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Predictive Analytics, Dealer Service Centers, and the Promise of Forecasting Vehicle Breakdowns Before They Occur

InMoment XI

So, you’re out for an evening at the mall and when you return to your vehicle, it won’t start. Or, like the woman above, your vehicle starts sputtering as you’re driving, the “check engine” light comes on and you’re fortunate enough to pull to the median inside emergency lane of a busy freeway where it. View Article.

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The 7 habits of Companies with successful customer-centric cultures

CloudCherry

Companies today want to delight customers at every interaction. However, little do they realize that great customer experiences start from the inside. Yes, the experience you provide your customers is only as good as the culture you build within the company. So, are you investing enough time and effort to create a culture that values both employees and customers?

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2018 Oscars: Will Women Tune In?

QuestionPro Audience

The 2018 awards season comes to an end this Sunday at the 90th Academy Awards. At the shows leading up to the Oscars, womens movements like #MeToo and #TimesUp have been hot topics, highlighting the importance of female representation and gender equality. After the recent sexual misconduct scandals, many advertisers are betting on women tuning in to see if they will be victorious during Hollywood’s biggest night. .

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Employee Engagement: A Goldmine of Untapped Value (Infographic)

Experience Matters

Employee Engagement is one of Temkin Group’s Four CX Core Competencies. In other words, you can’t be customer-centric unless you have a highly engaged workforce. Make sure to visit our Employee Engagement Page. Here are links to download different versions of the infographic: Infographic: in .png format, in .pdf format 18? x 24? poster: in .jpg format, in .pdf format Here are links to the research referenced in the infographic: Employee Engagement Competency & Maturity, 2017 Empl

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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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Predictive Analytics, Dealer Service Centers, and the Promise of Forecasting Vehicle Breakdowns Before They Occur

InMoment XI

So, you’re out for an evening at the mall and when you return to your vehicle, it won’t start. Or, like the woman above, your vehicle starts sputtering as you’re driving, the “check engine” light comes on and you’re fortunate enough to pull to the median inside emergency lane of a busy freeway where it. View Article.

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Snapchat’s Got 99 Problems and Kylie Jenner’s Just One of Them

QuestionPro Audience

It’s safe to say Snapchat probably wishes Kylie Jenner was still under her self-imposed social media hiatus. Last Wednesday, she tweeted to her 24.5 million followers: “sooo does anyone else not open Snapchat anymore? Or is it just me… ugh this is so sad.” Shares of Snapchat’s parent company, Snap Inc., sank 6.1% on Thursday, costing Snap $1.3 billion (yes, billion ) in market value.

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Building an Onboarding and Training Program in Customer Support

Kayako

There are so many different ways to onboard new employees with a training program. It can be hard to know which way to start, especially if it’s your first time. You need to consider what kind of culture you are trying to foster, what priorities you want your team to have, and make a plan to preemptively correct problems and questions before they’ve even come up.

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5 Customer Support Surveys for Quality-Driven Teams

GetFeedback

Empowering your support team by using the right feedback solution is crucial to a company's success. Here are five customer support surveys to use.

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The 10-step checklist to create Voice of Employee programs

CloudCherry

Markets and businesses today are evolving rapidly. What doesn’t change is that building loyalty and retaining customers in the long-term is the only way brands can drive profitability. The attention span of customers is dwindling as a consequence of stiff competition. Delivering great customer experiences has become a lot more integral to improving loyalty.

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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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Apple HomePod: Worth the Steep Price Tag?

QuestionPro Audience

Apple’s HomePod has arrived. On February 9, 2018, the $349 HomePod debuted in the US, UK and Australia. Apple, who is used to being the first on the technology scene, is the late-comer to the voice assistant speaker market, launching three years after Amazon’s Echo. And as the first consumer reviews come streaming in, whether it was worth the wait is up for debate.

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Is Your Social Customer Service Already Stellar?

BlueOcean

If you answered the headline with a yes – give yourself a major pat on the back. You are out there setting the standard for others to follow (And please, get in touch so we can get you signed on for a guest blog spot). If you answered “no, our social customer care is most definitely not kicking ass” – don’t worry, you’ve come to the right place. We’ve curated five thought-provoking blogs that will help you get on the path to best-in-class social customer care.

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8 Thought-Provoking Interview Questions Every Chief Customer Officer Candidate Should Ask

Customer Bliss

Are you considering applying for the role of Chief Customer Officer (CCO)? If so, you’ve probably already worked in customer experience leadership in some capacity, and have a reasonably clear concept of what an organization is looking for in a CCO. You may have a good idea of the kinds of questions you’ll be asked during your interview: your experience, philosophy, and the style of leadership you’ll bring to the organization, and are prepping for that.

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The Customer Experience Million Dollar Question: Will my customer come back?

ijgolding

I make no secret of my love for all things culinary. In fact, if I did not also have a passion for running, I would quite literally be the size of a rather large house! Like everything else we do as human beings, the ‘eating out’ experience is made up of several stages and touch points – the eating bit is just one of them. Eating in a restaurant is often an indulgent treat – not a necessity – and as such, the experience needs to match up with our expectation.

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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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2018 Oscars: Will Women Tune In?

QuestionPro Audience

The 2018 awards season comes to an end this Sunday at the 90th Academy Awards. At the shows leading up to the Oscars, womens movements like #MeToo and #TimesUp have been hot topics, highlighting the importance of female representation and gender equality. After the recent sexual misconduct scandals, many advertisers are betting on women tuning in to see if they will be victorious during Hollywood’s biggest night. .

