Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 3, 2020

Customer journey mapping can be a powerful tool to truly understand your customers, innovate around new ways to serve them, and identify gaps in their journey. But, that’s only if the map is used as a tool and not an artifact. CX teams spend months on a journey map only to have a beautiful poster on the wall that only tells part of the story. Some will conclude journey mapping doesn’t work because they witnessed how a lot of hard work resulted in a well-designed artifact which hasn’t served much

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ShepHyken

MARCH 6, 2020

This week we feature an article by Patricia Fripp, executive speech coach and sales presentation skills trainer. She writes about how one negative interaction can affect the customer’s overall experience. At a time when every customer counts, we must never forget how our customers see us. One single negative contact can ruin your reputation in the eyes of not only that one customer but also everyone he or she knows.

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ChurnZero

MARCH 6, 2020

Customer Success Starts Within: 6 Ways to Put Employees First. The Customer Success industry is obsessed with cracking the code on customer experience and loyalty. Afterall, an “obsessive compulsive focus on the customer” is the number-one thing Amazon’s Jeff Bezos attributes to the company’s monstrous success and near trillion-dollar valuation. So, it’s easy to see how a fixation on the customer can overshadow the very people who make that success possible: the employees.

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Talkdesk

MARCH 3, 2020

As business leaders, it’s our job to take care of our employees and our customers. We may not be able to control most natural disasters and emergencies, but we can control how we support employees and customers during these times. A recent article in Harvard Business Review, “ What’s Your Company’s Emergency Remote-Work Plan? ”, highlights the importance of business flexibility in times of crisis, noting the increase in remote working, establishing communications protocols and identifying

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A high-quality customer experience creates loyal customers for years to come and makes for an easy win against businesses that are competing on other factors like price and quality. We partnered with ContactBabel to uncover the biggest hurdles businesses face when trying to improve CX and offer practical suggestions to overcome them.

Technology

GetFeedback

MARCH 5, 2020

In this article, we talk about using customer feedback as a guide to creating a great customer experience. .

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Heart of the Customer

MARCH 5, 2020

I remember the joy of getting a new Lego set as a kid, and I see the same joy in my kids now, when they do. It’s hard to contain the temptation to rip the box open, dump the pieces out, and start building. Inevitably, I’d end up with something that kinda sorta looked like […]. The post Make the Most of Your CX Toys – er, Tools appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Totango

MARCH 6, 2020

Voice of the Customer best practices turns words into action. The feedback your VoC efforts provide are the unique perspective of your own customers, and the actions you take based on that feedback add value to their experience. Today’s on-demand, subscription-dominated marketplace requires that enterprises pay closer attention to what their customers want from their products—and there’s no clearer indication than their own words.

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CSM Magazine

MARCH 5, 2020

When you are operating a business that involves distributing goods to customers, you need to make sure that you are handling things correctly. Your customers are the people who keep your business running and if their goods get to them in a poor condition, they might not come back. This is a major concern for many businesses. Here, we are going to give you some of our top tips for distributing goods to customers.

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NICE inContact

MARCH 2, 2020

Nearly nine in 10 companies have formal, funded initiatives to improve their customer experience (CX). That’s because even a temporary lack of focus on CX could result in a swift dive in customer ratings, leaving the company vulnerable to competitors sweeping in and snatching valuable customers.

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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.

How To

GetFeedback

MARCH 5, 2020

Interview with Simon Whight, senior systems analyst at Zen Internet, an internet service provider in Manchester, England, about his career in the customer experience space.

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InMoment XI

MARCH 3, 2020

Taking Care of Your Customers “Before” Buying a new car or truck is magical. We work in the business so we can forget how special it is to our customers. And at best it only happens every three to five years, often much longer, so it is truly a special event. Servicing this same vehicle is often looked at in a different. View Article.

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Experience Matters

MARCH 2, 2020

As the Coronavirus situation evolves, organizations are being forced to consider a number of changes that affect every one of their stakeholders—suppliers to employees to customers. It’s critical that leaders not only focus on making the right decisions, but that they also focus on how they implement those decisions. Experience design plays a key role in this area.

