August, 2020

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Personas, Interviews, Data & More: How to Know Your Customer

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Does Your Organization Agree on Who Your Customer Is? My workshopping and consulting leads me to work with a wide range of clients with all sorts of goals. Often these goals are focused on updating and improving existing customer experience policies, but sometimes I get to work with clients on an enormous goal: Redesigning their customer experience from the ground up.

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5 Keys to Hiring Customer Service Frontline Reps During COVID-19

Customer Bliss

This is a guest post from Niraj Ranjan, CEO & CO-founder of Hiver – a Gmail-centric customer service solution. At Hiver, Niraj is responsible for defining the vision and strategy of the business. With over 1500 customers across 30 countries. Niraj’s focus with Hiver has been to empower companies to provide customer experiences that are more human and empathetic. .

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Is Your Diversity and Inclusiveness Real, or Imagined?

eglobalis

Culture Experience Is Your Diversity and Inclusiveness Real, or Imagined? Customer Experience Human Experience. The post Is Your Diversity and Inclusiveness Real, or Imagined? appeared first on Eglobalis.

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Reviews Completed on Your Phone Are More Emotional

Beyond Philosophy

How we share information is affected by the medium that we use to communicate it. We can see this concept manifest in customer reviews and advertising response behavior. The technology through which customers write reviews and interact with your organization influences the content produced and information shared. . We discussed the findings of the interface of technology and human beings with Professor Shiri Melumad on a recent podcast.

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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 Deliver a Seamless Customer Experience in the New Normal

GetFeedback

How to rethink your omnichannel CX strategy for 2020 and onward as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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How to Build Customer Trust: 4 CX Leaders Share

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Trust is a core factor in facing the future of CX. There are known challenges and many, many unknowns in the months ahead. Customers are figuring out the “next normal” and what that means to their daily experiences. Businesses are looking to stay ahead of the challenges by creating better customer journeys and reassuring customers they’ll deliver what they need and how they need it.

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Three Lessons From Leaders on Adapting During the Pandemic

Customer Bliss

Over the past few months, I’ve been hosting live interviews with a range of C-Suite leaders on my LinkedIn and Twitter. We’ve had discussions about their role in developing a customer experience strategy within their organization or for other organizations, and about how they’ve had to recently pivot in their jobs. I’ve also spoken to gurus, authors, and evangelists about the ways in which leaders can continue to guide their teams through the pandemic as customer behaviors continue t

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Simplify employee and customer experiences to adapt and grow On Tech Target

eglobalis

Simplify employee experience and customer experiences to adapt and grow On Tech Target. The post Simplify employee and customer experiences to adapt and grow On Tech Target appeared first on Eglobalis.

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Guest Post: How to Enhance Customer Experience Through Change

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Ricardo Saltz Gulko, managing director and co-founder of Eglobalis. He shares 5 habits of companies that went through dramatic transformation and still managed to improve the customer experience. Over the last few months, most businesses have had the opportunity to reconsider processes, products, and people. For some, it has been a monumental and frustrating struggle, while others have been able to plan and execute deep changes that have improved adoption, sati

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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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The Pandemic’s Impact on the State of Online Shopping Worldwide

GetFeedback

This report examines how COVID-19 has affected the ecommerce industry and the customer experience space.

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Cultivating Trust in Times of Change: An Interview with Jeanne Bliss & Erin Fenn

IntouchInsight

Highlights from a recent interview with Jeanne Bliss of Customer Bliss and Erin Fenn of Intouch Insight on listening to hear, humanity, and how to grow your customer experience practices to earn trust.

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Use SMIRC Goals to Define Customer Experience Outcomes

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

You’ve heard of SMART goals… But what about SMIRC goals? It’s not uncommon in my experience coaching, consulting, and workshopping with business leaders to come across goals that are vague, impossible to quantify, or otherwise unhelpful. I don’t say this to shame anybody, but to highlight it’s so easy for all of us to do.

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The 5 Rules of Behavioral Journey Mapping

Beyond Philosophy

We’ve recently trained some of our clients on journey mapping. During the process, I realized that there is a lot that people don’t know about it—and that they needed a few rules to help them make the most of the exercise. We discussed the problems with journey mapping in a recent podcast. Traditional journey mapping is what a customer is doing, but is missing a few things.

