Wed.Aug 16, 2023

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Who Is To Blame For Poor Service?

ShepHyken

The short version of the story is this. At about 9:15 p.m., I pulled into one of my favorite fast-food restaurants. There was one customer ahead of me in the drive-through lane. I assumed he was placing an order. After several minutes, I realized something else was going on. I wasn’t sure what, but the amount of time he spent talking to the person on the other end of the intercom took much longer than it should have.

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Consumer Data on Grocery Shopping and Self Serve Kiosks vs. Cashiers

IntouchInsight

Technology is continuously evolving the way in which consumers interact with brands. And it’s imperative for businesses to keep up with these trends in order to consistently exceed customer expectations.

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Driving Paid Media ROI: Leveraging First-Party Data for Intelligent Audience Syndication

Blueshift

In the midst of budget cuts and the rising costs of paid media channels, the pressure to make every marketing dollar count is increasing. This challenge is further compounded by the death of the third-party cookie, making it more difficult to track users and serve highly relevant ads. Luckily for marketers, a practical solution already exists: their first-party data.

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Celebrating 60 years: Explore the evolution of Derwent World Patents Index

Clarivate

Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI ) turns 60 this year. In this blog, Ed White, Senior Director and Principal Analyst, celebrates how DWPI evolved from a newsletter of patent abstracts into an integral part of the global patent system. With 22 years of experience in the intellectual property industry, Ed White is devoted to helping people capture the right insights from the world’s patent data.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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QualMobile Feature Highlight: Customized Ping-Back Timing

2020 Research

At Sago, we’re always looking for ways to streamline online research and make it more efficient for our clients. One such innovation to enhance your research efforts is the Customized Ping-Back Timing feature in QualMobile. This feature allows you to send follow-up with appropriate questions at specific times correlating to assignments, and is an ideal way to add time-sensitive follow-ups to probe for further insights.

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Experience management – why your EX is the stress test for your CX

eglobalis

Experience management – why your EX is the stress test for your CX The post Experience management – why your EX is the stress test for your CX appeared first on Eglobalis.

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Train self-supervised vision transformers on overhead imagery with Amazon SageMaker

AWS Machine Learning

This is a guest blog post co-written with Ben Veasey, Jeremy Anderson, Jordan Knight, and June Li from Travelers. Satellite and aerial images provide insight into a wide range of problems, including precision agriculture, insurance risk assessment, urban development, and disaster response. Training machine learning (ML) models to interpret this data, however, is bottlenecked by costly and time-consuming human annotation efforts.

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4 Strategies To Retain Customers

Magellan Solutions

Studies show that winning new customers is 5x more costly than keeping them. Believe it or not, retaining them takes a lot of energy! How do you ensure their loyalty remains with your company? Show your care for customers differently and make them feel you treasure their business efforts. Strategize your loyalty Please plan, plan it well. If your goal is to keep 80 percent of your present customer base and launch a strategy that improves it to 90 percent, your business achieves 10 percent growth

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Your User Research Platform Shopping List

dscout People Nerds

Feeling analysis paralysis due to the glut of tools, solutions, and vendors available for research? Use this list to narrow on the offering that best serves your organization’s ongoing needs.

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The Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Customer Learning

Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your organization’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

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Revving up Customer Experience: FleetPartners Transforming at Speed

Genroe

Discover how FleetPartners, revolutionises its CX approach with a CX Forum, closing the loop and the innovative use of CustomerGauge. The post Revving up Customer Experience: FleetPartners Transforming at Speed appeared first on Genroe | Customer Experience | Net Promoter Score.

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Public Betas as a Launch Tool

Centercode

We’re going to delve into the differences between public and private beta tests to clear up some of the misconceptions and help you devise a beta strategy that makes the most sense for your product. We’ve also written a free whitepaper that walks you through planning a successful public beta test. For now, let’s start with the basics.

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Types of Customer Effort Score Questions (With Examples)

SurveySensum

According to Gartner’s research study, Effortless Experience Explained , 96% of customers who had a high-effort experience reported being disloyal, compared to only 9% of customers with a low-effort score. When customers have to jump through hoops to buy a product, contact customer service, or report an issue, they usually end up feeling frustrated and abandoning the company.

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Using Beta for Competitive Research

Centercode

Beta testing can be a great tool for understanding how your customers interact with your product, but the usefulness of beta testing doesn’t have to stop there. You can also use your beta community, tools, and expertise to conduct competitive research on other products in your market. This is an easy way to get an in-depth view of how customers use your competitor’s product and how it stacks up against your own.

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & 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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Leveraging AI in Survey Analysis: A Guide for Businesses

SurveySparrow

If you’ve been surfing the Internet recently, you’ve probably noticed that some websites feel more user-centric than others, even though it’s quite difficult to say in what aspects they are different. These are the little things that stand out. From user-friendly navigation to easily spottable content and simple (or no forms) at all, there’s something special about them all.

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Should I Pay My Beta Testers?

Centercode

As a beta manager you want to get as much relevant feedback from each tester as you can. Incentivizing and rewarding testers for their participation is a key part of getting that feedback. As a result, it can be tempting to attach a dollar amount to specific types of feedback, giving testers cash for each critical bug or for completing all of your requirements.

