Callminer

JULY 10, 2016

Five days of inspirational, educational, customer-oriented keynotes, sessions, demos, and more designed to help companies deliver exceptional customer service.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 11, 2016

In case you missed it, the world has gone online! If you haven’t gone online with your Customer Experience, too, it’s time. To be honest, if you haven’t begun, you’re late. The digital transformation of your present Customer Experience is long overdue. Consider this graph of which devices customers use at home: Nearly everyone has a computer or smartphone, and close to three quarters have a tablet.

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Customers That Stick

JULY 17, 2016

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Win the Customer

JULY 13, 2016

Marks & Spenser, the U.K.’s largest chain store, has decided to stop playing music in its stores following feedback from customers, the retailer announced at the end of May 2016. For the past 10 years, M&S had been playing piped music in its 852 stores, following the example of many other retailers. Complaints from customers and anti-noise groups, coupled with extensive research, prompted the policy change.

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Heart of the Customer

JULY 24, 2016

Kris LaFavor is the founder of DesignAhead. In addition, Kris is Heart of the Customer’s go-to designer for all of our journey maps (she also designed our website, so we’re big fans!). In this post, Kris lays out her guidelines to make sure our maps have that visual impact that is so critical to driving […]. The post Journey Mapping Design – the 5 Design Principles that will enable your journey map to drive change appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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PeopleMetrics

JULY 27, 2016

If you’ve been reading our blog, you know by now that customer experience management is an exercise in perspectives. In a way, it’s almost like an elaborate game of Telephone: the further you are from a customer’s transaction, the more disconnected you become from their needs, their concerns, and their purpose for doing business with you. Far away from the customer, it becomes easy to buy into intuition and personal perspective.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 25, 2016

The other day, I walked into a coffee shop that smelled like a damp basement. It only took me a couple of minutes to decide that I didn’t really want coffee after all. That same week, I was walking through an airport when I smelled the aroma of hot cinnamon rolls. Cinnabon was calling me. Even though I wasn’t hungry, I wanted one of their hot, gooey, calorie-laden treats.

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C3Centricity

JULY 2, 2016

Your brand is not what you think it is! It is what your customers think it is; its brand image, personality and its value to them. I was lecturing at Miami University a couple of weeks ago on brand image and personality. These are two vital elements of branding. They need to be clear and consistently represented in all your communications. If you’re having issues with your own brand in either of these areas, then you’ll find the following article both interesting and valuable.

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Win the Customer

JULY 22, 2016

Without the proper website construction and marketing campaign, your business is going to remain lost online. There are several ways to increase your exposure, and most of the methods only require a little time and effort. Paycor notes that according to SCORE, only 51 percent of companies have a website. Assuming you have a website but you’re still not getting traffic, it likely has something to do with the way your website is setup and how you’re marketing to your customers.

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Heart of the Customer

JULY 7, 2016

We often get calls from organizations who want to hold a journey mapping workshop, but have no time or budget for research. Our willingness varies depending on what the client is looking to accomplish. There are times when a workshop is absolutely the best journey mapping methodology – and times when it’s a train wreck. […]. The post The best (and worst) uses of journey mapping workshops appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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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.

Retail

Customer Bliss

JULY 13, 2016

Guest Post by Chip R. Bell. Chip R. Bell is a renowned keynote speaker and the author of several best-selling books. His newest book is Sprinkles: Creating Awesome Experiences Through Innovative Service. He can be reached at www.chipbell.com. How’s Everything? Ever had a maitre’d, waiter or waitress saunter up to your table and ask the ubiquitous “How’s everything?

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Callminer

JULY 11, 2016

Thousands of call center professionals. One spectacular location. Five days of inspirational, educational, customer-oriented keynotes, sessions, demos, and more designed to help companies deliver exceptional customer service. This year’s #CallCenterWeek (CCW) in Las Vegas, NV showcased what is becoming increasingly clear: Customers expect service on their own terms whenever they need it, in whatever digital […].

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 18, 2016

Many of you will have seen this video of a little girl whose parents surprised her with a new doll? The doll is special because it has a prosthetic leg – just like its recipient. It’s hard not to get choked up as you watch her burst into tears as she hugs her new friend for the first time. The girl’s parents posted the video on Facebook and it quickly went viral.

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Kerry Bodine

JULY 26, 2016

I love bringing our clients’ customers into journey mapping workshops. There’s nothing quite like hearing about customers’ enjoyable, confusing, and downright frustrating experiences while talking with them face to face. But at the outset of our journey mapping projects, many of our clients worry that they won’t be able to convince any customers to join them.

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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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Win the Customer

JULY 15, 2016

The saying “the customer is always right” has been around for so long that we seldom give it much thought. The real question, however, is whether or not it’s true. If you have a business, it’s crucial to satisfy your customers. It’s hard to deny that you must make your customers’ needs a priority. Let’s look at four facts that prove this assertion.

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Heart of the Customer

JULY 12, 2016

As the summer goes on and the Fourth of July approaches, I’ve found myself thinking once again about the principles that our nation was founded upon. I am reminded that the signing of a document, even one as revered as the Declaration of Independence, was such a decisive point in our history – actually in […]. The post We Hold These Truths: Implementing CX Governance appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Customer Bliss

JULY 12, 2016

Episode Overview. Welcome to Episode 13 of my podcast. (It’s lucky, don’t worry.) In this episode, I’m talking with Dave Mingle, the General Director of Global Customer Experience Execution and Planning for General Motors. In our conversation, Dave and I discuss the multi-year path that GM has been on. First, they needed to evaluate and establish the need for embedding customer experience.

