C3Centricity

JULY 2, 2016

Your brand is not what you think it is! It is what your customers think it is; its brand image, personality and its value to them. I was lecturing at Miami University a couple of weeks ago on brand image and personality. These are two vital elements of branding. They need to be clear and consistently represented in all your communications. If you’re having issues with your own brand in either of these areas, then you’ll find the following article both interesting and valuable.

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Who's Your Gladys?

JULY 7, 2016

While many companies like to combine stellar customer service with a subtle up-sell to grow their sales, there’s a fine line between an up-sell and a turn-off. Here’s a great example of what not to do. I had 10 minutes to squeeze in a quick call. The post Tactics that Kill Customer Relationships appeared first on Who's Your Gladys?

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Kayako

JULY 7, 2016

When you call in to speak with the customer service team of a cable company to cancel your contract, you might expect some hiccups, but overall would expect it to be relatively easy. Perhaps the customer support agent might try to plead with you to not cancel your contract, but ultimately they should respect your request. But not for former Engadget editor-in-chief Ryan Block.

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Experience Matters

JULY 8, 2016

I’m extremely proud to be a Certified Customer Experience Professional (CCXP). One of the reasons is that this certification encourages CX professionals to build and maintain their expertise at a high level, which will raise the overall quality of CX across organizations. So my hope is that more qualified CX professionals will join the ranks of CCXPs.

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C3Centricity

JULY 2, 2016

Your brand is not what you think it is! It is what your customers think it is; its brand image, personality and its value to them. I was lecturing at Miami University a couple of weeks ago on brand image and personality. These are two vital elements of branding. They need to be clear and [.]. The post What Every Marketer Needs to Know about Brand Image, Equity, Personality & Archetypes appeared first on C3Centricity.

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Kayako

JULY 4, 2016

When we built the first Kayako, we wanted to create a customer service tool that had the customer at its heart. Something that would help us speak the customer’s language, tick their boxes, and voila — ticket closed. Happy customers, happy support team, right? But times have changed. Customers expect 24/7 availability and an uninterrupted conversation, even as they switch between their favorite channels—from Twitter to email, from email back to your Help Center—without thinking twice or w

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Experience Matters

JULY 6, 2016

We just published a Temkin Group report, State of Employee Engagement Maturity, 2016. Here’s the executive summary of this annual review of employee engagement activities, competencies, and maturity levels for large companies: Engaged employees are critical assets for any customer experience effort. As engaged employees are critical assets, it’s not surprising our data shows that customer […].

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ijgolding

JULY 4, 2016

I make no secret of the fact that I am a fan of ‘old fashioned values’ in the delivery of great Customer Experiences. Championed by the most customer centric brands in the world, such as the Ritz Carlton, the importance yet simplicity of ‘pleases’ and ‘thank yous’ cannot be underestimated in the effect they can have on customers and the way they are made to feel in their daily interactions with organisations and their people.

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Comm100

JULY 6, 2016

Customer satisfaction is a crucial metric. Knowing how your customers feel about your product, services, and support team is critical to understanding how to grow as a company. Customer satisfaction surveys can help you yield useful data that otherwise could be hard to quantify. Yet knowing what to ask, and then creating a survey from scratch, can be a daunting task.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JULY 6, 2016

Customer feedback is customer experience gold. That’s why there are transaction surveys, experience surveys, customer interviews, customer focus groups (although you know I’m not a fan) and many, many formal ways to gather feedback and use it to improve the experience. But many customers don’t want to answer your survey questions. They’d rather tweet about […].

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Customer Bliss

JULY 5, 2016

Episode Overview. Welcome to Episode 12 of The Chief Customer Officer Human Duct Tape Show. In this edition, my guest is Natalie Schneider, the Vice President of Customer Experience at Anthem, Inc. She describes the transformation she is leading for one of the largest national healthcare providers. From assessing the many operations and variations of service to uniting the C-Suite and CEO focus, Natalie walks through her detailed plan with practical advice on how to ensure the work from getting

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CX Journey

JULY 7, 2016

Today I'm pleased to share a guest post by Vit Horky of Brand Embassy. Isn’t science awesome? As Bill Nye said, the great thing about it is that it’s true, whether you believe it or not. That’s why I’m so excited about the new research showing that our decisions are guided by emotions in ways we never imagined. This has the potential to completely revolutionize the way we think about customer service.

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Calabrio

JULY 5, 2016

When it comes to delivering excellent customer service, most people would say the cable industry isn’t exactly a shining example of customer satisfaction. Historically, their reputation in this arena has been acceptable at best, and more often described as “nightmarish.” So if you’re wondering what you could possibly learn from reading this—don’t worry, I’ll explain.

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Speaker: Jam Khan, SVP, Product Marketing at ZoomInfo & guest speaker Amy Hawthorne, Principal Analyst from Forrester

Buying signals extend well beyond intent. They give go-to-market teams the chance to know everything about their customers. With buying signals, they can reach more customers and win more deals. Join Jam Khan, SVP, Product Marketing of ZoomInfo and guest speaker Amy Hawthorne, Principal Analyst from Forrester for this new webinar where you'll find out how marketing teams operate more efficiently and sales teams close more business when they act on buying signals, not just intent!

