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Four Ideas for Navigating Backorders with B2B Customers

Heart of the Customer

As 2018 wrapped up, we finished mapping three very different B2B journeys – healthcare, manufacturing, and distribution. We found one major consistency: customers in all three reported recent backorder issues. The customers were all businesses, but that’s where their similarities ended. Some were mom and pop retail storefronts; others were global manufacturers whose names you […].

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Customer Personas - The What, The Why, and the How

CX Journey

Image courtesy of Pixabay Today I'm pleased to share a guest post by Stacy Sherman of DoingCXRight. This post originally appeared on the DoingCXRight blog on July 10, 2018. Whether you're new to CX or looking to expand your current knowledge, it is important to learn about what, when, and how to develop personas so that you can serve your customers better.

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Are You Using 1999 Metrics to Measure 2019 Customer Care?

BlueOcean

It’s 2019, which means contact center metrics from 1999 are almost old enough for their first legal beer (and already knocking them back in Canada.) Those metrics were born in an era when customer service was a race, where whoever got to the finish line first (i.e. off the phone) – upsetting the least number of hurdles, extra points for a graceful gait – was the champion, the most successful, the most likely to win “customer service agent of the year.”.

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Whisper Coaching: How Will AI Make Your Whispering More Effective?

Vonage

The phone is often the medium that matters in moments of truth, whether it’s a service call or an inside sales call making the first contact. To the customer, the ideal interaction often feels like a conversation – just the customer and the company representative, talking through the issues together, person to person. But well-equipped contact center managers know that those conversations may not be as one-on-one as the customers think – and for a very good reason.

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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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Top 10 Tips for Gathering Event Attendee Feedback

GetFeedback

Event planning is an adventure, to say the least. Locking down the venue, getting people registered, promoting it across channels, working out the logistics… the list goes on and on. Before you know it, the day arrives. Even if it goes off without a hitch, the event doesn’t end when the clock strikes 12. Success is more than a day-of checklist.

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Contact Center CX: Next Issue Avoidance

CX Accelerator

Last week, Brittany Naylor (Vice President of Customer Support for Service Direct) queued up a wonderful topic in our CX Accelerator slack channel. It was "Next Issue Avoidance" and how support leaders are bringing this critical concept to life. For those not familiar, the idea of "Next Issue Avoidance" was introduced as part of "The Effortless Experience " in 2011.

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5 Questions About Building A Customer-Centric Culture - Dennis Snow

Lumoa

We asked Dennis Snow how to build customer centric culture and what customer experience means when working at Disney World.

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How to Use Online Surveys to Re-Engage With Customers

GetFeedback

Are you struggling with the knowledge that there are many customers who have stopped engaging with your brand? Many businesses are. And they keep wondering what went so wrong that their once engaged customer completely stopped responding to their campaigns, emails and so on. Well, there is a way to find out and at the same rekindle the relationship that was once there.

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How the Most Important Touchpoints Get Ignored, And How to Fix It

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Touchpoints aren’t what they used to be. There was a time in our history when touchpoints were…finite. We could list them easily and agree easily to what they were. The list might have 5-6 things on it for a sophisticated organization. When asked, ‘how does a prospect or customer interact with your brand?’ a brand team might list something like the following. advertising. signage. in-store interactions. packaging. customer service calls.

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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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Marketo Integration

CloudCherry

Too often in my early career, I ran into a similar scenario like this. It’s Thursday afternoon and your CMO or VP calls you up and says, “Hey I need you to target a new segment of customers and start the new campaign we’ve been planning, to them before the weekend.” Panic might set-in as you realize, well crap that segment is not a true 1-to-1 pull and the weekend starts tomorrow.

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Customer Centricity As The Sweet Spot Of Customer Success

Customer Experience Update Submitted Articles

Customer centricity is proportional to customer success. Read on to know how you can make your organization become customer-centric with videos.

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Use Your Live Chat Survey Data to Improve CX

GetFeedback

You’ve completed your live chat survey implementation and now you’re receiving valuable live chat survey data. You want to put this feedback to good use, but you’re not sure where to begin. Here at GetFeedback, we ran into the same situation when we applied our own live chat survey tool into our customer support feedback program. We’ve now developed a system that allows us to put this powerful customer insight to work.

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How the Most Important Touchpoints Get Ignored, And How to Fix It

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Touchpoints aren’t what they used to be. There was a time in our history when touchpoints were…finite. We could list them easily and agree easily to what they were. The list might have 5-6 things on it for a sophisticated organization. When asked, ‘how does a prospect or customer interact with your brand?’ a brand team might list something like the following. advertising. signage. in-store interactions. packaging. customer service calls.

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The 2023 Verint Experience Index: Retail

Reports of the death of in-store shopping have been greatly exaggerated. This year’s retail survey found that more than 60 percent of consumers start and end their journey by visiting a store. Retail customers value price above everything, but the importance of other factors varies for different brands. In-store shopping is valued highly by grocery and home improvement customers Technology retail customers place less importance on in-store experiences – for them it only ranks sixth Digital exper

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What Is a Virtual Call Center Agent?

NICE inContact

At first glance, the term “virtual call center agent” sounds like a Siri-like creature who exists in the ether, saving the day for troubled customers. Is it a bot? AI? No, a virtual call center agent is a regular human being. “Virtual” modifies the call center, so the call center is virtual but the agent is very real. Most call centers still have a brick and mortar presence.

