Futurelab

MARCH 22, 2024

#NoBullshitCX #20yearsFuturelab “Don’t think. Ask!” Think you know your customers? Think again. When we started to work on a Voice of the Customer (VoC) programme for a large building materials producer, we arranged a kick-off workshop to develop the roll-out plan with a local team. Their sales manager confidently claimed: “We know what our customers want.

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VOC Voice of the Customer Sales 162

The Customer Service Blog

MARCH 22, 2024

Readers might be surprised to learn that I’m a big fan of William Shakespeare. I regularly attend Shakespeare plays all around the UK, and I was recently at Manchester Opera House watching Sir Ian McKellen (one of the UK’s most famous actors) play Falstaff in Henry IV parts 1 and 2. While watching these two plays in Manchester, it occurred to me that there are many quotes within Shakespeare’s plays that could be applied to business - giving inspiration and insight to entrepreneurs and people wor

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Customer Service 90

Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 22, 2024

“What’s the one thing we need for a stellar Customer Experience ?” If we had a dollar for every time clients asked us this, we’d, well, have quite a few dollars. The question is understandable. This unspoken desire for a silver bullet solution echoes across industries. We all want a silver bullet solution that will fix our problems, whether for weight loss, financial growth, or, in Colin’s case, for playing the guitar.

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Customer Experience CX 88

ClearAction

MARCH 22, 2024

CX is a Team Sport: 2 Surprising Views Lynn Hunsaker CX is a Team Sport was the CX Day 1 theme in 2021, celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Customer Experience Professionals Association. We all learn from each other in CX is one way CX is a team sport. Camaraderie within the Customer Service (or Success) department is another way CX is a Team Sport.

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Sports CX Scorecard Touchpoint 62

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What does customer service excellence look like in 2024? According to our report with insights from CX expert Shep Hyken, customer expectations are at an all-time high, and there’s a bigger shift toward self-service and leveraging AI capabilities.

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The Squawk Point

MARCH 22, 2024

Silo Thinking In every business, the work flows around the organisation something like this… Marketing specialists have an insight into what the customer wants. Research teams take that insight and develop a new product. Buyers purchase materials according to the new specifications. Logistics ship and store materials. Operations teams take the materials and produce products.

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Start-ups Customer Feedback Sales 52

Hodusoft

MARCH 22, 2024

Experience the Evolution: HoduSoft Showcasing HoduCC Omnichannel CX Suite at Enterprise Connect 2024 “Customer experience is one of the two core pillars of customer retention.” This quote reinforces a stat released by Deloitte which found out high-quality customer experience (CX) can reduce as much as one-third of the cost of serving customers. When customers experience better quality of service, they are four times more likely to refer a friend and five times more likely to buy again, reveals r

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Omnichannel CX Sentiment Analysis Contact Center 52