July, 2014

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Benchmark Your Voice of Customer Program (Part 1 of 4)

InMoment XI

Voice of customer (VoC) and customer experience (CX) practitioners often ask, “How good is our program?” To help with this need Allegiance has created the new VoC Program Effectiveness Assessment to help you find an answer. The simple online tool walks you through a series of questions about your program and then, assuming you provide.

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Ben Puzzuoli: Improving Front Line Customer Service

Bill Quiseng

This week’s guest post is written by Ben Puzzuoli, Chairman of the Board at Cayzu Help Desk ( www.cayzu.com ). The real benefit of social media is in meeting people who share like interests. My very first management position was with Marriott Hotels. Back then, there were less than 35 hotels worldwide. Recently Marriott opened the J.W. Marriott Hotel in Washington, D.C., its 4000th.

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Why the Comcast Customer Service Nightmare Happens and Why Nothing Ever Changes

Win the Customer

'Service providers often tie employee compensation with negative behavior, and the entire corporate culture is often toxic. This type of behavior is pervasive in corporate customer service and continues to take place.

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'Simple Sticker' Idea: Transform Your Customer Experience Today

PeopleMetrics

'At PeopleMetrics, we are in the storytelling business. So naturally, we talk a lot about customer service stories gone bad. Our inboxes are full of horror stories forwarded from friends and family, and most of our conversations sound like, “Did you hear about that Comcast fiasco with Food Network Star Alton Brown ?” Most days, I cannot get the United Breaks Guitars song out of my head.

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3 Ways Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Can Improve Customer Experience

Today’s digitally savvy customers have high expectations of retailers for convenience, responsiveness, and ease of doing business both in-store and online. Our recent survey of over 2,000 US consumers found that retailers that can drive a seamless, omnichannel customer experience (CX) – across physical and digital channels – have huge benefits for brand relevance, profitability, and customer loyalty.

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Is The Way We Are Going About Customer Acquisition and Retention Dead Wrong?

Maz Iqbal

'In light of the Comcast call that went viral I invite you to listen to these wise words (bolding is my work). There is no question that acquiring and retaining customers is vital to every company, but it’s the way companies are going about it that’s dead wrong … Charles Green, coauthor of the Trusted Advisor, points out that many companies have the client focus of a vulture – the pay close attention to what clients are up to, but only in order to figure out the right ti

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Benchmark Your Voice of Customer Program (Part 1 of 4)

InMoment XI

Voice of customer (VoC) and customer experience (CX) practitioners often ask, “How good is our program?” To help with this need Allegiance has created the new VoC Program Effectiveness Assessment to help you find an answer. The simple online tool walks you through a series of questions about your program and then, assuming you provide.

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Customer Service or Lip Service?

CX Journey

'In your company, is "customer focus" just a poster on the wall? Or is it a way of doing business? How many times have you walked into an establishment and been bombarded by posters or signs about customer satisfaction, listening to customers, great customer service, etc.? Do you wonder if those posters are just posters, i.e., all fluff and no stuff?

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Technology Is Raising the Customer Service Standard and Creating Overwhelming Customer Loyalty

Win the Customer

'Innovation in technology is raising the customer service standard and we''re just beginning to see its impact in the customer experience.

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Nordstrom’s Acqusition of Trunk Club is a Win for Shareholders, Employees, and Customers

Storyminers

'Nordstrom’s [JWN] acquisition today of Trunk Club (a personal shopping service for guys who hate to shop but want to look good) is reported in the business press today with all the right financial reasons: scale, financial strength, distribution efficiencies, … Continue reading → Blog Customer Experience Retail Apps'

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Manual Call Reviews? There's a Better Way!

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? 🤔 If so, this webinar is for you! What was once a common practice in the call center is now a barrier to success. Manual call monitoring is no longer an option if you want to proactively coach your agents to ultimately improve the customer experience using data-driven insights. Join this webinar with Angie Kronlage and April Wiita of Working Solutions to discuss how you can modernize outdated, manual call review processes through the power of autom

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What Does It Take To Shift To A Human-to-Human Way Of Doing Business?

Maz Iqbal

'I find myself interested and caring for the human. So the following slogan caught my attention: “There is no more b2b or b2c: It’s human to human” This got me wondering: What does it take for us to show up and operate as ‘human to human’? If we are to do business in a ‘human to human’ way then it helps to have a good grasp of what the defining characteristic of human is.

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Customer Experience Mapping Puts the Pieces of Customer Satisfaction & Loyalty Together

Kristina Evey

'Put the Pieces of the Customer Experience Together with Customer Experience Mapping. Call it Customer Experience Mapping, Journey Mapping, Customer Touchpoints… The thing to understand is that the companies that use these practices recognize higher levels of customer satisfaction and customer loyalty. Why is this? Well, I’m happy to explain.

