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K.I.S.S (Keeping it Simple Stupid)

CloudCherry

No, we’re not talking about the chocolate variety. It’s all about the delicious strategy of Keeping It Simple, Stupid…A philosophy highly recommended by Matt Dixon -Chief Product & Research Leader at Tethr , Best-Selling Author, one of the world’s leading CX Experts, and this week’s guest on ‘ The Sweets of CX’ Podcast. Customer service should be simple right?

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The Top 6 CX Articles of 2019

GetFeedback

We’re already halfway through 2019 and no one can deny the rising demand for better customer experiences. Companies are now using machine learning technology to improve customer experience and traditional institutions usually resistant to change are coming under pressure from a customer base that wants more. Our list of the top CX articles of 2019 covers all these topics and more. .

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Earn Positive Survey Results! Don’t Beg for Survey Scores

Customer Bliss

In this week’s Daily Dose video, I share a short video inspired by the lessons of my most recent book, Would You Do That To Your Mother. . The following is a lightly edited transcript of the video below. “Thank you for watching this video. After it’s played, you will receive a survey and I really need you to give me a ten. Anything less is not passing and I won’t get paid.” Does that sound familiar to you?

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Improving Experiences in a Patient-as-Consumer World: Part 1 of 4

InMoment XI

Creating Elite Experiences for Today’s Modern Patients In just a few short years, technology and business innovations have fundamentally changed how people interact with—and what they expect from—the services and organizations they depend on. Today, the unavoidable fact is that people make decisions and invest their loyalty based mainly on experiences, not necessarily the nuances.

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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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Revealed: The Two Secrets to Customer Loyalty

Beyond Philosophy

Do you know what drives me mad? When organizations talk about loyalty, what they mean is, “the customer gives me all of their business.”. Customers giving you all their business isn’t customer loyalty on its own. They could give it to you out of habit , or because you are a monopoly. It could also be a product of their apathy. Customer loyalty is more than automatic or indifferent behavior.

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3 Steps to Solidify Your CX Foundations at a Cultural Institution

Customer Bliss

I’m excited to be back with new episodes of the Chief Customer Officer Human Duct Tape Show. In today’s episode, I have an engaging and enlightening conversation with Craig Langlois , the Chief Experience Officer at the Berkshire Museum in beautiful Berkshire, Massachusetts. This is a great conversation to listen to, whether you’re in the museum/cultural institution world or business (both B2B and B2C).

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How to Stop Hiring Toxic Employees (A Lesson for Every Company)

Michel Falcon Experience

We’ve all done it. We hired someone who spoils our company culture. They spoil team alignment, alienate others and are typically only cordial to your company’s best clients. I’ve mistakenly hired these people before. But today I have guidelines that greatly increases the likelihood that I won’t hire them again. I’ll be sharing these lessons with you in this blog post and you’ll learn: How to create better job descriptions to repel these people from even applying to your company.

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The Surprising Reason That Tactics Alone Don’t Get the CX Job Done

Beyond Philosophy

There is a difference between strategy and tactics when you’re trying to solve a business problem. Most people jump straight to tactics and implementation, because it is the concrete stuff, the stuff that we can start doing now. Too few business people step back and think about the larger strategy. However, strategy is essential to ensure that all your tactics are not a waste of time. .

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The De-Evolution of a Business

ShepHyken

Not long ago I was with my friend, Nelson Griswold. He shared with me a phenomenon he referred to as the de-evolution of a business. It can mean the beginning of the end for a business, and it usually comes as a result of not listening to the company’s customers. This pattern mirrors one found in the entertainment business—the four stages of an actor.

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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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Overcome Leadership Bias: 5 Common Types and the #1 Solution

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

ALL Leaders Experience Leadership Bias… There is a natural conflict of interest between companies and customers. It’s natural for any organization to have goals that don’t align perfectly with the goals of their customers. And there can certainly be natural conflicts of interest within the organization as well — between leaders and employees, between departments, between offices.

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Employee Experience – Good for Employees, Good for Business

IntouchInsight

Customer experience expert, Annette Franz, explains how to achieve the connection between employee experience and business performance.

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How and Why We Stereotype People

Beyond Philosophy

How and Why We Stereotype People and Things. Stereotyping is not considered a good thing, certainly not in politically correct circles. However, our ability to do it is hard-wired into our brains, and it doesn’t only apply to people. We can stereotype an organization, too. Let’s say you need to name a type of business that is frustrating across the board.

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Amazing Business Radio: Peter Fader & Sarah Toms

ShepHyken

Customer Centricity in Business. Building a Customer-Centric Company with Long-Lasting Value. Shep Hyken interviews Peter Fader and Sarah Toms. They discuss their new book, The Customer Centricity Playbook , and the “ Customer Centricity Manifesto ,” which teaches individuals and organizations how to build a customer-centric culture. The Interview with Peter Fader & Sarah Toms: A key term is CLV, which stands for “customer lifetime value.

