Sat.Jul 28, 2018 - Fri.Aug 03, 2018

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Are Point-of-Sale Surveys Pointless?

GetFeedback

The point of sale is an incredibly important time for retailers to engage their customers. However, most are stuck using outdated feedback methods (think receipt questionnaires and kiosk surveys) designed to collect mass feedback rather than reveal key customer experience issues. Generic and impersonal, these point-of-sale surveys do a poor job of uncovering meaningful insights.

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Promoting Mental and Physical Well-Being in Service Roles

CX Accelerator

Working in customer service or customer experience can take a massive toll on your physical and mental well-being. When combining the stress that comes with never-ending customer requests, pressure from all types of internal stakeholders, and the sometimes crippling weight of life outside of work, the result may be too much to bear. How can we create an environment that gives life instead of sucking it out of us?

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How to Avoid Hidden Disasters in Customer Experience Design

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Ever have a sneaking suspicion something just isn’t right, but you don’t know how to fix it? Is that happening with your organization’s customer experience design for service delivery? Lately, I’m seeing a lot of good intentions gone awry with customer experience. And a lot of leaders and followers defending the INTENTIONS of the design, instead of dealing with the reality of the situation.

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How Has CX Evolved and How Should it Impact Your Company’s Growth and Leadership?

Customer Bliss

“A very small increase in customer retention can yield a huge impact on profitability.” Today’s guest, Rob Markey , reminds us of this important concept which he attributes to Fred Reichheld — both of whom co-authored the book, The Ultimate Question 2.0, How Net Promoter Companies Thrive in a Customer-Driven World. Rob Markey is a partner at Bain & Company and leads the customer strategy and marketing practice.

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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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The 7 Deadly Survey Questions

GetFeedback

Have you ever sent a survey and realized, after the fact, that your questions were confusing or misleading? It happens to everyone at some point. And while bad survey questions aren’t the end of the world, they can easily muddy your data and derail your business decisions. Let’s take a look at the most common pitfalls and how you can avoid them.

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Are Your Customers About To Dump You?

Beyond Philosophy

I have had the same mobile (cell phone) company in the UK for around 25 years. However, I am about to leave them—and they don’t know it. With my imminent departure on the horizon, I wondered how do organizations avoid customer defection? It turns out that customers usually indicate they are going to leave, and you can see it in their habits. I see it happen all too often as a global Customer Experience consultant.

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26 Actionable Tips to Improve Your NPS Survey Response Rate

Retently

This article provides a list of actionable tips to improve your email survey response rates. Although it was written with Net Promoter Score© in mind, it is applicable to any customer satisfaction – CSAT, CES, regular multiple choice surveys, etc. Like every metric that depends on user-submitted data, NPS© gets more accurate as the audience size and survey response rate grows.

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Are Point-of-Sale Surveys Pointless?

GetFeedback

Retailers need more personalized methods for engaging their buyers. See why traditional point-of-sale surveys don't work for modern retailers.

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How to Avoid Hidden Disasters in Customer Experience Design

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Ever have a sneaking suspicion something just isn’t right, but you don’t know how to fix it? Is that happening with your organization’s customer experience design for service delivery? Lately, I’m seeing a lot of good intentions gone awry with customer experience. And a lot of leaders and followers defending the INTENTIONS of the design, instead of dealing with the reality of the situation.

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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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5 Technologies Helping B2C Field Services Meet Consumer Demands

TechSee

In today’s customer-centric marketplace, B2C field service (FS) organizations face growing expectations for quicker resolutions, shorter arrival times and a better overall customer experience. To ensure they meet these challenges, Gartner predicts that by 2021, more than 50% of B2C FS organizations will rely on applications or technologies from small field service management providers.

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Guest Blog: Good Customer Service is Essential for A Successful Business

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Eugene Aronsky who talks about good customer service versus bad customer service and how proper training and proper knowledge are key to answering any question that a customer may have. – Shep Hyken. “Good customer service is essential for a successful business.” This is a statement that is rarely disputed by most business owners.

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How NOT to survive in a disrupted world – the case study of UK retailer, FatFace

ijgolding

The word ‘disruption’ is one of the most commonly used with reference to business and commerce around the world today. It des not matter which industry your organisation is a part of, every traditional business is being challenged in ways they could never have imagined when they were founded – whether it be as long as one hundred years ago, or as recently as ten years ago.

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Humans + AI = Excellent Customer Experiences

Interactions

AUGUST 1, 2018 We’ve all had frustrating customer service experiences. Read more » The post Humans + AI = Excellent Customer Experiences appeared first on Interactions Resource Center.

