May, 2013

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Customer-Centricity Goes Beyond Customer Experience Management

ClearAction

Customer-Centricity Goes Beyond Customer Experience Management Lynn Hunsaker. Customer experience management is necessary, yet insufficient. Traditionally, organizations have managed customer experience with a mindset of how the company is doing, in order to grow revenue. Consequently, surveys tend to ask more about the company than about the buyer, and customer programs typically emphasize excitement and urgency for new purchases and positive word-of-mouth.

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Scheduled Maintenance on May 10th, 2013 from 10pm to 11pm EST – for 1 hour

ProProfs

'We are conducting scheduled maintenance on May 10, 2013 from 10:00 pm to 11:00 pm EST – for 1 hour. ( Convert to your local time ) . The maintenance session is being undertaken to upgrade our internal servers and improve the grading of essay type questions. This will result in a quicker response and load time for your quizzes and courses. It will also offer you more options around open response questions such as feedback, grading etc.

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Injecting the Fun Factor into Customer Service

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'Good customer service is difficult to come by these days, but even more elusive is fun service. Some companies like Southwest Airlines and Zappos rely on laughter to stand out from the competition. In fact, Zappos, famed for its customer service that goes the extra mile for customers, has created a company culture that instills having fun on the job.

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Good Service is about meeting the needs of your customers and your own company

Customer Service Training

Stage 1 - Define Customer Service The ability to meet your customers needs in the most efficient and cost effective way Stage 2 - Who are your customers?

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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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Techzulu reviews ProProfs as a great online tool for all

ProProfs

'Tech Zulu, an independent technology news company, recently gave a big thumbs up to ProProfs for becoming one of the biggest online tools available in the market, in a short span of time. The Tech Zulu review charts the growth of ProProfs from being a simple online quiz software to one which allows instructors, educational institutions and business organizations to create assessments, surveys, flashcards and polls, all in one place.

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New “Skip & Go Back” feature for a better learning experience

ProProfs

'In the last quarter of 2012, we had added the Try Again button, which allowed learners to retake quizzes. Since, then we have had educators suggesting for a functionality which allowed learners to go back to a particular question or skip certain questions. Realizing the importance of Skip & Go Back feature, we have introduced these functions in all ProProfs quizzes.

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Future Customer Experience Differentiation Will Require New Operating Models

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'At some point after their companies find-and-fix the low-hanging fruit that create problems for customers, customer experience leaders hit a wall. That wall is the outdated operational models upon which most companies were built. These models were conceived decades ago, based on the existing capabilities and constraints of the day, when the primary vehicle for value was tied up in the product/service itself.

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Has Huggies Taken Technology Too Far?

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'Technology continues to evolve each day, but unlike children, we do not document this growth with pencil marks on our doorframe. We measure technology''s lifecycle through tweets, apps, and upgrades. But, just as teenagers test their boundaries, technology frequently pushes the envelope when it comes to innovation and creativity. In Huggies'' case, the latest gimmick truly hits below the belt.

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Incorporating Social Insight to Enhance Engagement

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'There''s a distinct difference between hearing and listening. While most companies hear what their customers are saying about the brand via social media, very few truly listen to the problems at the core of customer sentiment so they may act upon such feedback to improve experience. Social insight presents companies with an interesting and educational look into how customers interact with and perceive the brands they do business with, yet most companies remain at the starting stages of strategi

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Sir Terry Leahy's 8 Management Lessons

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'There are many management styles and advice available to business leaders today, but maybe none as pertinent as lessons from Sir Terry Leahy, former CEO of Tesco and author of Management in 10 Words. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.

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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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Customer Signals for Adapting Experiences

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'A chemical manufacturer with a solid customer listening program noticed an uptick in complaints about pricing. Unlike many firms, which would take the comments at face value and take action accordingly, this company first stepped back and reflected on its strategy: It sold premium chemical for advanced applications targeted at particular industries, so it surmised that the company shouldn''t see this kind of feedback.

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Business Model and Brand: Keys to Customer Experience Innovation

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'At Forrester, we define customer experience as how customers perceive their interactions with your company. Over the past few years, my colleagues and I have written a lot about the perceptions piece of that definition. Here''s a quick overview: Customers'' perceptions occur on three different levels, which we collectively refer to as the customer experience pyramid.

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Want Better Customer Experience? Adopt the Six Disciplines of CX Maturity.

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'Forrester has just released the latest version of an annual favorite: "How Companies Improved Their CXi Scores, 2013." As we do each year, we compiled a list of brands whose scores went up five or more points in our Customer Experience Index over the past year (in this case, between 2012 and 2013). We asked CX leaders from those brands if they''d be willing to tell us what they did to drive those improvements.

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Mobile Proliferation is an Opportunity for Marketers

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'Our lives have started to revolve around our mobile phones. Our phone is almost always on our side. Most of us sleep with it on our bedside table, using it instead of an alarm clock. It''s the first thing we reach out for when we wake up and we carry it with us wherever we go. In fact, how many times have you turned back after realizing you''ve forgotten your mobile phone?

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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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The Power of a Personalized Experience

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'Organizations that don''t invest in personalizing the customer experience, whether online or within their brick-and-mortar stores, are going to be facing an uphill journey to keep up with their competition. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.

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Winning the War on Showrooming

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'The key to success is often the ability to adapt to change. When it comes to showrooming, trying out products in stores and then ordering them from online competitors that charge less, some retailers are realizing the importance of not only adapting to this change, but also embracing it. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.

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Leveraging Technology for Better Sales

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'An effective salesforce is compulsory for business success. Savvy organizations are investing heavily in their sales team to make sure that they close as many deals as possible. Forward-thinking business leaders are constantly looking at new technologies that will help their sales teams do a better job. Many organizations, for example, are leveraging mobile technologies and social media to improve their sales effectiveness and improve the company''s bottom line.

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Walking the Customer Centric Walk

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'There are dozens - perhaps even hundreds - of companies that sell marketing automation tools and services. At 1to1 Media, we''re constantly interviewing executives from marketing automation providers to discuss industry trends, the challenges being faced by their clients, along with new features and functionality being offered through their tools and services.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

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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Hoffman's Hot Seat: The Buzz at the Gartner Customer 360 Summit

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'1to1 Media''s Tom Hoffman speaks with Brian Shepherd, President of Customer Strategy and Technology Services at TeleTech, about the Big Data and analytics discussions that attendees at the Gartner Customer 360 Summit recently shared in San Diego along with strategies for tackling the key challenges faced by companies. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.

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Great Training Averts a Disaster

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'Employee training is a necessity for organizations to make sure that their staff members do their job well, ensure good customer service, and help towards business success. But there are also times when the right training can make a difference between life and death. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.

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Hoffman's Hot Seat: Best Practices in Social Customer Care

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'1to1 Media''s Tom Hoffman speaks with Greg Sherry, Vice President of Marketing at Verint, about successful approaches for blending social into customer support, including effective techniques to scale for social customer care. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.

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Delivering an Unforgettable Customer Experience - Think customers.

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7th Annual CX Report by The Northridge Group Uncovers Priority Training Focus

JUST RELEASED! New research reveals 92% of business leaders would like to provide additional training to their customer service representatives. Soft skills training stands out as a priority area of investment and/or improvement. Check out The Northridge Group’s latest CX research report —the 7th annual CX survey of 1,000 customers and 250 business executives—to see additional statistics as well as insights that businesses can use to benchmark their customer service and improve the overall exper

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Creating a Seamless Multichannel Marketing Strategy - Think.

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Better Data Analysis; Improved Business Performance - Think.

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Putting the 'Customer' in 'Service Optimization' - Think customers.

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