March, 2021

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Don’t Accidentally Sabotage Customer Experience — Do This Instead

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Sure, you may not intend to, but there are probably ways you, as the leader of your department or organization, are sabotaging the experience your customers have. And who can blame you? Today, leaders have more expectations with fewer resources. We’re asked to spend more time reporting on what’s happened than making things happen. Time is limited and people are pressured.

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The European Customer Experience Organization is now live! The Time to Evolve Together arrived!

eglobalis

The European Customer Experience Organization the real associationpractical , employee experience , experience design , innovation launch Ricardo Saltz Gulko and Adrian Swinscoe. The post The European Customer Experience Organization is now live! The Time to Evolve Together arrived! appeared first on Eglobalis.

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What Does an Allergy Have To Do With Customer Service?

Steve DiGioia

Those of us in the customer service industry focus much on procedures, ease of use, product availability, and the steps of service, to name a few, all in the hopes of providing our customers the best overall experience. When we have these processes down pat, we believe that’s “all we need” to ensure a steady stream of satisfied customers. But we’re leaving out a significant aspect of service and something very valuable for a customer in need.

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Stepping up your organization’s CX Maturity: 4 takeaways from our CX leader roundtable

GetFeedback

Best practices, pitfalls, and next steps for leveraging a CX maturity model at your organization.

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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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How Texting Keeps Your Contact Center Agile in 2021

NICE inContact

The challenges of 2020 put contact centers agility to the test. And with a lot of those challenges continuing in 2021, many contact centers are still struggling to manage with a variety of issues.

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Learning Paths: What Are They, & How Can They Create Customer Experience Success?

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

“ Customer service shouldn’t just be a department; it should be the entire company” – Tony Hsieh (CEO, Zappos) . The late, great CEO of Zappos promoted this idea and he was absolutely right. To deliver exceptional customer experiences, everyone in your organization needs to be on board. But what does that mean? And what’s most important to prioritize in education?

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Storytelling for innovation

Storyminers

If your strategy includes a new service, product, or platform, one of the best ways to get started is not with a story at all! Instead, it’s with a well-designed experience that adds value to your customers, engages your employees, then benefits the bottom line. It’s essential to focus on profit-making last in the design process so that you stay focused on what your customers want most and will genuinely adopt.

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How Work Emoticons in Emails Lead to Translation Mistakes

Customer Experience Update Submitted Articles

More than three-quarters (77%) of employees used an emoji at work in 2020. Clutch surveyed 500 employees in the U.S. about their use of work emoticons in the office. Employees recognize the benefits of using emojis in professional communication but expect translation mistakes as different generations navigate the digital workspace

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7 tips for designing a seamless checkout funnel

GetFeedback

How to enhance your digital checkout funnel and increase conversion rates.

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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 Stop Giving Customer Service Like a Useless Scarecrow

Steve DiGioia

The lowly cornfield scarecrow hangs idly in the field while a flock of birds, having long since gotten over their fear of the fake man, eat their share of the surrounding crops. He has failed in his mission. The scarecrow now serves no purpose and has outlived its usefulness. Sadly, it serves as a reminder of what once was. Today’s post tells you how to stop giving customer service like a useless scarecrow. 3 Examples of Scarecrow Customer Service. 1.

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Best Technologies for Small Businesses

Win the Customer

Running and maintaining a small business is a challenge. Because of limited personnel and limited financial resources, small business owners often need to wear multiple hats to keep their business afloat like the use of another address for their mailbox company. The Importance of Using a Secure Fax and a virtual office address where the service provider will forward all of your mail, this is a really good one for Modern technology has made it easier for small business owners to manage and trac

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What Are Micromoments, & Why Are They So Important?

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Note from Jeannie: Back in 2012, I recorded a talk for TEDx around what I then referred to as “micro-interactions.” In the nine years since, I’ve placed these at the core of the mission of Experience Investigators, and coined the term micromoments to better describe them. I’ve adapted the talk for you into the article that follows.

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Market-Proven Ideas to Keep Your CX Transformation on Track

Storyminers

During this CX Quick Tips expert, Mike Wittenstein joins this week’s CX Quick Tips (less than 10-minutes) discussion with CX Expert and Editor in Chief of CX Global Media Jim Rembach. We will discuss a list of techniques people with ongoing projects can use to keep the momentum up and encourage an ever-greater number of team members (internal or partners) to participate and adopt new ways of working.

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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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Interview: Creating a Clean Experience

Heart of the Customer

How would you respond if your deliberately behind-the-scenes customer experience efforts were suddenly thrust to the foreground? That’s the challenge Office Pride Commercial Cleaning Services’ CEO Todd Hopkins faced when COVID changed the way we all think about cleaning. I met Todd after customer service guru Shep Hyken recommended him in response to my call […].

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How to Care More About the Customer Than the Sale

ShepHyken

It seems that most of the companies that customers love to do business with have something in common. They focus more on the customer than they do the sale. Sure, they want to make the sale, add more revenue and get higher ratings. What company doesn’t want that? But when they focus on the customer’s needs, the rest seems to fall into place. A great example of this comes from Dawn Mushill, one of our Shepard Letter subscribers.

