Pointillist
MARCH 20, 2019
By Swati Sahai The importance of calculating your customer experience ROI cannot be overstated—how will you build, measure and regularly optimize your customer experience efforts if you don’t know the return on your CX investments? Customer experience leaders often face hurdles in budget approval because customer experience ROI has not been forecasted or quantitatively expressed.
Retently
MARCH 18, 2019
Does your company retain its customers or take them for granted? Customer retention is one of the most important aspects of growing your company, yet it’s one that many companies overlook, focusing more on acquiring new customers. Given that, it’s 6 times more expensive to attract new customers than to keep existing ones – the ignorance shall turn costly.
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Waypoint Group
MARCH 20, 2019
Too busy fighting figurative fires? Upon benchmarking his native city of Boston to his adopted city of Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin wrote the famous line “…an Ounce of Prevention is worth a Pound of Cure…” and instilled practices that were proven to reduce fires in the first place. Franklin’s efforts included the establishment of training, standardized equipment, regular fire companies, and new prevention methods including better utilization of chimney sweeps.
The DiJulius Group
MARCH 20, 2019
[Part 1 Article] The Rise of Robo Restaurants One perhaps surprising field that has taken advantage of the shift to technology is the restaurant industry, where a shortage of available workers has driven up costs and limited the ability of some restaurants to open additional locations. Spyce, a casual fast-food place begun by four MIT. Read Full Article.
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Customer education has become a key driver for growth, retention, and product adoption. Our latest 2024 State of Customer Education Report uncovers critical data and insights from a survey of over 200 industry leaders, offering a look at the evolving role of education in driving business success. Inside, you'll find data on key trends and strategies, including: Strategies for Scaling & Customization: Find out which investments in learning technology deliver the biggest ROI and scalability.
CXApp
MARCH 21, 2019
Key Technologies Influencing CX Today.
Customer Experience Update brings together the best content for Customer Experience and Customer Management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
GetFeedback
MARCH 20, 2019
If you make a survey online without giving it much thought, you’ll find that your customers won’t care for it either. In fact, they’ll probably abandon your survey halfway through or avoid taking it altogether. This reaction to poor surveys is called survey fatigue. It’s not uncommon, and chances are you’ve experienced it yourself at least once. The old school, 20-question survey is no longer acceptable — customers value their time too much.
CloudCherry
MARCH 19, 2019
“Firms will continue to regard CX as a collection of continuous improvement projects until they see an irrefutable, directly attributable connection to returns.” – Forrester, Hardwire Customer Experience 2018. This is the challenge that every CX leader needs to overcome. In order to prove their value to the company, secure the budget and buy-in they need to make changes, CX leaders must demonstrate an “irrefutable” connection to business metrics.
Kerry Bodine
MARCH 20, 2019
It’s the first day of spring, and we’re looking forward to enjoying a few days in our favorite Chicago season when we travel there for our Journey Mapping and Facilitation bootcamp on May 8 and 9. Day 1 mirrors that of our signature journey mapping bootcamp to help you build a strong foundation in the concepts and methods of journey mapping. Day 2 draws on the facilitation training we provide to clients during our journey map development engagements , enabling you to extend your journey mapping
Experience Matters
MARCH 22, 2019
I just spent two days in Miami with a great group of executives who are part of the SAP CX Client Advisory Board. One of their presentations described the company’s technology transformation, and included a stream of activity around “decomplexing.” I loved seeing that! Complexity ends up oozing its way into all types of experiences.
Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA
Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Amanda Adams, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.
GetFeedback
MARCH 20, 2019
The customer voice, also known as Voice of the Customer (VoC) , is at the core of any successful customer experience (CX) program. It refers to the customers’ needs, wants, and expectations as it pertains to a company’s products or services. A customer voice program focuses on capturing the expectations, likes, and dislikes of your customers. You do this by gathering and analyzing customer insights and identifying trends and strategies to improve customer experience.
Customer Bliss
MARCH 21, 2019
“Don’t look at yourself, look at your customer. Be sure you have your customer in mind when you create something. Be sure it’s customer-focused, not self-focused,” says Horst Schulze , Founder, Chairman & CEO of the Capella Hotel Group, and Co-founder & Former COO of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co. Do you know what it takes to be a high-quality leader?
Alida
MARCH 19, 2019
Big data is big business. Enterprises are spending billions on big data. They’ve been using it to drive decision making for years now. But executives are realizing that this type of transactional customer data isn’t enough.
