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The Hidden Flaws in Toyota’s German Dealerships CX: What Happened to Accountability?

eglobalis

Introduction: Toyota and its enhanced brand Lexus have long been recognized as global leaders in the automotive industry, not just for their reliable vehicles but also for their commitment to customer satisfaction and accountability. In markets such as the United States, Japan, and various parts of Asia, Toyota consistently demonstrates responsibility by addressing customer issues promptly and without unnecessary obstacles.

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Harmonizing Success: How Sales Teams Can Collaborate with Internal Teams to Enhance Customer Experience

ECXO

Harmonizing Success: How Sales Teams Can Collaborate with Internal Teams to Enhance Customer Experience The ongoing conflict between sales teams and internal departments can really mess up the customer experience, leading to mixed-up interactions and disappointed expectations. It’s important for companies that want to give great customer service to figure out why this “war” is happening and what it means.

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NICE’s 1CX could be a game-changer for solving knotty customer problems

Adrian Swinscoe

Imagine that one of your customers is experiencing a problem with a product or service that they have purchased from your company. Wanting to find a […] The post NICE’s 1CX could be a game-changer for solving knotty customer problems first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Beyond the Inbox: How AI Enhances Email Marketing’s Relevance and Impact

Customer Think

Despite the emergence of many new and exciting consumer-facing channels over the years, email still sits at the top of the channel food chain for marketers. And while not the most dynamic concept, email marketing – when done right – still has the proven ability to make an impact.

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The Evolving Retailers Fulfillment Strategy: Meeting Demands with Agility

Speaker: Becky Parisotto

Fulfillment is no longer just about getting products from point A to point B – it's about crafting seamless, scalable, customer first experiences. Flexible fulfillment strategies are more important than ever for those aiming to stay ahead and build resilience as retail enters a new era in 2025. Learn how to optimize fulfillment processes, tackle complex, multi-vendor orders, and create seamless customer experiences – from white-glove delivery for high-value items to quick-ship solutions for ever

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Why Silos in 2020’s CX Aren’t Your Real Problem—And What You Should Focus on Instead

eglobalis

Introduction: The Need for a Non-Siloed Organization Silos within an organization have long been a barrier to innovation, efficiency, and customer satisfaction. A siloed structure means that different departments operate in isolation, leading to communication gaps, disjointed strategies, and operational inefficiencies. For example, imagine your marketing department running a campaign without proper alignment with sales, causing confusion in customer messaging and missed opportunities.

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10 steps to ensuring CX data is good enough for AI

CX Network

As AI drives more of a customer’s experience, the data that power it must be accurate, unified and secure.

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Great Tips on How to Run a Successful Workshop and Motivate Your Audience

Beyond Philosophy

One of the benefits of being in business and academia for years is that we have a lot of experience running workshops. This episode is a brain dump of all the stuff you won’t learn in a book but is critical to the successful outcome of your program. The first and perhaps most critical step is breaking the ice. By setting a relaxed and open tone, you ease participants into the session, ensuring they’re ready to engage.

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What all World-Class Customer Experience Brands Have in Common

The DiJulius Group

Most companies have multiple statements—a mission, purpose, and core values. The problem with having numerous statements is that employees can’t keep track of them or remember them. The one statement that all world-class customer experience organizations have in common is they all have a customer experience action statement that they make sure every one of.

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GREAT Service is GREAT Theater. Don’t be just good. Be GREAT out there out there!

Bill Quiseng

In their book, The Experience Economy, Joseph Pine and James Gilmore define that “Work is theater and every business a stage.” If you were an actor delivering a great live theatrical performance, the audience becomes wrapped up in the experience and as they walk out of the theater, they are telling their friends that it was the best thing that they’ve enjoyed in a long time.

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The Brand Connectome™ and why we are doing marketing all wrong – Interview with Leslie Zane

Adrian Swinscoe

Today’s interview is with Leslie Zane, who is the Founder and CEO of Triggers, a brand consulting firm, and an authority on harnessing the instinctive mind […] The post The Brand Connectome™ and why we are doing marketing all wrong – Interview with Leslie Zane first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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4 HR Predictions for 2025: Supercharge Your Employee Experience with Internal Communications

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

The future of HR is here, and it's all about collaboration, innovation, and impact. Join us for a forward-thinking session where seasoned experts Miriam and Carolyn will share insights and practical strategies to help you stay ahead of evolving HR trends. Discover how to build strong partnerships with internal teams to craft a transparent, authentic, and connected workforce experience.

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How to Deal with Rising Customer Expectations to Incredible Success

Beyond Philosophy

Learn more about Colin Shaw : Join over 85,000 people on our LinkedIn Newsletter list or visit our website for more great podcast episodes. Listen to the podcast: One of our podcast listeners has a pickle. Claire Dunwood wrote to us to say she felt that her customers’ expectations consistently rise, and managing them is challenging in that she now has fewer resources to devote to them.

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Amazon orders workers back to office / Silent Layoff / Communications Best Practice

The DiJulius Group

Amazon orders workers to go back to the office every day / The US Job Market No Longer Sizzling /The Silent Layoff / Virtual Experience Revolution Workshops / Internal Communications Best Practice Our Virtual Experience Revolution Workshops Great brands all have a signature experience. A signature experience is a distinct experience your customers and employees.

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Fraud victims to get up to £85,000

The Customer Service Blog

Have you ever been a victim of fraud? If you have, then you're not alone, because research shows that 21% of the British population were victims of fraud between 2021 and 2023 (Source: Social Market Foundation). I was myself the victim of a major credit card fraud a few years ago when somebody phoned my bank, and got them to agree to increase my credit card limit from £1,000 to £10,000.

