Mon.Apr 10, 2017

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Talk About Giving Someone The Suit Off Your Back!

Steve DiGioia

yes, he really did this. This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. Here’s one of the best examples of how to create customer loyalty that I have ever seen. It happened while I was working at the Hilton Newark Airport Hotel in 2003. We had a fantastic staff, happy employees and a robust business. One day there was a buzz that traveled all around the hotel.

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Pete Jones of Grypp Talks Sales and Service Platforms

CX Global Media

Does your customer journey go beyond the simple and routine? If you need more than just simple product descriptions and frequently asked questions to make a sale and service customers are your people properly equipped? Delivering a great customer experience is not possible even if you have the most modern communication platform. More sophisticated sales and service interactions require the support of additional assets.

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5 Qualities of Great Customer Service Managers

Customers That Stick

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Stop Trying to Eliminate Customer Effort

Sampson Lee

Deploying Customer Effort Score could be destructive under two conditions: using CES as a key metric for your critical touch-point experiences, and, your brand value is not about effortless. It would generate three negative consequences: Drive a disremembered experience. Damage your brand loyalty. Reduce customers’ pleasure. The Original Application Boundary of CES – Service In […].

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Reimagine Your Communications With A Unified Platform

Cut complexity and boost efficiency while empowering your customers with Nextiva's unified communications platform. Nextiva streamlines workflows and centralizes customer interactions, all while simplifying business collaboration, increasing productivity, and reducing employee burnout.

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Focusing Your Brand Strategy with Marketing Surveys

GetFeedback

The top questions to ask when developing a brand positioning strategy—and few ways marketing surveys can help you answer them.

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FCR in an Omni-Channel World (whitepaper)

DMG Consulting

FCR in an Omni-Channel World (whitepaper). 3/15/2017. By Donna Fluss. Introduction. First contact resolution (FCR) is an essential key performance indicator (KPI) for contact centers because it measures the department’s effectiveness by determining if the agent fully resolved or addressed the customer’s issue during the first contact. Since customers typically want a resolution as quickly as possible and enterprises want to reduce the number of contacts, FCR is also a great indicator of customer

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ChatBots are the Future of Customer Service

Uniphore

5 Proof Points. Today, artificial intelligence is one of the fastest growing technologies within IT operations. Already in 2014, the global artificial intelligence market was valued at about $126 Billion, and that number is expected to reach around $3 Trillion by 2024, which means it is growing at a rate of about 36% a year, according to a report from Transparency Market Research.

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Customer Retention Tactics to Keep Customers Coming Back

LiveChat

Do you remember your first sale? Of course you do. You remember the hard work you put into finding the perfect customer. You remember the hoops you jumped through to get them to convert. You remember the elation you felt after they agreed to buy from you. And you remember feeling annoyed once you realized you’d have to do it all over again each time a new prospect hit your radar.

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Are Your Back-Office Operations in the Dark Ages?

Verint

Is your organization still plagued with operational silos? Are you chained to outdated legacy systems? Is meeting customer demand and expectations the focus of just the front office, or your entire company? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then likely your operations are living in the dark ages.

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The Verint Experience Index: Retail

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

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of April 10, 2017

ShepHyken

Each week I read a number of customer service articles from various online 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. Improving Customer Experience Through Customer Data by Daniel Newman. (Forbes) By using advanced analytics, companies can make better use of their customer and user experiences, leading to higher satisfaction — and loyalty — in the long term.

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Putting Customer Pain Points at the Centre of Your New Product

Amity

Every marketplace has its gaps or customer pain points. Any new entrant to a market will have to scour the market for existing gaps and attempt to fill them with their business. As marketplaces evolve, so do the shape and size of these gaps. New entrants need to be aware of where they exist, how it affects the consumer and how to resolve it with their business.

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Reality Check: Will Customer Journey Analytics Be the Next CRM?

DMG Consulting

Thank you for your interest in DMG Consulting’s publications. Please complete the registration form below. First Name * Last Name Email Address *. Monthly DMG Newsletter. I would like to receive the monthly DMG Newsletter. Email This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Close. Reality Check: Will Customer Journey Analytics Be the Next CRM?

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How to Turn Customers into Your Promoters

PeopleMetrics

Too many businesses put all their efforts towards optimizing their sales funnels and forget about what comes after a customer makes a purchase. The sale is the beginning of your customer relationship, not its culmination. Continuing to build the relationship can turn a customer from a one-time buyer to a true fan and promoter of your business. Promoters are more likely to share their positive opinions about your business, either by writing reviews or defending your company against criticism.

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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.