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Joseph Michelli: What’s the Purpose of Your Business?

Bill Quiseng

“You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.” Charlie “Tremendous” Jones. Believing in this mantra for years, as an avid reader of the books by Dr. Joseph Michelli, I have learned so much about delivering the World’s Best Customer Experience through his insight starting with his book, The Starbucks Experience: 5 Principles for Turning Ordinary Into Extraordinary.

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Sound and Smell: The Crucial Missing Aspect in Your CX Design

Beyond Philosophy

What do the song “Fine Line” by Hootie and the Blowfish and the scent of air conditioning have in common? They are two things my family associates with taking holidays in the US. Once they hear the song or walk into an air-conditioned building, they are transported to our family trips in the US when they were young. However, these examples also represent critical areas for your Customer Experience design.

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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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Gender Inequality Persists in Data Science and AI

Bob Hayes

Results of a survey of data professionals show that about 1 out of 5 are women. Women are paid less than their male counterparts yet both women and men have similar levels of education. Ways of improving gender diversity in the field of data science are offered. Figure 1. US Labor Force Statistics for Selected Occupations. Even though women make up about half of the total workforce in the US, those numbers hide the disparities in some occupational domains.

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Cultural nuances you need to take into consideration when using storytelling as a tool

Storyminers

Each organizational and national culture is unique; so yes, you do need to be sensitive to them. Here are some general guidelines: Be conscious of the role hierarchy plays. In certain cultures there is a deep hierarchical bent; and if so, unless the ‘story’ comes from a ‘senior’, it may not really have the impact you want. In these cultures, you may need additional skills, etc., and facilitation to get full participation.

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Don’t Leave Your Customers in the Dark!

Heart of the Customer

At Heart of the Customer, we work across many different industries – in the past six months alone, we’ve partnered with life insurance, SaaS software, healthcare delivery, property and casualty insurance, non-profits, and staffing enterprises. These organizations serve a wide variety of customers who have very different needs. Or do they? We’ve found that there’s […].

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Culture is Contagious

ShepHyken

I was recently interviewed by Yigal Adato for his mastermind group, all entrepreneurs and owners of pawnshops. We were discussing how important it is to “bake” customer service into the culture. It’s leadership’s job to define the customer service vision, ensure it’s communicated, and be the role models demonstrating how customers and employees are to be treated.

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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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How to Deliver Market-Leading Customer Service thanks to Automation

Inbenta

Additionally, Covid-19 has further altered consumer habits. During lockdowns, workers have been unable to access their workplaces and many services have been disrupted or forced to accelerate their digital transformation strategies to keep up with market demands. Organizations are choosing to use innovative technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) to automate their customer services to complete, improve and personalize end-to-end customer interactions and deliver the best possible customer

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Overcoming The Virtual Engagement Trap of Remote Selling

Integrity Solutions

Virtual Engagement For Remote Selling. Remote Selling Success Starts Before The Call Even Begins. By Bruce Wedderburn. What is the ‘digital disconnect’ and how effectively are you dealing with it? While salespeople across industries are settling in to a world of hybrid and remote sales , most are still working to adapt to the nuances and variables that can affect success in a virtual selling environment.

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Customer Journey Infographic: Visualizing Your Customer’s Experience

Totango

The traditional customer journey infographic envisioned the customer’s experience from a sales and marketing standpoint, visualizing a funnel marking the steps from a lead acquisition through a sale, also known as the buyer’s journey. The traditional approach fails to see things from the perspective of the customer, instead, it takes a company-centric approach, splitting these into multiple journies each handled by a different department; marketing, sales, onboarding, retention.

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How to Optimize Customer Retention in the Insurance Industry

ReviewTrackers

Improving customer retention can prevent billions of dollars of lost revenue in the insurance industry. Research from CallMiner revealed that avoidable churn costs businesses $136 billion in the U.S. alone. What’s worse than losing billions in revenue is the amount that insurers have to pay to acquire new customers. According to Hubspot, the insurance industry is tied for the third-highest customer acquisition cost at $303.

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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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UPS Fail: Mishandled With Care

Heart of the Customer

Operational mistakes happen. If a company handles them well, customers will forgive the occasional lapse. But UPS’s recent operational lapse on a very sensitive item actually went from bad to worse. The good news is, we can learn from their mistakes to produce a better emotional outcome for our customers. And that outcome matters: When […]. The post UPS Fail: Mishandled With Care appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Get to Know Your Customer Day

ShepHyken

It’s been years since I’ve written about Get to Know Your Customer Day. Recently, however, I’ve been asked what it’s all about, so I thought it was time to bring it up again. This time I want to share a few tips on what to do for these special days that are observed throughout the year. Get to Know Your Customer Day happens four times a year, on the third Thursday of each quarter, so they are held in January, April, July, and October.

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Make CX Easy: Give Your Customers What They Want

Daniel Group

Are you ready to give customers what they want from you? This blog is the first of a four-part series that focuses on this question. Throughout the series, we will explore the importance of the following topics: Make CX Easy. Here at The Daniel Group, we pride ourselves on supporting our clients in making CX as easy as possible. We do this by gathering information by surveying our clients’ customers.