August, 2017

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Candidate experience is also customer experience

Customer Bliss

I have said this over the years, and recently, several of my podcast guests have also discussed it: there is an ever-increasing need to think of employees as customers as well, i.e. internal customers. Retention rates in major companies have been dropping for years, for a variety of reasons: more flexible work options, people pursuing their own ventures or teaming with startups, bad management, etc.

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Creating a better in-store experience: 5 tips from Retail Prophet Founder Doug Stephens

Alida

More than 8,300 retail stores are expected to close all over North America in the next 12 months. And yet, according to Doug Stephens , founder of the consultancy Retail Prophet, brick-and-mortar stores still have an important role in business today. The number of stores that are expected to close in the next year, according to @RetailProphet. [link] #cxblindspot pic.twitter.com/xgMHhSlcDA. — Kelvin (KC) Claveria (@kcclaveria) August 3, 2017.

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How to Create Your Punch List for Quick CX Wins

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Have you ever lived through a major renovation project or lived through construction of a house or condo? I say “lived through” because it can be harrowing, on a #firstworldproblems level for sure, but harrowing nonetheless. First of all, selecting the right shade of gray or arguing with your spouse about 1-inch or 1.5-inch tile becomes exhausting.

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Are your Customer Experience Programs Just Another “Check the Box”?  Or is CX in your culture, your very DNA?

InMoment XI

For the last couple of decades that I have been around corporate enterprises, there have been too many CEO fads to count. Think about it: MRP, MRP2, ERP, Employee Engagement, Performance Management, Enterprise systems, Distributed systems, CRM, CEM and CX, OPX, Six Sigma, layered with black, green, yellow belt versions, then LEAN Project Management, and CPIM, View Article.

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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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Customer Support & Customer Success: One and the Same?

GetFeedback

Customer support and customer success both focus on driving customer satisfaction and loyalty, just in different ways. But will they be different for long?

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Humanity is the crux of organizations, but…

Customer Bliss

I don’t want to discuss my next book too much, as we’re currently doing some planning and development work around it, but — as you would probably guess — the theme is customer experience. We’re going to spend a lot of time in the next book discussing the pros and cons of specific experiences, both good and bad. You may see a company one day go through a total customer experience/PR flame-out (United Airlines is a recent example, or Volkswagen) and wonder to yourse

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How Elizabeth Arden, Bustle, Refinery29 and Audible think about CX

Alida

Eighty degrees and a nice breeze – check. Evening rooftop in New York City and specialty cocktails – check. More than 180 attendees including leaders in media, technology, CPG, beauty and auto – check. At CX and the City on July 18th, industry leaders from Refinery29, Bustle, Elizabeth Arden and Audible shared how they are approaching the biggest challenges and opportunities in customer experience.

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How to Know if Your CX Strategy Is Fake

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

I’m getting calls from very well-meaning business leaders lately. They are well-versed in many areas of business. Perhaps they were in marketing, or technology or operations. Or maybe they were responsible for the learning and development of thousands of employees. They have credentials and experience and are viewed as leaders of change in their organizations.

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Are your Customer Experience Programs Just Another “Check the Box”?  Or is CX in your culture, your very DNA?

InMoment XI

For the last couple of decades that I have been around corporate enterprises, there have been too many CEO fads to count.

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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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7 Experts Share Their Advice on Top 3 Skills Required to Succeed in Customer Service

ProProfs Chat

The customer satisfaction depends on the customer service skills of an individual to professionally handle and deal with various consumers. If you let your customers down then there are chances of losing potential buyers. The report done by customer impact business depicted that almost 89% of consumer stopped buying products due to low customer service.

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Secrets Revealed! How to Thrive in an Uncertain World

Beyond Philosophy

By nature, I’m an organized person. I like things clear and orderly, laid out in black and white. So, some years ago, as a new senior manager, I asked my boss to explain what my responsibilities would be after a company reorganization. I wanted to know, with absolute certainty. But my boss just looked at me and said, “Colin, in a senior position you need to deal with ambiguity.”.

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How Hallmark Business Connections “does” Customer Experience, With Rhonda Basler – CB66

Customer Bliss

Episode Overview. Rhonda Basler and I discuss how Hallmark Business Connections is helping companies build bonds with their customers — by extending their own products and services. A very intriguing dimension of a company we all know so well, and you’ll be intrigued to hear how customer experience is a key part of how they help companies grow.

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Customer Support & Customer Success: One and the Same?

GetFeedback

Customer support and customer success both focus on driving customer satisfaction and loyalty, just in different ways. But will they be different for long?

