March, 2015

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Say What? 3 Ways Sentiment Analysis Can Help Uncover Your Brand’s Reputation

Callminer

What can companies do to take actionable steps to improve the customer experience? Here are 3 ways sentiment analysis can uncover your company’s reputation and meet customer needs.

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Are you Irrational: 7 Questions to See If You Are Irrational?

Beyond Philosophy

'I love watching what people, and Customers do. We human’s think we are so clever and sophisticated and yet much of what we do is totally irrational. When I am reviewing an organization’s experience I am on the look out for this type of irrational behavior as this will give me many clues on how to make it much better. What do I mean by irrational behavior?

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Customer Service Infographic, The Forgotten Marketing Channel

Win the Customer

'Too many organizations fall short in translating the desire for great customer experience into customer service actions that create them. If more than half of customers would be willing to pay more for a better customer experience, why don’t more organizations get more from customers? Frankly, I believe that most organizations want to deliver better […].

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Employee Empowerment the Smart Way

Customers That Stick

'This morning we released CTS Service Solutions’ Ultimate Starter Guide to Employee Empowerment. This guide walks those new to the idea of strategically and consciously attempting to increase employee empowerment in their organizations through many of the basic ideas surrounding empowerment as well as nine tips for empowering employees effectively.

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From Start to Scale: Driving Growth Through Seamless Payments Implementation

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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No Trust without Respect: 7 Rules to Winning Customers

C3Centricity

I got an email this week that was just so wrong I almost replied to it offering my help to the sender, as he clearly needed it. The email started, “Hello Deny, I will keep my introduction brief. I’m Scott XXX, CEO for YYY.” He was informing me about his company’s training offers, which he [.]. The post No Trust without Respect: 7 Rules to Winning Customers appeared first on C3Centricity.

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“Customer Experience is all about culture change” – an interview with Mark Smith, VP of CX at GE Capital Fleet Services

Heart of the Customer

'How do you create change when you’re the first customer experience (CX) leader at a highly successful business with a history of customer focus? That’s the challenge Mark Smith faced when he became GE Capital Fleet Services’ first Vice President of Customer Experience a year ago. His response? Focus on the culture, because that’s what […]. The post “Customer Experience is all about culture change” – an interview with Mark Smith, VP of CX at GE Capital Fleet Services appeared first o

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Case Study: Increase Your Sales by 47% by Doing This…

Beyond Philosophy

'How can you increase your sales by 47%? It’s all in the packaging. Gressingham Foods, a pre-packaged food company in the UK, wanted to change their brand image at the store. They were declining as a brand and wanted their image to project “premium but accessible.”. They hired Elmwood , a design firm that took a good look at their packaging and came up with a strategy to help them stand out.

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Provide Proactive Customer Service and End Hold Time

Win the Customer

'The customer customer is so important, why do you have a machine keep you busy while you sort things out with someone else? Putting customers on hold is about more than people being patient. Hold time shows a disconnect between the customers wanting to work with you and your willingness to want to take advantage of that immediate opportunity to […].

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The New Book Revealed: Be Your Customer’s Hero

Customers That Stick

'Service triggers that set customers off. Power words that influence customer perception. Go-to tactics that turn difficult situations around. My new book Be Your Customer’s Hero: Real-World Tips and Techniques for the Service Front Lines is finally here. And I couldn’t be happier with the end product! I am truly thrilled to put this book into the hands of customer-facing professionals all around the world.

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How to Communicate your Way to a Better Customer Experience

PeopleMetrics

'Are you on Slack ? If not, chances are you will be soon. According to an article in the New York Times this week, Slack is "one of the fastest-growing business applications in history." There are about half a million employees using Slack everyday, and that base is doubling every 3 months. If you aren''t one of the initiated (yet), Slack is an internal communications tool that is fast making email and instant messenger obsolete.

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Frost Radar: Voice of Customer Analytics, 2024

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.

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Remember, Call Center Agents = Your Brand

Heart of the Customer

'How’s your brand today? Defining your brand used to be so much easier. In the good old days (for me, the good old days were the 80s), your brand was whatever your advertising said it was. Social media changed all that. Now your brand is whatever your customers say it is. And so your brand […]. The post Remember, Call Center Agents = Your Brand appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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4 Customer Experience Questions Your Contact Center Must Answer

Callminer

There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to delivering a positive customer experience, but asking these 4 questions can help you get started.

