Heart of the Customer
MAY 13, 2021
Done right, CX is a business discipline where organizations thrive by investing in an improved customer experience. That notion is largely accepted, even though it’s not always practiced. The challenge there is knowing where to invest. Success requires finding the sweet spot where an improved experience leads your customers to spend more with you, stick […].
Steve DiGioia
MAY 17, 2021
Great customer service. That’s what our customers want and that’s what we wish to provide. But it’s difficult remembering all the different steps to take to provide it. Thankfully, many have developed useful acronyms to help. In today’s post, I compiled my list of the top 10 customer service acronyms to use every day. Store these in your CS toolbox to use as needed. 1.
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GetFeedback
MAY 5, 2021
New Salesforce integration for feedback from digital channels and new GetFeedback app for Salesforce.
Experience Investigators by 360Connext
MAY 11, 2021
Customer experience exists whether you are intentional about it or not. After all, your customer is experiencing the brand via every interaction, touchpoint, service call, and delivery. The customer walks away with a perception of what the brand is, and whether or not this brand lives up to its promises, with every step along their personal journey.
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Today’s digitally savvy customers have high expectations of retailers for convenience, responsiveness, and ease of doing business both in-store and online. Our recent survey of over 2,000 US consumers found that retailers that can drive a seamless, omnichannel customer experience (CX) – across physical and digital channels – have huge benefits for brand relevance, profitability, and customer loyalty.
NICE inContact
MAY 19, 2021
With NICE, it’s never been easier for organizations of all sizes around the globe to create extraordinary customer experiences while meeting key business metrics. Featuring the world’s #1 cloud native customer experience platform, CXone, we’re a worldwide leader in AI-powered contact center software. Over 25,000 organizations in more than 150 countries, including over 85 of the Fortune 100 companies, partner with NICE to transform—and elevate—every customer interaction.
Customer Experience Update brings together the best content for Customer Experience and Customer Management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Comm100
MAY 31, 2021
While tracking and measuring live chat KPIs is essential, it’s not always so easy to get your agents to understand why this matters and to get them onboard with your targets. But it’s completely worth the effort. A decade-long study involving 100,000 teams found that increasing employee engagement can generate up to 18% more sales. Here are five top tips to help you get your agents engaged and onboard with your KPIs and lead your team on a journey to live chat excellence. 1.Set measurable and cl
Steve DiGioia
MAY 3, 2021
Tomorrow is a busy day at work. You’ve planned for it, scheduled properly, made the needed operational adjustments, and kept your fingers crossed so that everything will work out as planned. Then it happened…. The first thing in the morning you get a call from one of your key employees. She’s sick and is calling out for today. NOOOOOOO, how can this happen?
GetFeedback
MAY 13, 2021
How CX leaders embark on the journey of asking, listening, and acting on customer insights.
Alida
MAY 31, 2021
As genuine connection between customers and brands becomes increasingly more important, more and more companies are turning to customer experience (CX). After the ups and downs of 2020, CX is a hot topic—and you can tell by how crowded the market is. There are over 100 vendors that offer CX services, including Alida.
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
NICE inContact
MAY 14, 2021
Change management is part of every successful technology transformation effort. You can nail the technical implementation, but if the people using the new capabilities aren't on board, your project will struggle out the gate.
TechSee
MAY 4, 2021
The Gig Economy – Work On-Demand. In recent years, the world has been trending toward a gig-based economic format. A gig refers to when an independent worker is hired, often through a digital marketplace, to work on a short-term project or task on-demand, such as freelancers, independent contractors, and temporary hires. These gigs are often created to meet consumer demand via the real-time delivery of services.
Comm100
MAY 8, 2021
Note: This blog post was originally published in October 2020 but has since been updated to include the latest research, up-to-date features, and pricing. Live chat has become the most popular digital customer service channel, offering real-time support that is both efficient and personalized. Today, many vendors offer free live chat software, but with each boasting different features and capabilities, it can be hard to know which will be the best free chat for your business. .
Beyond Philosophy
MAY 7, 2021
I recently received a letter from a listener on our podcast asking us to cover how a small business with limited resources can improve their Customer Experience using the behavioral sciences in their business. We took on this topic in a recent podcast by offering tips and tricks that are either free or not an additional expense for a fictional restaurant we created.
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.
ShepHyken
MAY 11, 2021
Applying the Velocity Mindset in Customer Service. How Empathy Accelerates Great Customer Experience. Shep Hyken interviews Ron Karr, CEO of Karr Associates, Inc. and author of The Velocity Mindset. They discuss the impact of empathy in delivering customer-focused service. . Top Takeaways: . Often in customer service, we tend to put self-imposed limitations that get in the way of delivering great experiences to our customers and slows down the process.
