CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In today’s customer-centric world, companies from all industries are realizing that providing superior service creates value. One such company is Big Berkey Filters. It’s hard to imagine a time when you didn’t have to worry about what was lurking around in your water system. Today, with the unsafe disposal of pharmaceuticals, pesticides, waste, BPA, and other harmful contaminants , having a water filter that can give you peace of mind is essential.

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Interactions

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Think back to a bad customer experience that you’ve had. We all have a story (or multiple). Some involve a rude agent who couldn’t locate the correct information. Others are a wild goose chase about trying to get a refund. Whatever your story, there’s probably a common underlying theme: a disjointed customer journey.

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Bill Quiseng

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Facemasks, door signs, floor decals, partitions, and hand sanitizers won’t keep your customers. Such safety protocols in response to the pandemic are expected from your customers. While failing to implement them will cost you customers, maintaining those standards will not guarantee that you keep them. Your competitors are doing the exact same thing which means what you are doing is average, heightened like everyone else, but still average.

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eglobalis

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Experience design Customer Perception Design The Journey to Resonate with Customer and Employees , customer experience , employee experience. The post Experience Perception – The Journey Design to Resonate with Customer and Employees… or Not appeared first on Eglobalis.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Voice of the Customer (VoC) programs often start with a general plan on how to gather customer feedback. The plan typically includes suggestions for customer listening posts. Customer listening posts are specific tools, locations and mechanisms to gather customer feedback along specific touchpoints on the customer journey. Listening posts: Help us understand individual customer needs and experiences closer to real-time.

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CX Accelerator

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Collected and written by your CX DJ, Jeremy Watkin. ,, In the #CXQOTD for Friday, October 16 we challenged our community to come up with a CX playlist. The question was, “What song sums up your aspirations as a CX leader?”. Let’s look at what the CX Accelerator community came up with. And a quick apology for being a bit heavy on the Coldplay. But what can I say?

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Customer Bliss

OCTOBER 28, 2020

As many of us continue to work from home and shift working styles due to the pandemic, I’ve been interviewing practitioners and thought leaders about how we can adapt and continue to show up as our best selves in our roles. To that end, I want to share with you my recent interview with Camille Harrison , the SVP & COO of Guidewell Commercial Market, and Guidewell Innovation.

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Alida

OCTOBER 20, 2020

IT’S TIME TO DOUBLE DOWN ON CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE. At the beginning of 2020, Vision Critical made the strategic decision, guided by new leadership , to not only continue to help brands deeply understand their customers, but to make it easier for them to manage the end-to-end customer experience. An important component of this strategy was to rebrand the company to better represent and fulfill that promise to our customers, and thus early in the year, rebrand efforts kicked off.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 8, 2020

You might have noticed that the global pandemic isn’t doing much for your bottom line. You might also be wondering how you can reduce costs to save your assets—even when the economy is robust and healthy. Today, we offer you the five rules of reducing costs to help you make it through what we will likely call the COVID-19 Recession. We discussed these five rules on a recent podcast.

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Understanding and improving your customer experience (CX) can have a massive impact on your bottom line. Choosing the right voice of customers (VoC) solution is a critical step to elevating CX. Frost & Sullivan researched more than 50 leading VoC vendors, analyzing both their “innovation index” and “growth index” to independently select the top 10 performers in each of these categories.

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Win the Customer

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Customer service is one of the most important things to get right as a business – these moments of interaction with customers and clients leave a long lasting impression in individual hearts and minds. The sum total of these impressions is incredibly important to how your brand is perceived, and as people become more outspoken than ever on digital platforms, that counts.

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TechSee

OCTOBER 21, 2020

With the pandemic’s restrictions and need for safety, enterprises face unprecedented operational challenges in their ability to deliver customer service. Many companies have been forced to adapt their support models to meet consumer expectations for service delivery. Back in May 2020, when the pandemic raged and safety was top of mind for millions, we carried out an in-depth study to explore consumer sentiment about technical support and residential technician visits.

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 22, 2020

When the world hit the pause button in the face of COVID-19, putting our client’s customer care programs on hold wasn’t an option. Days before lockdown became mandatory in the regions where we operate, we were in full swing making the move to a 95% work-at-home model for our entire business. Our mission was clear and concise: stay operational and deliver on our KPIs while keeping our people safe.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Focus on the Customer, Not the Sale. Building a Customer Engagement Strategy That Lasts. Shep Hyken interviews Lou Gallagher , Consumer Engagement Specialist at Mitel. They discuss strategies for improving customer service, interaction, engagement and experience. Top Takeaways: Become a partner to your customer. Work to solve your customers’ business needs without trying to make a sale.

