ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

3 Ways Store Layout Decisions Impact on Customer Experience by Oisin Ryan. ServiceDock) The following covers three of the most common and obviously non-customer-centric strategies that retailers use. Each of them maximizes short term profitability but at the potential expense of long term customer loyalty.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 30, 2019

the response to customers’ questions are all managed by AI. Delivering a more customer-centric experience by SmartBrief. SmartBrief) This article shares five ways to get your employees excited and involved in creating a customer-centric experience. Be it Alexa, Google, Siri, etc., It is part of the culture.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 8, 2019

(CustomerThink) The Customers 2020 Report states that by the year 2020, customer experience will take its rightful place as a key brand differentiator. This comes as no surprise, especially if we take into account the rise in today’s customer-centric culture. Follow on Twitter: @Hyken.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Customer Experience Around The World: 25 Examples Of Best Practices You Haven’t Heard Of by Blake Morgan. Forbes) These 25 global experiences showcase customer-centric companies from around the world. For information on The Customer Focus customer service training programs go to www.TheCustomerFocus.com.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Top 10 Kudos of 2019: Shining Examples of Customer Service at Its Best by Patty Isnor. Blue Ocean) As the holiday season unfolds, we wanted to share the amazing words of gratitude that flow every day from our clients’ customers to our agents. In this article, you will find the best customer service kudos of 2019 (so far!)

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Peter Lavers

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

What were the key themes coming out of my coverage of February’s IBM’s showcase global conference Think 2019 in San Francisco? I was delighted to be invited by IBM Watson to Think 2019 in my role as an IBM Futurist. CustExp – Customer Experience. here are the top 10: #AI - Artificial Intelligence. DataScience.

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Customer Guru

DECEMBER 23, 2018

As we bid goodbye to 2018 and usher in 2019, we have made some customer-centric resolutions for this new year. As we move ahead, customer experience will be the only differentiator between brands. So, it is imperative that all brands focus more on the customer.

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ProProfs Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2019

You might have a hard time believing, but the most effective solution is building a customer centric organization. . But what is customer centricity ? Maybe a couple of customer surveys. For decades, companies of all sizes across the globe have been working on their customer centric business strategy.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Employee Engagement: 4 Keys to Delivering Exceptional Customer Experience by CIO. CIO) With a customer-centric perspective, along with the right training and processes in place, every single one of your employees — from interns to the C-suite — can be a highly engaged employee. Follow on Twitter: @Hyken.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 21, 2019

(CustomerThink) In this article, I’ll discuss how the “customer success” movement has developed, what it means, and why I believe it should be a unifying mission to help companies get value from both CRM and CXM, or whatever term you want to use for being customer-centric. Follow on Twitter: @Hyken.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 21, 2019

It’s Never Too Late to Win with Customer Experience: The Comcast Turnaround by Adam Toporek. Customers That Stick) Many organizations can survive, even thrive, without providing excellent customer experiences, without being customer-centric. Follow on Twitter: @Hyken.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 31, 2018

19 Customer Experience resolutions for 2019 by Customer Guru. Customer Guru) As we bid goodbye to 2018 and usher in 2019, we have made some customer-centric resolutions for this new year. As we move ahead, customer experience will be the only differentiator between brands. by Puneet Mehta.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Bring Customer Loyalty Under the Customer Experience Umbrella by Phil Britt. CMSWire) Forrester’s 2019 CX Index found that most loyalty programs are ineffective. This, at a time as the company notes, when “it costs 500% more to acquire a new customer than to retain a current one.” I look forward to the future!

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Nextiva

JANUARY 15, 2019

When customers speak, brands listen. That’s the baseline for doing business in a customer-centric economy. That’s why you just can’t emphasize the importance of customer reviews! Customer reviews have come a long way from simple word-of-mouth recommendations to published online assessments dissecting your product.

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TechSee

JANUARY 2, 2019

If you’re in the Smart Home or Smart City business, CES 2019 is a must visit. CES 2019 Smart Home Sessions Not to be Missed. Smart Home Startups to See at CES 2019. CES 2019 promises to be inspirational, educational, and a means to build resilience for the future. Executive One-on-One with Whirlpool & CTA.

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Customers That Stick

JANUARY 7, 2020

What better way to start off the new year and new decade — a decade that I hope will be marked by incredible improvements in customer experience design, thinking, and execution — than by taking a look at one of the most essential ingredients of customer experience: leadership. The Culture/Experience Connection.

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360Connext

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

We’re all making predictions and tracking trends in customer experience. What will happen in 2019? One thing we predict will not change for a long time is the need to reduce customer effort. Listen here for great tips on human-centric service design. Which trends will matter? Which will fade away?

