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Trade In Old Thinking For New

Beyond Philosophy

Did you know there was once a German belief that if you sleep with your mouth open, your soul will escape disguised as a white mouse ? Or that ancient doctors used to drill holes in their patients’ heads to cure migraines? Or that drinking the ground up testicles of a small mammal mixed with alcohol was considered a contraceptive in 16th century Canada?

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Exploring Hospitality Customer Service (Video)

Customers That Stick

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Eight Ways to Build Customer Empathy

Heart of the Customer

Customer empathy is absolutely critical to a company-focused culture. Without empathy, employees focus on their own problems, rather than your customers’. They build overly-complex products based on what they want to buy, rather than starting with customer needs. And they certainly don’t understand the emotional context of your customers. Both Forrester and the Temkin Group […].

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Do Customer Journeys Drive Your Content Strategy?

Kerry Bodine

This journey map for the Exploratorium , a science museum in San Francisco, is one of my favorites. That’s because the folks at the former design agency Adaptive Path (which was acquired by Capital One back in 2014) did a great job of highlighting two key things: 1) The entirety of the customer experience. It would be easy for Exploratorium management to focus exclusively on the museum experience—everything that happens within their physical walls, represented by the square box in the middle of

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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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Revolutionary Thinking On Customer Loyalty

Beyond Philosophy

Customers are not loyal because of the Customer Experience you provide. They are loyal because of the Customer Experience they remember you provided. Furthermore, customers don’t remember the entire experience but only bits and pieces. It is important to get these memorable bits right, or your customer loyalty will certainly go to pieces. The human memory isn’t as reliable as we would like to think.

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5 Expert Tips for Customer Service Recovery

Customers That Stick

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Two Major Flaws of Your Customer Listening Efforts

CX Journey

I originally wrote today's post for Clicktools. It appeared on their blog on March 31, 2016. I have modified it slightly since then. Are you listening to your customers? What are you doing with what you've heard? In order to transform the customer experience, it's critical that you listen to your customers. Unfortunately, customer listening has two major flaws - or, more accurately, companies have two major shortcomings when it comes to customer listening.

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Double talk can murder CX strategy

Customer Bliss

Double talk. It can feel like it’s everywhere sometimes. Let me be a little bit blunt to open this post, although I think many of you may have experienced this at least once. In short? Customer culture is talked about by many leaders, but ultimately misunderstood by most organizations. Let’s do a quick example. We know many companies have “core values,” for example — and while often some of the top people try to live by them, oftentimes they feel like a list of word

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5 Tips to Boost Your Holiday Shopping Revenue This Season

Comm100

Whether you’re selling billing software or dog sweaters, you can be sure to expect one thing this holiday season: a big increase in site traffic. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, this probably doesn’t come as a surprise to you. After all, online shopping is now more popular than ever before. Why would the holidays be an exception to this growing phenomenon?

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Perky Customer Service Incompetence – Why Bother? | #cx #custserv

Kate Nasser

Perky customer service is valuable when combined w/ problem solving & action. Management & customer experience training insights fr The People Skills Coach™. The post Perky Customer Service Incompetence – Why Bother? | #cx #custserv 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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Do Customer Journeys Drive Your Content Strategy?

Kerry Bodine

This journey map for the Exploratorium , a science museum in San Francisco, is one of my favorites. That’s because the folks at the former design agency Adaptive Path (which was acquired by Capital One back in 2014) did a great job of highlighting two key things: 1) The entirety of the customer experience. It would be easy for Exploratorium management to focus exclusively on the museum experience—everything that happens within their physical walls, represented by the square box in the middle of

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The Entrepreneurial CCO, with Kevin Bury – CB24

Customer Bliss

Episode Overview. Kevin Bury had a very successful career as the CEO of several technology startups before he took on the senior customer experience leadership role at the very large technology company, SolarWinds. In our conversation, Kevin outlines how he’s used his depth of leadership experience and applied it to his new role in this large organization.

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100% of Your Sales Come From One Place | Do You Know Your Biggest Expense?

The DiJulius Group

Where Do Your Sales Come From? Leaders love to talk about revenue streams by showing graphs and charts with the breakdown of sales categories. It is important to know the percentage of sales generated by products or services and to monitor trends, especially growth and decline of your business revenue. However, there is one critical […].

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When Manual Decisions Become a Novelty

1 to 1

Imagine a future where consumers no longer compare and select products, because companies already know exactly what each person wants and automatically deliver the right product. This may sound like science fiction, but at the DMA’s &Then annual conference, marketing experts outlined efforts to turn ideas like this into reality.Marketers have long strived to deliver the right product and service to the right person at the right time.

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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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5 Customer Experience Hacks for Small Teams

Qualtrics

You already offer a great service at a great price, but that may not be enough to keep your customers coming back for more, or motivate them to tell friends and family about your business. If you want to reap the full value of a customer, give them a memorable customer experience—one that goes beyond a simple exchange of value. Why Customer Experiences Are So Important.

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5 Tips to Train Your Customer Service Reps for More Confidence

Provide Support

5 Tips to Train Your Customer Service Reps for More Confidence. Exceptional customer service starts with confidence. It is one of the most important components of delivering great service to your customers and developing quality employees. After all, customers want to know that the employee they are dealing with knows what one is doing and they get served in a professional manner.