Callminer
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
Net Promoter Scores are touted as valuable tools for customer satisfaction and improving experience. But relying on this data alone fails to paint the full picture that today’s contact centers need.
Uniphore
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
The verdict came by email. Martha Mitchell learned that her request for 10 customer service agents was denied. All managers were expected to “Do more with less”. As director of customer experience, Martha was responsible for the contact center of 300 agents and a product support team of 20. She understood that there were only two ways to do “more with less.”.
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Beyond Philosophy
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
After my wife Lorraine and I ordered dinner in a restaurant the other night, I decided to have a glass of wine. Now, where was our waiter? I looked around and realized I didn’t have a clue what he looked like. So I asked Lorraine. “Do you see our waiter?” She craned her neck and then shrugged. It seems neither of us could remember the face of the fellow who had, just moments before, told us about the night’s specials in great detail.
Myra Golden Media
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
I recorded this video last week for a client. It’s part of a full 16-module customer service training. As a special treat for you, I’m sharing one module from my client’s course. This video is about giving customers an experience that makes them feel good and maintains their esteem. Viewers learn 3 Keys for a Friendly Customer Experience: Never Correct a Customer, Pacing a Customer’s Sense of Urgency and Acknowledging Concern.
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Lumoa
NOVEMBER 15, 2017
On 14 November 2016, exactly one year ago, Lumoame Oy was registered in Helsinki. This year has been an amazing journey for us and we wanted to share this important moment with you. No surprise, the main discussion topic at #LumoaAnniversary was Customer Experience. We celebrated our first year with our supporters, friends, and customers. Customers have been at the center of all our operations since the very beginning.
Provide Support
NOVEMBER 16, 2017
Customer service and marketing can intensify and strengthen each other. Customer service and marketing are often seen as completely different processes by most companies. Strategies for each of the process are planned independently; employees of these departments take separate trainings and sometimes work in different buildings or even countries. Indeed, differences are obvious – marketing is about getting new clients while customer service is about making them happy.
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Fonolo
NOVEMBER 15, 2017
The customer service profession is known for high turnover rates and agent burnout, however, some professionals greatly excel in this line of work, and show tremendous aptitude for delivering excellent customer care. Perhaps you’re a customer service rep who thrives in the workplace, and are thinking to yourself, “Do I have what it takes to grow in this profession?
Customer Service Life
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
This article was originally published on CustomerThink.com as part of my regular advisor column on October 13, 2017. Click here to read the original along with other terrific articles. In a previous role, I remember when we switched our sign up from an opt-in model to opt-out. This change led to many calls from surprised customers, sometimes months down the road, who didn’t realize we were going to automatically bill their credit card.
eglobalis
NOVEMBER 12, 2017
This article will help you as a leader to decide or help your teams to decide where to cut useless features and functionalities. There is no sustainable customer experience without its real pillars: quality, design, great products, services and a human-centric design. The post Why Customer Experience & Tech are about Less than More? Stop Counterintuitive Design & Cut the Waste appeared first on Eglobalis.
Beyond Philosophy
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D., CMC Thought Leadership Principal, Beyond Philosophy. Richard Branson and Herb Kelleher never studied HR theory or staff management principles. That said, they’ve proven to be pretty good at it. Both understand (in the case of Sir Richard at Virgin Group) and understood (in the case of Herb Kelleher at Southwest Airlines) the value of putting people and customers first, HR practice second.
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.
Fonolo
NOVEMBER 16, 2017
The call center can be a great resource for getting questions answered, but it’s typically not the most enjoyable experience. This is especially true because of the many different channels that give customers instant gratification – thus increasing the expectations for customer service. But that doesn’t mean the phone channel isn’t still a popular medium.
Heart of the Customer
NOVEMBER 16, 2017
In the Harvard Business Review article, “The New Sales Imperative,” the CEB reports that in just the last two years the average number of people involved in a B2B purchasing decision has increased from 5.4 two years ago to 6.8 today. This change has made the journey far more complex, creating longer sales cycles and an overall more challenging sales process.
ClearAction
NOVEMBER 16, 2017
What is Customer Experience Ecosystem? Lynn Hunsaker. When J.C. Penney hired the wiz behind Apple retail stores’ success as its CEO, there were expectations that “what worked well there will do so here”. Pesky promotional discounts (600 per year) were discontinued in favor of coupon-free, discount-absent everyday-value pricing, along with a new “fair and square” logo and ads pitched by Ellen DeGeneres.
Myra Golden Media
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
Now and then someone comes along with an idea, and specific ways to implement that plan, that can truly make a difference for everyone who uses it. And that’s precisely what I’ve done with this new program: My All-New Telephone Skills Training eLearning Course . In this online training, I teach your employees absolutely everything they need to know to deliver a warm and friendly customer experience, to control calls and pre-empt escalations.
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.
Taylor Reach Group
NOVEMBER 17, 2017
Original post via ProProfs, expert opinion summary by Colin Taylor. With Customer Experience being a crucial factor in business operations, comes the importance of optimizing Customer Support and forecasting trends. With 2018 around the corner, it’s a great time to discuss current and anticipated trends. Recently I was asked to contribute to an expert round-up on the top customer support trends to look for in 2018.
