October, 2016

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Generation Z statistics: New report on the values, attitudes and behaviors of the post-Millennials

Alida

Generation Z, the cohort born between 1996 and 2010, is ready for the spotlight. Finally escaping the shadows of the generations before them, many Gen Zers are now entering the workforce. As a result, their spending power, currently valued at $44 billion , is growing every day. Also known as Gen Z, iGeneration (iGen) or Net Gen, this cohort is massive and influential.

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Improve the Experience by Asking the Impossible Questions

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Asking questions without limitations can lead to a better experience for your customers. The post Improve the Experience by Asking the Impossible Questions appeared first on Customer Experience Consulting.

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Thirty Drivers of Value Perceptions, or Why Customers Love Your Company

InMoment XI

Customers love a company because they perceive value in their interactions with its people, products, and services. As customer experience (CX) professionals, we usually measure this sense of value with the Net Promoter Score®, or NPS®, which is a nominal indication of how likely the customer is to recommend the company to another person, and.

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Chief Customer Officer Role in the Hospitality Industry, with Mark Weinstein – CB23

Customer Bliss

Episode Overview. Mark Weinstein is the Senior Vice President of Customer Engagement, Loyalty and Partnerships for Hilton Worldwide. Like many customer experience executives, he searched for a career path that matched his skills and passion for helping customers comprehensively across the business. Mark’s been with Hilton since 2010 — prior to that he was with MarketBridge and PwC — and one of the most interesting aspects of this episode is walking through his career path and

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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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Revolutionary Thinking On Customer Loyalty

Beyond Philosophy

Customers are not loyal because of the Customer Experience you provide. They are loyal because of the Customer Experience they remember you provided. Furthermore, customers don’t remember the entire experience but only bits and pieces. It is important to get these memorable bits right, or your customer loyalty will certainly go to pieces. The human memory isn’t as reliable as we would like to think.

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Increasing member engagement: 4 effective strategies for online community growth

Alida

Online communities are now an important tool in gaining ongoing customer feedback and insight. In particular, insight communities —private, online communities made up of carefully selected groups of customers who develop long-term relationships with brands—are now used by hundreds of customer-centric global brands. To get the most business value out of your online communities, you must work to keep members engaged.

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3 Reasons Your Brain Won’t Let You See the True Customer Experience

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

We’re giving our brains a real workout when dealing with customers. We do our best to see the experience from the their perspective, to empathize with their issue and find the best solution, and simultaneously use processes and procedures to move the interaction to its next logical step. We use our own lens to view the experience while trying to […].

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My 3 Favourite Customer Service Stories (and What Your Business Can Learn From Them)

Michel Falcon Experience

Companies, across many different industries and sizes, all have marketing budgets. Most of these businesses allocate a considerable amount of their budget to traditional marketing efforts and, as of recently, have been investing in digital strategies. But what about investing in customer service stories? Or, as some may refer to it as, storytelling marketing.

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CX process mapping: Kill a stupid rule

Customer Bliss

We spend a lot of time in companies discussing “process mapping,” which is — theoretically, and sometimes in reality — a way to make our processes more effective. If you’ve had a number of enterprise-type jobs, you’ve probably seen the dreaded idea of “process for the sake of process,” whereby all these rules and processes are layered on top of each other before any action can be taken.

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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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Tesla: Intriguing Insight To Success

Beyond Philosophy

Tesla announced that all of their cars will be self-driving cars. Wednesday’s announcement, delayed two days from the original announcement scheduled for Monday October 17th, stated that all of its cars will have the ability to drive themselves, referred to as level 5 autonomy. Before the announcement, many experts and industry commentators had little idea what it would be.

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Eight Ways to Build Customer Empathy

Heart of the Customer

Customer empathy is absolutely critical to a company-focused culture. Without empathy, employees focus on their own problems, rather than your customers’. They build overly-complex products based on what they want to buy, rather than starting with customer needs. And they certainly don’t understand the emotional context of your customers. Both Forrester and the Temkin Group […].

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Market research as a profit center: How smart companies use customer feedback to generate revenue

Alida

One of the biggest disruptions in the market research industry is the monetization of the research practice. According to research expert Ray Poynter, more insight teams are generating revenue by providing market research data and other value-added services to partners, sponsors and advertisers. Driven by new technologies like insight communities , this trend is one of the consequences of the move towards faster and cheaper research.

