Lumoa

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The future of customer experience is decided. Isn’t it? Probably not. We asked 15 experts with world reputation in Customer experience the same question and the results might surprise you. Some time ago we released the first part of the interview answers, and this week guests are Lynn Hunsaker, Peter Lavers, Jane Treadwell-Hoye, Melinda Gonzalez, Matt Dixon, Vicki Amon-Higa and Raul Guillermo Amigo.

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ijgolding

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

This year, Ian Golding (that’s me), will officially become the author of a book. A lifetimes ambition, I am beyond excited!! However, I would never have got to the point of being on the brink of achieving my ambition without the support of many people. A significant amount of support came via my crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. I feel genuinely blessed that so many people believed in what I am doing enough to pledge their support to make my dream come true.

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Culture Measurement Customer Centricity Hotels 264

QuestionPro Audience

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Every good idea should be supported by extensive research. Businesses can’t afford to go to market with a new product that hasn’t been properly researched. If you’re unconvinced, let us remind you of “new Coke”, which was launched in 1985 after Coca-Cola lost market share to their rival, Pepsi. Coke’s decision to alter their traditional recipe resulted in major outcry from consumers, who inundated the company’s call centers with more than 400,000 complaints.

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InMoment XI

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Dräger – An innovative platform leads to an improved customer experience Dräger, an international leading company in medical and safety technology, has carried out customer satisfaction studies worldwide for a number of years. At the beginning, only relational surveys were conducted in intervals of up to three years. The survey was in the form of.

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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

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Centriam Customer Experience Lab

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

To help you build or improve your business cases, Centriam built a single page summary — a map of sorts — which outlines twelve different financial gains resulting from customer experience improvements. These twelve drivers are aggregated into five categories.

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Experience Matters

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

It’s hard to keep up with everything that Temkin Group published in 2017, so we put together a couple of infographics to highlight some of the key data insights. The initial infographic examined CX efforts and ROI. In this infographic, we examine 12 factoids on CX ratings, people, and leadership. Below the infographic you’ll find links to download the graphic (as well as a poster), along with links to the referenced content.

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Infographics Leadership ROI Groups 205

InMoment XI

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Editor’s note: This is a chapter from the ebook, Unlock the Value of CX. You can download the entire book here. As a customer-centric business, decisions should always be made based on customer benefit. This requires a precise understanding of how customers experience the business at the various interaction touchpoints and of where opportunities for improvement exist.

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Touchpoint Software eBook Management 200

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

No matter what language they speak, there’s typically a barrier between the language brands use internally and the language customers use while trying to get something done. Yet it really isn’t what they hear, but how it makes them feel and what it makes them want to do next. Does it drive the next best action, or leave them scratching their heads and dropping out of the journey?

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Touchpoint Customer Journeys ROI Customers 207

NICE inContact

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Watch first-hand how the customer experience differs for customers using a traditional, multi-channel routing customer service solution, compared to a true omnichannel customer experience in this video. Follow the twins, Jimmy and Johnny, to see for yourself what happens as each of them tries to execute a quite mundane task: reschedule a service appointment for their cars.

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Omni-Channel Customer Experience Multi-Channel Course 186

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.

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Customer Bliss

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The following post is an excerpt from my book: Chief Customer Officer 2.0. Below, I share a “My Rock, My Story” snippet – which is one of many featured throughout the book. These stories come from CCOs who have faced numerous challenges, yet persevered in pushing their metaphorical “rock up the hill” by uniting their leadership teams, working through challenges, and ultimately achieving success in doing so.

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Customer Journeys Chief Customer Officer Leadership Customer Centricity 190

InMoment XI

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Editor’s note: This is a chapter from the ebook, Unlock the Value of CX. You can download the entire book here. As a customer-centric business, decisions should always be made based on customer benefit. This requires a precise understanding of how customers experience the business at the various interaction touchpoints and of where opportunities for improvement exist.

Touchpoint 200

Touchpoint Software eBook Management 200

BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Every day, we interact with executives who are in the early stages of discovery, looking for ways to improve their customer experience and/or drive cost out of their customer care model. The conversations often revolve around whether the time is right for them to consider an outsourced model. Obviously, every company is different: customer journey maps, pain points, and growth projections are all different.

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CX Accelerator

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

Using DiSC in a customer service context to enhance both the customer and the agent experience. There is a plethora of training options available to service leaders who are looking to enhance the communication skills of their agents. Having had exposure to many of these, DiSC is my top choice with the most significant impact. Having now studied DiSC and received my credentials as a certified facilitator, there is no mystery why the tool is so great for a customer service environment.

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GetFeedback

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

How do you measure support quality? When we realized our Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) was inflated, we tried a new tactic: focusing on customer effort.

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Measurement Customer Satisfaction Customers 150

InMoment XI

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

I’ve written about this experience before, and amazingly, my experience hasn’t improved in the past couple years. It’s the coffeehouse slow and inefficient service that I’m talking about. On Saturday mornings, I frequently go with my son to grab a quick breakfast before we get to his early-morning music lesson. He always orders the same. View Article.

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ijgolding

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Every day, every week, every month, every year, I learn something new. It is one of the reasons I obsess with calling myself a ‘specialist’, not an ‘expert’ Specialists never stop learning and I am regularly reminded that there nuggets of knowledge waiting around every corner. A few weeks ago, a fellow Customer Experience Specialist – an amazing lady called Jan Richards – passed on one such nugget.

