Sat.Oct 07, 2017 - Fri.Oct 13, 2017

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Declaration of War? North Korea and What Americans Think About Recent Threats

QuestionPro Audience

In July 2017, North Korea announced that it had fired the first intercontinental ballistic missile capable of hitting the United States’ mainland. President Trump responded by using his favorite social media platform, claiming that the North Korean leader and its government had nothing better to do. Kim Jong-Un responded by accusing Trump of exhibiting “mentally deranged behavior.

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5 Ways to Break Down Digital CX Silos

InMoment XI

What are some best practices for developing a digital customer experience across silos especially when different product owners have different roadmaps? In a perfect world, all organizations would operate like a well-oiled machine. All employees across the board would be in sync with projects and strategic initiatives that are taking place, there would not be.

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4 Real-life Examples How Social Media Influenced Customer Experience

Lumoa

Customer experience consists of countless details, but at the end, it all comes to what a customer thinks of your brand. Sometimes, you think your brand and customer experience are the same thing. In reality, if a customer perceives your brand in a different manner compared to you, that would be your true customer experience. You could use millions of different methods to improve customer experience - from service design to detailed research and questionnaires.

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Contribute to Journey Mapping Body of Knowledge

Heart of the Customer

Last year, Heart of the Customer and the CXPA partnered to discover the state of the art in journey mapping in our first “Journey Mapping Best Practices” survey. We’re now launching our second annual survey. Whether you’re a practitioner, vendor or thought leader, we’d love to hear your experience in journey mapping. Please take our […].

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3 Ways Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Can Improve Customer Experience

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.

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Your Five-Minute NPS Implementation Plan

AskNicely

NPS in 5 minutes? Sounds great! What’s the catch? No catch! Also no free steak knives! Sorry. : One of the many great things about Net Promoter Score (NPS) is that it takes next to no time to get started. At the risk of ringing our own bell, getting your first survey out the door with AskNicely is almost offensively simple: Log in. Add contacts. Send surveys.

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15 Fun Facts About Dreamforce [INFOGRAPHIC]

GetFeedback

Salesforce celebrates 15 years of Dreamforce this year. Check out our #dreamfacts infographic for cool stats on the largest tech conference in the world.

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Getting Your Board to Embrace Customer Experience, With Maury Kask – CB72

Customer Bliss

Episode Overview. In our conversation, Maury Kask walks us through his journey from pitching the Board of Directors to engaging people across the company to being named Chief Experience Officer. Much of his methodology is rooted in seven work streams. We discuss those, and then how to turn the work streams (strategic level) into execution-level elements. .

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Why Is Live Chat Customer Service So Hard to Get Right?

Kayako

Adding live chat for customer service was supposed to solve all your service challenges. Investing in the channel was a no-brainer, or so you thought! It would allow your staff to delight customers with quick, frictionless support. For most Customer Support Managers, that hasn’t happened yet. Even Amazon, with its ‘world’s most customer-centric business’ ethos, hasn’t avoided embarrassment.

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NPS: Using It Correctly

InMoment XI

Introduction In 2003 Fred Riechheld introduced the Net Promoter Score (NPS) as the “one number you need to grow” within the customer experience field. Since that time, many companies have adopted this measure. At MaritzCX we are often asked about our perspective on the use of the Net Promoter Score (NPS) versus other customer experience. View Article.

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Manual Call Reviews? There's a Better Way!

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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It’s Time to Prioritize Self-Service

GetFeedback

Modern customers expect convenient support, so seamless self-service is fundamental to customer experience. Here are 5 reasons it's great for business.

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Invent Your Vocabulary to Emphasize Who You Are

ShepHyken

The other night I was on a Southwest Airlines flight, traveling home from a speaking engagement. While waiting to board, I noticed a sign advertising Southwest’s concept they call “ trans fare ncy.”. The sign read as follows: Trans fare ncy [Trans-fair-uhn-see] n. Philosophy created by Southwest Airlines in which Customers are treated honestly and fairly, and low fares actually stay low – no unexpected bag fees, change fees, or hidden fees.

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Important CX watch: Danny Meyer on 60 Minutes

Customer Bliss

Above is the profile of restaurant entrepreneur Danny Meyer (Union Square Cafe, Shake Shack) which aired on 60 Minutes last Sunday. You can read an associated article here. As many of us probably already understand, the restaurant industry has razor-thin margins. While you can compete on cost (fast food), it’s very hard to only compete on cost.

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5 Ways to Break Down Digital CX Silos

InMoment XI

What are some best practices for developing a digital customer experience across silos especially when different product owners have different roadmaps? In a perfect world, all organizations would operate like a well-oiled machine. All employees across the board would be in sync with projects and strategic initiatives that are taking place, there would not be.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

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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Managed Mapping: Instantly Connect Your Surveys to Salesforce

GetFeedback

With GetFeedback’s new Managed Mapping, Salesforce novices and veterans alike can automate the survey mapping process—no custom fields required.

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inContact is now NICE inContact – One Leadership Brand

NICE inContact

We’re relentlessly driving a new age of customer experience because we believe one-on-one customer interactions have a real and lasting impact on people’s lives. Everything we are doing as a company across our CXone product offering, our expert services, and our partner ecosystem that includes DEVone , is anchored in that belief. Today, we have a new name and a new brand.

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The Key to Effective Mystery Shopping: Understanding Your Customer

IntouchInsight

Have you ever been in a situation where you ask a question only to receive an answer that isn’t what you were looking for? Maybe you didn’t ask the right question, or maybe the person you were asking didn’t know enough about the situation to give you the right feedback.

