April, 2014

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Video: Taking Your CE Program Global – Dataflows and Other Sexy Stuff

InMoment XI

And now for the sexy part of running global programs – dataflows. Ok, not really but they’re critical in executing a global customer experience program. Some thoughts for your consideration. Let me know what you think. @christravell.

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Get More Customers with the Personal Touch

Kristina Evey

'Who would you prefer to spend your money with – someone who gets to know you and values your business, or at a company where you feel like just another number? Customers are willing to spend more money on a product that they know is not necessarily “state of the art” based on the feeling that they are being treated well. Contrary to popular belief, buying decisions are not based on price, but by the feeling that the customer gets when they do business with us.

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GetFeedback Spring ’14: New Survey Features

GetFeedback

Today, we're proud to announce GetFeedback Spring '14: a bundle of new survey features available immediately to all of our users. Take a quick tour!

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Build the Next Customer Experience Wonder of the World

Win the Customer

'You don''t need notoriety. With persistence, teamwork, efficiency, effectiveness and individual responsibility have proven time and again to accomplish unfathomable tasks.

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Manual Call Reviews? There's a Better Way!

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 Join this webinar with Angie Kronlage and April Wiita of Working Solutions to discuss how you can modernize outdated, manual call review processes through the power of autom

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Do Your Employees Need A Customer Care Management Degree?

Joe Rawlinson

'Navigating today’s consumer marketplace is rather like walking a tightrope on a windy day. Fierce competition, rapidly changing technologies, and a customer base that is exposed to an omnipresent barrage of marketing campaigns are making it increasingly difficult to stay the course. Your customers are your number one asset and the best way to ensure your success is to serve those customers better than anyone else in your industry.

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Video: Taking Your CE Program Global – Dataflows and Other Sexy Stuff

InMoment XI

And now for the sexy part of running global programs – dataflows. Ok, not really but they’re critical in executing a global customer experience program. Some thoughts for your consideration. Let me know what you think.

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Maintaining customer loyalty in an impersonal digital world

Service Untitled

'I’ve often thought that customer loyalty was all about making the customer the king by maintaining transparent ethical practices, sound policies, and impressive customer service. Technology, however and the busy retail world of the Internet brings more competition, more inventory, convenience, and cheaper prices. Shopaholics notoriously are in the constant search for the best prices and the best choices, so what is any retailer to do?

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Security Update Regarding Heartbleed

GetFeedback

Several days ago, a vulnerability was announced in the software that powers encryption across most of the Internet (OpenSSL).

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Technology For Personalized Service In Non-Personal Customer Interactions

Win the Customer

'Why do customers still hold on to the need to for a human-to-human interaction, even when the information available with technology is much more abundant and accurate than relying solely upon a human being?

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

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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Book Review: Perry Marshall’s 80/20

Joe Rawlinson

'You’ve probably heard about Pareto’s famous 80/20 principle. The truth is that those magic numbers can help predict great opportunity and success for your business. You just need to apply them to your customers, products, and company. The question for me was always around how to do that. Fortunately, Perry Marshall’s book 80/20 Sales and Marketing: The Definitive Guide to Working Less and Making More helps bridge the gap between theories and how you can take action with it in

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The Best Way to Encourage Customer Trust from the Inside Out

PeopleMetrics

'In order to deliver a good customer experience, a company must first be customer-centric. Last week I wrote on the nuances of customer service and customer-centricity in “ Why Great Customer Service Isn’t Enough to Be Customer-Centric ” For those who are not reading my every post with rapt attention, I used the HARO (Help A Reporter Out) service to put out an APB for customer-centric companies to learn from.

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Taking Your CE Program Global – Dataflows and Other Sexy Stuff

InMoment XI

And now for the sexy part of running global programs – dataflows. Ok, not really but they’re critical in executing a global customer experience program. Some thoughts for your consideration. Let me know what you think.

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2014 CCO Tenure Study Preview

CCO Council

'I''m putting the finishing touches on the CCO Council 2014 Tenure Study and am excited to share a sneak preview. For the last four years, I have examined the role of the Chief Customer Officer to understand the context within which CCOs are functioning and the future of the role, specifically as these relate to the development and execution of potential CCO career strategies.

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Reimagine Your Communications With A Unified Platform

Cut complexity and boost efficiency while empowering your customers with Nextiva's unified communications platform. Nextiva streamlines workflows and centralizes customer interactions, all while simplifying business collaboration, increasing productivity, and reducing employee burnout.

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What’s My Contribution to ‘Customer’ Today?

Amity

In a customer-centric organization, every department has a responsibility to the customer. Whether you are developing a product, managing a project, adjusting the balance sheet or writing thought-leadership content, there are multiple activities and responsibilities that have a direct connection to your customers. However, individuals in departments that are not customer-facing are often caught up in their day-to-day deliverables to recognize that what they are working on is bigger than just a f

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Service is Only as Strong as Your Strongest Link

Win the Customer

'We all have weaknesses we''re trying to fix. But is a slight improvement in an area of weakness making the greatest impact to your service experience?

