Callminer
DECEMBER 3, 2014
Enrollment at for-profit institutions makes up 12% of all postsecondary students. Here’s how speech analytics can help your call center drive compliance and accuracy.
Beyond Philosophy
DECEMBER 26, 2014
'This time of year always has me thinking about the next one. It could be because I am already scheduling into January, February and so on, making next year feel even closer than it already is. Thinking about the coming year, I see trends underway that predict interesting changes in Net Promoter Score (NPS), Customer Experience (CX), and mobile digital experience for 2015, and they might surprise you.
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Customers That Stick
DECEMBER 18, 2014
'Meet Becky Lollar ! I grew up in Bartlett, TN and attended Union University in nearby Jackson where I earned degrees in elementary education. I taught Kindergarten for three years then chose to stay at home with my two daughters. After our first family trip to Walt Disney World, I was hooked! I now represent Magical Travel, an agency which specializes in selling Disney vacations.
Bill Quiseng
DECEMBER 15, 2014
This week’s guest post is offered by customer service expert Nicholas Goss. We both share a commitment to help small business owners Deliver the World’s Best Customer Experience. I connected with Nicholas first on Twitter and quickly began a fan of his customer service blog. He was kind enough to allow me to publish here one of his recent posts.
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Heart of the Customer
DECEMBER 18, 2014
'Effort is the bane of your customer experience. Or, as I like to say, “ Thinking is bad.” But is customer effort the right measurement to use? First, an overview. The CEB created the Customer Effort Score (CES) as a transactional measurement. You can see my early post here. Its original phrasing was “How much effort did you personally have to put forth to handle your request?
Win the Customer
DECEMBER 8, 2014
'Should making the customer happy really be your company’s priority? Is that an effective strategy? You’ve heard this adage in many different ways: “the customer is always right,” “treat each customer like they’re the only one…” the list goes on and on. Yet, should making the customer happy really be a company’s priority? The answer is […].
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Beyond Philosophy
DECEMBER 4, 2014
'An organization’s process tells me a great deal about how Customer-centric they are. Is the process designed for the good of the Customer or was it designed for the good of the company? In my experience, the latter is more likely than the former, leaving most organizations with a process lacking a customer focus. The Naive to Natural assessment looks at nine areas of a company to determine how Customer centric the organization is with their Customer Experience.
Customers That Stick
DECEMBER 11, 2014
'Here at CTS Service Solutions, we recently performed a survey designed to find out how consumers feel about holiday shopping and to see what customers are actually experiencing during the holiday shopping season. The Holiday Shopping Experience: Customer’s Viewpoint 2014 was conducted on November 24, 2014 and surveyed 450 male and females between the ages of 18-65 living in the United States.
ClearAction
DECEMBER 19, 2014
Shared Vision is Essential for Customer Experience Strategy. If you've ever gone on an extended outing with several friends, you're sure to appreciate the value of having a shared vision among all, from the outset of your journey, about where you're going and why, how fast you'll go and when you'll pause and celebrate, and how you'll decide things along the way.
Heart of the Customer
DECEMBER 4, 2014
'“Customers aren’t filling out our form completely. We need to train them to fill it all out, and then we’ll be able to serve them better.” “Our members just don’t understand the benefits of volunteering. If we educate them better, more will volunteer.” “We just need to teach our customers how to use our website so they won’t call us so much.” “If we can teach people trying to get their licenses that it’s okay to wait hours
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.
Win the Customer
DECEMBER 3, 2014
'By being proactive, a company can dazzle its customers with great service. The biggest payoffs often come from providing information and setting expectations. Customer experience is a top priority for 86 percent of executives, according to Gartner’s “Amplifying the Enterprise: The CIO Agenda” report. Technology can enhance many aspects of customer experience, but most companies […].
PeopleMetrics
DECEMBER 19, 2014
'You have been working hard to get your CEO to buy into the need to get closer to customers. You’ve gotten here through social feedback, anecdotes, and gut feel. But now, leadership understands a formal Voice of the Customer program is essential to achieving your customer experience goals. You have the green light to start to ask customers for feedback!
Beyond Philosophy
DECEMBER 8, 2014
'We have had the pleasure of working with Caterpillar for a while, and recently I was asked to judge their ‘Excellence in Customer Experience Awards for 2014.’ I am pleased to say Carter Machinery , one of the leading Caterpillar dealers in the U.S., won the award, and I thought I would share with you what they did well. One of the most important things they learned, however, was that improving Customer Experience starts with improving your Employee Experience and managing the pain of change for
Customers That Stick
DECEMBER 8, 2014
'Customer experience isn’t easy — it just seems that way! From bargaining with the C-Suite to negotiating with customers, from maximizing profit to ensuring loyalty, providing great customer experiences in today’s environment is a continuous challenge. It’s a roller coaster, and I have teamed up with Jeannie Walters to provide a new resource that can help you with the strategies and tactics you can use to smooth out this wild ride!
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.
Customer Bliss
DECEMBER 16, 2014
'There are skill sets specific to driving culture change that need to be present when doing this customer experience work. The lack of these six skills comprises the execution chasm. 1. Experience in Completed Brand and Marketing Projects – Experience from completed project work brings with it huge gains in knowledge, skills and insights. This crucial past experience of many start-to-finish achievements will optimize the customer experience work. 2.
