May, 2017

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11 TED Talks to Inspire Better Customer Support

Kayako

You’ve read all the classic books on customer service— Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh, How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie, and more. But now you don’t need to spend hours reading another book, unless you’d like that. Thanks to the rise of TED talks, there are troves of great videos on YouTube where you can learn tips in just 15 minutes.

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Why Are Some Companies Succeeding at Customer Experience?

InMoment XI

Brands are all hyping customer experience and many are succeeding. Enough with the tired old pitch from consultants about things like: “Why 7 out of 10 strategy implementations fail” or: “The top 5 reasons why companies improve things customers don’t care about” (I wrote that one so I am throwing myself under the bus as.

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The Evolution of Self-Serve Customer Service

BlueOcean

Ever have one of those days when you simply don’t want to talk to anyone? That day inevitably coincides with the renewed urgency of the task you’ve been procrastinating over: calling customer service to fix your computer/check your warranty/renew your membership/reset your password. We know you hate calling tech support. We know you’d rather not “ press one for yes.

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Customer Experience – that’s all just fluffy nonsense, isn’t it?

ijgolding

For much of my career, I, like many of my peers, have had to suffer what I like to call the ‘rolling eyes phenomenon’ on numerous occasions. Usually (although not exclusively) the domain of men and women working for organisations in senior roles, the ‘rolling eye phenomenon’ often occurs when someone like me, a Customer Experience Professional, starts to talk about anything related to the Customer Experience.

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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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Report: What Happens After a Good or Bad Experience, 2017

Experience Matters

We just published a Temkin Group report, What Happens After a Good or Bad Experience, 2017. This is our annual analysis of which companies deliver the most and least bad experiences, how consumers respond after those experience (in terms of sharing those experiences and changing their purchase behaviors), and the effect of service recovery (see last […].

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How to Write a Compelling Customer Support Email

Kayako

When you’ve worked in support for a while, especially for the same company, it can feel like Groundhog Day. You feel like you answer the same questions day in and day out. That’s because you probably are! But that doesn’t mean it has to be boring. Practice makes perfect and setting yourself the challenge to improve keeps you interested. There are always things you could be doing better in your conversations.

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How Voice Interaction and the Internet of Things are Changing User Experience

InMoment XI

Voice input and connected devices are changing how people interact with software and each other, altering our notions of UX Design. If you grew up watching Star Trek you saw Captain Kirk speaking directly to his ship. Not only did he give the ship commands, but the ship would speak back. While at the time.

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Boosting Case Deflection with Knowledge Base Surveys

GetFeedback

Maintaining a knowledge base gets exponentially more complicated as a business grows. That's where knowledge base surveys can help.

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One Of The Best CX Resources Of 2017

Storyminers

Customer Experience is making great inroads into business, both in the US and in Europe. The 2017 KPMG Nunwood Customer Experience Excellence Analysis benchmarks CX efforts on both sides of the Atlantic. This CX Resource also brings crystal clear insights useful to any serious customer experience design practitioner. A multi-industry scorecard of sorts, this report shares which sectors and brands are doing the best and dives into practical details about how they do it.

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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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CX Competency: Customer Connectedness (Video)

Experience Matters

Temkin Group has found that the only path to sustainable customer experience differentiation is to build a customer-centric culture. How? By mastering Four Customer Experience Core Competencies. This video provides an overview of one of those competencies, Customer Connectedness, where the goal is to infuse customer insight across the organization. Here Are Four Strategies For Customer Connectedness: Filed under: […].

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Transforming CX in Financial Services, With Claudiu Coltea – CB53

Customer Bliss

Episode Overview. Claudiu Coltea is the Executive Vice President and Head of Customer Experience for Citizens Financial Group. He’s a perennial customer experience leader with a background at Gallup, in health care, and in operational roles. He had several interesting takeaways on customer experience management and transforming CX throughout this interview; I’d encourage you to listen to the entire episode when you get some time.

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How to Be 2 Steps Ahead in Anticipating Your Customer Needs

Kayako

This is a guest post from our friends over at FieldBoom. Josh Brown will walk you through ways to analyze your customers and their needs. Consistently exceeding expectations is what any entrepreneur or startup should aim for to increase customer bookings and enjoy growth. Companies like Virgin Atlantic, British Airways, and Zappos go the extra mile to ensure their customers receive top-notch customer service.

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What’s Your Idea of Perfect Service?

Steve DiGioia

This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. What do your customers expect from you? Do you live up to their expectations or only reach your own perceived “ceiling” of service? Are you “good enough”? Maybe. But good enough for whom? Once we believe we have little to learn about the needs of our customer we no longer deserve their business – and shouldn’t expect it.

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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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4 Things That Predict Customer Sentiment After Online Interactions with Brands

InMoment XI

It’s no secret that customers are flocking to social media in droves to express their delight and disdain with the brands they buy. A key tool that cutting-edge CX practitioners use to measure their social media (SM) reputation is sentiment analysis. This indicates the relative positivity (or negativity) and strength of the attitude expressed in.