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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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Customer Experience Indexes: Modern Thinking

ClearAction

Customer Experience Indexes: Modern Thinking Lynn Hunsaker. Why are customer experience indexes powerful? To paint a concise picture of growth strength. An index is like an executive summary of your voice of the customer research. It says: overall, our propensity to grow is increasing or decreasing. One size does not fit all. There are many types of customer experience indexes, and they each communicate something specific, based on certain assumptions, with greatest usefulness to one or more gr

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How to Avoid Roadblocks to Great Customer Service

ShepHyken

What gets in the way of creating a great customer service experience for you and/or your organization? Is it a process that is clunky, inconvenient and difficult for the customer? Is it people who aren’t properly trained or don’t have the right people skills? It’s easy to ask yourself these questions and self-diagnose your organization, but have you ever asked your people?

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Getting Started with a Customer Success Program at Lucid

Totango

In our latest installment in the CXO Series , we sat down with Stephanie Comardelle, Vice President of Customer Experience, Success, and Solutions at Lucid to discuss what it takes to implement a stakeholder engagement plan at a time when there is so much going on as well as how they are managing their new customer success program. . Lucid bridges the gap between global questions and human answers by connecting buyers and sellers in one central location for survey sample groups.

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4 Ways to Bring a Human Touch to Contact Center CX

Upstream Works

The difference between good and excellent contact center CX is providing customers with a human touch. As digital channels and AI become more prevalent in contact centers, customers are looking for more in their experiences with human agents, something they can’t receive from bots and self-service channels — a sense of humanity, empathy and having their feelings and frustrations validated.

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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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Customer Experience Quotes to Inspire Your Entire Organization

ReviewTrackers

There is a vital shift happening in the business world: a growing class of savvy, empowered consumers are demanding more options, fairer prices, and better interactions across the entire customer journey. As a result, businesses across a wide range of industries are being compelled to adopt a more customer-centric approach. It’s no longer just about product, or pricing, or promotions, or place.

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How to Make Your Experience Easy and Gain Growth

Beyond Philosophy

Do you know what annoys me? When I go into an organization, and they say their goal is to delight customers at every moment of contact. Honestly, it sounds exhausting, for both the team and your customers. After all, how much joy do you need to buy paper towels? Another area exists to channel all that enthusiasm instead. There is a significant connection between successful Customer Experiences and the amount of effort they require from customers.

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What a Customer First Strategy Means Post Pandemic

C3Centricity

Denyse Drummond-Dunn · What a customer first strategy means today. “Never miss an episode. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts to get new episodes as they become available.”. I know, you probably don’t want to read yet another article about the post-pandemic era, especially when the infection numbers in many countries are once again headed in the wrong direction!

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Amazing Business Radio: Simon Glass

ShepHyken

The Voice of the Customer. How to Collect Customer Insights to Drive Your Customer Experience. Shep Hyken interviews Simon Glass , CEO of Discuss.io. They discuss strategies for collecting customer feedback and how to use those insights to help your business succeed. Top Takeaways: Using video can be a great way to connect with your customers and collect their feedback.

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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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SAP’s Transformation and Innovation in Customer Success

Totango

In our latest installment in the CXO Series , we sat down with Keith Strodtman, COO, Customer First and Shelby Czarnota, Vice President, Customer Success Business Solutions at SAP as we discussed SAP’s Transformation and Innovation in Customer Success and why they deployed Totango as their One Customer Success Platform. It was a great must watch panel discussion that provides many insights into SAP’s journey to becoming the largest Customer Success implementation world-wide.

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How Live Chat Helps You Shape Customer Journey

ProProfs Chat

Imagine being in your customers’ shoes. You’ve landed on the website due to a certain search query and find the product you need. You add it to the cart and are ready to check out. But the moment you reach the checkout page, you realize that you don’t have an account and are requested to sign up now. As you click on the sign up process, you realize that the form is quite a journey in itself.

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How You Can Syndicate Reviews to Amplify Your Online Reputation

ReviewTrackers

Here at ReviewTrackers, we frequently receive questions from our clients and partners seeking guidance on the impact different review sites and review display formats may or may not have on their business. If you are a business of any size whose lead generation is tied to Web searches – specifically, results generated in association with popular review sites – the topic of review and multimedia syndication is probably influencing your lead generation, whether you are aware of it or not.

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Reviews Completed On Your Phone Are More Emotional

Beyond Philosophy

How we share information is affected by the medium that we use to communicate it. We can see this concept manifest in customer reviews and advertising response behavior. The technology through which customers write reviews and interact with your organization influences the content produced and information shared. We discussed the findings of the interface of technology and human beings with Professor Shiri Melumad on a recent podcast.

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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.