Beyond Philosophy
JANUARY 8, 2018
I am apprehensive about my industry. Having worked in Customer Experience since 2002, I may be too much of a purist. However, for a while now, I have been writing about the decline and dilution of the discipline of Customer Experience. From changing titles but not behavior to a poor understanding of what customers want, the trends are troublesome. My concerns only grow as we roll into 2018.
ShepHyken
JANUARY 8, 2018
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. Industry Experts Offer Up 2018 Predictions on Retail Customer Experience by Judy Mottl. (Retail Customer Experience) As the new year arrives, it’s a great time to look ahead at what’s to come from those in the trenches.
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Myra Golden Media
JANUARY 8, 2018
This is you. Confident and Prepared. So, my 14-year son old got contact lenses for the first time last week. He’s struggling to get the contacts in. Every morning Warren comes downstairs to my bathroom so I can help him with his technique. More than once he’s said, “I freakin’ hate contacts!” He even asked me to hold his upper eyelid up and steady for him.
Steve DiGioia
JANUARY 8, 2018
This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. Do you reach out on social media to the businesses you purchase from? If not, why not? Your Facebook or Twitter account provides an opportunity to let them know how happy you are with their product – or not! So, how do you tell if your favorite brand monitors social media? Many of you have read an earlier post of mine where I told the story of when Zappos, very unexpectedly, sent me a tweet in response to a conversation I had with a friend in a
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Myra Golden Media
JANUARY 8, 2018
Here’s what our current customers tell us are the three most fantastic things about our customer service eLearning. We show our three best features in this short video. 1. Custom website and branding. When your employees log in to their training, it feels like they are taking the training within your company because we give you a unique URL and upload your logo. 2.
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360Connext
JANUARY 8, 2018
Customer experience repair and improvement can be completely overwhelming! There are so many areas to tackle. Those surveys don’t develop and send themselves. Then you simply must understand the journey by undertaking a robust customer journey mapping process. And of course, don’t forget to educate the executives and employees throughout your organization!
Amity
JANUARY 8, 2018
New Year’s, a time to symbolically start over. A time to right the wrongs of the past years, start fresh, and resolve to do better with whatever perceived shortcomings we have. But with most New Year’s resolutions, the excitement wears off around January 5th. At the first sight of cake or a mimosa, our resolutions easily become a distant memory.
VocalCom
JANUARY 8, 2018
Live chat is a perfect channel for every aspect of the customer experience. When customers are searching for product information or need help with checkout, live chat can provide the immediate assistance they need. However, as with any channel, it’s important for brands to personalize the experience and communicate in a manner that best fits the channel.
West
JANUARY 8, 2018
Despite your best intentions, things don’t always go according to plan. Those moments threaten the brand image you’ve worked hard to create, making a good incident response plan crucial. But an incident response plan helps in more than emergencies, like power outages and natural disasters. All kinds of unexpected events cause stress for your customers.
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Reports of the death of in-store shopping have been greatly exaggerated. This year’s retail survey found that more than 60 percent of consumers start and end their journey by visiting a store. Retail customers value price above everything, but the importance of other factors varies for different brands. In-store shopping is valued highly by grocery and home improvement customers Technology retail customers place less importance on in-store experiences – for them it only ranks sixth Digital exper
Contact Center Geek
JANUARY 8, 2018
This article originally appeared on ICMI.com. Happy New Year! The new year often brings new candidates to the job market, so if you're taking advantage of that like I am, here are three tips to improve your contact center’s recruiting and hiring efforts. If you’re not doing them now, feel free to consider them New Year’s Resolutions. Resolution Number One: Track Every Candidate Throughout the Entire Hiring Process Whatever your interview process is like, track the source of every new candidate a
Strategic Contact
JANUARY 8, 2018
In late 2017, we conducted our third annual challenges and priorities survey. Each year we tweak the list based on what we see happening in the market and what we learn from the previous year. We retain substantial consistency so we can identify changes and trends. Participants could select three of each, with no ranking.
DMG Consulting
JANUARY 8, 2018
Apocalyptic Predictions and the Contact Center . Every few years the soothsayers among us predict global trends that are either totally alarmist or too good to be true. Here are some of my favorites from the past few decades: The world is running out of oil – started in the 1970’s. New age sensibility and meditation will bring world peace – circa 1970’s.
Customer Experience Matters
JANUARY 8, 2018
We just published a Temkin Group report, Lessons in CX Excellence, 2018. The report provides insights from six winners in the Temkin Group’s 2017 CX Excellence Awards. The report, which has more than 70 pages of content, includes an appendix with the finalists’ nomination forms. This report has rich insights about both B2B and B2C customer experience.
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.
DMG Consulting
JANUARY 8, 2018
Question: How can we improve our contact center coaching? Answer: In recent years, coaching has evolved from a monthly one-on-one session between a supervisor and an agent/representative into an ongoing dialog and two-way exchange of data. Coaching can include a wide range of functions facilitated by numerous contact center and workforce optimization (WFO) applications.
Verint
JANUARY 8, 2018
Verint’s Ryan Hollenbeck, senior vice president, global marketing, recently spoke with Saddletree Research’s Paul Stockford for Contact Center Pipeline about the major trends in customer engagement for 2018. More than ever, the customer engagement center has become a focal point for automation and shared intelligence. Advanced automation capabilities are helping leading brands modernize critical and historically high-touch areas of their businesses.
Call Center Weekly
JANUARY 8, 2018
By Michele Crocker First, let me say, automation and new cloud based technology can take your customer support and contact center to the next level. It can do things for your support experience that we "pink squishy humans" can't do. Automation allows you to provide a greater degree of customer responsiveness than a fully human process can do. The benefits of automation in your customer support operation include: Ensuring the right human is alerted of issues, to proactively prevent service failu
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