October, 2017

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Customer Experience Simplicity in Technology: How Quality & Design Impact the Bottom Line

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What is simplicity exactly? To me, simplicity means a demonstration of features, functionalities, processes, governance and design which are really necessary. The post Customer Experience Simplicity in Technology: How Quality & Design Impact the Bottom Line appeared first on Eglobalis.

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Long-term care needed: The cure to health care’s patient experience problem

Alida

This article is a guest blog post from Ed Bennett, a digital strategy expert and president and CEO of Ed Bennett Consulting. To hear more insight from Ed on patient experience, watch our webinar, Diagnosing disruptions: De-risking decisions in health care’s digital age. . In the age of companies like Amazon, Airbnb and Apple, health care organizations are lagging other industries in customer experience.

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The 3 Trends Customer Experience Professionals Can’t Afford to Ignore

Beyond Philosophy

. The Three Trends You Can’t Ignore in CX Today. As a Customer Experience professional, understanding three trends today is imperative. Without accepting these tenets, you are thwarting your success before you even begin. However, if you can accept them, you are poised not only to deliver an excellent experience, but you will also position yourself to move it to the next level of greatness.

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Customer Service & CX Leaders Make the Best Magic TOGETHER

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

The first week of October is both Customer Service Week and the week of CX Day! This week of celebrating success through CX and better customer service is an important reminder that we all serve a role in this. But customer service has a special place in the way a customer feels about your brand! J Cubed!! RT @360Connext : Jason Dabrowski @jeanniecw and @Dragonburger75 loooove customers!

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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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Amazing Business Radio: Doug Bell

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Doug Bell Discusses Improving the Customer Experience. Would you like every employee to know how they fit into your company’s customer experience? Shep Hyken interviews Doug Bell, founder of The Experience Manager , a system that helps manage and unify the entire customer experience. Featured Interview: Shep and Doug discuss the importance of unifying the customer experience throughout an entire company.

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Does Customer Experience fail due to design, culture, strategy, or … the “Q-word?”

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Companies are shooting themselves in the foot consistently around their customer experience. Why? And how do we help them to make it better? In the past 18 months, we’ve seen several major customer experience blunders from big brands. There is a pathway to improving customer experience globally, but it’s not necessarily the way we think about it now.

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Millennials are reshaping how the health care industry does business

Alida

“Young people need to be asked what matters, not told what matters.”. – Jeff Martin, CEO and founder of Tribal Brands. The “Me, Me, Me” generation. The digital natives. The Echo Boomers. No matter what you call them, the millennials (or Gen Y), those born between 1980 and 1995, are the biggest age grouping in American history. Now in their prime spending years, this generation is set to reshape economy as we know it, and the $3 trillion health care industry will be no exception.

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5 Ways to Break Down Digital CX Silos

InMoment XI

What are some best practices for developing a digital customer experience across silos especially when different product owners have different roadmaps? In a perfect world, all organizations would operate like a well-oiled machine. All employees across the board would be in sync with projects and strategic initiatives that are taking place, there would not be.

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Customer-Centric Netflix Wins Big in the Most Surprising Way

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Netflix recently made news with their amazingly funny and warm cease and desist letter to fans of the show Stranger Things. While the intent of the letter was still clear, and technically a request from the legal team, the tone of the letter is what got people talking. It’s the most customer-centric thing you might read today! “Even lawyers have a sense of humor.” This refrain gained a lot of traction quickly!

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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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When Customer Service Creates Customer Validation

ShepHyken

Many people think of customer service as a department. If you’ve been following me, you’ll know my belief is that customer service is a philosophy , not a department. It should be embraced by every employee, regardless of their job and how long they’ve been there. With that said, the focus on this topic is on what many consider to be the customer service and support department – the people who have contact and interaction with the customer.

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Getting Your Board to Embrace Customer Experience, With Maury Kask – CB72

Customer Bliss

Episode Overview. In our conversation, Maury Kask walks us through his journey from pitching the Board of Directors to engaging people across the company to being named Chief Experience Officer. Much of his methodology is rooted in seven work streams. We discuss those, and then how to turn the work streams (strategic level) into execution-level elements. .

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The One Element Of Product & Tech Design That Kills Customer Experience

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In the technology industry, specifically within software and hardware usability, design and services, one of the biggest elements that hurts customer experience -- and by that I mean B2B and B2C customers -- is overly-complicated product design. The post The One Element Of Product & Tech Design That Kills Customer Experience appeared first on Eglobalis.

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13 stunning stats on patient-centricity

Alida

Digital transformation means your patients are also customers. Health care organizations looking to succeed at digital transformation must be sure they are reading patient charts correctly. With the health care IT market expected to be worth $280.25 billion by 2021 as both clinical and non-clinical information systems are deployed, health care organizations will only see the best return-on-investment from their digital initiatives if they properly leverage patient insight.

