role is evolving as companies shift to embrace the “purpose of business” proclaimed by Business Roundtable. This position may also be known as Chief Customer Officer or VP of Customer [fill-in-the-blank] (e.g.

Customer Experience 71

Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Customer Centricity Leadership 71