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The Value Of Experience Design Improvement Is On The Rise

Storyminers

In the last decade, many brands have used customer experience processes and perspectives to complete corporate turnarounds and experience make-overs. Some have seen their fortunes rise. Some have even stayed at elevated levels. They all use the six customer experience pillars. [SIDEBAR: The six essential disciplines of the Customer Experience Professionals Association: Customer-Centric culture, CX Strategy, Experience Design Improvement & Innovation, Metrics & Measurement and ROI, Organi

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Using Omnichannel Feedback to Elevate Service Quality

GetFeedback

Great customer service leads to happy customers, higher retention, and more revenue.

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CX Leaders: 5 Tips for Becoming a Customer-Centric Organization

IntouchInsight

It’s no secret that people are resistant to change - and when it comes to organizational change, their resistance might be even stronger. This is one of the many challenges CX leaders face today as they are tasked with driving their company’s transformation to a customer-centric organization. Add this on top of challenges such as limited data sharing across the business, organizational silos, and teams not being aligned on customer needs. and this quickly becomes an initiative that requires a lo

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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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Help Customers on the Support Journey and up the Loyalty Ladder

Kayako

Think about your ideal experience as a customer. It was smooth and quick to get in touch with a knowledgeable and friendly support person, right? You felt heard, and understood! When customer service is like that, you don’t think about excessive effort, and endless back and forth communications. And yet we more commonly experience high friction scenarios.

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Report: The State of CX Management, 2017

Experience Matters

We just published a Temkin Group report, The State of CX Management, 2017. For the eighth straight year, Temkin Group has evaluated the state of Customer Experience (CX) management at large companies. It includes a lot of details about customer experience within large organizations and examines their effectiveness across Temkin Group’s Four CX Core Competencies: […].

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Actions MUST speak louder than Words: United Airlines eat humble pie!

ijgolding

Last week I wrote an article on the subject of ‘common sense’ To be more accurate, I wrote about the lack of common sense and how it’s absence was continuing to destroy customer experiences all over the world. One of the stories featured in the article was about United Airlines and their much publicised PR disaster caused by the practice of overbooking flights.

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“The Survey Shows” Doesn’t Mean The Survey Knows

Storyminers

Nearly 70% of shoppers will revisit a clothing store because of personalization. This from Springboard Retail , a provider of point-of-sale (POS) software with enterprise-grade retail management features. You can read the entire study here. If you follow this survey’s implied advice, you’ll spend more time and money on #1, less of your budget on #2, and so on.

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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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Who Really Leads Customer Experience: What Happens When Confusion Strikes

Customer Bliss

Guest post by Blake Morgan, Customer Experience Futurist, Author, Speaker. For a customer experience program to be effective, the most senior leaders at the company must take ownership of the program. But unless the CEO appoints a chief customer officer, a chief customer experience officer, or even a chief marketing officer who is empowered to get things done for the customer, it’s hard to say who will lobby for the customer across the organization.

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Today’s Generation Just Can’t Give Good Service, Agree?

Steve DiGioia

This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. How can “kids” brought up with immediate access to information and short attention spans provide the service experience our “older” generation expects? Good question…. I remember watching old black and white movies where the “old guys”, sitting in front of the barber shop, would complain about the kids of today not having the same respect for others or the work ethic as they did.

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Reduce Effort and Boost Delight with Real Customer Context

Kayako

Entering a small shop or boutique where they know your name and respect your business feels inclusive and welcoming. But as small businesses become bigger and build success, why don’t their service experiences ever scale? Think about your favorite small business. It could be a cool cafe or a specialist store. Why do you love it so much? There’s probably several qualities that won you over.

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CMO, meet your new best friend: The contact center

Calabrio

Today’s chief marketing officers (CMO) are familiar with outbound and inbound marketing tactics—they promote their wares at trade shows and advertise with multiple media outlets, and generate inbound leads via content marketing and social media.They understand that outbound and inbound marketing is a balance, and organizations benefit from the customer interaction each provides.

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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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Role model customer centric leadership: why I am a huge fan of Jeff Bezos!

ijgolding

Most human beings have a small number of people they consider to be their ‘heroes’ For some, it is a relative – their mother, father, brother or sister, husband, wife or partner – it may be a long departed uncle who flew Spitfires in World War II. Others may have heroes from the sporting arena, whether it be a football or soccer player; Muhammad Ali, or a multiple Olympic champion.

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Comcast Moves Its Customer Experience Team. Does It Matter?

Experience Matters

Comcast recently moved its Customer Service and Customer Experience teams into the company’s Technology and Products division. Charlie Herrin will remain as the chief customer experience officer and Tom Karinshak will remain as the chief customer service officer, but they will now both report into Tony Werner, president of Comcast’s Technology and Products Group.

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Today is Day One!

CX Journey

Today is my Day One. Back in 2011, I started blogging at CX Journey when I was between gigs. I wanted to build my personal brand, and I felt like I had a lot in my head to share with others after (at that time) a 20-year career in this CX space. Those first months of writing were pretty interesting. If you ever plan to start blogging, do not - let me repeat - do not watch the site stats.