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Why We Must Do the Customer Math and Practice Leadership Bravery

Customer Bliss

I’ve had the great honor of working with Southwest Airlines for many years and spent a lot of time talking to, not only Herb Kelleher, but Colleen Barrett who was the president (now president emerita). Once, I was talking to Colleen, and what she said was: Jeanne, at almost every board meeting, we have to fight to make sure that we don’t let those fees seep in, that we don’t start charging change fees or luggage fees, because that’s the foundation upon which people believ

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The Customer Experience Cycle: How to Become a Brand Your Customers Can’t Live Without

The DiJulius Group

Turn your company into the brand your customers can’t live without. And it shouldn’t take too much effort to do it. With the Customer Experience Cycle (CEC) as part of your company culture, you’re able to ensure consistent world-class, excellent customer experience. Also known as journey mapping, this technique looks at every stage and touch. Read Full Article.

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Customer Care Today: The top 4 things consumers want you to know

Interactions

Customer service has long been the subject of jokes, comedy skits, and memes. Why? Because everyone can relate. Whenever the topic of customer service comes up, everyone has a story to tell–and there is no holding back. People remember both the good, and they definitely remember the bad. Interactions recently surveyed 1,100 U.S. consumers to see what they like when it comes to customer service.

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Strategies for Customer Experience: Measurement 101

IntouchInsight

A customer experience management (CEM) program without a measurement strategy is like having a sports car without any gasoline. Data is the fuel that powers an effective program - helping to set benchmarks, track the impact of your actions over time, and inform future initiatives.

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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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Behind the scenes: Onboarding and training our customers from kickoff to implementation

NICE inContact

The success and satisfaction of our customers is our primary focus. The main feedback that the education and onboarding team receive post-training is regarding the positive relationship our customers build with the trainers and onboarding managers they work with. Read more about our customers and their success stories.

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So You're Ready to Try a Discussion Forum?

Alida

This post covers the logistics of getting a discussion forum set up for your community. For more information about what to do once you're up and running, check out our Best Practices for Moderating Discussions post.

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The High Cost of Being Unprepared: How Field Services Can Create a Disaster Recovery Plan

TechSee

2020 and 2021 have been roller-coaster years for businesses, having to respond and pivot from one crisis after another. From a global pandemic and blocked Suez Canal, to natural disasters like the freeze in Texas, fires in California, and floods in Australia, to technical disasters like massive cyber-attacks and a global microchip shortage, businesses across all industries have been caught off-guard and unprepared.

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The 23 Keys to Creating Raving Fans Part 1

C3Centricity

This week we have another guest post from Alan Hale of CMG (Consight™ Marketing Group) in Chicago. Exceptionally, I am publishing it as two separate posts because its length and value deserve the detail and effort he has put into it. If you can’t wait for Part 2 next week, you can download the full white paper HERE. I have been fortunate to have managed over 250 voice of the customer projects in B2B over the last four decades, with over 50 engagements on customer satisfaction and loyalty.

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Virtual Journey Mapping Bootcamp: September 2021

Kerry Bodine

Hard-hitting content. Sessions that fit into your workday. Our two-part virtual bootcamp delivers a practical primer on journey mapping that you can immediately put into action for your organization. Part 1: Introduction to Journey Mapping. This introduction will help you build a solid understanding of the journey mapping methodology and how you can apply it to specific business challenges.

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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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How L&Q improves customer experience by listening to diverse voices

Alida

Over the last 16 years, the barriers to change between competitors have decreased due to the rapid digitalisation of companies. With competitors being only one click away, having competitive pricing and high-end product quality is no longer enough. Since everyone can, in an instant, compare companies on all things related to the customer experience , delivery time, customer service, return policies, and even branding are included in the decision process.

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2 Quick wins for digital customer experience transformation

NICE inContact

For more information about modern call center design, download "The state of contact center transformation in the new digital world." It includes insightful information that can inform your digital transformation strategy. Or, if you’re ready to transform your customer experience and build relationships that last, speak to one of our digital experts to help get you started.

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Effective Tips for Powerful Insurance Social Media Marketing

ReviewTrackers

Insurance and Social Media. Social media marketing for insurance is experiencing major growth. According to a report by consultancy firm ITDS: 100 percent of 20 major global insurers are active on Facebook. 100 percent are also active on LinkedIn and YouTube. 95 percent are active on Twitter and 75 percent are using Instagram. But there are challenges.

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The “Always” Concept: What We Must Always Do For Our Customers

ShepHyken

One of the big concepts we teach in our customer service training programs is the concept of Always. This is the backbone of creating customer amazement. When the customer uses the word always followed by something positive, you are creating a predictable experience, and even more important, you are operating in the zone of amazement. For example, your customers might say: “They are always so helpful.”.

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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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Alida Summer ‘21 Release Provides Richer Insights to Elevate CX

Alida

Summer is here, and the Alida team has been hard at work to deliver our third quarterly product release of the year—and it’s a big one!

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#8: 6 New Customer Experience & Company Culture Strategies I’m Using for Brasa Peruvian Kitchen (Join Me!)

