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5 Epic Employee Engagement Issues You Never Noticed

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Highly-engaged employees will deliver better experiences to your customers, leading to increased loyalty, more referrals, and more business overall. Yippee! However, employee engagement is emotional and often hinged on the very last experience an employee might have – with his or her manager, with co-workers, with an angry client, or even with you. These simple moments add […].

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5 Ways to Improve B2B Customer Engagement Through Omnichannel Tactics

Customer Bliss

Guest Post by Robert C. Johnson: Robert is co-founder and CEO of TeamSupport.com , a cloud-based, B2B software application built to help customer-facing support teams serve clients better through stronger collaboration, superior teamwork, and faster issue resolution. Over the years, the B2B (business-to-business) industry hasn’t exactly taken to adopting the latest customer engagement technology as quickly as its B2C (business to consumer) counterparts.

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Generation Z statistics: New report on the values, attitudes and behaviors of the post-Millennials

Alida

Generation Z, the cohort born between 1996 and 2010, is ready for the spotlight. Finally escaping the shadows of the generations before them, many Gen Zers are now entering the workforce. As a result, their spending power, currently valued at $44 billion , is growing every day. Also known as Gen Z, iGeneration (iGen) or Net Gen, this cohort is massive and influential.

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Thirty Drivers of Value Perceptions, or Why Customers Love Your Company

InMoment XI

Customers love a company because they perceive value in their interactions with its people, products, and services. As customer experience (CX) professionals, we usually measure this sense of value with the Net Promoter Score®, or NPS®, which is a nominal indication of how likely the customer is to recommend the company to another person, and.

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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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Another Amazing Mistake – Customers Revolt!

Beyond Philosophy

Toblerone fans got a nasty surprise when they bought their favorite treat recently. The chocolate bar got a makeover, losing volume and a noticeable gap between the triangles. Customers noticed the change, but not in a good way. Toblerone, a chocolate bar known for its triangular shape and unique packaging, reduced the size of their 170-gram (Almost 6 oz.) candy bar to 150 (5.291).

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20 Customer Experience Influencers to Follow in 2017

CustomerGauge

2017 is already knocking on the door, so we thought it would be useful for our readers out there to know who are some of the top customer experience influencers they can follow in the upcoming year. Through our work we have a daily exposure to these thought leaders and always enjoy learning about best […]. The post 20 Customer Experience Influencers to Follow in 2017 appeared first on CustomerGauge.

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Save Your Customer Service Team from Vampire Customers

Customers That Stick

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The Most Important Career Development Tip You Can Receive (Or Give)

Michel Falcon Experience

In this short video, I share the career development tip I used as an employee that helped me get promoted five times in five years. Whether you’re a business person, athlete or artist, this tip has proven to work time and time again. Hint : Derek Jeter and Beyonce make an appearance in the video (sort of). And, I filmed it at an iconic Canadian landmark.

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How smart brands measure customer intelligence ROI

Alida

In our e-book The 10 Smartest Brands: How They Use the Competitive Advantage of Customer Intelligence , we reveal how companies like D E WALT, LinkedIn and Salomon engage with customers to make better marketing, customer experience and product innovation decisions. These companies understand that the more they know their customers, and the more they engage with them, the greater the benefits of customer intelligence.

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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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Improve the Experience by Asking the Impossible Questions

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Asking questions without limitations can lead to a better experience for your customers. The post Improve the Experience by Asking the Impossible Questions appeared first on Customer Experience Consulting.

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Achieve Stellar Customer Service with the Aloha Principle

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Hawaiians have a reputation for delivering stellar customer service. They seem to always maintain a genuinely warm and friendly manner when dealing with their clients, making it virtually impossible to feel dissatisfied even after experiencing some sort of service failure. The secret may be that they have a sunny outlook on life that comes from living […].

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10 Ways to Get Actionable Feedback from Customers (part 2)

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Asking customers for feedback is generally easy, but asking questions that spark action is not. And every customer’s journey is different, so why ask every customer the same old questions? Neat piles of similar responses look pretty in reports, but there’s only so much action you can take from there. When you tailor your questions for […].

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Increasing member engagement: 4 effective strategies for online community growth

Alida

Online communities are now an important tool in gaining ongoing customer feedback and insight. In particular, insight communities —private, online communities made up of carefully selected groups of customers who develop long-term relationships with brands—are now used by hundreds of customer-centric global brands. To get the most business value out of your online communities, you must work to keep members engaged.

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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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5 Customer Feedback Hacks: Going Beyond the Surveys

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

You want to create experiences customers will want to return to. It’s no sectet that learning what customers really want and need is a key component to this! But while asking a few basic questions in a monthly survey might help, it’s not enough to help you really understand your customers’ needs. For feedback that informs you on how to […].

