June, 2011

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VOC Practitioners: What are they really saying?

InMoment XI

Listen to what leading VOC practitioners Arkadi Kuhlmann of ING Bank and Jim Bampos of EMC Corp. are saying and what led to their success(es) in this interview on BlogTalk radio. Then tune in to Allegiance Radio on BlogTalk radio each week. It's a fun way to engage, learn and share best practices for success.

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Killer Customer Service, or Customer-Killer Service?

Customers Rock!

A friend of mine has been a member of a particular airline’s frequent flier program (we will call this major US airline, AirlineX) for a number of years. He even has a credit card linked to that account to help accrue points. This friend had earned enough miles for a free trip to Europe but hadn’t been able to fly AirlineX for awhile since his company now required him to fly the cheapest option (which this airline never was).

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Take Assumptions Out of Customer Listening

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Len Berry of Texas A&M University first told this story twenty years old. But, it still holds a very valuable lesson. Don’t assume you know what your customers want or need without asking! Especially today when their needs are constantly changing. The new manager of the Chicago Marriott was going over year-end budget requests and came across a $20,000 line item to upgrade the black-and-white television sets to color in the bathrooms of the rooms on the concierge level.

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Does customer service improve with age?

Very Best Service

'Can the passage of time improve customer service ? Some wines have the ability to get better with age but let us not forget that they need to be kept in perfect condition, monitored to assess their balance and sometimes remedial action needs to be taken. Customer service presents a similar degree of complexity to the extent that the environment can change rapidly and everyone''s taste can be substantially different.

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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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The Experience of Consistency is What Gets People Coming Back

Annie Tsai

As I continue to explore local businesses, I notice that I mentally categorize them into general buckets: You Get What You Pay For – varying expected sub-categorizations based on price, product and service quality Value Play – typically lower on the price and service scales but higher on product (or lower product and price and […].

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VOC Practitioners: What are they really saying?

InMoment XI

Listen to what leading VOC practitioners Arkadi Kuhlmann of ING Bank and Jim Bampos of EMC Corp. are saying and what led to their success(es) in this interview on BlogTalk radio. Then tune in to Allegiance Radio on BlogTalk radio each week. It's a fun way to engage, learn and share best practices for success.

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What to do when an employee leaves the company?

Win the Customer

Recently the following question was posed: “As a manager, is it important to address your team when someone leaves the company?” The answers varied based on the individual offering the answer and it generally told a lot about that individual, their corporate background, age, and professional experience. The landscape of how businesses and managers operate with employees and customers has changed.

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Winning customer loyalty

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Entrepreneur magazine writer Micah Solomon stated there are several important elements retailers need to concentrate on in order to gain customer loyalty. A successful organization must anticipate customer wishes, provide fast service, and dedicate themselves to acknowledging each returning customer. Solomon also contends businesses need to perfect the ‘hello’ and ‘goodbye’ for customers, develop the customer service vocabulary, and work very diligently to hire the best p

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Customer service: Stand out from the crowd

Very Best Service

'Stand Out from the Crowd Developing a customer service proposition which stands out from the crowd is the aim of many. Hands raised, waving the flag, surely our service is differentiated. Unfortunately we rarely get to see the perspective of the customer and often unable to assess objectively whether our company genuinely stands out. Gathering customer feedback through social media channels as well as through the more traditional tools becomes a critical activity.

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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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Bringing The Brand And Brand Promise To Life Is A Big Piece Of Customer Experience

Annie Tsai

Given Apple's various announcements yesterday, I thought it'd be nice to republish this blog post highlighting Apple's brand promise. - When you see a brand logo, what sort of expectations come to mind? Let's take a look at Apple, a brand that successfully brings the brand promise to life in all incarnations of the experience. When […].

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The Tough Economy is Forcing Critical Thinking

Brad Cleveland Blog

Making the right decisions requires both intuition and discipline. Although you can’t boil leadership – that’s of course what we’re really talking about – down to a simple checklist, there is something powerful about focusing on the things that matter most. So… what to do now?

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VOC Practitioners: What are they really saying?

InMoment XI

Listen to what leading VOC practitioners Arkadi Kuhlmann of ING Bank and Jim Bampos of EMC Corp. are saying and what led to their success(es) in this interview on BlogTalk radio. Then tune in to Allegiance Radio on BlogTalk radio each week. It's a fun way to engage, learn and share best practices for success.

