Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

The best way to emphasize improving the Customer Experience is to tie rewards to it. It is critical to include all departments in the definition of KPIs that are Customer-focused, and then align those goals across your organization. 4 Ways to Gain Customers’ Trust in Data Security.

Net Promoter Score 118

Net Promoter Score Customer Experience CEM Customer Centricity 118

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 31, 2015

As some of you who follow this blog may know, I took the CXI® magnifying glass with me to South By Southwest Interactive this month to scout for customer-focused themes within the latest tech trends. 360Connext serves mid-market companies and larger by helping them evaluate their true customer experience.

Technology 110

Technology Customer Experience Social Media Trends 110

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Overlook this, however, and you are not likely to end up with the Customer focus you seek. This post is the second in a series of nine posts looking at the different parts of the organization contributing to Customer Centricity. Naïve companies are the least customer-focused and Natural companies are the most customer-focused.

Net Promoter Score 120

Net Promoter Score Customer Experience CEM How To 120

ShepHyken

MAY 27, 2019

As customers use their smartphones for more and more business, it is incumbent to give customers confidence that they are dealing with safe and secure companies. Ten Best Practices for Boosting Employee Engagement by CXAPP. CXAPP) Building Engagement is About Fostering More Productive, Loyal and Happy Employees.

Customer Journeys 109

Customer Journeys Customer Service Employee Engagement Exercises 109

ClearAction

JULY 29, 2018

Customer Engagement is an Enterprise-wide Imperative Lynn Hunsaker. Does customer engagement rely solely on Marketing, Sales, Success or Service strategies? Customer engagement is successful to the degree that the rest of the company empowers its success. It’s an enterprise-wide imperative.

Customer Engagement 48

Customer Engagement Engagement Customer Centricity Culture 48

Think Customers

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

Since its inception in 2004, the 1to1 Media Customer Champions has grown into a one-of-a-kind awards program that honors and spotlights the individuals responsible for game-changing customer-focused strategies-- a truly unique event that honors the leaders who create innovative change in their organizations.

Employee Engagement 70

Employee Engagement Loyalty Innovation Customer Engagement 70

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 24, 2015

Jeanne Bliss was one of the original Chief Customer Officers, and has held titles like that for companies including Land’s End and Allstate. For more than twenty years, she has helped organizational leadership recognize the importance of customer-focused initiatives in ways that directly impact the business results.

Leadership 110

Leadership Chief Customer Officer Handbook Social Media 110

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

This week we feature an article by Tanya Ahmed, a Digital Marketer of Vantage Circle , a cloud-based employee engagement platform. She writes about what customers expect from companies in 2021 and what they actually get. The following five-step plan will help you build a personalized customer experience: .

Customer Experience 105

Customer Experience Self Service Advertising Customer Expectations 105

Verint

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In my previous blog post , I discussed the rise to prominence of employee engagement in today’s contact center industry. As a reminder, 82 percent of participants in Saddletree Research’s recent survey of end-users ranked employee engagement as a highly important component of their contact center operational strategy.

Employee Engagement 32

Employee Engagement Engagement Contact Center Software 32

ProProfs Chat

MAY 30, 2019

Read on to learn the 10 steps that are a must in your customer success plan for ensuring greater customer success stories in your business. Create a Customer-Centric Culture. It’s easy to pay lip-service about a customer-focused approach, but do you actually do what you preach? Learn from Customer Support.

Customer Success 73

Customer Success Customer Journeys Employee Engagement Ecommerce 73

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

As more leaders discuss becoming customer-centric, I wonder how many actually walk the talk and put actions into their plans. What if customer-centric ideas and tactics were included in all strategy plans ? A strategy that is truly customer customer-focused needs to include ideas like these: 1.

Customer Centricity 110

Customer Centricity Social Media Consulting Strategy 110

Verint

JUNE 6, 2017

Attendees hosted sessions and exchanged best practices on topics including voice of the customer, desktop and process analytics, automation/robotics, employee engagement, quality management, back-office and branch operations, compliance recording and workforce management.

Customer Engagement 34

Customer Engagement Engagement Employee Engagement Conference 34

Verint

AUGUST 17, 2017

The responses were remarkably similar—18 of the 20 customer service professionals I interviewed voiced their concern over what can be broadly categorized as employee engagement. The results conclusively point to a concentration on employee engagement as an important issue for 2017 and beyond.