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Best Advice: Stop Researching Your Customers — and Do Something

Beyond Philosophy

'In this series, professionals share the words of wisdom that made all the difference in their lives. Follow the stories here and write your own (please include the hashtag #BestAdvice in the body of your post). What is the point of doing research is you are not going to do anything with it? Let me give you an example. It was the first few days after I had been promoted to the SVP, Customer Experience for British Telecom a number of years ago.

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The Customer Experience Management Cheat Sheet [INFOGRAPHIC]

Win the Customer

'Customer experience doesn’t happen by chance. It takes the right combination of insights and actions that result in the positive bottom-line impact that supports revenue positive growth in an organization. In a recent conference call is asked an organization if they had a report of their key performance metrics related to service and customer experience […].

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

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 Experience Governance: Do This, Not That

ClearAction

Customer Experience Governance: Do This, Not That. Governance doesn’t get much airtime in customer experience management conversations and writings. It's not as exciting and it's harder to wrap your mind around than customer engagement and VoC (voice-of-the-customer) and CX (customer experience) technologies. Just what is it, anyway? The Business Dictionary clarifies governance as "establishment of policies, and continuous monitoring of their proper implementation, by the membe

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How to Set a Direction and Improve Customer Experience

PeopleMetrics

'If you’ve decided to focus on improving customer experience, you’re going to need clearly defined goals and a strategy to get you there. Here are some tips to help you set a direction and improve adoption throughout your company. 1. Define goals clearly (and how you’ll measure success). How you convey your goals to the rest of your company is extremely important.

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Customer journey maps are all about expectations

Heart of the Customer

'Nobody likes surprises. Even positive ones can ruin your customer experience. Here’s a case in point. I was teaching at an insurance company when an employee told me a story. A customer filing a claim told him, “my agent said I don’t have rental coverage. Now I have to pay for the stupid rental car.” The employee informed him […].

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5 Reasons Your Call Center Should Be Using Cross-Channel Interaction Analytics

Callminer

Learn 5 reasons why your call center should be using cross-channel interaction analytics to improve the customer experience. Read more.

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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6 Steps to a Great Apology

Beyond Philosophy

'Everyone makes mistakes. You charged for the wrong plan on a Customer’s mobile bill or sent an ‘Extra Small’ instead of a Medium on the Jacket a Customer ordered online. More serious mistakes could be that as a Doctor, you misdiagnosed a life threatening condition that results in serious consequences for your patient and his or her loved ones. We all make mistakes.

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Set Realistic Service Goals That Build Positive Customer Experiences

Win the Customer

'Consistently setting realistic service goals is critical to the process of developing your core customer experience. Setting goals is not simply throwing out an easy number to achieve, nor is it asking your team to achieve the impossible. Consistently setting goals is part of the process of developing your team in the organization. Goals shouldn’t be […].

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Five Conditions to Repair the Emotional Connection with Your Customer

Customer Bliss

'Repairing the emotional connection with your customers and reaping good results has conditions. Your apology must: Be genuine. Restore confidence in being associated with you. Honor those harmed. Explain and work to resolve the problem. Be delivered swiftly and with humility. Remember when you were a kid and your brother or sister punched you or pinched you?

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Getting Employees to Care: Employee Engagement and Culture

PeopleMetrics

'Employees. You’re going to have to face them sooner or later if you’re trying to build a customer-centric culture. How do you get them in line? How do you get them to deliver on your promise? How do you get them to care about company goals? Before you bang your head on your mahogany desk, maybe you should ask yourself another question: Why should your employees care?

