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Seven Principles of Business Integrity

Integrity Solutions

Any company can put words on paper and talk about what their values are. But if people aren’t living business integrity in everything they do, it won’t matter what you say. “If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.” – Former Senator Alan K. Simpson. Integrity is important for businesses and individuals alike.

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Perspectives from a Danish CX Practitioner

InMoment XI

British companies have come a long way with utilizing their data to identify customer needs and predict their future behavior and estimate future profitability (the so-called customer lifetime value). Realizing the customer lifetime value is critical for a company so they can focus on the strategic initiatives that contribute most to the company’s future earnings and growth.

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2 Key Differences in B2B Journey Maps

Kerry Bodine

In our journey mapping bootcamps , we’re often asked whether there’s anything that organizations need to think about or do differently when creating business-to-business (B2B) journey maps. While the overall process for creating these maps is the same, there are two key differences. Difference #1: B2B personas align with job functions. Every journey map needs to clearly define whose story is being told.

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3 Tips On How To Measure Customer Experience

Lumoa

Wondering what is the optimal way to measure customer experience? Choosing customer experience metric seems to be a complex process? Don't let the variety trick you. Start collecting customer feedback and measuring customer experience with a simple and easy KPIs and metrics!

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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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The lost suitcase – the sad reality of customer experience evolution

ijgolding

According to Wikipedia , the term, ‘seven year itch’ can be described as follows: The seven-year itch is a psychological term that suggests that happiness in a relationship declines after around year seven of a marriage. The phrase originated as a name for irritating and contagious skin complaints of a long duration. Examples of reference may have included STD outbreaks that are known to significantly decrease in frequency after seven years, or mites that live under the skin (scabies

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Be the Customer Experience Disrupter

Kristina Evey

Being a business owner or leader requires a paradigm shift around comfort… You must become comfortable with being uncomfortable. Knowing … Read More Be the Customer Experience Disrupter. The post Be the Customer Experience Disrupter appeared first on Kristina Evey.

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15 Net Promoter Score statistics you need to know in 2019

Lumoa

Did you know that NPS is the most popular customer experience metric? Find out the latest NPS data and statistics to power up your customer experience strategy in 2019!

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How to Connect Your Employees to Your Customers and Company Mission

Customer Bliss

In today’s episode, I chat with CCO Lisa Henken Ramirez, about implementing customer experience Netspend , a young, a finance-related company. Netspend is a leading provider of prepaid Visa ® and Mastercard ® cards for personal & commercial use. As the banking industry continues to focus more on customer experience and innovation, I think this is a good conversation to have at the beginning of 2019.

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When and How to Develop Customer Service Material

GetFeedback

As a customer service leader, you want to make sure your audience is supported at all times. Customers should have access to the information they need–whether it’s from a member of your team or from a robust knowledge base. Only in doing so, will you ensure each person receives the best customer experience possible. To ensure that your customers have the necessary support, you’ll need to develop and improve your customer service material.

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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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Business Leaders Increase Success When Customer Experience is Clearly Defined and Understood

Kristina Evey

In a recent podcast, I discuss how CEO’s, C-Suite and Leadership Teams seem to understand the high-level vision of CX, … Read More Business Leaders Increase Success When Customer Experience is Clearly Defined and Understood. The post Business Leaders Increase Success When Customer Experience is Clearly Defined and Understood appeared first on Kristina Evey.

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4 Steps to Improve Your Franchise's Customer Experience

IntouchInsight

Learn how to improve customer experience at your franchise with four useful steps.

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Do You Lead Your Organization With Clarity of Purpose?

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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When and How to Develop Customer Service Material

GetFeedback

How to create customer service material to support your team and ensure your customers have a stellar customer experience.

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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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Episode 34 – Understand Customer Experience First to Disrupt for CX Changes

Kristina Evey

Episode 34 Shownotes: Understand Customer Experience First to Disrupt for CX Changes. CEO’s, C-Suite and Leadership Teams seem to understand … Read More Episode 34 – Understand Customer Experience First to Disrupt for CX Changes. The post Episode 34 – Understand Customer Experience First to Disrupt for CX Changes appeared first on Kristina Evey.

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8 Qualities of Effective Contact Center Agents

NICE inContact

What if the only human interaction your customers have with your brand is through an agent working at your contact center? Wouldn’t you make sure that agent was great “brand ambassador” material? Many companies, especially those with no brick and mortar presence, are in this very position. Contact center agents have a significant impact on customer experience and thus the bottom line.

