Callminer
JULY 16, 2015
CallMiner speech analytics helps organizations across industries reduce costs & improve contact center efficiency. Read more about how with our case study examples.
Beyond Philosophy
JULY 30, 2015
Most Customer Experiences are accidents—and unfortunately, they are not always happy ones. Why? Unless a company designs a deliberate experience that puts the Customer first and considers the Customer’s perspective, the message you send to the subconscious is rarely what you intend. The message you send will communicate how you are as an organization.
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Uniphore
JULY 29, 2015
Richard Snow, VP & Research Director of the Ventana Research's Customer and Contact Center Research practice, discusses the need to deliver a consistent, continuous and contextual customer experience both within and across multiple communication channels.
Customers That Stick
JULY 15, 2015
I needed to get some routine blood work done a few weeks ago, and the doctor recommended that I use the hospital network his practice was affiliated with. My schedule was packed and the hospital was not close, so I found a major testing company that was closer to home and gave them a call. Bad Systems. I was greeted by an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system — nothing wrong with that, at first — but the IVR only gave me two choices: book the appointment using the phone keypad or book online.
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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.
Win the Customer
JULY 10, 2015
Organizations today are facing a fundamental change in how customer experiences and service interactions take place. Customers today are more empowers, and infinitely more informed in the decisions they make regarding products and services. As more and more customers turn to online and social as part of their product and service discovery, social channels will […].
Heart of the Customer
JULY 16, 2015
At Heart of the Customer we focus almost exclusively on journey mapping. So when a new customer calls, it often surprises them when we ask them whether they really want a journey map. Because sometimes an experience map is a better fit. It takes us a surprisingly long time to work through what we should […]. The post Do you really want a journey map?
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Beyond Philosophy
JULY 23, 2015
You have all done it. I know I have. It’s natural these days to stop working on a project and check your feeds, see how your post is performing, or how many favorites your latest Tweet earned. Yes, we may all be doing it, but it’s killing our chance of reaching greater productivity and harming the quality of our work. Author Ed Batista addresses this in his post on Harvard Business Review’s blog.
Uniphore
JULY 20, 2015
Mobile devices have had a huge impact on customer expectations. These days, customers call your company from anywhere, day or night. They demand more ways to connect to you, and they’re using more than one channel to do so.
PeopleMetrics
JULY 31, 2015
If you can tell, we’re fans of using feedback in your customer experience strategy. It helps you gain perspective. It helps you keep tabs on your experience. It gives you emotional snapshots of your company’s touchpoints. However, when thinking about collecting feedback on the customer experience, we can limit ourselves to considering feedback from customers.
Win the Customer
JULY 25, 2015
When things go wrong, customers need access to resources or solutions from customer service. This is when organizations really differentiate in terms of their customer service experience. Customers often need more than just a product or service. When there are questions or when things go wrong, customer need resources for help or access to solutions […].
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.
Customer Experience Matrix
JULY 23, 2015
Picture posted by Terminus I can’t decide which is more exciting about next month’s FlipMyFunnel conference in Atlanta (register here and use the code DR50 for a 50% discount): the opportunity to interact with a great collection of speakers and attendees or seeing what the conference organizers at Terminus do with the notion of MarTech Stack Jenga. Based on one cryptic Twitter picture, they’re up to something big.
Provide Support
JULY 6, 2015
In a huge variety of brands offering similar products or services, how do you separate yours from the competition? Since price becomes much less of a deciding factor when choosing between your brand and competitors, caring for your customers and nurturing relationships with them has never been more important in growing a successful business. Zig Ziglar once famously said, “People don’t buy things for logical reasons, they buy for emotional reasons” Statistically, 75% of buying
Beyond Philosophy
JULY 14, 2015
Sometimes we have a relationship we think is good, but it really isn’t. It’s true in friendships, marriages, and yes, even business relationships. There are some signs that your Customer relationship is all about you, or one-sided, and they are easier to spot than you think. Many of the things that make personal relationships fail make your relationship with Customers one-sided.
Uniphore
JULY 20, 2015
Customer experience is so important to consumers, that 75% of research participants told American Express 1 they’ve spent more with companies that have a history of positive customer experience.
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.
Kate Nasser
JULY 26, 2015
Teamwork persona: As you develop your career, ask yourself: Will others want to work with me? Work persona checklist from The People Skills Coach™. The post Teamwork Persona: Are You Someone Others Want to Work With? appeared first on KateNasser.com.
Win the Customer
JULY 11, 2015
To design and deploy services, it’s crucial to have both customer experience journey maps for vision and customer service blueprints for process development. In a recent post, the team at Cooper dove into the differences between customer experience journey maps and customer service blueprints. Customer experience and customer service often are used interchangeably, but the […].