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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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Every Day Should Be CX Day

InMoment XI

An American song artist once wrote, “Every day I’m shufflin’ shufflin’ shufflin’”. Really, that sums up what customer experience (CX) should be—something you do every day. Having a pleasant CX experience isn’t a destination or goal you achieve, but rather, a mindset you have. My wife recently had two experience that drove home the importance.

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The Best CX Leaders ROCK at These 3 Things

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

For those of us who’ve studied CX for decades, seeing it featured as a “new topic” is a little jarring. It seems every business article now mentions the customer’s journey as if that’s a new revelation. “The journey is just as important as the product!” Wow! (Who knew!?) Now leaders worldwide are resolving to improve CX. Yay! But here’s the thing: Few actually understand what the best CX leaders do with this knowledge.

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Invent Your Vocabulary to Emphasize Who You Are

ShepHyken

The other night I was on a Southwest Airlines flight, traveling home from a speaking engagement. While waiting to board, I noticed a sign advertising Southwest’s concept they call “ trans fare ncy.”. The sign read as follows: Trans fare ncy [Trans-fair-uhn-see] n. Philosophy created by Southwest Airlines in which Customers are treated honestly and fairly, and low fares actually stay low – no unexpected bag fees, change fees, or hidden fees.

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Why Businesses Need Social Media

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This article was written by Kristen Herhold. Kristen is a content writer and marketer at Clutch , a B2B research firm in the heart of Washington, D.C. Connect with her on LinkedIn , or reach out with any questions, comments, or concerns at kristen@clutch.co or 202-840-6690. Social media can serve as a testing ground for businesses, nurture customer relationships and provide brand identity.

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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 22 Commandments Will Help You Overcome Customer Experience Quality Crises…

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In my last article, I talked about quality by looking partially at the Samsung Galaxy S7 product issues. My focus in working with clients is often all the risk aspects that can impact the quality of customer experience, so I want to continue discussing quality. In this article, we’re going to use two personal examples (from different sectors) to illustrate points about trust and customer experience.

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3 examples of retailers re-focusing on the in-store experience

Alida

Video killed the radio star, but e-commerce hasn’t killed bricks and mortar retail. Although some traditional retail behemoths such Toys ‘R’ Us and Sears have filed for bankruptcy and are even dying completely with a final breath of liquidation sales, some brands are doubling down on their physical locations by revisiting the in-store experience. Even in the era of Amazon, only about a fifth of U.S. consumers are primarily online shoppers , according the National Retail Federation’s quarterly Co

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NPS: Using It Correctly

InMoment XI

Introduction In 2003 Fred Riechheld introduced the Net Promoter Score (NPS) as the “one number you need to grow” within the customer experience field. Since that time, many companies have adopted this measure. At MaritzCX we are often asked about our perspective on the use of the Net Promoter Score (NPS) versus other customer experience.

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How To Use Your Customer’s Emotions to Get What You Want

Beyond Philosophy

Theory is one thing. Implementation is another. Ideas are useless if you can’t apply them. The idea I often share is that customer emotions influence over half of your Customer Experience. However, just knowing customers are emotional doesn’t help your business….unless you know how to use this information to improve your business outcome. How your customers feel about your experience is the most significant factor to your Customer Experience success.

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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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Customer Service Tip: The Power of Observation

ShepHyken

I was out to lunch with a colleague at one of our local St. Louis restaurants. Rico was our waiter and was taking great care of us. First came the bread and butter. He then took our drink order. He came back with our drinks and asked if we were ready to order lunch. We were. My friend ordered a Caesar salad with chicken. Rico asked my friend if he wanted the croutons left off the salad.

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Growing a Grassroots Customer Experience Effort with EVP Anne Witherspoon

Customer Bliss

Episode Overview. In today’s show with Anne Witherspoon, we learn that sometimes implementing customer experience efforts has to start as a grassroots engagement across the organization. We discuss the skills and approach you need to build a customer experience program and its baseline foundation. Plus, Anne shares the strategy and game plan that helped her succeed in this role.

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Now Customer Experience Professional Association is also in our DACH region in Germany, Switzerland and Austria and We Need Your Participation

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The CXPA helps customer experience professionals make customer experience management an integral part of how their companies operate and to enable customer experience professionals to embed transformation across their organizations. Founded in 2011, the CXPA is the premier global non-profit international organization dedicated to the advancement and cultivation of the Customer Experience profession.

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Creating a strong CX ecosystem requires partnership between sales and marketing

Alida

If you want to create a successful customer experience (CX) ecosystem, someone needs to take charge. Joint research released by CMO Council, SAP Hybris and SellingPower magazine suggests it’s sales and marketing who should take joint command. But the study also found most enterprises lack coordinated, centralized CX leadership, leaving “this vital revenue-directing opportunity area without oversight and collective direction.”.

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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.