BlueOcean
JUNE 26, 2018
When it comes to customer experience, there’s a lot of cross-over between the hospitality industry and the contact center industry. We’re both in the business of earning a customer’s repeat business through the quality of the experience we deliver. With that in mind, we reached out to Paul Jones, an award-winning hotel manager within the Best Western organization.
GetFeedback
JUNE 12, 2018
Today’s buyers expect personalized, 1:1 experiences tailored to their wants and needs. They’re inundated by marketing messages through digital ads, social media, and email, so only the most relevant campaigns capture their attention. The rest are at best ignored and at worst blocked. To cut through the noise, marketers need to know more about the people they’re marketing to.
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Customer Bliss
JUNE 6, 2018
How do you take insights from customers and drive better decision making and better product delivery? This is one of the many questions that Eric Smuda , VP of Customer Experience & Loyalty of Hertz car rental service had to ask when he joined the company to transform customer and employee experience. Before joining Hertz, Eric spent time conducting traditional market research work and realized he had a passion for customers and how we treat them.
Experience Investigators by 360Connext
JUNE 20, 2018
If you’ve never thought about how you engage customers, then what’s to stop them from becoming actively disengaged? Sometimes we set ourselves up for this! It even echoes back to us in the way we engage within our own organizations. Consider this real-life scenario: I used to have a joke with some colleagues at my first job. We were constantly walking into meetings in conference rooms with LONG agendas that could get pretty boring and stuffy.
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InMoment XI
JUNE 14, 2018
Editor’s note: This article was originally published on bandt.com. There is a quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald that often comes to mind when I talk to clients about transforming their customer experiences, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability. View Article.
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BlueOcean
JUNE 12, 2018
Contact center implementation is an art and a science, and over 24 years in business, we’ve learned exactly what it takes to make the smoothest transition possible. Every milestone and every moving part is integral to a controlled acceleration towards a seamless transition that results in a positive customer experience. On top of that, the implementation phase – where collaboration is key – is what sets the tone for the duration of your strategic partnership.
TechSee
JUNE 12, 2018
Augmented Reality (AR) – the ability to overlay and share physical objects, spaces and images on a user’s view of the real world– is revolutionizing the customer experience. Through new mobile technology, AR has emerged as an innovative tool that allows brands an almost unlimited opportunity to interact three-dimensionally with consumers on their mobile devices.
Customer Bliss
JUNE 6, 2018
As “customer experience” has become a hot topic and nearly every industry has embraced it as a priority for their business, it is important that it also become united across your organization. And that means building a one-company approach to business strategies. What I know from 25 years as a CCO practitioner and ten years as Coach to Customer Leadership Executives and their Leadership Teams is that we’ve got to take the reactive nature out of this work.
Experience Investigators by 360Connext
JUNE 13, 2018
Humans disappoint one another. We do it all the time. We disappoint when we don’t show up for someone’s big event. Or maybe we disappoint when we do show up at an intimate dinner party without an invitation. We disappoint each other by saying what we think or by not speaking up when we should. It’s tricky, this human experience of ours.
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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.
InMoment XI
JUNE 14, 2018
Editor’s note: This article was originally published on bandt.com. There is a quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald that often comes to mind when I talk to clients about transforming their customer experiences, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability. View Article.
Beyond Philosophy
JUNE 15, 2018
Pricing is fundamental to your business. It also has an enormous influence on Customer Experience outcomes. You should understand Mental Accounting as it pertains to customer behavior before you set the price and before you ruin how your customers feel about your experience. This was a great topic of discussion in our recent podcast. So, What is Mental Accounting?
Alida
JUNE 6, 2018
Great minds think alike—even fierce competitors. This is especially true in apparel retail, where longtime rivals Nike and Adidas have both recently invested heavily in digital transformation and innovation to stay at the top of their game. Competition between the two brands is long-standing, so it makes sense it would extend to their digital transformation efforts.
TechSee
JUNE 5, 2018
Show, Don’t tell. George is eagerly looking forward to setting up his new smart home. He unboxed and installed all his newly-purchased connected devices and downloaded the software successfully. Now all that’s left is to configure it all via the website. But… it’s not working. He can‘t find the menu he needs and the icons are simply not where they are meant to be.