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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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But Does She Have Customer Service Skills?

Steve DiGioia

a fancy resume is just not enough. This is it. This is the one. We’ve finally found someone with a good resume, hot damn. Look at it! Let’s call her up for an interview. Then someone says, Wait, does she have customer service skills? What do you mean? Just look at her resume. I don’t care what her resume says, does she have the skills we need to properly take care of our customers?

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Leaders, Great Employee Attitude is Essential, Not Negotiable | #Leadership

Kate Nasser

Leaders, a great employee attitude is essential not negotiable. Lead, inspire, & expect it. Don't tolerate a bad attitude. Tips fr Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™. The post Leaders, Great Employee Attitude is Essential, Not Negotiable | #Leadership appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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The Contact Center of the Future in the Distributed Workforce Era

TechSee

As customer service leaders envision the contact center of the future, a key question is whether agents will need to come in to work at all. After all, the costs of operating a physical contact center are immense, and the challenges of training , motivating and retaining staff remain major pain points for all B2C organizations. As more companies embrace the possibilities offered by cloud-based infrastructure, the pros of employing a distributed workforce are now beginning to outweigh the cons.

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Guest Blog: Mobile, Frictionless and Secure – The Experience Consumers Expect

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Christina Lutrell about understanding the shifting consumer experience while maintaining your customer’s trust. As we know, consumer experience and expectations have changed rapidly in response to new technologies, market forces and security concerns. With an increasing number of high visibility data breaches every year and mobile playing a more prominent role in everyday transactions, consumers are not only becoming more aware and involved in protecting

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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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Mark Hurd on the Modern Connected Customer Experience

Oracle

If there’s one thing that’s true about customer experience (CX), it’s that it is ever-changing. With data and tech improvements in all industries, consumers are — rightfully — expecting more and more from the companies they buy from. Here we take a look at how executives, like Oracle’s CEO Mark Hurd, as well as industry analysts and research firms view modern changes in customer experience and how organizations can keep up.

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Customer Experience Management: Five Proven Customer Experience Tips If You Want to Stay on Customer Pulse

SurveySensum

If your business would like to celebrate One thing – then it would be the love of your customers. Believe it or not, the only predictor of customer loyalty is the overall study of customer behavior at various touchpoints and how customers are engaging with the brand. If you can measure the current customer love, then your business can improve and drive impact.

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On their Terms: Millennials Shift the B2B Buying Journey

PK

Enterprise technology buying is changing, driven by two major trends: the consumerization of B2B and a generational shift as Millennials step into decision-making roles. This has implications for everyone working with Millennials throughout the B2B buying journey – and ultimately the journey of turning customers into advocates. The Consumerization of B2B.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of September 2, 2019

ShepHyken

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. The #1 Guide To Customer Experience Conferences in 2020 by Krishna Charan. (Feshdesk) To help you figure out which events to attend, we have curated a region-wise list of top customer experience conferences around the world.

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The Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Customer Learning

Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your organization’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

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Why is Customer Engagement Important and Valuable?

Totango

The difference between a friend and an acquaintance is the regularity and depth of your communication. A friend is part of your day-to-day life. You speak often, and you’re familiar with each other’s lives. An acquaintance, on the other hand, is someone you might only encounter occasionally when your paths cross. In business, customers should be more like friends than acquaintances.

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Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) Survey Questions with Examples

SurveySensum

What is a Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) Survey? A customer satisfaction (CSAT) survey is defined as a set of questions asked to a customer, to gauge their level of satisfaction with a product or service or organization. For example, if a smartphone company wants to understand and measure the satisfaction of customers with the various key features of the phone then the best way to find out this is to ask customers directly.

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5 Steps to a Successful Marketing Campaign Launch

NetBase

There are five steps that CX strategies should take to ensure a successful marketing campaign launch. And we’re going to show you what each looks like and how to do it. Step #1. Revisit What Worked/Didn’t for Last Campaign Launch. Consider the following scenarios and see if any speak to your current situation: Your last campaign was wildly successful, though you’re not really sure why.

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Short Storytelling leaves Clients feeling Short Changed

One Millimeter Mindset

Many of my clients engage in short storytelling, instead of telling the stories stakeholders and clients really want to hear. As a result, their stories lack dimension, details and credibility. In addition, these stories stop short, just when clients want the story to continue. Consequently, clients feel short changed, rather than engaged. Why continue to fall short of their expectations?

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AI for Business Outcomes: Selecting the Right Tools to Drive Results

Customers expect to be able to interact with your organization whenever and however they want. They also expect your agents to have insights into their journeys so that they don’t have to repeat themselves as they move through various channels. And, if they’re not able to, they just might find one of your competitors who will offer the flexibility they are looking for.