June, 2018

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Secrets to Incredible Customer Service with Paul R. Jones

BlueOcean

When it comes to customer experience, there’s a lot of cross-over between the hospitality industry and the contact center industry. We’re both in the business of earning a customer’s repeat business through the quality of the experience we deliver. With that in mind, we reached out to Paul Jones, an award-winning hotel manager within the Best Western organization.

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Six Laws of Customer Experience (Infographic)

Experience Matters

The most dowloaded content that I’ve published is our free eBook, The Six Laws of Customer Experience. It’s been translated into many languages and read by 10’s of 1,000s of people. It continues to be very popular because it uses simple language and concepts to describe what we call “the fundamental truths about how organizations treat customers.” We’ve developed an updated infographic that brings the laws to life.

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Lumoa raises €650 000 seed funding to take AI-powered customer experience analytics to the new markets

Lumoa

Finnish SaaS company Lumoa , which provides AI-powered customer experience analytics software for medium and large sized companies across the Nordics, has announced €650 000 in funding. The investment was led by Icebreaker.vc, along with serial entrepreneur Ali Omar and Business Finland. Lumoa, headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, offers a simple and intuitive service for analyzing large amounts of customer feedback.

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How Market Research Gives Advertisers the Advantage

QuestionPro Audience

Market research, according to The American Marketing Association, is defined as linking the consumer to the marketer through information used to identify and define marketing opportunities and issues; generate, refine and evaluate marketing actions; and monitor performance. The most intelligent brands understand that market research and advertising go hand in hand, and promote a successful product launch.

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The Evolving Retailers Fulfillment Strategy: Meeting Demands with Agility

Speaker: Becky Parisotto

Fulfillment is no longer just about getting products from point A to point B – it's about crafting seamless, scalable, customer first experiences. Flexible fulfillment strategies are more important than ever for those aiming to stay ahead and build resilience as retail enters a new era in 2025. Learn how to optimize fulfillment processes, tackle complex, multi-vendor orders, and create seamless customer experiences – from white-glove delivery for high-value items to quick-ship solutions for ever

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Enhancing Marketing Automation with Customer Feedback

GetFeedback

Today’s buyers expect personalized, 1:1 experiences tailored to their wants and needs. They’re inundated by marketing messages through digital ads, social media, and email, so only the most relevant campaigns capture their attention. The rest are at best ignored and at worst blocked. To cut through the noise, marketers need to know more about the people they’re marketing to.

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Introducing Empathy: The New Benchmark For Customer Experience

InMoment XI

Editor’s note: This article was originally published on bandt.com. There is a quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald that often comes to mind when I talk to clients about transforming their customer experiences, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability. View Article.

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To Unlock Customer Insights, Speak No Evil

Kerry Bodine

Imagine you’re in the midst of a journey mapping workshop and your customers are bombarding you—in a good way—with insights about their needs and expectations. Somewhere along the way, a participant recounts a particularly bad experience, and you feel compelled to explain the behind-the-scenes factors that derailed her experience. “Well, that’s because of a regulation we don’t have control over,” you begin to say.

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Are You a Customer Service Hero, Villain or Problem Solver?

Steve DiGioia

…here’s 3 skills every customer service actor must have This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. Ah, the life of a call center agent. A cushy job, right? You do nothing more than talk to customers on the phone and punch some information into a keypad. Sounds cool, sign me up! But wait a minute, there’s more…much more. You get to sit in a cramped cubicle wearing a scratchy headset and stare at a screen for 8 hours a day.

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Consumer Trends Taking Over the Food Industry This Summer

QuestionPro Audience

Summertime brings the heat, barbecues and pool parties. The food and beverage industries count on American consumers purchasing traditional barbecue fare such as burgers, hot dogs, and beer. But with consumer’s eating habits evolving in search of more healthy options, these industries will need to make adjustments to their products in order to capitalize on their shifting tastes. .

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4 HR Predictions for 2025: Supercharge Your Employee Experience with Internal Communications

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

The future of HR is here, and it's all about collaboration, innovation, and impact. Join us for a forward-thinking session where seasoned experts Miriam and Carolyn will share insights and practical strategies to help you stay ahead of evolving HR trends. Discover how to build strong partnerships with internal teams to craft a transparent, authentic, and connected workforce experience.

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5 steps to turn an unhappy customer into your greatest advocate

Lumoa

Every company dreams of having no negative feedback and no unhappy customers, yet many companies fail to identify their detractors and turn them into promoters. Why is that important? First, let’s get back to statistics : At least 30% of consumers stop interacting with a brand they love after the 1st bad experience and around 50% of all the consumers leave the brand for good after several bad experiences.

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6 Customer Experience Lessons I?ve Learned as an Experienced CCO

Customer Bliss

If you’ve been listening to, or been a guest on my podcast, The Chief Customer Officer Human Duct Tape Show , then you know that the last question I like to ask is: what do you know now that you wish you knew then ? Often, my guests will already come prepared with answers to this question, as it’s one they look forward to and find to be quite helpful.

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5 Most Critical Elements of a Successful Contact Center Launch

BlueOcean

Contact center implementation is an art and a science, and over 24 years in business, we’ve learned exactly what it takes to make the smoothest transition possible. Every milestone and every moving part is integral to a controlled acceleration towards a seamless transition that results in a positive customer experience. On top of that, the implementation phase – where collaboration is key – is what sets the tone for the duration of your strategic partnership.

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Introducing The Temkin Customer Success Index

Experience Matters

Over the last few years, many B2B organizations have created customer success organizations that focus on ensuring that their clients are happy. These companies are realizing that customers aren’t just buying their products, they’re making purchases with the expectation that they will achieve some value from the provider’s products and services.

