Callminer
AUGUST 20, 2015
How can contact centers leverage social media to improve the customer experience? Quicker response times, one-to-one engagement, and sentiment analysis & social listening are a few ways. Read more.
Uniphore
AUGUST 19, 2015
You do a lot for your customers. You make it easy for them to reach you in multiple channels. You train your agents about products and better communication. And yet, when customers move from one channel to another to get help, they end up frustrated and ready to abandon your company. Read More.
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Beyond Philosophy
AUGUST 25, 2015
Performance reviews are part of most employer/employee relationships. However, recent developments show that improving employee experience involves finding new ways to give employees feedback to improve motivation and success. Annual reviews are likely to get a resigned sigh out of most managers. After a less than insightful review, most employees might sigh as well.
Customers That Stick
AUGUST 19, 2015
Restaurants are one of the few truly universal industries because almost everyone has familiarity with them. From a customer service perspective, this makes restaurant customer service particularly challenging because almost every customer has both established service expectations and well-formed service triggers. Those expectations are often pegged to price or to impressions created by the physical environment.
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Win the Customer
AUGUST 17, 2015
When our internal organizational culture makes us happy, we exude that happiness to our customers and create the foundation of exceptional service experiences. “A nation’s culture resides in the heart and in the soul of its people.” Gandhi wasn’t referring to business when he said this, but this quote can and should be implemented as […].
C3Centricity
AUGUST 23, 2015
Posts which include quotes are amongst the most shared on social media. Everyone seems to love them. This is because they are short, simple and often inspiring. They also usually fit conveniently into the 140 word limit of Twitter posts. C³Centricity is no exception; our marketing quote posts are always the most popular, year after year. [.]. The post How to Use Marketing Quotes to Inspire and Catalyse Action appeared first on C3Centricity.
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Uniphore
AUGUST 11, 2015
Jacada is exhibiting at SpeechTEK 2015 , August 17 – 19, 2015 at the Marriott Marquis at NYC.
Beyond Philosophy
AUGUST 20, 2015
Your brain makes up 3% of your total body weight. However that 3% of your body weight takes 20% of your body’s energy to run. As highly evolved humans, we are always looking for ways to preserve energy, and one of the ways we do this is relying on habit. It’s important for Marketers to understand customers’ habits when marketing to them. We engage in habits every day.
Customers That Stick
AUGUST 11, 2015
Twitter understands that it is often a channel for immediate customer response, and it is not only embracing its role as a customer service channel but beginning to focus on selling itself as an indispensable channel for customer service. On August 6 th , Twitter released a Customer Service Playbook designed to convince organizations of Twitter’s importance as a customer service channel and to demonstrate how they can use the channel to generate effective results with customers.
Win the Customer
AUGUST 25, 2015
According to the American Express Global Customer Service Barometer, customers are twice as likely to share bad customer service experiences than positive ones. Unfortunately a bad review can take hard work to reverse. Parature’s infographic shows it takes 12 positive customer service experience to make up for one negative one. Businesses can stay ahead of […].
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.
C3Centricity
AUGUST 9, 2015
Last week I spoke about five of the most important actions you can take when starting your journey to improved customer centricity. If you missed it, you can read the post here. It will make a good background to this week’s ideas and suggestions. In this post, I would like to continue to support your efforts with some [.]. The post Connect with Customers for World-Class Understanding: 4 “Free” Ways for Every Business appeared first on C3Centricity.
Kerry Bodine
AUGUST 17, 2015
Over the past year, I’ve had several prospective clients get excited about improving their customer experience—and then postpone their CX initiatives because they first need to “prioritize defining the business requirements” or because they’re about to “embark on a major org change.”. This approach always leaves me scratching my head. While these types of initiatives may make leaders feel as if they’re moving the company forward, the lack of customer input puts their decisions and change managem
Uniphore
AUGUST 30, 2015
More than a third of consumers would gladly live without electricity for a week if the alternative was to live without their smartphones, found a Cisco study. It’s understandable. As WDS points out, every mobile device is an “omni channel platform with voice, email, web chat, video chat, SMS and social media capabilities”. Read More.
Beyond Philosophy
AUGUST 6, 2015
A definite link exists between Employee Engagement and Customer Experience. In spite of this, many organizations choose to keep their Employee Engagement programs and their Customer Engagement programs separate. However, linking the two areas is key to having success in both. Aetna made headlines when they gave their lowest-paid workers a raise to $16/hr.
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.
ClearAction
AUGUST 29, 2015
3 Types of Customer Experience Action Essential to ROI. Most things in life need ALL their ingredients to function as intended. Miss the eggs in a cake recipe, forget earbuds for your iPod nano, omit the submit button on a form, arrive at an airport without your luggage, get no sleep in a 24-hour period — you get the picture. If your recipe for customer experience ROI does not call for 3 types of action, it will probably flop.
Win the Customer
AUGUST 1, 2015
Like many aspects of business, customer service is an ever-evolving part of everyday operations that is constantly changed by developments in technology. Customer expectations have changed in the information age, and many businesses are falling behind – Fonolo reports that only 26 percent of consumers had a positive response when asked if they thought customer […].
