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Why you need to be providing a global customer experience

MyCustomer

Voice of the Customer Why you need to be providing a global CX

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Digital Transformation and Customer Experience Innovation Lessons

Doing CX Right

Dr. Joerg Storm, a digital transformation expert, and Stacy Sherman reveal emerging tech trends, such as virtual and augmented reality, AI tools, and voice recognition, providing real-world examples of how these innovations shape customer experiences. The post Digital Transformation and Customer Experience Innovation Lessons appeared first on Doing CX Right.

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Prioritize Consumers with Powerful Customer Journey Strategy

Topdown

Over the past couple of years there has been a massive acceleration into the digital era. With it, this acceleration brought about an immersive and comprehensive virtual economy. The transition into this digital era and largely virtual marketplace was long-coming, but initially it was on a slow trajectory. The global pandemic, however, created an unprecedented push into the digital marketplace as remote operations and remote services became a necessity.

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The Metrics Obsession that’s Killing the Customer Experience

Seaton CX

We’re obsessed with metrics. We have a greater capability to measure business performance than ever before. We have baselines, benchmarks, and trends, arranged in reports and dashboards for easy consumption. AI analyzes every call to the contact center. Automation sends a survey after every support ticket is closed. We fixate on the results, creating scorecards and setting improvement targets.

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2024’s Retail Odyssey: Going Small, Artificial, and Augmented!

Speaker: Kelly Goetsch - Chief Strategy Officer at Commercetools | Jason Cottrel - CEO & Founder at Orium | and guest speaker Joe Cicman - Principal Analyst at Forrester

Significant modifications are on the horizon for digital commerce in retail and customer experience come 2024. The pace of tech shifts will intensify, businesses are set to defund legacy solutions, and attractive opportunities will surface as social and retail media players join forces. To stay ahead of the curve, digital leaders are experimenting with less risky initiatives and scaling back on outdated projects that no longer yield impactful results.

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How to integrate Customer behavior into your journey maps to gain ROI

Beyond Philosophy

Journey Maps can be useless exercises. That’s right…we said it. However, these often-used tools don’t have to be as useless as they usually are. Journey Maps are only useless if you don’t include the customer’s emotional journey in them. Emotional journeys are the “squishy stuff” associated with why customers buy from you.

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Learning about customer service should not be seen as an event, but rather as a process.

Bill Quiseng

A wife walks into the living room where her husband is reading. She leans over and whispers “I love you.” Nothing. She repeats louder, “I love you.” Complete silence. She stares at him and asks, “I say I love you a LOT to you. You NEVER say I love you back. Why is that?” Her husband turns to her and declares, “Look, I told you I loved you when we got married.

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Listening to the Voice of Patient is the fastest path to improved experiences

Alida

Communities have emerged as the most effective way to capture patient feedback and turn it into actionable insights and higher satisfaction.

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Sometimes Customers Are Just Having a Bad Day

ShepHyken

You’ve probably experienced this. No matter how hard you try to please some customers, they aren’t happy. It’s frustrating, but at the same time, it’s reality. And speaking of reality, no matter how good you are at creating an amazing customer experience, the customer’s perception counts. Their perception is their reality. I once went to an amazing restaurant – at least, I was told it was amazing.

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The 5 Most-Used Automated Customer Service Examples

Comm100

Wherever you look, automation is popping up across customer service teams as organizations look to improve efficiency, reduce support costs, and scale their business. While we read about the many benefits of automation in customer service, it can be difficult to know how exactly to introduce this into your own organization. This blog will help you on your way, providing the top automated customer service examples that can be used across industries.

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue.

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The Key to a Great Customer Experience Design

InMoment XI

Customers are the lifeblood of any business, and providing them with a great experience can lead to increased loyalty, higher satisfaction, and improved brand reputation. It’s simple: every company needs customers, but what happens when there are so many brands to choose from? How can brands stand out? The customer experience (CX) is crucial for any business that wants to succeed in today’s highly competitive market.

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Improve Contact Center AHT and FCR with Automated Visual Flows

TechSee

2023 has been the year of efficiency. Across sectors and around the world, enterprise leaders have been carefully managing expenses and streamlining processes. The service industry is no exception. However, improving contact center efficiency cannot come at the cost of delivering a great customer, agent, or technician experience. Automation is the answer to service industry staffing shortages and efficiency requirements.