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Best Intercom Alternatives in 2019

Kayako

Looking for an intercom alternative that’s easy on your pockets and doesn’t skip on any functionality? Well, we’ve done some homework and put together a list of 3 intercom alternatives that are packed with features and functionality you’d look for to engage visitors, convert prospects, and support customers as your business grows. . First things first – What do you use Intercom for?

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5 Survey Tips for Getting Better Customer Data

GetFeedback

The best customer experience starts with great customer data. Collect actionable customer data with these 5 online survey tips.

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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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Do we Mine or Mind the Gap?

SuiteCX

Ever wonder why there is such a gap between all the hard work you do in providing Voice of the Customer and Net Promoter Scores to your internal partners and then not being able to see how that in turn results in enabling the company to improve their financial or operationals? With a veritable wealth of verbatim, Moments of Truth, customer feedback, and a trove of response and sales/marketing data and in many cases a very positive NPS alas, those departments still have no true understanding of W

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How can the Forrester Wave directly impact your RFP/RFI quality?

NICE inContact

The ultimate value of independent research reports hinges on the depth and breadth of their approach to the subject at hand. Is the field of evaluated vendors broad enough? Were the criteria evaluated rich enough? And maybe most importantly, were the outcomes directly relevant to the audience’s needs? In the case of Forrester Research and the Forrester Wave for Cloud Contact Centers, Q3 2018 , I think you’ll find all these boxes clearly checked.

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How Academic Research Can Improve Customer Experience

Beyond Philosophy

I have always been surprised by the massive wealth of data in academia that doesn’t get used. The reason, I believe, is the language. The way academic research is written is like a reading a legal brief; it’s impenetrable. You come away from it thinking the person who wrote it is very clever, but don’t understand what he or she said at all. My co-author and podcast co-host Professor Ryan Hamilton jokes that academic research is not written for a human audience.

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How to Implement Automated Email Surveys With GetFeedback

GetFeedback

Learn how to use Automated Email to send email survey invitations immediately after customer interactions with Salesforce.

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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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So You Want to Be a CCXP.

CX Journey

Image courtesy of CXPA Are you looking to earn your CCXP this year? I get a lot of questions every week from customer experience professionals who are interested in taking the CCXP exam but aren't sure how to prepare for it. There's a website for the exam with a lot of details and resources; it now also includes a document that lists books, whitepapers, websites, etc. that you can read to help you prepare.

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Automate Contact Center Outbound Calls and Texts for Positive ROI

NICE inContact

For many companies, making outbound calls and texts to customers makes up a large volume of everyday work that their live agents handle today. Outbound calls and texts are used in a variety of ways, such as to preempt situations or to keep customers up-to-date. They are often used to remind customers about important or upcoming appointments, deliveries, and confirmations, typically helping businesses run smoothly.

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Are You A Risk Taker?

Beyond Philosophy

Are You a Risk Taker? We all have varying levels of risk tolerance. When we shy away from risk, we call that risk-aversion. This episode of The Intuitive Customer discusses the concept of risk aversion and how it affects customers’ behavior in your Customer Experience. People like sure bets better that come with less significant gains over risky ventures, even when the risky venture proposes a substantial benefit.

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When and How to Develop Customer Service Material

GetFeedback

How to create customer service material to support your team and ensure your customers have a stellar customer experience.

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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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CX 101: What Is Customer Experience, Anyway?

Oracle

While businesses across industries and verticals are making efforts to improve their overall customer experience (CX), the term “customer experience” is often misinterpreted or vaguely understood. The SmarterCX team hit the streets to find out just how many people are or are not familiar with the term “CX” — so if you think you’re the only one who’s not 100% sure, this may put your mind at ease.

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Five AI-Driven Customer Experience Solutions: A survey of the market

CX University

A lot of customer experience pundits are talking about AI. They say it is ushering in a new age, a Customer Experience 3.0. OK. As a notorious heckler, I thought I would have my team research the market, as it stands, in the closing weeks of 2018. My question was: Who cares about promises; I am exhausted by all this thought leadership; I want specific examples; what are AI-driven solutions capable of achieving for customer experience, right now?

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Give Up Sex for Amazon?

ShepHyken

Customer Relationships. How much do you love the companies you do business with, the restaurants you frequent or the stores you shop at? How upset would you be if they told you they were going out of business? Or, what if you could save them from going out of business by giving up something. So, the question becomes, “What would you be willing to give up to continue doing business with them?”.

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