Steve DiGioia
FEBRUARY 15, 2021
The Mandalorian. The blockbuster hit on the Disney Channel. A keen and faithful observer can see many takeaways that relate to the way we offer service. I’ve already written about Bigfoot Customer Service and Landscaper Customer Service. Those two articles highlight the unique aspects of service the two groups offer and how they hurt or help our service efforts.
Heart of the Customer
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Once you find out what a living journey map can do, you won’t have any trouble understanding why it’s so important to the success of your CX initiatives. So what can it do? Unlike a static journey map, a living journey map doesn’t remain fixed in particular point in time. It changes and evolves as […]. The post What Is a Living Journey Map? appeared first on Heart of the Customer.
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CSM Magazine
FEBRUARY 16, 2021
Building a loyal customer base is essential to growing and maintaining a successful business. Loyal customers will always choose your brand over any others. They will do this based on their experience of your products, customer service and the unique qualities that set your business apart. The Buyer Journey. The route a prospective buyer takes from addressing a problem to finding the solution is known as the buyer journey.
Comm100
FEBRUARY 19, 2021
Buzzwords come and go in the customer experience world, but while we lose our patience with most, there are some that rightfully stick around. In 2013, Forrester Research landed on one such phrase – the ‘age of the customer’. Customers have more power than ever to get their voice heard and listened to. Brands are forever fearing that one viral tweet could severely damage or even destroy their carefully constructed brand image in a fleeting yet far-reaching flurry of complaints. .
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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.
GetFeedback
FEBRUARY 15, 2021
Everything you need to know about using a Likert scale, from advantages to best practices and examples.
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Steve DiGioia
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Too many businesses continue to offer a workplace that leaves little room for the employee’s personality to shine through. They micromanage the heck out of each service step and expect their minions to follow the path without exceptions. Who Writes YOUR Words? I can understand the need for consistent uniform and grooming standards but please don’t make them say the same words over and over again.
NICE inContact
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Do you believe that the relationship between your business and its customers ends when they make a purchase? If so, your digital customer engagement might need a little tweaking to meet the needs of today’s modern consumers. Customers today require a lot more attention than they might have a few decades ago. People today are used to having their needs met instantaneously; doing otherwise can lead to a loss of business.
GetFeedback
FEBRUARY 19, 2021
The ultimate guide for using VoC surveys to improve the customer experience.
Storyminers
FEBRUARY 19, 2021
If you’re a customer experience practitioner, the responsibility of proving that what you’re planning will work may be falling on your shoulders. Getting the latest information, statistics, and perspectives is time Dash consuming. This recent report by North Ridge has many of the basic statistics and proof points you’ll need to put together your own best case for customer experience.
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
Beyond Philosophy
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
A lot of the behavioral sciences can feel intimidating. However, it doesn’t have to be. The Five Rules Podcast Series is our attempt at giving you an easy entry point into the complex and messy world of Behavioral Science. Customers buy habitually, and that’s great when their habit is to buy from you. The problem is sometimes they aren’t buying habitually from you, but instead from your competition.
NICE inContact
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
As customer experience becomes crucial for brands to survive and the future evolves at rapid pace, NICE inContact has put its world-leading cloud-based contact centre solution, CXone, to the test with Toyo Tires (Australia & New Zealand) in a simulated contact centre experiment in a hot air balloon over Canberra.
GetFeedback
FEBRUARY 19, 2021
Everything you need to know about the NPS question, its history, and how to use it.
SuiteCX
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
I love whiteboards. Like, in an inordinately needy way. If I am noodling on something, either alone or with my team, it’s always “Let’s go to the whiteboard” to sketch, to scribble, to brainstorm. When the pandemic hit and we were all forced to work from home, the pain was real. Zoom brainstorming is simply not a thing. Some people (ahem, yes, myself included) bought whiteboards and dry erase pens on Amazon.
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.
Storyminers
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
These are challenging times we’re living in—living through might better capture what we’re going through globally. Not only are the people feeling the strain, so are the systems we have designed to support us. When it comes time to rebuild the severed connections and broken systems, we will need to make sure that we don’t end up with more of the same.
NICE inContact
FEBRUARY 15, 2021
Now that 2021 is upon us and there is a faintly visible conclusion to the pandemic, the question remains – will public sector contact centers revert to the models they had relied on prior to COVID-19? The answer is unequivocally NO. Regardless of how the adoption of new flexible models in the contact center arrived (and yes, the speed with which it was done amid the pandemic was a painful way to do it) the reality is, it’s done.
