SuiteCX
JANUARY 13, 2020
We just finished teaching a class on CX driven Journey mapping to a large and very diverse group. It was really a fascinating class – smart and discerning. There were a number of common questions and comments from both beginning and advanced CX Architects/Mappers. These following questions got me thinking: We are B2B, so we are more complex than B2C, aren’t we?
SMG CX
JANUARY 15, 2020
In today’s digital world, one of the most impactful ways to boost business outcomes and quantify ROI is through an effective and efficient online reputation management solution. The financial impact ratings + reviews has on a brand is staggering.
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GetFeedback
JANUARY 12, 2020
About eight out of ten business leaders say they want to “improve” the customer experience (CX) to be more competitive. In CustomerThink’s recent study of 200+ CX initiatives, 74% agreed: “By 2020, customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator.”. And for good reason. Briefly, the argument is that leading CX brands outperform laggards by a lot.
NICE inContact
JANUARY 14, 2020
2020 holds massive potential for planning and achieving your CX goals! Why? Because we have access to tremendous insight on what customers are looking for in service and brand experience in the coming year. We also have access to research on what sales, service, and support organizations across the globe did (and did not) do successfully in 2019.
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Centercode
JANUARY 16, 2020
5G, AI, self-driving cars — in no time at all, we’ll be looking back and saying, “Oh, those old things?” Today’s technology is evolving at lightspeed (though we’re still waiting on lightspeed travel), and development teams are moving just as quickly to deliver on rapidly expanding technological landscapes and increasing customer demands.
Customer Experience Update brings together the best content for Customer Experience and Customer Management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
inmoment
JANUARY 14, 2020
With two-thirds of companies currently competing on customer experience (nearly double the 36% that reported competing on customer experience in 2010), it’s no surprise that organizations are targeting CX initiatives as top priorities in 2020. . But the development and execution of a successful CX strategy can present serious organizational challenges.
Hello Customer
JANUARY 16, 2020
January typically is a month to forecast trends, and we believe customer retention will be an important one. Of course, this isn't a new strategy. But we see increasingly more organisations move their focus from aggressive acquisition investments to retention management. And as fashion shows us, every trend returns at some point in time. (Except for maybe Buffalo shoes, some things should stay forgotten.
ShepHyken
JANUARY 17, 2020
This week we feature an article by Bill Cates, author of Beyond Referrals , Radical Relevance , and the founder of The Cates Academy for Relationship Marketing. He shares an example of how one company was able to flourish during the Great Recession. In the summer of 1999, two teenagers changed the music business almost overnight … and forever. The code written by Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning enabled people to download music at no cost.
CX University
JANUARY 15, 2020
We all understand that having a great customer experience (CX) affects everyone as customers, and an exceptional CX drives revenues and growth. SaaS consultant Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré explains that companies with superior CX saw an increase in customers and regardless of the industry, CX leaders had as much as a 26%-point lead. With that in mind, we’re going to look at 5 thriving industries and how CX has helped them excel.
Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA
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Heart of the Customer
JANUARY 14, 2020
Today we feature an article by Rob Jensen who writes about the benefits of customer advisory boards and how they are a way to improve executive engagement. These days, there seems to be a lot of talk about customer experience. Indeed, ensuring that companies optimize interactions with their top clients, obtain the highest level of […]. The post Guest Post: Best Way to Engage Customers, Gather Feedback and Engender Brand Loyalty?
Experience Investigators by 360Connext
JANUARY 14, 2020
Do you know how your learners feel about their learning experiences? The more we learn about emotions, the more we realize they influence everything we think and do. 1.Emotions drive decisions for learners and customers alike. Emotions are driving our decisions , and usually more than we believe they are. According to Harvard Professor, Gerald Zaltman , 95 percent of cognitive decisions are based in the subconscious.
Totango
JANUARY 16, 2020
Satisfaction is practical. Delight is emotional. That is the big difference in the customer delight vs customer satisfaction divide. One achieves what was expected, the other delivers additional value. Customer satisfaction is the process of achieving goals and consistently delivering the value you promised. Customer delight, on the other hand, is the “wow” factor.
NICE inContact
JANUARY 12, 2020
Customer service is changing rapidly and fundamentally. In their private life, Millennials and Gen Z have long since abandoned outdated ways of communicating with each other – today, “the screen” is the place to be (and interact), whether it’s Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter or any other social network. Social media is literally revolutionizing the way people live and interact – as per October 2019, there were over 3.7 billion active social media users worldwide.
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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.
