Sat.May 04, 2019 - Fri.May 10, 2019

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What Customer Feedback Questions Should You Ask in a Restaurant?

ServiceDock

We have a variety of different food service businesses using our product to manage customer experience (CX) and no two brands have an identical CX survey. That’s not at all surprising because a quick service restaurant will have a different service setup to a fine dining restaurant and different management teams will have varying areas of focus.

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The ‘constant curiosity’ that has shaped some of the world’s most iconic brands

Qualtrics

Talk about the Experience Economy and it won’t be long before someone mentions Apple, Wal-Mart or Starbucks. Aside from being the pioneers of experience management, one thing they all have in common is Emily Chang, the SVP of Marketing for Starbucks. She has built a career at the world’s most iconic brands, shaping the experience for billions of customers.

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5 Reasons Why Continual Learning is Key for Your Customer Service Team

Playvox

According to a Microsoft report, customer service is a key factor in 96 percent of consumers’ loyalty to a brand.

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The Secret To Create Extraordinary CX Memories

Survaider

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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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Get to Know Bruce Arnett: The CTO at MaritzCX

InMoment XI

The interview shared below was written and conducted by the CybageTimes. You can view the original article here. “Skill, ethics, and a purpose-driven outlook is what makes a great team deliver compelling customer experience and drives exceptional business performance.” — Bruce Arnett, CTO, MaritzCX Being a People Leader Bruce has over 20 years of.

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How to Measure and Improve Customer Retention

Lumoa

What is Customer Retention is and how can you improve it? We share the best tips on how to improve Customer Retention and tell you more about other relating KPI:s you can use.

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Population vs Sample – All you need to know

QuestionPro Audience

Population vs Sample – the difference. The concept of population vs sample is an important one, for every researcher to comprehend. Understanding the difference between a given population and a sample is easy. You must remember one fundamental law of statistics: A sample is always a smaller group (subset) within the population. In market research and statistics, every study has an essential inquiry at hand.

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Get to Know Bruce Arnett: The CTO at MartizCX

InMoment XI

The interview shared below was written and conducted by the CybageTimes. You can view the original article here. Being a People Leader Bruce has over 20 years of experience in the software engineering domain and has all the qualities it takes to be a successful leader in software development. As CTO at MaritCX, he offers. View Article.

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What is More Important: A Good Product or a Good After-Sales Service?

GetFeedback

Imagine your old phone broke down and now you need a new one. You want to treat yourself by buying the latest model of a super popular brand. So, you don’t mind spending a larger amount of money and you buy it. Then, a couple of days later, you realize you don’t understand a bunch of features and you need some extra help from the provider. But somehow nobody replies to your emails.

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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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3 Ways to Provide Success When Handling Rude Customer Interactions

NICE inContact

As I searched for ways to discipline my accident-prone, very determined, yet very sensitive and sometimes diva-like 5-year-old daughter, I had a revelation: Dealing with rude customers in the contact center can be similar to this challenge. As customers get more frustrated — whether it’s a product not working correctly, not reaching resolution, or any number of triggers — logic seems to exit the building.

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Discover the Missing Puzzle Piece in your Contact Center at ICMI

Calabrio

We’ll be navigating the tides of transformation at ICMI Contact Center Expo from May 13–16 at The Diplomat Resort in sunny Ft. Lauderdale, FL. We hope to see you there! The ICMI Contact Center Expo is a great conference to submerge yourself in meaningful content; learn how to take back to your workforce, listen to expert speakers and network with the industry’s leading-edge vendors.

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CX Professionals Talk About 3 Strategies to Drive Action

InMoment XI

At a recent MaritzCX event, we held an interactive power hour facilitated peer-to-peer discussion about creating a strategic action plan to generate the expectations and actionability of insights. The room was all a buzz with CX professionals, who were sharing ideas and discussing the methods that work best when it comes to driving action throughout.

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Employee Satisfaction Surveys: How to Keep Teams Happy and Thriving

GetFeedback

Employee satisfaction surveys are becoming common practice in companies that want to be at the top of their industry. That’s because it’s no longer enough for employees to simply show up for work, they have to also be satisfied and engaged with the work they’re doing to perform at a high level. Specifically, employee satisfaction is the extent to which your employees are happy with their jobs.

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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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The “What’s Next” of Journey Mapping

IntouchInsight

CX thought leader, Jeannie Walters, shares tips for getting the most value from your journey mapping initiatives.

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Trust the Front Line to Extend Grace and Honor Your Customers

Customer Bliss

In my Daily Dose video series, I explore the topics that chief customer officers must grapple with on a daily basis. Join me as I discuss what I’ve learned over the course of my 35-year career, so that you can more effectively do the work that needs to be done. Today’s video is an excerpt from my online course , inspired by my book, Would You Do That To Your Mother?

