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MARCH 20, 2019

If you make a survey online without giving it much thought, you’ll find that your customers won’t care for it either. In fact, they’ll probably abandon your survey halfway through or avoid taking it altogether. This reaction to poor surveys is called survey fatigue. It’s not uncommon, and chances are you’ve experienced it yourself at least once. The old school, 20-question survey is no longer acceptable — customers value their time too much.

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Customer Journey Mapping Net Promoter Score Customer Journey Touchpoint 255

CloudCherry

MARCH 19, 2019

“Firms will continue to regard CX as a collection of continuous improvement projects until they see an irrefutable, directly attributable connection to returns.” – Forrester, Hardwire Customer Experience 2018. This is the challenge that every CX leader needs to overcome. In order to prove their value to the company, secure the budget and buy-in they need to make changes, CX leaders must demonstrate an “irrefutable” connection to business metrics.

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Financial Metrics Customer Journey Mapping NPS 218

Customer Bliss

MARCH 21, 2019

“Don’t look at yourself, look at your customer. Be sure you have your customer in mind when you create something. Be sure it’s customer-focused, not self-focused,” says Horst Schulze , Founder, Chairman & CEO of the Capella Hotel Group, and Co-founder & Former COO of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co. Do you know what it takes to be a high-quality leader?

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Hotels Employee Experience Leadership Magazine 192

TechSee

MARCH 19, 2019

Once upon a time, measuring customer service success was straightforward. Hire some agents, train them, and use standard contact center KPIs to measure how well they perform. No longer. Modern contact centers are made up of a complex combination of humans and virtual assistants – using both natural and artificial intelligence – operating over multiple channels and using a wide range of tools to solve customers’ issues.

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Metrics Contact Center Virtual Agent Net Promoter Score 146

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MARCH 20, 2019

The customer voice, also known as Voice of the Customer (VoC) , is at the core of any successful customer experience (CX) program. It refers to the customers’ needs, wants, and expectations as it pertains to a company’s products or services. A customer voice program focuses on capturing the expectations, likes, and dislikes of your customers. You do this by gathering and analyzing customer insights and identifying trends and strategies to improve customer experience.

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Customer Voice Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity Competitive Advantage 210

Retently

MARCH 18, 2019

Does your company retain its customers or take them for granted? Customer retention is one of the most important aspects of growing your company, yet it’s one that many companies overlook, focusing more on acquiring new customers. Given that, it’s 6 times more expensive to attract new customers than to keep existing ones – the ignorance shall turn costly.

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Net Promoter Score NPS Customer Retention Loyalty 133

ShepHyken

MARCH 22, 2019

This week we feature an article by John Boccuzzi Jr. who argues that digital transformation is bringing customer experience to an entirely different level. – Shep Hyken. If you had walked into a bank, clothing store or small local grocer 50 years ago, you likely would have found the manager or even the owner greeting you at the door, and the clerks may have called you by name and asked after your spouse and children.

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Blog Customer Experience User Experience Customers 116

GetFeedback

MARCH 21, 2019

So you’ve decided to use an NPS (Net Promoter Score) survey to improve your brand’s customer experience (CX). You’ve decided on the distribution channels and the interactions that will trigger the survey. You’ve also made a spiffy design to present the survey, showcasing the care you put into asking the NPS question. Finally, you’ve sent out the survey and you’ve sorted your respondents into Promoters, Passives, and Detractors.

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NPS Customer Journey Net Promoter Score Social Media 186

InMoment XI

MARCH 21, 2019

Engaging Customers with Video Many brands are now choosing to tell their stories through video, and it’s not surprising to see why. 90% of customers say video helps them make buying decisions and 64% of customers say that seeing a video makes them more likely to buy (Forbes). Consumers want and expect video content to. View Article.

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Article Consumers Customers Brands 150

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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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Heart of the Customer

MARCH 21, 2019

Editor’s Note: As we get ready for our book launch in May, we’re previewing the major topics. You can read more about our book at www.HowHardIsIttoBeYourCustomer.com. What differentiates a mapping program that drives action from one that doesn’t? A major factor is the reason for doing journey mapping in the first place. We can confidently […].

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Books Customer Journey Mapping Customer Journey Customer Centricity 107

ShepHyken

MARCH 19, 2019

Habits for Success. Fostering Good Customer Service Habits to Make Your Business Stand Out. Shep Hyken interviews Mark Copeman. They discuss his new book, Helpdesk Habits , which teaches employees how to turn good customer service practices into routine habits. They also talk about the importance of humanity within the employee and customer experience.