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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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Which Customers Do You Want to Keep?

ShepHyken

There is an old joke in the dental world that a patient asked his dentist, “Which teeth should I floss?” The dentist answered, “Only the ones you want to keep.” Customer Service is the same. All customers are good customers. Okay, maybe not all. Every business has customers – or should I call them former customers – that companies choose not to do business with.

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Engagement and Loyalty: How Employees Can Be Your Best Customer Advocates

InMoment XI

Editor’s note: This is a chapter from the ebook, Unlock the Value of CX. You can download the entire book here. Forward Our understanding that there is a connection between employee satisfaction and customer satisfaction goes back at least to the Service Profit Chain Model. We have since come to understand that the connection runs. View Article.

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Prove it: 3 ideas on how to meaningfully measure CX transformation

Alida

Everyone working in customer experience (CX) wants to know if their time and resources are well spent. CX can be a messy space , full of different beliefs and potential paths to follow. At the same time, CX has to compete with other departments for resources. To earn credibility and influence in the organization and get more resources, CX departments need to prove their worth.

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Exposed: How To Measure Your Customer’s Loyalty and CX

Beyond Philosophy

Many organizations measure their Customer Experience (CX) in the wrong way. Chances are, you are too. So, what is it? How are you inadvertently thwarting your efforts to improve your CX? It is how you measure it and it’s one of the fundamental failures of many CX programs. Measuring is a critical part of any effort to quantify progress (or failures) when you have a goal of improving your CX.

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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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More evidence that customer experience is about emotions

Customer Bliss

Some interesting, if not surprising, news from the customer experience world recently. Forrester recently released their US 2017 Customer Experience Index , which goes through data from 120,000 online consumers to rank 300 brands across 21 industries. Forrester is a very-vetted research brand, but it’s important to understand the ecosystem here.

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How Experience Surveys Help Brands Connect to Customers

GetFeedback

Companies often struggle to personalize their customer interactions and messaging. We'll look at how two types of experience surveys help boost engagement.

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Improving Your E-Commerce Customer Service to Meet Today’s Consumer Expectations

Joe Rawlinson

Mobile technology has been changing consumer expectations for both e-commerce and brick-and-mortar retailers, making it more challenging to deliver satisfactory customer service. The 2017 IBM Consumer Experience Index (CEI) Study says only 3.4 percent of brands are delivering leading-edge customer experience , while 33.5 percent are delivering average service and 39.6 percent are lagging or falling behind today’s customer service trends.

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Engagement and Loyalty: How Employees Can Be Your Best Customer Advocates

InMoment XI

Editor’s note: This is a chapter from the ebook, Unlock the Value of CX. You can download the entire book here. Forward Our understanding that there is a connection between employee satisfaction and customer satisfaction goes back at least to the Service Profit Chain Model. We have since come to understand that the connection runs.

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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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Artificial Intelligence: The Customer Experience Imperative

Bob Hayes

Customer Experience Management (CXM) is the process of understanding and managing customers' interactions with and perceptions about the company/brand. In our Big Data world, improving the customer experience is increasingly becoming data-intensive endeavor. Consider CRM systems, surveys, social media sources, telemetry systems, and publicly available data sources; using the combined power of statistics and today’s processing capabilities, these sources of data can help businesses model the proc

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What Type of Employee Are You? Room For Improvement?

Beyond Philosophy

How committed are you to your present employer? Are you wild about what you do or simply content in your position? Do you hate your job or are you ambivalent? It’s an important set of questions to consider. How you feel about where you work has a lot of influence on the job you are doing there. This concept becomes even more crucial when you become a manager and assess your team—especially as it pertains to how they work with or on behalf of customers.

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What I did in my first year leading Customer Experience, with Tom McCann – CB62

Customer Bliss

Episode Overview. Tom is the Principle, Head of Member Experience at Aon Hewitt. While he’s been in customer-facing roles for about 25 years, he’s only been at Aon Hewitt since mid-2016. (Immediately prior, he was a Senior Customer Experience Analyst for Forrester.) Because he’s been in his role about 12 months, most of this conversation is focused on what he set out to accomplish in the first year — and what he thinks the next 6-12 months will look like.

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Five Ways to Create the Customer-Focus Mindset

ShepHyken

Your people attend customer service training. They learn techniques and tactics on how to deal with complaining customers, angry customers or customers who just need a little support. They are taught the right answers to some difficult questions. This is what customer service training is all about. But…. What happens when something happens that is outside of the parameters of the training your employees have received?

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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.