Sat.Sep 15, 2018 - Fri.Sep 21, 2018

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Customer Success Management in SaaS – LiveChat Team Strategy

LiveChat

Companies that take customer service seriously and make it a priority in the early stages of existence, shouldn’t forget about customer success management. It’s often mistaken with customer support, so let’s clarify. Customer success management is the next layer on the top of a successful customer support team. Why You Need a Customer Success Strategy.

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Connecting Customer Experience Goals to Financial Metrics to Prove ROI

CloudCherry

Social media, online reviews, product ratings—these platforms have transformed into the customer’s soapbox, empowering them to speak freely about a brand’s strengths and faults. Organizations eventually picked up on its impact, focusing now on creating delightful customer experiences for all who walk through their doors. As businesses strive for that competitive edge, they turn to customer experience management or CEM to better understand the customer’s perspective and improve based on these ins

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Top 5 Mistakes in Customer Experience (CX)

Topdown

Customer experience (CX) is more than just icing on the cake—it is a complete recipe for business success. How customers perceive their interactions with a company translates into serious financial implications.

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Best Practices of Setting up Case Management Programs

InMoment XI

Customers who complain and receive good resolution to their complaints are usually more loyal than customers who never complained at all. With that in mind, how do we identify and properly follow-up with customers who return a customer experience survey that indicates they had a problem? Our research shows that frontline personnel use customer experience.

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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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How to Understand and Engage the Outliers in Your Organization

Customer Bliss

In my new 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. The following is a lightly edited transcript of the video below. In each episode of my podcast , I ask my guests, “What do you know now that you wish you knew then?

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You Can’t Give Good Service When You Don’t Know What It Is

Steve DiGioia

no wonder why today’s service is so poor! This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. One of my biggest frustrations is that today’s “ younger generation ” doesn’t have a decent point of reference to what we call good customer service. You can’t give good service when you have a need for instant gratification and the onslaught of limited service businesses and self-service kiosks have changed the overall service experience from what it was years ago.

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How Amazon is Owning the Smart Home Market

QuestionPro Audience

The smart home technology, which enables devices to be connected or controlled by a device, allowing automation of lighting, heating, security and home appliances, among other things, is growing. When we conducted our smart home report to gauge interest at the beginning of 2018, 48% of respondents planned to use digital voice assistant devices to convert their home to a smart home in 2018.

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10 Customer Experience Best Practices for all B2B Sales Teams

Kayako

In the current climate, customer experience is one of the main battlegrounds for sales organisations, often out-ranking factors like product and price. This can be especially true within the field of B2B sales, where customers are more informed than ever before, have higher expectations than in the past, and where existing customers are perfectly willing to switch to one of your competitors if you fail to provide the kind of experience they demand. .

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Four of the Most Successful Employee Engagement Strategies Also Drive Customer Experience

CX University

There are hundreds of best practices for employee engagement, and all of them are being practiced by firms across this good, green Earth: at some growing businesses, at some failing businesses too. My question is, “How do we know which best practices will most benefit our employee engagement initiatives? Which should I apply in my business?”. So my team and I embarked on a mission to exhume the real nuts and bolts of engagement.

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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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Webinar: Create a Compelling CX Business Case to Secure the Budget You Need

CloudCherry

Only 14% of CX professionals agree that the return on CX investments is well established in their organizations (Forrester, 2017). This becomes a real problem when asking for more resources, and dealing with budget approvals. Getting buy-in on CX initiatives from executives can be an impossible task when they can’t clearly connect the dots to see a return on their investment. .

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Confusing Customer Service Delivery with Customer Experience Delivery?

One Millimeter Mindset

Do we really understand the difference between customer service delivery and customer experience delivery? Or, do we use the two terms interchangeably? At times, our self-focused perception leaves customer service delivery up to everyone with “service” as part of their job titles. That means we assume customer service is someone else’s responsibility.

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How Can You Provide Better Service For Your Clients?

C3Centricity

How Can You Provide Better Services For Your Client? This is a great question isn’t it? It was asked recently on Quora and I answered it, as I do many posed on topics such as brand building and customer understanding. But this question is I believe very different from most of those asked on Quora. That’s because it is one that every company, product, service and brand should be asking!

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5 Stories of Great Customer Experiences That Would Make Mom Proud

IntouchInsight

Here are five stories of great customer experience moments recounted by employees at Intouch Insight, that would make moms across the country proud.

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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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Webinar: Create a Compelling CX Business Case to Secure the Budget You Need

CloudCherry

Only 14% of CX professionals agree that the return on CX investments is well established in their organizations (Forrester, 2017). This becomes a real problem when asking for more resources, and dealing with budget approvals. Getting buy-in on CX initiatives from executives can be an impossible task when they can’t clearly connect the dots to see a return on their investment. .

