Lumoa

JANUARY 13, 2019

Did you know that NPS is the most popular customer experience metric? Find out the latest NPS data and statistics to power up your customer experience strategy in 2019!

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Net Promoter Score NPS Metrics Strategy 337

Oracle

JANUARY 14, 2019

In the next several years, artificial intelligence will transform how humans interact with businesses. This technical transition is one of the most powerful shifts in computing that the world has ever seen—and it has the potential to be a force of good. According to research from the McKinsey Global Institute , AI could add $13 trillion to global output by 2030 and raise GDP by 1.2% annually.

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Experience Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you’ve followed our research, then you know that we’ve always viewed employee engagement as a fundamental component of customer experience. One of our Six Laws of Customer Experience is that “Unengaged employees don’t create engaged customers.” It just makes sense. How can you possibly expect to consistently deliver great customer experience with apathetic or disengaged employees?!?!

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Employee Engagement Employee Experience Engagement Survey 310

CX Accelerator

JANUARY 7, 2019

I’m not known for being quick on the uptake by those closest to me. A couple prime examples include long division and driving a stick-shift. When my only option was a manual transmission, my parents just sort of cut me loose on the streets of Rancho Cucamonga, California to learn to drive (Yes, I already had my driver’s license but on an automatic transmission).

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Net Promoter Score Contact Center Chatbots Knowledge Base 275

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Today’s digitally savvy customers have high expectations of retailers for convenience, responsiveness, and ease of doing business both in-store and online. Our recent survey of over 2,000 US consumers found that retailers that can drive a seamless, omnichannel customer experience (CX) – across physical and digital channels – have huge benefits for brand relevance, profitability, and customer loyalty.

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Customer Bliss

JANUARY 11, 2019

Are you doing all that you can to help your company earn customer-driven growth? The key word here, is, earn. You can earn customer growth by anticipating their needs, extending patience, and showing respect at all times. This is a topic I address in my latest book, Would You Do That To Your Mother? My goal with the book is to help you focus your decision making and actions on what matters most so you can inspire new behaviors inside of your company.

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Lumoa

JANUARY 17, 2019

Wondering what is the optimal way to measure customer experience? Choosing customer experience metric seems to be a complex process? Don't let the variety trick you. Start collecting customer feedback and measuring customer experience with a simple and easy KPIs and metrics!

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Measurement Customer Experience Tips How To 417

Kerry Bodine

JANUARY 29, 2019

The emerging role of the journey manager represents one of the most important developments since the creation of the Chief Customer Officer, yet many in the customer experience field have yet to encounter a journey manager within their organizations—or to develop a working knowledge of their typical job responsibilities and challenges. That’s not surprising: Compared to the 1.6 million product managers that you’ll find today on LinkedIn, journey managers number fewer than 2,000.

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Management Apparel Chief Customer Officer Telecommunications 234

Vonage

JANUARY 30, 2019

It’s my favourite webinar of the year – our most popular and great fun! This year we had registrations from New Zealand to New York in order to share views on this year’s predictions. Jonty Pearce, editor of callcentrehelper.com pointed out that the annual webinar, which this post is based on, has a pretty good track record. Nine out of the ten topics mentioned in our inaugural 2014 version have become mainstream.

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Experience Matters

JANUARY 21, 2019

The New England Patriots just won the AFC Championship, earning a trip to their third straight Superbowl. As a Patriots fan, I’m thrilled. I know that many people don’t like the team, but there’s no denying that the Patriots have built a dynasty and are one of the most dominant teams in recent history (across any sport). How do the Patriots keep achieving success?

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Sports Culture System Customer Experience 219

Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 If so, this webinar is for you! What was once a common practice in the call center is now a barrier to success. Manual call monitoring is no longer an option if you want to proactively coach your agents to ultimately improve the customer experience using data-driven insights. Join this webinar with Angie Kronlage and April Wiita of Working Solutions to discuss how you can modernize outdated, manual call review processes through the power of autom

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C3Centricity

JANUARY 21, 2019

If you commission or conduct market research, then this post is a must-read. It shares ten important reasons I have learned over the years for NOT doing research, but which are unfortunately still prevalent today. Which, if any, are you guilty of? Leave your comments below – I dare you! #1. WHEN THE ISSUE / OPPORTUNITY IS NOT CLEAR AND THE OBJECTIVES ARE NOT WELL DEFINED.

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Kristina Evey

JANUARY 17, 2019

Being a business owner or leader requires a paradigm shift around comfort… You must become comfortable with being uncomfortable. Knowing … Read More Be the Customer Experience Disrupter. The post Be the Customer Experience Disrupter appeared first on Kristina Evey.

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Lumoa

JANUARY 8, 2019

Find out what are 5 leading trends in B2B customer experience management in 2019. Drive your business-to-business operations to customer success and advocacy. Understand the influence of customer feedback on B2B operations.

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Steve DiGioia

JANUARY 7, 2019

My ham and cheese omelet was delicious, cooked perfectly and piping hot. Bite after bite I tore into the food while thinking of what lies ahead for my day. Another swallow to savor then I heard it…. “I can’t take these people, I hate customers!”. I looked around to see another waitress mumbling and shaking her head as she walked through the diner. She clearly was upset at something that happened.

