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Seven Sins to Avoid When Designing a Survey

QuestionPro Audience

A year ago, we published a series of best practice for questionnaire development. This year, we would like to highlight some common mistakes that research practitioners should avoid, to ensure their data collection effort is not wasted. We are calling them The Seven Deadly Sins Of Questionnaire Design. The Seven Deadly Sins emerged from an ecclesiastic era, and since then have evolved as broader ethic markers for those who prefer disinfected consciences.

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With customer experience design, functional is good. But don’t stop there – by Beth Richardson

ijgolding

“Focus on the whole journey, not just the transaction” In the world of Customer Experience (CX) you will hear this phrase frequently. But what does it mean? It’s the difference between a task and a purpose. The difference between a user story like the one above, and meeting a customer’s overall goal. It is important to understand the difference between the two, because how you frame the interaction determines how your customer will experience it.

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4 Ways to Consider the Customer When Gathering Feedback

InMoment XI

Like many households in America, I make a weekly run to the grocery store. Until recently, my grocery store, like many other retailers, provided a web address at the bottom of the receipt and asked customers to go home, log on to the store’s website, enter in their receipt code, and provide feedback. All for. View Article.

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How “T-Rex Arms” Help Uncover Rich Customer Insights

Kerry Bodine

Half an hour after the first round of introductions and ice breakers, our customer journey mapping workshop was in full swing. The five customers in my group were in the midst of a warm-up activity we often use to precede journey mapping proper—brainstorming and prioritizing the ways in which they interact with an organization, in this case a major retailer.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and guest speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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Create a customer service culture to stand out in the crowd

Vonage

When a business clearly defines its customer service culture in its mission statement, values and goals, great things can happen. The right words inspire, motivate and encourage people to achieve excellence. A great example of how a finely crafted mission statement can create a customer service culture comes out of Singapore. The colonial post office in Singapore’s financial district has been transformed into the luxurious Fullerton Hotel.

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4 Ways to Consider the Customer When Gathering Feedback

InMoment XI

Like many households in America, I make a weekly run to the grocery store. Until recently, my grocery store, like many other retailers, provided a web address at the bottom of the receipt and asked customers to go home, log on to the store’s website, enter in their receipt code, and provide feedback. All for.

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What You Need to Know When Looking for a New Contact Center Outsourcer [Slideshare]

BlueOcean

Looking for a new contact center outsourcer is rarely as simple as it sounds. That’s why we’ve pulled together our top “How To” procurement tips so you don’t have to spend hours hunting down the resources. From call center outsourcing costs and RFP questions to onboarding and strategizing with your new outsourced partner and their workforce management team, this Slideshow provides a high-level outline of everything you need to know.

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Whose job is it anyway? The importance of accountability in the world of Customer Experience

ijgolding

I absolutely love it when people share things with me that I have never come across before. It is why I am so adamant about calling myself a ‘specialist’ – not an expert – as I spend my life continually learning. Every day; every week; every month; every year; I enjoy continually evolving my specialism – through practical application and through acquiring knowledge.

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Google’s Customer Experience Leadership, With Catherine Courage – CB59

Customer Bliss

Episode Overview. Catherine Courage is currently the VP of Ads and Commerce User Experience at Google, where she’s been since October 2016. This is his third time around in a tech customer experience role, previously having held similar jobs at DocuSign and Citrix. I’ve known her for several years and I thought she’d be a great guest because of the tech space background, the multiple times experiencing the role, and her overall understanding of products, experience, and how to

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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How an Energy Company Became Fanatical About CX

InMoment XI

Making the Customer First in Everything You Do The often-used statistic according to Gartner is that 89% of companies differentiate on the basis of customer experience. It’s no doubt the pressure is on to create the best CX program. Whether it’s analyzing the customer journey or deep diving into feedback using text analytics, the process. View Article.