Contact Center 30

Contact Center Employee Engagement Engagement Gamification 30

Michelli Experience

JANUARY 26, 2016

In the context of my “goodness of fit” interview, I now ask questions like: How do you wish to significantly impact the life of your people and customers? How will you define employee engagement and customer experience success? How do you define corporate culture? And most importantly…. What do you want your legacy to be?

Leadership 100

Leadership Automotive Hotels Employee Engagement 100

Blake Morgan

JANUARY 20, 2022

His blog, Customers That Stick, features interviews with top CX leaders and answers common customer-related questions. . He offers a European perspective on employee and customer engagement and customer focus and shares interviews with top CX leaders. . Adrian Swinscoe . Annette Franz . Jeff Toister .

Case Study 96

Case Study Customer Journeys Competitive Advantage Customer Centricity 96

ShepHyken

APRIL 22, 2019

As Bill Patterson, Salesforce Service Cloud’s GM and Executive VP would say, “Never before has it been more important to rid the world of bad customer service experiences.” Top-Rated in Employee Engagement and Customer Satisfaction: How does Quicken Loans do it? by Mohamed Latib, Ph.D. . (CX Follow on Twitter: @Hyken.

Self Service 81

Self Service Customer Service Competitive Advantage Case Study 81

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 9, 2015

I’ve seen plenty of Marketing, HR and Technology leaders who have made astounding improvements in the experiences they create for customers. Customer focused organizations smoke the competition. 360Connext serves mid-market companies and larger by helping them evaluate their true customer experience.

Customer Experience 110

Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Customer Experience Professionals Resources 110

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 29, 2020

How to Drive Customer and Employee Engagement for a Better Customer Experience. They discuss strategies for building customer centricity and emotional engagement. Top Takeaways: Customer centricity happens when everyone in the organization is focused on customer engagement.

Customer Centricity 80

Customer Centricity Culture Leadership Employee Engagement 80

Customer Guru

AUGUST 21, 2018

DiJulius is a best-selling author of three books, a renowned keynote speaker, and an international customer experience consultant. John is an “Ex-Disney Guy” and Customer Experience Coach. He educates about the transformative power of customer success to his clients. John Formica Follow @JohnFormica. Nancy Porte.

Customer Experience 115

Customer Experience Customer Journeys Consulting Customer Experience Professionals 115

Experience Matters

APRIL 7, 2015

1) Company Overview: Confirmit enables businesses to operationalize feedback and drive change throughout their organizations using the world’s most secure, reliable and scalable solutions for Voice of the Customer (VoC), Employee Engagement and Market Research (MR) programs. Confirmit. Qualtrics.

Groups 120

Groups Multi-Channel Omni-Channel CEM 120

Customer Guru

AUGUST 8, 2018

Jay Baer the Founder of Convince & Convert, The New York Times bestselling author of six customer-focused books, global keynote speaker, and a digital expert. His vast experience in planning and implementing customer-focused strategies helps his clients achieve great customer experience, retention, and, in turn, customer loyalty.

Customer Experience 130

Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Consulting Customer Journeys 130

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Downie said that the focus is often on getting all the objective parts right but not focusing on the emotional parts of the experience. Since we know over 50% of the Customer Experience is emotional, he would start with a Customer focus as his basis for design, with a particular emphasis on the interaction with the Customer.

ROI 74

ROI Net Promoter Score CEM Conference 74

Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

He is currently focused on two areas: The impact of the digital customer experience disruption, the next wave of emergent customer engagement channels, and the value of unstructured VOC data in understanding customer behavior and demand generation. Jeff helps clients develop customer-focused cultures.

Customer Experience 147

Customer Experience Customer Service Social Media Consulting 147

ClearAction

JANUARY 4, 2020

Like attracts like: customer engagement is unlikely to be sustained without employee engagement in customer experience performance. Organic customer engagement is reciprocated to the extent that employee engagement improves customers’ well-being. Engage Non-Customer-Facing Roles.

