Callminer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

A well-run call center is one where agents create meaningful relationships with customers. Take a look at CallMiner’s list of 7 call center best practices.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

We all have habits. Some of them are good, and some, well, aren’t. But for good or ill, habits drive our behavior every day, and even more so when we are customers. In my latest book, The Intuitive Customer: 7 imperatives for moving your Customer Experience to the next level , Professor Ryan Hamilton of Emory University and I explore habits and their influence on how customers behave.

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Customers That Stick

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

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C3Centricity

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

If you follow me on social media, you’ll know that I’ve just returned from a three-week visit to Peru. I had the privilege of being the keynote speaker at IIEX-Latam in Lima and decided to take time off to visit the country after the conference. How glad I was that I took that decision, because I discovered that Peruvians are experts in customer delight!

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Win the Customer

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Customer feedback and consumer reviews are very important aspects of any business activity. Traditionally, small retail businesses that keep a brick-and-mortar presence have been able to gather customer feedback immediately and on the spot. These days, however, large companies have many tools that can help them collect and analyze consumer reviews and feedback.

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Heart of the Customer

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The intangibles matter. Don’t let bad research ruin your customer experience. Bad research can wreak havoc with your customer experience. It can lead you to ignore a critical moment of truth while working on something with less impact. In one journey map project, we were hired to extend a Big Research Company’s research. They had […]. The post Just because your customers say it isn’t important doesn’t make it so appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Customer Experience 110

Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

How we feel affects how we behave. Understanding the connection between our feelings and our decisions is an essential foundation for creating customer loyalty and retention. If you aren’t sure this is true, then ask yourself: would I open a Yahoo email account today? Yahoo is in the news all over the world. No longer because of their appointment of an up and coming CEO (that just happened to be female).

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Customers That Stick

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

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ClearAction

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

10 Silos Impact Customer Experience Lynn Hunsaker. Does your business have a silo detective? This might be the highest-ROI effort of your customer experience council, chief customer officer, chief operating officer — or better yet, every employee. Things that don’t make sense in the way business is done can almost always be traced to silo-ization. And the pain of business silos is well-known to everyone, whether employee or customer.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

I delivered my presentation on the history of marketing technology last week at the Optimove CONNECT conference in Tel Aviv. Sadly, the audience didn’t seem to share my fascination with arcana (did you know that the Chinese invented paper in 100 CE? that Return on Investment analysis originated at DuPont in 1912?) So, chastened a bit, I’ll share with you a much-condensed version of my timeline, leaving out juicy details like brothel advertising at Pompeii.

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Speaker: Benjamin Woll, Tiffany Spizzo, and Jaime Santos Alcón

Enterprise commerce is at an inflection point. Rigid, monolithic platforms slow brands down, but a full replatforming is disruptive and costly. Modular architecture offers a flexible, scalable alternative - allowing enterprise brands to modernize without ripping and replacing their entire stack. Learn how a composable approach helps modernize commerce stacks while maintaining control over critical systems.

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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Operating a successful contact center is rarely a simple undertaking. As any customer support manager knows, there are a number of crucial factors that come into play when looking to succeed in the call center world. We often hear from call center managers who are trying to improve their call metrics with our solutions. But, we wanted to go one step further and pick the brains of some of the most successful contact center leaders for some tips on how to match their success.

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Heart of the Customer

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

I presented at the ICMI CC Expo last month in Long Beach. It’s always a great conference, and I look forward to it each year. In the afternoon after my journey mapping workshop I attended a Justin Robbin’s session on metrics. Justin began by asking attendees the most important metric they tracked. Think about it […]. The post What is the Most Important Contact Center Metric?

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

When you ask a person why they bought something, they can always tell you straightaway. It might not be the reason, but it’s the reason they give. Is the person lying? Except for rare exceptions (politicians, criminals, celebrities learning too late that Twitter and Booze don’t mix), not at all. Many times people don’t know the real reason they did something.

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Customers That Stick

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

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Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.

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Customer Bliss

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Customer complaints are everywhere, and happen all the time. The word “complaints” is a bad word, yes — on the surface. But there’s power in customer complaints, just as there’s power in any feedback. Quickly, before we get to the action items on this post: think of your favorite brands. Consider brands that you love. You buy from them all the time.

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Kate Nasser

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Have you ever worked with/for people who crave change? 5 keys to understanding & succeeding with them from Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™ |Leadership Teamwork Employee Engagement. The post Leadership: 5 Keys to Succeeding With Leaders Who Crave Change appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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Provide Support

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The key to any business success is building trust and establishing strong relationships with customers as those are the main factors that contribute to customer loyalty and generate more sales. Very often though, we unknowingly create barriers that discourage customers from doing business with us, sometimes simply because we don’t realize they exist.

