Customer Bliss
APRIL 4, 2018
Have you recently become a chief customer officer? If you’re taking on a CCO role in a company, there’s a lot of work that has to be done to get your customer experience program off the ground and running. From getting executive buy-in, to understanding the inner workings of the organization itself, and looking for areas of opportunity, it can all seem so overwhelming.
Brad Cleveland Blog
APRIL 4, 2018
Average handling time, like the volume of contacts, must be incorporated into planning by the half hour. Assuming the same average handling time all day for forecasting purposes will not reflect the environment accurately. Some relatively simple analysis can go a long way toward tightening up your projections.
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Kristina Evey
APRIL 5, 2018
Service After the Sale Matters. How many customers did you lose today? It may be a hard question to answer. The answer may lie in the question – How many poor experiences did your customers encounter today while working with your company? 89% of consumers began purchasing from a competitor following a poor experience (RightNow Technologies). Based on the size of your company and number of staff working with customers – front line, contracts, sales, billing, service techs, etc –
Kayako
APRIL 4, 2018
The thought of introducing live chat is daunting. You’re opening up the floodgates to a new channel, and it’s another thing added to your already growing list of apps to manage. Why bother with live chat if it adds this much pressure to you and your team? Live chat is increasingly becoming an essential support tool as a growing number of customers won’t shop somewhere that doesn’t offer real-time chat.
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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.
ShepHyken
APRIL 4, 2018
I’ve got good news and bad news for you. The good news is that you no longer have to keep up with your competition; the bad news is that now you have to keep up with your customer – meaning your customer’s expectation of the service that makes you competitive. Perhaps you just heard that your competitor is working hard to take away business from you – maybe they’re announcing a new product; maybe they’re advertising a major sale; maybe they’re opening a new location.
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Kerry Bodine
APRIL 4, 2018
When I bumped into a former colleague at a recent conference, he was eager to chat about a journey mapping initiative his organization (a major financial services provider) was kicking off. But I got a blank look when I asked what journeys his team planned to focus on. “We were going to do the whole lifecycle,” he told me. “We want to map from the awareness phase all the way through retention and loyalty.”.
InMoment XI
APRIL 4, 2018
The Shift Is Upon Us Customer experience is at an inflection point. We are in a transformational moment where significant demographic and technological shifts have changed our expectations of brand interactions. Companies like Uber have reduced consumer patience with friction in the brand experience. Companies like Amazon and Warby Parker are scrambling our notions of online.
Experience Matters
APRIL 3, 2018
We recently released the 2018 Temkin Experience Ratings (TxR) that ranks the customer experience of 318 companies across 20 industries based on a survey of 10,000 U.S. consumers. TxR is based on consumers evaluating their experiences across three dimensions: success, effort, and emotion. See our FAQs about the Temkin Experience Ratings. Congratulations to TriCare for earning the top customer experience score in the health plan industry.
QuestionPro Audience
APRIL 6, 2018
Advertising agencies are facing a lot of adversity in 2018. With more and more big brands like Sprint, Netflix, and L’Oreal cutting their agencies to take their advertising in-house, ad agencies are scrambling to re-route. U.S. ad agencies are not at risk of becoming obsolete, reportedly bringing in over $48 billion in 2016 and employing over 200,000 people, but the growth in this industry is slowing.
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
CloudCherry
APRIL 3, 2018
Some businesses seem to hit it out of the ballpark the moment they open their gates. They seem to manage to go from 0 to 100 in the blink of an eye, and to many their success is a mystery. However, if you take a closer look, you’ll find that those brands that skyrocket to the top find a way to build a group of extremely passionate and loyal followers.
InMoment XI
APRIL 4, 2018
The Shift Is Upon Us Customer experience is at an inflection point. We are in a transformational moment where significant demographic and technological shifts have changed our expectations of brand interactions. Companies like Uber have reduced consumer patience with friction in the brand experience. Companies like Amazon and Warby Parker are scrambling our notions of online.
Experience Matters
APRIL 6, 2018
We recently released the 2018 Temkin Experience Ratings (TxR) that ranks the customer experience of 318 companies across 20 industries based on a survey of 10,000 U.S. consumers. TxR is based on consumers evaluating their experiences across three dimensions: success, effort, and emotion. See our FAQs about the Temkin Experience Ratings. Congratulations to Whirlpool for earning the top customer experience score across TV & appliance makers.
QuestionPro Audience
APRIL 4, 2018
Tax Day, April 17th, is fast approaching. One of the fiscal perks (maybe the only?) that comes with having children is getting a small tax credit. What about pet owners, many of whom consider their pets to be a part of their family? These furry family members can be expensive as well, with the average pet owner spending around $1,400 in the first year, according to the ASPCA.
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.
C3Centricity
APRIL 2, 2018
What’s your gut response to the title question about eliminating Market Research Departments? Yes? No? It depends? I am probably in the third camp. No, if it is a department that integrates and analyses information from multiple sources, and then delivers actionable insights and recommendations. Yes, if it is the traditional market research department.
