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The complete methodology to improve CX in Banking [Infographic]

CloudCherry

The modern-day banking customer has evolved over the years. The dawn of the Digital Age has not only made it easier for customers to engage with banking institutions but also given them more choices. Customers are also more aware today. They’re looking for unique and delightful experiences. Experiences that make them want to keep going back to the same company.

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Can you transform angry customers into loyal ones?

Alida

An angry customer is still a customer—until they’re not. That’s why it’s important to keep your cool when concerned customers reach out to your brand, especially in the age of social media, where a misstep can go viral quickly. Keeping a level head can de-escalate the immediate issue, while also cementing existing loyalty and even transforming a consumer who might be new to your brand into a regular.

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Lead with Purpose; IKEA Founder Ingvar Kamprad Leaves Behind a CX Legacy

Customer Bliss

Ingvar Kamprad, Founder of IKEA , recently passed away in Sweden, leaving quite a legend behind him. IKEA, the beloved furniture store not just for Americans, but for people all over the world, first came to the United States in the 1980s , slowly revolutionizing the way consumers shop for furniture and household items. . IKEA is a company that knows its purpose, understands its customers, and provides value and consistency.

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The Customer Service Gap

ShepHyken

I’ve written about the customer service gap before. The first version referred to the gap between you and your competitors. You want the gap to be wide. It means you are putting yourself further ahead of your competition and picking up market share. The second version of the gap focused on narrowing the distance between you and your customers. The closer you are to your customers, and the more you are meeting their needs, the narrower the gap is between you and your customer.

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3 Ways Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Can Improve Customer Experience

Today’s digitally savvy customers have high expectations of retailers for convenience, responsiveness, and ease of doing business both in-store and online. Our recent survey of over 2,000 US consumers found that retailers that can drive a seamless, omnichannel customer experience (CX) – across physical and digital channels – have huge benefits for brand relevance, profitability, and customer loyalty.

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Defining Brands with The Kind of Customer Experience They Deliver: An Exclusive Interview with Mr. Viraj Verma, Marketing and Strategic Alliances Head, PVR BluO

Customer Guru

At Customer Guru, we believe that Customer Experience (CX) should be the number one priority for all the Indian businesses so that they become more sustainable and successful globally. Thus, we have started the initiative of sharing a series of interviews with top-notch CX experts in India to spread this awareness. Our guest for this week is Mr. Viraj Verma, a leading CX enthusiast in India.

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Why Understanding Clients Tone of Voice Is Key to Good Customer Service

ProProfs Chat

The quality of customer experience a business provides generally goes a long way towards determining how successful that business is. A major reason as to why companies invest so heavily in things like customer service training programmes, and why they put so much effort into handling feedback, queries, and complaints. With that being said, one aspect of delivering high-quality customer service, that is sometimes undervalued, involves understanding the tone of clients and using this to shape a r

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of January 29, 2018

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. Customer Service Report 2018 by Olga Kolodynska, Justyna Polaczyk, Malgorzata Buksinska and Lukasz Labedzki. (LiveChat) The report contains key customer service findings from 2017 and trends for 2018.

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Pioneering Customer Experience in Healthcare at Cleveland Clinic

Customer Bliss

Being empathetic and engaged are core parts of the patient and caregiver experience at Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Adrienne Boissy , a neurologist and the leader of the patient, caregiver, and family experience at Cleveland Clinic, shares the path to embedding customer experience into a healthcare organization. We talk about the importance of putting patients first, and what it takes to sustain the philosophy, mindset, and operational priorities to keep this work going.

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Emotions: The Key to Increasing NPS in Brick-and-Mortar Businesses

ServiceDock

I recently visited an outlet of a multinational department store where the emergency exit was in use due to some maintenance being done on an escalator. I was delighted to see the above blackboard covering an entire wall in what would normally be a staff only area. This kind of initiative is commendable and no doubt it has helped the brand build its reputation for being very customer-centric.

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Manual Call Reviews? There's a Better Way!

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? 🤔 If so, this webinar is for you! What was once a common practice in the call center is now a barrier to success. Manual call monitoring is no longer an option if you want to proactively coach your agents to ultimately improve the customer experience using data-driven insights. Join this webinar with Angie Kronlage and April Wiita of Working Solutions to discuss how you can modernize outdated, manual call review processes through the power of autom

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4 Parts of a Winning Customer Engagement Strategy

UJET

A solid customer engagement strategy, when done well, increases reputation, customer satisfaction, and loyalty. After years in search of the perfect formula for building and maintaining successful customer relationships, we've uncovered a winning combination.

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Guest Blog: What Can We Learn from Southwest’s Customer Service?

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Misa Chien who shares great lessons we can learn from the Southwest Airlines customer culture. This also reminds us that customer service doesn’t just happen on the front line. It happens throughout the entire company. It must be part of the company’s culture. – Shep Hyken. What comes to mind when you think of a bachelorette party?

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How To Design (And Act On) Real-World Employee Surveys

Beyond Philosophy

Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D., CMC Thought Leadership Principal, Beyond Philosophy. Companies are fond of saying that employees are their most powerful resource, and in many ways – especially their influence on customer loyalty – that’s been well proven. But, to understand what factors leverage employee behavior, most organizations have historically relied on satisfaction and engagement surveys, typically conducted through HR.