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Smart Marketing for Smart Customers (What Marketers Need to Know Today)

C3Centricity

Our customers are getting smarter every day. But are we performing smart marketing too? I don’t think so. When I have the chance to look at what most organisations are doing, I see that they are still living in the past of traditional media and have hardly dipped their toes into new media. Or they are using social media but still treating it as if it is traditional media!

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The Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Customer Learning

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.

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CX Design Wins A Nobel Prize

Experience Matters

In case you missed it, Richard Thaler won the Nobel Prize in Economics. He’s a well-known behavioral economist and author of the popular book Nudge. Thaler often collaborated with another behavioral economist (and one of my favorite economists of all time), Daniel Kahneman, who won a Nobel Prize in 2002. You may have seen Thaler in this scene from The Big Short where he and Selena Gomez explain a financial instrument called a synthetic collateralized debt obligation (CDO).

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inContact is now NICE inContact – One Leadership Brand

NICE inContact

We’re relentlessly driving a new age of customer experience because we believe one-on-one customer interactions have a real and lasting impact on people’s lives. Everything we are doing as a company across our CXone product offering, our expert services, and our partner ecosystem that includes DEVone , is anchored in that belief. Today, we have a new name and a new brand.

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{Infographic} Empathy and Connection: The Not So Secret Weapons for Customer Experience and Life Success

Michelli Experience

__. Joseph A. Michelli, Ph.D. is a professional speaker and chief experience officer at The Michelli Experience. A New York Times #1 bestselling author, Dr. Michelli and his team consult with some of the world’s best customer experience companies. Follow on Twitter: @josephmichelli. The post {Infographic} Empathy and Connection: The Not So Secret Weapons for Customer Experience and Life Success appeared first on Joseph Michelli.

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How To Use Your Customer’s Emotions to Get What You Want

Beyond Philosophy

Theory is one thing. Implementation is another. Ideas are useless if you can’t apply them. The idea I often share is that customer emotions influence over half of your Customer Experience. However, just knowing customers are emotional doesn’t help your business….unless you know how to use this information to improve your business outcome. How your customers feel about your experience is the most significant factor to your Customer Experience success.

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What Does it REALLY Mean to Put CX First?

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?

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You Need a Jointly Owned Social Media Customer Service Strategy ASAP – Here’s Why

Comm100

Introduction. Once you decide to engage in social media customer service, the next step is coming up with an effective strategy for implementing it. You know the “what” and they “why” of social media support, but who within your company should be the one to own this new platform? Should it be customer service? Marketing? PR? Sales? IT? If you want a well-rounded, capable, and effective social media customer care team, then the answer is all of the above.

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Create Success – The Alphabet Soup of Customer Experience Acronyms-Part 2

NICE inContact

In a previous blog post, I defined the various contact center-related measurement acronyms and how they may be ideally combined. I bet you’re wondering, “Well, what do I do with this information?” Don’t worry, I’m going to help you. First, let’s take another look at the right combinations of measure for your business, reiterating my previous post: Driving customer loyalty is one thing, while driving customer advocacy is another, and operational efficiency is yet again very separate.

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Find and Build Meaningful Relationships in a Noisy World: NIMBLE

Storyminers

The Problem. Nobody likes over-the-top communications or to feel ‘pushed’ through a seller’s experience. People prefer being in control, so they prefer buyers’ experiences. However, many organizations still treat their future clients in a one-size-fits-all, seller-centric way. It does not have to be like that. The Solution. Nimble is a new, multi-category software-as-a-service that qualify prospects, identify common ground, and engage in authentic, informed conversations

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Millennials Still Shop In Stores, But Are They in Yours?

Beyond Philosophy

If you were to guess whether Millennials prefer to buy online (on their phones) or in brick-and-mortar stores, what would you guess? No Googling, either. If you guessed online, you are wrong. Per the Trendsource 2017 Retail Industry Report , it seems that millennial shoppers prefer physical stores for fashion, home improvement, and electronics. This news is ideal for retail, a sector repeatedly told they are the Beta Max or Laser Disc of tomorrow’s commerce preferences.

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Navigating the Future: Unveiling Trends and Bold Predictions in Customer Experience

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?

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Improving the Respondent Experience

CX Journey

Image courtesy of Pixabay I originally wrote today's post for CallidusCloudCX. It appeared on their blog on March 24, 2017. There's a lot of talk about improving the customer experience. And there's a lot of talk about using surveys to listen to customers so that we know where we need to improve the experience. But have you ever considered that those very surveys are another touchpoint in the customer experience?

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Create Success – The Alphabet Soup of Customer Experience Acronyms-Part 2

NICE inContact

In a previous blog post, I defined the various contact center-related measurement acronyms and how they may be ideally combined. I bet you’re wondering, “Well, what do I do with this information?” Don’t worry, I’m going to help you. First, let’s take another look at the right combinations of measure for your business, reiterating my previous post: Driving customer loyalty is one thing, while driving customer advocacy is another, and operational efficiency is yet again very separate.

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How Priority Health, Southwest Airlines and The Ohio State University approach customer experience

Alida

Building a CX program that delivers ROI requires identifying the moments in the customer journey that actually matter. At the Customer Intelligence Summit, three CX experts discussed how they identify pain points in the customer journey—and how they turn those moments into opportunities to delight customers. The session featured Nathan Foco, senior director of market intelligence from Priority Health, Molly Schmied, director of market research and insights from The Ohio State University, and Vir

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