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Countdown to Inclusion: What to expect from the European Accessibility Act

Adrian Swinscoe

This is a guest post from Mike Adams OBE , founder of EnableAll. In just under a year, the European Accessibility Act will become law as […] The post Countdown to Inclusion: What to expect from the European Accessibility Act first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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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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Product News – August 2024

Lumoa

content Lumoa Product News for August 2024 Hey everyone! Lovely seeing you again, back with more exciting Lumoa updates! We have had a doozy of a month, with lots of features that we think will make Lumoa better for you. Let’s get started! Actionable Insights have been overhauled! We originally offered lots of different Insights types, but we received long term feedback that customers were unsure of the differeneces between the Insights, and when one would be more applicable than the other

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Omnichannel Strategies: Challenges and Building Blocks

Customer Think

I originally wrote today’s post for Sprinklr. It appeared on their site on March 21, 2024. When customers interact with brands, they want (expect) a smooth, seamless, consistent, and personalized experience – via their preferred channel.

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5 customer data developments changing CX in APAC

CX Network

The accelerated use of AI means organizations need to get their data in order – but this is easier said than done

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Agents view agent-assist technology as more important than a competitive salary – Interview with Gopi Polavarapu at Kore.ai

Adrian Swinscoe

Today’s interview is with Gopi Polavarapu, Chief Solutions Officer at Kore.ai, a market leader in Conversational AI platform space. Gopi joins me today to talk about […] The post Agents view agent-assist technology as more important than a competitive salary – Interview with Gopi Polavarapu at Kore.ai first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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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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Customer Urgency: Does Your Team Truly Deliver on It? | #CX #Leadership

Kate Nasser

Leaders, do your teams truly understand and deliver on customer urgency? If your answer is, “Yes, because we have priority schemes they follow,” you may be surprised to witness what actually happens in real time. Image by Patti Morris via Flickr Attribution License. Customer Urgency: Do Your Teams Truly Deliver on It? Recent Event I […] The post Customer Urgency: Does Your Team Truly Deliver on It?

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How to Join the Personalisation Revolution to Move from Ordinary to Extraordinary

Customer Think

Learn more about Colin Shaw: Join over 85,000 people on our LinkedIn Newsletter list or visit our website for more great podcast episodes. Listen to the podcast: Personalization is an exciting and developing area for Customer Experiences. On the podcast, we hosted Graham Hill, Ph.D., to talk about it, and I wanted to share […] The post How to Join the Personalisation Revolution to Move from Ordinary to Extraordinary appeared first on Beyond Philosophy.

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Understanding AI Ticket Routing: Benefits and Challenges

Help Scout

Learn all about AI ticket routing, the pros and cons of using it, and some suggestions on how to determine if it’s the right fit for your support team.

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Are assumptions hindering your delivery of great customer service?

Adrian Swinscoe

Recently, I was invited to participate in a discussion about how to improve customer service outcomes. At one point in the discussion, we were talking about […] The post Are assumptions hindering your delivery of great customer service? first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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

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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Three ways to build a profitable CX value chain

CX Network

From ditching cookies to moving to the cloud, Twilio’s Sam Richardson explains three ways organizations can weather economic challenges

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Linking EX to CX: The How and Why

Customer Think

Platitudes and gross simplifications regarding the impact of the Employee Experience on the Customer Experience abound. EX = CX. Happy employees = happy customers. Take care of your employees, and they will take care of your customers. These are pabulum. No one disagrees that customer-facing employees are your CX delivery system.

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Help Scout Announces Partnership with TD SYNNEX

Help Scout

Help Scout to expand its reach through TD SYNNEX's extensive global reseller network, making it easier for more businesses to discover and adopt Help Scout's powerful customer communication platform.

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Print-era thinking is holding personalization efforts back – Interview with Vivek Sharma on Movable Ink

Adrian Swinscoe

Today’s interview is with Vivek Sharma, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Movable Ink, which empowers marketers with scalable, omnichannel personalization through data activation and AI […] The post Print-era thinking is holding personalization efforts back – Interview with Vivek Sharma on Movable Ink first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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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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173: Rewiring Your Brain for Peak Focus & Productivity with Lori Saitz

The DiJulius Group

Rewiring Your Brain for Peak Focus & Productivity Chief Revolution Officer John DiJulius talks with Lori Saitz, a leading authority on improving productivity and engagement through workplace well-being. She is the founder of the Zen Leadership Program for Results Focused Professionals. With a comprehensive background in wellness and communication strategies, Lori helps executives create.

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Companies are replacing more martech, focused on integrations and APIs, and still expanding their stacks

Customer Think

I have two surveys for you that I think you’ll love. The first is one that I’m asking you to take: a cut-through-the-BS survey on the real ways in which you’re seeing gen AI used in your organization — or not.

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Purpose-Driven CX Fuels Innovation: Insights from Lovevery’s Emily Sarver

Execs In The Know

As leaders in customer experience, we understand that creating a lasting impression on customers involves more than just delivering a product or service—it’s about building meaningful connections with purpose-driven CX. Emily Sarver , Vice President of Customer Experience at Lovevery, brought this idea to life during her keynote at the Customer Response Summit (CRS) in Palm Springs.

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Factors driving the gap between customer expectations and satisfaction

Adrian Swinscoe

Customers are generally not happy with the experiences they are having with brands. Last month, Forrester published the US 2024 Customer Experience (CX) Index, which found […] The post Factors driving the gap between customer expectations and satisfaction first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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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