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Document THIS! Betrayed by Customer Experience Documentation

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Processes involving humans (that is, ALL of them) require lots and lots of reminders, revisions and revamping. The post Document THIS! Betrayed by Customer Experience Documentation appeared first on Customer Experience Consulting.

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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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4 Ways Your Policies Can Ruin Your Customers’ Experiences

Win the Customer

It should be obvious that how you treat your customers is a vital factor in business success, yet many companies become so focused on implementing their policies and procedures that customer satisfaction can get overlooked. It’s absolutely essential to continued success to provide the best possible customer experience you can. Here are four mistakes that can ruin your business in the eyes of its customers.

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Customer churn: The pipeline that shall save you

Customer Bliss

Customer churn is bad. You don’t want it, obviously. In a perfect utopia, all your customers would stay in the fold, retain, and refer you to other new customers. That’s the apex of a customer-driven growth engine, and it’s essentially the polar opposite of customer churn. But we all know the quote, often attributed to Warren Buffett.

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The Future Today! Personalization 2.0

Beyond Philosophy

We live in the data age. Data is collected about our personal behavior everywhere. From the searches we instigate online to the products we order (and when) to the movies we choose in our Netflix Queue, sometimes it seems as if every move we make ends up in a database somewhere. So why this sudden interest in whether we watched all 14 seasons of ER or returned the Samsung Galaxy S5 Phone Case?

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Customer Loyalty Lessons from Mama Louise

ShepHyken

The other night I had a wonderful meal at Mama Louise , an Italian restaurant in Orlando on Florida’s ever popular “Restaurant Row.” I ordered Mama’s Stuffed Chicken, and it was delicious. But, good food isn’t what this is about. It’s about the experience that Joe Esposito and his staff created. First, the staff was friendly and helpful, making suggestions and letting us know what was most popular on the menu.

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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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The 3 D’s of online community recruitment

Alida

The success of online communities is all about having the right people. Online communities provide the most ROI when they have people who are eager to actively participate and who represent the company’s customer base. A strategic approach to recruitment ensures your community has the right members, which helps your company get long-term value. At the 2016 Customer Intelligence Summit , three veteran research professionals revealed how, with the right strategy in place, recruiting customers, emp

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The Peak-End Rule and Customer Experience

Customers That Stick

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Road to Success: The Secrets to Giving your Business a Competitive Edge

Win the Customer

One of the best ways to keep up with the competition – and even edge out in front of them – is to be flexible when it comes to your business strategies. Are you feeling a push to move ahead of the competition? Whether you’re a brand new company or you’ve noticed sales have been dropping, it’s time to compete better and harder than before.

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First 90 Days of a Chief Customer Success Officer, with Duygu Cibik – CB22

Customer Bliss

Episode Overview. Duygu Cibik has a robust history in operations and change management and transformation. So when she took on the role of the Chief Customer Success officer at Reval, she knew she needed to create a very deliberate path to gaining understanding, acceptance and traction in her role. About Duygu. Duygu has 15+ years of leadership experience in enterprise technology with a strong track record of growing 100+ million dollar B2B technology businesses with full P&L responsibility

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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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Astonishing BIG gains from little changes!

Beyond Philosophy

When striving for the next level of Customer Experience, it is critical to understand how your customers make decisions. However, it’s probably not happening the way you think it is. As Customer Experience Consultants, we see our clients presume that customer evaluations of an experience occur at the product level. This presumption is only partway true.

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Guest Blog: How Much Does A Negative Review Hurt A Business?

ShepHyken

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Michael Becker, talks about how negative reviews and poor customer service can impact your business. I believe a negative review, like any complaint, is an opportunity to show how good you are. – Shep Hyken. Ever wondered what the impact of a negative review is? You’re almost ready to buy.

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Inside Customer Success: Typeform

Amity

Launched in 2014, Typeform has already reached over 1.5 million users worldwide and is not planning on slowing down anytime soon. The Southern European startup based in Barcelona is on its journey to making things a little more human with game-changing forms, surveys, and more. Amity decided to sit down with David Apple , Director of Customer Success at Typeform, to learn about the structure and culture of Customer Success in this fast-growing startup, and to find out how it has evolved since it

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Guide to Organizational Culture Change (Infographic)

Experience Matters

We regularly help companies create cultures that are more customer-centric. So it seemed like a fun idea to create an infographic on the topic. Enjoy! You may want to see a video we created about customer-centric culture or the report, Employee-Engaging Transformation. You can download (and print) this infographic in different forms: Infographic: infographic in pdf, infographic in png Poster (12″ […].

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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.