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Customer Experience Simplicity in Technology: How Quality & Design Impact the Bottom Line

eglobalis

What is simplicity exactly? To me, simplicity means a demonstration of features, functionalities, processes, governance and design which are really necessary. The post Customer Experience Simplicity in Technology: How Quality & Design Impact the Bottom Line appeared first on Eglobalis.

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What Halloween Has Taught Me About Customer Experience

InMoment XI

Halloween night 2007 was the perfect Halloween. I was old enough to go trick or treating without an adult, but young enough to not have my neighbors wonder why I was still asking for candy. My younger siblings were in bed being too little to join in on the candy collecting festivities of the evening.

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Doomed: Is There Any Hope For Hotel Chains?

Beyond Philosophy

Would you like to learn golf from a hall of famer? How about baking some French macarons at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris? Hotel chains, worried about competition from Airbnb , are rolling out these and other special experiences for their best rewards customers. Marriott’s master class program currently offers a chance to skipper an America’s Cup yacht in San Diego, and past offerings have included a clinic with an NBA star and golf lessons with a hall of famer.

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Growing a Grassroots Customer Experience Effort with EVP Anne Witherspoon

Customer Bliss

Episode Overview. In today’s show with Anne Witherspoon, we learn that sometimes implementing customer experience efforts has to start as a grassroots engagement across the organization. We discuss the skills and approach you need to build a customer experience program and its baseline foundation. Plus, Anne shares the strategy and game plan that helped her succeed in this role.

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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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Companies ignore the post-purchase experience at their peril

Alida

The post-purchase experience is mediocre at best for most consumers, and it’s a missed opportunity for your brand. The CMO Council’s recent report , Elevate What Consumers Appreciate , found that while most brands identify enhancing the product ownership experience as a key differentiator, there’s a significant gap in their efforts to take advantage of post-purchase revenue, profit and relationship-building opportunities.

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Big Banks: What Are They Hiding?

Beyond Philosophy

Big banks have proven yet again that they cannot be trusted to do what is best for the consumer. And this time, the U.S. Senate agrees that they don’t have to! Last week, the Senate voted to repeal a rule that banned most mandatory arbitration clauses in credit card agreements, checking account agreements, car loans, and many other types of consumer banking transactions.

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How OpenX Builds Trust to Scale The Business

Customer Bliss

The following post is an excerpt from my book: Chief Customer Officer 2.0. Below, I share a “My Rock, My Story” snippet – which is one of many featured throughout the book. These stories come from CCOs who have faced numerous challenges, yet persevered in pushing their metaphorical “rock up the hill” by uniting their leadership teams, working through challenges, and ultimately achieving success in doing so.

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What Halloween Has Taught Me About Customer Experience

InMoment XI

Halloween night 2007 was the perfect Halloween. I was old enough to go trick or treating without an adult, but young enough to not have my neighbors wonder why I was still asking for candy. My younger siblings were in bed being too little to join in on the candy collecting festivities of the evening. View Article.

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Everything You Need to Learn About Live Chat Tracking

ProProfs Chat

Customer service is no less than a battleground these days, owing to the rise in customer expectations. Going on the lines of “You Miss, I hit”, competitors can steal your customers in seconds, even if their product is not as promising as yours. In fact, 7 out of 10 Americans won’t mind switching services for better customer service as the American Express report suggests.

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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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Customer Service Training: When you’re done… you’re not done!

ShepHyken

It happens all the time. As a customer, you interact with good people who don’t seem to deliver great customer service. They are nice, even knowledgeable, but they don’t seem to be what I call customer focused. So, I took a few minutes to talk to several people about how they were trained. I talked to a retail salesperson, a flight attendant, and a server at a restaurant.

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Infusing Live Chat Support with Your Brand’s Personal Touch

Kayako

A few weeks ago, my cable bill came and it was more than I expected. I tried to figure out why, but eventually I needed to chat with the service team of a certain notorious cable company. I thought live chat would be the easiest way to get information on the extra charges. It wasn’t. Impersonal, inattentive, and inefficient – a study in all the things that customer service shouldn’t be.

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Missing Customer Feedback? 9 Tips for Effectively Promoting Your Customer Satisfaction Survey

Comm100

It was a Friday afternoon and Rodrigo, my Uber ride, was pulling up in a black Chevrolet Onix. Like the other times I had used the controversial cab service , I popped him a smile and a casual greeting as I swung into the back seat of his car. “Candy?” Rodrigo offered me as he started driving. He nodded towards the cup holder, which held at least ten colorful lozenges.

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Actionability of Customer Experience Intelligence

ClearAction

Actionability of Customer Experience Intelligence Lynn Hunsaker. Do intelligence and actionability go hand-in-hand? The basic difference between data and intelligence is this: data are facts, and intelligence is the arrangement of data to convey meaning. In other words, intelligence is a capacity for applying a combination of facts. Customer experience intelligence, then, is a capacity to apply facts about what customers perceive, with the aim of improving their experience.

