Customer Bliss

JUNE 22, 2020

During this time, I’ve been hosting weekly live conversations on LinkedIn , with C-Suite leaders, authors, and experts in their respective fields. They’ve included influential authors like Seth Godin and CEOs like Leslie Stretch. These conversations span across a range of industries but tend to have an overarching theme that comes back to the importance of leadership bravery.

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Wootric CX Blog

JUNE 1, 2020

Executives and end-users look for different things when choosing software products. An executive, for example, might be more interested in ROI and scalability, while the end-user often cares more about just getting their work done, quickly and easily. . There was a time when executives were the gatekeepers who decided which B2B software products their companies purchased while the end-user experience took a back seat—but that era has ended.

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IntouchInsight

JUNE 17, 2020

In this report, we look at the implications that COVID-19 has had on consumer habits as they pertain to the consumption of take-out and dine-in food and beverages, as well as how the restaurant industry will need to adapt in order to meet new health and safety guidelines.

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Lumoa

JUNE 8, 2020

eCommerce customer experience is vital for online businesses that want to ensure a smooth online experience for their customers. We share 4 ways to boost your eCommerce customer experience that will increase customer loyalty and satisfaction.

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 Join this webinar with Angie Kronlage and April Wiita of Working Solutions to discuss how you can modernize outdated, manual call review processes through the power of autom

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 23, 2020

What Does Employee and Customer Empathy Really Mean, Anyway? What do you think of when you hear the word empathy? How about customer empathy? Employee empathy? We know that the best brands in the world create empathy for both employees and customers. Organizations who fail to do so are often held back from reaching their full potential. Think about your best experiences as a customer.

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Heart of the Customer

JUNE 11, 2020

Most survey programs provide information: “Our Net Promoter Score (NPS) is 25, up from 22, compared to our competitive benchmark of 30.” While those figures might be interesting, they don’t provide the context that is essential for prompting action. As Heart of the Customer has been conducting interviews with CX pros (more than 70 so far this year!

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eglobalis

JUNE 15, 2020

Customer Experience Leadership Act boldly to protect customers and employees customer driven customer obsessed. The post Deep Leadership: Act Boldly to Protect Customers, Employees and Partners appeared first on Eglobalis.

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Kerry Bodine

JUNE 1, 2020

This post celebrates Service Design Day and everyone who’s working to create our new normal. While walking across the Millennium Bridge in London a few years ago, I noticed a group of people standing around and looking down curiously at a man who was laying at their feet. My first thought was concern: Is this man alright? Is he sick? Does he need help?

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Lumoa

JUNE 30, 2020

Acquisition and retention are of paramount importance if your business is to succeed. In this piece, find out three ways to juggle between the two seamlessly.

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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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CX Accelerator

JUNE 8, 2020

Author: Jeremy Watkin. Surveys are a great way to listen to the voice of the customer, so don’t misconstrue the title of this article as being “anti-survey.” Problems occur, however, when surveys become the only way we listen to customers — especially when you consider that a good survey response rate is in the realm of 20-30%. That means you never hear from 70-80% of customers.

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GetFeedback

JUNE 29, 2020

Scale your hyper-personalized customer support program with the help of AI and chatbots.

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Steve DiGioia

JUNE 25, 2020

Regardless of your business, and no matter how hard you try to do the best for them, there will be situations where you have an upset customer who is dissatisfied with your product or service. Day in and day out, we must strive to provide the optimal experience for each customer interaction. But is this realistic? When things don’t go as planned, our customers become upset and we have failed in their eyes.

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C3Centricity

JUNE 8, 2020

The title of this week’s post might surprise you. After all, the hospitality industry should be highly customer centric, as it relies on satisfying its guests. However, it can learn a lot from consumer packaged goods (FMCG/CPG), as I shared with industry experts at a Faculty Day of one of the leading hospitality schools in Switzerland. Having spent most of my career in consumer goods, I was invited to share what the hospitality industry could learn from the industry.

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IntouchInsight

JUNE 3, 2020

Read about the findings from the large-scale survey we conducted in early May, on changes to consumer behaviors since the inception of COVID-19. Leveraging our platform, we received over 2000 responses and identified some pretty amazing findings.

