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LISTEN 2016 to Highlight the Benefits of Speech & Customer Journey Analytics

Callminer

In today’s customer landscape, the “customer experience” has evolved from a buzzword to a top priority for any organization regularly interfacing with customers. And for good reason: Research shows customer satisfaction has the power to create happy and loyal customers, in addition to directly impacting the bottom line. Forrester, in fact, reports that the revenue […].

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Outrageous! Hotels keep on charging!

Beyond Philosophy

Have you ever spent a night at a hotel, on business, and been charged a “resort fee” even though you never had time to take advantage of the pool, the spa or any of the other “amenities?”. I have, and I wasn’t happy about it. Nor was I pleased when I was charged to park in a sprawling suburban parking lot, or when I saw the $5 price tag on the bottled water in my room.

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The Peak-End Rule and Customer Experience

Customers That Stick

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Creating Radical CX Change, the Quiet Way

Heart of the Customer

At CXPA events I often run across new attendees with a familiar story. They’re obsessed with customers, and they want to transform their companies to be more customer-focused. They desperately want to change their companies! But they’re not in a customer experience (CX) role. How, they ask, can they change their company if their company […]. The post Creating Radical CX Change, the Quiet Way appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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7 Tips for Maintaining A Positive Attitude in Customer Service

Provide Support

7 Tips for Maintaining A Positive Attitude in Customer Service. There’s no surprise that customer service is among occupations that commonly involve quite a high number of stressful experiences. This might gradually influence our reactions and behaviors, and invisibly cause the outcomes that are not really in our best interests. Exhaustion, anxiety, lack of motivation, uncertainty and frustration are reported as most common issues resulting in overall burnout and occupational hazard in customer

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Would You Work Here?!?! Recruiting Now!

Beyond Philosophy

Like millions of Wells Fargo customers, Lorraine and I have checked to see if we had any accounts opened with the bank without our consent. Like millions of Wells Fargo customers, we don’t trust them because they lied. In today’s context, their Code of Ethics sounds absurd: Wells Fargo’s reputation as ‘one of the world’s great companies for integrity and principled performance’ sounds laughable in light of the scandal where employees opened millions of fraudulent customer accounts to hit product

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Customer Analysis: How about creating a customer room?

Customer Bliss

Customer analysis is no doubt an important topic in CX. We’re up into the 20s on episode count for my podcast , but back in Episode 3 I interviewed Scott Dille of Northern Trust. We talked a lot about creating a customer room — they call it a CPX studio — which can be a really valuable tool for customer analysis. I’ve written about this idea of a customer room many times, from this post in November 2015 entitled “Build A Customer Room And Engage The Company”

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The Term “Soft Skills” is an Oxymoron

The DiJulius Group

The Real Problem With Customer ServiceThe real problem with customer service is the mindset most leaders have of what it takes to deliver good customer service: “Hiring good people with common sense and soft skills.” That is totally wrong! It is so much more than that. The first part is the term “common sense” which […].

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5 Ways to Reduce Holiday Lines and Customer Wait Time

Comm100

“Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.” – William Arthur Ward. You’ve probably noticed that customers hate waiting, whether it’s in person, online or on the phone. This frustration can actually do real damage to your bottom line: according to a study conducted in the U.K. , 41% of shoppers have abandoned a purchase due to long wait times, and 86% avoid shops if they perceive the queue to be too long.

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Balancing Emotional Intelligence & IQ: JOIN People Skills Chat Nov. 6

Kate Nasser

JOIN Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™ and global community in #PeopleSkills Twitter chat SUN. Nov. 6th 10amEST/3pmGMT to explore integrating and balancing emotional intelligence & IQ. The post Balancing Emotional Intelligence & IQ: JOIN People Skills Chat Nov. 6 appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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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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Helping 40 Million Students Repay Their Federal Student Loans, With Chief Customer Officer Brenda Wensil – CB25

Customer Bliss

Episode Overview. Brenda Wensil is the Chief Customer Officer at the Department of Education Federal Student Aid Office. In her role, she is constantly striving to help the 40 million students paying their student loans — as well as the 22 million students who are applying. . Funding your education is obviously a very important aspect of many people’s lives (it’s central to the idea of “The American Dream,” for example), so Brenda’s work has a near-constant

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Retailers Waste Time with Critically Flawed Surveys

InteractionMetrics

It seems that we’re asked to take a customer satisfaction survey with nearly every purchase. But do you ever wonder…do they really care what I have to say? Our 2016 Customer Listening Study, the first of its kind, evaluated the customer satisfaction surveys of 51 top US retailers.

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Understand The Current State of Your Customer Experience - Without Hiring a Consultant

CX Journey

Image courtesy of cheryl1906 For today’s post, it was my pleasure to collaborate with Ben Motteram to compile some ideas you may not have considered with regards to ways you can measure how well you're delivering your customer experience - without hiring a consultant to do the work with or for you. For over 20 years, Ben has been developing customer acquisition and retention strategies for a variety of industries; he is currently a customer experience consultant in Australia.

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Retailers Waste Time with Critically Flawed Surveys

InteractionMetrics

It seems that we’re asked to take a customer satisfaction survey with nearly every purchase. But do you ever wonder…do they really care what I have to say? Our 2016 Customer Listening Study, the first of its kind, evaluated the customer satisfaction surveys of 51 top US retailers. The main finding: retailers like Lowe’s and […]. The post Retailers Waste Time with Critically Flawed Surveys appeared first on Interaction Metrics.

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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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Retailers Waste Time with Critically Flawed Surveys

InteractionMetrics

It seems that we’re asked to take a customer satisfaction survey with nearly every purchase. But do you ever wonder…do they really care what I have to say? Our 2016 Customer Listening Study, the first of its kind, evaluated the customer satisfaction surveys of 51 top US retailers. The main finding: retailers like Lowe’s and […]. The post Retailers Waste Time with Critically Flawed Surveys appeared first on Interaction Metrics.

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Retailers Waste Time with Critically Flawed Surveys

InteractionMetrics

It seems that we’re asked to take a customer satisfaction survey with nearly every purchase. But do you ever wonder…do they really care what I have to say? Our 2016 Customer Listening Study, the first of its kind, evaluated the customer satisfaction surveys of 51 top US retailers.

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