QuestionPro Audience
JANUARY 19, 2017
One common dilemma we often hear from researchers is that they are investing a great deal of time, resources, and effort to develop a high quality survey, but their survey response rates are declining, as is their online data quality—leaving them unsatisfied with the outcomes of their research. After all, the research is meaningless if the survey results are inadequate.
Experience Matters
JANUARY 26, 2017
We recently published our annual listing of CX trends. In case that wasn’t enough to satiate your needs, here’s a recorded webinar and an infographic describing the trends… Click on figure above to download infographic as a.png file, or click here to download it as a .pdf.Filed under: Customer experience, Purpose, Trends.
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InMoment XI
JANUARY 10, 2017
In an earlier blog, my associate—Al Goldsmith—talked about what Mystery Shopping is used for. In essence, it is used to measure against service metrics in an effort to identify gaps in customer service delivery. But how does an organization, when considering a mystery shop program to assess site-level compliance, ensure maximum benefit while meeting budgetary.
Michelli Experience
JANUARY 24, 2017
Often entrepreneurs reach out to me to discuss “customer-centricity” and the likely viability of their innovative products or services. To give you a sense of some of the key filters I use to evaluate the probable success of various ideas presented to me, let me offer an example of a small business that I think does a brilliant job of innovative customer-centric design.
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ijgolding
JANUARY 17, 2017
In my exclusive column for CustomerThink in October 2016, I shared my ‘top tips’ for creating the right culture to enable an organisation to become genuinely customer centric. Whilst the list of seven things is by no means exhaustive, in my experience, together they provide a remarkably solid foundation to embedding the right environment and supporting behaviours to turn talk of customer centricity into reality.
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BlueOcean
JANUARY 4, 2017
The evolution of the self-serve customer service solution isn’t exactly headline news as we enter this new year. We all know that many, if not most, consumers today prefer to avoid interacting with a live customer service representative if a self-serve option is available. But when a complex situation pushes a consumer to their wit’s end and forces them to contact the call center, the agent they need may not be the agent most brands provide.
Experience Matters
JANUARY 4, 2017
It’s once again the time of year when I publish Temkin Group’s CX trends. In my post last year, we named 2016 “The Year of Emotion.” With my previous post, we declared 2017 “The Year of Purpose.” During this year, companies will be: Elevating Purpose. Over the past year, we’ve seen more articles discussing purpose, and leaders are beginning to […].
InMoment XI
JANUARY 31, 2017
Our family of five recently moved in with my parents while building a new home. This is an unlikely situation for several reasons: From the start, I was not an advocate of building a home. We have never built a home before. The lot we purchased was owned by the builder, so we didn’t have.
Michelli Experience
JANUARY 31, 2017
I’m convinced that the new customer experience leadership challenge will be … (drum roll please) … integrating human and technology based service. I refer to this opportunity as the human/tech challenge. That challenge involves leveraging technology for efficiency while integrating it with the warmth of human service delivery. In my opinion, your future success will hinge, in part, on how well you provide technology-aided, human powered experiences that seamlessly deliver when and ho
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ijgolding
JANUARY 30, 2017
I want to start this blog post by asking a rather profound question: Are you happy? Whether you feel that these three words constitute a profound question or not, have a think about it for a moment. If it is not a question that you can answer quickly, then it warrants greater time to consider. I meet a lot of people as I travel around the world – I rarely ask them this question.
Kerry Bodine
JANUARY 23, 2017
Over the last decade, journey maps have transformed from obscure design artifacts to common customer experience tools. And they’re not just for CX professionals anymore. When I recently met with a group of three dozen cross- industry customer service, operations, and technology professionals, most of their eyes lit up when I mentioned journey maps—and several couldn’t wait to tell me about the maps they’d developed themselves.
Vonage
JANUARY 16, 2017
Contact centres act as the front-line for many businesses. They are the point of contact where customers and companies meet to resolve issues and buy products and services. Operating at their best, contact centres play a fundamental part in creating a positive customer experience. At their worst, they can inflict irreparable damage that the business they represent will find hard to come back from.
Experience Matters
JANUARY 4, 2017
It’s once again the time of year when I publish Temkin Group’s CX trends. In my post last year, we named 2016 “The Year of Emotion.” With my previous post, we declared 2017 “The Year of Purpose.” During this year, companies will be: Elevating Purpose. Over the past year, we’ve seen more articles discussing purpose, and leaders are beginning to […].
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AskNicely
JANUARY 17, 2017
2017 is the Chinese year of the Fire Rooster – heralding lots of changes and challenges. A new President, fallout from Brexit, market uncertainty – and no clear leader of the Rebel Alliance. Uncertainty breeds unhappiness and unhappy customers are more likely to change loyalties, share negative experiences or jump ship. You need to be regularly assessing how your customers feel.
Michelli Experience
JANUARY 10, 2017
We’ve all had it happen. As customers, we’ve encountered a service provider who unfortunately chose to attend to something of interest to them instead of attending to our needs. As a result of their self-preoccupation, we were left to feel like we were intruding on their text messaging session, their online purchase, or interrupting their workplace gossip.