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Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 It's time for a change! The traditional method of manual call monitoring is no longer cutting it in today's fast-paced call center environment. Industry experts Angie Kronlage and April Wiita from Working Solutions are here to explore the power of innovative automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Listen to this article. Is Your Organization’s Customer Experience Proactive, or Reactive? Customer Experience is about designing the right experience, actively working to understand customer needs before they tell you, and supporting the backend processes and employees who deliver those experiences. That is oversimplifying customer experience, but for the sake of a definition, it works.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 1, 2020

When we try to forecast our preferences going forward, we often get it wrong. It’s a bias we all share called Naïve Diversification Bias. It happens a lot when we are making decisions now about some form of future consumption, and it can lead to feelings of dissatisfaction with our purchases. Naïve Diversification bias happens a lot at the supermarket.

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CX Accelerator

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Collected and written by your CX DJ, Jeremy Watkin. ,, In the #CXQOTD for Friday, October 16 we challenged our community to come up with a CX playlist. The question was, “What song sums up your aspirations as a CX leader?”. Let’s look at what the CX Accelerator community came up with. And a quick apology for being a bit heavy on the Coldplay. But what can I say?

Definition 182

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TechSee

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Field service organizations have long been implementing measures to reduce their high operational costs. In particular, technician dispatches are a huge drain on operating expenses when considering labor costs, vehicle expenses, and the opportunity-cost of having technicians unavailable for revenue-producing activities. Field services may be tempted to decrease field service costs through various ‘quick fix’ methods, including: reducing technician headcount. minimizing hours of servi

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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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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 6, 2020

We believe that every outsourcer should earn your business by delivering value day in and day out whether your relationship with them is in its first year or its 20 th year. After all, continual improvement and striving to evolve are the hallmarks of long-term success. Great companies are regularly assessing the ongoing value of their partnerships – but how do you measure the true value your contact center outsourcer is delivering?

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Stop comparing yourself to the competition. It’s okay to ask yourself, “What are they doing that we aren’t?” However, that can be a dangerous question. I use the word dangerous to warn you that all you are doing is “baseline thinking.” I call it that because it’s at the base. Realize that others in your industry are probably asking themselves the same question.

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Chadwick Martin Bailey

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Answer : Massive disruption as we know it. Let’s start with the global pandemic. Like everyone, my household has had to adapt drastically in the face of a pandemic. In addition to stocking up on toilet-paper , our family’s digital dependence has sky-rocketed. It has exposed the limits of our internet access and Wi-Fi functionality, and frayed the fragile fabric of our family’s functionality.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 29, 2020

You can have a great philosophy, deliberate strategy, and cunning tactics to inspire customer-driven growth, but if you don’t change your culture, they won’t work. Changing the culture within your organization is vital if you want to deliver a Customer Experience that fosters customer loyalty and retention. Culture change is not easy. I was running a workshop with a utility client many years ago about the concept of Customer Experience.

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Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

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Kustomer

OCTOBER 27, 2020

You’ve no doubt heard of digital transformation before. Maybe the term has been batted around the boardroom, maybe you already have a strategy in place, or maybe you’ve skipped over it, deciding it wasn’t necessary for your business. Digital transformation is more important now than ever before. Smart technology is allowing people to work remotely , and the future of healthcare has embraced telemedicine.

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Heart of the Customer

OCTOBER 15, 2020

I’ve always been a big reader, but the pandemic has given me even more time to indulge my passion. I recently devoured Conscious Capitalism, by John Mackey and Rajendra Sisodia. It really struck a chord with me, particularly this paragraph calling on businesses to stop using the term consumer: “Businesses must think of their customers […]. The post What’s in a Name?

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Eptica

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Date: Friday, October 2, 2020 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Key to profitability - how UK customer experience is changing over the long-term. Published on: October 02, 2020. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager While customer service and contact centres have been dramatically impacted by the pandemic, longer-term trends are also reshaping the industry based on changes in customer demand and how companies operate.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 9, 2020

This week we feature an article from Corina Mihalache, Business Development Executive at Tokinomo. She writes about changes in the customer experience for grocery shoppers during the COVID-19 pandemic. As cliché as it may sound, for an understanding of the future, we must always look into the past. Especially since the first half of this year has been crucial in determining the shift in consumer behavior, needs and expectations.

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