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Understanding the Employer Journey — The Employee Engagement Loop

ijgolding

Last week I had a fascinating conversation with a peer of mine – a fellow Customer Experience Professional. James Dodkins is as passionate about transforming organisations to become sustainably customer centric as I am. Like me, James regularly comes across organisations who talk about ‘putting the customer first’ – a statement that is hard to immediately disagree with.

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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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How to Keep Your Customers Coming Back

UJET

In today's competitive marketplace, how can you encourage customers to stay loyal to your brand and products when there are so many choices available? You have to provide an outstanding product, of course, and it must be appropriately priced, but there are a lot of companies that can do that. What will set you apart and build brand loyalty, however, is your customer support.

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Amazing Business Radio: Jeffrey Shaw

ShepHyken

How Speaking Your Customer’s Lingo Makes You Irresistible. Shep Hyken Interviews Jeffrey Shaw, the LINGO Guy. What if you could speak your ideal customer’s language? . . ? <span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”>?

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3 Ways For Customers to Accept Estimates Online

Method:CRM

It’s no secret that organization is key to running a successful business. This is especially true when your company creates quotes or estimates in QuickBooks for prospective customers. After all, you can’t start the work if you don’t know whether the customer has accepted your estimate. Ideally, your customers should be able to quickly and easily accept estimates online.

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3 CX Innovations You Can Expect from Streaming Services in 2018

Oracle

With millions of subscribers across the world and a breadth of data at their fingertips, streaming companies have started to make CX innovations and optimizations for end users. The OTT (over-the-top) streaming market, defined by Digiday as delivery of film and TV content via the internet, without requiring users to subscribe to a traditional cable or satellite pay-TV service , is expected to balloon to $70.05 billion by 2021.

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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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8 Tips & Tricks From a Customer Success Expert

Amity

Maheen Memon is the Director of Customer Success at Nulogy. Throughout her career in Customer Success, she’s had the opportunity to try a couple of things and has picked up some life-saving best practices along the way. We invited Maheen to the Amity office to present at one of our monthly Customer Success events. Maheen dropped 8 nuggets of wisdom on us and we couldn’t not share them with you.

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How To Build A Strong Customer Centric Team

CSM Magazine

There is a big difference between appreciating the importance of customers within a business and creating a customer centric team. A company that values its customer’s business may set up a designated customer support team for complaints and feedback, but a customer centric company will put the needs of customers at the forefront of operations and ensure that all members of the team are on the same page.

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Advantages of Using Analytics in Customer Experience

Team HGS

Advantages of Using Analytics in Customer Experience. By Subramanya C, HGS Chief Technology Officer Analytics goes hand in hand with today’s optimized customer experience strategy. Analytics is a tool that can be used at every step of the customer journey—from assessing and benchmarking customer support to gauging the voice of your customer for actionable business and product decision making.

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Social Proof: A Powerful, but Underutilized, CX Tool

Heart of the Customer

A common concern I see among CX pros is a concern over customers who are making “bad” choices. Customers who aren’t making the best use of the company’s products or services. This problem exists across industries, both B2B and B2C. Some examples include: Business customers who underutilize their purchased software; Patients who don’t follow a […].

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What Does it REALLY Mean to Put CX First?

The 5 Essentials of a CX-First Platform Customer experience was once considered a soft metric, or a “nice to have.” But it is now a board-level priority for many brands. The experience you provide your customers is a defining way to differentiate your business from the competition. But how can you really make CX a priority when you have competing budget and resource constraints?

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Smarter Customer Experience Predictions for 2018

Oracle

SmarterCX.com’s Editor-in-Chief highlights a new customer experience predictions destination page, SmarterCX.com/Predictions. Following a record holiday season, 2018 is off to a fast start in the world of customer experience. According to the Washington Post , holiday 2017 saw the “strongest growth in retail sales since the end of the Great Recession” At NRF this past month – the National Retail Federation’s Retail’s Big Show conference – Brian Nagel, Managing Direc

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The “Feel, Felt, Found” Method for Empathy

Myra Golden

Today I’m going to show you how to use the Feel, Felt, Found method to express empathy to your customers. What’s great about the Feel, Felt, Found Method, is, it gives you the perfect response when you can’t give the customer exactly what they want. It helps you to be more relatable, and to foster a sense of connection with customers. The Feel, Felt, Found method is easy to use.

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5 Metrics that Prove On-Site Unique Visits are Required to Drive Conversion

ENGAGE.cx

Understanding ‘Who’s in My Store’ Unique Visits in a physical space is a nascent concept for most marketing organizations. Leaders are recognizing that insights found in this detailed data are what drive conversion and ultimately revenue. Fortunately, the concept of Unique Visits is not new, rather the means to observe it in a physical space has finally come of age.

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Contact Center Trends and Predictions 2018

CSM Magazine

The customer experience industry is changing at an unprecedented pace and businesses must prepare for dynamic developments throughout the coming year. Mandy Holford, director of customer service at leading contact center Echo-U, has highlighted the major trends shaping the industry in 2018 in order to help businesses to understand the current challenges and develop strategic plans to enhance customer experience. 1.

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX