Callminer

JANUARY 26, 2016

As recent research shows, the U.S. call center industry is alive and well. According to the data, the industry saw a total of 22,265 new positions added in Q3 2015, minus 5,678 jobs that were cut due to force reductions and closures. What this means is there’s an imperative for call centers to drive operational performance excellence […]. The post 11 Call Center Best Practices You Need to Be Doing Right Now appeared first on CallMiner.

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Uniphore

JANUARY 4, 2016

The emergence of liberalisation, privatisation & globalisation coupled with thriving population, climbing GDP growth, rising disposable income & increasing consumer expenditure across different economies of the world have fueled the growth in global retail industry & created numerous opportunities for all kinds of players in retail segment.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 18, 2016

Ever blown it with a Customer? Sure. We all have. Mistakes are part of being human, after all. But hopefully, you learned from it, made your sincere apology, and carried on. Here are 8 big mistakes with Customer Experience that we hope brands learned from: “It’s not the pants, it’s your body type” excuse from Lululemon. Remember when the CEO of Lululemon Chip Wilson said the reason that their pants weren’t wearing well was because the pants weren’t made for all women’s bodies—particularly those

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Bill Quiseng

JANUARY 10, 2016

This week’s guest post is from leadership consultant and keynote speaker Bill Hogg. I have been an avid reader of his blog where he writes about “the critical relationship between leadership, employee engagement and delivering an exceptional customer experience as a competitive advantage.” So I’m honored that he has offered to share his customer service insight here.

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Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Brian Walker

Brands used to look for a commerce platform that could do everything. But over time, one vendor was no longer enough to meet a brand’s needs, so they added, and added, and added— and now it's essential that these vendors work well together. That’s composable, and it’s important to get it right. Customers and your board expect you to be in new channels and to adapt quickly to market change.

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Customers That Stick

JANUARY 14, 2016

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Win the Customer

JANUARY 15, 2016

Meeting customer expectations is incredibly important for any business that wants to be successful today. It takes careful management and a number of strategies to keep customers satisfied. Unsatisfied customers could potentially harm your business by giving bad reviews or simply stop making purchases. Here are six tips to make sure you are meeting your customers’ expectations.

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PeopleMetrics

JANUARY 28, 2016

For all its promise, and all its hype, big data has always had one inherent problem. You see, big data is. well, big. And when you're facing something big, you may find it overwhelming. And when you find something overwhelming, you may find yourself in the fetal position. But let’s get you off that cold linoleum floor and discuss how to best use customer feedback.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 25, 2016

In this series, professionals describe the skills they’re building this year. Read the stories here , then write your own (use #SkillsGap in the body of your post). There is a major skill most organizations lack: Customer centricity. But if you want to remain competitive in today’s economic climate, putting the focus on Customers is imperative to your bottom line.

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Customer Bliss

JANUARY 26, 2016

Delivering a reliable and then innovative customer experience requires adding a customer focus competency to the core competencies of your business (as important as products, finance, marketing or sales). The customer-focused experience needs to be built and honed as a skill. This means: Establishing a discipline for how cross-functional teams explore and understand emerging issues and opportunities.

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Customers That Stick

JANUARY 7, 2016

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Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Win the Customer

JANUARY 11, 2016

Continuous improvement is a key characteristic of the most successful customer experience. Successful service organizations realize that no service initiative is perfect and have a framework in place to capture results and analyze them for potential improvement towards better customer experiences. Many of the quality management practices the Japanese manufacturing system is well-known for can be traced back to statisticians like W.

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Callminer

JANUARY 14, 2016

Workforce optimization in the call center can lead to improved agent performance and better interactions with customers. Read more.

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Heart of the Customer

JANUARY 20, 2016

In just the last year we have seen a dramatic increase in journey mapping’s popularity, as more and more organizations realize what an effective tool it can be. But as more and more journey maps are getting made by more and more people, two critical questions arise—who and what to map. These are the first […]. The post So You Want to Make a Journey Map appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 14, 2016

Isn’t it a company’s first priority not to harm their Customers? I maybe old fashioned but surely ensuring your Customers’ safety is your BIGGEST responsibility as a brand. Apparently, someone should have reminded Fiat Chrysler. Fiat Chrysler was fined $70 Million by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Why? Failing to report fatalities, injuries, and warranty repairs.

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Provide Support

JANUARY 18, 2016

The 10 Commandments of customer service. Today, when customer service is becoming a major differentiator for businesses, it is probably not a blasphemy to call it a new religion – religion for business. If we take on this term, the next step is to adopt some kind of a scripture, a code to live by. Few weeks after Christmas, I was sitting in my chair and thinking that it would be good to remind myself what is really important.

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PeopleMetrics

JANUARY 13, 2016

The vast majority of my banking customer experiences happen outside of a bank. And if I think about it, I would find it rather disconcerting if I found myself in a bank. Why am I here? I would think. Is something wrong with my account? Why is it so quiet in here? Do you think the cashier will give me a lollipop? As it is wont to do, technology has spurred the evolution of personal banking into new and surprising forms.