Customer Experience Matrix
JULY 31, 2015
Yesterday I released the mid-year edition of the VEST Report on B2B marketing automation vendors, thereby meeting my self-imposed deadline of July 31. Look here for more information or to make a purchase. Updating the report gives a nice overview of recent industry developments. Here are some observations: - market positions are pretty stable. The only new vendor to make a splash recently has been SharpSpring , which went from zero to 500 agency clients in the past year.
PeopleMetrics
JULY 11, 2015
When you bring new B2B buyers into your customer experience, do you try to show some of them the door? Here are three reasons why you should do just that. 1. You can avoid the distraction of fairy-tale contracts. High-performing sales professionals are great at recognizing costs and benefits of potential contracts early on. They’re skilled at knowing which prospects to nudge, and which aren’t worth the energy.
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
Beyond Philosophy
JULY 16, 2015
When you hear a person (read Customer) sigh, what do you think they are communicating? Is it sadness? Frustration? Exhaustion? All three? Chances are, it’s a subconscious communication of many things, including all of the above. It’s important to identify what nonverbal clues like a sigh communicates—whether you are the one that heard it or the one that is doing it.
Uniphore
JULY 21, 2015
Store, voice, IVR, social, chat, web, mobile, SMS… customers are everywhere and 95% of them use more than one customer service communication channel, says a study by CFI Group and eBay Enterprise 1. They want to get service where they’re most comfortable, yet companies struggle with providing omni-channel customer service.
Kate Nasser
JULY 12, 2015
Key ways to respond to disrespect and be treated respectfully. Simple effective responses fr The People Skills Coach™. | Teamwork Career. The post Be Treated Respectfully: How to Set Limits w/ Pushy People #peopleskills appeared first on KateNasser.com.
Win the Customer
JULY 13, 2015
We’ve all experienced bad customer service. Think of the feeling that was left in us (much like a bad first date). It’s not pleasant. And if you have too many, you’ll quickly develop a poor reputation with those you need the most, your customers. Have you ever been on a date in which you did […].
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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.
Customer Experience Matrix
JULY 17, 2015
Two vendors made the same point with me this week, which is reason enough for a blog post in mid-July. The point was the difference between basing content selection on individuals and on segments. I have never considered the distinction to be especially important, since segment membership is determined by individual behaviors and individual-level decisions are guided by behavior patterns of groups.
PeopleMetrics
JULY 14, 2015
PeopleMetrics is proud to recognize its fifth-annual Brand Ambassador Award Winners. These individuals received the most customer recognition through PeopleMetrics customer experience software in 2014, proving their consistency in going above and beyond to deliver for customers. Winners of the 2015 Award are: Jen Beier of 1st National Bank. Brian Hecker, Partner at Crowe Horwath LLP.
Beyond Philosophy
JULY 28, 2015
Brands are a fluid concept that can be destroyed in an instant. Brands make promises that should be kept by the people that deliver the experience. When the brand experience falls short of the promise, Customers feel disappointed, frustrated, and frankly, hacked off! For example, I recently purchased my new car. Having seen the adverts, undertaking the research online, and comparing various reviews, I narrowed my choices between a GMC Yukon or a Lincoln Navigator.
Uniphore
JULY 20, 2015
As organizations expand the number of channels by which customers can reach them, an enduring facet the world over is that these channels are not connected. So when customers channel hop, the contact center agent is frequently blind-sided as they see only those interactions for one or two channels at most. This leads to a bad customer experience because the customer has to start over and repeat themselves to bring the contact center agent up to speed.
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.
Heart of the Customer
JULY 1, 2015
What do you do with an unhappy customer? Refunds are the easy way out. They don’t fix the problem. They just put a band-aid on the situation, without addressing the underlying problem that led your busy customer to take time to call you. But don’t take my word for it. A report from Beyond Philosophy […]. The post Reduce effort > Giving refunds appeared first on Heart of the Customer.
Win the Customer
JULY 12, 2015
How we can inspire and empower ourselves to go above and beyond when it comes to our customer service experience duty? Anyone can do the bare minimum. Anyone can do enough to satisfy. Everyone does just enough and that’s the problem of customer service experience today. Too many are content with just enough and lack the […].
Customer Experience Matrix
JULY 7, 2015
I mentioned in my last post that I’ve started to think in terms of three realities: today (the next two years), tomorrow (two to five years out), and later (after five years). Like the famous New Yorker magazine cover that showed a detailed knowledge of Manhattan and increasingly vague view of more distant regions, our picture of the immediate future is much more nuanced than what happens farther out.
Provide Support
JULY 28, 2015
Transforming customer service at a small business. Limitations offer the biggest challenges to us, but at the same time they are the best boosters of creativity and inspiration. We all know that a distinguishing feature of almost every small business is their limited resources. There are not enough people, not enough budget to implement great ideas and purchase professional customer service tools.
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