ShepHyken

OCTOBER 17, 2016

The ones that do reap the rewards of repeat and loyal customers. Five Ways to Caffeinate Your Customer Experience in 2017 by Scott Anderson. Here are five tips to delivering that caffeinated customer experience in 2017. My Comment: Great article about ramping up your customer experience.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Contact Center Satisfaction Negatively Impacting the Customer Experience by Andrew Berger. Telecompetitor) Contact center satisfaction has worsened over the last two years despite investments in new customer engagement channels, according to new market research released by BoldChat. Here are my top five picks from last week.

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Journey mapping Customer Service Contact Center Airlines 308

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 12, 2016

They help businesses take essential decisions and optimize their strategy and workflows, but how do you know if an artificial intelligence platform can h elp you build a more engaging, personal connection with customers – and improve your metrics? Social media ROI, loyalty and the customer experience by Chris Teso.

Customer Service 273

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Speed Is Best Measure of Customer Experience by Gerry McGovern. CMSWire) The basics of customer experience is helping people do what they want to do. However, if you want to excel in customer experience you must help people do what they want as quickly as possible. Follow on Twitter: @Hyken .

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Customer Service SaaS Customer Experience Marketing 288

ShepHyken

JULY 25, 2016

An Amazing Experience: Personalize your CX Today! My Comment: One way to improve the customer experience is to personalize it. This is a heartwarming story of a personalized gift. This is a heartwarming story of a personalized gift. My Comment: I’m not a big fan of the term customer churn.

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Customer Service B2C Personalization Metrics 195

Bill Quiseng

JULY 18, 2017

I had the great opportunity to interview Blake Morgan , customer experience futurist about her new book, More is More: How the Best Companies Go Farther and Work Harder to Create Knock-Your-Socks Off Customer Experiences. I have been a big fan of her customer experience articles that regularly appear in Forbes.

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Customer Experience Wireless Airlines Education 318

Beyond Philosophy

JULY 13, 2016

Consorsbank, Lufthansa, and Zalando—three very different companies—have both undertaken a Customer Experience improvement program. Whilst they each have their unique challenges, their insight on Customer Experience shows us the common obstacles that all of us face when tackling such an important facet of our business.

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Customer Experience Airlines Banking Customer centricity 278

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Employees are the common denominator in optimizing the customer experience. The post Eyes On The Customer Experience Prize: Will 2016 (Finally) Be The Year Of The Emotionally-Driven Employee Ambassador? appeared first on Beyond Philosophy | CX Consultants | Customer Experience.

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Brand ambassadors Customer Experience Enterprise Feedback 170

ShepHyken

JUNE 20, 2016

Use Emojis and Other Tips to Make Customer Service More Personal by Dianna Labrien. TechCo) Even when conducted online, customer service should always have a personal touch. Here are six ideas that will make customer service both more personal and engaging. But, let’s not split hairs.

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Customer Service Customer centricity Chatbots Airlines 195

Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Conversational Commerce was conceived in 2016 by the inventor of the hashtag, Chris Messina. However, Messina sees applications like Molly as just the beginning of AI handling customer interactions on the social media platforms. He also sees a future where brands interact with people as if the brand was a person.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Create Great Customer Experiences with These Three Principles by Opinurte Team. Opinurate) Matt Watkinson has worked with some of the biggest businesses in the world on customer experience strategy, service design, websites and mobile apps. Customer Service is Dead… Welcome to the Customer Experience by Jeffrey Hayzlett.

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ShepHyken

MAY 30, 2016

And, they may not always be right – but they are always the customer. Customer experience: Who’s in charge here? LinkedIn) The headline finding of the study showed was that there is a direct correlation between customer experience and profitability and CEO engagement. Don’t blame them for that!

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ShepHyken

JULY 4, 2016

Here are three tips to using Twitter to engage with your customers, answer their questions and solve their problems. How Employee Culture Impacts Customer Experience by Eric Berridge. The Customer Service Interview – Question & Answer Template by Pascal van Opzeeland. Follow on Twitter: @Hyken.

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Customer Service Surveys Customer Experience Customer Support 202

ShepHyken

AUGUST 1, 2016

There are plenty of unique ways to engage your community and boost your social following, each of which helps customers get to know the names and faces behind your brand and stay loyal to your product or service. My Comment: Social media enhances the customer experience. Is the customer always right?

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Customer Service B2C B2B Customer Care 208

ShepHyken

AUGUST 15, 2016

4 Tips for Delivering a Richer Customer Experience by Tara Sporrer. Multichannel Merchant) Here are 4 tips for delivering a richer experience this summer so you can catch online customers in the buying mood before they head off to sunnier pursuits. Call it a “richer” customer experience.

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Customer Service Chatbots Multichannel Customer Care 174

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Customer Service Is Free by Seth Godin. Seth’s Blog) Customer service is expensive. 3 Customer Experience Lessons Brands Can Learn From Amazon by Scott Clark. The message is clear and powerful!

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Customer Service B2B B2C Personalization 209

CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Temkin Group, a leading customer experience firm, has published its annual list of customer experience trends. As a part of these publications, Temkin is calling 2016 “The Year of Emotion.” ” Here are the 10 customer experience trends to watch in 2016: 1. Emotion Arising.

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Customer Experience Journey mapping Analytics Metrics 45

Inbenta

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Using a technology called Natural Language Processing , the mood of the customer can be detected, and an appropriate response can be given. For businesses that are customer focused and those that have a strong social media presence, this can be crucial to an excellent customer experience. Multi-lingual capabilities.

