Alida

JUNE 19, 2018

Large brands are increasingly turning to smaller ones for inspiration. These brands are hoping that by learning and adopting a startup mentality, they can fend off disruption and continue to lead their industry. In many ways, copying or even acquiring smaller players makes sense for larger brands. As digital natives, younger startups know how to use new technology to drive growth and can teach established players a new thing or two.

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Brands Apparel Retail Trends 138

CX Journey

JUNE 20, 2018

Image courtesy of Pixabay I originally wrote today's post for Zingle. It appeared on their blog on January 16, 2018. Communication is important to any relationship, and it's no less important in the relationships that businesses have with their customers. When it comes to communicating, your company’s accessibility, availability, responsiveness, courtesy and professionalism, consistent voice, and consistent messaging go a long way toward building strong relationships and delivering a great exper

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Customer Bliss

JUNE 20, 2018

What happens when one moves from hospitality to healthcare? Shawn Smith is a Chief Experience Officer at MedStar Washington Hospital Center. Though he’s only been in this position for less than a year, Shawn is responsible for improving the experience of the hospital which spans both patient and caregiver experience, and the overall quality and safety aspect of the health care center.

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Hospitality Healthcare How To Customer Centricity 143

Second to None

JUNE 21, 2018

The Importance of Content Marketing. Content marketing is frequently used to make certain the target audience sees exactly what they want. This helps ensure they share the content with others while gaining their loyalty to the brand. There are important guidelines for content marketing and the old views should be eliminated. Producing immediate sales from the content is important.

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Loyalty Consumers Marketing How To 61

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Experience Matters

JUNE 20, 2018

The most dowloaded content that I’ve published is our free eBook, The Six Laws of Customer Experience. It’s been translated into many languages and read by 10’s of 1,000s of people. It continues to be very popular because it uses simple language and concepts to describe what we call “the fundamental truths about how organizations treat customers.” We’ve developed an updated infographic that brings the laws to life.

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Infographics Customer Experience eBook Customers 291

InMoment XI

JUNE 19, 2018

While doing some research on change management and organizational transformation, it struck me that as CX professionals we tend to see the impetus for any change initiative as deriving largely, if not totally, from looking at organizational issues primarily through a CX lens. I suppose that’s natural when, as passionate CX practitioners, we want to.

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Management 170

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 20, 2018

If you’ve never thought about how you engage customers, then what’s to stop them from becoming actively disengaged? Sometimes we set ourselves up for this! It even echoes back to us in the way we engage within our own organizations. Consider this real-life scenario: I used to have a joke with some colleagues at my first job. We were constantly walking into meetings in conference rooms with LONG agendas that could get pretty boring and stuffy.

Engagement 179

Engagement Social Media Sales Loyalty 179

Experience Matters

JUNE 18, 2018

Over the last few years, many B2B organizations have created customer success organizations that focus on ensuring that their clients are happy. These companies are realizing that customers aren’t just buying their products, they’re making purchases with the expectation that they will achieve some value from the provider’s products and services.

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QuestionPro Audience

JUNE 22, 2018

The U.S. pet industry has been growing year after year, with overall sales of pet products and services rising 5% in 2017. Pet technology is a category that is growing at a rapid pace, with no signs of slowing down. It is expected to generate $233 million in 2018, marking an 18% increase from 2017, according to a study by the Consumer Technology Association.

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Industry Retail Technology Study 207

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CX Accelerator

JUNE 19, 2018

Empathy is defined as the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. For example, we show empathy when we put ourselves in the shoes of an elderly person and give them our seat on a crowded bus. Or when we share genuine excitement with a friend who received a job promotion. Showing this type of empathy often comes naturally to us, and is ingrained in how we act in our everyday lives.

Customer Experience 159

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NICE inContact

JUNE 20, 2018

You may be familiar with the Hoveround name, even if you haven’t used it products. That’s because Hoveround is the largest direct-to-consumer manufacturer of power wheelchairs in the U.S., and its mission is a powerful one: The 25-year-old company is dedicated to improving and enriching lives through improved mobility. But Hoveround’s contact center, which plays a pivotal role in servicing current customers as well as calling prospects, just wasn’t keeping up.

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AskNicely

JUNE 22, 2018

W ant to amp up your brand’s customer experience, but aren’t sure where to start? Christina Burns, VP of Customer Success at Ruby Receptionists , is here to give us the secret to a truly customer-obsessed company culture: be first and foremost employee-obsessed. Some of the world’s biggest brands would agree; as Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson said, “Put your staff first, customers second, and shareholders third.”.

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Net Promoter Score Video Culture Connections 150

InMoment XI

JUNE 21, 2018

In many ways, our financial lives have become much less complicated. We can manage our bank accounts online and deposit checks from our smartphones. Those same smartphones can be used to buy a cup of coffee or pay our portion of the restaurant bill. But in other ways, our financial lives have become more complicated. View Article.

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Understanding and improving your customer experience (CX) can have a massive impact on your bottom line. Choosing the right voice of customers (VoC) solution is a critical step to elevating CX. Frost & Sullivan researched more than 50 leading VoC vendors, analyzing both their “innovation index” and “growth index” to independently select the top 10 performers in each of these categories.

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Lumoa

JUNE 19, 2018

Unhappy, yet talkative customers are a golden source of information for your business. They desperately want your company to change and build a better experience for them. If they’re dealt with carefully, they can turn into your greatest advocates. So how do you make that happen? #1: Address the feedback quickly It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the more efficient your team is in solving the customer’s issue, the more satisfied the customer will be.

