InMoment XI
MARCH 21, 2022
Customer experience (CX) leaders from utilities brands are facing unprecedented challenges in 2022. Increased government regulation and new market entrants with unique service-based offerings are creating a disruptive wave of change that traditional utilities need to respond to. But here at InMoment, we don’t like to merely dwell on obstacles and complexities.
BlueOcean
MARCH 24, 2022
When it comes to complex B2C customer care, the customer is anything but a faceless number in a sea of consumers. These are real people with real lives that inform their expectations and define their needs with every shift and change of the world around them. B2C brands had their worlds turned upside down by the pandemic, but what does complex customer care look like now things are leveling out?
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Alida
MARCH 24, 2022
Only one in 26 customers are likely to complain about the product or service issues they are facing on their own. The rest will gradually become unhappy and leave your company without you ever getting a chance to learn what went wrong or how you could address the issue.
PeopleMetrics
MARCH 25, 2022
Customer advisory boards (CABs) can be a powerful tool in your organization's arsenal. They can help you better guide your customer experience strategy , prepare for product launches, learn more about your audience—essentially any goal or initiative that would benefit from direct customer insight. But what are customer advisory boards? How do they work?
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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.
InMoment XI
MARCH 23, 2022
The news media has been rife this last year or so with stories of The Great Resignation—an unprecedented tidal wave of job market churn that has seen millions upon millions of employees quit their jobs. As with most topics related to employment and the economy, the finger-pointing over who and/or what’s behind this phenomenon has been incessant… and loud.
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CSM Magazine
MARCH 24, 2022
In retail, the customer is king. It is common knowledge that the retail industry thrives on positive customer interactions and feedback, so when reviewing the ways in which organizations can grow and remain competitive in their field, it is vital to craft plans that revolve around optimizing the customer experience. For retail business, the customer journey extends far beyond the initial sales engagement.
Heart of the Customer
MARCH 22, 2022
After decades of steady improvement, coinciding with the emergence of customer experience (CX) as a discipline, the America Customer Satisfaction Index now reports that customer satisfaction has been on the decline since 2019, erasing years of gains. This despite organizations focusing on and investing more in CX than ever before. SuperOffice’s survey of 1,920 business […].
ChurnZero
MARCH 22, 2022
Nowadays, marketers are hyper-aware of the importance of the customer journey and creating an intuitive user experience. In most cases, however, there are still plenty of opportunities to streamline the process and reduce customer friction. . Customer friction points are any obstacles that stand between the customer and what they want — think clunky checkout processes, complicated phone menus, or any steps that feel extra and unnecessary.
Daniel Group
MARCH 23, 2022
Three Tips to Fire Up Your Customers to be Your Best Sales Force! At The Daniel Group, we are learning more and more about referral activity in the B2B world, and we now have three tips to help you increase your referral activity and fire up your customers to become your best sales force. My own Google research revealed that there are about 25 times more resources to “fire up your B2B sales force” (3.2 billion results) than there are for getting “getting referrals in B2B sales&
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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.
CSM Magazine
MARCH 22, 2022
The rise of automation in customer service has become more prominent within many industries. But along with the positives and time saving tasks it can provide, it can also prove to be a deterrent for its users. How many times have you needed to contact a company and struggled to find the correct department or even just a central phone number? Did you try to go though a chatbot to quickly find an answer to your question only to be directed to the FAQs, articles, or a customer forum?
One Millimeter Mindset
MARCH 23, 2022
There is a great professional recalibration going on. Are you experiencing it? If not, you should be. Let’s explore together, shall we? By now, you are reading plenty about the Great Post-Pandemic Resignation. This phenomenon primarily is a response to employer mandates focused on a 100% return to the office, ending many pandemic-based initiatives. Plus, some of you tell me that your employer has moved headquarters.
Kustomer
MARCH 23, 2022
In a crowded marketplace, where consumers are often bombarded with marketing claims made by brands, it can be difficult for them to know who to trust. In these situations, many turn to their peers for recommendations or advice. Recent research carried out by Kantar found friends and family to be the most trusted source of recommendations in all age groups.