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Michelli Experience

JULY 5, 2016

While I have many mentors when it comes to business success, branding, and customer experience delivery, seldom do I look to actors or actresses to give me wisdom in these areas. Recently, however, I was taken aback by the succinct and powerful branding perspective offered by Will Smith. Will Smith started his career as a rapper in the late 1980’s, later starred on the television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and went on to a blockbuster movie career with films like Independence Day

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Customer Bliss

JULY 7, 2016

My goal in coaching leaders and bringing them together is to create an engaged community that learns from one another. Fearlessly, with no holds barred. That has been my intention behind my books, blog, speaking and work as co-founder of the Customer Experience Professionals Association. That is also behind why I have launched a customer experience podcast series – so that we can hear each other’s’ voices and celebrate in our successes and learn from our challenges.

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NICE inContact

JULY 7, 2016

One of the most vital components of any contact center is the training department. No matter what kind of center you operate, it’s critical that those interacting with customers possess and maintain a solid understanding of the overall business, as well as its practices and procedures. Having an in-house training team provides a myriad of benefits to any center.

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BlueOcean

JULY 5, 2016

In our world, it’s a little bit soul crushing to know that one third of people in the US would choose to clean a toilet over talking with customer service. But it is also a call to action. If the call to customer care is a dreaded and distasteful last resort, how do we adapt and improve the experience? And the next obvious question is: how does social media impact our practices?

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CX Journey

JULY 5, 2016

Image courtesy of dizzycage Still trying to show executives how your proposed customer experience improvement initiatives impact the bottom line? As you know by now, I'm no stranger to advocating for - and writing about - ROI and building the business case for you employee and customer experience improvements. The implications of investing in both the employee experience and the customer experience are measurable against the bottom line.

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Michelli Experience

JULY 6, 2016

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 6, 2016

As a Customer Experience consultancy, Beyond Philosophy , we have worked in China on a few occasions. We learned a few things about what to do and what not to do there, as it pertains to Customer Experience. Three Truths Every Marketer Should Know about CX in China. China is still in the early stages of Customer Experience discovery. China sees us as the thought leadership of Customer Experience.

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ShepHyken

JULY 6, 2016

Competitive Strategy. What is one of the most valuable commodities in the world? Time! There is an old saying that goes something like this: “If you build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door.” This is often attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson and the concept of a better mousetrap is a great metaphor for a reason to continuously innovate.

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Speaker: Evelyn Chou

Choosing the right business intelligence (BI) platform can feel like navigating a maze of features, promises, and technical jargon. With so many options available, how can you ensure you’re making the right decision for your organization’s unique needs? 🤔 This webinar brings together expert insights to break down the complexities of BI solution vetting.

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Helen Dewdney

JULY 4, 2016

Telecoms and Energy – the worst sectors. dreadful. I get asked a lot about how best to complain in these sectors. I have therefore provided the links you might need here: All you need to know when your phone/energy bill is wrong this was about the Vodafone fiasco with their billing system and provides advice about how to complain when your bill is wrong and provides other useful links.

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Heart of the Customer

JULY 7, 2016

We often get calls from organizations who want to hold a journey mapping workshop, but have no time or budget for research. Our willingness varies depending on what the client is looking to accomplish. There are times when a workshop is absolutely the best journey mapping methodology – and times when it’s a train wreck. […]. The post The best (and worst) uses of journey mapping workshops appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 4, 2016

Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D., CMC Thought Leadership Principal, Beyond Philosophy. Discussion of the myriad and varied ramifications of Digital Transformation is, seemingly, everywhere (and unavoidable). I’m capitalizing the first letter of each word because the pervasiveness of digital transformation has all the feel of Big Data a few years ago and Reeingineering in the 1990’s.

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ShepHyken

JULY 4, 2016

Each week I read a number of customer service articles from various online 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. 3 Tips for Using Twitter as a Customer Service Tool b y Joe Wadlington. (Hootsuite) Want to learn how to better engage with existing and potential customers on Twitter?

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The reason is clear: intent can provide you with massive amounts of data that reveal sales opportunities earlier than ever before.

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Amity

JULY 7, 2016

These days, customers expect a lot from businesses. Simply offering a great product or service at a competitive price isn’t enough. You need to go beyond that to really stand out from your competitors and bag yourself a loyal customer. Great customer service is a start, but you need to make your clients feel like you are on the same team. You need to take them from being a mere customer and transform them into a “partner” of your business.

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ForeSee

JULY 7, 2016

It’s summertime, and while the rest of us are barbecuing, retailers are already planning their holiday strategies. I thought it might be useful to take a look back at some. The post Christmas In July: What Retailers Should Know About The Lure Of The Deal appeared first on ForeSee.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 5, 2016

Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D., CMC Thought Leadership Principal, Beyond Philosophy. What makes this question so profound, and so pivotal, in customer experience optimization today is that every aspect of value delivery is at play. Further, it should be understood that all stakeholders are keenly aware of when humanity is being practiced by an organization and when there is an insufficiency or an absence of same.

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