Beyond Philosophy
NOVEMBER 16, 2016
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).
ShepHyken
NOVEMBER 16, 2016
What is marketing? A quick Google search on the word marketing reveals this from the American Marketing Association (And, they should know!): Marketing is the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large. Great definition, but marketing has changed.
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Steve DiGioia
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. As a kid growing up in Brooklyn New York I spent countless hours with my best friend. We were neighbors and always together. Whether going to the movies, playing ball or doing other “kid stuff”, we had great times together. Moving forward many years I sat down today to write a new article on what makes great customer service.
Callminer
NOVEMBER 15, 2016
One can argue about the reasons why it is important, however what is ultimately an indisputable net result of employee unhappiness is disengaged employees.
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Win the Customer
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
Whether it’s Snapchat’s GeoFilters or Facebook’s 360 Photos, more businesses are finding that social media is one of the most powerful tools available today. Whatever industry you’re in, you simply must have a social media presence these days. For one, it offers an easier way to connect with customers and keep abreast of what’s happening in your marketplace.
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Contact Center Pipeline
NOVEMBER 17, 2016
Ernst & Young’s study, The Digitisation of Everything: How Organisations Must Adapt to Changing Consumer Behaviour, sheds some light on a key challenge that businesses face as they make the move toward digitizing customer service—the loss of control over the customer relationship. The communication and collaboration that takes place in the digital world is changing […].
CustomerGauge
NOVEMBER 18, 2016
So…you’ve surveyed your customer base and now you have a ton of feedback. How do you extract value from these comments? Or process all this data in a reasonable time frame? After you’ve done the foot work, sifting through all that data can feel like a daunting task. This is where text analytics comes into play. Text […]. The post NPS and Text Analytics—Customer Feedback Decoded appeared first on CustomerGauge.
ijgolding
NOVEMBER 15, 2016
Anyone who knows me will tell you that I love a good story. Storytelling is such a powerful way of bringing theories and concepts to life – if you are good at it, the use of stories as a way of inspiring others is second to none. Over the years, I have told a fair number of horror stories to help others learn about the importance of Customer Experience – to the customer, the employee and the shareholder.
ShepHyken
NOVEMBER 15, 2016
Matt Wilbanks on How to Provide. Better Social Media Customer Care. Shep speaks with Matt Wilbanks, CEO and co-founder of HelpSocial, about providing a better social customer care experience. Matt shares his past experiences as a member of Rackspace Hosting’s social customer care team and how these experiences helped him find the need to create HelpSocial.
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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 Pipeline
NOVEMBER 16, 2016
Many centers struggle to find the right frontline staff, and then suffer further when hirees don’t show up for training, quit during training, or quickly determine this job isn’t for them. The company invests significant time and money in the process with nothing but an FTE gap to show for it. Technology tools from vendors […].
Amity
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
Congratulations, you’re ready to hire a Customer Success Manager (CSM)! Many industry experts say it is never too soon to hire for customer success. Effective customer success is key to reducing churn and increasing MRR, so it’s vital the customer success manager you hire be the kind of rockstar who will lead your customer success team (and customers) to… well, success.
ijgolding
NOVEMBER 17, 2016
Ben Motteram ( BM ), Ian Golding ( IG ) and Karl Sharicz ( KS ) are three Customer Experience (CX) professionals living on three different continents, all members of the Customer Experience Professionals Association, ( CXPA ) and each possessing the passion and the tenacity to make a difference in the lives of people and businesses around the world through a disciplined approach to CX.
ShepHyken
NOVEMBER 18, 2016
This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Timi Garai, discusses the power of millennial moms and how to gain their loyalty. This article shares some powerful statistics that will make you sit up and take notice. – Shep Hyken . If you have any doubt why millennial moms are worth focusing on for your business’s growth, then here is a stat for reinforcement: the whole millennial demographic currently holds $2 trillion buying power globally.
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.
Contact Center Pipeline
NOVEMBER 15, 2016
In any contact center, an agent’s ability to communicate in an efficient, friendly manner has a considerable impact on the outcome of the call. Ensuring that agents are skilled and knowledgeable drives higher performance for the center and helps the organization to achieve its goals and objectives. Over the years, Tufts Medical Center’s contact center […].
Up Your Service
NOVEMBER 15, 2016
How can leaders effectively create a service culture transformation and ensure that all employees not only adopt, but also, embrace this change? Change can be disruptive and is often stressful. As a result, many people try to avoid it. And yet, change is part of organizational life: it is essential for progress and growth. It is inevitable. According to Everett Rogers’ book Diffusion of Innovations , leaders initiating change need to recognize that people respond differently to change.
