Execs In The Know

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Brands invest a lot of time, research, and money into developing a brand promise that seeks to meet (and exceed) customer expectations. An effective brand promise should serve as a North Star that aligns all of an organizations Customer Experience, Operational Experience, User Experience, and Employee Experience objectives.

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Execs In The Know

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Brands invest a lot of time, research, and money into developing a brand promise that seeks to meet (and exceed) customer expectations. An effective brand promise should serve as a North Star that aligns all of an organizations Customer Experience, Operational Experience, User Experience, and Employee Experience objectives.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

We also discuss how training, AI technology, and tried and true low-tech mystery shopping can help, too. 08:28 Colin discusses his work in emotions at the beginning of his adventures into Customer Experience , including identifying the 20 emotions that drive and destroy value.

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Callminer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Bottom Line: Make your call center relevant by bridging the gap between your brand’s online presence and your call center with a co-browsing solution that helps your agents stay irreplaceable in boosting the brand’s performance and improving customer experience. Jack Barmby. These can run the business easily upwards of $30 an hour.

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Callminer

JANUARY 18, 2021

One very easy but critical way of looking at the customer journey is to mystery shop the centre and to see what it really feels like to be the customer. Put yourselves in the shoes of your key customer demographic type and call your own centre today.” “Agent Assist AI is going to be huge.

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SugarCRM

AUGUST 19, 2020

Best-Selling Author and Expert Micah Solomon Addresses the Importance of Customer Experience Management and Strategy. Register for our free CX webinar series here and join us as Micah digs in further on customer service in the experience economy. Q: Why is a customer experience strategy (CX) so important today? .

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MattsenKumar

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

As customer experience (CX) and customer loyalty become increasingly important for businesses, especially contact centers, it is essential to implement quality monitoring strategies to ensure that customer expectations are met. This article will discuss 8 quality monitoring strategies for improving CX and loyalty.

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CX Journey

MARCH 31, 2016

Reduce the Waste In sharp contrast, video mystery shopping is impervious to such characteristic flaws, making the information obtained far superior in terms of reliability and usability for improvement. Capturing employee performance on film documents all aspects and nuances of a customer’s experience without subjectivity or bias.

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CX Journey

MARCH 1, 2017

Customer experience professionals fight hard for the customer and are often challenged when it comes to making the case for improving the customer experience and transforming the company culture to be customer-centric versus other, more easily quantifiable company initiatives.

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InteractionMetrics

MAY 16, 2024

Can you read your customers’ minds? I didn’t think so — which is why you’re reading about customer experience research firms. Pick the right firm, and you’ll understand your customers and get inside their heads! What Are Customer Experience Research Firms?

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InteractionMetrics

JANUARY 31, 2025

Runner Up: Beyond Feedback Beyond Feedback is one of the only firms offering fully customized customer experience survey programs. They provide customized reporting and analysis, survey deployment via email, SMS, and phone, and national benchmarking to compare against competitors.

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InteractionMetrics

MAY 15, 2019

Measuring the customer experience is crucial, but visualizing that measurement with interactive data is equally important. Without productive next steps there is no customer experience improvement, much less customer experience transformation.

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Myra Golden Media

JANUARY 1, 2019

When I facilitate customer service training, I’ve been working on content and exercises for a least 60 days. I’ve held discovery discussions, mystery shopped or listened to a random sample of calls between employees and customers, and I’ve prayed over the event. Prepare for Coaching Conversations.

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InteractionMetrics

MAY 15, 2019

Measuring the customer experience is crucial, but visualizing that measurement with interactive data is equally important. Without productive next steps there is no customer experience improvement, much less customer experience transformation. Flat charts and static reporting leave you stuck in the 1990’s.

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InteractionMetrics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Mystery shopping your company to document what happens when critical issues occur. Mystery shopping your competitors and comparable companies. For example, Apple’s ‘Geniuses’ are trained to explain technical solutions in simple language that any customer can understand. This is something you will need to role-play.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

They offer event marketing, mystery shopping, contact center, fulfillment, affinity partnerships, lists, loyalty programs, and similar services. So Ion is really just ranking alternatives within the service domain. Why would Ion Group limit its survey in this fashion? A look at their Web site gives a hint.

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Comm100

AUGUST 21, 2018

A Pelorus research survey found that 74% of contact center managers felt that improved customer service agent technology can decrease error rates and improve the customer experience. Customer Service KPIs for Agents and Bots. Test Customer Service with Mystery Shopping. To err is human. Download Now.