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eCommerce in 2025: How Customer Experience Drives Online Retail Success

Speaker: Jennifer Wright and Nick Barron

2025 is right around the corner, and with it comes a new wave of consumer expectations, competitive pressures, and operational challenges. Success lies in finding the balance between operational flexibility and creating experiences that keep customers coming back. The future of retail belongs to those who can stay ahead of shifting customer preferences and marketing trends. 🔮 In this session, we’ll dive deep into what it takes to keep customers engaged and your operations nimble, no matt

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Refunds are for cowards

Heart of the Customer

'Tuesday I had a major issue with my host provider Inmotion Hosting. I discovered that my beautiful new site no longer looked so beautiful, instead offering searches for heart valves and similar terms. Obviously, they were no longer hosting my domain. I immediately called support, and my tech acknowledged their systems did not execute my domain […].

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It's Not About the Metric

CX Journey

'I originally wrote today''s post for Confirmit in November 2014. I''ve made some modifications. In November 2014, I participated in the Hooked On Customers Summit , a webinar series hosted by Bob Thompson of CustomerThink. I joined Bob, along with Jeanne Bliss, in the first webinar to discuss Creating Actionable Insight from a Customer Listening Engine.

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3 Examples of Change for the Better in Airlines

Beyond Philosophy

'There have been many great stories in the past couple of months about airlines doing what was right by their Customers. We can all learn a little about Customer centricity when we look at these examples from three major carriers in the US. Frontier Airlines Pilot Feeds His Passengers While Stranded on Runway. Frequent travelers have all been there…sitting on the runway, hungry, thirsty, and needing to go to the lavatory but strapped in their seat, sometimes for hours.

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CRM, The Most Important Tool For Customer Success in the Cloud

Win the Customer

'Successful businesses have learned to master making customers successful. Throughout my career, I’ve watched customers set goals, and then watched as they either reached or fell short of them. When you work as closely with your customers as I have, you can’t help but feel these successes and failures as much as they do. The […].

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How to Easily Navigate Crypto Accounting in the Web3 Era

Speaker: Aaron Jacob, VP of Accounting Solutions & Reagan Cook, GTM Lead

Are you struggling to navigate the complexities and challenges that come with crypto accounting? 🤔 This new webinar will cover everything businesses need to know to get started with crypto accounting after incorporating crypto into their business models! Industry experts Aaron Jacob and Reagan Cook of TaxBit will thoroughly explore the prevalent operational hurdles encountered by accounting teams when interacting with crypto on the books, and detail how software solutions can effectively

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How’s Your Experience Reliability?

Customer Bliss

'The information and experience you gain by working through the customer experience competencies and holding people accountable to customer metrics will condition the organization to redevelop the customer experience for greatest marketplace differentiation. Managing the corporate patience while developing the competencies required to establish a reliable experience is not easy.

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Four Signs It’s Time to Get With the Customer Experience Program

PeopleMetrics

'So you’re sitting on the fence. Twiddling your thumbs. Waffling on the investment in a formal customer experience management solution. How can you tell if your company’s ready? How can you make the argument to higher-ups? What are some of the symptoms of customer experience woes? Well, I’ll give you four. 1. No one knows if customer issues get resolved.

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Look Away from the Shiny Object

Waypoint Group

Focusing on Holistic Customer Success. San Francisco welcomed another stellar group of Customer Success pros last week, thanks to Totango’s CS Summit. While listening to the impressive list of speakers, it was great to hear about the different ways companies are embracing CS and sharing their best practices to help others do the same. Events like these are great for learning but sometimes it can become too easy to only focus on the shiny, new product or support experience, rather than crafting a

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The #CX Proof is In the (Diet) Pudding

CX Journey

'Image courtesy of beetlecakes I have a few questions for you about your company: Are you focusing on acquisition or retention? Are you rebranding your image or are you reinventing the customer experience? What are your priorities? I recently wrote some posts about how companies have this misguided focus on anything but the customer experience. With one, I posed the question: Are you delivering a great customer experience - or are you just relying on advertising to create awareness and sell your

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7 Essential Criteria for Choosing the Right Payments Partner

Speaker: Brad Pinneke, VP of Business Development at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms

In this webinar, Brad Pinneke, Vice President of Business Development at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms, will dive into the 7 must-have criteria for evaluating payments partners, helping you maximize both efficiency and the long-term value of your investment. From assessing technology capabilities to leveraging business development opportunities, this session will give you a clear, actionable strategy to select the right partner for scaling your business.