Bill Quiseng
MAY 2, 2021
Too often, businesses focus solely on the negative feedback from their customer surveys in CSI fashion, identifying the pain points and taking the steps to eliminate them. While this reactive analysis is critical, it is just as important to embrace a proactive approach, taking as much time examining the positive comments for clues in the experiences that customers raved about in their surveys.
Bob Hayes
MAY 5, 2021
I recently reached out to data professionals on LinkedIn to ask a series of questions about their work. Results from one of those polls revealed that 58% of data pros reported that they prefer a hybrid approach (on premises and cloud) for their tools and technologies. About a third of respondents preferred the cloud. Only 6% of respondents preferred on premises.
TechSee
MAY 19, 2021
In the last few years, the customer service domain has experienced an awakening with the rising awareness of the benefits of delivering a good customer experience. Companies have invested in their customer service function to differentiate and personalize their brand and improve overall operational efficiency. COVID-19 has resulted in a further increase in demand for service, with a January 2021 survey indicating that 65% of U.S. consumers required assistance during the pandemic.
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Comm100
MAY 16, 2021
In today’s digital world, power rests with the consumer. With so much choice, consumers can jump from one brand to another quickly, and in most cases, easily. Competition is tough and loyalty is precarious. And in ‘the age of the customer’, they also have more power than ever to get their voices heard. To manage this, businesses must do all they can to perfect the customer experience.
Beyond Philosophy
MAY 28, 2021
Business relationships are a lot like customer relationships. They both involve buying decisions and loyalty—and emotions. However, there are some differences between managing Customer Experience in business-to-business (B2B) relationships and business-to-consumer (B2C). Today we will go through those differences with our 5 Rules for Managing Your Customer Experience in B2B relationships.
ShepHyken
MAY 12, 2021
During my live presentations, there is a part of my speech where I talk about Moments of Magic. These are positive experiences we create for our customers, including our internal customers, also known as our fellow employees. (If you’ve been following my work, you already knew that.). In the speech, I’ll ask audience members to share an example of when they created that experience.
ReviewTrackers
MAY 5, 2021
Americans eat almost one-third of their caloric intake at restaurants, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. That is almost twice the amount than the average intake in the 70’s, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The number of meals eaten out increases significantly during the winter holiday season, starting before Thanksgiving and continuing through New Year’s celebrations.
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Ready to explore 2024’s CX landscape? Join experts from SMG and guest Forrester as they discuss prominent trends actively shaping the industry and dive into a stack of bold predictions for the year ahead. Will the average customer experience improve? How can leaders leverage their CX metrics to establish financial linkage? What will global firms achieve using customer-facing generative AI?
Eptica
MAY 21, 2021
Date: Friday, May 21, 2021 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Increasing agent retention in the hybrid workplace. Published on: May 21, 2021. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Research has found that over 90% of contact centre agents will change jobs in 2021. Stress and burnout are amongst the key reasons for this churn.
Russel Lolacher
MAY 4, 2021
Legacy is a funny thing. It’s a term used more and more in organizations when executives or senior management are in their mid- to late career. Their bosses will ask, or they’ll ask themselves,… “What do you want your legacy to be?” But what does that even mean? As Merriam-Webster Dictionary states it: leg·?a·?cy | ?
dscout People Nerds
MAY 12, 2021
Chris Geison walks us through the distinctions between “strategic research” and “research strategy” to unpack how the latter is the key to improving team bandwidth and securing a seat at the table.
Totango
MAY 5, 2021
It is essential for a company to understand the behavior, opinions, and needs of their customers to provide the best service possible. A business’s relationship with its clientele is a foundational necessity, and just like any other relationship, if one side does not understand the other, the partnership is destined to fail. By measuring customer experience, companies can easily become more educated about customer behavior and opinions.
Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO
The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.
ShepHyken
MAY 24, 2021
Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. How To Thank A Customer For Their Business | Tips, Tricks, & Budget-Friendly Ideas by Philipp Wolf. (Custify) It’s crucial for those who are loyal to you to make sure they feel appreciated by going the extra mile for them.
Integrity Solutions
MAY 25, 2021
To ramp up sales performance and strengthen your sales pipeline, you have to develop your salespeople’s confidence; inspire them to be more proactive; improve their ability to build trust and rapport in an increasingly digital world; and equip them to engage in buyer-centric, results-driven conversations. The sales business went through rough waters (to put it mildly) in 2020, but now it’s time to get your sales plan ready and your team geared up to ride the coming wave.
Beyond Philosophy
MAY 22, 2021
In the early days of my career, I thought the customer was always right. The idea that one should fire a customer sometimes would have sounded like madness to me. However, as I have matured over the following four decades, I learned that sometimes the customer is not right. Sometimes they are really, really wrong, from how they abuse your systems to how they tax your resources to how they talk to employees.
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