PeopleMetrics
AUGUST 27, 2015
Selling in the business-to-business (B2B) space is complicated. In fact, if you watch a B2B sales manager for any length of time, there’s a 97.4% chance s/he’ll stare longingly out the window, sigh, and dream about selling in a retail setting. OK, I made up that statistic. (But I’m 97.4% sure it’s true.). A B2B sales manager’s job is essentially to coax a prospect into buying a problem-solving machine.
Customer Experience Matrix
AUGUST 8, 2015
Intent data is a marketer’s dream come true: rather than advertising to mass audiences in the hope of getting a handful of active buyers to identify themselves, just buy a list of those buyers and talk to them directly. It lops a whole layer off the top of the funnel and finally lets you discard the wasted half of your advertising. But intent data is a complicated topic.
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
Uniphore
AUGUST 26, 2015
It’s been a few decades since business started being a “thing”. Modern life is challenging us to have a full social, family, personal and healthy life while fulfilling ourselves professionally. People do everything they can to multitask, including online shopping from the bathroom , reports the Washington Post. Read More.
Beyond Philosophy
AUGUST 18, 2015
I often say people are irrational, but only because they are. We all do irrational things. We like to think we make logical decisions based on rational thinking all the time, but we don’t. The truth is, your mind plays tricks on you every day, and many times, it’s in one of three ways. In “ Thinking Fast and Slow ,” Professor Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences recipient in 2002, explores why our mind plays tricks on us.
Kerry Bodine
AUGUST 24, 2015
In order to transform your customer experience, you need to change employee behavior. But how can you encourage the right types of behavior? Two awards will help. The Above & Beyond Award: When a customer contacts your company with a problem, you want employees to fix it as quickly as possible. Depending on the nature of the problem, that might mean doing tasks that aren’t in their official job descriptions, staying overtime, or going on what feels like an organizational scavenger hunt.
Win the Customer
AUGUST 14, 2015
One of the most frustrating elements of customer service online is a service provider with a terrible Website. Nothing says you don’t care about your customers or their customer experience more than by not investing in the right online experience or letting your Website commit the unpardonable sins of bad Web experience. How important is […].
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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.
PeopleMetrics
AUGUST 18, 2015
As a teenager, while sweating my way through a series of character-building summer jobs, I did a stint as a waiter in a hotel. Every week, I rotated through three dining areas: a diner, a bar, and a fine-dining room. It was a good scenario for learning the basics of dealing with people. It also taught me how good customer experience strategy depends on meeting the expectations of individual customers.
Customer Experience Matrix
AUGUST 27, 2015
Predictive analytics vendor Fliptop today announced its acquisition by B2B social network LinkedIn. It's an interesting piece of news but I'm personally disappointed at the timing because I have been planning all week to write a post about the relationship between predictive analytics and account-based marketing (ABM). I would have looked so much more prescient had they announced the acquisition after I had published this post!
Uniphore
AUGUST 11, 2015
Last week I called a financial institutional and ended up in their contact centre queue. I got the shock of my life when the IVR indicated that I had an anticipated 28 minute wait on hold before being able to talk to someone! Read More.
Beyond Philosophy
AUGUST 4, 2015
“ You can win more friends with your ears than with your mouth. People who feel like they’re being listened to feel accepted and appreciated. They feel like they’re being taken seriously and what they say really matters.”. – Harvey Mackay, Sales Expert, Author and Columnist. Quality sales cultures are the ones where the Customer comes before the close, like Mackay’s quote indicates here.
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
AUGUST 5, 2015
A question I get asked a lot is, “What exactly is a customer journey map?” Considering that my official title is Mapper-In-Chief, it seems like I would have a short, clean answer ready and waiting. Or at least a short overview, with the caveat, but there’s more to it than that. In reality, though, I […]. The post A customer journey map is a story appeared first on Heart of the Customer.
Win the Customer
AUGUST 3, 2015
Product and service focus can be like two sides of a brain, approaching customers in completely different ways and often struggling to achieve maximum customer experience potential. Product managers want to know what customers think of their product. It’s vital to be able to continue improving and making a product that people want to use, and provide […].
PeopleMetrics
AUGUST 25, 2015
Imagine an ocean scene. Picture your customers, darting across the water on jet skis, able to make quick water-spray turns to their heart's content. And here comes your business, a lumbering cargo ship. With a bum steering wheel. And a broken compass. And a first mate who lied on his resume and has never been on a boat before. What I’m saying is, in this age of customer fluidity and freedom, your turning radius is not ideal.
Customer Experience Matrix
AUGUST 16, 2015
I’ve long been intrigued by the notion that complex business decisions can be reduced to relatively simple rules of thumb. Perhaps I shouldn’t admit this, at least when it comes to decisions I might be paid to make as a consultant. But I think I may safely say that simple rules can often provide a default decision that still needs confirmation by an expert.
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