ShepHyken

JANUARY 18, 2019

This week we feature an article by Tim Houlne who writes about the importance of integrating technology into your business to provide the optimum customer experience. – Shep Hyken. Time to start planning for your 2019 customer experience initiatives. Would you consider that a great customer experience?

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Customer Experience Airlines Average Handle Time Contact Center 257

ShepHyken

MARCH 18, 2019

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. 1 0 Tips to Build a Customer Centric Work Culture by Vandita Grover. Improving NPS for a Better Customer Experience by Kathy Doering. It’s one thing to implement the survey to get feedback.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Customers want their concerns resolved swiftly, without having to wait in line or being handed from one executive to another. . A good customer experience (CX) begins with a 24-hours seamless website user experience, followed by top-notch customer care, and concludes with the receiving of the product/service purchased from you. .

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Customer Experience Advertising Employee engagement Sales 270

TechSee

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

If 2018 was a year when customer experience professionals came under intense pressure to map out tangible results from heavy investment, 2019 is shaping up to be the year when next generation customer experience will deliver on the promise of a wide range of new technologies. Augmented Reality Customer Experience.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. 6 Customer Service Tenets Used By Amazon To Create Effortless Experiences by Dan Gingiss. A Foundation in Customer Experience Should Start in College by Janelle Estes and Lija Hogan.

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Customer Service Best practices Finance Customer centricity 51

CX Accelerator

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Yes, it is an extremely difficult thing to achieve…but putting the effort to develop this type of culture is the greatest thing we can do to enhance both the Employee Experience and the Customer Experience. May 2019 be the year of authentic culture for all of us! Old school, cheesy, but totally on-point.

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Calibration Schedule adherence Coaching Employee engagement 244

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. The #1 Guide To Customer Experience Conferences in 2020 by Krishna Charan. My Comment: Every wonder what customer service and customer experience conferences to attend. A great resource!

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Customer Service Customer Experience Surveys Customer Support 232

ShepHyken

APRIL 22, 2019

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Why Anxious Customers Prefer Human Customer Service by Michelle A. The authors (from Harvard) explore how anxious customers are more desiring of human-to-human support. Shell and Ryan W.

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Customer Service Employee engagement Self service Surveys 211

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. When Loyalty Rewards Expire, So Does A Customer’s Loyalty by Dan Gingiss. Here is some fun reading with survey stats that will make you think. Here are my top five picks from last week.

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Customer Service outsourcing Surveys Marketing 258

ShepHyken

MARCH 27, 2020

He writes about different types of customer experience surveys and how they can help businesses gain customer loyalty. Did you know that customers who have a positive experience are 54 percent more likely to make another purchase and are five times more likely to recommend your brand to others ?

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Surveys Customer Experience Advertising Feedback 147

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

This week we feature an article by Nogol Tardugno who tells us how to get our contact center interactive voice response (IVR) to deliver the best customer experience. Any reports of the death of interactive voice response (IVR) as a customer service channel have been greatly exaggerated.

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Interactive Voice Response Customer Experience Self service Contact Center 257

ShepHyken

AUGUST 14, 2020

He writes about the importance of ensuring a positive customer experience, especially during a world crisis. The customer experience (also referred to as CX) seems like a simple concept. Put simply; customer experience can be defined as thoughts and feelings that the consumer associates with the brand.

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Customer Experience Entertainment Sales Healthcare 263

CCNG

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Less than half of CX execs trust their company's ability to deliver great experiences. Here are over 100 customer experience stats and trends for you to discover. 99% of Customer Experience and Success leaders believe CEM has a positive impact on their business. Only 8% of their customers agreed.

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Customer Experience Journey mapping Metrics Surveys 195

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 18, 2020

H e talks about how the COVID-19 pandemic changed the customer experience and how business leaders responded. However, I do recall ending 2019 with a very positive outlook on the year ahead. As I rang in the new year, I imagined I would spend a lot of time helping my clients drive customer loyalty and referrals.

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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. Whirlpool, a global leader in smart appliances, shares insights from their global survey. Smart Home Startups to See at CES 2019. Executive One-on-One with Whirlpool & CTA. Tuesday, January 8.

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Entertainment Surveys Technology Education 174

TechSee

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Artificial Intelligent applications are revolutionizing the way telecoms operate, optimize and provide service to their customers. Today’s communications service providers (CSPs) face increasing customer demands for higher quality services and better customer experiences (CX). With Gartner forecasting that 20.4

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Interactive Voice Response Telecommunications Chatbots Big data 100

Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 27, 2019

We discussed this in detail when I hosted the first in a series of webinars for Freshworks, How Consumer Emotions Impact Customer Loyalty. To Improve the Digital Experience, You Can’t Ignore Emotions. Most organizations pay little attention to emotions, focusing instead on the rational elements of a customer experience.

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Airlines Customer emotions Accountability Consulting 345

TechSee

OCTOBER 2, 2019

This indicates a clear opportunity for companies to recognize any shortcomings and take corrective action before the customer defects. Customer churn is widespread. This underscores the fact that churn plagues all verticals and customer retention strategies are critical to almost every industry.