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How Ticketfly Increased Agent Productivity by 250%

GetFeedback

Ticketfly uses GetFeedback to scale its support function and improve its customer experience. Learn how the events platform boosted agent productivity.

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4 examples of direct-to-consumer initiatives—and what you can learn from them

Alida

There was a time when the only way to get a Dell computer was to go directly to the company. The PC giant long ago decided to sell through partners and retail channels too, but today some established brands are opting to experiment with their own direct-to-consumer (DTC) models. They have good reason. According to Nielsen, 90 percent of consumers would rather buy directly from a brand if they could.

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La Quinta “Gaming” Highlights Flaws in NPS

Experience Matters

I’m in Las Vegas to watch some NBA Summer League games (Go Celtics!), and am staying overnight at a La Quinta near the airport. I found this note on the table next to the bed. While there’s no problem with a nice thank you note, one section caught my eye… You may be receiving […].

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Navigating the Future: Unveiling Trends and Bold Predictions in Customer Experience

Ready to explore 2024’s CX landscape? Join experts from SMG and guest Forrester as they discuss prominent trends actively shaping the industry and dive into a stack of bold predictions for the year ahead. Will the average customer experience improve? How can leaders leverage their CX metrics to establish financial linkage? What will global firms achieve using customer-facing generative AI?

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How an Energy Company Became Fanatical about CX

InMoment XI

Making the Customer First in Everything You Do The often-used statistic according to Gartner is that 89% of companies differentiate on the basis of customer experience. It’s no doubt the pressure is on to create the best CX program. Whether it’s analyzing the customer journey or deep diving into feedback using text analytics, the process.

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Is Investing In Customer Experience Really Worth It?

Storyminers

This GUEST CORNER feature is by Richard R Shapiro. Image by Jonathan Kim. We are witnessing a convergence of forces that are moving customer loyalty to the edge of extinction. As consumers, we are empowered by increasing control over the retail process. Herein lies the challenge for retailers: to engender loyalty – but the loyal customer is an endangered species.

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Could ignorance actually benefit CX?

Customer Bliss

Interesting post recently by Jason Fried, the founder of Basecamp and 37 Signals, over on Medium. Here it is. He talks about the value of ignorance in business — I considered doing a headline like “ignorance is bliss,” i.e. playing off my last name, but decided against it — and says this: I think a lot of folks are spending way too much energy trying to know it all.

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Focus Services Keeps Up with Customer Expectations and Innovation with inContact Cloud Solutions

NICE inContact

“Beyond Expectations.” This simple tagline sits at the forefront of Focus Services ’ business vision. For a global, call center service provider with more than 3,000 employees across 12 facilities, it may sound like a bold statement. In a world where customer expectations and needs seem to change almost daily, how does a contact center stay one step ahead of it all?

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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Read How CD Baby Turns a Mundane Email Into an “Exceptional Conversation”

Steve DiGioia

This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. Correspondence from most members of the retail industry is reduced to little more than a form letter with a few “mail-merged” names; the letter can fit most circumstances and usually does. Isn’t it about time someone uses their imagination and creates a response that we look forward to read…and share?

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Employee Engagement: A Confluence of Passion and Purpose

CX Journey

Image courtesy of Pixabay Why is it so difficult to understand what employee engagement is all about? I recently saw a note from a reporter with a reputable online publication asking for sources who had used company perks, as well as apps to track rewards and perks in the workplace, noting that he was writing an article about employee engagement. It's great that there's an ongoing spotlight on employee engagement because it's still at an all-time low.

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Visual IVR: The New Front Lines of Digital Customer Service

Uniphore

As the nature of customer service is quickly evolving, new channels of communications i.e. web, mobile and social, have raised the bar of customer expectations, and delivering an exceptional experience has become critical to business success. According to a report, 33% of overall caller satisfaction today is determined by the IVR experience. However, despite companies investing considerable time and money in researching and developing the most optimized IVR technology for the best customer exper

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{Infographic} CAIO or No CAIO

Michelli Experience

__. Joseph A. Michelli, Ph.D. is a professional speaker and chief experience officer at The Michelli Experience. A New York Times #1 bestselling author, Dr. Michelli and his team consult with some of the world’s best customer experience companies. Follow on Twitter: @josephmichelli. Save Save. Save Save. The post {Infographic} CAIO or No CAIO appeared first on Joseph Michelli.