Heart of the Customer
DECEMBER 18, 2014
'Yesterday, four of the CXPA’s CX experts spoke about the year in review, and what customer experience has in store for 2015. Is it the role of emotions? Employee engagement? Crowdsourcing journey maps? Watch the Google Hangout with Jim, Tabitha Dunn, Lynn Hunsaker, and Peter Haid as they discuss. The post What’s the customer experience focus for 2015?
Win the Customer
DECEMBER 10, 2014
'Even Computer Software is a People Business! Nobody likes to feel like they’re just one cog in a giant machine. However, that’s the feeling many customers get when they call or email a company for support and get seemingly fed through a meat grinder before having their questions answered. “Press this button to go here.” […].
PeopleMetrics
DECEMBER 5, 2014
'"Trust is the glue of life. it''s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.". - Steven Covey. Can You Hear Me? At All? Last week my 14-year-old son''s phone stopped working. This happened two days before my son, Nat, was due to take a trip without us to Boston. I dove right into the omni-channel AT&T customer experience. I pre-ordered a new phone online; received an email informing me the phone was ready to be collected; gathered the requisite documentation.
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?
Beyond Philosophy
DECEMBER 11, 2014
'One of the most influential factors on your Customer Experience is your company culture. Most companies might understand the concept, yet still engage in activities that influence company culture in a way that hurts the Customer Experience. When we perform our Naive to Natural assessment to determine our client’s Customer centricity, we find that Culture and Leadership has a massive influence on the outcome of the experience.
Customers That Stick
DECEMBER 15, 2014
'Welcome to the Monthly Mash, a mashup of tools, tales and tips on customer service and the customer experience from around the blogosphere. VOLUME 37: November 2014. Thoughts on the Customer: The Sympathetic Holiday Shopper. If you read our December 11 blog post , you know that we recently conducted a survey of consumer attitudes on holiday shopping.
CX Journey
DECEMBER 16, 2014
'Image courtesy of featureset I originally wrote today''s post for InsideCXM. It appeared on the site on September 15, 2014. Want to know the secret to customer retention? I''ll tell you, but first a story. I grew up on a farm in Ohio and, as a young girl, had many horses over the years. One of my horses was named Rusty, and he was what many would call "barn sour" and "herd bound;" he either didn''t want to leave the barn or leave the other horses.
Heart of the Customer
DECEMBER 15, 2014
'nanoRep and I recently partnered on a webinar to discuss reducing effort in your customer experience. We discuss the Customer Effort Score, simplicity, and how to use self-service to prevent customer disloyalty. You can view a summary at [link]. Enjoy! The post Webinar: Thinking is Bad appeared first on Heart of the Customer. No related posts.
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Win the Customer
DECEMBER 2, 2014
'It costs your business much less to keep an existing customer happy than to find a new customer. Part of your “sales process” needs to be following up with your existing customers and communicating with them and listening to them regularly to make sure they are satisfied with your product or service. Here are a […].
Customer Bliss
DECEMBER 9, 2014
'The frontline talks to your customers every day. On a regular basis, sit yourself down and ask them to identify critical issues. Do more than listen, write down the issues and assign someone to take care of the major ones. Then personally reach out to customers to understand – at a greater level of granularity – what is happening, so you know what to do about it and fix the issue.
Beyond Philosophy
DECEMBER 23, 2014
'Disappointment is also not welcome at any time but especially not at Christmas. How can marketers avoid creating a disappointed Customer? I read the BusinessInsider.com blog about “ The 16 Most Disappointing Places to Visit on Earth ,” which included places like Casablanca, Jamaica, and the Pyramids in Cairo. The article quotes travelers still smarting with the sting of disappointment from their unfulfilled vacation expectations.
Customers That Stick
DECEMBER 4, 2014
'With the official Black Friday starting gun for the holiday season now officially fired, we thought we would share some tips for helping you prepare your teams for the remainder of the season. Remember, Black Friday and Cyber Monday still account for only a small percentage of holiday sales. The bulk of the holiday season is still ahead. Preparation is the key to not only surviving but thriving during the holiday season.
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.
PeopleMetrics
DECEMBER 9, 2014
'Okay, for the impatient, here’s the answer: Flow and Design. Great. That was easy. Still here? Alright then. Let’s dig in. Level 1: Flow. Here’s a fun name you may have never heard before: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. It’s pronounced something like “Me-high Cheek-sent-me-high-ee.”. Let’s try all. All together now: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Pretty good. (We’ll work on it.).
Heart of the Customer
DECEMBER 10, 2014
'I had the opportunity to lead at yesterday’s Minnesota Government IT Symposium. The topic was Journey Mapping Workshop: Reduce User and Customer Effort and Increase Satisfaction, and we had a great time creating maps of various customer journeys. Just check out the proud groups with their Customer-Centric Change Charters! Participants went through an interactive form of Customer Journey Mapping Made Easy , where they learned how to create a journey map, as well as the importance of inc
Win the Customer
DECEMBER 19, 2014
'There was a time when customer service consisted of a row of operators answering calls, using a bank of telephones. If the call center was understaffed, customers would wait for nearly an hour to talk to a representative. But, if the call center was overstaffed, then the office was bleeding money in salaries. Luckily, cloud […].
ProProfs
DECEMBER 21, 2014
'ProProfs Quiz Maker has launched its new quiz making interface , that enables users to create quizzes easily in minutes. It includes a set of powerful new features designed to give users greater flexibility and a delightful experience while creating quizzes. The upgraded version offers an interactive “drag and drop” interface, enterprise white label options and advanced learner-friendly navigation controls. ‘ I have just finished making my first quiz, and the result is an absolute stunner!
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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.
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