August, 2018

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These 3 Reasons Explain Why Omnichannel Sucks

Omnicus

Here’s why your omni-efforts are failing your business.

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CRM vs CEM: Where should you put the money?

CloudCherry

How do successful brands stand out from the rest of the crowd? It’s the constant and unending focus on the customer experience. The customer plays such a crucial role that organizations rely on customer data and analysis to best understand customer behavior and what gets them all the way to the end of the sales funnel. There’s such a healthy market for customer management and analysis software that they’ve now branched out into two distinctive categories: Customer Relationship Management (CRM).

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The Six Laws Of Customer Experience (Video)

Experience Matters

This video explains The Six Laws of Customer Experience. By understanding these fundamental truths about how people and organizations behave, companies can make smarter decisions about what they do, and how they do it. You can download the free eBook and see our infographic. Video Script: Just like the laws that govern physics, there are a set of fundamental truths that explain how organizations treat their customers.

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The 7 Deadly Survey Questions

GetFeedback

Have you ever sent a survey and realized, after the fact, that your questions were confusing or misleading? It happens to everyone at some point. And while bad survey questions aren’t the end of the world, they can easily muddy your data and derail your business decisions. Let’s take a look at the most common pitfalls and how you can avoid them.

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2024 State of Customer Education Report

Customer education has become a key driver for growth, retention, and product adoption. Our latest 2024 State of Customer Education Report uncovers critical data and insights from a survey of over 200 industry leaders, offering a look at the evolving role of education in driving business success. Inside, you'll find data on key trends and strategies, including: Strategies for Scaling & Customization: Find out which investments in learning technology deliver the biggest ROI and scalability.

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The Power of Positivity

InMoment XI

My good colleague and HorizonCX business partner Joe Camirand wrote a recent blog around The Power of a Smile. Consider this a companion blog that looks as the broader concept of being positive, to which a smile certainly belongs and serves as a great starter. In the world of customer experience, a smile can certainly. View Article.

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Are You Ready for the Future of Customer Service?

BlueOcean

Did you know that 32% of customers worldwide will quit doing business with a brand – even if they love it – because of just one bad experience? This statistic from a PwC survey is an eye-opener for any organization that interfaces with customers on a regular basis. But what constitutes a bad experience? Although the surface reasons may be broad, often the root cause is a failure to evolve the customer service solution.

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Recreating That Airport Experience

Vocalabs

Recreating That Airport Experience. Peter Leppik. Thu, 2018-08-23 11:32. Customer Experience. This past weekend I went to the movies on a date night with my wife. We went to the AMC megaplex to see Crazy Rich Asians. Normally we go to a smaller (and cheaper) theater that's a lot closer to home, but we had been given some AMC passes so we made the drive.

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Report: ROI of Customer Experience, 2018

Experience Matters

We just published a Temkin Group report, ROI of Customer Experience, 2018. Here’s the executive summary: To understand the connection between customer experience (CX) and loyalty, we examined feedback from 10,000 U.S. consumers describing both their experiences with and their loyalty to different companies. The CX scores used in this model come from the 2018 Temkin Experience Ratings (TxR), which evaluated 318 companies across 20 industries.

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Dealing with Detractors in 4 Simple Steps

GetFeedback

If you use Net Promoter Score (NPS) to keep tabs on customer happiness, then you know how painful a low score can feel. While NPS is a valuable customer experience metric , it also opens you up to a lot of criticism from detractors, or customers who give you a score of 6 or below. It’s the feedback no one likes to get: this person would definitely not refer business to you.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Amanda Adams, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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How to Choose the Best Survey Touchpoint for a Banking CX Program

Centriam Customer Experience Lab

As you begin building a customer experience (CX) program, a common first step is gathering feedback from your customers. We’ve found that surveying customers about their interactions across major touchpoint is an easy place to start. We recently published a three step guide to starting a CX program based on this method. Download our Community Banking CX Blueprint here to get a jumpstart on your CX planning.

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Online Panel: Market Research Panel

QuestionPro Audience

What is a market research panel? A market research panel is defined as a group of research participants, selected for market research studies. These research panelists help a researcher to evaluate a brand or products/services offered by the brand, thus also called brand research panel. A market research panel is a more popular option as compared to the more traditional phone interviews.

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Promoting Mental and Physical Well-Being in Service Roles

CX Accelerator

Working in customer service or customer experience can take a massive toll on your physical and mental well-being. When combining the stress that comes with never-ending customer requests, pressure from all types of internal stakeholders, and the sometimes crippling weight of life outside of work, the result may be too much to bear. How can we create an environment that gives life instead of sucking it out of us?

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Three Clever Ways to Know the Competition Better

C3Centricity

What is the secret to success in business? That’s easy! It’s how well you know the competition. Alright, maybe this is a slightly over-simplified perspective, but it always surprises me how many companies work with a primarily internal focus. I have written many posts about knowing your customers, such as “Why Customers Are The Answer To All Your Problems (If You Ask the Right Questions).” Watching and listening to them in order to fully understand their rational needs a

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Frost Radar: Voice of Customer Analytics, 2024

Understanding and improving your customer experience (CX) can have a massive impact on your bottom line. Choosing the right voice of customers (VoC) solution is a critical step to elevating CX. Frost & Sullivan researched more than 50 leading VoC vendors, analyzing both their “innovation index” and “growth index” to independently select the top 10 performers in each of these categories.