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Migrating from Zendesk to Kayako with an Automated Service

Kayako

When you consider switching from Zendesk to Kayako and don’t want to dive into the tech details of the process, an automated migration tool may be the best option. One of such tools is Help Desk Migration service. It provides an intuitive migration wizard to lead you through the process. And a qualified team is always by your side to help with any questions.

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Use Your Live Chat Survey Data to Improve CX

GetFeedback

You’ve completed your live chat survey implementation and now you’re receiving valuable live chat survey data. You want to put.

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Customer Experience ROI: How You Prove You Understand Customer Experience Strategy

Beyond Philosophy

Customer Experience as an industry is at a crossroads. As I have written before , the results that we should be seeing are not there. It’s time to put up or shut up. If we as an industry do not turn it around, we might see our budgets and headcounts reassigned somewhere else. In our recent podcast, we had a guest Bob Thompson, CEO of Customer Think Corp., an independent research and publishing firm focused on customer-centric business management and the founder and editor-in-chief of CustomerTh

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The State of Customer Onboarding 2024

Building lasting customer relationships has always been top-of-mind for businesses. However, in the last decade, organizations have recognized that the customer journey beyond the initial sale is as critical as the sale itself. Customer onboarding, or the customer’s first impression of you, is critical to forging lasting relationships and long-term success.

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How to Build a Compelling Business Case for Modernizing Your Contact Center

NICE inContact

Increasingly, the contact center is used to deliver holistic customer experience throughout a lifetime of customers’ journeys. This makes sense since many of the activities designed to acquire and retain customers and to deliver and support products and services all utilize the contact center in some fashion. But what do you do if your outdated call center can’t deliver?

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Leading a Purpose-Driven Organization: Putting Customers and Members First at REI

Customer Bliss

Today, we’re doing something a little different; The Chief Customer Officer Human Duct Tape Show is in both video and audio form. I think you’re really going to enjoy this conversation between myself and Ben Steele , Executive Vice President, and Chief Customer Officer at REI. So please do listen to the full interview! I really admire REI as a brand; I actually featured them in my latest book, Would You Do That to Your Mother?

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Episode 37 – Why Your Customers Aren’t Asking You for Help

Kristina Evey

Shownotes – Why Your Customers Aren’t Asking for Your Help and How to Fix It You’re pretty certain your company … Read More Episode 37 – Why Your Customers Aren’t Asking You for Help. The post Episode 37 – Why Your Customers Aren’t Asking You for Help appeared first on Kristina Evey.

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How to Implement SMS Surveys With GetFeedback

GetFeedback

Use this guide to learn how to apply and optimize this new survey distribution feature. .

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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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Future-proof Innovation – Vendors in it for the Long Haul

NICE inContact

It probably goes without saying that one major benefit of a cloud-based contact center is the access to continual, automatic upgrades and innovation as they happen. Unlike on-premises systems, where system updates or enhancements can translate into significant disruption to you operations, a cloud contact center enjoys the flexibility and seamlessness of updates—even larger scale ones—often without your agents even noticing.

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How Successful Retailers Win in Endless Disruption

Beyond Philosophy

Organizations do not have the luxury of focusing solely on operations these days. Over the past decade, retail as an industry has changed. To survive, retailers must put the customer at the center of everything they do. That said, not everyone believes it yet. <!–more–> Not so long ago, I was having a conversation in the C-Suite of a company about Customer Experience.

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Core Values are Decision Filters

ShepHyken

I’m honored to be the keynote speaker later this year at Office Pride , a franchisor of commercial cleaning service companies. All of the franchisees will be attending their annual meeting to network and learn about the latest and greatest opportunities happening in their industry. My job is to talk to them about customer service. As part of my homework, Todd Hopkins, their CEO, shared the Office Pride Culture book.

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How to Use Online Surveys to Re-Engage With Customers

GetFeedback

Use online surveys to rekindle the relationship that was once there with your customers.

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Top 5 Ways to Optimize Your Loyalty Strategy

Speaker: Lauren Barash, Vice President, Brand Marketing

In an ever-evolving industry, building and retaining loyal customers is critical to the success of any restaurant business. Join Lauren Barash, VP of Brand Marketing at Full Course, as she delves into the world of restaurant loyalty programs, and reveals the top five essential strategies to optimize your approach! This webinar will explore: Loyalty trends and what you should be focusing on 📊 Actionable insights and ideas to help you develop the most powerful and effective loyalty program

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Is Your Customer Intelligence Keeping Pace with Customer Expectations?

Wired and Dangerous

Customers are different today! Their ever changing expectations continue to increase! 70% of American consumers say they have spent more money to shop with a business that delivers great service! (American Express). They have raised the bar on how they view customer experience. They are looking for service providers who consistently deliver service experiences that drive loyalty even in an environment of customer expectations that change at supersonic speed!

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How to Create A Financial Times Award-Winning Consultancy from Scratch

Beyond Philosophy

Beyond Philosophy won an award named one of the Best Management Consultancy Firms in the UK, by the Financial Times (FT). This was voted on by clients and peers, we couldn’t be more honored or proud. This bonus episode podcast explores how you can take your idea and turn it into an Financial Times Award-Winning consultancy, too. We share our 10-Step Plan for Success and ask our listeners, what would you do if you weren’t afraid?

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Why Did They Uninstall My App? Based on Real Research

Survicate

Congrats! You’ve got plenty of people downloading your app. But, are you paying attention to how people engage with your service? Converting new prospects to download your app is only part of the job. If you slack off and don’t keep track of how your users engage with you, you run the risk of losing them. When a notification pops up on their screen, alerting them of their impending storage deficit, they’ll look at the apps they don’t use or need.