Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 26, 2021

What Does Customer Research Mean to You? When you hear the term customer research , what comes to mind? Most organizations have a Voice of the Customer (or VoC) program; maybe that’s the first thing you think of. Voice of the Customer programs help organizations keep a finger on the pulse of how they’re meeting customer needs , with VoC data revealing how customers feel about the brand, their experience, and specific interactions and touchpoints at scale.

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eglobalis

JANUARY 27, 2021

Customer Experience and Adoption The Impact of Technology Change Requests. The post Customer Experience and Adoption: The Impact of Technology Change Requests appeared first on Eglobalis.

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TechSee

JANUARY 26, 2021

The times they are a-changin’ World-wide changes have upended the best-laid plans and expert forecasts. Challenged by continuing uncertainty and perhaps uncharted territory, it has never been harder to predict what lies ahead in the world of consumer trends and customer service. Service leaders are facing the implications of the pandemic in a triple whammy of a changing employee work environment, evolving customer expectations, and the economic/operational impact of the coronavirus pandem

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Customer Bliss

JANUARY 28, 2021

Today’s guest post is from Donald Hicks , a Silicon Valley tech executive, industry thought leader, consumer experience architect, and operations veteran whom I had the pleasure of interviewing recently. Donald was a guest on the live-streaming video version of my podcast ( click here to view it on LinkedIn ). Be sure to subscribe here to get this episode delivered straight to your inbox in a few weeks when it airs.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 25, 2021

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. “I Wish the CEO Would Try and Open This F@#!* Package” by Chip Bell. (Real Leaders) The title of this story is a line we use at my house when a product or service is unusually challenging.

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GetFeedback

JANUARY 26, 2021

How Carrefour relies on Voice of the Customer to continuously improve CX and strengthen its customer-centricity.

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One Millimeter Mindset

JANUARY 28, 2021

The first month of 2021 is nearly completed. I don’t know about you. However, to me, it felt like the month’s progress was a tug-of-war. What a stop-start entry into the new year. So let’s get going, shall we? Because you and I have lots of work to do this year. And even more to accomplish together. Our focus is change: you either are open to change or you just do not want to deal with it.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 26, 2021

The Reality of Offensive Customer Behavior. How to Protect Employees While Preserving the Customer Experience. Shep Hyken interviews Eric Williamson, Chief Marketing Officer of CallMiner. They discuss offensive customer behavior and how companies can help support their agents. Top Takeaways: Certain insights from AI and data can be brought down to the call center to help agents improve the customer experience in real time.

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Russel Lolacher

JANUARY 25, 2021

Are you taking the necessary approach to build customer trust? . “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” – Warren Buffett. Trust is essential in any good and great relationship. The reason – it’s considered in every aspect of it, that includes the relationship your organization has with its customers.

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The DiJulius Group

JANUARY 27, 2021

It is the Service Stupid | How one company increased profit by $400k a month by improving customer experience 4 Quick Tips to Help you Make Price Irrelevant 1. It is the Service Stupid A small number of companies have now redefined what customers expect from brands. In short, the most successful companies in the. Read Full Article. The post Want to Know the Secret?

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BirdEye

JANUARY 27, 2021

One of the most important responsibilities for any property manager is to effectively communicate with their tenants in order to create a long-lasting relationship. The concept of maintaining good communication with tenants may seem simple enough to consistently execute. Yet when you’re managing multiple properties in different locations with thousands of tenants, consistency can be somewhat challenging, to say the least.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 27, 2021

I was recently asked what three traits I think are most important for someone in customer service to have. I’d like to broaden the topic to anyone dealing with someone else’s problem or question, be it a customer or another person inside the organization, also known as an inside customer. My response to the question was quick: Empathy , which I have chosen as The Word of the Year.

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Inbenta

JANUARY 25, 2021

Any friction in a customer’s journey can make or break customers’ loyalty and have an impact on potential revenue. Luckily, technology keeps on adapting to help deliver tools that can make customer experience (CX) a truly seamless experience for companies and consumers. So what are the trends that will shape CX in 2021 that organizations need to know in order to win customers’ business?

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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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MyCustomer

JANUARY 26, 2021

Engagement How to prove CX ROI without mentioning money.

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Zeisler Consulting

JANUARY 25, 2021

Can I start a controversial article being completely un controversial? Thanks. Here goes: Good employee engagement is an absolute requirement in order to drive good CX.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 29, 2021

This week we feature an article from babelforce, a global cloud communications platform. They provide some tips and tricks to set your business up for success in the contact center. Daunting as it may appear, keeping your customers happy is an attainable goal — when you put your mind to it. Following best practices and applying hacks has proven fruitful for a lot of contact centers.

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SurveySparrow

JANUARY 26, 2021

The first day at a new job happens to be one of the most memorable yet stressful ones in an employee’s career. They have gone through the job-hunting process, perfecting their resumes, attending a multitude of interviews and finally, they have landed a job at your company! It is quite natural that they would be feeling a little anxious on the day of joining and the new hires would be having a thousand questions running through their minds as they first walk into their new office.

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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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Totango

JANUARY 26, 2021

Being proactive about churn prevention provides an antidote to customer attrition. Utilizing technology makes it one of the easiest ways to keep more customers. Read on to learn what churn is, how an attrition analysis can help you pinpoint why you’re losing customers, and what steps you can take to prevent customer churn. What Is Churn Rate and How Does It Relate to Customer Retention?

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Kerry Bodine

JANUARY 27, 2021

Never in my life have I witnessed so many people collectively anticipate the turn of a calendar page. Yet many of the challenges from 2020 still remain. And, at least here in the United States, we’ve ushered in the new year with political turmoil that almost guarantees the year ahead will give 2020 a run for its money. Still, the turnover to a new year brings with it a sense of optimism.

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Eptica

JANUARY 29, 2021

Date: Friday, January 29, 2021 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager How to pick the right contact centre technology for your business. Published on: January 29, 2021. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Successfully delivering high-quality customer service starts with having the right technology infrastructure in place.

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Zeisler Consulting

JANUARY 28, 2021

Dear Customer: Thank you for your recent feedback. We always enjoy taking the time to better understand where we fall short of expectations as it offers us the opportunity to do something we love to do: Improve how we serve our Customers. As such, your insights and thoughts are incredibly valuable to us.

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One Millimeter Mindset

JANUARY 26, 2021

What role do you take during meetings? Will you be the first person to collaborate? Or do you tend to dominate team meetings? More importantly, how do your instincts and actions enhance or impede not only the rest of your team’s mindset? But also their subsequent actions as well as project outcomes. Does your team think it is time for an intervention, together?

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 23, 2021

We recently spoke to Customer Experience experts who shared an interesting insight. They all say they wish people understood that there was no one thing to do, no silver-bullet-solution for Customer Experience. We couldn’t agree more. We believe that the best way to improve Customer Experiences is to do a lot of little things that add up to significant improvements.

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Totango

JANUARY 29, 2021

When your product directly helps your customers achieve their goals, your brand wins their loyalty. Playbooks for customer success managers help drive processes that promote winning client outcomes. Building automation into playbooks helps the customer success team produce repeatable, winning results for clients at every stage in their customer journey.

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Integrity Solutions

JANUARY 28, 2021

It’s important to understand what it’s really going to cost you when you lose a sales rep — and what steps you can take to minimize your turnover rates. Every sales leader can relate to that pit-in-the-stomach feeling when a star sales rep says they’re moving on. There goes the talent, the institutional knowledge, the continuity of relationships, the momentum.

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