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Win the Customer

JANUARY 4, 2016

According to human psychology, the human brain cannot think in words or alphabets, it thinks in images or pictures. As customer experience leaders we need to be more proactive in creative a vision for experience rather than just empty affirmations of service. When Microsoft decided to eliminate its controversial stack ranking system for employees, the decision was widely discussed by Wall Street and business professionals around the world.

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Customer Bliss

JANUARY 14, 2016

With a customer listening path in place, your leaders and the organization will become personally involved in understanding the lives of your customers. Your customer listening method will provide a constantly refreshing source of information organized by journey stage. Leaders will be able to understand customers’ lives with a connection to customer behavior and growth, as well as to the data.

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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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Heart of the Customer

JANUARY 28, 2016

In my last blog post I talked about what journeys you should map when you set out to create journey maps of your customers. But I also mentioned another equally important decision to make when you’re creating your journey maps—not just what to map, but who to map. If you were wondering how to make […]. The post So You Want To Make A Journey Map, Part 2: Who Do You Map?

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 20, 2016

Customer Loyalty is a gold standard for most businesses. There are numerous ways that you earn (and lose) Customer Loyalty. But one way that anyone can do is one of the most effective ways to create a Customer Experience that keeps them coming back for more. Pivoting is a technique well-known by the Public Relations industry. It means changing the direction of the conversation to get back to your core message.

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ClearAction

JANUARY 16, 2016

New Wisdom for Voice of the Customer. Voice-of-the-Customer is central to most customer experience strategies. Find out what the customer thinks and increase the number of voices in favor of your brand. The excitement of hearing from the customer is usually high, at least the first couple of rounds. Then trends are established and one of three things usually happens: (a) the trend is in the “safe” zone, so everyone breathes a sigh of relief and goes about their business as usual, (b) the trend i

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CX Journey

JANUARY 28, 2016

Image courtesy of Dell's Official Flickr Page I love talking about the customer experience; I could sit for days, answering questions and discussing the finer points of this topic. So, as you can imagine, I was honored when Paolo Fabrizio asked me to be a guest on his Social Antipasti podcast series to answer some of his questions about customer experience.

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Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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Win the Customer

JANUARY 13, 2016

According to the Forrester Research Group, almost two billion people worldwide owned a smartphone in 2014. That number is expected to more than double by 2019. In other words, mobile technology will become ever easier and more convenient to use. Businesses have had to move quickly to keep pace, making sure their websites are mobile-friendly, so they don’t lose out on the many customers who prefer to connect through a smartphone.

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Customer Bliss

JANUARY 5, 2016

Desire is an emotion that will earn growth & prosperity for your business. Click To Tweet. Customers desire a reliable experience. That’s why I harp on the phrase “earn the right to grow.” Desire is an emotion that will earn growth and prosperity for your business. If you deliver a reliable experience, your customers and clients will desire to have it again.

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Heart of the Customer

JANUARY 6, 2016

Sometimes, your customers just want to feel heard. A number of years ago, I was travelling for a job interview and booked a night at a Hampton Inn. I awoke and looked to take a shower when I discovered a problem. My room had no hot water. I dressed and went to the front desk […]. The post Your Frontline Workforce Shouldn’t Leave Your Customers Feeling Cold appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 27, 2016

More often these days we get calls at our headquarters with Customer Experience champions wondering what happened to the huge gains in their Customer Experience metrics they used to get. The problem is many of them have implemented Customer Experience measures, had great improvements to metrics like their Net Promoter Scores, and then watched the score plateau.

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Kate Nasser

JANUARY 2, 2016

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CX Journey

JANUARY 22, 2016

Image courtesy of Thomas Hawk I originally wrote today's post for Intradiem. It was published on their blog on August 20, 2015. How do you drive innovation within your organization? Do you think outside of the box to think outside of the box? When you're designing or redesigning your customer experience, it's critical to listen to - and understand - your customers, what they are trying to do, and how well it's going.

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Win the Customer

JANUARY 19, 2016

Gartner research shows that by 2018, 70 percent of business-to-business ecommerce sites will offer customers personalized features, and sites effectively using personalization will outsell competitors by 30 percent. Seventy percent of companies agree that retaining customers is cheaper than acquiring new ones, an Econsultancy report on cross-channel marketing found.

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Customer Bliss

JANUARY 14, 2016

With a customer listening path in place, your leaders and the organization will become personally involved in understanding the lives of your customers. Your customer listening method will provide a constantly refreshing source of information organized by journey stage. Leaders will be able to understand customers’ lives with a connection to customer behavior and growth, as well as to the data.

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Speaker: Donna Weber - Customer Onboarding Expert

Customer onboarding is so much more than going live with your product and driving adoption. The truth is, onboarding is the most important part of the customer journey. When you set positive first impressions, establish trusting relationships, and quickly deliver meaningful outcomes, you create customers for life. Invest an hour with Donna Weber to learn why your customer onboarding is critical to your success.

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