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Uplight’s Summer Intern Showcase Shines

Uplight

This year, Uplight hosted its first-ever “Intern showcase” to spotlight the 2023 summer interns’ projects and accomplishments. Each intern showcased their work in one to three slides, speaking for about five minutes on their projects, experiences, and key takeaways from their summer at Uplight. The 16 Interns worked across all six pillars at Uplight– Engineering, Read More The post Uplight’s Summer Intern Showcase Shines appeared first on Uplight.

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The Role of Friction in Beta Testing

Centercode

One topic we often discuss is how to keep your testers engaged and participating in your beta test. It’s one of the biggest challenges of beta testing and also one of the most complex problems to fix. We’ve come up with a way of looking at beta test participation that might be helpful as you strive to get the most out of your volunteers.

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11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption

Unlock the full potential of your educational initiatives with the 11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption eBook. You’ll uncover: Why measure content consumption rather than (or in addition to) completion rates and member satisfaction? What are some proven tactics to create quality learner content and raise your content consumption rates? Discover the secrets from leading experts in the field, distilled into practical tips that promise to elevate the quality of your educational offerings,

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Real-Time CDP: Time to Get Real

Blueshift

“ Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so ”, wrote Douglas Adams in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Recent news from the CDP world might leave some CX leaders questioning whether “real-time” as advertised by some CDPs might actually be an illusion. The reality however is clear: customers expect brands to personalize their experience in real-time, and the brands that can not satisfy this expectation will get left behind.

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Increasing Participation Through Daily Journals

Centercode

Getting your testers to consistently provide relevant feedback throughout your test can be one of the biggest challenges of beta testing. One of the ways you can keep testers engaged is by encouraging them to log in to the beta site every day.

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Legacy Systems in Retail: How to Overcome, Compete and Thrive

CSM Magazine

It is high time retailers modernise their software to optimise their operations and offer end-to-end Customer Experience, says Lindsay Lucas, CEO of Software Solved. Customer preferences are continually changing, so retailers need to modernise their applications portfolio to operate at the pace of business and market changes. For retailers, legacy systems can restrict the growth of the business.

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Top 5 Challenges Beta Managers Face

Centercode

Running a beta test can be a great opportunity to interact with real customers as they use your product for the first time, but it can also be a difficult and even painful experience. Every day we talk with tech companies about the frustrations of running beta tests. After a while, we noticed a pattern in what beta managers were telling us. So we gathered up the top five challenges of beta testing, along with some tips you can use to combat them.

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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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Likert Scale Surveys: Questions, Use Cases, Best Practices {+Template}

Zonka Feedback

Likert scale surveys are a quick and easy way to gather quantitative feedback from your customers. They help you measure the levels of their satisfaction with the experiences with your product, services, and the entire business.

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New eBook for Product Managers

Centercode

Beta testing is often dumped on the plate of an already busy product manager during the hectic weeks before a product launch. To make matters worse, companies rarely have the tools and processes in place to run an effective beta test. As a result, beta ends up feeling more like a necessary evil that needs to get checked off of the list, rather than a valuable contribution to product development.

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Schedule Instagram posts in 2023 like a pro: In-depth guide 

BirdEye

It takes planning to stay relevant on one of today’s most popular social media platforms, Instagram. To make a notable impact, you must schedule Instagram posts, especially if you’re trying to keep your customers engaged. That’s because your customers consistently expect fresh, informative, and interesting posts from you. This may seem challenging, especially if you have little to no experience with publishing and scheduling Instagram posts.

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New eBook: Keeping Beta Tests Confidential

Centercode

Product launches are often shrouded in secrecy, with a focus on making a big splash when the product is launched. Teams often devote months (if not years) to developing a new product, and as you get closer to the release, you get more and more nervous about confidential product details going public. In those final weeks, putting your product into the hands of a group of complete strangers for a beta test can feel like a huge risk.

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10 Questions to Ask Before Buying an LMS

Find your perfect LMS. Choosing the right Learning Management System (LMS) is crucial for your business's success. With so many options available in the market, how do you ensure you make the best choice? This guide is your key to finding the ideal enterprise learning platform for your business. Compiled by industry experts, these questions will help to clarify your needs, prioritize your most essential features, and guide you through the evaluation process.

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Revolutionizing Insurance: How Blockchain Technology is Transforming Claims Processing

CSM Magazine

In recent years, the insurance industry has witnessed a remarkable transformation, and at the heart of this change is blockchain technology. Source This innovative and secure digital ledger system has the potential to revolutionize claims processing, streamlining operations, enhancing transparency, and ultimately benefiting both insurance companies and policyholders.

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New Case Study on Mobile Startup Slice

Centercode

The Slice team was busy putting the final touches on their photo-sharing mobile app and didn’t have the time, experience, or internal resources to run a traditional beta test. They had given the app to friends and family to try out, but simply weren’t getting the feedback they needed to perfect their app before launch.

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126: The Employee eXperience Revolution

The DiJulius Group

As we stand on the precipice of a major shift in the workforce landscape, how will your organization adapt to the challenges and opportunities brought about by the Great Resignation? Are you ready to embrace the future of remote working and cultivate a company culture that attracts top-quality recruits and inspires your existing employees to. Read Full Article The post 126: The Employee eXperience Revolution appeared first on The DiJulius Group.