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 Bliss
JUNE 13, 2018
If you’ve been listening to, or been a guest on my podcast, The Chief Customer Officer Human Duct Tape Show , then you know that the last question I like to ask is: what do you know now that you wish you knew then ? Often, my guests will already come prepared with answers to this question, as it’s one they look forward to and find to be quite helpful.
Customer Guru
JUNE 6, 2018
Some say that to be perfect in a customer-driven industry and to deliver 100% customer satisfaction is next to impossible. However, isn’t that what makes it more desirable? If the idea of customer service excellence were so easy, every organization would be at the top of their game! An essential starting point to make the impossible possible is to have an employee base that is customer-centric.
Retently
JUNE 24, 2018
In the increasingly crowded market, each NPS® product strives to become noticeable by means of distinct features that makes it competitive and visible. In order to choose the best NPS software that properly fits your business, it’s essential to first become familiar with what most NPS tools have to offer. From automating various tasks to integrating with other systems, find out below what you should pay attention to when deciding on the appropriate customer satisfaction survey software for your
Beyond Philosophy
JUNE 22, 2018
When I need work done at the house, I always get three quotes. I never go with the highest or the lowest, but instead, I choose the one in the middle. This shortcut, called Extremeness Aversion, helps me make an important decision—and it helps your customers make buying decisions, too. We discussed Extremeness Aversion on our podcast earlier this month.
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.
Alida
JUNE 19, 2018
Large brands are increasingly turning to smaller ones for inspiration. These brands are hoping that by learning and adopting a startup mentality, they can fend off disruption and continue to lead their industry. In many ways, copying or even acquiring smaller players makes sense for larger brands. As digital natives, younger startups know how to use new technology to drive growth and can teach established players a new thing or two.
Pointillist
JUNE 15, 2018
By Swati Sahai. What’s better than acquiring one new customer? The answer isn’t acquiring two new customers. It’s actually retaining an existing one. Much of the marketing world is still focused on customer acquisition, but to improve customer retention will yield f ar better ROI and cost about 5-25X less than customer acquisition. In this post, I take an in-depth look at why customer retention matters and the ten powerful ways in which customer journey analytics can help you immediately improve
Customer Bliss
JUNE 28, 2018
Let’s face it: the airline industry is tough. It’s competitive and increasingly consolidated. (Do you remember how many airlines there were when you were a kid?) The number of domestic and international passengers rises every year—as do both costs and revenues. To stay ahead of the competition, airlines keep close tabs on customer experience to address flyers’ concerns, preferences, and needs through reports like the recently released J.D.
Customer Guru
JUNE 12, 2018
A startup, a new emerging business model aiming to reach great heights in the marketplace with respect to any particular product or service, needs to create and retain customers. For any startup to succeed, what matters most is loyal customers. A loyal customer is one who enjoys the relationship with the company and loves its products and services. He not only uses the products himself but also recommends them to his family and friends.
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
Retently
JUNE 13, 2018
Exit surveys — surveys you send to customers when they cancel their subscription or abstain from upgrade after a free trial, ceasing to use your service — have grown massively in popularity over the last few years, as an increasing number of businesses realize the tremendous value of feedback from departing customers. Done right, they can provide valuable insights into why customers quit using your product giving you a grasp of the customer experience and the issues they dealt with a
Beyond Philosophy
JUNE 4, 2018
Each of us has a time when we decide and a time when we act. Once we act, we pass the point of no return on our decision. In other words, once we take action on a decision, we are less likely to change our decision—even when we run into challenges. It’s all a matter of mindset. The Rubicon model is a psychological principle that distinguishes our decision-making method or deliberative mindset from our execution course or implementation mindset.
ProProfs Chat
JUNE 22, 2018
Did you know that 55% consumers are willing to pay more to have a delightful experience? A report by McKinsey says that 70% of product or service buying experiences are totally based on how the customers feel they have treated. For about 62% organizations , customer experience is viewed as a great competitive differentiator. The takeaway? Customer service experience matters significantly for the organizations as well as their customers.
ShepHyken
JUNE 20, 2018
The concept of disruption is interesting. If you ask most business people to name a company that is known for being a disrupter, you’ll hear answers like Amazon, Uber and Walmart. Walmart disrupted local businesses when they came into a community. Uber disrupted the taxi-cab industry. And, Amazon started out disrupting bookstores and eventually moved on to disrupting the entire retail world.
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