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Calabrio

JUNE 29, 2020

When nominations opened for the 2020 Star Tribune Top Workplace rankings in January, no one anticipat ed the changes that would impact us, come March. In just two months, our focus on nurturing a human-centric workplace faced an entirely new challenge when we pivoted to a 100 percent work-from-home model due to COVID-19. . I ha ve title d this blog post “ Lucky Seven” but it is of course not luck that has us gaining this recognition for the seventh year running.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 9, 2020

We Must Ask the Tough Questions. It’s not business as usual in the United States. It hasn’t been since the May 25th police killing of George Floyd, and the resulting days of protests in America — and increasingly, across the world — from people who demand change. Prior to these events, it had been shockingly easy to think of ourselves as empathetic to all.

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GetFeedback

JUNE 3, 2020

HP’s Brandon McGovern shares how he’s pivoting his CX program to stay relevant in today’s circumstances in our livestream series, CX Confessions.

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Steve DiGioia

JUNE 22, 2020

In my recent post, “ 3 Reasons Why We Let Businesses Take Us For Granted ”, I asked these questions, “Do we not value ourselves enough as a customer to expect the best or at least average service? But what about indifferent service? Why is it acceptable? In today’s post, I expand on one of those reasons: “low price shoppers”. Here’s my story…. While shopping, you see a brightly colored cell phone sticking out of the back pocket of an employee or your waiter has a pack of cigarettes in his front

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Experience Matters

JUNE 4, 2020

The deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and others have sparked a renewed outrage against racial inequality around the world, leading many organizations to consider changes to how they operate. That’s great, but I’ve seen too many of these situations create an immediate response with no lasting change. I don’t have answers for solving deep injustices in broader society, but I want to apply what I’ve learned to help organizations become more inclusive and diverse.

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Alida

JUNE 2, 2020

The events of the past week have been difficult to process and put into words. I want to foremost express my devastation and condemn the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Trayvon Martin and so many others who have been senselessly murdered for no other reason than the color of their skin. This is a recurring pattern, and the protests that have emerged in cities across the world further highlight this continuing racial divide.

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Calabrio

JUNE 30, 2020

After months in total or semi-isolation, today’s customers—especially those with less disposable income due to economic shutdowns—have an even greater need to feel heard by the customer service teams they contact. But what customers actually mean when they say they want to be “heard” might surprise you. Calabrio’s recent Evolving World of Work study —which researched how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted and will continue to impact customer service expectations and contact center operations—found i

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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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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 16, 2020

How can organizations help customers avoid the effort in the first place? There are 5 core methods to effectively reduce customer effort: Dive into root cause analysis. Solicit open-ended feedback. Put the customer at the center of your efforts. Look beyond the touchpoint. Walk through high-friction points often. We’ll look at each method in detail below, but first, let’s talk about why this is so critical to the well-being of your customers and your organization.

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GetFeedback

JUNE 8, 2020

How to design a customer experience that prioritizes the always-evolving human and machine interconnection.

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Steve DiGioia

JUNE 8, 2020

Give it away, give it away, give it away, now! No, I’m not talking about the song from the Red Hot Chili Peppers – even though that song is cool. I’m talking about how the butchers and bakers used to run their businesses years ago. I remember as a kid going to the store with my Mom. The baker always had a cookie for the little ones and the butcher was happy to hand out some fresh sliced ham or turkey.

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Customer Bliss

JUNE 8, 2020

Recently, I was joined by Yamini Rangan, chief customer officer of Hubspot for a LIVE version of my podcast, the Chief Customer Officer Human Duct Tape Show. Be sure to subscribe here or on your favorite podcast app to get this episode when it comes out later this week. During our 45 minutes together, Yamini shared insights into her path as a perennial CCO and she answered audience questions about how she’s putting her experiences and her ability for pattern recognition to work.

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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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TechSee

JUNE 23, 2020

Customer experience (CX) is a space where innovative AI applications are being deployed at a rapid rate to deliver effortless, multi-sensory journeys across a range of voice, video and text modalities, apps, and other digital touchpoints. This emerging approach is known as multiexperience (MX). MX gives customers a greater degree of choice over how they interact with a brand.

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Calabrio

JUNE 1, 2020

Over the past several weeks we’ve been hearing from a lot of you about the challenges that you’re facing due to COVID-19, especially as it relates to things like maintaining business continuity, having to rapidly deploy and manage a remote workforce, maybe adding new capabilities to address new problems, etc. For those of you that have your contact center and your Calabrio WFO solution on-premises, we understand that adjusting to these changing environments and adjusting to our new n

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 25, 2020

Customer Memories are a fascinating subject. In many ways, they are what your Customer Experience is, at least from the customers’ perspective, which we also discussed on a recent podcast. They are certainly the most critical element of your customer loyalty. However, these are big ideas about memory, and the purpose of my newsletter today is not to wax philosophical about how incredible and impactful memories are.

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