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How to help call center representatives improve customer service

Service Untitled

'Centralized call centers receive and transmit an enormous volume of telephone requests daily, with the purpose of collecting and handling information, ranging from product inquiries, questions about transactions, and customer service. Although emails and social media networks provide more outlets for complaints regarding a particular organization or service, statistics show calling is still the most popular method of communication when a customer or client has a problem.

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Does Your Company Pass the $20 Customer Trust Test?

PeopleMetrics

'Customer trust is a topic that we are seeing in more and more of our clients’ customer feedback data. We have learned that customers define trust in two ways: The firm conviction in the reliability of an organization’s services and. The belief that they have your best interests in mind. If we get trust right there are great benefits to be realized including undying loyalty to the brand and positive word-of-mouth.

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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Video: Taking Your CE Program Global – Who Calls the Shots?

InMoment XI

We’re continuing our series on what it takes to design and execute a global Customer Experience Program. We’re fortunate at Maritz since we run the only two global CE programs in the automotive industry – Ford and Volvo. Obviously we can’t tell you the specifics but I hope you find some of these general. View Article.

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How to Shape Customer Behavior?

CCO Council

'Google and Microsoft took what initially appeared to be an innovative path to decrease residential energy consumption. Believing that customer''s decisions to conserve electricity were impeded solely by the lack of easily-understood, real-time consumption information unobtainable via paper utility bills, both created web-based analytics platforms, displaying consumption costs in real-time to help make conservation decisions.

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Choosing the Right Technology

Amity

Amity is an innovative company. As an innovative company we need to use the latest and greatest tools to allow us to deliver as much value as we can as quickly as possible. This is why Amity uses AngularJS for our front end code. For those unfamiliar, AngularJS is an open-source software development framework for the JavaScript programming language.

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The Conflicting Nature of Customer Service

Win the Customer

'Bad service happens because there’s an inherent disconnect between the expectations of the customer and the demands of the call center.

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Top 5 Ways to Optimize Your Loyalty Strategy

Speaker: Lauren Barash, Vice President, Brand Marketing

In an ever-evolving industry, building and retaining loyal customers is critical to the success of any restaurant business. Join Lauren Barash, VP of Brand Marketing at Full Course, as she delves into the world of restaurant loyalty programs, and reveals the top five essential strategies to optimize your approach! This webinar will explore: Loyalty trends and what you should be focusing on 📊 Actionable insights and ideas to help you develop the most powerful and effective loyalty program

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Budget cuts for the IRS result in unreliable customer service

Service Untitled

'Tax season is finally over, and those economic gray hairs have been remanded back to the colorists at our hair salons, but budget cuts continue to show a significant decline in the Internal Revenue Service to the American public. When Ben Franklin said, “The only certain things in life are death and taxes,” perhaps we are all entitled to a better level of public service; at least while we’re alive.

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Customer-Centricity! Oh, I’m Doing that Already!

Doug Leather

'Yeah right! I had a really interesting discussion with a prospective client recently. He is the MD of a multi franchise vehicle business. Successful? – no doubt. Customer-Centric? – I don’t think so. Yet he was adamant he had ‘customer-centricity’ under control. They were busy hiring someone who was going to drive this initiative. This is a classic example of a refusal to admit to the current reality.

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Video: Taking Your CE Program Global – Who Calls the Shots?

InMoment XI

We’re continuing our series on what it takes to design and execute a global Customer Experience Program. We’re fortunate at Maritz since we run the only two global CE programs in the automotive industry – Ford and Volvo. Obviously we can’t tell you the specifics but I hope you find some of these general.

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Three Reasons Why You Need to Measure the Mobile Experience Right Now

ForeSee

'When I joined the mobile team at ForeSee, I was surprised at how many clients used ForeSee to measure and improve the web customer experience on desktop but were not. The post Three Reasons Why You Need to Measure the Mobile Experience Right Now appeared first on ForeSee.

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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The Role of Customer Success in New Product and Feature Design

Amity

As Customer Success continues to be a hot topic within many organizations, it is becoming more apparent that defining the role of Customer Success within the product development process is very critical. Over the years there have been traditional and non-traditional methods of understanding what should go into new product and/or feature design. I think we can all agree evaluating this process involves several decision points including the impact of a new product or feature to both new and exist

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3 Practical Tips for Streamlining Your Business Processes

Win the Customer

'Focus on working smarter, not harder. Three tips can help you streamline your business and work cost effectively without cutting corners that impact your customers.

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Emotional vs transactional loyalty: Is it more important to win customer hearts or minds?

MyCustomer

Loyalty Is it better to win customer hearts or minds?

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