Totango
MARCH 24, 2022
We were thrilled to bring back our in-person Global Executive Forum last week and have the opportunity to host customer success leaders at the beautiful Carmel Valley Ranch in Carmel Valley, CA. It was refreshing to reconnect with our customers and peers in the customer success community and inspire businesses across the globe with purposeful presentations and product demonstrations, meaningful conversations and fun social interactions. “ It was one of the more productive gatherings I’ve a
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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TechSee
MARCH 24, 2022
Well, not literally. It’s an expression used when employees, especially leadership, actually use their own products or services the same way a customer would. Here at TechSee we regularly eat dog food for quality assurance, but also because it’s fun and we really like using our products. We recently held our annual Sales Kick-Off all-hands meeting. Like so many companies today, we were unable to meet in person as we would have preferred, but we still managed to get a lot of work done and have a
ChurnZero
MARCH 25, 2022
Have you ever dealt with onboarding a new CSM to your team or having a tenured CSM leave your team — or both at once? It’s in these situations, you wish you could just hit pause until you sort it all out. But alas, time — and customer accounts — waits for no one. The show must go on. Figuring out how to shift around a CSM’s book of business is a delicate balancing act, and one of the most challenging Customer Success processes to get right.
ShepHyken
MARCH 23, 2022
I recently received a note from my friend and Shepard Letter subscriber, Michael Staenberg. He commented on the recent Never, Never, Never Be Late article and sent a list of what he referred to as Things that Require Zero Talent. At the top of the list was being on time. . I’ve seen lists like this before. They include being on time, having a good work ethic and a positive attitude, doing more than expected, and more. .
Lumoa
MARCH 24, 2022
Setting survey response rate benchmarks can help you assess the performance and overall growth of your customer experience management (CEM) system. While benchmarking is a common process in many companies, the exact steps and data collected need to be adjusted to each organization’s requirements. If this process isn’t tailored to your company, you’ll set inaccurate survey response rate benchmarks and compromise all future evaluations.
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.
Middlesex Consulting
MARCH 23, 2022
The current labor market and gig workers As a result of both the Silver Tsunami (older workers retiring) and the Great Resignation (employees quitting in large numbers), most field service teams have many unfilled jobs. Service leaders depend on two solutions to the problem; third-party service companies and independent gig workers. Both solutions can solve […].
Joe Rawlinson
MARCH 20, 2022
Ecommerce personalization is the process of tailoring a customer’s online shopping experience to their individual preferences. This can be done by collecting data about the customer’s browsing history, purchase history, contact information, and then using that data to create a profile for the customer. Once the profile is created, the ecommerce platform can use it to personalize the customer’s experience by displaying different content, recommendations, and prices depending on
ShepHyken
MARCH 25, 2022
This week we feature an article by Anjan Pathak, Co-founder and CTO at Vantage Circle , an Employee Engagement Platform. He shares how rewarding your customer experience team is critical to building an inspired, high-performing team. Your brand’s name will eventually suffer if you don’t have a strong core team handling customer inquiries, keeping them pleased.
Bill Quiseng
MARCH 23, 2022
“People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.” Samuel Johnson. In the 1980s TV police drama series, Sgt. Phil Esterhaus, portrayed by Michael Conrad, cautioned his officers at the end of roll call with “Let’s be careful out there” When I was GM at The Henry Dearborn-Autograph Collection, Dearborn, MI, one of our senior sales managers ended their daily morning stand-up meeting with “Let’s be safe out there” But I told them
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SAP Customer Experience
MARCH 24, 2022
Customer experience is key to improving your bottom line. Today, customers have become accustomed to and have grown to expect a seamless, user friendly experience with agility and flexibility on any mobile device anywhere at any time. The better the experience, the stronger the loyalty, therefore, it is important to.
Playvox
MARCH 21, 2022
If the labor shortage has left your contact center scrambling for staff, you might have overlooked a potential goldmine of knowledgeable, eager future team members: retirees. According to research by Goldman Sachs , five million people have left the workforce since the beginning of the pandemic, and most were over age 55 (3.4 million). Researchers say 1.5 million of those older-worker exits were early retirements.
Zeisler Consulting
MARCH 23, 2022
I wrote a while back about how a big-box home improvement retailer made it less convenient for military folks to receive their in-store discount, while saying the purpose was to make it more so for us. My original comment was that, gee, it’s interesting, it seems, that every hassle I go through somehow or another always ends up benefitting them (by, for example, making their marketing to me more streamlined…again, for them ).
ShepHyken
MARCH 21, 2022
Each week I read many 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. 15 Stats About Post-Covid Customer Service by Blake Morgan. (Forbes) As the pandemic starts to subside and the dust starts to settle, companies can move from survival mode to preparing for the future and adjusting to changes and trends in the post-Covid world.
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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.
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