CloudCherry

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Technology has become decisive to shaping customer experiences. It has opened up infinite possibilities for brands to not just capture customer data, but also engage with customers in real-time, in a seamless manner. And Virtual Assistance is an important part of the technology wave. It adds a level of personalization to the customer experience and also improves the efficiency of addressing customer queries, issues and more.

Consumers 170

Consumers Social Media Brands Customer Service 170

eglobalis

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Treating Customer Experience Silos Dysfunctional. The post Treating Customer Experience Silos Dysfunctional Syndrome, and Bridging it. 30 advice’s to Tear Down This Wall! appeared first on Eglobalis.

Customer Experience 168

Customer Experience Customers Culture Customer Service 168

Customer Bliss

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

“ Our customers’ lives and our lives are made up of moments,” says Dan Heath , co-author of The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact in today’s episode. Do you think about how you can create remarkable moments for your customers? Dan and I talk about what a power moment is, the recipe for creating one, and how these experiences affect us in our personal and business lives.

Airlines 168

Airlines Culture Books Social Media 168

Lumoa

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Customer experience plays an important, if not the most important role in success of any business. Nearly all companies (89%) believe that customer experience will be their primary basis for competition. How do you stand in that competition? Customer experience management brings discipline to this somewhat vague and soft area: by establishing a systematic process for collecting, analyzing and acting on the customer feedback, you’ll be able to start taking the customer experience in control.

Customer Experience 141

Customer Experience NPS Touchpoint Customer Centricity 141

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GetFeedback

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

When it comes to improving CX, not all KPIs are created equal. Measuring customer effort score can prove to be the most potent source for CX insight.

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Effort Score Customer Experience Measurement Customers 195

Customer Bliss

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Is your organization taking the time to improve its employees lives? When you improve the lives of your employees, you’re also taking the right steps to improve the lives of your customers. In an article recently featured in Retail Drive, “ Why Best Buy is Investing in Employees ,” Corinne Ruff shares how Best Buy’s determination to invest in its employees is driving growth and success for the company.

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Employee Experience Retail Financial Sales 165

Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

I’m a great fan of Apple, and not just because I use their products. For years, Apple has distinguished itself as a company that knows how to build an emotional connection with its customers. Because of that connection, Apple claims legions of loyal fans. But with its recent missteps in its handling of iPhone battery issues, one has to wonder: has Apple lost touch with its customer base?

Travel 130

Travel Fashion Customers Communication 130

Alida

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Apparel companies are hanging by a thread as consumers spend less money on stocking their closets , preferring to express themselves through social media rather than by what they wear and favoring weekend getaways over new clothes. Apparel companies at both ends of the spectrum—big name brands to new wave upstarts—are folding as people buy less clothes.

Apparel 82

Apparel Retail E Commerce Fashion 82

Pointillist

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

By Will Thiel. “By 2020, 85% of customer interactions will be managed without a human” – Gartner. Today’s customers live in an omnichannel world. But most companies still force these evolved customers onto engagement paths that are steeped in legacy and instantly feel outdated. Artificial intelligence can be successfully employed to provide an intelligent, convenient and informed customer experience at any point along the customer journey.

Customer Experience 111

Customer Experience Touchpoint Customer Journey Multi-Channel 111

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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.

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CloudCherry

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Go to a non-business department in any university and ask what they think of the idea that they are actually selling a product/service and should treat their students like a business treats their customers. In all likelihood, you’ll get a lot of horrified looks. The students will nod in agreement, but the faculty — especially those who are passionate about academia – will give you haughty glares and might just evict you from the premises.

Customer Experience 150

Customer Experience Social Media Customers Customer Journey 150

GetFeedback

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

When it comes to improving CX, not all KPIs are created equal. Measuring customer effort score can prove to be the most potent source for CX insight.

Effort Score 150

Effort Score Customer Experience Measurement Customers 150

Customer Guru

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

At Customer Guru, we believe that Customer Experience (CX) should be the number one priority for all the Indian businesses so that they become more sustainable and successful globally. Thus, we are on a mission to spread this awareness, inspiring and guiding professionals to adopt and inculcate a customer-centric approach. We are certain that this is a first step to help organizations WOW their customers and create raving fans for themselves.

Marketing 112

Marketing Customer Experience Financial Banking 112

ProProfs Chat

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

What is Customer Analytics? Simply put, customer analytics is the process and technology that organizes and interprets gathered data to reflect the demographics, actions, and habits of your customers. This data can provide unique, actionable insights that can transform the way you run your sales, marketing, and customer service departments. It can impact your entire business.

