Customer Bliss

DECEMBER 28, 2017

The year is almost over, and I’m sure many of you are setting goals for 2018 if you haven’t done so already. As we all take the time to think about improving strategies for focusing on customer-driven growth, join me as we revisit 5 of my most popular blog posts of the year. If you’re ever in need of a bit of inspiration or guidance for your customer experience implementation, this is the content you can come back to time after time.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D., CMC Thought Leadership Principal, Beyond Philosophy. Most organizations do not fully understand, or leverage, the key linkages and relationships between customer experience and employee experience/behavior. Enterprises typically focus on employee satisfaction or engagement, in the belief that high levels in either area will directly drive customer loyalty.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 27, 2017

The other night, I was out with some friends. We were at a well-known place, listening to music and relaxing. One of my friends said she wanted something chocolate, so she ordered a piece of chocolate cake. A few minutes later it arrived, and she took her first bite. You could tell by looking at her facial expression that she was not happy. She said it tasted very dry.

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Win the Customer

DECEMBER 23, 2017

When you think about attracting and retaining new customers to your business, you might focus on the importance of having a team of friendly and capable employees devoted to making them feel welcome and appreciated. Having great products and services doesn’t hurt, either. But while these are definitely smart goals to have as a business owner, there’s yet another key way to improve customers’ overall brand experience: cybersecurity.

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Customer Bliss

DECEMBER 29, 2017

This year, I’ve had the opportunity to interview a multitude of CX leaders on my podcast, The Chief Customer Officer Human Duct Tape Show. I’m thankful to have interviewed over 40 leaders who are transforming customer experience within their organizations — some are even creating shifts in their respective industry. As 2017 comes to an end, I’m thanking all of you who have taken the time to listen to my podcast.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 29, 2017

This week we feature an article by Patrick Thuot who shares an infographic about how customer service can help the retail industry. A customer-centric approach can help any type of business succeed. – Shep Hyken. With the proliferation of the Internet and the ubiquity of smartphones, tablets, and laptops, the whole retail industry has experienced huge disruption.

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Customer Guru

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Customer Guru has taken this initiative of sharing the experiences of successful Customer Experience (CX) leaders across India to inspire and guide professionals in adopting and inculcating a customer-centric approach in their organizations. We believe that CX is the only way forward for Indian businesses to be more sustainable and successful globally.

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ClearAction

DECEMBER 28, 2017

The Art of Listening: A Key to Customer-Centricity Lynn Hunsaker. Curiosity is the key to great listening skills that improve customer experience. When you’re truly curious about your customer’s opinions, expectations and requests, you’ll find the customer to be more pleasant, interesting and fulfilling to you as well. Consider internal customers as well as external customers in honing this skill.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Episode Zero – Colin Shaw discusses what you can expect from The Intuitive Customer podcast. Colin outlines in very understandable way, how behavioral economics and phycology fundamentally influences your customers experience and how you can use these to improve your customer loyalty and customer retention. The post 0: The Intuitive Customer Episode Zero appeared first on.

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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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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Companies Grow When Customers are Treated as Unique Individuals. Shep Hyken Interviews Eddie Yoon, Author of Superconsumers: A Simple, Speedy, and Sustainable Path to Superior Growth. Do your customers feel like friends or just transactions? . . ? ? <span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”>?

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Provide Support

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Over the recent years customer experience has dramatically grown in value to supersede product quality and price. Companies that deliver outstanding customer experience can truly win over the competition, retain more loyal customers and improve their bottom line. So what’s trending in the world of CX today? Since customer expectations are changing just as rapidly as technology advancements, improving customer experience has become an ongoing goal for most companies.

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ClearAction

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Solving System Silos for Customer Experience Excellence Lynn Hunsaker. The irony of technology is that it’s often marketed as customer experience management , yet it inevitably creates its own set of customer experience snafus. Examples I’ve heard recently include: “You’ll have to log-in to our other site” or “That mobile app isn’t available for the type of account you have” or “That went to the fax machine at our national site” Is it

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Michelli Experience

DECEMBER 27, 2017

A simple Google search for the phrase “retail Armageddon” produces 413,000 results. Many of those references are very recent. Here are just a few of the search findings from this year: May 5 th, Retail Armageddon: More bankruptcies in four months than all of 2016. June 3rd, It’s a retail Armageddon as over 1,000 stores close in one single week. October 20th, Stores Struggle to Find Workers Amid Retail ‘Armageddon’.

