June, 2016

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USAA and Publix Top 2016 Temkin Customer Service Ratings

Experience Matters

USAA earned the highest score in the 2016 Temkin Customer Service Ratings for the fourth year in a row. These Ratings evaluate the customer service of 277 companies across 20 industries based on a study of 10,000 U.S. consumers (see.pdf with full list of companies). You can see all of the company data on the Temkin Ratings website. […].

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4 storytelling devices to enhance your research reports and presentations

Alida

The days of data tables, 100-slide presentations and 300-page reports are done. Today, storytelling is the key to communicating research findings in ways that create impact. Storytelling is the best way to engage your audience and ensure that your message is received, understood, passed on and acted upon. One challenge researchers have to address is using storytelling in the context of evidence-based decision making.

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Marketing Solutions to More Actionable Insights

C3Centricity

Marketing depends upon actionable insights to satisfy and delight their customers. How comfortable are you with your own process and the actionability of the results? Insights are the holy grail that all businesses seek but rarely find. Are you one of them? If so then I have some tips on how you can get better [.]. The post Marketing Solutions to More Actionable Insights appeared first on C3Centricity.

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6 Stats That Show Employee Engagement’s Impact On Customer Satisfaction

InMoment XI

The idea that employee engagement has a measurable impact on customer satisfaction and retention is intuitive. We understand a disengaged employee is less likely to provide a positive service experience (and even less likely to provide an exceptional one). When Sue is unhappy at work, she isn’t motivated to go above-and-beyond for a customer. She’s.

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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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Personal Brand Vetting – THEY are Listening

Michelli Experience

As I help business leaders deliver branded customer experiences, I often start with the premise that brands are nothing more than what people say about us when we’re not around. From there, I work with leaders to determine what they want to be known for and what they want to hear their customers say about them. For years companies have been trolling social media to see what customers post about brand experiences.

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Whirlpool and Samsung Earn Top Customer Experience Ratings for Major Appliances

Experience Matters

We recently released the 2016 Temkin Experience Ratings that ranks the customer experience of 294 companies across 20 industries based on a survey of 10,000 U.S. consumers. Of the 10 major appliance companies we looked at, Whirlpool earned the highest score with a rating of 60%, putting it in 153rd place overall out of 294 […].

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Changing Customer Behavior: Your Brain Loves a Story

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

The following is a Best of 360Connext post Brains are fascinating. The very thing that allows me to write this blog is both an abstract idea to me and a very concrete part of my anatomy. They are simple muscles in one regard and totally complex, almost spiritual, machines in another. The more we learn about […]. The post Changing Customer Behavior: Your Brain Loves a Story appeared first on Customer Experience Consulting.

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Customer retention: 35 data-backed approaches

Customer Bliss

I talk often about customer experience , but recently I’ve heard from some followers that they’d like a bit more on customer retention. The first thing to understand about customer retention is that obviously it comes straight from customer experience. In short, if the customer experience is good, the customer retention is there. Also there: referral.

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Marketing Research and Single Women Buying SUVs

InMoment XI

Earlier this week, Bloomberg reported on insights that a MaritzCX program provided to the auto industry – that single women were responsible for an increasing percentage of small SUV sales. I’m a college student, interning at MaritzCX and part of the CX Café team. Last semester I took my first marketing research class (for the.

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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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Nice to meet you! How well do you know your colleagues?

ijgolding

I recently wrote an article for my column on CustomerThink entitled ‘How Well Do You Know Your Customer?’ – the premise was around the significance and necessity of creating customer personas. You can read the article here. If you do not want to read it, the conclusion to the article was that there is most definitely a need for everyone in an organisation to have a clear understanding of who their customers are – the customer persona is a tool to make that understanding a reality.

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Dare to Dream Big: A New Employee Success Guide

Steve DiGioia

This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. Countless studies have shown that the key to a successful employee, one who excels at his/her job, is motivated to perform at his peak and one that will have the best interest of the company at heart, is a properly run and dedicated new employee onboarding and orientation program. During my career I have been personally responsible for the development and facilitation of new employee orientation classes, one-on-one training/coaching sessions an

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2016 Temkin Experience Ratings: 20 Industry Snapshots

Experience Matters

We released the 2016 Temkin Experience Ratings that ranks the customer experience of 294 companies across 20 industries based on a survey of 10,000 U.S. consumers. Here’s a link to FAQ’s about the Ratings. As a follow-up, we published blog posts that examine the results for each of the 20 industries. You can see links to all […].

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15 Top Customer Service Training Courses for Your Agents (Half Are Free)

Comm100

Time and time again, we see evidence that great customer service experiences are critical in maintaining customer loyalty and satisfaction. According to research conducted in 2015 by Aspect Cloud Solutions , 76% of respondents see “customer service as a ‘true test’ of how much a company values them.” And customer service training is vital to maintaining excellent customer relations.

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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 3 Customer Service Skills of Brilliant Support Teams

Kayako

This is a guest post by Lindsay Willott, founder of Customer Thermometer. I recently read the unputdownable The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, famed founder of tech VC Andreessen Horowitz. In one chapter Ben describes how, during his time at Netscape, he became frustrated with his product managers. So he created a document called “Good Product Manager, Bad Product Manager” which crisply laid out the behaviours of good product managers, and juxtaposed those with the behaviours of

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Leaders Learn: 5 Things Every Strong Service Leader Does

Who's Your Gladys?