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Off Topic: Gun Violence, It’s Time For Change

Experience Matters

I try not to mix politics into my professional platform, but I feel it’s important to lend my voice to a critical topic, gun violence. As a nation, we the people of the U.S. can’t let down our kids, grandkids, and their children by allowing the continued proliferation of guns in our society. The data matches with common sense: more guns leads to more gun violence, which leads to the deaths of too many innocent people.

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5 Customer Support Surveys for Quality-Driven Teams

GetFeedback

Empowering your support team by using the right feedback solution is crucial to a company's success. Here are five customer support surveys to use.

Survey 150
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Defining the Chief Patient Experience Officer Role at Cedars-Sinai Hospital

Customer Bliss

How do you define patience experience in a hospital? In today’s episode, I speak with Alan Dubovsky , Chief Patient Experience Officer at Cedars-Sinai , who talks about how a hospital stint in his youth led to a lifelong obsession with healthcare; specifically, how you get doctors, nurses, and employees to work together. Still relatively new to his role at Cedars-Sinai, Alan walks us through the steps he took to define his position and lead a patient experience transformation throughout the hosp

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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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AAA is Driving Member Satisfaction with Omnichannel Support

NICE inContact

As a regional AAA (American Automobile Association) club serving nine counties in Central Pennsylvania, AAA Central Penn faces significant day-to-day challenges. A 50-member team handles 500 – 700 member interactions every day, with recurring seasonal spikes throughout the year. Agents need to be able not only to respond quickly to spikes in volume, but also to move effortlessly between helping members with emergency roadside assistance, travel reservations and membership renewals.

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The State of UK Communication Service Providers Survey

ijgolding

It is very likely you have read various articles over the last few years describing how the UK’s communication service providers are struggling to cope with constant market change. Additionally, global customer experience benchmarking studies confirm that communication providers are lagging well behind companies in other industries. Stratmetrix.com are conducting a study in the UK, seeking to understand which telecommunication service providers explicitly have which customer experience iss

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Which Customer Satisfaction Metric is Right for You?

GetFeedback

NPS, CSAT or CES? Which metric should you use to measure customer satisfaction? Here's a quick guide to give you the pros and cons of each.

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Everyone Has a Platform: Are You Training For that Reality? | Service Excellence

Michelli Experience

As many of you know, Snapchat’s new design has sparked considerable criticism, but a simple tweet by celebrity Kylie Jenner purportedly contributed to a freefall for Snapchat’s stock. Here’s how social media reporter Megan Hills tells it in a Fortune article titled Snapchat’s $1.3 Billion Drop in Value Is Linked to A Kardashian : The entrepreneur and Kardashian half-sister tweeted to her 24.5 million Twitter followers on Monday, “sooo does anyone else not open Snapchat anymore?

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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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Build the Business Case to Invest More in Customer Experience

NICE inContact

This is part one of a four-part series on the economic value of NICE inContact CXone. We are now entering an experience economy. Price and product are no longer considered key differentiators. Customer experience is now becoming the new tool to compete in this experience economy. Customers are no longer looking for the right service at the right time, they are looking for proactive service that is engaging, immersive and leads them to the next best action.

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Focusing on Doing More of the Good Things

CX Journey

Image courtesy of Pixabay What is appreciative inquiry, and how can it help move your change management efforts forward - in a positive way? Change management is really key to any customer experience transformation. As you well know, the transformation always focuses on the bad, on what's going wrong - in hopes of improving and making it better; otherwise, I suppose, it wouldn't be called a "transformation.

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On-demand Economy Drives Customer Service as a Service – From Home…

TechSee

The on-demand economy is defined as economic activity created to meet a consumer demand via the real-time delivery of goods and services. The instantaneous nature of our lives has generated customer expectations for fast, simple, and efficient experiences that rival those of messaging, e-mail, media, and other online functionality available instantly via smartphones.

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Business Benefit, Right Now: Why Is Live Chat An Urgent Priority?

Comm100

Perhaps you’re like me, and you hunt up and down the aisles of the local hardware store looking for that elusive part. You know what you need, and you know what it should do, but you’re not sure if you can find it in the hardware section or the plumbing section… or maybe it’s in electrical?! You obviously need some help. We’ve all experienced it, often more than once.

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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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Disruption: The Relentless Drive to Remove Friction in Customer Loyalty Programs

SuiteCX

Astute watchers of changes in the loyalty marketing world (we include you gentle reader) will have noticed some important developments that are still to reach their ‘tipping point’. But they will. The general trend to replace physical loyalty cards is part of it, as we see e-wallets that store our cards. Examples include Stocard, which replaces the need to carry bulging card-stuffed purses and wallets, with our smart phone.

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Interview Process: 7 Tips to Build a High Performing Team (2018)

Michel Falcon Experience

Michel Falcon: Hey everyone, I’m Michel Falcon, and in this video, I’m going to share the seven tips that I use to build better interview processes, to build high performing teams, increase employee engagement, and build a more profitable company. Do you feel your interview process lacks structure? Have you been asking the same interview questions for years?

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Making an impact on the customer experience in the first 90 days

Customer Alignment

In the U.K, the number of Chief Customer Officers across all industries increased from 14 in 2014 to 90 in 2017; half of those roles were created in the last 15 months. The average tenure also lengthened from 23 months in 2009 to 34.5 months in 2013 but it still has the shortest lifespan among all C-suite executives, according to research conducted in 2010 by the Chief Customer Officer Council.