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Chatbots Customer Experience Healthcare Personalization 90

ProProfs Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2018

What is Customer Experience Marketing and Why Is It Important? Customer experience marketing refers to strategies that focus on and improve your customers’ experiences with you. You need 12 positive experiences to compensate for a single negative one. Challenges of Customer Experience Marketing.

Marketing 160

Marketing Customer Experience Airlines Customer centricity 160

Contact Center Pipeline

JUNE 28, 2016

An interesting finding from Dimension Data’s “2016 Global Contact Centre Benchmarking Report” is that, for the first time, customer experience has surpassed cost reduction as a primary reason for offering digital channels (73.7% vs. 67.9%).

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Customer Experience Benchmark Personalization Analytics 100

Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In fact, as we become more and more accustomed to shopping around for the best deal online, customers are likely to shop around for loyalty programs too, ditching one program for another if it offers better perks. So how does Hilton or any other company create true customer loyalty? Start by engaging the employees.

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Chief Customer Officer Airlines Morale Employee engagement 333

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Target Corporation has had a number of challenges over the past few years, from abruptly closing all of their Canadian stores to a 2016 earnings shortfall, plummeting stock price, and a rather negative sales outlook for 2017 (first quarter EPS was 6% lower than first quarter 2016). Here’s my question, and my key issue. Don’t think so.

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Customer Experience Construction Consulting Consulting 150

Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Technology, human behavior, Customer Experience are intersecting through the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and taking marketing in a new direction. We spoke to Messina on a recent podcast about this concept and how it applies to customer-driven growth. Messina is an expert on this subject.

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Lumoa

AUGUST 23, 2021

In any case, customer experience used to be the largest way to differentiate your brand among the turbulent sea of competition. A positive customer experience comes down to making a customer feel valued during every experience , whether that’s offering delayed payments, incorporating free features, or simply remembering their name.

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Customer Experience Surveys Analytics Customer retention 88

ijgolding

DECEMBER 8, 2015

When it comes to delivering consistently good Customer Experiences, it appears as though bigger is definitely not necessarily better! These people are doing a fantastic job of offering a great, friendly, reliable, trustworthy and very personal experience. I was a little skeptical.

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Personalization Customer Experience Advertising Marketing 67

Talkdesk

MAY 17, 2016

Opentalk 2016 is upon us. The Talkdesk team will be spending the day at The Village in San Francisco talking to forward-thinking business leaders and learning more about the future of the customer experience. That means you’ve missed the mingling, the refreshments and the attendee experience. May 17th is finally here!

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call center software Customer centricity Call Center Personalization 40

aircall

DECEMBER 19, 2016

With every customer service champion, we’ll look at what they can teach us about improving our own customer service, and cultivating our own customers’ happiness. Best customer service companies of 2016: all-star division. Ranking high is far from a novel experience for these companies. SpotifyCares.

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Customer Service Advertising Transportation Customer Support 74

Vonage

MARCH 28, 2019

It’s called Interactive Voice Response (IVR), and the vast majority of companies are using it – but they’re using it to cut costs, not to enhance the customer experience. And you can’t call yourself a business executive today unless you also profess to care deeply about customer experience. In 2016, Bain & Co.

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Interactive Voice Response Customer Experience Contact center software Construction 91

Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

When you ask a person why they bought something, they can always tell you straightaway. Is the person lying? Our second imperative of the seven is: Imperative 2: Embrace the all-encompassing nature of customers’ irrationality 
. As Customer Experience Consultants, we see this rationalizing of irrational behavior all the time.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 19, 2017

The Customer Experiences I have in the UK are not as good as I have in the USA, now there is evidence to back this up. Per the 8th annual “ Customer Experience Excellence Study” published by KPMG Nunwood, shows that Customer Experience in the UK is lagging. They include: Personalization. Resolution.

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Customer centricity Consulting Consulting Banking 382

Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

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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Consulting Consulting Customer emotions Personalization 419

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 4, 2018

These times affect how we behave, and that can have repercussions for your Customer Experience. I am a morning person. Your customers are like this, too. We discussed how the time of day that the experience occurs affects Customer Experience on our recent podcast. For example. Cognitive What?

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Government CRM Personalization Customer Experience 353

ijgolding

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

The question was as follows: What value has our business experienced as a result of all the Customer Experience (CX) work that has been done? Only recently I wrote about an experience a friend of mine was (and still is) having with BT – it was the perfect example of the RANDOM or UNINTENTIONAL Customer Experience.

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Customer Experience Customer centricity Customer Service Personalization 83

Eptica

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Date: Friday, November 18, 2016 Customer Experience - disrupt or be disrupted. Published on: November 18, 2016. Author: Olivier Njamfa Whatever market they are in, organizations face a stark choice – innovate across their operations and get closer to customers or lose market share to more agile, flexible rivals.

Customer Experience 71

Customer Experience Consulting Consulting Marketing 71

ijgolding

JANUARY 4, 2016

Some resolutions were related to personal health and well-being. At the end of 2015, I wrote an article for my column on CustomerThink – the article was entitled ‘Customer Experience in 2015 – 5 Key Learnings’ – have a read if you would like to know what my key observations in 2015 were. It is infinite.

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Customer centricity Customer Experience Personalization 57

Contact Center Pipeline

JANUARY 16, 2018

Contact Center Nation is where passionate fans of the customer experience come to learn, share, connect and collaborate. We bring dynamic groups of Contact Center, Customer Service and Customer Experience Professionals together in person and virtually.

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Contact Center Personalization Customer Experience Customer Service 159

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

From a customer experience standpoint, these add-on fees create problems because we don’t expect to be charged for these things. Customer expectations might seem irrelevant, but they can actually be one of the most important factors that drive a customer’s experience. Share your reaction in the comment box below.

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