Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 8, 2021

It is not often in life that you get the opportunity to reset things. However, as the COVID-19 vaccine rolls out, we have a chance that is, dare I say, unprecedented to reimagine Customer Experience. We have been through a shocking year of change. Now, we can decide what parts of the change we want to keep to respond to what customers want now. We’ve been doing some work with one of our clients recently who will be doing some research.

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Kerry Bodine

JANUARY 30, 2021

This morning I sent an email to my payroll provider. Not to a generic inbox, but to the real live person who’s assigned my account. A moment later, I received the following auto response: “XXXXX XXXXXXX is no longer employed with us. His inbox is being monitored while your account is transitioned to a new dedicated specialist. Please call 877-XXX-XXXX to speak with the first available specialist.”.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 12, 2021

Voice of the Customer: An Overview. Businesses who do well with customer experience initiatives do so because they know exactly what their customers are feeling and experiencing. . No, the secret to success isn’t mind-reading. It’s a Voice of the Customer program (VoC). Why Implement a Voice of the Customer Program? Your VoC program can allow your leaders to follow a standard and sustainable model of collecting feedback at key moments along the journey, analyze that feedback, then tu

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eglobalis

JANUARY 27, 2021

Customer Experience and Adoption The Impact of Technology Change Requests. The post Customer Experience and Adoption: The Impact of Technology Change Requests appeared first on Eglobalis.

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GetFeedback

JANUARY 19, 2021

Identify customer touchpoints, map out a complete customer journey, and optimize the customer experience. Guides

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Customer Bliss

JANUARY 28, 2021

Today’s guest post is from Donald Hicks , a Silicon Valley tech executive, industry thought leader, consumer experience architect, and operations veteran whom I had the pleasure of interviewing recently. Donald was a guest on the live-streaming video version of my podcast ( click here to view it on LinkedIn ). Be sure to subscribe here to get this episode delivered straight to your inbox in a few weeks when it airs.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 25, 2021

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. “I Wish the CEO Would Try and Open This F@#!* Package” by Chip Bell. (Real Leaders) The title of this story is a line we use at my house when a product or service is unusually challenging.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 26, 2021

What Does Customer Research Mean to You? When you hear the term customer research , what comes to mind? Most organizations have a Voice of the Customer (or VoC) program; maybe that’s the first thing you think of. Voice of the Customer programs help organizations keep a finger on the pulse of how they’re meeting customer needs , with VoC data revealing how customers feel about the brand, their experience, and specific interactions and touchpoints at scale.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 29, 2021

Many organizations want a silver-bullet solution for Customer Experience , one quick thing they can do that will fix everything. However, there isn’t one for Customer Experience. It takes constant attention and small, deliberate changes to improve Customer Experience. When faced with this expectation from my clients, I think of what Prime Minister Winston Churchill told his cabinet after the election: “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.” People read books and

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GetFeedback

JANUARY 21, 2021

Customer service speaker, author, and coach Dan Gingiss reads real customer feedback live and gives you advice on what to do about it.

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CX Accelerator

JANUARY 11, 2021

by Jeremy Watkin and Community. The all-too-sudden and tragic passing of former Zappos CEO, Tony Hsieh has sent a ripple through the business world, and the customer experience (CX) community is no exception. In the past, I’ve often chuckled upon reading about Zappos in a book or hearing the name mentioned in a keynote address as a model for customer-centricity.

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Heart of the Customer

JANUARY 16, 2021

Customer experience has three components: Effectiveness, Ease, and Emotion. But too often, CX programs focus only on the first two. Why? Because they’re simpler to address. Emotion is more elusive and complicated. But it’s where true loyalty is earned (as opposed to just preventing disloyalty). That message hit home to me when my Fitbit died…again! […].

