April, 2016

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CXFusion Recap: In Your Own Words

InMoment XI

Customer experience (CX) professionals, business leaders, and research experts gathered in Vegas this week to attend CXFusion. This year’s conference energized a record number of attendees with insights, connections, and tools for building and extending CX programs that deliver hard business results. Did you miss the conference? Here’s a quick recap of what we experienced.

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How to Build a Seamless Customer Experience

Customer Bliss

A seamless customer experience gets delivered when you answer the questions your customer is asking. It’s as simple as that. Getting there, however, takes a lot of work. Let’s focus on the role that customer journey maps play in a seamless customer experience. A journey framework, even in its simplest form, when used with consistency provides a structure to understand the priorities in customers’ lives.

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What Happens When Everyone Owns the Customer Experience?

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

It’s become cliché to say it, but everyone does own the customer experience. If the custodian sweeping up doesn’t believe his role plays a part, then it’s easy to pull the thread and suddenly nobody thinks they own the experience overall. I ask this question a lot when I speak to groups. Who owns the […]. The post What Happens When Everyone Owns the Customer Experience?

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How customer intelligence software helps companies fight the survey epidemic

Alida

Jon Reed, the co-founder of the website diginomica , is sick and tired of surveys. “Every customer interaction, no matter how trivial, triggers a survey,” he grumbles in a recently published article. “If my toothpaste company knew when I finished brushing, they would send me a freaking survey.”. Indeed, as Reed’s headline proclaims , “ The survey epidemic is upon us—and something must be done.”.

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2024 State of Customer Education Report

Customer education has become a key driver for growth, retention, and product adoption. Our latest 2024 State of Customer Education Report uncovers critical data and insights from a survey of over 200 industry leaders, offering a look at the evolving role of education in driving business success. Inside, you'll find data on key trends and strategies, including: Strategies for Scaling & Customization: Find out which investments in learning technology deliver the biggest ROI and scalability.

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How to Measure Customer Emotions

Beyond Philosophy

In this series, professionals describe what numbers govern their happiness. Write your own #MyMetric post here. Some businesses look at the bottom line with customers. Companies that are and will be most successful going forward will optimize something besides margins and profits: The Net Emotional Value. What is the NEV? The Net Emotional Value (NEV) refers to the single number that represents the emotional value you provide to your customers.

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Keep Them Coming Back: How a Great Culture Ensures a Great Customer Experience

InMoment XI

Our experiences as customers can be moving and memorable. Think about the last time you received above-and-beyond service. You might remember an employee who was personally engaged in problem-solving with you, truly invested in helping you reach a solution. Or maybe it was an exceptionally simple return process created via corporate policy and enabled by.

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A surefire concept for overcoming negativity in the workplace

Customer Bliss

Negativity in the workplace is brutal. I’m not even talking about the normal culprits like gossip or ineffective managers confusing ‘accountability’ and ‘scaring their employees.’ That’s a part of it — that’s certainly negativity in the workplace — but it goes beyond that to overall employee engagement, which is somewhere under 20% globally and has been for much of the past three years per Gallup.

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Do Your Communication Tactics Undermine Your Intentions?

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

“Say please!” I say this to my children in a nearly constant refrain. Actually, now that they are pretty good about manners, I typically just give them a Mom glare and the polite words fall out of their mouths. But they have also learned that these words matter not because of the words themselves, but […]. The post Do Your Communication Tactics Undermine Your Intentions?

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5 powerful TED videos that will make you a smarter researcher

Alida

With over 2,000 videos available to the public, the TED website is one of the best free resources available for customer intelligence professionals today. If you are a market researcher, an insight professional or user of insight, TED videos could be a source of lessons and inspiration. Many people working in market research and customer intelligence have asked me for recommendations for TED videos to watch.

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Frost Radar: Voice of Customer Analytics, 2024

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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Hypocrisy revealed of major US company

Beyond Philosophy

Why do organizations put such little value on loyal customers? Why do we not look at the lifetime value of a customer and see the profit they provide? Why do organizations treat existing customers so poorly? Surely the economics shows us all the error of our ways. We all know it costs less to keep a customer than it does to acquire a new customer. According to the author of The Fusion Marketing Bible Lon Safko, few companies even know how much they spend on marketing for new customers—or the pri

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4 Ways Feedback Is Central to Customer Satisfaction

Win the Customer

Smart companies engage in a variety of feedback methods to get at the heart of how their business is performing. As feedback comes in, these businesses begin to gain a clearer sense of what they are doing right and what they are doing wrong. Without feedback, a company is left guessing as to how their performance is progressing. This is a major problem for a lot of companies in the area of customer satisfaction.

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Time to Act: Creating Real Change and Action with Effective CX Programs

InMoment XI

An ancient Scottish proverb says “you can’t make a sheep fatter by weighing it”. Good CX leaders know that measuring customer experience is only one part of effecting change within the business. And just implementing a customer feedback measurement program is not enough. In a recent survey MaritzCX has conducted among key CX decision.

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How to improve listening skills for customer growth

Customer Bliss

Research indicates that, if you want people to listen to you, you typically need four elements taking place: That’s: Authority, or your knowledge and expertise in an area. Empathy, or your ability to connect with others. Collegiality, or your tendency to collaborate and stay transparent. Education, or your background and ‘vetting’ This four-pronged model is based on getting others to listen to you.

