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Why Real-Time Customer Feedback Is the Future of Engagement

Survicate

In the era of fast connectivity and one-click services, consumers have high expectations and low patience. Today, you cannot simply compete based on the price and quality of your product or service. The post Why Real-Time Customer Feedback Is the Future of Engagement appeared first on Survicate.

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Making the connection: Employee engagement and CX go hand-in-hand

SMG CX

Employee engagement and the customer experience aren’t mutually exclusive. That’s why it’s so important to measure feedback from both and combine that data for holistic insights on your entire service culture.

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10 ways to improve your customer experience (CX)

Qualtrics

Improving your customer experience (CX) could have a major impact on your bottom line. In fact, a moderate increase in customer experience generates an average revenue increase of $823 million over three years for a company with $1 billion in annual revenues, according to the Temkin Group. This is not a number to balk at as consumers switch brands every day because of poor customer experiences.

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Converting Customer Survey Respondents into Social Media Advocates

InMoment XI

This article was first published as a Maritz Research White Paper. You can view the original paper here. Boost Your Company’s Online Presence by Building Customer Trust There’s tremendous power in customers advocating for your brand via “word of mouse,” and many companies are wondering how to harness the customer feedback collected through surveys to.

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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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Is NPS A Dubious Fad?

Experience Matters

Okay, it’s that time again. Every few years someone ignites the debate about whether Net Promoter Score® (NPS®) is a great or terrible thing. A recent article in the WSJ (The Dubious Management Fad Sweeping Corporate America) has sparked the discussion this time. Rather than write something entirely new, I decided to share something I wrote in 2015 that addresses the issue.

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3 Steps to Implementing a Stellar Customer Experience at a Startup

Customer Bliss

“Start by being humble and you will inspire your team to be humble,” says Denis Drossart , global vice president of Culture & Experience at Selina , about leadership behaviors enforced within this lifestyle, travel and hospitality brand. Selina is a startup platform that connects people to local places and activities for purpose-filled experiences.

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Before You Go to RFP, Get Friendly: A Guide to On-Site Contact Center Visits

BlueOcean

Picture this: You’re in the RFP process for a new contact center partner. You have a short list of participants. You give them a couple of weeks to return their answers, and then you spend a few more weeks poring through those answers with your team to eliminate the deal-breakers and discern the winner. Finally, you’re down to two choices – both options have versatile capabilities and impressive metrics.

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33 Ways the Boy Scouts Can Improve Your Customer Service

Steve DiGioia

Be prepared; that’s their motto. Be prepared with a rope when you’re hiking, or with a first aid kit and canteen when out in the woods. That’s the stuff they taught us when I was a scout many years ago. But their motto really stands for “always in a state of readiness in mind and body to do your DUTY” We customer service leaders can learn from their motto because there are at least 33 ways the Boy Scouts can improve your customer service.

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Code Lavender: Create A Culture Of Caring

CX Accelerator

There is no place in the world I’d rather work than in Customer Service. That being said.it’s very, well, hard. There are days when it seems like every problem across the business rolls directly downhill to us. On a good day, we are working to resolve customer inquiries as quickly and effectively as we can. On a bad day, we are just trying to survive!

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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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Earn Your Place in the Story of Customers’ Lives

Customer Bliss

In my Daily Dose video series, I explore the topics that chief customer officers must grapple with on a daily basis. Join me as I discuss what I’ve learned over the course of my 35-year career, so that you can more effectively do the work that needs to be done. Today’s video is an excerpt from my online course , inspired by my book, Would You Do That To Your Mother?

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On Becoming People-Centric

CX Journey

This is a modified version of a post I originally wrote for CallidusCloud. It appeared on their blog on June 14, 2018. If you want to move beyond cosmetic changes and lip service to real changes in both the employee experience and the customer experience, the first thing you have to look at is your company’s culture. What is culture ? My favorite definition is Herb Kelleher’s: "Culture is what people do when no one is looking.

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Why Customer Memories are More Important To Your CX

Beyond Philosophy

I enjoy fishing. When I need a new lure, I go to Discount Tackle on First Street in Bradenton, Florida. When I go in, we have a chat and a laugh. However, my great experience is not why I return and drive past six or seven other bait and tackle shops to get to it. Economists say the reason I go back to Discount Tackle is that I remember it was a great experience.

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Call Deflection strategies in the age of self-service

TechSee

Call deflection is the process of routing a customer enquiry to an alternative service channel. The goal is both to ensure customers receive the answers they are seeking in the most efficient manner and to reduce the number of inbound calls routed to human agents. For that reason, successful call deflection strategies allow enquiries to be deflected to self-service channels such as FAQs, live chat, community forums, knowledge center databases and virtual agents.

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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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Amazing Business Radio: Roger Dooley

ShepHyken

Creating a Friction-Aware Culture. Changing Friction to Deliver a Better Customer Experience. Shep Hyken interviews Roger Dooley. They discuss his new book, Friction: The Untapped Force That Can Be Your Most Powerful Advantage , and how it applies to the customer experience. The Interview with Roger Dooley: Friction is “any unnecessary expenditure of effort to accomplish a task.