InMoment XI
APRIL 2, 2018
As CX professionals, surveys and programs are our world. We get excited by the different ways we can analyze data and gain insights. However, this is not generally the case for the frontline users. Their focus should be acting on the data, not on searching for the information they need or trying to understand what. View Article.
Experience Matters
APRIL 5, 2018
We recently released the 2018 Temkin Experience Ratings (TxR) that ranks the customer experience of 318 companies across 20 industries based on a survey of 10,000 U.S. consumers. TxR is based on consumers evaluating their experiences across three dimensions: success, effort, and emotion. See our FAQs about the Temkin Experience Ratings. Congratulations to Georgia Power and Florida Power & Light for earning the top customer experience score in the utilities industry.
Centriam Customer Experience Lab
APRIL 5, 2018
In J.D. Power’s most recent U.S. Retail Banking Customer Satisfaction Study, the six largest banks (Bank of America, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, PNC Financial, U.S. Bancorp and Wells Fargo) lead the industry in customer satisfaction. Smaller banks and credit unions fell behind, suggesting less effective investments. But how can this be? Shouldn’t these big banks be losing the customer experience battle to the more personalized service of their smaller, more local competitors?
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AskNicely
APRIL 4, 2018
How does a SaaS-based fleet software company solve complex customer needs at scale? They rally their entire organization around customer feedback. Fleet Management Software Meets Real-Time Customer Feedback. To say the fleet management industry is complex is a massive understatement. The role of a fleet manager requires keeping several dozen spinning plates in the air (vehicle maintenance, strict regulatory com pliance, stringent budgetary requirements, logistics management, and everything in be
InMoment XI
APRIL 2, 2018
As CX professionals, surveys and programs are our world. We get excited by the different ways we can analyze data and gain insights. However, this is not generally the case for the frontline users. Their focus should be acting on the data, not on searching for the information they need or trying to understand what. View Article.
Experience Matters
APRIL 2, 2018
We recently released the 2018 Temkin Experience Ratings (TxR) that ranks the customer experience of 318 companies across 20 industries based on a survey of 10,000 U.S. consumers. TxR is based on consumers evaluating their experiences across three dimensions: success, effort, and emotion. See our FAQs about the Temkin Experience Ratings. Congratulations to Holiday Inn Express and Marriott for earning the highest customer experience scores in the hotel industry.
CX Journey
APRIL 4, 2018
Are journey maps a waste of time, or can you really use them to drive CX change? There's a big problem brewing out there when it comes to journey mapping: Too many folks view journey maps as useless, when instead, the maps should be seen as one of the (if not the ) most powerful tools and processes in the customer experience professional's arsenal. Done right, you can drive real CX change with your journey maps!
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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?
NICE inContact
APRIL 2, 2018
If you are a software developer then you’re familiar with the adage “code once, use everywhere”. Code reuse saves time. It’s been a programming staple that has evolved from in-app functions to external libraries, to web services. But what does all of this have to do with customer experience? Companies are discovering the value in not only finding new customers but also in retaining them.
Vonage
APRIL 3, 2018
Unfortunately, some customers won’t complain directly to a company even when they’re unhappy; they’re unlikely to let the business know so it can address the problem and hopefully keep the customer. This is particularly true if the offense in question is relatively minor, and if complaining about it would run the risk of sounding petty. Yet, minor irritants and customer dissatisfiers do have power to compel a customer to seek a better experience elsewhere — without ever telling you, the business
Experience Matters
APRIL 4, 2018
Congratulations! Temkin Group announces the winners of its 2018 Customer Experience Vendor Excellence Awards: Clicktale, Medallia, Qualtrics, Rant & Rave, Waypoint Group Vendors were evaluated based on their nomination forms that included five sections: 1) company overview, 2) “make the case” for their nomination, 3) three detailed case studies, 4) future direction, and 5) three or more customer references.
TechSee
APRIL 3, 2018
Customer churn in the age of information is a fact of life for every business in every industry. Customers have unprecedented access to data, enabling easy comparisons of alternatives, as well as hassle-free provider changes with a simple click of a button. With Accenture reporting that 77% of consumers are no longer loyal to any particular brand, companies must work harder than ever to retain their customer base.
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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?
NICE inContact
APRIL 6, 2018
Customer satisfaction (CSAT) surveys notoriously have a rather low participation rate. Most surveys fail to respect the customer’s time when required to hang on at the end of an interaction and then go through an unknown number of questions delivering no obvious benefit to the customer. Participation rates can diminish if you’re not incentivizing your customers to actively provide feedback.
IntouchInsight
APRIL 5, 2018
In part-one of our interview, Jim - founder of Heart of the Customer and Certified Customer Experience Professional (CCXP) - provides many great insights for customer experience (CX) professionals looking to build a standout CX program across their organization.
Experience Matters
APRIL 6, 2018
We recently released the 2018 Temkin Experience Ratings (TxR) that ranks the customer experience of 318 companies across 20 industries based on a survey of 10,000 U.S. consumers. TxR is based on consumers evaluating their experiences across three dimensions: success, effort, and emotion. See our FAQs about the Temkin Experience Ratings. Congratulations to FedEx and UPS for earning the top customer experience scores in the parcel delivery industry.
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