February, 2015

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Becoming Customer-Centric: 5 Ways to Walk the Talk

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

'As more leaders discuss becoming customer-centric, I wonder how many actually walk the talk and put actions into their plans. What if customer-centric ideas and tactics were included in all strategy plans ? A strategy that is truly customer customer-focused needs to include ideas like these: 1. Mention customers in your KPI’s. Profit and revenue and new customer growth are important numbers to track, but it’s vital to include items like customer lifetime value , customer satisfaction and/

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Thoughts on the Net Promoter Score

InMoment XI

Are you managing, or just measuring your customers’ experiences? In this short video, Stephan Thun, CEO Europe of MaritzCX, discusses his thoughts on the net promoter score and the importance of managing the customer experience. You can watch it below. Look out for more next week when we ask Stephan if customer experience is of.

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Clarifying the Role of the CCO – Competency #3

Customer Bliss

'Competency #3: Build a Customer Listening Path. Seek Input and Understanding, Aligned to the Customer Journey. Competency 3 unites your organization to build a “one company” listening system constantly refreshing with multiple sources of quantitative, qualitative, and experiential feedback to tell the story of your customers’ experience, guided by the customer journey framework.

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Making Optimal Customer Experience A Focus of Your Company’s (And Your) Thinking and Doing: The Case for Foundation and Advanced CEM Training

Beyond Philosophy

'Many b2b and b2c companies offer antiseptic, commoditized, vanilla experiences for customers. These are almost guaranteed not to be memorable, not to be talked about (unless neutrally or negatively), and not creating outside-in advocacy and value creation. Some, through culture, discipline, and purpose have succeeded in creating consistent, positive experiences which are appealing to customers and which customers consider worthy of passing along through informal conversation and recommendatio

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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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Faces of Customer Experience: Nicole Miller

Customers That Stick

'Meet Nicole Miller! My name is Nicole Miller and I graduated in 1990 at Marymount University where I received a bachelors degree in business and fashion merchandising. Since graduation, I have always been in the retail industry and am currently the district manager for the Once Upon A Child stores. I am fortunate and proud to work for the original, owner and founder of resale, Lynn Blum.

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3 Ways to Secure Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty With Accountability

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

'The following is a Best of 360Connext post. As Dr. Phil likes to say, “People do what works.” If it works to ignore loyalty, people will continue to do that. Consider how most business leaders and sales teams are compensated. It’s all about the NEW. New sales, new clients, new customers. Growth in the market meaning more new customers.

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Customer experience in the UK and US – Are we speaking the same language?

InMoment XI

US customers have higher expectations than UK ones, and US companies have been quicker to adopt customer experience platforms and technology. Nigel Cover of MaritzCX assesses whether the UK has anything to learn from across the Pond.

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Clarifying the Role of the CCO – Competency #1

Customer Bliss

'Competency #1: Honor and Manage Customers as Assets. Know the Growth or Loss of Customers and Care About the “Why?”. With this competency, the goal is to align leaders to make a defining performance metric—the growth or loss of your customer base. Customer Asset Measurement is about knowing what customers actually did to impact business growth or loss versus what they say they might do via survey results.

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Music: A Marketing Tool

Beyond Philosophy

'Music has a unique effect on our brain, especially concerning memory. Apple brilliantly capitalizes on all of them in its holiday ad. When it comes to branding there might be no better way than using music to help a Customer remember your brand promise. Here is the ad, in case you missed it: Part of the reason these studies showed the link is because music activates many centers across the brain, including the emotional ones.

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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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Faces of Customer Experience: Renee Cloyd

Customers That Stick

'Meet Renee Cloyd! Renee Cloyd is a wife and mother of three young boys ages 11, 9 and 6 who balances her busy home life with a full time job as a Center Director at Christ Lutheran Children’s Center. At CLCC, we strive to provide a quality early childhood program. In our center, forming strong ties to the families and the community is the key to the success of our program.

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3 Quick Tips To Deliver An Unforgettable Customer Experience

Win the Customer

'According to Google, it beats customer service in terms of average monthly search volume 380k+ to 200k. Why is experience nearly twice as popular – what’s the big deal anyway? How much cheaper is it for you to retain a customer than to acquire a new one? Why pull teeth for a testimonial from an […].

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Exclusive Chicago Auto Show Interview: Consumer-Driven Innovations

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

'The Chicago Auto Show, now in its 107th year(!), is a showcase of what’s new and what’s next in auto design and development. This means more than just amazing new vehicles, this means learning about how storied industries like this one continue to use the voice of the customer in their product development. Customers have a new voice in innovation.

