February, 2017

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How to Implement Experiential Marketing and Brand Loyalty Into Your CX Strategy

InMoment XI

Today’s connected world and ever-present technology have changed the way we think about engaging with companies. Whether you’re a major corporation, or a bustling startup, people expect their interactions to be something that wows them. Simple ads are important, but they are just a piece of the puzzle. In today’s world, companies need to create.

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It’s Viral, It’s Video Storytelling – Live Visuals Rule

Michelli Experience

For a period in human history, all we had were spoken words. Later we learned to communicate through written symbols and today it seems the most preferred communication medium is words shared through video. Great customer experience brands are not only “visual storytellers” but they are supporting their customers as those brand loyalists visually communicate about their brand journey.

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Analysis of the Top 100 eCommerce Help Centers

Kayako

Design standards are not top of mind for you as a customer support professional but they are critical to your customers’ experiences. Your customer wants quick, easy answers to their simple questions. CEB, the insight and technology company that investigates customer loyalty best practices, reported that 67% of customers prefer self-service over talking to your team.

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Modernize Leadership: Observe and Improve

Experience Matters

In a previous post, I described how today’s management techniques reflect outdated assumptions of technology-enabled practices, human behavior, and the meaning of success. That’s why organizations must shift to what I’m calling Modernize Leadership. I’m writing individual posts for each of the eight key changes required to modernize leadership.

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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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Navigating Generational Differences in the Contact Center Workforce

BlueOcean

What makes a great contact center agent isn’t as easy to define as you might expect. Yes, they need to be great communicators and they need to have the chops to navigate call center systems and software in their sleep, but the best skills and personality traits differ from agent to agent, depending on the brand, the type of customer service, and the specific support channel.

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Everything you need to know about the consumer of 2017

Vonage

The days of winning over your customers’ hearts and minds based solely on the quality of your product or service are over. In the digital age, prices and products are easily imitated. This leaves delivering a speedy, personalized and friendly customer experience as the best way to differentiate your business from its competitors. To help arm you with the information needed to thrive in this competitive environment, here are 10 stats that tell you everything you need to know about today’s consume

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{Infographic} All Business is Personal – Consistency with a Twist

Michelli Experience

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The cost of NOT focussing on Customer Experience

ijgolding

Last night, I received an email from a good friend of mine asking for my input into a question they had been asked by the senior leadership team of their organisation. The question was as follows: What value has our business experienced as a result of all the Customer Experience (CX) work that has been done? They are not the first senior leadership team of a company to ask a question along these lines – they are very unlikely to be the last.

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What Goes Into a Customer Journey Map?

InMoment XI

Customer journey mapping is a tool to help you view what it’s like from the customer viewpoint to experience their journey with your company, in their shoes. This is one of the most talked about aspects in the field of Customer Experience.

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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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Customer Experience Leads to Recommendations (Charts For 20 Industries)

Experience Matters

If you want customers to recommend your company, make sure they have a good experience. In this post, I share data and analysis showing how customer experience correlates to customer recommendations across 20 industries. At the bottom of this post we’ve assembled a number of industry-specific data charts that you can download and use. In the […].

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Surveys Results are Great, but What About the “Untold” Feedback?

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Consistently gathering customer feedback is a great way to see patterns around satisfaction, loyalty and other key performance indicators, but some of the most valuable information hides beyond typical survey results. There are important questions customers would love to answer for you, should you ever happen to ask! There are answers they want to give you, […].

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Can You Train Contact Center Agents in Empathy?

BlueOcean

We already know most people hate calling tech support and even in basic customer service scenarios, consumers prefer to use self-serve options over contacting a customer service agent directly. Regular readers of our blog know we frequently explore the factors that influence these choices and the overall customer experience and there’s no question agent empathy is a key factor for the success of the contact center-customer interaction.

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{Infographic} It’s Viral, It’s Video Storytelling – Live Visuals Rule

Michelli Experience

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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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Creating a Case Closed CSAT Workflow with Salesforce

GetFeedback

Measuring customer service quality with Salesforce is crucial, and you can do it seamlessly with a case closed CSAT survey workflow in Service Cloud.

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Expert Interview Series: Mike Wittenstein of Storyminers About the Importance of Storytelling in Business

Storyminers

This interview was conducted by John Mattone and first appeared February 7, 2017 on JohnMattone.com. Mike Wittenstein advises leaders on how changes to their customer experiences can positively transform their brand narratives and their bottom lines. He is the managing partner at Storyminers , a design pioneer, and a developer of unique methods and tools for enhancing front-line customer experiences.