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4 Questions Every Contact Centre Needs to Ask

NICE inContact

Companies hold contact centres accountable for delivering a critical competitive differentiator — superior customer experience. And so do customers: In fact, 73% of consumers say customer service plays an important role in their purchase decisions. 1. What Do Customers Want? Consumers want great experiences. They want interactions that are quick and easy; they want their issues resolved; and they want friendly and knowledgeable service.

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New Research: Customer Service Trends and Best Practices

GetFeedback

Customer service is undoubtedly a key player in any company’s customer experience (CX) program. It’s the necessary companion to a great product or service —in fact, 80% of customers say that the experience a company provides is as important as its products or services. Given its significance, we conducted a global study to identify the latest customer service trends and best practices.

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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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5 Tips for Finding a CX Platform your Agents, Customers and Exec Team Will Love

Comm100

You can’t build a house on a weak foundation. In the same way, the standard of customer experience that consumers expect isn’t achieved without technology to bring together disparate channels and make consistent, seamless experiences an easy thing to achieve. Thanks to the growth of omnichannel strategies in recent years, there’s no shortage of customer experience (CX) platforms out there.

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Focus on the People and the Numbers Will Come

CX Journey

Image courtesy of Pixabay I originally wrote today's post for CallidusCloud. It appeared on their blog on July 12, 2018. When companies focus on people, their people - employees first, then customers - the numbers will come. This is a tough concept for a lot of executives to grasp. They know the old management adage, companies are in business to maximize shareholder value, all too well.

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How Valvoline’s Service Team Pleased Two Very Diverse Constituents — Its CFO and Its Customers

NICE inContact

Chief financial officers (CFOs) are notoriously tough customers when it comes to approving expenditures for new initiatives. They expect to see a solid business case with a strong, defensible return on investment (ROI). When Valvoline looked into centralizing the inbound calls that its 1,300 retail locations were handling, the business case almost wrote itself.

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6 Ways Your Knowledge Base Can Improve Customer Experience

GetFeedback

There is no denying the fact that we live in an era of instant gratification. The immediate response that we get from tapping or scrolling on a gadget has transformed us into impatient beings who refuse to wait for anything. Things are no different when it comes to client expectations regarding customer service. According to a study by Harvard Business Review , 65 percent of customers want their issues resolved in the first contact, while 50 percent of them will not give more than a week’s time

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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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Emotions Drive Spending, But Do You Know Which Ones Drive the Most?

Beyond Philosophy

In 2004, I presented to an insurance company in Germany about how they should be evoking the proper emotions in their customers. It was a tough audience. One of the guys asked, “How much money are we going to get back by doing this?”. It was not an unfair question, but it was one for which I had no answer. We needed to change that and so began two-years’ worth of research with the London Business School to identify which emotions drive and destroy value.

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Welcome, Kevin Corcoran!

Kerry Bodine

Hot off the heels of my announcement of our new project manager, Jade Mulé , I’m excited to announce our latest addition to the Bodine & Co. team , Kevin Corcoran. As a CX Consultant at Bodine & Co., Kevin will be challenging our clients to look deeply at their numbers, while also allowing the human element of data be the voice in guiding business transformation.

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Gant Travel Goes the Distance with CXone

NICE inContact

Based in Bloomington, Indiana, Gant Travel specializes in corporate travel services for mid-size businesses. Its 81 agents handle a variety of travel reservations 24/7 — approximately 600 every month. While the company works hard to ensure that its clients’ trips are comfortable, cost-effective, and error-free, the customer experience it was providing needed to make significant progress to meet the same standards.

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An Article on Customer Experience That Actually Makes Sense

GetFeedback

Customer experience (CX) actually simplified. Here you’ll find straightforward answers to the most popular questions on the CX space.

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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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When It Comes To CX, Sweat The Small Stuff

Beyond Philosophy

In our customer experience consultancy, clients tell us customers make decisions based on price or features. However, in our research, we never find price or features are the most important things. Instead, it tends to be a combination of a few insignificant, humanistic-type factors that drive customer behavior. We discussed the significance of the insignificant in a recent podcast.

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Creating Strong Emotional Connections for Great Customer Experience

Wired and Dangerous

76% of wired and dangerous customers today say they view customer service as the true test of how much a company values them. Walk into one of your favorite service providers and you immediately feel the difference in the experience that makes this establishment one of your chosen few. What is the difference? There is no doubt that the product or outcome they deliver is one you value and trust but most likely they make a strong emotional connection with you that you find meaningful.

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The Shutdown and the Storm: CXone Provides a Welcome Tool for the State of Michigan

NICE inContact

Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Integrated Services Delivery (IDS) is the state agency that manages the entire process for benefits administration — from application and qualification through delivery. Although the state of Michigan maintains 14 different contact centers for different agencies, DHHS/IDS didn’t have a dedicated contact center.