Sat.Nov 26, 2016 - Fri.Dec 02, 2016

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Yikes! Rental Car Horror Stories

Beyond Philosophy

Whenever I rent a car, I dread the moment when the agent asks if I want collision damage waiver insurance. I don’t want it, but the way the question is asked always makes me second guess myself for a moment. And then there is the confusing array of refueling options, and the half dozen clauses I have to initial on the application. By the time I’ve got the keys, I’m never entirely certain what I’ve signed up for.

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"Know Your Customer" Just Got Easier

Uniphore

by Karnail Jita Recent research found that banking through mobile apps is the number one way to bank. Another fact is that apps are by no means the only way customers get in touch with an organization when they have a query. Customers are now more connected and knowledgeable than ever before, using a number of channels to get answers. Indeed, technology-savvy customers, coupled with greater awareness of digital options are shaping up to be defining features of the Know Your Customer era.

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It Takes a Broad Team to Improve Customer Journeys

Heart of the Customer

I recently participated in a round table sponsored by Barclaycard Business discussing the importance to e-commerce businesses to plan and understand their customer journeys. You can read more about the round table here. We discussed numerous topics. But one we agreed upon was the need to simplify the experience. Customers aren’t willing to figure out […].

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Customer Delight: Do the Math!

Customer Bliss

Guest Post by Thomas A. Stewart and Patricia O’Connell, authors of Woo, Wow, and Win: Service Design, Strategy, and the Art of Customer Delight. SURPRISE AND DELIGHT. “Surprise and delight” has become a mantra for customer experience. We say forget about surprising customers – just delight them. We know that’s counterintuitive. Indeed, Wikipedia’s definition of customer delight is “surprising a customer by exceeding his or her expectations and thus creating a positive emotional reaction.

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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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Top 3 Ways for Field Service Companies to Improve Customer Experience

PeopleMetrics

Studying the Customer Experience feedback for companies that utilize a field service delivery model reveals some interesting insights. The most interesting of which is the importance of the field engineer. The impact of their performance comes not only from their technical ability to perform the install or repair task, but also their ability to interact with clients.

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"Know Your Customer" Just Got Easier

Uniphore

by Karnail Jita Recent research found that banking through mobile apps is the number one way to bank. Another fact is that apps are by no means the only way customers get in touch with an organization when they have a query. Customers are now more connected and knowledgeable than ever before, using a number of channels to get answers. Indeed, technology-savvy customers, coupled with greater awareness of digital options are shaping up to be defining features of the Know Your Customer era.

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A 4-Step Plan For New Chief Customer Officers, With Donna Peeples – CB29

Customer Bliss

Episode Overview. Donna Peeples was the Chief Customer Officer at AIG — obviously a large company. Now she holds the same role at Pypestream , an enterprise mobile messaging platform. Pypestream is a much smaller company than AIG, currently existing in startup mode. But according to Donna, her role — and the steps she progresses through — are/were the same in both contexts.

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When #CCM and #CX Collide

CX Journey

Image courtesy of GMC Software What are you doing to bring your customer communications into the 21st century and into alignment with customer expectations? Companies are making a huge effort to move their customer communications from traditional channels to the digital and social realm, while continuing to use and maintain offline communications, as well; however, there's a disconnect between the voice, tone, style, and messaging that is used in digital channels versus in traditional media.

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Top 3 Ways for Field Service Companies to Improve Customer Experience

PeopleMetrics

Studying the Customer Experience feedback for companies that utilize a field service delivery model reveals some interesting insights. The most interesting of which is the importance of the field engineer. The impact of their performance comes not only from their technical ability to perform the install or repair task, but also their ability to interact with clients.

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Discover Customer Experience Moments & Details | #cx

Kate Nasser

Discover customer experience greatness not in the depths of complex strategy. Find it in moments of attitude & detail. Insights from Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™. The post Discover Customer Experience Moments & Details | #cx appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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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 experience improvement program: 2017 assets

Customer Bliss

It’s been a busy 2016. Here we are, finally, at the last month of the year. I know most of you have already started 2017 strategy planning (or finished it), but I wanted to put together a bunch of customer experience improvement program assets in one place. You can clip and save this post to review during the holidays and get ready for 2017. It’s a series of competencies I’ve worked on over my career and within the past year.

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The Results of Your Product or Services has the Least to do with Creating Customer Loyalty

The DiJulius Group

It is not about the results Too many customer-facing employees are convinced that if the customer gets the results they were hoping for from doing business with them, the customer will happy & loyal. This is so not true. Think about it, if you have a toothache, don’t you expect the dentist, any dentist to […].

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For Employees and Customers, Should the Goal Be Higher Engagement or Higher Experience Value?

Beyond Philosophy

Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D., CMC Thought Leadership Principal, Beyond Philosophy. Several years ago, in worldwide customer service experience research conducted for a major high-tech client, to drive stronger downstream customer behavior, it was found that processes and customer interaction had to take service employees well beyond the basics of knowledge, efficiency, and friendliness.

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JOIN People Skills Chat Dec. 4: Balancing Self-Care & Care for Others

Kate Nasser

Balancing self-care & care for others is People Skills global Twitter chat topic SUN. Dec, 4th. JOIN Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™, co-host Liz King & global community 10amET/3pmGMT. The post JOIN People Skills Chat Dec. 4: Balancing Self-Care & Care for Others appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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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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Why to Apply The Servant Leadership Approach in Customer Service?

Provide Support

Why to Apply Servant Leadership in Customer Service. The business age we live and work in today is often called the Age of the Customer which means that shifting the focus on the customer now matters more than any other single factor like product innovation and technology racing. No surprise, these days we often hear that customer experience is the new competitive battlefield.