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Heart of the Customer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Have you created journey maps? The Customer Experience Professionals Association and Heart of the Customer want to learn more about your experience! The survey is closing soon, so make sure to get your response in before it does! Whether you created the journey map for your own company or another, we’d love it if you […]. The post The CXPA and Heart of the Customer want your feedback (Last Chance!

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Customer Experience 92

Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting

Embedding payments can be a transformative step for software companies looking to enhance their platform capabilities, boost customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth. However, the success of payments hinges on a single thing: implementation. Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Q: What has two Million phony accounts, 5,300 fired employees, a fine of $185 million and a retiring leader enjoying $124 million in stock and options after retirement? A: Wells Fargo Bank, the latest bank to suffer the scrutiny of the truth and forced to answer for taking advantage of its customers’ trust. Carrie Tolstedt , unit leader of Wells Fargo’s community banking division, is set to retire at the end of this year after 27 years of service.

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Comm100

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” – Charles W. Eliot. Sometimes we learn important customer service skills through training, or through years of hard-earned experience. But other times we can take the wisdom someone else has so carefully researched, developed, and discovered by reading a book in your free time.

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Customer Bliss

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Digital storytelling is crucial in customer experience. Before we get deep into digital storytelling and how to maximize your processes around it, let’s briefly set up why storytelling as a whole — and especially digital storytelling — is important in the current business climate. The importance of digital storytelling. Here’s a Wharton interview with Carmine Gallo , the author of a book called The Storyteller’s Secret.

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CX Journey

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Image courtesy of real ramona Is your organization suffering from silo-itis? If you answered that question with a "yes," you're absolutely, 110% not alone. Unless your company was intentionally built from the ground up to not function in silos - and you're lucky, and unique, if it was - then silos are an issue for you and for your customers. We all know how detrimental silos can be not only to the customer experience but also to an organization.

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Kerry Bodine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Journey maps help you take a more holistic view of what your customers experience as they do business with your organization. But just how holistic is that view, anyway? I recently got the following questions from a client, I’ll call him Bob, who was concerned that his company’s journey mapping efforts might still be too siloed for effective decision making and prioritization of customer experience improvement initiatives.

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Provide Support

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Customer Service Tips. The first impression comes after the first greeting. Your customers like to be liked and to feel they are important. The first greeting may become a decisive factor for your website visitors to stay and continue purchasing or to leave. It tells customers who you are and how you feel and what kind of service to expect from you.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D., CMC Thought Leadership Principal, Beyond Philosophy. For any offline or online social word-of-mouth initiative to be impactful with key stakeholders, financially and otherwise, there must first be full realization of what it can and can’t do, and what it is and what it isn’t. Based on broad WOM program experience with b2b and b2c clients around the world, I’ve developed four general ‘rules’ for accomplishing this: 1.

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Comm100

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Is your customer churn rate burning a hole in your retention plan? If so, you’re not alone. When it comes down to it, most companies are losing far too many customers. According to this article by Frederick F. Reichheld in the Harvard Business Review, the average company loses about half its customers in a fiver-year period. Half. Can you imagine how much revenue you lose when 50% of your customers walk out the door?

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Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

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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Customer Bliss

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Customer experience work has been evolving for years, and it’s now on the radar of more execs than ever before. As such, you have a lot of thought leaders out there up-selling voice of the customer plans. Sometimes these voice of the customer approaches are great, but sometimes they’re put together by people who have never done boots on the ground CX work — and then they tend to be flawed.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Everyone in marketing knows there’s a lot of new marketing technology, but how quickly is martech really growing? Many people cite changes in Scott Brinker ’s iconic marketing technology landscape, which has roughly doubled in size every year since Brinker first published it in 2011. Brinker himself is always careful to stress that his listings are not comprehensive, and anyone familiar with the industry will quickly realize much of the growth in his vendor count reflects greater thoroughness an

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Kate Nasser

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Leadership Inspiration: With so much focus on metrics how can leaders keep themselves & others inspired? Insight fr Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™. The post Leadership Inspiration: Leaders, How Do You Stay Inspired? appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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Provide Support

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

3 Ways Online Support Determines Your Company’s Credibility. If you are a startup, earning customer trust is so important to get those first few clients and get things rolling. However, even if you are a well established business, continuously maintaining customer trust and meeting customer expectations is as important for keeping existing relationships as for making new clients.

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Customer Expectations 75

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