Customer Bliss
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
Overview. Are you thinking about how to implement a customer experience journey at your startup? On this episode, Adriana Zeman , VP of Customer Success at Zaius , shares her proven path for making customer experience a part of the business in a startup operation. In our conversation, we cover her month-to-month plan to implement a customer success journey that goes beyond the initial onboarding phase.
ClearAction
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
Customer Experience ROI Opportunities on B2B Touchpoints Lynn Hunsaker. Are you accelerating repurchases through your customer experience touch-points with industrial customers? What’s unique in business-to-business customer experience is the extensive interactions between the customer and supplier companies for a long time after the initial purchase.
Myra Golden Media
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
I was trying to check in for my American Airlines flight on my phone. I was able to get one boarding pass, but not the other. After several failed attempts, I called American and explained my problem. I was transferred quickly, and the person I ended up with looked into my itinerary and then she said: “Ms. Golden, this is a system error. You’re checked in all the way through to Tulsa.
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?
DMG Consulting
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
The Transforming World of Workforce Optimization . Workforce optimization (WFO) suites are undergoing a major transformation to align better with the needs of the digital economy. Changes are happening in many components of WFO suites. At the core application level, recording solutions are transitioning from hardware-based recorders to software-based solutions, to expand system capacity and eliminate the need to pay for and manage a large number of servers.
Customer Bliss
NOVEMBER 17, 2017
How does your company incorporate its mission statement? Is it used daily as a decision-making lens for uniting the organization in making operational decisions? Most importantly, do employees know it and use it to improve customers’ lives and earn the right to growth? When I work with clients, it’s important that we define what I call, “clarity of purpose.
ClearAction
NOVEMBER 12, 2017
What is ‘Walking the Talk’ for Customer Experience? Lynn Hunsaker. What does it really mean to “walk the customer experience talk”? Executive sponsorship is certainly essential, yet there’s so much more to it. An ironic byproduct of any customer engagement effort is that it intrinsically sets up expectations — externally and internally. Walking the customer experience talk means you are following through on expectations you’re setting with customers, employees, channel partners and a
ClientSuccess
NOVEMBER 16, 2017
Being on the CSM frontline allows us to directly influence the success of our clients. I love that; as our clients are successful, we’re successful. We’re lucky to have this week’s frontline Customer Success Manager (CSM) best practice come from Mieke Maes of Intuo. Mieke has been a Customer Success Manager for Intuo since August 2017, but brings with her nearly 3 years of Customer Success experience!
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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
DMG Consulting
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
Question: Our contact center agents in customer service and technical support are being asked to up-sell and cross-sell. How do we help them become comfortable with this change and be effective? Answer: Agents in traditionally “non-sales” contact center roles are frequently asked to sell, due to evolving customer experience standards. Although a business may consist of separate contact center roles and departments for sales, customer service, technical support, etc., customers increasingly expec
CX Journey
NOVEMBER 15, 2017
Image courtesy of Pixabay In business, your culture is the soul of the organization. The soul is the essence or the moral force of a person, their emotional or intellectual energy. It's the the part of you that consists of your mind, character, thoughts, beliefs, and feelings. Translate that to your company, and it becomes a good proxy definition for culture.
The DiJulius Group
NOVEMBER 15, 2017
Collecting Customer Intelligence One of the most popular ideas implemented by clients of The DiJulius Group is teaching their Customer facing employees to focus and collect FORD (Family, Occupation, Recreation, & Dreams). If you are not familiar with the FORD concept, read You Say You Have Relationships with your Customers? Prove it! However, introducing the.
ClientSuccess
NOVEMBER 15, 2017
Mapping out the customer journey isn’t just for small start-ups or unicorn companies. It can be tempting to write off this extra step if your company is part of a larger, more mature marketplace as the customer experience is likely well documented and established. But while it may take on a different look than customer lifecycles at different size companies, it’s still vitally important to map out the customer experience and plan for various stages.
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
InteractionMetrics
NOVEMBER 16, 2017
There are many modes of customer service (phone, in-person, email, etc.). But, when done well, customer service chat is by far the best. It reduces customer effort, increases customer satisfaction and answers customers’ questions quickly. Plus, it’s less costly than the phone, is more immediate than email, and it amplifies conversion by showing up on your website just when customers are about to bail.
Confirmit
NOVEMBER 15, 2017
From searching new ways to fight diseases to managing government regulations to flawed consumer perceptions, it can often seem as though pharmaceutical, life sciences, and medical device companies face more challenges than any other industry. It will come as no surprise that all these factors combined can have a major impact on profitability. That said, it is imperative for such healthcare companies to improve their profitability through cost containment and revenue growth.
SugarCRM
NOVEMBER 16, 2017
With more powerful and advanced technology continuously emerging, standing out in the eye of the customer has become a unique challenge these days. Great technology alone doesn’t set you apart anymore; consumers and business buyers alike have gotten more buying power today than ever before. Thanks to digital disruptors, such as Amazon and Netflix, buyers expect you to know them, automatically suggesting the next show to watch or next purchase to consider barely after completing the last.
ProProfs
NOVEMBER 15, 2017
Looking for ways to improve the completion rates of your elearning courses? Want to make your online training content more comprehensive and easy to remember? Well, you should go for microlearning because it drives knowledge retention and improves performance. Nowadays the learners are overwhelmed with too much information. They get easily distracted by competing priorities.
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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