Mon.Sep 13, 2021

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Building the Business Case: No Pain, No Gain

Futurelab

One of the most-commonly requested needs – often as a result of CEO/executive asks – is to build the business case for the business to focus on the customer experience. (It’s painful just to write that without thinking about this open letter to CEOs , excerpted from my book, Customer Understanding.) Tags: Annette Franz (Gleneicki) business outcomes change management customer experience outcomes Facebook Like.

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101 customer service stats you need to know

Callminer

Customer expectations are always evolving. It’s up to businesses and brands to understand those expectations and deliver exceptional customer service.

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CX Journey™ Musings: Ride for the Brand

Futurelab

What is a brand? And what does it mean to ride for the brand ? Tags: Annette Franz (Gleneicki) brand customer loyalty employee experience employee expectation Facebook Like. Linkedin Share Button. Tweet Widget.

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We need to start talking about experience leadership – Interview with Peter Cross

Adrian Swinscoe

Today’s interview is with retail expert Peter Cross who until recently was the Customer Experience Director at John Lewis and Waitrose and prior to that spent […]. The post We need to start talking about experience leadership – Interview with Peter Cross first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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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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The System Is the Customer

Futurelab

Every time you choose a model like e.g. a business model canvas or a customer journey you are choosing which information is important to you and which information is not. e.g. if you map a customer journey for a trip from home to work using public transport you are saying that how many buss drivers there are is not a part of your problem to solve, or that you don’t need to calculate in the scarcity of busses, cost of fuel or the city’s traffic or noise pollution regulations.

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3 Reasons Why Customers Still Choose Voice Over Any Channel (and Always Will)

Customer Think

Granted, customer engagement has gone through massive changes in recent years. The digital age has propelled brands’ omnichannel presence across phone, chat, self-service, SMS, and so on. But still, one thing remains, customers prefer the phone above all other channels. Why do customers still prefer phone support over any other channel? If we’re in the […].

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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 9-13-2021

Shep Hyken

Each week I read many 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. What Is Customer Loyalty and Retention (And 3 Tips for Improvement) by Scott Clark. (CMSWire) Although the terms “customer loyalty” and “customer retention” are often used interchangeably, they actually refer to two different things.

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Help Your B2B Buyers Do Their Own Discovery

Customer Think

Discovery is most often considered a function performed by sales reps. But in this context, it’s more about discovery FOR the sales rep, NOT B2B buyers.One of the problems marketing and sales have as B2B buyers’ roles shift is that they start too late.

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Sales Chatbots: How to Grow Revenue Using Conversational AI

CommBox

Businesses are widely deploying AI-powered service chatbots to improve customer service and increase sales. In fact, between 2018 and 2020, the adoption of chatbots increased by 67%. More recently, Covid-19 accelerated the adoption of chatbots. The majority of industry leaders (81%) said the pandemic changed their technological needs and 73% see it affected how they interact with customers. .

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The Hidden Messages That Are Killing Your Culture Without You Knowing

Customer Think

Twenty years working in Customer Experience taught me that it’s about a mindset. The mindset leaks out into the organization, recruitment processes, measurement programs and eventually becomes your organization’s culture. The mindset becomes “the way w.

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and Guest Speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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Digital Transformation in Customer Service – Why You Can’t Afford to Ignore it (Part 1 of 3)

Comm100

Digital transformation is by no means a recent trend. However, the past couple of years has seen its importance within customer service skyrocket as companies adopted new technologies to stay connected during the pandemic. With the benefits made clear for all to see, and customer expectations risen, customer service operations can no longer afford to ignore digital transformation.

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How Memory Care is Prioritizing the Patient Experience

Customer Think

Over the past decade, memory care centers have exploded onto the scene to meet the growing demand for senior care services that specifically address Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. And as they continue to grow, the patient experience becomes more important than ever before. The Troubling Rise of Alzheimer’s and Dementia The number of Americans diagnosed […].

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Why using only CRM platforms can kill CX

LitmusWorld

CRM vs CEM – Why using only CRM platforms can kill your CX programme Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Customer Experience Management (CEM) may sound like they both serve the same purpose – both deal Read more… Why using only CRM platforms can kill CX appeared on LitmusWorld.

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4 Ways to Create an Inclusive and Accessible Virtual Event

Customer Think

Events are a favorite marketing tactic for many businesses. It’s a good way to simultaneously increase awareness of your business and demonstrate the quality of the products or services you offer. However, the Covid-19 pandemic has caused a general migration of these events – instead of being held in physical spaces, they take place online. […].

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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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5 Best Practices for Building Customer Relationships With Messaging Channels

Conversocial

I regularly research and write articles that eulogise about the importance of building customer relationships. If you follow the Conversocial blog there are recurring regular themes: it’s easier and more cost-effective to retain customers than acquire new ones, existing customers are more likely to buy from a brand again and messaging channels are the most effective way to keep these retained and loyal customers engaged.

