June, 2017

article thumbnail

Customer experience innovation: A shift in how to think about it

Customer Bliss

I want to bring up an interesting example of customer experience innovation that has been discussed (but not directly) in recent weeks. It’s a little bit nuanced, so bear with me. (BTW, the overall idea of “customer experience innovation” is obviously very far-reaching, and numerous books have been written on it. This is just about one aspect.).

article thumbnail

Which Comes First? Customer Experience or Sales?

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Seems obvious, right? It’s hard to have customers if you don’t have sales. True. But what happens after the sale? What happens when you are trying to establish relationships with prospects but don’t know what will hurt the relationship later? Too often, organizations with great intentions sabotage their customer’s experience before it even starts!

Sales 231
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Exposed: The Anatomy Lesson For Business!

Beyond Philosophy

It is critical to consider the “anatomy” of an interaction in a Customer Experience. The sheer number of things that occur in an interaction at the same time can seem astonishing. Understanding what happens when your team interacts with a customer and why it is an essential element to taking your Customer Experience to the next level. The Anatomy of a Customer Interaction can make or break your Customer Experience.

Books 161
article thumbnail

To drive meaningful customer experience improvements, start with your why

Alida

Customer Experience (CX) is a messy space. Inside companies, CX pros are herding cats and presenting cases to the shark’s tank. CX improvement usually involves wrangling cross-functional teams, competing for resources and choosing a specific direction to run. Seasoned managers know that CX business cases can fall over despite listening intently to the voice of the customer.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Connecting the Dots: Where Customer Experience and Employee Engagement Converge

InMoment XI

Employee engagement is well accepted as a Key Performance Indicator of thriving organizations. But while engagement has been regularly measured for decades, engagement levels have largely remained unchanged. Gallup, who tracks U.S. employee engagement in their annual State of the American Workplace report, has reported that roughly 70 percent of U.S. employees are not engaged.

More Trending

article thumbnail

Collaboration is what CCOs need to embrace

Customer Bliss

I wanted to take a second to talk about collaboration within CCO work. This is a complex, far-ranging topic and we’re only going to cover it in a brief blog post (although I do speak often about collaboration in books and speeches), but I wanted to touch on some recent research and thought leadership around collaboration. Collaboration and uniting silos.

article thumbnail

How Do Smart Leaders Create the Best Experiences?

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

In many ways, customer experience is still a new phenomenon. Ok that’s not really accurate, of course. Your customers have experiences with you, and judge their relationship with your brand based on how they feel about those experiences, whether you want them to or not. But the idea of investing in creating powerful, meaningful and delightful experiences is still a relatively new idea.

article thumbnail

CHANGE – For Better Or Worse? Read this First!

Beyond Philosophy

Back in April 1985, the Coca-Cola Company introduced a product that became one of the biggest flops in modern history. “New Coke” had a sweeter taste that was so widely reviled that Coke brought back its old formula less than three months later. Coke says now that it learned a valuable lesson –their research and development didn’t anticipate their customer’s deep emotional attachment to the brand and the taste of the original.

article thumbnail

4 reasons to attend the 2017 Automotive CX Summit

Alida

Vision Critical is headed to the Automotive CX Summit in Marina del Rey, California, on June 20 to 21. The conference promises to provide actionable information to help automakers, dealers and finance companies improve customer experience. With industry sales softening, now is a critical time to listen and implement key takeaways. Here are three of the sessions we’ll be exploring at this year’s conference: 1.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Connecting the Dots: Where Customer Experience and Employee Engagement Converge

InMoment XI

Employee engagement is well accepted as a Key Performance Indicator of thriving organizations. But while engagement has been regularly measured for decades, engagement levels have largely remained unchanged. Gallup, who tracks U.S. employee engagement in their annual State of the American Workplace report, has reported that roughly 70 percent of U.S. employees are not engaged.

article thumbnail

Complimentary Should Mean Free

ShepHyken

My buddy went to dinner with his wife to celebrate their anniversary. The server overheard them talking about how many years they had been married and was flattered they chose to spend their special night at the restaurant. So, he brought them over complimentary champagne. They were surprised and most appreciative. That is, until the bill came. As my friend looked over the bill he noticed there were two complimentary glasses of champagne on the bill had a charge of two dollars per glass.

article thumbnail

SVP Member Experience at Peloton, With Brad Olson – CB54

Customer Bliss

Episode Overview. Brad Olson talks with me about his work to velocitize the member experience at Peloton, and creating a movement and a beloved brand. Peloton is a mission based company that deliberately crafted every element of its experience, from the build of the bike to its delivery, usage and even helping people move their bike from one home to another.

Hotels 149
article thumbnail

Four tips to improve customer experience with digital feedback

OpinionLab

Digital feedback has the potential to have far-reaching business impact on defining metrics, such as customer loyalty and revenue. But only if it’s harnessed correctly. For this to be the case, there are a handful of absolutely critical strategies you should be following. The first of these is ensuring you capture the right data. Sounds easy, right?