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” – John F. Kennedy. If you’ve read “Who’s Your Gladys?” or “Taming Gladys!“, you know that we espouse lifelong learning as THE key to success. A true leader – in any field – likes pursuing new ideas and innovation. They. The post Leaders Learn: 5 Things Every Strong Service Leader Does appeared first on Who's Your Gladys?

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Communication, communication, communication! Why you cannot ‘over’ communicate when it comes to Customer Experience

ijgolding

I have written many times in the past about the importance of effective communication if an organisation has an intention to deliver consistently better Customer Experiences. Whilst much of my writing has been focused on the importance of the communication relationship between a company and the customer, I have not been as vocal about the almost equal criticality of the communication between a company and it’s employees.

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Encouragement = the “Miracle Grow” of Employee Morale

Steve DiGioia

This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. Complaint after complaint is heard about today’s workforce; they are lazy, spend too much time on social media while on-the-job and they have no work ethic. Employee morale is at an all-time low. True or not, it is a fact of business. Today’s employees; regardless of their social status, geographic makeup or millennial segmentation, face a vastly different work environment that those of 30-40 years ago.

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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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Who comes first, the employee or the customer?

Vonage

I was visiting a client last week and we started talking about the recent trend in customer experience which suggests that customers should come first over everything else. Over profits and stakeholders, over processes and policies and over employees. Although this sort of thinking has the right intentions, I think it’s a little misguided and could do more harm than good in the long run.

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How Airbnb Scales Culture And Customer Experience, With Aisling Hassell – CB008

Customer Bliss

Episode Overview. For our 8th episode, I talked with Aisling Hassell, who is the global head of CX at Airbnb. This is a particularly challenging role in the customer experience world — although in a way, they all are — because Airbnb currently offers properties in 191 countries and 34,000+ cities. Making sure the customer experience is complete across such a wide array of contexts is one of Aisling’s challenges.

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UPS Earns Top Customer Experience Ratings for Parcel Delivery Services

Experience Matters

We recently released the 2016 Temkin Experience Ratings that ranks the customer experience of 294 companies across 20 industries based on a survey of 10,000 U.S. consumers. Of the 4 parcel delivery service companies we looked at, UPS earned the highest score for the third year in a row with a rating of 70%, putting […].

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The 3 Customer Service Skills of Brilliant Support Teams

Kayako

This is a guest post by Lindsay Willott, founder of Customer Thermometer. I recently read the unputdownable The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, famed founder of tech VC Andreessen Horowitz. In one chapter Ben describes how, during his time at Netscape, he became frustrated with his product managers. So he created a document called “Good Product Manager, Bad Product Manager” which crisply laid out the behaviours of good product managers, and juxtaposed those with the behaviours of

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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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20 Customer Service Training Ideas and Activities for Busy Teams

Comm100

Whether you’re planning a training course or using external courses, it’s important to take a break and have some fun in order to keep your team members engaged. The following games may seem trivial, but they do more than simply drive a concept or point home: they help foster a sense of teamwork and shared direction. Planning activities can take a lot of time that your training instructor might not have to spare.

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Your Hotel SHOULD Sweat the Little Things

Steve DiGioia

have you forgotten the attention to detail? This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. A recent overnight hotel stay proved to me that just because one aspect of a business runs well doesn’t mean that all the others do too. Hotel franchisees must follow strict adherence to marketing, branding, RevPar, etc. all with the intent of satisfying the “flag standards” and providing the guests with a focused message of quality and service.

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The Muhammad Ali Experience: 5 Lessons to Win By

Michelli Experience

Muhammad Ali was not only a civil rights advocate and exceptionally talented boxer – he was and will be an enduring brand. From an advertising perspective, his equity extended in commercial endorsements of brands like Louis Vuitton, Porsche, Apple, Coke, Gatorade, and Pizza Hut. So what can every business leader learn from the brand experience consistently delivered by Muhammad Ali?

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The 17-second customer experience strategy

Customer Bliss

I’ve been doing customer experience strategy and customer-facing, customers-as-growth-engines work for north of 30 years now. I’d never claim in reality that you can ‘hack’ the system in 17 seconds. The work is hard and demanding. I named my podcast The Chief Customer Officer Human Duct Tape Show for just that reason: in this work, you’re typically the ‘duct tape’ of your organization.

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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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Southwest Airlines, Alaska Airlines, and JetBlue Earn Top Customer Experience Ratings for Airlines

Experience Matters

We recently released the 2016 Temkin Experience Ratings that ranks the customer experience of 294 companies across 20 industries based on a survey of 10,000 U.S. consumers. Southwest Airlines, Alaska Airlines, and JetBlue Airlines deliver the best customer experience in the airline industry, according to the 2016 Temkin Experience Ratings, an annual customer experience ranking […].

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Using consumer insight for rebranding: Q&A with Price Chopper’s Sam Trimboli

Alida

Founded in 1932, the New York-based grocer Price Chopper (known as Market 32 in some regions) operates 135 stores in the American Northeast. To accomplish a goal of elevating customer experience , the company engages with 5,000 customers through Food For Thought, a Vision Critical insight community first launched in 2012. The insight community provides ongoing feedback from customers and helps Price Chopper make better decisions about strategy, branding and marketing campaigns.

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Reflections of A Practitioner: CX Maturity, Customer Expectations and the Use of Predictive Analytics

InMoment XI

Following my four years leading the CX practice for, arguably, the best airline in the Americas, JetBlue, the transition to the “provider” side of things since last May has been very interesting. My experience has provided a unique perspective into the various levels of CX maturity in organizations across many different industries. It has also. View Article.