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How to Optimize Call Monitoring: Automate QA and Elevate Customer Experience

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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What Can You Do to Reduce Customer Effort Today?

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

I have a question for you today. Think about how much effort you exert every day. You have responsibilities. You work hard, you care about the results you get, and you are a leader in a professional sense. You also have the regular responsibilities of life. You have to eat, take care of yourself, do […]. The post What Can You Do to Reduce Customer Effort Today?

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The Hubspot-Dan Lyons saga offers lessons on employee engagement, authenticity and corporate culture

Alida

In a recent article for VentureBeat , Andrew Reid, founder and president of corporate innovation at Vision Critical, steps into the battle between Dan Lyons and Hubspot. The saga between the Silicon Valley writer and the marketing automation software company dominated tech publications this month as Lyons’ new book, Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-up Bubble , was released.

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Why powerful leaders fail…

Beyond Philosophy

According to recent social science research, powerful people and leaders can fail as they will not collaborate. NPR had a recent broadcast on this concept. Researcher Angus Hildreth and Professor Cameron Anderson from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, concluded that often when these powerful people get together they have to decide who is in charge.

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The A-List: Customer Success

Amity

Frequently updated and always on point, the A-List is a snapshot of what's happening in the world of Customer Success. Handpicked by our editors, the list is refreshed regularly, so if you think we're missing someone, feel free to let us know. Alex Bakula-Davis. Director of Customer Success - Proven. Alex curates the Customer Success Newsletter which is a weekly curated collection of 4 helpful articles from around the Customer Success community.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

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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Five tips to make your VoC data actionable

OpinionLab

We’ve spoken a lot on this blog about the value of customer-initiated feedback and how this is the only way you can truly get to grips with what your customers really think about you. Undiluted feedback from empowered consumers in free text format is the key to an optimized CX. With all that being said, if your customers feel you’re not listening to them then they’re not going to want to engage with you.

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Organizational decision-making drives customer loyalty

Customer Bliss

Deloitte recently did a study of 7,000+ companies in 130+ countries called Deloitte Human Capital Trends 2016. You can see the full report and its findings at that link, but one of the more interesting parts is represented in this graph: As Josh Bersin summarizes here on Forbes , the biggest trend in Deloitte’s research is an increasing focus on teams — as opposed to just leaders — for future business growth.

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Who owns the customer?

Ian Williams

Just over four years ago, I wrote a blog post called “ Who owns Customer Experience ?”. The purpose of the post was to attempt to establish the best ‘place’ within the business to ‘house’ the Customer Experience professionals. Ultimately, the purpose of the article was to argue that customers experience the business cross-functionally, and as such can be influenced by all or any of the functions of the organisation.

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Five Top Causes of Customer Attrition (and How to Deal With Them)

Win the Customer

While customer service problems aren’t always your fault, your ability to respond to a customer’s concern is within your control and is the responsibility of your organization. Being able to take action on the behalf of customers lies at the core of successful customer service experience. Today we explore five most common causes of customer attrition in customer service and how service agents can deal with them to save the customer experience and make things right for their customers

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

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

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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Your Customer’s Mobile Experience – Don’t Ignore It!

Beyond Philosophy

We have an infographic that demonstrates we are in The Mobile Age. Smartphone users, who love their phones (two billion, with a “b”), use them for two hours a day. This fact could mean that the ONLY Customer Experience (CX) people have with you might be a mobile experience. Organizations today cannot afford to ignore their Mobile User Experience (UX) another usage minute.

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How Marketers Like You Are fully Benefiting From This Awesomely Changing World that is Marketing

C3Centricity

I’ve just returned from a trip to California, USA. If you are a fellow marketer who follows me on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn, you will have seen some photos of the various places I visited, from San Jose in Silicon Valley near San Francisco, to the huge sprawling metropolis that is Los Angeles. I was [.]. The post How Marketers Like You Are fully Benefiting From This Awesomely Changing World that is Marketing appeared first on C3Centricity.

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How Loyal Are Starbucks Customers?

Experience Matters

Starbucks launched changes to its loyalty program that is causing some backlash from customers. So I decided to examine our data on the loyalty of US consumers to the coffee shop giant. My take: As you can see below, Starbucks ranks 23rd out of 293 companies in the 2015 Temkin Loyalty Index. Starbuck’s loyalty ranks 5th out of […].

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Why You Need To Establish Your Company Core Values List

Customer Bliss

When working with companies on developing customer-focused growth cultures, I often get asked about this idea of a company core values list. It seems that every company has a core values list, but oftentimes the words used are similar — and they can be words that mean many different things to different people. Does a company core values list even matter, then?

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How Intent Data Helps Marketers Convert A-List Accounts

One of the biggest challenges for any B2B marketer is understanding your prospects’ next move — who is most likely to buy and when. Without these insights, marketing campaigns can feel more like guesswork, with high investment and little return. We’re here to tell you there’s a better way. By tracking buyers’ digital footprints and online activity, such as website visits, product reviews, and spikes in content consumption, you can engage prospects with a message that really resonates.