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Customers Customer Experience Customer Journeys Banking 140

Experience Matters

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

First of all, I want to say congratulations to all of the Philadelphia Eagles fans out there. Your team won a great game that capped off an amazing season! I was lucky enough to attend my third Super Bowl (SB LII) yesterday. Unlike the endings in Super Bowls XLIX and LI, my Patriots did not win the game. Here are a few quick thoughts about the experience: Minneapolis was a very welcoming community.

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Customer Experience Customers 136

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

This week we feature an article by Kristin Erikson writes shares great customer service training tips and ideas that will help your company build brand advocacy. Remember customer service training is not something you di, it’s something you do. – Shep Hyken. What is the most important thing you can do to improve relationships with your customers?

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Customer Service Training Training Brands Customer Service 152

InMoment XI

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

I’ve written about this experience before, and amazingly, my experience hasn’t improved in the past couple years. It’s the coffeehouse slow and inefficient service that I’m talking about. On Saturday mornings, I frequently go with my son to grab a quick breakfast before we get to his early-morning music lesson. He always orders the same. View Article.

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Customer Experience Customers Retail 200

Michelli Experience

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

First, notice the title of this blog! You will see that I didn’t mention the name by which people typically refer to the season-ending major sporting event where commercials play a central role. Therein is my first lesson: Trademarks matter. Virtually every phrase used to describe that event has been trademarked and the equity created around it is policied aggressively by the trademark owners attorneys.

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Customer Experience Sports Advertising Social Media 133

C3Centricity

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

One of C3Centricity’s annual traditions is to publish a post which shares the best marketing infographics of the previous twelve months. Here is this year’s crop, with ideas on how you can get inspired to take action in your own marketing. Interestingly, many marketing infographics that have been shared in the past year are actually about content marketing.

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Infographics Marketing Social Media Ecommerce 120

Speaker: Lauren Barash, Vice President, Brand Marketing

In an ever-evolving industry, building and retaining loyal customers is critical to the success of any restaurant business. Join Lauren Barash, VP of Brand Marketing at Full Course, as she delves into the world of restaurant loyalty programs, and reveals the top five essential strategies to optimize your approach! This webinar will explore: Loyalty trends and what you should be focusing on 📊 Actionable insights and ideas to help you develop the most powerful and effective loyalty program

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TechSee

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Visual experiences are gaining traction within customer interactions. Visual engagement has been proven especially effective across a wide range of sales, marketing and customer service and support scenarios, providing the quickest route to success and resolution in a number of use cases. One of the most common use cases for visual engagement in customer service is when visual proof is required to solve issues such as billing disputes, invoice clarification, contract misalignment, personal detai

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Comm100

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Customer engagement software is a modern invention that takes care of a modern problem. After all, it wasn’t until the rise of the internet that media became democratized , and the one-way communication model between companies and customers was shattered. From the rubble, a new dynamic emerged (the same one we know so well today): organizations spoke to customers and customers held the power to reply.

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CX Journey

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Image courtesy of Pixabay Is your company culture best described as a culture of excuses? If so, then you need to think about why that's happening. Why are people making excuses? Why do they feel they need to? Why is that OK? And then consider making "no excuses" one of your core values. Seriously. Have you ever had a conversation with one of your employees or a colleague about some topic - be it customer experience, employee experience, strategy, or the business in general - a topic, perhaps, w

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Culture Leadership Employee Experience Communication 127

Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

You are irrational. Your friends are. Your manager is. I am, too. Unless you know a Vulcan, everyone you know is irrational. People are irrational by nature. In my latest book, The Intuitive Customer: 7 imperatives for moving your Customer Experience to the next level my co-author Professor Ryan Hamilton of Emory University and I explore the influence of our emotions on our behavior as customers.

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Speaker: Jennifer Wright, Michael Scholz, Jasmin Guthmann, and Scott Canney

Digital transformation in retail is so much more than new technology. You need to get your whole organization, from entry-level workers to executives, on board with the new tech, new skills, and culture changes that digital transformation brings. Leading this mindset shift can be a daunting task… but that’s where this webinar comes in! Join our panel of experts as they guide you through the challenges of digital transformation, preparing you to avoid common mistakes and make the most of incredib

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Myra Golden

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Do you find it difficult to get customers to accept your word as final? Like, do they just come back and ask their question another way. Or even better, do they ask to talk to your manager? The thing is, we all need to get better at making our answer the final answer. It’s pretty easy to give a firm answer when you have the right approach. Making your answer the final answer comes down to two things.

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Comm100

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Out of all the customer engagement software tools that are out there, which one is right for your company? The question is a loaded one. Different companies have different needs, and a very diverse number of customer engagement tools are waiting to fill those needs. This blog post will cover several of the top, most sought-out customer engagement tools on the market.

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Software Customer Engagement Engagement Omni-Channel 105

Customer Bliss

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

We recently learned that a good friend of ours and member of the Customer Experience Professionals Association , Diana Helfinstine , VP of Customer Experience at Essilor , the world’s largest manufacturer of eyeglasses has passed away. In tribute to Diana, who has been a pillar in the CX community, we’re revisiting this podcast episode.

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