InMoment XI
MARCH 21, 2019
Engaging Customers with Video Many brands are now choosing to tell their stories through video, and it’s not surprising to see why. 90% of customers say video helps them make buying decisions and 64% of customers say that seeing a video makes them more likely to buy (Forbes). Consumers want and expect video content to. 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.
GetFeedback
MARCH 22, 2019
While being a customer-centric company is key for delivering great customer experience , you can’t forget about the employee experience. After all, happy employees result in happy customers. To identify the happiness level of your employees, you should use job satisfaction surveys. But before we dig into the two most popular surveys related to job satisfaction, let’s take a look at the current state of employee satisfaction, the benefits of satisfied team members, and the and the influence that
NICE inContact
MARCH 18, 2019
According to Mark Smith, CEO and Chief Research Officer at Ventana Research, over two thirds of organizations today, and in the future, indicate customer experience as their top way to compete for customers. Let that sink in for a moment. When it comes to growing their business, these organizations are betting that customer experience is more important than product or branding.
Alida
MARCH 22, 2019
In most organizations, the market research or customer insight department is seen as a support pillar for multiple divisions and as a cost center.
InMoment XI
MARCH 19, 2019
Defining AI and Machine Learning for Enterprise CX The market is seeing a significant emphasis on the need for predictive solutions, ranging from machine learning capabilities to artificial intelligence (AI). And while many companies claim to offer these exciting new technologies, rarely do they deliver on the promise. True prediction requires more than a click.
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.
GetFeedback
MARCH 21, 2019
So you’ve decided to use an NPS (Net Promoter Score) survey to improve your brand’s customer experience (CX). You’ve decided on the distribution channels and the interactions that will trigger the survey. You’ve also made a spiffy design to present the survey, showcasing the care you put into asking the NPS question. Finally, you’ve sent out the survey and you’ve sorted your respondents into Promoters, Passives, and Detractors.
Kayako
MARCH 18, 2019
Introduction. While most customer service and support interactions are different on a day-to-day basis, there are a few scenarios and responses that come up every day. While there may be some that are very specific to your company (that have to do with your product or service), there are also several that are uniform across support. In this article, we’ll talk about ten of those such customer service and support complaints, and how you can address them.
Alida
MARCH 22, 2019
Customer validation is a key part of agile product development. It helps you understand whether you have a product your customers will want to buy, as well as a roadmap to sell it.
NICE inContact
MARCH 19, 2019
With more than 340,000 members nationwide, DentalPlans.com has created a fast-growing niche in dental care by marketing dental savings plans to consumers as an affordable alternative to dental insurance. The company’s 110-agent contact center is a driving force in the company’s success, accounting for $17-$18 million of the company’s annual revenue.
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.
GetFeedback
MARCH 18, 2019
When done right, self-service support material help your customers complete tasks on their own.
TechSee
MARCH 19, 2019
Once upon a time, measuring customer service success was straightforward. Hire some agents, train them, and use standard contact center KPIs to measure how well they perform. No longer. Modern contact centers are made up of a complex combination of humans and virtual assistants – using both natural and artificial intelligence – operating over multiple channels and using a wide range of tools to solve customers’ issues.
Alida
MARCH 18, 2019
With endless concerns surrounding data privacy and safety, companies today are faced with a new dilemma surrounding experience personalization. While customers might expect their data to be collected and used to enhance their experiences, they don’t want to be spied on in order for it to be obtained. Leveraging available data without being perceived as an entity that is spying on individuals is, and has always been, a tricky balance to manage.
Kerry Bodine
MARCH 20, 2019
It’s the first day of spring, and we’re looking forward to enjoying a few days in our favorite Chicago season when we travel there for our Journey Mapping and Facilitation bootcamp on May 8 and 9. Day 1 mirrors that of our signature journey mapping bootcamp to help you build a strong foundation in the concepts and methods of journey mapping. Day 2 draws on the facilitation training we provide to clients during our journey map development engagements , enabling you to extend your journey mapping
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
GetFeedback
MARCH 22, 2019
Happy employees result in happy customers. To identify the happiness level of your employees, you should use these two job satisfaction survey templates.
Beyond Philosophy
MARCH 19, 2019
Today, people appreciate good Customer Experience, but not enough to talk about it a lot. What gets them talking to people about your brand is having a unique Customer Experience with moments of Innovative Service, or an Innovative Customer Experience. In other words, a good Customer Experience is important, but an Innovative Customer Experience is better because your customers tell stories about it.
Alida
MARCH 22, 2019
According to data from the McKinsey Global Institute , only one product idea out of seven will yield a successful product.
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