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NICE takes openness, low TCO, analytics to new heights in NiceVision Net 2.5

Customer Interactions

'The recently launched NiceVision Net 2.5 is the latest major installment since NICE turned the corner with Net 2.0 mid-2010. NICE’s video management software has a strong reputation for functionality, scalability and reliability – which is why NICE is so prevalent in Enterprise deployments world-wide. Net 2.0 introduced smaller scale offerings, with ‘openess-oriented’ options to buy just the software and run it on your own servers and storage devices or deploy off-the-sh

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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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How to Leverage What You Do Right!

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I saw a commercial today for an exterminating company that advertised the ongoing training their employees receives. I’m not looking for an exterminator but it made me think about the importance of using what your organization does right and leveraging it as part of your marketing plan. We moved a few years ago and I researched moving companies to help us.

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Shadow customer service

Very Best Service

'So much effort is being deployed on customer service design that it becomes nearly impossible for individuals to be themselves. The rule books, the scripts, the do''s and don''ts mean that at best the modern customer service company executive is a shadow of himself. Unsurprisingly this plethora of procedures can often be counter-productive as clients feel that their interlocutor is not acting in a natural or genuine way.

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Bringing The Brand And Brand Promise To Life Is A Big Piece Of Customer Experience

Annie Tsai

Given Apple’s various announcements yesterday, I thought it’d be nice to republish this blog post highlighting Apple’s brand promise. —- When you see a brand logo, what sort of expectations come to mind? Let’s take a look at Apple, a brand that successfully brings the brand promise to life in all incarnations of the experience.

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Create a training plan that helps customer service representatives succeed

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Front-line customer service representatives impact our everyday lives. Whether we are returning sour milk to the local supermarket or our new car with only 6,000 miles has been in the repair shop more than it has been on the road, representatives who deal with the public are significantly important to each organization. Why then, are service people often treated as among the lowest paid in many organizations?

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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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Give customers what they want

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Southwest Airlines topped all of their rivals again in the American Customer Satisfaction Index produced by the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. Whereas the average for competitive airline competition scored in the 65 percent ranging (dropping by 1.5 percent) on a 100 point scale, Southwest scored an 81, and it’s the 18th straight year they’ve been at the top.

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And it’s customer appreciation day!

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For many of us a customer appreciation day can be an effective marketing tool as well as a way to thank customers and clients for their loyalty and patronage. There are many different options; some events last just one day while others span several days. Some events use “give-aways&# ; others entertain with decorations, food, and games. So how can a business make a customer appreciation day a success and show their customers that they really do care?

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Can you really rate customer value?

Service Untitled

I know the phrase “customer value&# is tossed around training sessions and customer service seminars, but I often wonder how objective organizations really are in their evaluations. How is customer value therefore determined? In most instances, it is described as the amount of benefit a customer will get from a service or a product, and what it’s going to cost.

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Time to outshine your competitors with your customer service

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Customers are just tired of dealing with retailers who ignore customer service while pretending to have it. If I see an advertisement that says, “New and Improved Customer Service,&# doesn’t that already imply there was something wrong with their original service? If an organization claims to make customer service a priority in their business, shouldn’t they uphold to their claims?

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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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Finding a real person when contacting customer service

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Consumer Reports tell us that organizations rarely listen to the surveys they ask when we hear the infamous, “Your call is very important to us. Please don’t hang up.&# So why do they insult us and make us want to throw our phones across the room as we try to make our way through the maze of the company phone tree? Getting through to a real person is the number one complaint of customers who either need help with their service or product or have a complaint.

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The customer is enraged

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The July issue of Consumer Reports stated there were 1.1 million complaints against North American businesses last year; up 10 percent from 2009. So why are so many people so dissatisfied with customer service ? Jack Abelson, a retail industry consultant called customer service “abominable.&# He contends that American business has lost focus on the appreciation and the value of the customer, and excellent customer service is “a profit producer.&# Abelson says that organizations cutt

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Be versed in customer service

Very Best Service

'Be Versed in Good Service For really top service beyond all compare, You have to let customers know that you care, Right from first contact, the seeds will be sown, So take time to smile when you pick up the phone, Be professional, courteous, clear and concise, When talking of colour, delivery and price, Don''t rush through your work, or do jobs on the cheap, And don''t make a promise you know you can''t keep, If a customer phones, and is feeling uptight, Do all that you can to make every thing

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The Experience of Consistency is What Gets People Coming Back

Annie Tsai

As I continue to explore local businesses, I notice that I mentally categorize them into general buckets: You Get What You Pay For - varying expected sub-categorizations based on price, product and service quality Value Play - typically lower on the price and service scales but higher on product (or lower product and price and […].

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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.