Sales 100

Sales Social Media Advertising Customers 100

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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Win the Customer

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Public relations disasters are many companies’ worst nightmares. Whether it’s a common mistake that leads to a temporary bad reputation or a bigger problem that affects the future of your business, negative PR can be hard to recover from. PR problems not only taints your brand name and personality, but can also eliminate customer loyalty and significantly decrease your profits and financial backing.

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2015 Social Media 2016 Travel 99

ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

This week we feature an article by Nathalie Herrman who writes about three key principles that are at the root of all great customer service. She also reminds us that the customer experience begins with the employee experience. – Shep Hyken. I recently found myself on the receiving end of a recording that told me for the tenth time after being on hold for fifteen minutes that, “Your call is very important to us.

Customer Satisfaction 94

Customer Satisfaction Blog Exceptional Customer Service Employee Experience 94

Oracle

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Oracle is hosting its annual Modern Customer Experience conference April 10 – 12, 2018 in Chicago, with over 250 planned sessions spanning customer experience focus areas like sales, commerce, service, and marketing. In addition to covering hot tech topics in CX like artificial intelligence and IoT, ModernCX will feature keynotes from top CX leaders, special programs, and top-notch entertainment.

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2018 Customer Experience Entertainment Events 94

ProProfs Chat

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Good customer service is all about bringing customers back. And about sending them away happy – happy enough to pass helpful feedback about your business along to others, who may then try the product or service you offer for themselves and in their turn become repeat customers. As Damon Richards states: “ Your customer doesn’t care how much you know until they know how much you care ”.

Customer Service 101

Customer Service Social Media Customers Feedback 101

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.

Customer Insights

C3Centricity

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

A recent post by John Ollila on Loyalty Lobby about customer journey maps and touchpoints in the leisure industry prompted me to share with you, an experience I had recently with the Hilton Group. And more importantly the lessons we can all learn from such disasters! Each year around Christmas time, my family get together for a weekend of fun somewhere in Britain.

Customer Journey Mapping 89

Customer Journey Mapping Customer Journey Hotels Books 89

Win the Customer

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

Cloud contact center solutions are becoming the new standard for customer service. The cloud-based contact center market is growing at an explosive compound annual growth rate of 23.6 percent, on track to increase from $5.43 billion in 2016 to $15.67 billion by 2020, Markets and Markets projects. Demand for managed services that allow organizations to outsource their operations is driving this growth, especially in the consumer goods and retail industry.

Call Center 93

Call Center Contact Center Omnichannel 2016 93

Oracle

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Creating a great customer experience (CX) is one of the most effective business objectives you can set for your small or medium-sized business (SMB). Having your customer in mind at all times means that you can focus your attention on what adds value to their lives and what makes the buyer’s journey more seamless. However, there’s a limit to the type of customer experience you can build without technology.

2018 87

2018 Lifetime Customer Customer Relationship Management Touchpoint 87

ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Not long ago, I had a somewhat tenuous conversation with one of our suppliers. I mentioned to him that it took too long for him to call me back. This time it took three days. His response was, “I called you back the same week. That isn’t good enough?”. No! It’s not! That’s not what good service, at least for me, is about. But, that’s not what this lesson is really about.

Customer Service Training 87

Customer Service Training Definition Information Customer Service 87

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

What if the customer experience you had to deliver was all about YOU? What if the customer experience you delivered was a 20-minute speech? The National Speakers Association Winter Conference sought to be an experience, and to ask professional speakers how they can be an experience. Here are some ideas I believe anyone can apply to the experience connected to their personal brand. 1.

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Entertainment Sports Presentation Travel 110

LiveChat

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Your corporate image depends on the customer service you provide. A once unsatisfied client is unlikely to use your product again. That’s why you should take every opportunity to deliver a great customer experience. One of the best ways to do this is to automate your customer service with AI chatbots. In this post, we’ll talk about the best virtual assistants to improve your customer service.

Customer Service 76

Customer Service Return on Investment Books Hotels 76

Customer Guru

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

At Customer Guru, we believe that Customer Experience (CX) should be the number one priority for all the Indian businesses so that they become more sustainable and successful globally. Thus, we are on a mission to spread this awareness, inspiring and guiding professionals to adopt and inculcate a customer-centric approach. We are certain that this is a first step to help organizations WOW their customers and create raving fans for themselves.

Marketing 78

Marketing Customer Centricity Metrics 2017 78

ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Great Customer Experiences Start with Great Employee Experiences: Valuable Lessons From Comcast. Shep Hyken Interviews Tom Karinshak, Senior VP of Customer Service at Comcast. Are your employees properly equipped? . . ? <span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”><span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; over

Social Media 87

Social Media Call Center Customer Service Training Employee Experience 87

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