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Waffle House’s Hurricane Response and the Value of Reliability

Help.com

Hurricane Florence wreaked havoc on the east coast. As of September 20th, 2018, the death toll had already climbed to 42 people. North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper says it will take billions of dollars for his state to recover. Thousands of people were forced to evacuate their homes, and as with any severe weather, resources became extremely limited.

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8 Reasons Not to Invest in Customer Experience

Omnicus

A Contrarian’s Guide to Avoiding Innovation and Growth So you’ve heard about this thing called customer experience, and you don’t understand what all the fuss is about. You read a few articles, especially that time you were trapped in coach on a flight with your boss, and you wanted to impress him. You think, “Bah humbug, just another fad business-y catchphrase that will go out of style in a year.

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Pursuing Your Brand Equity? Part 2

InMoment XI

What are you After? Brand equity is one of the most sought after and yet hardest to define concepts in the CX and marketing research world. Even when they have come to grips with defining it, most offerings designed to get at brand equity merely scratch the surface of what’s going on with a firm’s. View Article.

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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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Webinar: Create a Compelling CX Business Case to Secure the Budget You Need

CloudCherry

Only 14% of CX professionals agree that the return on CX investments is well established in their organizations (Forrester, 2017). This becomes a real problem when asking for more resources, and dealing with budget approvals. Getting buy-in on CX initiatives from executives can be an impossible task when they can’t clearly connect the dots to see a return on their investment. .

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Qualities to Look for When Building Your Customer Service Team

Help.com

Running a company can be complicated–especially when you realize you need to grow your team. The business of customer service has grown consistently, and the US Bureau of Labor Statistics says the number of customer service representatives will have grown by 5% between 2016 and 2026. If you’re looking to join the ranks and expand your customer service team, it’s important to know what you’re looking for.

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8 Reasons Not to Invest in Customer Experience

Omnicus

A Contrarian’s Guide to Avoiding Innovation and Growth So you’ve heard about this thing called customer experience, and you don’t understand what all the fuss is about. You read a few articles, especially that time you were trapped in coach on a flight with your boss, and you wanted to impress him. You think, “Bah humbug, just another fad business-y catchphrase that will go out of style in a year.

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10 Surveys for Actionable Data

GetFeedback

Think bigger when it comes to collecting actionable data. We've compiled a list of 10 survey use cases to jumpstart your feedback strategy.

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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 Successfully Implement an AI Strategy in Customer Experience

transcosmos Information Systems

Artificial intelligence (AI) is slowly yet surely finding its way into our everyday lives. From driverless cars to robotics and smart homes, we see more and more AI applications in the real world. In business, AI technologies are also turning things around, and customer service is one such department that has vastly improved. AI allows you to come up with better, more innovative products and services for your market.

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12 takeaways from the 2018 Customer Intelligence Summit

Alida

The Customer Intelligence Summit brings together some of the brightest minds in research, marketing, customer experience and product innovation to discuss the latest trends, share best practices and discover the newest innovations in the industry. This year’s Summit took place in Washington, D.C. and featured renowned speakers such as Seth Godin, Kindra Hall and Alexandra Samuel.

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Turning the RPA Hype into Full-Blown Reality

Uniphore

Turning RPA Hype into Full-Blown Reality. Today, along with recent technological advancements in machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), and big data, Robotic Process Automation has become well known to businesses of all sizes. Indeed, the word has spread of this revolutionary technology. A technology that can automate up to 80% of software application processes in both the front and back office, thus reducing the costs of existing manual operations by 25% to 40% (or more) without c

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Why Don’t People Say What They Mean?

Beyond Philosophy

People do not say what they mean or, it seems, what they are thinking. Why? If we aren’t saying what we mean, then what are the implications for our Customer Experience? Honest communication can not only improve communication, but it can also enhance workplace quality and Customer Experience. We spoke with a special guest (and friend of mine), Steven Gaffney, author, Certified Speaking Professional and founder of the Steven Gaffney Company about this topic on our recent podcast.

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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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8 Reasons Not to Invest in Customer Experience

Omnicus

A Contrarian’s Guide to Avoiding Innovation and Growth.

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Humanity And Customer Experience Go Hand In Hand

Experience Matters

Hopefully you know by now that Temkin Group has labelled 2018, The Year of Humanity. We’ve been trying to propel people to embrace diversity, extend compassion, and express appreciation. We’ve been doing research as part of that effort. In our latest consumer benchmark study of 10,0000 U.S. consumers, we added questions about how often people demonstrate those three behaviors.

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Mobile Apps: How Top QSR and Convenience Store Brands Measure Up

IntouchInsight

Learn how customers rank their experience using the mobile apps of top QSR and convenience store brands. Watch the video.

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