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CX Journey

APRIL 25, 2018

Those are marketing tools and are too high level for customer experience design. Customer experience professionals require a lot more detail at a micro level in order to understand the pain points and to, ultimately, fix them. Select the personas for which you’ll be mapping the experience. Give attendees homework.

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Comm100

AUGUST 21, 2018

A Pelorus research survey found that 74% of contact center managers felt that improved customer service agent technology can decrease error rates and improve the customer experience. Customer Service KPIs for Agents and Bots. Test Customer Service with Mystery Shopping. To err is human. Download Now.

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CX Journey

JULY 12, 2018

If you're in the midst of transforming your business to a customer-focused/customer-centric culture, then employees look to you for what that means. create meeting agendas that always include customer experience and employee experience topics and metrics, customer and employee stories, etc.

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InteractionMetrics

JULY 22, 2019

But if there is a reason to keep their surveys clear of operations data for benchmarking reasons, they would be well served to incorporate other customer experience resources. How can medical providers measure, manage, and stay on top of the patient experience? One of my friends has stage 4 breast cancer.

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InteractionMetrics

JULY 22, 2019

But if there is a reason to keep their surveys clear of operations data for benchmarking reasons, they would be well served to incorporate other customer experience resources. How can medical providers measure, manage, and stay on top of the patient experience? One of my friends has stage 4 breast cancer.

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The Customer Service Blog

MARCH 25, 2022

Using a mystery shopping exercise, it also said that in postcodes where more than 50% of the population were from ethnic minority backgrounds, there was a penalty of at least £280 a year. The charity analysed 18,000 car insurance costs of people across England and Wales who came to Citizens Advice for debt help last year.

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CX Journey

JULY 19, 2016

While they are (lean) management principles/concepts, they apply not only to the employee experience but also to the customer experience. As you read those definitions, I hope you did what I did when I first read them: I nodded my head and thought that these had great application to the world of customer experience.

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InteractionMetrics

AUGUST 14, 2024

Nearly 90 percent of customers are more likely to make another purchase after a positive customer service experience, according to Salesforce. And 68 percent of customers say they will pay more for a brand that’s known for its good customer experience. What’s the Customer Service Consulting Process Like?

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InteractionMetrics

DECEMBER 8, 2023

How to Get Customer Feedback: The ABCs No matter what method you choose for getting to the heart of the customer experience, some precepts are always true. Truth A: Not All Data is Equal Analysts often treat all dimensions of the customer experience as equally important. Is it enough to read all those comments?

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1 to 1

MARCH 18, 2019

As consumers take more control of their healthcare decisions, insurance companies are catching up to other industries in how they interact with members and deliver customer experiences. The member experience is beginning to differentiate payers. health insurers, where we assessed channel experience and overall service.

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Qualtrics

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

70% of its surveys come from internal stakeholder requests, such as post-advertising tests, mystery shopping, consumer studies, or field surveys. The insights feedback to the company’s product experience and customer experience teams, and shape how the brand designs new phones and post-sale services.

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1 to 1

MAY 3, 2021

Top 5 CX Gaps in Messaging and Chat : We mystery shopped some famous brands. In this infographic, see what we learned about their chat, messaging, and texting conversational experiences. Meet the “Chat Avengers : Who are you going to call when you want to deliver a great customer experience with chat?

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1 to 1

JULY 6, 2020

We decided to examine for ourselves what a typical mobile customer interaction looks like for consumers today, particularly when it comes to messaging and live chat via mobile phone. The bottom line from the research can be summed up as follows: Mobile experiences are typical customer experiences.

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InteractionMetrics

APRIL 16, 2024

Companies seem inordinately invested in their customer experience (CX) strategy. They send surveys, analyze touchpoints, and build out customer personas. But an alarming paradox has emerged: Customers are more dissatisfied than ever. If you misunderstand the customer experience, any strategy to improve it will fall short.

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InteractionMetrics

MAY 28, 2019

Here’s my shot at a definition: Customer Listening is a research-driven discipline that requires an open, curious, and scientific state of mind. It seeks concrete insights to improve the customer experience and it explores customer successes, friction points, and missed opportunities. Now, on to the 5 standards….

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Bill Quiseng

APRIL 25, 2021

We can learn from the processes we took during this pandemic to establish the same steps to reassess and create our customer experience in what is the new normal. While improving customer experience is not literally life and death, without offering a good experience we stand the chance to lose the customer forever.

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