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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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Introducing Empathy: The New Benchmark For Customer Experience

InMoment XI

Editor’s note: This article was originally published on bandt.com. There is a quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald that often comes to mind when I talk to clients about transforming their customer experiences, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability. View Article.

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Pet Tech Is Taking The Pet Industry By Storm

QuestionPro Audience

The U.S. pet industry has been growing year after year, with overall sales of pet products and services rising 5% in 2017. Pet technology is a category that is growing at a rapid pace, with no signs of slowing down. It is expected to generate $233 million in 2018, marking an 18% increase from 2017, according to a study by the Consumer Technology Association.

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Build your business case to invest more in Customer Experience (CX) – Drive larger financial impact

NICE inContact

In part one of the blog series, we looked at a framework for building a business case to invest in customer experience technologies. In part 2 , we looked at KPIs that drive enhanced customer experience and in part 3 , we looked at how contact centers can increase customer lifetime value. This blog will focus on true financial value of moving from a premise or hosted to a cloud native platform.

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Optimize Your Company’s Business Strategy With Customers In Mind

Customer Bliss

As “customer experience” has become a hot topic and nearly every industry has embraced it as a priority for their business, it is important that it also become united across your organization. And that means building a one-company approach to business strategies. What I know from 25 years as a CCO practitioner and ten years as Coach to Customer Leadership Executives and their Leadership Teams is that we’ve got to take the reactive nature out of this work.

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

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, 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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So What?! There are plenty more customers where he came from!

ijgolding

Since I published my new book at the end of April , I have intentionally held off adding to my social media content. In fact this post will be the first in June 2018! The hiatus in my writing does not mean I have run out of things to say on the subject of customer experience (CX) (boo, say some; hurrah, say others!) – far from it! In fact, so much is happening in industries around the world, I and other CX commentators have been spoilt for choice.

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The Employee Engagement Virtuous Cycle (Video)

Experience Matters

Why should you care about Employee Engagement? Because it fuels a virtuous cycle that drive customer experience and business success. Take a look… Video Script: Did you know that engaged employees are really, really valuable? Temkin Group’s research shows that when employees are highly engaged, they are much more likely to behave in ways that help your organization: They stay late at work if something needs to be done They help other people Do good things for the company, even when it’s no

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Head of Marketing, How Can You Keep Your Job When Most CMOs Are Losing Theirs?

C3Centricity

What does a Head of Marketing (CMO) do in their average four-year tenure to ensure that they keep their job for longer? Did you know that CMOs have the shortest average term of office of any chief in the C-suite, according to a recent report by Korn Ferry? And even more shocking is the fact that in the consumer goods industry it is even lower at just 3.6 years!

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The Customer Experience—Why It Matters

QuestionPro Audience

In this digital age, every interaction between a consumer and brand matters. Due to social media, everyone has a voice, and can air their grievances to a huge audience, which may deter prospective customers, and turn away current customers. According to PwC’s Global Consumer Insights Report , 73% of all consumers point to customer experience as an important factor in their purchasing decisions, just behind price and product quality.

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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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Customer Experience: Top Resources To Design the Best Strategy For Your Business

Omnicus

Deliver the best CX with these tools and resources to acquire and retain more customers.

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No Joke! The Role of Humor in Customer Experience

Michelli Experience

Isn’t it remarkable how things we learn at one point in our life come back to us as welcome gifts later? Early in my career, I wrote a book about helping children develop humor skills ( Humor, Play and Laughter – Stress-proofing life with your kids ). I became a student on the topic because I wanted my children to learn how to constructively use humor to take themselves and the world around them less seriously.

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The Future Shines Bright for Sunrun with Increased Contact Center Conversion Rates

NICE inContact

The largest residential solar company in the U.S., Sunrun, is on the leading edge of the clean power revolution. But until recently, its contact center was stuck in another era. With the move to NICE inContact CXone, however, the company is well on its way to its mission to create a planet run by the sun. As part of a fast-growing company in a hot market, its contact center is a hard-working one.

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CX Competency & Maturity Model (Video)

Experience Matters

We’ve put together this short video to explain Temkin Group’s CX Competency & Maturity Model. It defines how organizations flow through six stages of customer experience maturity: Ignore, Explore, Mobilize, Operationalize, Align, and Embed by mastering Four CX Core Competencies: Purposeful Leadership, Compelling Brand Values, Employee Engagement, and Customer Connectedness.

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

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

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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How Costly Is It?to?Not Engage Customers??

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

If you’ve never thought about how you engage customers, then what’s to stop them from becoming actively disengaged? Sometimes we set ourselves up for this! It even echoes back to us in the way we engage within our own organizations. Consider this real-life scenario: I used to have a joke with some colleagues at my first job. We were constantly walking into meetings in conference rooms with LONG agendas that could get pretty boring and stuffy.

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TOP 5 INFOGRAPHICS OF JUNE

QuestionPro Audience

The month of June is named after the Roman goddess Juno, patroness of marriage and the well-being of women. Knowing that, it makes sense that June is also the most popular month to get married. If you like those interesting facts, you’ll love our top 5 infographics of June. Another month, another great round-up. 1 — PATERNITY LEAVE FACTS: DADS NEED TO BOND, TOO!

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Survey at Scale with Multi-Language and Draft Mode

GetFeedback

Feedback is a gold mine for businesses, but sending surveys and analyzing the results takes time. How do you keep up with a constant flow of new data and insights without losing sight of your goals? With GetFeedback, you can tap into the minds of employees, prospects, customers, and partners—all though a single, powerful platform. And today, we’ve added two more features to help you streamline survey development: Multi-Language Surveys and Draft Mode.

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