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Surveys Customer Service Customer retention Telecommunications 164

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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Customer Experience Customer centricity Surveys Sales 83

Beyond Philosophy

MAY 9, 2019

In our customer experience consultancy, clients tell us customers make decisions based on price or features. Instead, it tends to be a combination of a few insignificant, humanistic-type factors that drive customer behavior. However, many things we experience don’t have that level repetition.

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Consulting Consulting Education Benchmark 379

Contact Center Pipeline

APRIL 9, 2019

It’s a well-known fact that customers hate to wait. In a recent survey on consumer attitudes, researchers discovered that 35% of the respondents stopped doing business with some of their favorite brands after just one episode of waiting too long for a customer service agent to resolve their issue.

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Customer Experience Surveys Average Handle Time Customer Service 133

ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

She shares different channels and strategies for creating the most convient customer support experience for your customers. According to Deloitte’s 2019 Global Call Center Survey , customer service topped the agenda for most firms. Video Chat.

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TechSee

APRIL 10, 2019

In the highly competitive telecom industry, customer experience is a critical factor in building and maintaining a competitive advantage. A recent report by Forrester takes this concept one step further by proving that improving customer experience in telecoms delivers a boost to all KPIs. OK, so CX is important.

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Customer Experience Customer centricity Interactive Voice Response Wireless 154

Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 7, 2023

Every so often, I get a chance to chit-chat with colleagues of mine about the future of customer experience. This time, my colleagues were pioneers in customer experience, Lou Carbone ( Experience Engineering.com) author of Clued In , and Joe Pine (StratgicHorizons.com) , author of The Experience Economy.

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Consulting Consulting Customer Experience Surveys 221

ProProfs Blog

APRIL 17, 2020

Businesses big and small are leveraging the power of holding live events to maximize brand value, drive revenue, and improve customer experience. According to the 2019 trends report by event tech company Bizzabo, events, at times, even score over content marketing, digital advertising and email marketing. Mid Event Questions.

Surveys 125

Surveys SaaS Feedback Advertising 125

ProProfs Blog

JULY 19, 2019

The importance of customer experience is something that cannot be stated enough. If you make customers unhappy on the internet, they can each tell 6000 friends.”. Read on to learn about the importance of customer experience in retail and tips on how to improve it. The Importance of Customer Experience.

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Customer Experience Airlines Employee engagement Surveys 140

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 17, 2021

From porch piracy to lost cargo to damaged packages, these unprecedented events can have a drastic impact on the customer experience, and the business’s overall performance this holiday season. As a result, UPS Capital’s survey found 23% of consumers have cut back their holiday spending budget, citing inflation.

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Surveys Advertising Marketing Customer Experience 220

Chip Bell

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Chip is one of the most talented and seasoned customer experience professionals globally, and I am grateful for his colleagueship and support. Most business owners and leaders want to provide experiences that drive customer engagement, loyalty, and referrals. First, thank you Chip for allowing me to offer this guest blog.

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Customer Experience Wireless Consulting Consulting 111

Callminer

DECEMBER 17, 2019

.” – 88 Call Center Statistics You Must Read: 2019 Data Analysis & Market Share , Finances Online; Twitter: @Financesonline. The need for competent customer support is growing. “59% of customers say that they have higher expectations for customer support than they had a year ago.”

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Call Center outsourcing Contact Center Finance 207

CX Accelerator

JANUARY 7, 2019

So keep that in mind as I talk about technology for customer experience. This is exciting because we communicate with our customers via text whether it’s through inbound support messages, transcribed phone calls, or voice of customer survey responses. Let’s look at an example where we see NLP at work in the CX.

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Chatbots Contact Center Technology Analytics 275

Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 4, 2019

People researching customer emotions often do surveys where they ask the customers about how they felt during an experience. However, you’re asking them about an experience they had a week or two ago, or longer. We’ve been measuring emotions since 2005 with surveys. It’s a fair question.

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Customer emotions Consulting Consulting Technology 256

Answer Dash

JANUARY 9, 2019

(This article is first published at Forbes ) Before we get into my fifth annual piece on customer experience predictions, let me introduce myself to new readers. I started writing about customer experience for Forbes in 2014, simply because I thought it was interesting–I was fascinated by human behavior and by the idea of a brand.

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Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Chatbots Technology 82

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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Customer effort Metrics Customer centricity Surveys 207

ProProfs Blog

MAY 28, 2020

He explains, “ On any given day, about 75% of our orders are from repeat customers. Our whole philosophy is to take most of the money we would have spent on marketing and put that into the customer experience.” . To get things into perspective- according to a recent report, in 2019, an estimated 2.95

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Customer Experience Multi-channel support Feedback Customer Support 139

Contact Center Pipeline

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Early in 2020, Pipeline published results from the 2020 Contact Center Challenges & Priorities survey and declared 2020 the “Year of the Agent.” The focus on the agent is a change from 2019’s “Improving the Customer Experience,” which continued as leadership’s top challenge.

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Contact Center Surveys Customer Experience Coaching 147

The Petrova Experience

OCTOBER 8, 2020

As we begin Q4 of an eventful 2020, it’s time to look out for the 2021 customer experience trends and tactics for creating exceptional experiences in increasingly complex environments. We rounded up Eight 2021 Customer Experience Trends and Tactics to be aware of as we get ready to close out 2020.

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