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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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Influitive

DECEMBER 27, 2017

As an advocate marketer, you’re probably used to having the value of your program questioned. “Isn’t it more of a nice-to-have than a need-to-have?” “What exactly is the ROI of engaging customer advocates?” “Why should we devote our budget to this over other marketing programs?” These doubts are exactly why it is so vital for.

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Experience Matters

DECEMBER 28, 2017

As the year winds down, it’s fun to look back and appreciate what’s been done. As you can see in the chart below, Temkin Group published a lot of interesting research in 2017. I’m very proud of what our team accomplished. We used many different research approaches (e.g., best practice interviews, company surveys, and large-scale consumer studies) to deliver insights about customer experience that shaped the thinking and actions of 1,000s of professionals around the world.

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CX Journey

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Image courtesy of Pixabay I originally wrote today's post for CallidusCloud CX; it was published on their blog on June 21, 2017. Not seeing the results or improvements you expected to see from your customer listening efforts? Why is that? What's going on? I've been known to cite two reasons for VoC program ineffectiveness: Companies simply “collect feedback , ” just like some people collect stamps, which requires you to: buy the stamps, put them in a book, put them on a shelf, and forget about t

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Michelli Experience

DECEMBER 27, 2017

A simple Google search for the phrase “retail Armageddon” produces 413,000 results. Many of those references are very recent. Here are just a few of the search findings from this year: May 5 th, Retail Armageddon: More bankruptcies in four months than all of 2016. June 3rd, It’s a retail Armageddon as over 1,000 stores close in one single week. October 20th, Stores Struggle to Find Workers Amid Retail ‘Armageddon’.

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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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Magellan Solutions

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Money. This is the tangible thing that employees and business owners alike work hard for. . At times, money seems to be abundant everywhere you look. Wages increase, demand for products are on the rise, businesses sprout like mushrooms and thrive, and an overall feeling of wealth permeates society. But during times of recession, the reverse happens.

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Experience Matters

DECEMBER 24, 2017

To those who are already celebrating, and to those who are on the eve of it, Merry Christmas! And Happy Holidays to everyone! To get you in the mood for the holidays and to prepare for the upcoming “Year of Humanity,” we created this short, hopefully inspiring musical video… Let Humanity Glow. Enjoy! ?? The bottom line: Let’s make humanity great again!

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ClearAction

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Do Customers Experience Your Internal Collaboration — or Lack of It? Lynn Hunsaker. “Our clients helped us see that in some cases where we weren’t collaborating, they would experience our lack of collaboration,” said Senior Vice President of Insights & Client Experience at SunTrust Bank, Jeff VanDeVelde. Is your voice of the customer program letting you know similar insights?

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Informedy

DECEMBER 29, 2017

We now have more than enough evidence that the customer experience (CX) should be the primary focus of organizations both big and small. Whether it’s the lifetime value that your customer represents, the costs associated with an unhappy customer, or just the difficulty and expense associated with finding new customers who will engage your brand’s products or services, it is widely understood how critical your CX is to the health of the business.

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Maz Iqbal

DECEMBER 24, 2017

Are you customer-centred? That is a sloppy question as there is no agreement on what is being talked about when talking about customer-centricity. So, let me ask that question in a more precise way: when the customer interacts with you/your organisation, through any touchpoint or combination thereof, does the customer experience the feeling of being … Continue reading "What Does a Customer-Centred Orientation Look Like Through The Customer’s Eyes?".

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Talkdesk

DECEMBER 26, 2017

This article was originally written by Mathilde Collin, CEO at Front, for Opentalk Magazine. . Businesses have a variety of core motivations. Turning a profit can certainly be one, but there’s also making people’s lives easier with your product or sharing a passion with your customers. Usually, you can tell what’s driving a company pretty quickly. Think of the typical interaction with your home internet service provider compared to the morning greeting you get at your neighborhood coffee shop.

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Michelli Experience

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Save Save. The post {Infographic} Retail Armageddon, Chupacabra, and Other Myths appeared first on Joseph Michelli.

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Myra Golden

DECEMBER 28, 2017

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