Michel Falcon Experience

To listen to this episode on an Apple device, click here. To listen on Spotify, click here. To listen to this episode on another platform, click here. Hello,… The post #8: 6 New Customer Experience & Company Culture Strategies I’m Using for Brasa Peruvian Kitchen (Join Me!) appeared first on.

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How to Avoid the “Woe is Me” Employee Mentality

The DiJulius Group

Are you fighting “Woe is Me” syndrome? By Dave Murray Many organizations today, regardless of business model or industry, are experiencing the same struggles – customer demand is at an all-time high and staffing is a major issue. This toxic combination can leave even your best team member saying, “woe is me…we need help!” As. Read Full Article. The post How to Avoid the “Woe is Me” Employee Mentality appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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Guest Post: Tips to Boost Client Satisfaction in the Post-Pandemic Era

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Nathan?Liao, the founder of CMA Exam Academy. He writes about how businesses can be more successful by implementing changes that will boost client satisfaction. Social distancing regulations have ended in many areas, people are booking up their social calendars with events, airports are once again filled with excited travelers… it seems like the COVID-19 crisis is starting to become a thing of the past.

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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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18 Great FAQ Examples to Improve Your Self-Service Support

Help Scout

There are many excellent reasons to create and publish FAQ content for your product. First, 70% of customers prefer to use a company’s website to get answers on their own. Having a knowledge base full of how-to articles and answers to frequently asked questions empowers your customers to find their own solutions to the problems they’re encountering.

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From the Front Lines: Common Experiences with Recent Load Tests

Cyara

All around the world, Cyara's global Professional Services team has been busy running load tests. And regardless of the customer or the region, some things are common with these tests. Today, we're sharing a few details about types of load testing because, as Sir Francis Bacon once wisely said, "knowledge itself is power.".

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5 Best Practices for Hiring a Customer Success Manager

Totango

Following best practices for hiring a customer success manager can make a critical difference in the quality of your customer relationships. Customer success managers serve as the face of your company in dealing with clients, playing a key role in ensuring satisfying experiences of your brand. This can determine whether customers renew or churn and whether they become loyal ambassadors for your brand.

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What are the Best Practices for Customer Feedback Analytics Tools?

Daniel Group

What are the Best Practices for Customer Feedback Analytics Tools? New business intelligence tools (BI) like Power BI and others have made it even easier for you to understand Customer Feedback data in real-time. Unfortunately, with almost any new and highly effective tool, there are often better ways to use them. Let’s discuss the best practices for Customer Feedback Analytics tools to get the most out of your data.

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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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A New Era for Journey Orchestration

Heart of the Customer

Journey orchestration is the ability to deliberately create individual journeys for customers based on your data, sending the right messages at the right time to the right customer. Platforms from Salesforce, Adobe, and others incorporate this capability into their platforms, and third-party offerings from Thunderhead, Kitewheel, Usermind, and Pointillist work across systems, without having to […].

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Got Collaboration Resistant Colleagues? How about Contrarians?

One Millimeter Mindset

Collaboration-resistant colleagues are tough to work with. Because there is not one idea you can introduce to the table they haven’t heard of before, thought of themselves, or already learned. Or so they say. Do you work with collaboration-resistant colleagues? . Your collaboration-resistant colleagues are “been there, done that” folks. Not knowing, not having an answer is not an option for them.

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Your Ultimate Guide to Brand Perception

ProProfs Chat

Be it a small or a big business, good brand perception is the common business goal. The ultimate verdict on any brand is given by its customers. Brand perception is a crucial indicator of how well your customers are able to connect with your brand: What are their feelings and emotions when they think of you? How familiar are they with your products or services?

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Why Promoting Effortless Experience is Not the Right Thing to do for the CX Industry

Sampson Lee

Unless the tech giants have paid their due taxes, it is not right for the CX industry to advocate effortless experience (except for companies whose brand promises are “fast and easy”). This is because it will lead to three negative consequences: Exacerbate income inequality Reduce the competitiveness of enterprises Damage the customer experience profession Two […].

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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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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 7-26-2021

ShepHyken

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. Negative Employee Experiences Can Translate Into Poor Customer Service, Report Says by Emilie Shumway. (HR Dive) Dissatisfied employees were more than 2.5 times more likely to say they do not provide excellent customer service and twice as likely to say they do not deliver q

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Positive Deviance: Rachael Dietkus on the Abundance of Empathy and Curiosity

dscout People Nerds

Social Workers Who Design Founder and Principal, Rachael Dietkus, takes us through her journey of blending social work with design and the untapped collaboration potential between the two sectors.

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Connecting the Dots for Customer Service in a Hybrid Workforce

CSM Magazine

Benedict Bleimschein, COO and Vice President of Customer Success at Mindbreeze looks at the challenges for customer service employees working in a hybrid workplace and suggests new tools that can help them. One size does not fit all when it comes to customer service strategies. The most successful companies will be those that adapt to and appropriately manage the hybrid workforce that is becoming the new standard among businesses today.