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C3Centricity

MARCH 2, 2020

I’ve been involved in hundreds of successful project management initiatives over my career. I’ve been the leader, sponsor or team member, which means that each time I had different responsibilities. What they all had in common was the desire to get the project approved quickly and easily, with the right resources of people, time and money. There are many reasons why projects fail and I’ve experienced many of them over my career!

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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!

Customers

GetFeedback

MARCH 1, 2020

The six CX trends that you can't ignore in 2020.

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InMoment XI

MARCH 5, 2020

Adapting and Evolving CX Strategies When new regulations shook up the finance industry, banking organisations were faced with a critical choice to adapt or be left behind. Instead of shying away from the challenge, Lloyds Banking Group used the new regulations as an opportunity for innovation and worked to evolve their CX Strategy. Laurent Christoph, LLoyds Banking Group’s Experience.

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Experience Matters

MARCH 6, 2020

The XM Institute has published new research that examines the current state of employee experience (EX) management programs and the mindsets, skills, and actions required for employee experience (EX) excellence. You can download both of these reports for free: The State of EX Management Programs, 2020. This research – based on a survey of HR leaders at 250 large U.S. firms – looks at the current state of employee experience (EX) management programs and future plans for EX.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 2, 2020

We have all been in line or on hold for customer service , waiting for a company to get back to us. We tap our toes and roll our eyes as we wait. Then, when our wait time runs long and our patience runs short we get cranky and think, this customer service crew is really inept today. Or are they? Last February, the Harvard Business Review (HBR) published, “ Why is Customer Service so Bad?

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GetFeedback

MARCH 1, 2020

What is hyper-personalization and how to achieve it in your CX program.

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Calabrio

MARCH 2, 2020

Contact center as a service (CCaaS) makes the power of a modern contact center available to any business, regardless of budget or technical expertise. With it, any size company can move faster and be more competitive. These results are a big reason why CCaaS is projected to grow at a CAGR of nearly 15 percent between 2019 and 2021—and why CCaaS is a critical part of Calabrio’s go-to-market plan.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 4, 2020

It’s almost here… the updated and revised edition of The Cult of the Customer. If you’re reading this article the week it’s posted, then this is a sneak preview of a few of my favorite quotes from the book. Even if it’s after the book comes out, it’s not too late to “join” the Cult of the Customer—the cult you want to belong to! I want to share some quotes from the book to get you thinking about how to amaze your customers.

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NICE inContact

MARCH 6, 2020

In this video, the next in our series on Transforming Customer Experiences, Lauren Comer, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, discusses how you can leverage workforce optimization software to hire, train and engage contact center agents more effectively.

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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.

How To

GetFeedback

MARCH 5, 2020

Interview with April Obersteller, senior manager of global customer experience at YETI, a seller of premier outdoor gear, about her career in the customer experience space.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Research in Harvard Business Review last year suggested that some companies with poor customer service are terrible on purpose to wear out disgruntled customers so they don’t have to fix customer problems. Moreover, the HBR authors suggest that this method makes these organizations more profitable. This episode of The Intuitive Customer explores this idea in more detail.

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TechSee

MARCH 5, 2020

Every customer service professional knows that running a successful call center is a constant balancing act. Managers will often focus on improving employee productivity to keep customers happy and costs down. However, if they are too successful at increasing productivity, their efforts can easily backfire. Overworking employees can actually drive up call center costs by causing burnout and leading to high agent turnover.

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NICE inContact

MARCH 4, 2020

In Part One of this two-part series, we explored quality forms, quality plans, and evaluations as basic -but critical – components of an effective quality management program. Using the analogy of quality management being a never-ending roadtrip, we said that creating quality forms and plans was similar to mapping a roadtrip, and that completing evaluations were like actually driving and embarking on the trip.

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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.

Sales

GetFeedback

MARCH 1, 2020

In this article, we will explore how AI can improve the customer experience, increase the revenue for your retail company, and why your business needs an app.

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Brandwatch CX

MARCH 4, 2020

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Uniphore

MARCH 5, 2020

By definition, a crisis means there’s no time to plan. Even top teams fail to understand what it takes to plan for disruption. That’s why so many businesses were caught flat-footed during this recent coronavirus outbreak. Read More.

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