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CX Myth #2: You Need A 360-Degree View of Customers

Experience Matters

Many common beliefs about customer experience are misguided, based on oversimplifications or a lack of consideration for real-world constraints. In this series of posts, we debunk these myths. CX Myth #2: You Need A 360-Degree View of Customers What’s Wrong: If companies had an unlimited set of resources to plow into their customer insights efforts and an equally unlimited number of people prepared to take action on those insights, then shooting for a 360-degree view of your customers woul

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11 Customer Service Metrics to Start Measuring

GetFeedback

Customer service has long been an area of focus for marketers and support specialists. After all, 67% of consumers list bad customer experience as one of the primary reasons for churning and 39% of consumers avoid vendors for over 2 years after having a negative experience. Businesses understand that great customer service isn’t optional–it can make or break a brand’s reputation.

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How NOT to survive in a disrupted world – the case study of UK retailer, FatFace

ijgolding

The word ‘disruption’ is one of the most commonly used with reference to business and commerce around the world today. It des not matter which industry your organisation is a part of, every traditional business is being challenged in ways they could never have imagined when they were founded – whether it be as long as one hundred years ago, or as recently as ten years ago.

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Car-Shopping in 2018: Consumer Insight

QuestionPro Audience

Buying a car used to be a rite of passage in an American’s life, but after seven straight years of growth in new vehicle sales, 2017 reported a decline of 1.8% , with 17.2 million cars and trucks sold. Even worse news for manufacturers, it’s predicted 2018’s number will drop to 16.8 million vehicles sold. It used to be that consumers were stuck with whatever price the car dealership offered them, give or take a little wiggle room.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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The Fundamental Guide to the Contact Center RFP

BlueOcean

Planning for 2019 already? You’re in good company. Contracting a new contact center outsourcer may be one of the most impactful decisions you make all year (no pressure, right?) You’re putting your brand and your customers in the hands of someone new, whose efforts will have a direct impact on your business, its ROI, and all its related KPIs. It’s the type of decision that is well-suited to a formal RFP and procurement process.

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4 Ways to Stop Being a Business of No

Steve DiGioia

you gotta be kidding with all these rules. This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. You took out a big loan to open your business; maybe even got a second mortgage on your home. Then, product and supplies were ordered on credit cards. You even convinced your spouse and kids to work there because there’s no money left for payroll. But you opened a “business of no”.

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CX Myth #1: The Customer Is Always Right

Experience Matters

Many common beliefs about customer experience are misguided, based on oversimplifications or a lack of consideration for real-world constraints. In this series of posts, we debunk these myths. CX Myth #1: The Customer Is Always Right What’s Wrong: Like all human beings, customers aren’t always right. They sometimes complain when the company did nothing wrong, request things that the company can not or should not provide, and periodically just make mistakes.

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Are Point-of-Sale Surveys Pointless?

GetFeedback

The point of sale is an incredibly important time for retailers to engage their customers. However, most are stuck using outdated feedback methods (think receipt questionnaires and kiosk surveys) designed to collect mass feedback rather than reveal key customer experience issues. Generic and impersonal, these point-of-sale surveys do a poor job of uncovering meaningful insights.

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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What really makes customers happy?

ijgolding

Over time, several words have been used to describe the organisational focus on customers. They include: Customer Experience. Customer Focus. Customer Centricity. Customer Service. Customer Success. Customer Outcomes. Customer Relationship Management. Customer Management. I am sure you can add more to the list! The fact that there are so many variants, at least demonstrates that the world of business does, deep down, recognise that customers are connected to the reason their organisation exists

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Judgmental Sampling: Definition, Examples and Advantages

QuestionPro Audience

Judgmental Sampling Definition. Judgmental sampling, also called purposive sampling or authoritative sampling, is a non-probability sampling technique in which the sample members are chosen only on the basis of the researcher’s knowledge and judgment. As the researcher’s knowledge is instrumental in creating a sample in this sampling technique, there are chances that the results obtained will be highly accurate with a minimum margin of error.

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The Impact of AI and the Empathy Economy on the Customer Service Experience

Omnicus

Why you should reinvent your organization to take advantage of the best of digital and human capabilities.

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4 Ways Building a ‘Customer Room’ Can Reshape Your Customer Experience

Customer Bliss

In today’s episode, I chat with Daniel Coullet , Senior Vice President of Customer Success and Experience, and Elizabeth Curtin , Customer Experience Practice Manager at PTC , about defining customer success, and the value of designing customer room for enhancing employee and customer experience. PTC is a B2B global software company that offers a technology platform and solutions to help companies design, manufacture, operate, and service things for a smart, connected world.

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eCommerce in 2025: How Customer Experience Drives Online Retail Success

Speaker: Jennifer Wright and Nick Barron

2025 is right around the corner, and with it comes a new wave of consumer expectations, competitive pressures, and operational challenges. Success lies in finding the balance between operational flexibility and creating experiences that keep customers coming back. The future of retail belongs to those who can stay ahead of shifting customer preferences and marketing trends. 🔮 In this session, we’ll dive deep into what it takes to keep customers engaged and your operations nimble, no matt

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Propelling Experience Design (Infographic)

Experience Matters

In the report Propelling Experience Design Across An Organization, we examine how companies can best use a very important skill, experience design. This infographic provides an overview. Here are links to download different versions of the infographic: Infographic: in .jpg format 18? x 24? poster: in .png format Here are some of the reports with data included in the infographic: Propelling Experience Design Across The Organization 2018 Temkin Emotion Ratings State of CX Management, 2018.

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11 Customer Service Metrics to Start Measuring

GetFeedback

How do you know where you really stand with customers? Here’s a look at 11 customer service metrics that help companies measure support quality at scale.

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Six Critical Principles Businesses Are Ignoring – Are You?

Beyond Philosophy

A theory is great. It gets you thinking, designing and planning. However, unless you take all the theory and the work you built around it and implement it, it is entirely useless. Today, I present six critical questions you need to ask when implementing Customer Experience theory in your Customer Experience reality. The concept of implementing the plans you make from theory is significant to me.