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Digital storytelling: The unabashed power in CX

Customer Bliss

Digital storytelling is crucial in customer experience. Before we get deep into digital storytelling and how to maximize your processes around it, let’s briefly set up why storytelling as a whole — and especially digital storytelling — is important in the current business climate. The importance of digital storytelling. Here’s a Wharton interview with Carmine Gallo , the author of a book called The Storyteller’s Secret.

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The fundamental flaw in customer journey mapping—and how to fix it

Alida

A customer journey map is a simple idea that has become overly complicated. At its core, a customer journey map tells the story of a customer’s experience. It begins at initial contact, develops with engagement and forms a long-term relationship between a brand and its customers. It identifies key interactions and defines the various feelings, motivations and expectations that a customer might have at each touchpoint.

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3 Ways You Are Ruining Your Customer’s Day

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Your organization might be well-meaning but still ruining your customer’s day. The mission at 360Connext is simple, but we believe it’s important: We’re on a mission to create fewer ruined days for customers. I started using this as our mission when I created the company in 2009. And I believe it’s still an important goals […].

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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 Customer Experience Quotes You Need To Know

Customer Bliss

In the course of working with different companies throughout my career, I’ve found that leaders focused on serving customers’ lives as a way to grow their business often begin with an uncommon attitude. This attitude, in turn, leads to uncommon behaviors that build beloved companies. In the process, when these leaders speak and give interviews, they produce some amazing customer experience quotes.

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3 Reasons Your Brain Won’t Let You See the True Customer Experience

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

We’re giving our brains a real workout when dealing with customers. We do our best to see the experience from the their perspective, to empathize with their issue and find the best solution, and simultaneously use processes and procedures to move the interaction to its next logical step. We use our own lens to view the experience while trying to […].

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How To Become The Head Of Customer Experience

Customer Bliss

There has been much talk in recent years about a C-Suite role for head of customer experience, or CCO — Chief Customer Officer. Even B2B brands, which traditionally focuses on sales rather than organic customer growth, are starting to adopt this head of customer experience role in droves. But how does someone become a head of customer experience?

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3 Ways Customers are Tracking Brands (and Judging YOURS!)

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Customers are tracking brands and how they how they interact with customers. And they’re giving their friends all the dirt they find on your brand! They’re sharing information like who to contact to get things done, and when’s the best time to call and actually get an answer. They may not contact you directly about it, […]. The post 3 Ways Customers are Tracking Brands (and Judging YOURS!

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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

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Customer Delight: Do the Math!

Customer Bliss

Guest Post by Thomas A. Stewart and Patricia O’Connell, authors of Woo, Wow, and Win: Service Design, Strategy, and the Art of Customer Delight. SURPRISE AND DELIGHT. “Surprise and delight” has become a mantra for customer experience. We say forget about surprising customers – just delight them. We know that’s counterintuitive. Indeed, Wikipedia’s definition of customer delight is “surprising a customer by exceeding his or her expectations and thus creating a positive emotional reaction.

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Beyond a single number: How to add context to your Net Promoter Score

Alida

Many smart companies use Net Promoter Score (NPS) to measure how well they’re meeting the needs and expectations of their customers. Enterprise messaging software company Slack, for instance, treats NPS as a leading indicator of growth, using it to improve its interactions with customers and prospects. Bill Macaitis, CMO of Slack, explains , “The larger the number of advocates for product, the lower the customer acquisition costs for the company, and the more effective customer success team will

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Blending Customer Success and Customer Experience, With Dayton Semerjian – CB31

Customer Bliss

Episode Overview. Dayton Semerjian was a Chief Marketing Officer four times. Because his ultimate goal was moving towards a CEO role, he shifted a bit — and ran a $600 million P&L and then a $2.5 billion P&L for CA Technologies. Then took on his current roleL General Manager, Global Customer Success and Support at CA Technologies. In our discussion we explored his very deliberate path toward taking on these new roles — and how his operational experience prepared him to be su

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A 4-Step Plan For New Chief Customer Officers, With Donna Peeples – CB29

Customer Bliss

Episode Overview. Donna Peeples was the Chief Customer Officer at AIG — obviously a large company. Now she holds the same role at Pypestream , an enterprise mobile messaging platform. Pypestream is a much smaller company than AIG, currently existing in startup mode. But according to Donna, her role — and the steps she progresses through — are/were the same in both contexts.

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How Intent Data Helps Marketers Convert A-List Accounts

One of the biggest challenges for any B2B marketer is understanding your prospects’ next move — who is most likely to buy and when. Without these insights, marketing campaigns can feel more like guesswork, with high investment and little return. We’re here to tell you there’s a better way. By tracking buyers’ digital footprints and online activity, such as website visits, product reviews, and spikes in content consumption, you can engage prospects with a message that really resonates.