GetFeedback
FEBRUARY 15, 2021
Follow these steps to provide an excellent customer service experience.
Comm100
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Buzzwords come and go in the customer experience worlds, but while we lose our patience with most, there are some that rightfully stick around. In 2013, Forrester Research landed on one such phrase – the ‘age of the customer’. Customers have more power than ever to get their voice heard and listened to. Brands are forever fearing that one viral tweet could severely damage or even destroy their carefully constructed brand image in a fleeting ye far-reaching flurry of complaints.
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Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your organization’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.
ShepHyken
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
Not long ago I wrote about how small improvements can make a big difference. Even just a 1% improvement can make an impact. And, if you focus on 1% (or more) again and again, over time you will make big improvements that will have a positive impact on your customers, employees, internal processes, and your bottom line. You’ll find ways to save money, make money, develop better ways of doing business and much more.
Talkdesk
FEBRUARY 16, 2021
Find your way back to best practices. Over the past year, most customer-obsessed organizations were forced to accelerate their digital transformation efforts to meet the demands of the global pandemic. For some, that meant face-to-face interactions had to be replaced by completely new digital engagements. And for those already participating in the digital economy, they had to rapidly implement work-from-home (WFH) infrastructure to manage the deluge of incoming requests when agents could no long
GetFeedback
FEBRUARY 15, 2021
Follow these steps to provide an excellent customer service experience.
TechSee
FEBRUARY 16, 2021
In the last few years, companies have been investing in their field service function as a way to differentiate and personalize their services and improve overall operational efficiency. COVID-19 has resulted in a further increase in demand for service, with ServicePower reporting that 2020 field service trends resulted in field service organizations increasing investment in service workers by 72% to meet the rising demand.
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The 5 Essentials of a CX-First Platform Customer experience was once considered a soft metric, or a “nice to have.” But it is now a board-level priority for many brands. The experience you provide your customers is a defining way to differentiate your business from the competition. But how can you really make CX a priority when you have competing budget and resource constraints?
ShepHyken
FEBRUARY 19, 2021
This week we feature an article from Emily Lavin, Content & Social Executive at Oak Engage. She shares a 3-step guide on how to improve the employee experience while maximizing customer engagement. Where would a business be without a customer service team? There’s no denying that without an effective customer service team , a business would fall apart.
Bob Hayes
FEBRUARY 14, 2021
A recent survey by Kaggle revealed that data professionals used a variety of different ML algorithms in their work. On average, data professionals used two (median) algorithms. The most frequently used algorithms were 1) linear/logistic regression, 2) decision trees/random forests and 3) Convolutional Neural Networks. The total number of and use of specific algorithms varied across job titles, with ML engineers using the most (4) and DBA/Database Engineers using the least (1).
Zeisler Consulting
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Executive escalations can be a real life-saver for an organization. Whether it’s a high-profile Customer or just someone whose experience has gone completely off the rails, sometimes escalating dramatically can truly save the day for CX. I recently had an experience that was saved by an executive escalation. I happen to know a Senior Director at a service provider that had recently disrupted its service, potentially causing a serious problem for me.
Wired and Dangerous
FEBRUARY 15, 2021
On January 28, 1986, the world watched in horror as the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, leading to the deaths of all of its seven crew members. Part of the massive media coverage was the fact that Christa McAuliffe was one of the seven. She was the first female teacher in space. What followed was an exhaustive effort to determine the cause of the disaster.
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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?
Beyond Philosophy
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
I’ve changed many habits during the pandemic, from how I have business meetings to how I grocery shop. I am not the only one; people have changed so many routines. Today, we will talk about what we can learn from the pandemic and discuss the five rules for changing your customer habits. We discussed habits on a recent podcast. Many years ago, I read The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg, and I have been fascinated by habits ever since.
Eptica
FEBRUARY 19, 2021
Date: Friday, February 19, 2021 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager How to build mental muscle memory for customer service success. Published on: February 19, 2021. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Ensuring your agents are customer-focused and positive when talking to customers requires mental muscle memory, with automatically putting the customer first ingrained in everything you do.
Myra Golden
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
I helped a claims team shave 83 seconds off of talk time. And that’s a big deal. I started by listening to a random sample of calls, hunting for the precise areas where agents lost control of calls. Turns out, it was the end of the call where they lost control. It didn’t take long to solve this call control problem. I took the questions customers would ask at the end of the call and coached agents to proactively answer THOSE questions before customers had a chance to ask.
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