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How a Potentially Positive CX Experience Turned Into a CX Rollercoaster Ride

InMoment XI

As I was wrapping up my workday on Friday afternoon, I got a call from my cable company which also provides my internet service. “Mr. Selinger, we’re calling all of our customers with 50 megabyte internet speed and offering our 100 megabyte package.” Me, skeptically: “Are you saying it’s a free upgrade, or would.

Company 186
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Customer Journey Management – it’s not just about the mapping!

ijgolding

Customer Experience is now recognised as a profession – as I am sure many are bored with hearing me repeat over and over again! As with any profession, it is defined by a number of competencies, tools, techniques and methodologies that are recognised and practised by thousands of specialists around the world. It is a challenging profession for a variety of reasons – largely because it is not ‘black and white’ There is no one way of doing anything when it comes to Customer

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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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More on the positive ties between good CX and revenue

Customer Bliss

I wrote a few weeks ago about how good CX is tied to revenue gains. I firmly believe that and preach it to all my clients and anyone I ever work with. If you do customer experience right — think in terms of the five core competencies — then you will (over time) create a customer-driven growth engine and see revenue uptick from your customer experience side.

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The Future of Customer Service: Human Intelligence (HI) or Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Michelli Experience

I have been slow to accept that, from a service perspective, humans will ever be replaced by computers. I’ve suggested that customers will resist “robots” and I’ve based my thinking in part on the “uncanny valley” hypothesis which postulates that the more robots look like humans the less humans will feel comfortable with them. I am starting to rethink my assumptions and my conclusion.

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What does customer relationship *really* mean to you?

Alida

Most companies know what their customers buy, when they purchase and where. But few truly understand why those customers buy—why customers choose to have a relationship with companies to begin with. Business leaders need to step back and more clearly define what customer relationships mean to them. A clearer understanding of customer relationships helps align the tools a company uses with the strategy it is pursuing.

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Is Emotional Intelligence Key To Outstanding Customer Service?

Kayako

Working in customer support can leave you feeling like an unrecognized or unsung hero. Praise is often in short supply and there is a lack of awareness about areas of responsibility and how much work the support team does. Within a brief conversation the agent is expected to engage each customer, fix their problem and move on swiftly to help others.

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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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Focus on the Negative Experiences to Get Positive Results

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Recent data from InMoment revealed how missing expectations for customers has a greater impact than meeting or even exceeding those expectations. So while you might be doing your best to provide those wow moments for your customers, your competitors might win by simply not disappointing them with negative customer experiences in the first place. What […].

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Expert Interview Series: Mike Wittenstein of Storyminers About the Importance of Storytelling in Business

Storyminers

This interview was conducted by John Mattone and first appeared February 7, 2017 on JohnMattone.com. Mike Wittenstein advises leaders on how changes to their customer experiences can positively transform their brand narratives and their bottom lines. He is the managing partner at Storyminers , a design pioneer, and a developer of unique methods and tools for enhancing front-line customer experiences.

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Boost your internal stakeholders (mostly for free)

Customer Bliss

“Internal stakeholders” refers to employees. A lot of companies tend to focus most of their attention on external stakeholders, which would typically include customers and potentially investors. There is nothing wrong with that approach, per se. You obviously want to pay a lot of attention to the people who buy your product/service (customers) and the people who help you have money to do it better (investors, if you have any).

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The ABCs of PCT and Its Critical Role in Outstanding Customer Experiences

Michelli Experience

Long ago I received my Ph.D. in clinical psychology with an emphasis in dynamic, interactive human systems like married couples, families, and businesses. Along that educational journey, I was exposed to many theorists and various models of human motivation and perception (operant and classical conditioning, needs hierarchies, etc.). One organizing concept has proven to have a considerable amount of value when it comes to thinking about and constructing outstanding customer experiences.

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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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Data Snapshot: CX Expectations and Plans for 2017

Experience Matters

Temkin Group just published a data snapshot, Customer Experience Expectations and Plans for 2017. This annual research effort shows an increase in focus, effort, and spending on customer experience in 2017. Here’s a description of the data snapshot: In December 2016, Temkin Group surveyed 165 respondents – each from a company with $500 million or […].

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NPS: Achieving Brand Loyalty by Closing the Feedback Loop

Kayako

This is a guest post from our friends at Typeform. Paul Campillo will show you the value of choosing NPS as your next customer feedback questionairre. Every company wants loyal customers. Sure, sales are great, but nothing beats sales from repeat customers. That’s the goal of every business. Not a gazillion “maybe” fans, but diehard fans who’ll gladly pay, over and over again.

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Weighing the Pros and Cons of Cross-Trained Contact Center Agents

BlueOcean

One of the fundamental questions that gets asked in the call center services procurement process is: will we have a dedicated team of agents or will they be shared? It’s a great question and seems pretty straightforward, right? A dedicated team is always the best solution … or is it? Say you’ve been charged with putting together an RFP for contact center services.