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The Open CCaaS Advantage Report

Over the next 12 months, what do you think will have the biggest impact on your CX automation efforts? When asked the same question, only 10% of CX leaders surveyed by Verint chose telephony. It’s no longer the engagement channel leading CCaaS conversations. The customer engagement challenges facing organizations have changed – so a new approach is needed.

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Retailers Resort To Spy Gear To Serve You Better

Beyond Philosophy

Retailers are using technology used in espionage efforts to remain relevant in today’s online shopping world. Throughout Europe and the U.S., brick and mortar retailers are employing high-tech spy techniques to obtain information about a shopper’s in-store experience—and using it to improve their Customer Experience. Spy Tech and the Customer Experience.

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When this retail futurist speaks, Google, Walmart and Intel listen

Alida

Retail has hit a rough patch. It’s undergoing tremendous transformation as physical stores close and once-venerable brands shrink their footprint. E-tailers, on the other hand, are establishing their own bricks-and-mortar presence and acquiring others. The key to survival in the age of Amazon is customer experience, but few are doing it well enough to gain the necessary competitive advantage and are leaving their customers indifferent, according to the recent 2017 Global Customer Experience Tren

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Customer Anchored Organizations Win

Aveus

It seems no matter whom I am talking with in business lately, a key theme is that customer expectations are higher and changing more rapidly than ever before. And as a result, the difference between winners and losers is becoming more dramatic. This reality seems to have sped up in the last 24 months within most industries due to technology advancements and shifts in what customers want and expect in their experience.

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CAIO or NO CAIO: Customer Experience Depends Upon Structuring People to Manage Information

Michelli Experience

I first heard about “ it” in a Harvard Business article in 2016 and subsequently have been asked about “it ” by clients and colleagues alike. “ It” is yet another entrant into the C-suite. “It“ (actually a she or he) is a Chief AI Officer (CAIO). That’s right a human Chief Artifical Intelligence Officer ( not a machine or robot occupying an executive office ).

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Mapping Digital Transformation: Retail’s Strategic Shift

Speaker: Jennifer Wright, Michael Scholz, Jasmin Guthmann, and Scott Canney

Digital transformation in retail is so much more than new technology. You need to get your whole organization, from entry-level workers to executives, on board with the new tech, new skills, and culture changes that digital transformation brings. Leading this mindset shift can be a daunting task… but that’s where this webinar comes in! Join our panel of experts as they guide you through the challenges of digital transformation, preparing you to avoid common mistakes and make the most of incredib

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Are you Competition Obsessed?

Beyond Philosophy

If you haven’t read Jeff Bezos’ latest letter to his shareholders, put it on your to-do list pronto. There are many takeaways from his letter, but one that stands out to me most is this: “ Obsess over customers, not competitors.”. Most companies are obsessed with their competitors. Their mission statements might suggest that they are dedicated to their customers, but in reality, all they do is constantly check up on what their rivals in business are up to and try to emulate them.

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Let’s Get Geeky About Inventory…

SuiteCX

One of the definitions for the word Inventory is: “detailed, often descriptive, list of articles, giving the code number, quantity, and value of each catalog.” What does that have to do with SuiteCX? SuiteCX has mastered the concept of Inventory by creating a standalone map type in the software that acts as a Grid map, where you can strategically place each of your Customer or Brand Interaction points along an X and Y axis modeled by Lifecycle by Department or Channel.

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Why is Customer Service so Drawn to Personalization?

Uniphore

There is a definite shift towards a more personalized means of servicing the customer, an approach that offers benefits to both the organization and their clients. Read More.