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APRIL 18, 2019

With the rise of personalized customer servicing and user experience (UX) trends, customers are no longer satisfied with just a straightforward purchase. Whether you are a business with retail storefronts or a strictly digital company, the customer experience (CX) services you provide for your customers matter quite a bit. According to Great America , 70% of buying experiences revolve around the customer’s feelings and journey from a casual onlooker to a brand promoter.

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BlueOcean

APRIL 15, 2019

Admit it, you love it when you’re handed that Starbucks beverage with your name spelled neatly and correctly on the side. Maybe that’s where it all started: that innocent coffee cup with the green mermaid staring back at you. The trend of personalized customer experience has since transformed almost every industry as we know it. From the retail experience to social media connections to issue resolution via the contact center, customers want their individual needs known and reflected in the inter

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APRIL 16, 2019

This article features insights that were shared by Gillian Mackay, the Strategic Consulting Director at MaritzCX, and was originally published here. What is a Voice of the Customer Program? A Voice of Customer program refers to the process of capturing customer feedback so that a company can improve the customer experience (and consequently improve business.

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TechSee

APRIL 16, 2019

Many of us have worked in contact centers. It’s never been a particularly glamorous or well-paid job. And there’s now a serious talent shortage. Employers around the globe are facing the most severe recruitment crisis in 12 years, according to the latest Talent Shortage Survey , with 40% of companies surveyed reporting difficulties filling roles. Contact center agents want to work for employers who help them to develop and grow their careers – and they’re not afraid to leave if they&

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APRIL 16, 2019

Providing a solid customer experience (CX) can be incredibly hard for many companies. In an increasingly competitive global market, the experience that you provide to your customers is often the only thing that sets you apart from your competitors. Getting it just right is all about asking the right customer experience questions. You need to get to know your target audience by listening to what they have to say and then taking what you learn and putting those insights into action to make changes

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ShepHyken

APRIL 16, 2019

Lead with Loyalty with Guest Sandy Rogers. Enhancing the Customer Experience Through Emotional Engagement. Shep Hyken interviews Sandy Rogers. They discuss his new book, Leading Loyalty: Cracking the Code to Customer Devotion , and the importance of empathy, responsibility, and generosity in the customer experience. The Interview with Sandy Rogers: During Sandy’s tenure at Enterprise Rent-a-Car, the company focused on improving customer service to drive loyalty.

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Customer Bliss

APRIL 19, 2019

“The expectations of people, thanks to technology, are different. You want it now, you want it fast, you want good service, you want it with no friction,” says Fernando Machado, Global Chief Marketing Officer at Burger King, regarding the company’s transformation to improve its guest experience and meet customer needs. In this episode, Fernando, an extremely successful marketer who’s been featured in Adweek and Forbes , shares how he works closely with operations and the franchise owners t

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GetFeedback

APRIL 17, 2019

To relieve customers’ hard feelings about problems with some products or services, companies usually choose to improve the customer service skills of their agents. But does this work well? Not entirely, since to get to the point of using your agents’ skills, customers first need to contact your support. And they don’t always. In this article, we’ll discuss the key four reasons why some customers prefer to suffer silently and then leave you for your competitors.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 15, 2019

Defining and managing your customer service culture is a significant issue for many organizations. Today we share some important considerations for establishing your customer service culture as well as the best practices of the leading customer service organizations. We spoke with Marilyn Suttle, a conference speaker, and three-time best-selling author and coach, on a recent podcast.

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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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ShepHyken

APRIL 17, 2019

Last summer I played golf with a friend. At the end of the game, he had blisters. He didn’t play very often, and the golf clubs rubbed his skin raw. My hands were just fine. I’m fortunate to play several times a month and over time I’ve built up calluses that prevent those nasty blisters. It’s simple. The more a person plays, the thicker the calluses get, which immunizes people against blisters and pain.

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ProProfs Chat

APRIL 18, 2019

Customer service is the driving force for any business. You may have a great product, the best marketing team, but still, fail to reach out to your target audience and retain customers. What may be the reason? A bad customer experience. Did you know 32% of customers will walk away from a business after they have encountered a bad customer experience?

