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Empower Your Team with Better Customer Data Quality

Blueshift

Your customer database is the foundation for the work that you do. Whether you’re building marketing campaigns, testing and improving the product experience, handling customer support tickets, or running predictive analytics queries, you’re likely leveraging customer attributes, insights, and engagement history when making decisions. Given the importance of customer data, therefore, you’d think that many […].

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Customer Service vs. Customer Experience: What is the Difference

Lumoa

Customer service and customer experience are vital for long-term business success. Customer service is an important piece of your overall customer experience, and customer experience is the key driver of customer loyalty.

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The Power of Successful Conversation (Within a CX Role)

Horizon CX

This blog is about human to human interactions and emotions—you know, the kind of interactions that those of us within the Customer Experience discipline profess to know the most about and have spent the most time mastering the art of conversation. So, let’s begin with a definition to get us all grounded. Wikipedia: Conversation is an interactive communication between two or more people.

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Six quick tips to target the right respondents for market research

QuestionPro Audience

Market research has been around for long and has helped many industries grow by grabbing the right opportunities based solely on consumer feedback. Like everything else, consumer research, too, had advanced over the years, coming a long way from legacy survey distribution methods. Research methods like telephone surveys, in-person interviews, and Google ads are no longer as effective as they were a few years ago.

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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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What Do You Do With Deadwood Employees? – Tip #11

Steve DiGioia

Great employees are the heart and soul of any business, especially a successful one. Their efforts cannot be understated enough. But there are always one or two poor performers or “deadwood employees” – those who contribute little to the company’s success and at times undermine it. And they hang on year after year. They never seem to get fired and amass a laundry list of disciplinary actions with little substantive repercussions.

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How The Financial Industry Should Use Digital Feedback to Boost Customer Loyalty

GetFeedback

This guide covers how financial institutions can collect feedback to improve the digital experience and build long-lasting relationships with customers.

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Q&A From My CXPA Webinar: From Journey Mapping To Journey Management

Kerry Bodine

On Wednesday I presented a webinar with the Toronto Customer Experience Professionals Association. We got a ton of great questions about the content I presented. So many, in fact, that I didn’t have time to answer them all on the webinar itself. I’ve organized the questions according to the Journey Management framework that I presented on the webinar: Discover the journey, Design the journey, and Deliver the journey.

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4 Essential Contact Center Improvements In A Year of Uncertainty

NICE inContact

If you’re tasked with achieving more results with fewer resources, optimizing your contact center can deliver far-reaching results, having a streamlined ripple effect across your organization. SMBs and enterprises alike can overhaul their ROI with 4 approaches.

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How Would a 100% Satisfied Customer Service Guarantee Change Your Business?

Wired and Dangerous

Lifetime warranties are a common feature of the product world. They essentially say “we guarantee that the object you bought will work as long as you own it. If the product ever fails, we promise to replace it or repair it to your satisfaction.” Lifetime warranties, as opposed to limited warranties, are designed to be bold statements communicating confidence in a product.

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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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Bridging the Gap Between Human Resources and CX

GetFeedback

Top three ways CX and HR can collaborate for better results on customer and employee experience.

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The 5 Rules of Behavioral Journey Mapping

Beyond Philosophy

We’ve recently trained some of our clients on journey mapping. During the process, I realized that there is a lot that people don’t know about it—and that they needed a few rules to help them make the most of the exercise. We discussed the problems with journey mapping in a recent podcast. Traditional journey mapping is what a customer is doing, but is missing a few things.

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I am Generation Z and I Don’t Want to Talk to You

NICE inContact

Generation Z can barely remember a world pre smartphone and are thus more likely to quickly adapt to digital changes, especially when faced with a major disruptor like COVID-19, compared to their older counterparts. The pandemic has forced everyone to go completely digital but for those in school the difference is even more stark.

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Getting Started with a Customer Success Program at Lucid

Totango

In our latest installment in the CXO Series , we sat down with Stephanie Comardelle, Vice President of Customer Experience, Success, and Solutions at Lucid to discuss what it takes to implement a stakeholder engagement plan at a time when there is so much going on as well as how they are managing their new customer success program. . Lucid bridges the gap between global questions and human answers by connecting buyers and sellers in one central location for survey sample groups.

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Reimagine Your Communications With A Unified Platform

Cut complexity and boost efficiency while empowering your customers with Nextiva's unified communications platform. Nextiva streamlines workflows and centralizes customer interactions, all while simplifying business collaboration, increasing productivity, and reducing employee burnout.

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How SaaS companies can improve their customer experience

GetFeedback

An overview of key strategies SaaS businesses can employ to improve and enhance their customer experience.