Feedback 114
article thumbnail

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!

article thumbnail

Revealed: What Motivates And Keeps Your Millennial Workers Happy?

Beyond Philosophy

A couple of years ago, Millennials surpassed Generation X for workers in the U.S. and Canadian workforce. They are also the least engaged at their jobs and the most likely to job-hop. Unfortunately, none of this is good news for your Customer Experience. A much-maligned generation, Millennials have been the subject of many viral work videos. Like this one: This rant from millennial journalist Alex Bloomer about her generation struck a chord with people last year: Sure, the videos are worth a lau

article thumbnail

How food retailers can compete against Amazon’s Whole Foods and European grocers

Alida

If there were any doubts that the grocery industry was on the verge of a major disruption, Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods just put it to rest. The deal, announced last week, is valued at $13.7 billion and received a considerable amount of media attention. With the acquisition, Amazon, one of the most valuable brands in the world, is now officially in the grocery market.

Retail 153
article thumbnail

Align CX to Drive Tangible Business Results

InMoment XI

Depth of Insight + Breadth of Influence = Speed of Success Register Now – June 22, 2017 Based on the 2016 CXEvolution Survey by MaritzCX, only thirty-eight percent of customer service (CX) professionals say their programs are successful. With expectations and demands from customers and company executives constantly growing, how do CX professionals help improve.

2016 243
article thumbnail

3 Ways to Collect Customer Data to Deliver a Better Customer Experience (Without Violating Privacy)

Michel Falcon Experience

Companies of all sizes collect information on their customers. Whether it’s contact information or tracking buying behaviours, we are constantly collecting data purposely or indirectly. Sometimes these intended motivations can be used harmfully to violate privacy. Take Uber’s “God View” as an example. But, what about the companies who use their data collection to better their customer’s experience without harm?

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Customer Experience Leadership in Luxury Retail, with Alice Rackley – CB57

Customer Bliss

Episode Overview. Alice is relatively new to her role at Marks & Spencer, where she is head of customer experience. She’d only been in that about four months (she’s been at the company five years) when we taped this episode, but within the first four months, her action plan is already humming. A lot of my episodes are about the first 90 days or making sure you prove action/get quick wins, and this particular episode is a great example of how exactly to do that.

Retail 0
article thumbnail

Start the Conversation with Interactive Website Surveys

GetFeedback

Website Surveys give you all the power of a GetFeedback survey, and they can live anywhere on your site. Engage more web visitors—no coding required.

article thumbnail

Be Prepared – Will Your Robotic Experience Work For You?

Beyond Philosophy

One of the annoying things about business travel is that you tend to need things in your hotel room at the worst time. More shampoo when you’re still in your pajamas. A mending kit to repair a button in time for your dinner meeting. The hotel staff, while generally helpful and accommodating, has other things to do. So you wait. It’s not the best customer experience, but if you travel often, you learn to live with it.

Hotels 143
article thumbnail

How to improve CX in the automotive industry

Alida

The auto industry is at a crossroads. Vehicle sales are softening, and car ownership is down, especially among younger consumers. Mobility platforms and car sharing apps are giving consumers more reasons to forego owning a car, especially in urban areas. While the market for on-demand mobility is expected to grow, the market for privately owned cars is predicted to shrink dramatically over the next five to 10 years.

article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

Improving Survey Response Rates Through Incentives

InMoment XI

From time to time customer experience managers will hear the following questions from their internal clients: “Is our response rate too low?”; “What can we do to increase our response rate?” or; “Should we provide an incentive for people to respond?” Like many things in research, these relatively simple questions have somewhat complex answers. When.

article thumbnail

Guest Blog: Optimizing for Lifetime Value Over Transactional Customers

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Josh Brown about the importance of cultivating long-term relationships with relational customers who want to get more out of their experience with your company. – Shep Hyken. Recently, Shep Hyken sat down with Lifesize’s Chief Customer Success and Happiness Officer, Amy Downs, and discussed the importance of becoming absolutely obsessed with enhancing your customer’s experience.

Blog 107
article thumbnail

The problem of real-time data in CX

Customer Bliss

There’s a new report out called “The Evolution To Real-Time Customer Experience,” which is a joint production of Forrester Research (consulting firm) and DataStax. There’s also a summary of the report here. What can we learn? Real-time data is a problem for customer experience. A whopping 95% of companies indicated they were “unable to make sense” of real-time customer insights.

Insights 177
article thumbnail

Customer Experience Metrics That Keep the Pulse on Friction-Free Support

Kayako

One of the biggest mistakes when measuring customer experience is focusing on what your team is doing instead of what your customers are experiencing. Metrics like time tracking, productivity, and performance take the front seat, but often don’t relate to the experience your customer receives or how they feel about it. Average reply time, first response time, and the overall volume of conversations can give you useful insights into the productivity of your support but they each have flaws.

Metrics 96
article thumbnail

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.