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Virtual Reality (VR) – The Silver Lining for E-learning Industry

Customer Think

Virtual Reality (VR) has been used in video games and movies for years, but now it’s poised to make significant headway into another industry: education. What can it do? How can it help us learn? Virtual Reality provides a way to place students in a learning environment as if they were experiencing it firsthand. There […].

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How to Onboard Remote Employees

ProProfs

According to the Future Workforce Pulse Report 2020 by Upwork: By 2025, 36.2 million people will be working remotely. This marks an increase of 16.8 million from the pre-pandemic days. Add to this, the fact that the United States itself has 4.7 million people working remotely at least half the time. Onboarding remote employees of this scale is not child’s play.

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Better than NPS? Brand Alignment Score

Customer Think

Better than NPS? Brand Alignment Score I’ve written previously about how silly things like Net Promotor Score’s ‘Likelihood to Recommend’ question can seem. I think, generally, that comes more f.

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Mapping Digital Transformation: Retail’s Strategic Shift

Speaker: Jennifer Wright, Michael Scholz, Jasmin Guthmann, and Scott Canney

Digital transformation in retail is so much more than new technology. You need to get your whole organization, from entry-level workers to executives, on board with the new tech, new skills, and culture changes that digital transformation brings. Leading this mindset shift can be a daunting task… but that’s where this webinar comes in! Join our panel of experts as they guide you through the challenges of digital transformation, preparing you to avoid common mistakes and make the most of incredib

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CommBox

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Resolving Unconscious Bias

Customer Think

In these trying times, one thing has become clear: the biases we live with restrict our choices. Certainly no one ever wants to harm anyone. And yet, because of the unconscious nature of them, we are too often unaware that we even have them. It’s not our fault, but we must learn to take more […].

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The Business Case for Making Contact Center Applications Standard Employee Productivity Tools

DMG Consulting

The Business Case for Making Contact Center Applications Standard Employee Productivity Tools. Sep 3, 2021 Donna Fluss. View this article on the publisher’s website. Every employee plays a role in delivering an outstanding customer experience (CX), whether in direct contact with customers or supporting customer-facing co-workers. A surprisingly high percentage of employees who do not work in a contact center or customer service, sales, or marketing department dedicate more than 40 percent

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Creating a Growth Mindset at Work: The How and Why

Customer Think

Career development is a well talked about topic in today’s workforce and with new structures becoming more popular where there is less middle management separating employees from their bosses. Employees are having to adapt to these new workforces and upskill or reskill to advance in their careers. A big part of being able to adapt […].

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Your Expert Guide to CX Orchestration & Enhancing Customer Journeys

Speaker: Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor at Medallia

Join Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor, in this new webinar that will focus on: Understanding CX Orchestration Fundamentals: Gain a solid understanding of what CX orchestration is, its significance in the customer experience landscape, and how it plays a crucial role in shaping customer journeys. This includes the key concepts, strategies, and best practices involved in CX orchestration. 🔑 Connection to Customer Journey Maps: How to effectively integrate customer journey mapping into the

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5 best practices for consumer satisfaction

MyCustomer Experience

5Have you ever asked yourself why customer satisfaction is important? Crucially, as few as one in every 26 unsatisfied customers will. 13th Sep 2021. By Joanna Clark Simpson Head of Marketing at PissedConsumer.com.

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Small companies got faster at solving customer issues last year – here’s how

Zendesk

. . . When a customer has an issue, all they want to do is solve it—quickly. In fact, 73 percent of customers say that speedy resolutions sit at the very top of their priority list. This should have companies paying attention. Why? Good support experiences have become critical drivers of customer loyalty and spend. Getting faster answers for customers often means scaling resources.

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Customer Success: Budget Planning Playbook

ClientSuccess

Modern CSMs wear many hats. From project manager to company voice box to issue mitigator, CSMs are veritable jacks of all trades. For some (but not all) SaaS organizations, CSMs are also responsible for leading and managing upsell conversations with customers. While some organizations turn to sales roles to facilitate these conversations, more and more CSMs are tasked with leading budget planning, expansion, and upsells thanks to their familiarity and comfort level with customers.

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4 steps to manage the new federal vaccination requirements

Qualtrics

With the new executive order requiring businesses with more than 100 employees to ensure their workers are either vaccinated or tested once a week, how can you stay compliant with the employee vaccination mandate? Find out how to develop a robust COVID-19 employee vaccination and testing policy and enable your people to quickly and easily confirm their vaccination status.

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How Personalized Customer Experiences Drive Retail Growth and Revenue

Speaker: Shaunna Bruton - Associate Director of Product Strategy at Orium | Sam Panzer - Director of Industry Strategy at Talon.One | Frank Passantino - Director of Product Management at Bloomreach

More and more, customers are expecting a better personalized CX. But can retailers actually deliver? Data from McKinsey shows that companies that excel in personalization increase their revenue by 40%, but despite these numbers, retailers struggle to implement customer personalization strategies. So what are the potential solutions? Join us to gain a better understanding of the current retail landscape and learn what you can do to translate personalization strategies into practical implementatio