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Customers Industry Customer Service Management 198

Speaker: David Nisbet, 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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Customer Bliss

JANUARY 17, 2019

In today’s episode, I chat with CCO Lisa Henken Ramirez, about implementing customer experience Netspend , a young, a finance-related company. Netspend is a leading provider of prepaid Visa ® and Mastercard ® cards for personal & commercial use. As the banking industry continues to focus more on customer experience and innovation, I think this is a good conversation to have at the beginning of 2019.

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TechSee

JANUARY 2, 2019

If you’re in the Smart Home or Smart City business, CES 2019 is a must visit. A gathering place for the world’s top business leaders and pioneering thinkers, this year’s event focuses on n an important theme: resilience. The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) – owner and producer of the show that attracts over 180,000 attendees – defines resilience as “the place where technologies are going to help keep the world healthy, safe, warm, powered, fed and secure,” making this year’s event es

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Innovation Entertainment Knowledge Base Technology 174

IntouchInsight

JANUARY 17, 2019

Learn how to improve customer experience at your franchise with four useful steps.

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Customer Experience Customers How To 224

CX Journey

JANUARY 30, 2019

Do you know all of the building blocks of a customer experience transformation strategy? I've mentioned the CX Perception Gap before, right? You might know it as Bain's Delivery Gap, which states findings from their 2005 research: 80% of executives believe they deliver a superior experience, while only 8% of customers agree. What gives? I wrote about that massive gap last year and cited two reasons that Bain offered up for its existence: (1) a focus on acquisition over retention, and (2) a mispl

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Strategy Customer Experience Metrics Guidelines 151

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Lumoa

JANUARY 29, 2019

What is personalized customer experience and how to build it? Learn from the best customer-centric companies about the importance of customer experience personalization.

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Customer Experience Customer Centricity Customers Company 357

Steve DiGioia

JANUARY 21, 2019

Blinders. They’re used on racehorses to keep their focus on running straight ahead and to not be distracted by the horses on either side. For most horses, blinders are a good and productive means to an end. But for some of us humans working in the customer service industry, we’ve decided to wear blinders too. We focus on our job with little interaction with our fellow co-workers.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 2, 2019

I am concerned. I recently read two pieces of research about Customer Experience that worried me. The first was from Nunwood , a UK-based research company with a Customer Experience index, and it showed that improvements in Customer Experience were not happening. The second was from Forrester , and it said the same thing: no increases in Customer Experience improvements.

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Net Promoter Score Customer Experience Effort Score Hospitality 156

TechSee

JANUARY 29, 2019

Samantha is preparing for a party she’s hosting this weekend. She’d like to purchase a standalone freezer so she can cook in advance. Between carpool, the dry cleaners’ closing time, and the dog’s appointment at the vet, there is simply no time to hit the stores, or browse through a myriad of online options. Samantha takes 30 seconds to snap a photo of her available space and uploads it to the snap-to-purchase app.

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CRM Self Service Effort Score e-support 164

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 2, 2019

Here’s another great story we can learn from. This reminds us that having a good system with good people who understand how to take care of their customers is the backbone of a good service experience. My friend, Dr. Neil Baum, the world-renown urologist, was speaking in Las Vegas at the Wynn resort. He noticed the electronic scale in the bathroom didn’t work.

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Customer Service Insurance System Customer Focused 132

Esteban Kolsky

JANUARY 28, 2019

While my blog was being “reworked” (read: unhacked), I posted in Linked-In about the webinar I did last week with Microsoft. That was the first of a three-webinar series on the challenges affecting customer service these days and for the next couple of years. The first webinar was on the evolving role of customer service and how it is going to look in the next decade.

Customer Service 112

Customer Service ROI Exercises Course 112

UJET

JANUARY 10, 2019

Great omnichannel support requires the right tools and training to ensure that your team provides a consistent customer experience. As your company grows, you'll need to support a higher volume of customers—which means scaling your customer-support team to meet their needs.

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Omni-Channel Training Meeting Tools 105

Brandwatch CX

JANUARY 2, 2019

It is a fact of the internet that every click, every view and every sign-up is recorded somewhere. Depending on your view, this is either very creepy or fantastically interesting. As we’re data nerds here at Brandwatch we fall firmly in the second camp. We come across all sorts of interesting stats about social media sites and users, so we’ve collated the best of them in this bumper facts list.

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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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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 23, 2019

Your customers are people and people’s behavior is complicated, especially as customers. Many psychological theories exist to help explain why people do what they do, and when those theories apply to how people behave as customers, they are called Behavioral Economics. I have been studying Behavioral Economics for a few years now and applying those principles to Customer Experience.

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Management Hotels Resources Comparison 144

Oracle

JANUARY 23, 2019

Leading economists say that the world is experiencing a technical revolution at a never-before-seen level of complexity. Artificial intelligence (AI) is at the center of this shift and is changing the way that people work, live, and relate to one another. These trends tend to scare people. “When we attempt to use machines to replace the role of humans in our social lives, the response is immediate and negative,” writes Steve Woods, CTO and co-founder at NudgeAI for The Globe and Mail

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 9, 2019

Some people claim that customer service is getting worse. I disagree. Customers are getting smarter and expecting more. The customer service “bar” is raised by great companies who teach us what good customer service should be. And, when there is a customer service “horror story,” it seems to stand out much more than when everything is right and works the way it’s supposed to.

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