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Callminer

JULY 29, 2016

The post Top 3 Reasons Your Call Center Needs Customer Engagement Analytics appeared first on CallMiner.

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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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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 6, 2016

As a Customer Experience consultancy, Beyond Philosophy , we have worked in China on a few occasions. We learned a few things about what to do and what not to do there, as it pertains to Customer Experience. Three Truths Every Marketer Should Know about CX in China. China is still in the early stages of Customer Experience discovery. China sees us as the thought leadership of Customer Experience.

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CX Journey

JULY 7, 2016

Today I'm pleased to share a guest post by Vit Horky of Brand Embassy. Isn’t science awesome? As Bill Nye said, the great thing about it is that it’s true, whether you believe it or not. That’s why I’m so excited about the new research showing that our decisions are guided by emotions in ways we never imagined. This has the potential to completely revolutionize the way we think about customer service.

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Provide Support

JULY 21, 2016

Lessons Learned Working In Customer Service. With so many stories of bad customer service we hear these days, many people are getting the impression that customer service jobs are entry-level or unimportant roles taken just to get by until a better opportunity. Do you share the same view? I hope, not. For me, it’s just the opposite. An experience of working in customer service, even as a temporary job, can be a stepping stone to a great career and many other life achievements.

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C3Centricity

JULY 31, 2016

I had lunch last week with one of my ex-colleagues. We decided to try a new restaurant close to where she works. It’s only been open a month, and it shows. This hospitality outlet certainly has a lot to learn about customer centricity! I was able to share our “adventure” with the proprietor when his manager (naively?) asked us if we had enjoyed our lunch.

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Customer Bliss

JULY 14, 2016

Short post this week as I’m in the middle of moving, but I wanted to take a few seconds and discuss leadership accountability as relates to customer experience. In the writings and speeches I’ve done, I commonly refer to this as “one-company leadership.” That’s where you need to get to as an organization. The entire company, beginning with the senior leadership team, needs to be on the same page with regard to what the customer experience is — and why it’

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Comm100

JULY 6, 2016

Customer satisfaction is a crucial metric. Knowing how your customers feel about your product, services, and support team is critical to understanding how to grow as a company. Customer satisfaction surveys can help you yield useful data that otherwise could be hard to quantify. Yet knowing what to ask, and then creating a survey from scratch, can be a daunting task.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 27, 2016

We see this all the time in our Customer Experience consultancy: We come in with a Customer Experience program that we want to deliver. We have detailed emotional outcomes that we have orchestrated deliberately and meticulously. We give it to the customer-facing teams…. …and then, they carry on doing what they always did! Why do they keep doing the same things?

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InteractionMetrics

JULY 22, 2016

An Analyst Perspective on Customer Surveys: Customer surveys make up a multi-billion dollar industry, and many of us get at least one per day. But just because surveys are everywhere doesn’t mean they’re always good. At Interaction Metrics, we often find that companies assume they’re ready to launch their customer survey as soon as they’ve opened a SurveyMonkey account and pieced together a few questions.

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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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Provide Support

JULY 25, 2016

Ditch the Script: How to Personalize Real-Time Customer Service. Today we are pleased to share a guest posting by Stephan Delbos , a social customer service expert from Brand Embassy. Every actor’s worst nightmare is forgetting their lines. Just imagine it: you’re standing in front of a crowd of hundreds, deep into the Second Act of The Importance of Being Earnest. and suddenly, your mind goes blank.

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C3Centricity

JULY 2, 2016

Your brand is not what you think it is! It is what your customers think it is; its brand image, personality and its value to them. I was lecturing at Miami University a couple of weeks ago on brand image and personality. These are two vital elements of branding. They need to be clear and [.]. The post What Every Marketer Needs to Know about Brand Image, Equity, Personality & Archetypes appeared first on C3Centricity.

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Customer Bliss

JULY 5, 2016

Episode Overview. Welcome to Episode 12 of The Chief Customer Officer Human Duct Tape Show. In this edition, my guest is Natalie Schneider, the Vice President of Customer Experience at Anthem, Inc. She describes the transformation she is leading for one of the largest national healthcare providers. From assessing the many operations and variations of service to uniting the C-Suite and CEO focus, Natalie walks through her detailed plan with practical advice on how to ensure the work from getting

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CX Journey

JULY 5, 2016

Image courtesy of dizzycage Still trying to show executives how your proposed customer experience improvement initiatives impact the bottom line? As you know by now, I'm no stranger to advocating for - and writing about - ROI and building the business case for you employee and customer experience improvements. The implications of investing in both the employee experience and the customer experience are measurable against the bottom line.

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Churn starts within the first 30 days of customers purchasing a product. A lot of it comes down to the first impression customers get through the onboarding process. A poor experience can result in losing current and future customers, and unnecessary overhead. It’s important to know what a poor onboarding experience looks like, the associated hidden costs, and how to build a top-tier onboarding experience for your customers so you can avoid losing hard-earned revenue.