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Books Reference Loyalty Customer Service 112

GetFeedback

MARCH 22, 2019

While being a customer-centric company is key for delivering great customer experience , you can’t forget about the employee experience. After all, happy employees result in happy customers. To identify the happiness level of your employees, you should use job satisfaction surveys. But before we dig into the two most popular surveys related to job satisfaction, let’s take a look at the current state of employee satisfaction, the benefits of satisfied team members, and the and the influence that

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Competitive Advantage Measurement Engagement Employee Experience 186

Experience Matters

MARCH 20, 2019

As you think about your experience management (XM) efforts, it’s important to understand how people flow through the experiences in their lives — as customers, employees, patients, fans, citizens, students, etc. To help deepen that understanding, I’ve created a simple model, the Human Experience Cycle (HxC). As you can see in the chart below, the HxC is made up of five elements: Expectations: What a person anticipates will happen during an experience.

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Interaction Management Customers Customer Experience 133

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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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Upstream Works

MARCH 21, 2019

When we speak of Customer Experience (CX) and strategies for improving it, we need to clearly define the inherent business value. Establishing customer trust and loyalty is the single most important aspect of customer experience, according to the Dimension Data 2019 Global Customer Experience Benchmarking Report. The report also identifies speed of resolution, agent knowledge and ease of contact as key factors which foster that trust and loyalty.

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Customer Experience Management Customer Experience Management Omnichannel 92

ShepHyken

MARCH 20, 2019

Not long ago, I wrote an article that featured Todd Hopkins, CEO of Office Pride, and his concept of core values being a decision filter. I had the chance to interview him for Amazing Business Radio and he dropped another big concept on us that’s worth bringing to our followers. He talked about an agreement he makes with all his new customers and employees, an upfront agreement tied to future communication.

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Communication Culture Customer Service Training Article 118

GetFeedback

MARCH 21, 2019

So you’ve decided to use an NPS (Net Promoter Score®) survey to improve your brand’s customer experience (CX). You’ve decided on.

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Net Promoter Score NPS Customer Journey Customers 150

Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 22, 2019

How to Manage Uncertainty. My team is the Luton Town Football Club. I heard the manager say about the team that you have to control the controllable. I quite like that phrase and I believe it is the key to managing uncertainty in your business for your customers. Now, he didn’t come up with the phrase. It’s a well-used epithet by many coaching organizations—and not just for football. <!

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Management Consulting Loyalty Customer Experience 96

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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Totango

MARCH 21, 2019

Realizing lifetime value from your customers is about generating lifetime value for your customers. That’s the central tenant of the customer success approach to business. It represents a shift away from thinking of customers as point-of-sale pursuits and toward regarding them as ongoing relationships that require continuous nurturing. . It reflects the current customer-centered economy that has encouraged customer fluidity and placed greater emphasis on the customer experience.

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Customer Success 2019 2020 ROI 87

ShepHyken

MARCH 18, 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. 1 0 Tips to Build a Customer Centric Work Culture by Vandita Grover. (MarTech Advisor) We list 10 customer experience (CX) tips that will establish customer centricity as the core philosophy of your organization and help create a customer-focused environment across yo

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2019 Article Net Promoter Score Customer Service 94

GetFeedback

MARCH 20, 2019

The customer voice is at the core of any successful customer experience (CX) program. Here's how to measure customer voice.

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Customer Voice Measurement Customers Customer Experience 150

ProProfs Chat

MARCH 18, 2019

Imagine this: You wish to buy a new set of black jeans. But a busy schedule is all you get to see. That’s when you plan to resort to the world of online shopping. As you start your search for the perfect black jeans, a plethora of options leave you confused. However, you decide to settle with two websites that provide a pair of black jeans as per your needs.

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E Commerce E-support Sales Brands 87

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Second to None

MARCH 20, 2019

As the world becomes more digitized, the internet’s influence continues to infiltrate all industries. With the proliferation of digital social platforms, there is a perpetual need to monitor the conversation around your company online. A slew of unaddressed negative reviews can result in major financial loss, making the tedious task of online reputation management (ORM) a necessary process in the success of your business.

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Social Media Brands Customer Centricity Voice of Customer 86

Survicate

MARCH 20, 2019

Voice of the Customer – a buzzword that’s shaken the marketing world in recent years like no other. We all aspire to put customers in the spotlight, but how do we ensure our efforts are truly effective ? We’ve asked CEOs and Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success leaders to share their experiences with establishing customer-centrism across the entire organization.

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Customer Centricity Social Media Insurance NPS 85

Experience Matters

MARCH 22, 2019

I just spent two days in Miami with a great group of executives who are part of the SAP CX Client Advisory Board. One of their presentations described the company’s technology transformation, and included a stream of activity around “decomplexing.” I loved seeing that! Complexity ends up oozing its way into all types of experiences.

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Presentation Technology Brands Customers 114

Eptica

MARCH 21, 2019

Date: Thursday, March 21, 2019 Author: Olivier Njamfa - CEO & Co-Founder How does CX impact brand trust? Published on: March 21, 2019. Author: Olivier Njamfa - CEO & Co-Founder Trust is central to any brand’s relationship with its customers. 9 out of 10 consumers will change supplier if they lose trust in a company – nearly half of them immediately - according to the newly published 2019 Eptica Digital Trust study.

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Brands 2019 Insurance Fashion 80

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