Comm100
JANUARY 19, 2017
According to Ruby Newell-Legner’s book, Understanding Customers, “It takes 12 positive experiences to make up for one unresolved negative experience”. As much as we may try and prevent them, negative experiences are a part of life. When our customers are unsatisfied with an interaction with or a purchase from our company, the best thing that we can do is apologize to them.
Experience Investigators by 360Connext
JANUARY 5, 2017
Working day after day on the same set of projects and goals can make us a little complacent about what customers really need from us. Too often, we convince ourselves that what happens within our walls doesn’t have a direct impact on the experiences we deliver. Customer experience is huge and all-encompassing, so many think of improving it […].
Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin
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.
BlueOcean
JANUARY 10, 2017
It may seem outrageous to those in the customer service business, but the answer is most definitely “no.” Nowhere in the call center industry is this more evident than in insurance claims support scenarios. The need for insurance of some description is one of those morbidly certain things in life like death and taxes. Unfortunately, insurance is arguably more complex than the other two put together, which makes customer support in the insurance contact center quite the challenge (that’s putting
Experience Matters
JANUARY 26, 2017
We recently published our annual listing of CX trends. In case that wasn’t enough to satiate your needs, here’s a recorded webinar and an infographic describing the trends… Click on figure above to download infographic as a.png file, or click here to download it as a .pdf.Filed under: Customer experience, Purpose, Trends.
Customer Bliss
JANUARY 31, 2017
A question I get sometimes: “Of course we want to value customers, but is doing so definitely tied to revenue?” The answer is unequivocally yes. I’ve been talking about this for years, as have many of my colleagues, professional acquaintances, and friends. If you boost customer experience, you boost revenue. Yes, yes, and yes. But it’s still a question out there to many people.
Michelli Experience
JANUARY 4, 2017
Every time I develop a customized customer service training tool for a client of mine, I caution that the tool is a “guidebook” for customer service behavior and that no tool can fit every application. As such, a customer service toolkit is only as good as the judgment and skill of the person using it. Additionally, tools often get elevated to “laws of human behavior” even in the absence of empirical data or evidence.
Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight
As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.
Kayako
JANUARY 12, 2017
Narrowing down to a handful of posts to round up a year is tough. It’s easy to rush into 2017 without appreciating the good parts of 2016: there is now a lot of great content out there that supports you, the customer advocating superhero! There’s been a lot of development around the customer support world this past year with more blogs, conferences, podcasts and consultancies popping up everywhere.
Comm100
JANUARY 19, 2017
According to Ruby Newell-Legner’s book, Understanding Customers, “It takes 12 positive experiences to make up for one unresolved negative experience”. As much as we may try and prevent them, negative experiences are a part of life. When our customers are unsatisfied with an interaction with or a purchase from our company, the best thing that we can do is apologize to them.
Experience Investigators by 360Connext
JANUARY 11, 2017
Are you looking for ideas to help improve the experience you’re delivering to customers? Customers are often full of great ideas, but they’re waiting for you to ask! We often focus on the negative feedback we get from customers. After all, an honest complaint is a great opportunity to improve the experience, so we should see each […].
Experience Matters
JANUARY 30, 2017
I’m really excited to announce that Temkin Group has launched its Non Profit Scholarship Program (NPSP). During 2017, the company will provide free enrollment to its U.S. workshops for up to 20 employees of non-profit institutions. The NPSP will enable these employees to gain access to customer experience training that their organizations may not have been able […].
Speaker: Jennifer Wright and Nick Barron
2025 is right around the corner, and with it comes a new wave of consumer expectations, competitive pressures, and operational challenges. Success lies in finding the balance between operational flexibility and creating experiences that keep customers coming back. The future of retail belongs to those who can stay ahead of shifting customer preferences and marketing trends. 🔮 In this session, we’ll dive deep into what it takes to keep customers engaged and your operations nimble, no matt
Customer Bliss
JANUARY 18, 2017
Guest Post by Michael Becker, content strategist at Sharpen. Better customer experiences equal happier customers. And happier customers are what carries business forward. They buy more, buy more often, and share their experiences with others. Though keeping customers happy is important, it isn’t always an easy task. More often than not, customers are already upset before they contact your customer service team.
Michelli Experience
JANUARY 17, 2017
Over the years, as a customer experience consultant, I’ve increasingly become a student of “game theory” and of the “gaming industry.” I sense I am not the only one. For example, Thomas J. Watson the founder of IBM is quoted as once saying that “business is a game.”. As you likely know “game theory” is a branch of mathematics that postulates how people interact with one another to get their respective needs met (either in competitive or non-competitive ways).
Kayako
JANUARY 19, 2017
Aching over why your metrics aren’t meeting your performance benchmarks is tough for any support team. It can make you feel like you’re not doing your job properly. Or worse, that you’re leaving your customers hanging around waiting to receive help. Each support channel demands different expectations from your support team. For live chat to really hold up it’s name, the agent must be present.
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