February, 2014

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3 Words to Avoid for Better Customer Service Communication

Win the Customer

'Millions of words are used each day in customer service communication; three little ones have great power to destroy your customer service experience and should be avoided at all cost. Studies have shown that vocabulary is a good predictor of success. Those who a greater mastery of language and the ability to communicate have greater […].

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Being Human: Marketing Research Style

InMoment XI

Earlier this week, I shared the story of British clothing designer, Boden, and why I appreciate the personality that defines their catalogue, website and brand. This personality extends beyond marketing into their customer experience research through the use of clever, quirky and straightforward survey invitations signed personally by the founder. Customers today are looking to.

Marketing 150
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Creative Ideas to Gain Executive Attention and Empathy for Customers

PeopleMetrics

'Customer Experience professionals often face a daunting task: getting executives to truly care about the customer experience. While executives often talk about customer experience and its importance to the business, sometimes their actions indicate that they do not identify with customers the way the Cx team does. With competing priorities around revenue growth, operational efficiencies, and innovation, customers are often an afterthought on the executive agenda.

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Be an ‘Undercover Boss’ to help employees please customers

Service Untitled

'If you have ever tuned into the CBS show “Undercover Boss” where owners and corporate executives work undercover to examine their own companies, it is indeed an interesting concept that has aroused some significant awareness and changes in organizations. Of course, there’s always some interesting drama associated with the television production, but it’s that individual attention and demand for fair treatment and loyalty that sustains success and growth for all of us.

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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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On Valentine’s Day, spread a little love to your customers

Amity

It’s that time of year again – when hearts are aflutter, your local florist has a banner day and somewhere a marriage proposal is likely going to take place. However, this Valentine’s Day, along with showing your affection for a loved one, share some of that love with your customers. As the most important asset to your business, customers tend to share a lot of love with your company every time you engage with them.

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Great Customer Service Starts in the Staff Room

Win the Customer

'Internal customer service, or servicing those who service your customers is vital to any business progressing, properly functioning, and continuing to establish a patter of exceptional customer experiences. As companies focus intently on improving the level of customer service they offer to clients, the quality of internal interactions within the business can become overlooked.

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Being Human: Marketing Research Style

InMoment XI

Earlier this week, I shared the story of British clothing designer, Boden, and why I appreciate the personality that defines their catalogue, website and brand. This personality extends beyond marketing into their customer experience research through the use of clever, quirky and straightforward survey invitations signed personally by the founder. Customers today are looking to.

Marketing 150
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One Killer Way to Convince Executives that Customer Experience Data is Worth It

PeopleMetrics

'I''ve Got Customer Experience Data. What Now? So you are getting ready to update the C-Suite on your customer experience metrics. You’ve collected lots of customer experience data, you have a bunch of insights, perhaps you have a deck of beautiful slides, filled with graphs and tables and statistically significant differences. But your biggest challenge is in being able to influence this team of execs to take action on what you tell them.

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How much are you loved?

Smith+co CX

'Every brand wants a relationship with its customers. We want them to like us; even love us, and love only us - forever. Customers too want to be loved, but do they think about their interaction with a brand as a relationship? It seems they do. The annual Edelman survey found that increasingly customers are choosing brands on emotional and relationship-based criteria.

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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 Four Gears of B2B SaaS – Part 1

Amity

Geoffrey Moore recently published a new edition of his classic high-tech marketing book, Crossing the Chasm , updated to be relevant for today’s markets. While the core model is unchanged, Moore makes it clear that ‘Crossing the Chasm’ is strictly a B2B model. To address newly relevant B2C markets, Moore adds a new model as an appendix. The Four Gears Model for Digital Consumer Adoption.

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Great Moments in Selection Bias

GetFeedback

I conducted an informal survey today, asking 22 residents of my hometown, Charlotte, North Carolina, what they liked best about our city.

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What is the Relationship Between Customer Service Quality and Market Share?

Win the Customer

'Is there a relationship between the size of a company and its ability to deliver quality customer service? What does it mean for business success?