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GetFeedback

APRIL 16, 2019

With that in mind, here are the seven most important customer experience questions that you’ll want to ask your customers.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 19, 2019

Is Facial Recognition Creepy or Is It Just the Future? Technology can analyze people’s facial expressions and determine what emotion they feel. It’s called Facial Expression Analysis and it uses Facial Recognition technology. This technology presents the most authentic option for capturing data on customers’ emotions during your Customer Experience.

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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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ShepHyken

APRIL 15, 2019

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. 6 Customer Service Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them by Sam Del Rowe. (destinationCRM.com) Though the two terms are often used interchangeably, customer service and customer experience are not the same thing, Forrester Research asserts in a new report.

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ReviewTrackers

APRIL 18, 2019

Any restaurant is bound to receive criticism about its food at some point, which makes it important for restaurant marketers to know how to handle food complaints in their online reviews. According to a Corra survey – which uses a five-point scale to judge a consumer’s likeliness to complain – people complaining “when the food is bad at a restaurant” has an average score of 3.13 out of 5 points.

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GetFeedback

APRIL 15, 2019

There’s a lot that goes into planning an event, and I’m pretty sure that event survey questions are not at the top of your list. But they should be. Good event marketing is about more than simply hosting a conference or fundraiser. It’s about connecting with your audience and providing them with a meaningful experience that leaves them wanting more.

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ProProfs Chat

APRIL 19, 2019

Customer service is just a day in, day out, ongoing, never ending, unremitting, persevering, compassionate, type of activity. ~ Leon Gorman. It needs no mention that buyers love excellent customer service. Think about it, haven’t you returned to a company that treated you well and gave importance to your problems? When you provide such satisfying experiences to your customers, they keep you in mind and share their positive experiences with others.

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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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ShepHyken

APRIL 19, 2019

This week we feature an article by Georgina Nelson who explains her approach to collecting customer feedback that will help you provide a better customer experience. One of the biggest misconceptions about collecting customer feedback is the idea that asking more questions provides more of the insights you’re looking for. Through our work with retail businesses across the world, we’ve found that this couldn’t be further from the truth.

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Oracle

APRIL 19, 2019

Unforgettable is a customer experience education program, focused on delivering fresh content weekly to give business leaders what they need to succeed in a customer-driven, digitally-disrupted world. The program brings together the expert minds of Jay Baer , Shep Hyken , Jeanne Bliss , Ian Golding , and Blake Morgan to spotlight modern customer experience excellence.

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GetFeedback

APRIL 16, 2019

With that in mind, here are the seven most important customer experience questions that you’ll want to ask your customers.

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ProProfs Chat

APRIL 17, 2019

It takes 12 positive interactions to make up for 1 negative interaction with a customer. The worst part is, 33% of customers don’t even return after 1 negative experience. They are now served by your competitor. In short, customer support makes all the difference. One interesting thing to understand about customer service is that there is no such thing as “good” customer service.

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APRIL 18, 2019

Marketing strategies inevitably change over time–especially when that time covers the birth of social media, a slew of technological advances and the blossoming of a new generation. Cultural shifts have led to the adoption of new customer demands and values, pushing companies to evolve towards these changes. In an effort to reach customers in a way that resonates with the current standards, influencer marketing came into existence.

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McorpCX

APRIL 18, 2019

It’s human nature to fall in love with your solutions. it’s also one a common pitfall for business leaders, entrepreneurs and those responsible for improving customer experiences.

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GetFeedback

APRIL 18, 2019

Easy steps showing you how to design your website to be optimized for customer experience servicing and better support in general.

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C3Centricity

APRIL 17, 2019

Just like most entrepreneurs and business people, I go to my fair share of conferences. One that stays in my memory for many reasons, was an event I attended in San Jose, California. Some say California is the centre of internet marketing; the San Francisco area for technology and San Diego for marketing. I tend to agree after having recently attended events in both cities.

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