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Actionable & Effective Ways to Increase Your E-Commerce Sales

Joe Rawlinson

E-commerce is the fastest growing retail channel and is expected to become surpass grocery retail by 2022. Shopping habits have changed drastically over the past decade, and today, people are comfortable buying almost anything online because of just how convenient, affordable, and safe it has become. But while there are certainly plenty of opportunities for those that want to start an e-commerce business, success isn’t a given.

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Why Uncertainty Can Destroy Your Customer Experience

Beyond Philosophy

Uncertainty influences a lot of our customer behavior. We buy products to reduce the risk in our lives, like insurance. Insurance buys us peace of mind if something bad happens to us or our property. We also buy lottery tickets because, well, someone has to win, right? The fact is we are not fantastic and predicting the likelihood of unlikely events in our lives.

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What Does Journey Mapping Do for You?

Heart of the Customer

I was recently in a call, and an executive new to her company’s journey mapping initiative asked, “Exactly what does this $150k I’m spending on a journey map buy us?” Luckily, our client had a ready answer, but that’s not always the case. CCW put together this nice overview of the ways journey mapping helps […]. The post What Does Journey Mapping Do for You?

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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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Guest Blog: Ways to Improve Your Customer Experience Online

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Abdul Babar who explains why your customer experience strategy must be a priority for any customer-facing organization. If we were to inquire as to the last time you had an exceptional experience as a customer it wouldn’t likely take you long to describe the lasting impression made upon you by a brand and how pleased you were with the outcome.

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On Becoming People-Centric

CX Journey

This is a modified version of a post I originally wrote for CallidusCloud. It appeared on their blog on June 14, 2018. If you want to move beyond cosmetic changes and lip service to real changes in both the employee experience and the customer experience, the first thing you have to look at is your company’s culture. What is culture ? My favorite definition is Herb Kelleher’s: "Culture is what people do when no one is looking.

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Why Are We Scared of New Technology?

Beyond Philosophy

Why Are We Scared of New Technology? We have some exciting new technology for CX. Facial recognition technology and facial expression analysis yield some new and exciting data about how customers feel during a Customer Experience. The only problem is that many people find it creepy. This episode of The Intuitive Customer asks the question Why Are We Scared of New Technology?

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How Service Management Software Benefits Your Company’s Growth

Alliance by IFS

The Right Field Service Management Solution Yields Long-Term, Recurring ROI. As the field service industry becomes more competitive, field service organizations (FSOs) like yours must create profitable revenue growth. To achieve it, you have to boost customer retention , attract new customers, and/or offer new products and services. Traditionally, supporting this type of growth meant hiring more staff and buying more equipment, driving up overhead expenses.

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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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Starting Over – Part Two

ShepHyken

The sun always rises tomorrow! The other day my friend and one of our avid Shepard Letter readers, Doug Schukar, shared this quote he heard over and over from his father growing up. I knew Doug’s father, the late and great Buzzie Schukar, a larger-than-life man who loved life and always had good advice. “The sun always rises tomorrow” is exactly the kind of advice Buzzie would espouse to his son – and his friends.

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How UJET Became a 2019 Gartner Cool Vendor

UJET

When was the last time you were happy with customer service? You visit the company website and search the “Contact Us” page which offers little to no actual helpful information. You find a phone number and call, only to sit through countless automated options attempting to identify your problem.

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5 Customer Experience Basics to Avoid a Customer Service Nightmare

Oracle

Consider this customer experience scenario: It all started when I called for a take-out dinner order, and the hostess told me she was too busy to ask the kitchen if there was an ingredient I was allergic to in the meal I wanted to order. I should’ve stopped the transaction there, but because I was in a rush, I ordered meals for my family, figuring I’d grab myself a bowl of cereal at home, and went to pick up their food.

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How to Design Your Field Service Management KPIs

Alliance by IFS

As the field service industry adjusts to evolving market preferences, a changing workforce, and increased technology adoption, service delivery is shifting from break-fix models to outcome-based service and guaranteed uptime. To successfully achieve outcome-based service, field service organizations (FSOs) must more closely synchronize business operations and business objectives.

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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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5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of May 27, 2019

ShepHyken

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. Amazon Bringing One-Day Shipping To Prime Shows The Real Battle For Customers by Daniel Newman. (Forbes) With a $800-million-dollar investment in technology, fulfillment and logistics, Amazon one-day shipping is now standard for Prime members, the race for customer lo

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How to Integrate Dialogflow Chatbot with Angular JS

kommunicate

There are numerous posts about developing a chatbot using Dialogflow. But creating chatbot isn’t enough. Connecting Dialogflow to the web interface is even more interesting and challenging. With Angular being a popular and emerging platform, here is our guide to integrate Dialogflow chatbot with Angular JS. In our quest to simplify chatbot integration with different [.].

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Customer Service and the Rules of Combat

Wired and Dangerous

Yesterday we celebrated Memorial Day. We deeply thank all those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for their country! We also thank those who served for their service. We both had the distinct honor and privilege to serve our country. Chip is a highly decorated Vietnam War veteran. Several years ago Logan Graves posted the “Rules of Combat” out on his website.