Customer Bliss

APRIL 24, 2018

This is the 100th episode of the Chief Customer Officer Human Duct Tape Show , and I have YOU to thank for it! I’m sending a huge, heartfelt thank you to all of the podcast guests I’ve interviewed since the launch of this podcast back in 2016. And of course, thank you to the listeners who support this show and tune in to hear all of the wonderful CX insights, lessons, and tactics discussed.

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InMoment XI

APRIL 24, 2018

Part One: Aligning Your CX Program CX industry continues to face a very real business challenge: unifying the corporate CX strategy with the onsite, day-to-day customer interaction. Too often, customers experience uncoordinated CX touch points, which creates an appearance of disorganization for your business. In part one of this CX governance series, you will learn.

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TechSee

APRIL 24, 2018

What is unboxing and why is it an important focus for brands? Product unboxing goes way beyond the simple act of unpacking a new device. It is an integral part of the installation, activation and operation of a newly purchased electronic device. With a growing number of DIY enthusiasts purchasing consumer electronics, this type of hands-on guidance is in high demand.

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Lumoa

APRIL 24, 2018

The Net Promoter System® (or NPS) has been a popular customer experience metric since its creation in 2003. NPS is used by the biggest companies and leaders in its industries: from Apple to Airbnb, from Amazon to Tesla. At the same time, NPS is often a subject of critics and misunderstanding. In doubts, I wanted to reach out to the thought leaders and influencers to know what they think of NPS, or rather, according to the best traditions of NPS, if they would recommend NPS to a fellow CX colleag

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Customer Bliss

APRIL 27, 2018

Spring is finally here, and you know what that means… spring cleaning! Just like that full-to-the-brim closet you’ve been ignoring, the customer listening data you’ve collected can pile up until it’s more a nuisance than it is informative. By this point, you have no idea what it really contains. Let’s talk about de-cluttering your customer listening!

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Joe Rawlinson

APRIL 25, 2018

Companies are always looking for new ways to streamline their customer support department efforts. This doesn’t strike us as a surprise. Markets worldwide are becoming more volatile and saturated as we speak, and providing excellent customer support is important for business success. In order to keep customers returning and keep that competitive edge, businesses have to use the latest software to deliver profound care.

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Michel Falcon Experience

APRIL 27, 2018

People-First Culture™: Build a business your employees and customers will admire. Customer experience, employee engagement, company culture and leadership are all extremely important factors in building an admired company/brand. The People-First Culture™ is a combination of all of these factors to assist businesses on the going down the path of becoming that admired brand in the eyes of both their employees and their customers.

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Alida

APRIL 27, 2018

Last week, 120 experience leaders in innovation, insights, customer operations and digital transformation gathered for the Chief Customer Officer Summit at the Park Hyatt Melbourne to discuss the state of customer experience (CX). The standout theme across the sessions was one that is human and real: build better empathy with people. According to many of the speakers, creating empathy within your organization for employees and customers will guide you on a path to create better customer experien

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Customer Guru

APRIL 24, 2018

What should customers do to claim great customer experience from any business? All this while we have been talking about how companies can improve customer experience. I believe customers play an important role in ensuring they have a great experience; after all, they are the most important stakeholder in it. Organisations expend substantial efforts to deliver and improve exceptional customer experience.

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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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Oracle

APRIL 26, 2018

At Modern Customer Experience 2018, I was up to my eyeballs with fantastic CX insights and exciting innovations. Here are three of my top takeaways. 1. Use artificial intelligence to cycle contacts through engagement channels. Katrina Leaf, the Global Marketing Automation Manager at Fluke, covered how to improve pipeline engagement through artificial intelligence (AI) platforms.

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ProProfs Chat

APRIL 24, 2018

People Helping People is a Great Job! Customer support is the most crucial aspect of determining the success of any business. Earning customer loyalty is a tough nut to crack. And, going gets tougher if a company doesn’t have a right team in place to manage the customers. The support team plays a pivotal role to ensure that you are ahead of the competitors.

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Alida

APRIL 26, 2018

According to CMO.com way, back in 2016, 63% percent of CEOs saw rallying their organizations around the customer as one of the top three investment priorities for the year. Today, customer centricity, or some notion thereof, has become the strategic posture of almost every profitable company in existence. But—and this is an MC Hammer big but—at last year’s Customer Intelligence Summit , Rick Parrish, Forrester principal analyst servicing customer experience professionals, shared results of a stu

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ShepHyken

APRIL 27, 2018

This week we feature an article by Seema Nair who writes about the importance of tailoring your e-commerce site to give your customers the best experience. The best customer service is invisible. It just happens. – Shep Hyken. Building an e-commerce site is just the first step of a successful e-commerce journey. An e-commerce site always needs to be tweaked and fine-tuned to align with ever-evolving business needs and customer expectations.