Amity
NOVEMBER 18, 2016
Customer success managers (CSMs) are entrusted with retaining customers and optimizing their experience--a broad mandate that can look dramatically different between companies depending on industry, size, and culture. As the first customer success hire in a rapidly growing company, I’ve seen the role evolve and have learned through experience (and often hindsight) key practices to navigating the unique challenges of operating in a small, growing company.
Influitive
NOVEMBER 16, 2016
People just can’t stop talking about account-based marketing (ABM). With new technologies to help organizations scale, and a shifting focus on the customer experience, the age-old strategy of focusing your marketing efforts on a shortlist of your most desired accounts has suddenly become all the rage. And a new report shows us why. Account Based.
Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions
💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!
NICE inContact
NOVEMBER 17, 2016
Have you ever wondered what happens in your Contact Center when lightning strikes? No, this blog post is not about inContact Disaster Recovery (even though that would certainly also be an interesting topic). What we do want to share with you is a preview of what will happen in the Salesforce universe when Lightning strikes and why, contrary to the real world, you have good reason to actually WANT it to strike – the sooner, the better!
ForeSee
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
Many retailers are understandably curious as to how the election will affect consumer behavior heading into the winter holiday shopping season. As part of the 2016 ForeSee Experience Index (FXI), The post How the U.S. election will impact holiday shopping (Infographic) appeared first on ForeSee.
Amity
NOVEMBER 16, 2016
In my previous article, I covered how to hire your first Customer Success Manager. Now that you have “the one”, how do you get them up and running? Onboarding the first person into a new department can be challenging (almost as challenging as finding them). As someone who has successfully onboarded many individuals into new roles and departments, I am going to share a few tactical actions that really helped along the way.
Eptica
NOVEMBER 18, 2016
Date: Friday, November 18, 2016 Customer Experience - disrupt or be disrupted. Published on: November 18, 2016. Author: Olivier Njamfa Whatever market they are in, organizations face a stark choice – innovate across their operations and get closer to customers or lose market share to more agile, flexible rivals. The forthcoming Franco-British conference ‘Disrupt or Be Disrupted’ will look at the impact of this changing world and how companies of all sizes can understand and com
Dive into the realm of contact center dialers with our infographic! Explore the various types – Preview, Predictive, Automatic, and Progressive Dialers – and unravel their roles in boosting call center performance.
Avaya
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
If you follow my blog, then you know I talk a lot about the Internet of Things (IoT). As Avaya’s Chief Technologist for Software Defined Architecture, I love to discuss the IoT, a vast topic that I believe all business leaders should continuously educate themselves on. (See my recent blog and my colleague Mark Fletcher’s blog about the possibilities and outcomes of smarter public safety and emergency response—something that affects every one of us.).
CX Journey
NOVEMBER 17, 2016
Today I'm pleased to share a guest post by Martha Brooke of Interaction Metrics. Are you achieving your goals for the customer experience? If not, you’re probably not measuring in the right way. Learn what that way is. Goals: Companies want to give and get value through the customer experience - what are your goals? Some companies seek to deliver proactive customer service.
ForeSee
NOVEMBER 17, 2016
Last week, as part of our Fall Release, we released ForeSee CX Suite, an integrated toolkit of our popular CX applications. ForeSee clients who use Feedback received early invitations to. The post ForeSee Feedback now integrated into the new CX Suite appeared first on ForeSee.
Eptica
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
Date: Monday, November 14, 2016 Are insurers embracing social customer service? Published on: November 14, 2016. Author: Chris Eideh Providing customer service through social media has multiple advantages for both consumers and companies. Customers want the convenience and simplicity of being able to contact companies through Twitter and Facebook, without needing to call or email a business.
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Over the next 12 months, what do you think will have the biggest impact on your CX automation efforts? When asked the same question, only 10% of CX leaders surveyed by Verint chose telephony. It’s no longer the engagement channel leading CCaaS conversations. The customer engagement challenges facing organizations have changed – so a new approach is needed.
Avaya
NOVEMBER 16, 2016
With projected market revenue of $1.7 trillion by 2020, the Internet of Things (IoT) stands to forever change the world as we know it. In part 1 of this series , I demystified the IoT and explored how leaders can create a vertical-driven strategy that produces positive and proactive business outcomes. Your strategy won’t get you far, however, if it doesn’t explicitly address the unique security threats that are inherent to this level of connectivity.
Envision
NOVEMBER 18, 2016
Patient access teams and contact center agents have more in common than some think. Both represent the front line of customer service; interact with customers at multiple touchpoints of their experiences; and, most importantly, both require mission-critical technology that supports their core functions and priority objectives.
CX Journey
NOVEMBER 15, 2016
Image courtesy of hkricharusf You know that your customer experience initiatives will die in the planning stages if you don't have executive commitment, right? I've written several times about the importance of having that executive buy-in and commitment for your customer experience transformation. Help! My Execs Don't Get It! Kicking the #CX Can Down the Road So You've Got Executive Commitment.
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