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 6, 2021

Every year I write my customer service and customer experience (CX) predictions in my Forbes.com column. This year, I thought I would share a brief version of them with our Shepard Letter subscribers. So, here are my Top 10 Predictions for 2021: Customers continue to get smarter. This has led to my list of predictions for several years. Our customers keep getting smarter about customer service and experience.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 5, 2021

You know the brands that do customer culture well. They create such a focus on the customer that everything and everyone throughout the organization is on board. . Where does this organizational magic come from? In a word, it all comes back to the culture. Sometimes the customer-focused “way” is seen as a brand within a brand. “The Disney Way” or “Zappos Culture” is shorthand for that relentless view to prioritize customers, their wellbeing, and their goals.

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TechSee

JANUARY 26, 2021

The times they are a-changin’ World-wide changes have upended the best-laid plans and expert forecasts. Challenged by continuing uncertainty and perhaps uncharted territory, it has never been harder to predict what lies ahead in the world of consumer trends and customer service. Service leaders are facing the implications of the pandemic in a triple whammy of a changing employee work environment, evolving customer expectations, and the economic/operational impact of the coronavirus pandem

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GetFeedback

JANUARY 11, 2021

Top tips to provide better service that’ll benefit your business and your customers.

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One Millimeter Mindset

JANUARY 28, 2021

The first month of 2021 is nearly completed. I don’t know about you. However, to me, it felt like the month’s progress was a tug-of-war. What a stop-start entry into the new year. So let’s get going, shall we? Because you and I have lots of work to do this year. And even more to accomplish together. Our focus is change: you either are open to change or you just do not want to deal with it.

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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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Russel Lolacher

JANUARY 25, 2021

Are you taking the necessary approach to build customer trust? . “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” – Warren Buffett. Trust is essential in any good and great relationship. The reason – it’s considered in every aspect of it, that includes the relationship your organization has with its customers.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 1, 2021

This week we feature an article from Jessica Fender , head of the content team at Alltopreviews.com. Sh e provides tips and examples of how to improve the customer experience with automated support emails. Email automation is a way to keep your customers happy. With automation, you improve the quality of communication and keep customers updated in a timely manner.

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The DiJulius Group

JANUARY 27, 2021

It is the Service Stupid | How one company increased profit by $400k a month by improving customer experience 4 Quick Tips to Help you Make Price Irrelevant 1. It is the Service Stupid A small number of companies have now redefined what customers expect from brands. In short, the most successful companies in the. Read Full Article. The post Want to Know the Secret?

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Steve DiGioia

JANUARY 18, 2021

We all know that the coffee McDonald’s sells is too hot to drink when served. If you put it to your lips, you’ll most likely receive a burn that will be far worse than anything most people have ever encountered. So why do they make their coffee so hot? And how does this affect the customer experience? By now you must have heard about the famous “McDonald’s Hot Coffee Case”.

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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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GetFeedback

JANUARY 14, 2021

20 essential customer loyalty survey questions and surveying best practices.

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C Space

JANUARY 18, 2021

The new rules of engagement (according to customers). How did 2020 change the rules of engagement between customers and brands? For nearly a decade, we’ve tracked the connection between companies and customers. What we saw in 2020 was a complex and rapidly changing picture – fluid emotional shifts, driven by economic, political, cultural and environmental uncertainty.

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TechSee

JANUARY 18, 2021

How cool would it be if you could just dial up a “smart” instant assistant to help you set up your latest “smart” doodad. It could save you the frustration of staring at your unboxed new toy and wondering what to do next. Yeah – well, been there, done that. And that’s just one of our goals at TechSee (hopefully also stopping you from tearing your hair out). .

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 20, 2021

Little successes added together make for large success down the road. Small successes add up. To put it in baseball terms, you don’t need to hit a home run every time it’s your turn at bat. So, here’s the question to consider: What small change will enhance the experience for the customer, even if it is just by 1%? My friend and client, Jason Bradshaw of Volkswagen in Australia, was tasked with improving the customer experience for the VW dealerships.

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