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Benchmark Your Voice of Customer Program (Part 1 of 4)

InMoment XI

Voice of customer (VoC) and customer experience (CX) practitioners often ask, “How good is our program?” To help with this need Allegiance has created the new VoC Program Effectiveness Assessment to help you find an answer. The simple online tool walks you through a series of questions about your program and then, assuming you provide.

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How to Lose a Customer in 10 Days

CX Journey

'Image courtesy of dalbao Businesses are - knowingly or unknowingly - sabotaging their customer relationships. Customers don''t want to put up with it anymore - and they make sure their friends hear about it. After the popular post I wrote titled 19 Signs Customers Are Just Not That Into You , which sounded an awful lot like the romantic comedy, He''s Just Not That Into You , I was inspired by the title of another rom-com, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days , for today''s post.

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The Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Customer Learning

Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your organization’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

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4 Companies Using Social Media Customer Service Effectively for Customer Retention and Loyalty

Win the Customer

'Social media may never become a traditional contact channel, but it''s still an effective tool for social engagement in customer service.

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6 World Cup Lessons Applicable to Every Customer Relationship

Strativity

Watching the World Cup unfold before our eyes in the last month has been exciting. As a customer strategy professional, I could not help but be jealous of the emotional loyalty fans demonstrated toward their favorite teams. If companies were able to generate such loyalty from their customers, their growth and profitability problems would evaporate overnight.

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7 Reasons You Might Not Be Ready for Customer Success ….Yet!

Amity

Customer success is an exciting and game-changing opportunity, and a prerequisite for the majority of B2B SaaS companies, but are you ready for it? According to an Aberdeen Report* on Customer Experience Management, the top three drivers for investing in customer experience management (customer success management and customer experience management are often used interchangeably) are: Improve customer retention – (42%).

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Part 3. Engaging Your Employees = Working on Your Company’s Engine

Daniel Group

'This week, I’ll cover the last in a series of three posts related to the connection between customer satisfaction and employee engagement. As we discussed in Part 2, a growing body of research suggests that engaged employees can boost customer satisfaction and contribute to better business performance. The next obvious question, then, and the subject of this week’s entry, is: “So, how do I get employees more engaged?”.

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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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Video: Empathy for Comcast

InMoment XI

How to avoid being the next viral customer experience nightmare. Poor Comcast. No doubt you’ve heard about their latest customer service fiasco. They have some stellar offerings and great technology–it is unfortunate that they should be punished so harshly for another customer experience mistake. But the truth is, this sort of thing seems to. View Article.

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Transforming the Customer Experience with Big Data

CX Journey

'Image courtesy of fuzzedbuzz I originally wrote today''s post for Intradiem. It appeared on their blog on March 17, 2014. What is big data? and how is it used to deliver a great customer experience? "Big data" has been defined in many different ways and seems to most often refer to the sheer volume of data, but for the purpose of this article, I''m going to refer to the data sources.

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Moving from Customer Service to Customer Care in the Age of Customer Experience

Win the Customer

'When you show customer care, you’re proactive, you listen and understand customers, then deliver on needs before they even ask for it.

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Strativity Group Announces Next Customer Experience Management Certification Program – Fall 2014

Strativity

Hackensack, NJ (PRWEB) July 16, 2014. Strativity Group’s next Customer Experience Management (CEM) Certification program will be held in Orlando, FL., October 21-23, 2014. The program is designed to provide a multifaceted, interactive and overall empowering experience that will ensure participants are equipped with the tools they need to make Customer Centricity an organizational 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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Read This Before You Hire Keynote Speakers or other Professional Public Speakers

Micah Solomon

'Are you planning on hiring a keynote speaker for a corporate event, industrywide conference, or executive summit? I’ve scored you some helpful advice for you here, because I know that hiring someone to speak can be disorienting. It isn’t something most buyers do every day, as the process is for those of us who speak professionally. (My personal interest in this is pretty direct.

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True Grit: What Does It Take to be Successful

Daniel Group

'This topic may seem a little unusual for me to be blogging about. Perhaps it is but we are increasingly looking at the connection between how engaged employees are and how this impacts the quality of service an organization delivers and, ultimately, its financial success. I personally think that those people who feel successful at what they do are far more likely to be engaged with their life’s work.

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Video: Empathy for Comcast

InMoment XI

How to avoid being the next viral customer experience nightmare. Poor Comcast. No doubt you’ve heard about their latest customer service fiasco. They have some stellar offerings and great technology–it is unfortunate that they should be punished so harshly for another customer experience mistake. But the truth is, this sort of thing seems to.

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Do You Guarantee Your Customer Experience?

CX Journey

'Image courtesy of Tom with his Nikon Should companies offer guarantees for their products and services? Or is the better question, why don''t they? I saw a commercial the other day where the company offered a money-back guarantee for its product. That got me thinking, as these things often do, about guarantees. If we truly care about our customers, the customer experience, and keeping customers happy and returning, are guarantees a good idea?

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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.