Engagement 48

Engagement Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Employee Engagement 48

SurveySensum

JULY 14, 2020

Colin is an accomplished Speaker, a renowned Best-Selling Author, and a Co-Host of a successful podcast, The Intuitive Customer. Rudy Dalimunthe – VP of CX at Tokopedia, Ex Indosat – XL Axiata – Ernst & Young, CX & Customer Engagement Professional. LinkedIn : [link]. Website : [link]. LinkedIn : [link].

Customer Experience 132

Customer Experience Consulting Multi-Channel Leadership 132

Verint

JANUARY 16, 2018

In today’s customer care environments, a strong quality management (QM) system is crucial to moving customer engagement interactions to the next level of performance excellence. For many years, companies have used QM software and techniques to optimize their customer service operations.

Customer Engagement 34

Customer Engagement Engagement Effort Score e-support 34

Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

He is currently focused on two areas: The impact of the digital customer experience disruption, the next wave of emergent customer engagement channels, and the value of unstructured VOC data in understanding customer behavior and demand generation. Jeff helps clients develop customer-focused cultures.

Customer Experience 130

Customer Experience Customer Service Social Media Consulting 130

Lumoa

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Peter Lavers, Customer Experience and CRM Expert @ PeterLavers | blog "Customer Experience is here to stay! There are many organisations embracing a people-centric approach to business (be it employee engagement on CX or on developing strong CX programmes) but there remain a large number who fail to fully grasp the need for change.

Customer Experience 150

Customer Experience Customer Centricity Culture Consulting 150

Verint

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Verint’s contribution to this theme was an interactive general session called “Customer Engagement LIVE!” Here are some of the highlights we heard during the read back presentations around customer engagement strategies:

Customer Engagement 28

Customer Engagement Engagement Conference Groups 28

Verint

MARCH 22, 2017

It only takes a quick look around your surroundings to see that the world has changed. Every head is buried in a phone—and apps and bots are used to do everything from hiring a car to dimming the lights.

Contact Center 26

Contact Center Employee Engagement Engagement Technology 26

ClearAction

APRIL 3, 2015

Make sure employees buy into the Why not just the What. What is happening with employees is what will be reflected to customers: use #VoE as window to CX realities. If employee engagement is high and customer satisfaction is low, then you know you’ve got troubles. Customers First, or Employees First ?

Engagement 48

Engagement Customer Experience Employee Engagement Government 48

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

This week we feature an article by Doug Bell who writes about how leaders can optimize their company’s customer experience. It is important to have a plan in place for managing the customer experience and having a customer-focused culture. – Shep Hyken. A Simple Playbook for Managing Customer Experience.

Measurement 55

Measurement Interaction Culture Customer Experience 55

ProProfs Chat

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Your business accomplishes the goal of a higher ROI, as your customers keep on coming back. But how to create a customer retention strategy that has the power to keep your existing customers engaged and delighted? The brand drives customer retention using two elements – referral programs and gamification.

Customer Service 68

Customer Service Gamification Airlines Net Promoter Score 68

Michelli Experience

APRIL 27, 2016

As a professional speaker, I envisioned possible stage benefits from learning improvisational comedy skills but I hadn’t appreciated the benefits that improv training would provide me in my role as a leader or as a consultant charged with helping organizations increase the quality of experiences they provided to their customers.

Hotels 100

Hotels Consulting Employee Experience Innovation 100

Qualtrics

AUGUST 1, 2019

From Employee Satisfaction to Employee Engagement. By the early 1990s, HR professionals realized that just being “satisfied” isn’t enough to motivate employees to really unlock their full value within the organization. Employee engagement is something we can all relate to. Getting-Started Tips.

Survey 40

Survey Employee Engagement Banking Effort Score 40

ShepHyken

JULY 27, 2022

You’ll notice more customer engagement, employees will evangelize your brand, and even more importantly, they will stay! . Shep Hyken is a customer service expert, keynote speaker, and New York Times, bestselling business author. Be purposeful about what makes your company a great place to work.

Culture 70

Culture Employee Experience Customer Service Training Training 70

Michelli Experience

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Since so many leaders see “customer experience” enhancement as critical to business success, it logically follows that customers must be delighted by all the extra effort companies are putting behind their high-priority customer-focused initiatives, right? Well, not exactly. Actually, not at all.

Customer Experience 100

Customer Experience Customer Satisfaction Consulting Loyalty 100