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Being Human: Marketing Research Style

InMoment XI

Earlier this week, I shared the story of British clothing designer, Boden, and why I appreciate the personality that defines their catalogue, website and brand. This personality extends beyond marketing into their customer experience research through the use of clever, quirky and straightforward survey invitations signed personally by the founder. Customers today are looking to.

Marketing 150
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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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Even More Creative Ideas to Gain Executive Attention and Empathy for Customers

PeopleMetrics

'Those working as customer experience professionals are fighting to get attention from busy executives. How do we get executives to understand and care about the customer experience? In last week''s article, Creative Ideas to Gain Executive Attention and Empathy for Customers , we said that executives need to feel and truly understand who their customers are and what it is to be a customer of their company.

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Laggard or leader. Where do you stand on the mobile experience?

Smith+co CX

'This is the conclusion of Forsee in its latest Customer Experience Index, where Amazon hit top spot for best mobile retail experience - a testimony to the online giant’s brilliance in making it quicker, cheaper and simpler for the consumer to buy almost anything. And through its mobile app, it not only enables, but encourages its customers to compare prices of various products while walking in different stores - before, of course, buying from Amazon.

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The biggest problem with Customer Success and how you can fix it

Amity

Wow – how could an industry with the words customer + success have a problem? Those two words combined speak to all things positive and problem free. So what could possibly be wrong? Data. Big data, small data – all of that data! There certainly isn’t a lack of it. As a matter of fact there is probably too much of it – way too much of it to wade through.

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GetFeedback and Salesforce, Better Together.

GetFeedback

GetFeedback for Salesforce delivers an integrated offering that allows you to create branded, mobile-ready customers surveys.

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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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How Good Customer Service Works

Win the Customer

'Everyone uses customer service. Although it''s easy to be upset with the bad customer service, getting good customer service isn''t as easy as you think.

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Video: The Future of Customer Experience – Part 3

InMoment XI

In the future, CE programs will have to be more of a dialogue, and the dialogue needs to be relevant to the customer. The days of a one way monologue where we take information from customers without giving anything back will be a thing of the past. This, and other thoughts, are in this week’s. View Article.

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8 Clever Ways Online Marketers Use Consumer Surveys

Upwave

Online marketers have a plethora of web tools at their disposal. We at Upwave are happy to see online marketing surveys becoming a more popular one, since they can inform a wide variety of business decisions. Marketers have used our consumer survey service in many clever ways, so we wanted to share some highlights: Defining your demographic. When developing a product or service, it’s essential to determine your target customer.

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A Fundamental Shift in Customer Service

Brad Cleveland Blog

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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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Tackle Tough Problems with Design Thinking & Customer Journey Mapping

Touchpoint Dashboard

'“Most failures in industry are not that people can’t solve problems; it’s that they’re not always great at identifying the right problems to solve.” - John Kembel, Stanford d.School When John Kembel, founding member of the prestigious Stanford d. School, spoke those words at the recent Boulder Innovation Executive Forum, you could almost hear the […].

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The Four Gears of B2B SaaS – Part 2

Amity

In Part 1 we expanded Geoffrey Moore’s Four Gears model to this emerging B2B model ( SaaS 2.0 ) In this post we will examine how to operationalize the four gears. Over the past few years the B2B business model has evolved from a ‘Land and Maintain’ model to a ‘Land and Expand’ model. Four Gears Model for B2B SaaS. Of the Four Gears in the new B2B model (Land, Convert, Expand, and Enlist) all but the Land gear are relatively recent additions to the model.

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Accessibility Can Be a Key to Customer Satisfaction in 2014

Win the Customer

'Can your customer reach you when they have questions or concern to ensure customer satisfaction in their greatest time of need? When one thinks of providing a great customer experience, it’s easy to visualize some of the more common aspects of customer service – employees with customer friendly attitudes, giving the customer their money’s worth […].

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The Problem with Many Customer Experience Measurement Approaches

InMoment XI

“It happens all the time.” Recently, I stayed in an upscale chain hotel that I often book when traveling. when I entered my room, I found a card with a note from the hotel manager: “My name is Karen M., the General Manager of the hotel. Whether you are here on a planned journey or. View Article.

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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.