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ShepHyken

JUNE 25, 2021

Back in 2019, I enjoyed spending a few days in Vegas, speaking and networking at Fiserv’s annual client Forum. This week we feature an article by Annette Franz, CCXP, the founder and CEO of CX Journey Inc. She writes about how leaders can lead by example and model the change that they wish to see from their employees.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. 10 Customer-Centric Questions to Create Irresistible Value by Josh Linkner. For information on The Customer Focus customer service training programs go to www.TheCustomerFocus.com.

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TechSee

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

This would have resulted in an unnecessary expense for the company and a negative experience for the customer who would have remained without Internet until the technician arrived a few days later. Many of today’s customer-centric companies take an omni-channel approach, supporting multiple channels of customer engagement.

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Peter Lavers

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

I was recently asked by The Northridge Group to review their 2019 State of Customer Service Experience report. 68% of consumers experience a long wait time to reach an agent while 64% say they experience difficulty when trying to navigate a company’s website.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Laverty persisted as he saw that Customer Experience would be the differentiator in the marketplace. He asked, “How is this going to impact our customers?” It was part of his strategy to enforce the customer-centric mindset at the company and help the team get used to identifying as the customer and seeing it from their vantage point.

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C3Centricity

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

As a customer first strategist (hopefully just like you), I spend a lot of my time searching how to better measure customer centricity for my clients. I also do a lot of analyses on what customers really want today. I’m always trying to understand exactly the solutions customers need, desire and dream of having.

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InGenius

DECEMBER 19, 2019

With 2019 coming to a close, Upland Software raised a toast to the team and took a retrospective look at the successes of the past year. Upland made multiple acquisitions in 2019, including the team here at InGenius, giving us a leg up to herald in the new decade for even greater success. Pretty good for 2019!

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VHT

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

If you’re starting to forge a customer experience (CX) strategy for 2019, you’re not alone. In fact, Gartner reports 81% of company leaders predict they’ll compete primarily on customer experience in the near future, but only 22% have claimed to create an experience that exceeds customer expectations. Omni-channel.

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GetFeedback

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

We’re already halfway through 2019 and no one can deny the rising demand for better customer experiences. Companies are now using machine learning technology to improve customer experience and traditional institutions usually resistant to change are coming under pressure from a customer base that wants more.

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Fonolo

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

This year, the only transmission that companies should be ‘tuning in to’ is customer experience (CX). We are firmly in a CX renaissance: 89% of companies now compete on the basis of customer experience alone. If you’re starting to forge your customer experience strategy for 2019, you are not alone.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Customers expect constant innovation. New 2019 research found that 84% of customers consider these factors equally when deciding whom to buy from. . Innovation should be customer-centric. . Educate your customers about the new technologies so that they can easily extract value from the innovations.?

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TechSee

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

In fact, Gartner predicts that by 2025, over 50% of field service management deployments will include mobile AR collaboration and knowledge-sharing tools, up from fewer than 10% in 2019. To ensure customer expectations are met, organizations are shifting to proactive field service delivery , instead of focusing on a reactive break-fix model.

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360Connext

OCTOBER 17, 2018

We aim for an exceptional “journey” for our customers but are only referring to marketing. We ask ourselves if our “culture” is really living up to a customer-centric experience but we don’t do anything more about it. Is that odd? Probably, but I’m doing it anyway! My 3 buzzwords: Engagement.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 20, 2022

The truth is COVID isn’t the only reason that customer satisfaction scores are declining—and you must fix what you can for your organization before it’s too late. The latest ACSI report says that from 2010 to 2019, 70 percent of companies tracked by ACSI either declined or had flat results.

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Influitive

DECEMBER 13, 2019

We are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2019 Best Advocate Marketing Awards (BAMMIES). The BAMMIES, now in their 6th year, was designed to recognize companies and individuals who have successfully used customer advocacy to turbocharge their marketing programs. The BAMMIES […]. The BAMMIES […].

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Peter Lavers

JANUARY 30, 2019

Three key subjects from Dimension Data’s 2019 Global Customer Experience Benchmarking Report that are vital for every B2B company to take a long, hard look at itself about. The data is © Dimension Data, 2019 Global Customer Experience Benchmarking Report, but the observations and conclusions are my own.

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TechSee

OCTOBER 5, 2020

In 2019, before the world had ever heard of COVID-19, a Research Report by Field Service News showed that field service organizations were already transitioning to a more customer-centric model. 65% of FS organizations identified customer satisfaction as either equal to or higher in importance than operational efficiency.

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