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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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The Six Key Traits of Human Beings (Video)

Experience Matters

One of the most important – but often forgotten – elements of customer experience is that it’s all about human beings. Customers are human beings, employees are human beings, and executives are human beings. This video identifies six key characteristics to keep in mind whenever you’re dealing with all types of people. This video is a great introduction to a discussion with your team.

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Don’t Blame Me. I Just Work Here.

ShepHyken

I can’t make this “stuff” up. It really happened! The other night I was at a very nice – and very expensive – steakhouse restaurant. This place was top rated for their steaks and seafood. We all ordered a salad. As the server was setting down the salads, we noticed that one of the salads had a tiny portion of salad compared to the others. It was less than half the amount.

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3 Ways to Collect a More Genuine Customer Feedback

Provide Support

Genuine customer feedback creates opportunities for companies to earn more loyal customers, those who know that they can speak out about their problems and that they will be addressed. It also helps to: measure customer satisfaction. improve products and services. show that you value customers’ opinions. create the best customer experience. establish reliable source of information to other consumers. collect data that helps taking business decisions.

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3 Ways To Drive Adoption Right Now

Amity

It’s no secret that successful adoption plays a huge role in customer retention rates. As a CSM, improving product adoption should be a top priority for you in order to ensure your customers’ long-term success. Here are 3 proven methods you can use right now to encourage customers, both new and old, to use your product more effectively. Let's get started!

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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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How to Build a Successful Business Around Your Best Customers—Including the Ones Who Work for You

Answer Dash

Did you know that almost every business has the same first customer? It’s a fact. Although few entrepreneurs realize it, their first customer is their first employee, and this truth alone should make business leaders look at both sides of the customer service coin: External and internal customer service. And before I get into apps and strategies to keep both your internal and external customers relate with your devotion to serving them, I want to make one more important point: Not only are emplo

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Amazing Business Radio: Scott Walker

ShepHyken

Leveraging Customer Data In Real Time. Focusing on Business Intelligence and Customer Experience. Shep Hyken sits down with Scott Walker, the CEO of ethosIQ ,and discuss three levels of customer optimization, finding the correct customer service metrics to focus on, and why companies should give back to their communities. ? ?. Top Takeaways: Customers don’t mind staying on the phone longer if it means getting their problem solved on the first interaction.

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Introducing Unforgettable: New CX Education Program with Jay Baer, Shep Hyken, Jeanne Bliss, and Ian Golding

Oracle

Read this in 4 minutes Key takeaway: You’ll want to bookmark smartercx.com/unforgettable. Consumers are paying more attention to experience than ever, putting the pressure on customer experience (CX) professionals to deliver better and better experiences. Research from Walker finds that, by 2020, a majority of B2B buying decisions will be made based on CX, not price.

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Is NPS Just Another Question In Your Customer Feedback Survey? Oops!

Customer Guru

Written by Vivek Jaiswal | Co-founder, Customer Guru. Are you adding NPS as just another question in your customer satisfaction survey? Measuring NPS by asking the ‘Ultimate question’ is a good start, however, when an organisation sets out to implement it as a measure of customer loyalty, it should be especially wary of considering it as just another question in the feedback survey.

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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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5 best practices for crafting the perfect survey invitation email

SurveyGizmo

Why you should leverage survey invitation emails. Survey invitation emails are a lucrative way to get a statistically significant response rate when distributing your survey.  With the number of email users worldwide projected to rise to 2.9 billion by 2019, according to Statista — along with research by Litmus which tells us 72 percent of people prefer email over other channels of communication – integrating a process to optimize this distribution channel is proven to be wort

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Amazing Business Radio: Scott Walker

ShepHyken

Leveraging Customer Data In Real Time. Focusing on Business Intelligence and Customer Experience. Shep Hyken sits down with Scott Walker, the CEO of ethosIQ ,and discuss three levels of customer optimization, finding the correct customer service metrics to focus on, and why companies should give back to their communities. ? ?. Top Takeaways: Customers don’t mind staying on the phone longer if it means getting their problem solved on the first interaction.

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CX Social Improves Customer Service Through Messaging on WhatsApp

Clarabridge

Today we are thrilled to announce that Clarabridge is one of the first business solution providers for WhatsApp. Beginning with a limited availability roll out, selected brands using CX Social , our dedicated social media management product, can now extend their customer service by communicating with their consumers via WhatsApp messaging. This is a game changing development for companies that want to meet their customers where they are—on messaging platforms like WhatsApp—and in new ways that p

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How to Choose the Best Survey Touchpoint for a Banking CX Program

Centriam Customer Experience Lab

As you begin building a customer experience (CX) program, a common first step is gathering feedback from your customers. We’ve found that surveying customers about their interactions across major touchpoint is an easy place to start. We recently published a three step guide to starting a CX program based on this method. Download our Community Banking CX Blueprint here to get a jumpstart on your CX planning.

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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.