Strativity
JANUARY 15, 2020
Throughout Strativity’s 17+ years in CX consulting, we’ve developed fundamental principles and frameworks to help our clients avoid roadblocks and accelerate success with their customer experience initiatives — and now we’re sharing what we’ve learned with CX leaders like you. With this fourth post in our ‘CX Consulting 101’ series, we look at the most important elements for bringing your customer experience strategy into the real world with successful employee activation.
TechSee
JANUARY 14, 2020
The global drive toward digital transformation has made its mark on contact center processes and operations, with Salesforce predicting last year that the use of AI by customer service teams would see a 143% increase by 2020. AI-driven call center automation has had a significant impact on the efficiency and performance of individual agents, as well as on overall KPIs.
Gainsight
JANUARY 17, 2020
There is no shortage of feedback these days. But what is everyone doing with it? When you’re trying to deliver an exceptional product, it’s easy to get lost in the constant deluge of customer feedback. Your users are likely communicating with your company through multiple channels and it can seem like feedback gets lost in a black hole. So we asked 10 experts the following questions to learn more about how they collect and prioritze customer feedback: What are some of the effective w
Advantage Communications
JANUARY 17, 2020
The be-all and end-all of your organization is customer service. Whether your business is customer facing or B2B, delivering a world-class customer experience (CX) is what will set your company up for future growth and increased profitability. Finding ways to improve your customer service strategy, however, can be difficult. Many organizations don’t have the resources, budget or investment necessary to implement a truly modernized in-house customer service program.
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.
Interactions
JANUARY 16, 2020
Consumers are more connected than ever before. In the last few years, businesses have been in a race to add channels of communication to better reach their customers where they are. And it has worked, to an extent. I now have the capability to schedule a doctor’s appointment through an app. I can pay my credit card bills through my smart speaker, without even having to pick up my phone.
Gold Research
JANUARY 16, 2020
Companies spend over $1 Billion every year to retain the customers they have acquired. A few companies understand the key logical and emotional drivers of customer loss or measure the impact of their efforts beyond basic VoC statistical analysis or “rescue program” calculations.
InMoment XI
JANUARY 14, 2020
Let me just qualify something here before I get started: I have good kids. Really good kids, in fact. Kids that make me proud 98.7% of the time. But then there’s the other 1.3% of the time, and all you parents out there know what I’m talking about. Yep, that’s where we begin today… My. View Article.
GetFeedback
JANUARY 12, 2020
Steps to dentifying the weaknesses in your customer journey that, if improved, will lead to improved customer satisfaction and better business performance. .
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.
Customer Bliss
JANUARY 17, 2020
We are living in a world where customers have the megaphone. That’s actually been one of the most wonderful forcing functions: when finally it wasn’t about who we said we were; it’s about what employees and customers say we are. And these employees and customers talk about three things: Did you do what you said you were going to do? Did you improve my life?
CloudCherry
JANUARY 16, 2020
Ah First Impressions. We all know we don’t get a second chance to make ‘em. And when it comes to Onboarding, a topic that- surprisingly- doesn’t receive a whole lot of attention, first impressions can make or break it for both Customers AND Employees. But, not to worry. On this week’s ‘Sweets of CX ’ Episode, we brought in expert Stacy Sherman. to shed some serious light on the subject.
InMoment XI
JANUARY 16, 2020
The Automotive Employee Journey Let’s start with some good news. According to Tinypulse.com, 91% of employees are retained by an organization with an effective onboarding process and 69% of new hires are likely to stay for three years if there is a well-structured onboarding programme in place. But here’s the bad news – 22% of. View Article.
CX Accelerator
JANUARY 16, 2020
A customer-centric culture is the “make or break” component of any customer experience initiative. It was great getting to let loose on this all-important topic alongside Ryan Floersch of Gladly during our recent CXPA webinar. We discussed all kinds of ways to begin working toward an enhanced culture, or (if you’re lucky enough to have the beginnings of it in your organization already) how to accelerate the positive momentum you’ve already garnered.
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
GetFeedback
JANUARY 15, 2020
Interview with CX Ambassador and expert Myshka Sansoin of BRP. She reveals her successes, challenges, and pains from her many years in the CX industry.
Kerry Bodine
JANUARY 16, 2020
I worked at an advertising agency for just over a year. (A year and a day to be exact.). Here’s how our typically engagement worked: The client would provide a brief. We’d quickly get to work on it, far out of sight from the peering eyes of our client. And when we were ready, we’d deliver our ideas to the client, much the way a grand meal is presented on a silver platter at a fancy restaurant or state dinner.
NICE inContact
JANUARY 14, 2020
Since 2006, cloud computing has expanded and advanced in incredible ways. While cloud computing is a staple in numerous organizations, less than half of contact centers have any form of investment in cloud technology. But, we see the rate of cloud adoption in contact centers rising every year now. Is your contact center ready to make the leap to cloud computing?
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