Sat.Jan 07, 2017 - Fri.Jan 13, 2017

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Car Sales Through Vending Machines!

Beyond Philosophy

The customers have spoken, and they’ve had enough of car dealerships. They’re spending less time talking to salespeople at car lots and more time researching cars online, taking virtual test drives and emailing or texting dealers to find the perfect vehicle. Customers might still visit a dealership or two for a test drive, but they also might just buy the car sight unseen and have it delivered, according to dealers and industry executives who gathered recently for the Tampa International Auto Sh

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Half of all journeys maps fail to drive change. Don’t be a statistic.

Heart of the Customer

Customer journey maps are a customer experience (CX) leader’s best friend. Done well, a journey mapping initiative aligns your teams around a shared vision to an improved customer experience. Effective journey maps engage your entire company to align on your customers’ moments of truth, showcasing how to create more loyal customers. Unfortunately, these initiatives fail […].

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Customer strategy: Crawl, walk, run

Customer Bliss

It’s early 2017 now. Hopefully you have eyes on a customer strategy for this year. If not — or if you’re in the earlier planning stages of it — let me run through an approach I use with a lot of clients (and have used in my own work in companies). Like much of what I do and speak about, it’s rooted in the five-competency framework.

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The Future is Now: Take Your Customer Data to the Next Level

CX Journey

I originally wrote this post for CXpert. It appeared on their blog in August, 2016. I'm often asked about the future of customer experience: What does it look like? What will companies focus on this year? What advancements have we seen or should we expect to see? What are the latest tools to help companies improve the experience? For this post, it's the latter I'll address.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with 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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Will Uber and Lyft Kill Rental Cars?

Beyond Philosophy

Back in November, Hertz rental car shares fell sharply when the huge rental car company slashed its profit forecast for the year. Hertz (which also owns Dollar and Thrifty) blamed it on vehicle depreciation, but depreciation may be the least of the rental car industry’s worries as we move into 2017. Over the past several months, I’ve become a fan of Uber and Lyft.

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Don't forget to put the Service in your SaaS

PeopleMetrics

When you are selling a SaaS product, you really need to think about what you’re actually selling. At PeopleMetrics we realize that we’re not only selling software, we’re selling a service. It seems like an obvious truth (after all, they are called Software-as-a-Service products), but many SaaS companies lose sight of the service side of things - they strive toward the goal of a no-touch sales organization.

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Stop Debating the Survey Question Scale: Why a 0-10 Scale is Your Best Option

Waypoint Group

I’m frequently asked about scales for rating questions on surveys… “Should we use a 5-point scale, a 7-point scale, a 10-point scale, or an 11-pt scale?” “Should we use semantic anchors at every option, or just numeric, Likert scales?” Etc. Of course, there is no one-size-fits-all, and proper writing of the survey questions is a generally a much more important exercise. […].

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How to Know if Customer Service is the Right Job for You

Provide Support

How to Know if Customer Service is the Right Job for You. I’ve been working in the customer service front line for more than 7 years and to be honest, in the beginning I was not sure if it was the right job for me. As a young person, which way can you find it out? When you have little experience, your chances of figuring out what you are really fit for are very small.

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Stop Focusing On Your Goals | Airline Makes It Right, But Not The Same Airline That Made It Wrong

The DiJulius Group

Accidents Happen A sleeping passenger, on an American Airlines flight, was suddenly awoken after an out of control, speeding beverage cart, smashed into him. The beverage cart, that was supposed to be safely latched & stowed in the first class galley for takeoff, somehow went rogue, got loose and flew down 30 feet, making it […].

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6 Prerequisites for New Business Software

Qualtrics

Modern businesses rely on technology operate more smoothly, create better relationships with both employees and customers, and ultimately to drive higher profits. Accordingly, they thrive on software that helps them track things efficiently, manage items and people, and get things done more easily. Obviously, there are thousands of different types of software and different choices at every level—and your choice in software can have a huge impact on how ultimately beneficial that software is.

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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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President Obama’s Chief Veterans Experience Officer, With Tom Allin – CB34

Customer Bliss

Episode Overview. Tom Allin is the Chief Veterans Experience Officer at the US Department of Veterans Affairs. He was appointed by President Obama, and reports directly to Robert McDonald, the head of the VA. Tom’s experience is extremely rich. He was a leader of the McDonald’s empire in Europe, and also owned his own food business. One of the more interesting aspects of this conversation is the differences (and similarities) between major enterprise work and major governmental work.