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The 3 Hallmarks of a Great Customer Experience #CXisKING

InMoment XI

Customer experience…it’s something we’re all very familiar with because, after all, while we might not all be customers during the day, all of us play one at home: we’re customers of utility companies, of retailers, of healthcare providers, and the list goes on and on. For that reason, we all know a great customer experience.

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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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Clarifying the Role of the CCO – Competency #5

Customer Bliss

'Competency #5: Leadership, Accountability and Culture. Leadership behaviors are required for embedding the five competencies. For this work to be transformative and stick, it must be more than a customer manifesto. Commitment to customer-driven growth is proven with actions and choices. To emulate culture, people need examples. They need proof. Competency 5 is the glue that puts into practice leadership behaviors required by a united leadership team to enable and earn sustainable customer asset

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What Consumers Say vs. Mean vs. Do: Toward Understanding the Emotional and Subconscious Drivers of Behavior

Beyond Philosophy

'Seemingly forever, marketers and researchers have been trying to identify stable and predictable links between what consumers say about product and service experiences, what they mean, i.e. the emotional and unconscious underpinnings about what they really think and believe, and what they do in terms of actual decision-making and actions in the marketplace.

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3 Questions to Ask Before Launching Live Chat for Customer Service

Customers That Stick

'At CTS Service Solutions, we believe one of the best ways to improve customer experiences is by making interactions ad easy as possible and by decreasing the hassle-factor. Enter live chat. Live chat contains a number of attributes that contribute to hassle-free experiences. From ease of first contact, to low-to-no hold times, to the convenience of customers interacting with service reps while performing other tasks, live chat offers an opportunity for organizations to assist customers quickly

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Walt Disney, the First CXO in the Age of Customer Experience

Win the Customer

'The most unexpected finding when evaluating Disney’s “magic” recipe for customer experience is the focus on process—the drive and ability to optimize the mundane. One the most surprising facts about the Disney customer experience may just well be the 70% return rate of first time Disney visitors. When you consider the great lengths that individuals and families […].

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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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Can We Have Innovation Without Leveraging Customer Feedback?

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

'I had the opportunity to check out all the shiny new cars at the Chicago Auto Show on the media preview day last week. We’ll have more to share from this later this week, but for now, we wanted to share an observation about innovation. Is innovation so forward-looking you can’t rely on customer feedback? Or should customer feedback be what drives everything, including innovation?

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Customer experience in the UK and US – Are we speaking the same language?

InMoment XI

US customers have higher expectations than UK ones, and US companies have been quicker to adopt customer experience platforms and technology. Nigel Cover of MaritzCX assesses whether the UK has anything to learn from across the Pond.

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Evaluate Your Current Customer Experience Bookends

Customer Bliss

'We know through social media that customers remember your “hello” and “goodbye.”. Are you deliberate in the memories you deliver at the beginning and ending moments of customer contact? When you map out the customer experience stages, step away from ‘executing tasks’ and focus on the customer experience you want to deliver. To plan reliable delivery, you must know the customer emotions involved in the experience from beginning to end.

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CX for Smarties, A Beginner’s Guide to Customer Experience

Experience Matters

'We’re often asked to help people who have recently taken on new responsibilities in customer experience (which is commonly abbreviated as CX). Since it’s important for anyone in the field to understand the core principles of CX, I’ve put together this post and called it “CX for Smarties.” Anyone who cares enough about CX to read this post is not a dummy.

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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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Understanding the Other Side of a Bad Customer Experience

Customers That Stick

'Creating great customer experiences and delivering great customer service almost always boils down to one thing: being able to understand the experience of customers — to walk a mile in their shoes and to build a better shoe or create a better walking path with that knowledge. It begins by understanding what your customers are going through, especially when the experience is not a positive one.

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12 Critical Questions for Call Center Agent Engagement

Win the Customer

'Based on 25 years of research done by Gallup polls, the book "First Break All of the Rules" shares the following 12 questions that are key in keeping your talented employees.

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Are Your FAQ’s Driving Customers Mad?

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

'FAQ is another one of those terms we didn’t even know before the dawn of the internet age. Most of us were blissfully unaware of this acronym for “Frequently Asked Questions” now living on many web sites. When we ask our clients a question like “ What are your touchpoints ?” we get a lengthy list of the many places where customers and company interact.

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Customer experience in the UK and US – Are we speaking the same language?

InMoment XI

US customers have higher expectations than UK ones, and US companies have been quicker to adopt customer experience platforms and technology. Nigel Cover of MaritzCX assesses whether the UK has anything to learn from across the Pond. Often quoted George Bernard Shaw once said, “England and America are two countries separated by the same language”; View Article.

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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.