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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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ReviewTrackers

APRIL 23, 2018

Is there a way to remove or delete a Google review? It’s a question that we here at ReviewTrackers have been asked numerous times, by customers and readers alike. And it’s a question that’s typically asked with some measure of frustration: after all, if you’re managing a business, a negative review on Google can blemish your online reputation , especially if the review stands out in a search result for your business on Google.

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CX University

APRIL 26, 2018

Self-organizing models of governance, like holacracy, are comprehensive approaches to structuring and running businesses. They replace the top-down hegemonic system most enterprises still use, replacing the traditional schema with a new way of distributing real authority that instills adaptiveness and employee engagement in the fabric of an organization.

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Pointillist

APRIL 26, 2018

By Swati Sahai. As per the ‘State of Customer Experience in 2018’ survey , one of the biggest roadblocks to delivering exceptional customer experience is dealing with customer data. Around one in three respondents highlight a lack of single customer view and real-time customer insights as something holding them back from CX optimization , making it the most frequently experienced customer experience challenge.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 23, 2018

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 Secret To Superior Customer Experience by Denise Lee Yohn. (Forbes) It’s no surprise that greater employee engagement leads to better customer experience (CX).

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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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Experience Matters

APRIL 26, 2018

Do you want to examine experiences through the eyes of your customers? I’m happy to announce that we’ve just released online training to help you use on of our tools, the SLICE-B Experience Review Guide. We’ve used it in our research and consulting, taught it within some of our workshops, and now we’ve made it even easier for people to use on their own.

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Second to None

APRIL 26, 2018

Understanding the way that employees are performing on the frontlines can serve as a difference maker for brands hoping to create a leading Customer Experience platform. This group of service employees has a huge impact on consumers’ perception of your organization, and can either help create more brand ambassadors , or leave a toxic taste in the mouths of your customers.

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Oracle

APRIL 23, 2018

At Modern Customer Experience 2018, Shashi Seth, Senior Vice President of Oracle Marketing Cloud, announced that Infinity has been added to Oracle Marketing Cloud as its new real-time data analytics and customer intelligence platform. How do modern data analytics technologies help today’s marketer get ahead? Here are 3 ways to use modern data analytics and customer intelligence technologies to fuel marketing programs. 1.

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Myra Golden

APRIL 26, 2018

Last week I facilitated a team building workshop for one of my favorite clients. Typically, I only deliver training on customer service, but my client had a special request. My client explained that “We need to work together, make decisions together, and communicate according to the styles of each person. In essence, we need to build a strong cohesive team.”.

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Experience Matters

APRIL 24, 2018

Every organization makes some mistakes, so an important area of loyalty is the willingness of customers to forgive them. That’s why Temkin Group has been measuring forgiveness for eight years. This product is the dataset, in excel, for the 2018 Temkin Forgiveness Ratings (TFR).It uses feedback from 10,000 U.S. consumers to rate how likely consumers are to forgive 318 organizations across 20 industries after they make a mistake.

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Second to None

APRIL 24, 2018

The following article is a guest post submitted by Jim Rulison from Media Loop , an organization dedicated to helping brands reach more prospects, optimize their strategize and increase sales: If you are interested in submitting a guest post to the Second To None blog, please reach out to danielb@secondtonone.com with your idea. Now is the time to get on board the mobile marketing train.

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customer sure

APRIL 25, 2018

At CustomerSure, we spend every hour of every day talking to people about customer feedback. Sometimes, people tell us: Customer surveys don’t work! People hate receiving them! They have a point. On Planet Earth, in 2018, a lot of well-intentioned customer surveys are being sent. But good intentions don’t always translate to great results. If it’s your first time doing anything, you’re likely to make ‘rookie errors’ – and surveys are no different.

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Kayako

APRIL 25, 2018

Have you ever decided to step up from capturing photos on your smartphone to a dedicated DSLR camera? I bet the model you want comes with all the features you need, but also a bunch more that you don’t understand. For small teams, live chat is a similar proposition. Is the investment of time and effort going to work in our favor? Won’t customers be too demanding?

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