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Feedback NPS Multi-Channel Travel 150

NICE inContact

JUNE 19, 2018

As a contact center manager, you face never-ending challenges from day-to-day operations to envisioning long-term possibilities to improve customer experience while at the same time building efficiency and modernizing processes and systems. Achieve your vision, view the path to possibility within your contact center in this video. The post Journey to Contact Center Success appeared first on NICE inContact Blog.

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Contact Center Video System Customer Experience 166

Omnicus

JUNE 21, 2018

Deliver the best CX with these tools and resources to acquire and retain more customers. Customer experience (CX) is surpassing price and product selection as the key differentiating factor that affects consumers’ purchasing decisions. An outstanding CX can help increase customer acquisition, improve retention, cultivate advocacy, and boost profit.

Resources 140

Resources Strategy Customer Experience Consumers 140

InMoment XI

JUNE 21, 2018

In many ways, our financial lives have become much less complicated. We can manage our bank accounts online and deposit checks from our smartphones. Those same smartphones can be used to buy a cup of coffee or pay our portion of the restaurant bill. But in other ways, our financial lives have become more complicated. View Article.

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Financial Banking Management 150

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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TechSee

JUNE 18, 2018

With its value clearly proven within the field service industry and Goldman Sachs predicting that augmented reality (AR) will be an $80B market by 2025, it comes as no surprise that the sector is leading the market in practical implementation of AR technology. . The ability to augment information onto objects being serviced within the physical environment is transforming the field service industry.

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Video Travel Innovation Tools 152

NICE inContact

JUNE 21, 2018

79% of consumers indicate that they will leave you if you provide them just one bad customer experience. Consumers not only demand the best from your product or service, but they demand the best from your people, and your systems. There isn’t much room for error, and a lot is at stake! So, what constitutes a “bad customer experience”? Answering that question is critical.

Contact Center 123

Contact Center Customer Experience Omni-Channel Consumers 123

Omnicus

JUNE 21, 2018

Deliver the best CX with these tools and resources to acquire and retain more customers. Customer experience (CX) is surpassing price and product selection as the key differentiating factor that affects consumers’ purchasing decisions. An outstanding CX can help increase customer acquisition, improve retention, cultivate advocacy, and boost profit.

Resources 140

Resources Strategy Customer Experience Consumers 140

InMoment XI

JUNE 19, 2018

While doing some research on change management and organizational transformation, it struck me that as CX professionals we tend to see the impetus for any change initiative as deriving largely, if not totally, from looking at organizational issues primarily through a CX lens. I suppose that’s natural when, as passionate CX practitioners, we want to.

Management 150

Management 150

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

Connections

Kayako

JUNE 21, 2018

Live Chat. Everyone wants it but nobody wants to do it. It’s one of the hardest, easiest things that a company can do to provide stellar support. Implementation is easy: you find a tool that works for you, turn it on and put it where all of your customers can see it. [link] But once you’ve done that, it can be exhausting: an endless onslaught of interactions, poorly worded or communicated questions, 24/7 expectations from your customers, shuttling back and forth between your ticketing system and

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Company How To Course Wait Times 120

Kristina Evey

JUNE 18, 2018

Shownotes… Core Values Build the Company Culture into the Customer Experience. Core values serve as the guiding light for how everyone in your company interacts, communicates and works with each other, external customers, and the community. Core values should be unique to your company. Core values provide the framework to help guide many business decisions.

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Customer Experience Leadership Culture Customers 120

Omnicus

JUNE 21, 2018

Deliver the best CX with these tools and resources to acquire and retain more customers.

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Resources Customer Experience Strategy Tools 186

Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 22, 2018

When I need work done at the house, I always get three quotes. I never go with the highest or the lowest, but instead, I choose the one in the middle. This shortcut, called Extremeness Aversion, helps me make an important decision—and it helps your customers make buying decisions, too. We discussed Extremeness Aversion on our podcast earlier this month.

Customer Expectations 144

Customer Expectations Course Customers Sales 144

Speaker: Jennifer Wright and Nick Barron

2025 is right around the corner, and with it comes a new wave of consumer expectations, competitive pressures, and operational challenges. Success lies in finding the balance between operational flexibility and creating experiences that keep customers coming back. The future of retail belongs to those who can stay ahead of shifting customer preferences and marketing trends. 🔮 In this session, we’ll dive deep into what it takes to keep customers engaged and your operations nimble, no matt

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Customer Bliss

JUNE 22, 2018

Recently, during the launch of my latest book, “ Would You Do That To Your Mother? The ‘Make Mom Proud’ Standard for How to Treat Your Customers ,” I stopped at Nasdaq in Times Square for a #NasdaqSpeedReads interview with Lyanne Alfaro. We spoke about the book, how good employee and customer experience affects businesses and customers, and why technology and CX should play nicely together without removing the human element.

Customer Journeys 120

Customer Journeys Chief Customer Officer Survey Voice of Customer 120

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 20, 2018

If you’ve never thought about how you engage customers, then what’s to stop them from becoming actively disengaged? Sometimes we set ourselves up for this! It even echoes back to us in the way we engage within our own organizations. Consider this real-life scenario: I used to have a joke with some colleagues at my first job. We were constantly walking into meetings in conference rooms with LONG agendas that could get pretty boring and stuffy.

Engagement 110

Engagement Social Media Sales Loyalty 110

Michelli Experience

JUNE 19, 2018

Business Fear: Afraid of Being a Loving Business? Long ago I embraced an idea that has had a profound positive effect on my business and, in turn, has helped me be more effective in the way I guide customer experience and leadership efforts on behalf my clients. It is a simple distinction found in a variety of faith traditions including Buddhism, Christianity, and even secular spirituality (e.g., A Course in Miracles ).

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B2C Comparison Hotels B2B 113