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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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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of October 30 2017

ShepHyken

Each week I read a number of customer service articles from various online 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. 4 Steps to Enhancing the Customer Experience with Social Media by Alison Zeringue. (Marketing Land) Social media marketing isn’t just about winning followers.

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Small is the New Big: Customer Experience Excellence One Opportunity at a Time

Michelli Experience

His name is Adolpho Kamisky and though he is not someone I’d heard about in history classes, he truly is a larger than life hero of World War II. From my vantage point, Adolpho has a lot to teach us about the impact we can have on our team members and customers. Beyond the Stereotype. When I typically think of a War II hero, I think of Audie Murphy, one of the most decorated combat soldiers from that conflict.

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The Low-Cost Way to Transform Your Customer Experience

Stella Connect

For retailers looking to shake up the customer experience status quo, Columbus, Ohio is the place to be. The New York Times refers to Columbus as the “Silicon Valley” of retail—a hub of innovation where brands test flashy, far-out concept stores in expansive retail environments. It’s exciting to see leading brands break the mold in such grand fashion.

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Customer Experience Handoff Silos are the Heart of Success

ClearAction

Customer Experience Handoff Silos are the Heart of Success Lynn Hunsaker. One of the most profound discoveries from customer experience journey mapping is interdependencies across data, systems, channels, processes and people. Customers experience our companies horizontally. Accordingly, smooth handoffs between departments can make all the difference in poor versus great customer experience.

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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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Guest Blog: How Your Competitors can Improve Your Customer Service

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Gemma Baker that shares three areas that your organization should examine during your regular competitor analysis. One key is to always deliver value to your customers to keep them coming back. – Shep Hyken. Does it seem like your competitors have an advantage over you when it comes to attracting new customers? Or that too many customers are dissatisfied with your service?

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Distributing B2B Customer Success Stories: 5 Tips To Maximize Reach And ROI

Influitive

Now that you’ve sourced a pool of amazing customers with stories to tell (see my post on 4 steps to sourcing amazing customer success stories) and have helped them create user-generated content (UGC) that’s sure to attract a ton of highly qualified leads, next comes content distribution. Often, we’re so spent from creating that we.

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Best Practice Number One: Start Your Self-Service Transformation Project with the Right Approach

NICE inContact

You’ve invested a significant amount of time and energy to hire highly skilled contact center agents, and you’ve invested a lot of money in the technology they use to handle calls/inquiries, so what is missing? Why aren’t you seeing the results you’d like in the customer experience space? If your efforts aren’t optimally performing, it may be time to jumpstart a self-service transformation project in your contact center.

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Is Operations Involved in Customer Experience?

ClearAction

Is Operations Involved in Customer Experience? Lynn Hunsaker. How would you like to reduce customer churn by 27%, increase Net Promoter Score TM by 65%, and outperform competitors by 20% in sales, purchasing, ordering, installation, billing, service inquiry, maintenance and account management processes? This progress was achieved by engaging employees company-wide in coordinating customer-focused improvements across Operations, Marketing, Service and other functional areas.

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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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On Self, The Customer & Leadership Blog, and Cultivating Loyalty With Employees, Partners, and Customers

Maz Iqbal

Cancer, the impending arrival of death for my friend and later myself, concentrates one (at least me) on that which matters. Today’s conversation is around that which has been unconcealed for me: about myself and the purpose/contribution of this blog. So now is the time to leave if this is not the conversation for you. … Continue reading "On Self, The Customer & Leadership Blog, and Cultivating Loyalty With Employees, Partners, and Customers".

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How to Find Your Customer Experience Metric

Lumoa

We talk every day with companies of different sizes operating in different industries. Most of them measure customer experience with some widely used metric – most commonly Net Promoter Score. But there are still some companies who don’t measure customer experience at all. These companies can be of any size. Many of them are B2B companies but some of them are B2C companies.

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Best Practice Number One: Start Your Self-Service Transformation Project with the Right Approach

NICE inContact

You’ve invested a significant amount of time and energy to hire highly skilled contact center agents, and you’ve invested a lot of money in the technology they use to handle calls/inquiries, so what is missing? Why aren’t you seeing the results you’d like in the customer experience space? If your efforts aren’t optimally performing, it may be time to jumpstart a self-service transformation project in your contact center.

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How Enterprises can use Chatbots to Enhance Customer Experiences

Avaya

At the recent Monage Conference , where Jeff Pulver invited me to speak, I talked about chatbots and shared how they can transform customer experiences for large enterprises. It was a perfect topic for the mix of customers and entrepreneurial chatbot developers in attendance. I highlighted how Avaya is extending our reach in contact centers with chatbot and artificial intelligence technologies.

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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.