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How to Make Your Experience Easy and Gain Growth

Beyond Philosophy

Do you know what annoys me? When I go into an organization, and they say their goal is to delight customers at every moment of contact. Honestly, it sounds exhausting, for both the team and your customers. After all, how much joy do you need to buy paper towels? Another area exists to channel all that enthusiasm instead. There is a significant connection between successful Customer Experiences and the amount of effort they require from customers.

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Effective Customer Service Can be the Key to Small Business Growth

NICE inContact

It won't help your small business if you're pulling in new customers through the front door while losing the same number of existing customers out the back door. That's not growth, it's just replacement. To experience sustainable growth, shut that back door by taking care of your customer base with effective service.

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The Central Role of Computer Vision in Multiexperience

TechSee

The ongoing quest to enhance customer experience has birthed a new buzzword: multiexperience (MX). This emerging trend has companies seeking to provide their customers with seamless, native experiences on any channel or device, via voice, video, or text. Gartner has placed MX among the top technology trends of 2020, predicting that by 2023 , more than 25% of large enterprises’ mobile apps, progressive web apps and conversational apps will be built or run through an MX development platform and th

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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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Website exit intent survey: What it is and why you need one

GetFeedback

Learn more about website exit intent surveys, what they are, and why you need them.

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How To Make Your Experience Easy And Gain Growth

Beyond Philosophy

How to Make Your Experience Easy and Gain Growth. I hear things like this when I go into an organization: “We want to delight customers at every moment of contact.” I nod my head and smile, but secretly I think it sounds exhausting. Moreover, it is unnecessary in many parts of the experience. People many times do not want to be delighted; they want to be done already.

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Inform Your Decision to Move to Cloud Contact Center Technology – Latest Analysis from Omdia

NICE inContact

Moving to cloud contact center technology is not a question of if, but when. In 2020, 66% of companies are accelerating their move to the cloud as a result of the pandemic. When your contact center is ready for this transformation, Omdia has provided an important resource to help. The recent Decision Matrix – reviewing prominent cloud contact center providers - can help build a business case for moving to the cloud.

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Be Nice—It Doesn’t Cost You Anything

ShepHyken

What does it cost to be nice? Some would say, “Nothing.” When it comes to people interacting with people, that’s probably true. It’s a smile, a wave, a head nod or some other gesture. It’s a genuine “thank you” or another comment to share your appreciation for your customer. None of that has any cost associated with the idea of being nice. I’m in the process of writing a new book.

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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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How to Use Google to Verify My Business

ReviewTrackers

The question of “How do I verify my business on Google?” is an important one. Without online verification, a business doesn’t show up on Google’s many services including search results and Maps. Millions of people use Search and Maps on a daily basis, and not showing up in those areas means missing out on a massive opportunity for more customers.

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How Live Chat Helps You Shape Customer Journey

ProProfs Chat

Imagine being in your customers’ shoes. You’ve landed on the website due to a certain search query and find the product you need. You add it to the cart and are ready to check out. But the moment you reach the checkout page, you realize that you don’t have an account and are requested to sign up now. As you click on the sign up process, you realize that the form is quite a journey in itself.

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Workforce Engagement Management 101 - The Who, What, Where, When, Why and How of Contact Center WEM

NICE inContact

What's a good way to improve customer experience (CX), satisfaction, and loyalty? Start by increasing employee engagement. Organizations with highly engaged employees can typically expect higher productivity, quality, and employee retention. And when those employees are customer service agents, it can positively impact a business's relationship with their customers.

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Voice of the Customer basics

Zeisler Consulting

This is part two of a series of posts on the four components of a good CX system. I introduced the concept here and my first post, on CX strategic alignment, is here. Soon I’ll write about Process Engineering and wrap up with notes on what it takes to build and maintain a Customer-centric culture. Folks often simply boil the Voice of the Customer (VoC) down to surveying.

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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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eNPS – Track and Grow your Employee Satisfaction

Retently

Loyal and engaged employees are essential for a company’s ability to not only sell a product or service, but also to create brand ambassadors that will promote it as a great place to work. If you want to grow your business, you need happy and proactive employees that will constantly go above and beyond, provide exceptional customer experience, make informed decisions, and come up with innovative ideas for your business’ development.

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Business Success Tips Based On 25 Yrs Of Marriage

Doing CX Right

Today is my milestone 25th wedding anniversary. Having come from divorced parents, it’s a big deal for me. I tell you this because there are many relationship lessons I’ve learned over the years and want to inspire you to enrich connections with your partner, friends, colleagues, and customers too. You may be wondering what does marriage have to do with business?

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Improving Employee Engagement Boosts Customer Experience [Infographic]

Ecrion

The success of your business relies on your customers. Better customer engagement helps to build a stronger relationship between your business and your customers. But did you know that employee engagement is just as important as customer engagement for creating stellar CX? No matter the industry, customer satisfaction is deeply connected to greater employee satisfaction.