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Growth via Massive Customer Experience Savings

ClearAction

Growth via Massive Customer Experience Savings Lynn Hunsaker Customer experience savings are NOT about automation or slashing value to customers! That’s a recipe toward many unexpected costs. Whenever you think about savings, think about value expansion. Your enterprise goals are to continually increase value to investors, so by definition, you must continually increase value to customers.

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A Guide to NPS for Brand Management and Customer Success Consultants

Retently

If you’re part of a brand management or customer success consultancy, Net Promoter Score® could be the all-in-one customer satisfaction metric you’ve been looking for. Designed to accurately assess customer sentiment, Net Promoter Score has several benefits that other customer satisfaction metrics don’t. It’s short and simple, built around a one-question survey.

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The Best Ideas From CS Experts Worldwide – All in One Place

Propel23, the world’s first and best online event for CS professionals, had 30+ sessions focused on distinct aspects of post-sale operations. This Ideabook distills those sessions into insights and actionable resources for the CS community through a curated collection of ideas, strategies, and best practices, sourced directly from industry leaders and experts around the world.

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How Aegon Is Reaping the Benefits of Customer Centricity

InMoment XI

At Forrester CX EMEA, we heard from InMoment client Aegon, a Dutch public company for life insurance, pensions, and asset management. The key message throughout the conference was to be bold and ensure that organisations are aligned, focused, and ready for the future. Aegon are certainly delivering on this agenda and are continuing to succeed by connecting people and processes across the entire organisation to achieve shared goals and focus on growth.

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How Clarivate uses Artificial Intelligence you can trust to transform your world

Clarivate

From self-driving cars to ChatGPT and Amazon Bedrock, the world is quickly waking up to the enormous potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to change our world. Much discussion has focused on whether this will ultimately be for better or worse; but as with any seismic shift in technology, the answer will depend on how we choose to engage with and deploy the new tools.

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The Ultimate Guide to UX Research Methods

dscout People Nerds

Look no further: This deep dive has how-tos, best practices, and prime advice on key approaches to user research.

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Open-ended questions: Definition, examples, and tips

delighted

Asking open-ended questions in your survey uncovers in-depth insights from respondents in their own words. While close-ended questions also provide valuable information, asking both question types in your survey gives you the data and context to make larger business decisions, act on immediate solutions, and plan long-term goals. In this post, we’ll explain what open-ended questions are, the difference between closed and open-ended questions (including when to use both), and examples of open-end

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A 360-Degree Approach to Customer Feedback - Using Online Reviews & Surveys

Delighted customers are more likely to be loyal to your brand and refer your business to friends and family. But delighting your customers doesn’t just happen magically. Even the best managers have blind spots. There may be areas of your customer journey that look great from the employee’s perspective, but look entirely broken from the customer’s side.

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Bilingual Answering Services: Meeting The Needs Of Diverse Customers

Magellan Solutions

Are you ready to make your brand more appealing to diverse customers ? Businesses deal with different types of customers every day, including those with foreign languages, such as Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Korean, etc. If you want your business to be more competitive, consider hiring one of the best bilingual answering services. What Are Bilingual Answering Services?

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How Customer Success teams can nail their renewal forecast

ChurnZero

Customer renewals are the lifeblood of a subscription business. Responsibility for renewals often falls to the Customer Success (CS) team. For example, survey research shows about half (50.2%) of all CS teams surveyed are directly responsible for customer renewals. It doesn’t end there either. While renewals are a central aspect of CS work, many Customer Success Managers (CSMs) have a mandate for upsells.

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How to build a successful referral partner program

BirdEye

A successful business primarily depends on developing strong relationships with clients, vendors, and referral partners. 82% of small business owners say referrals are their primary source of new business. So, it’s clear that referrals are crucial for any company to increase its sales. But how do you go from generating some business through referrals to creating a separate referral partner program?

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Customize invoice QuickBooks Online: How to personalize your invoices

Method:CRM

Everyone knows that sending invoices is crucial to getting paid for your products or services. So there’s nothing more frustrating than doing everything right in the invoicing process but still having to wait forever for payments. But here’s what many businesses don’t realize. When you send a generic invoice with nothing on it but the total amount due, you miss out on your full revenue potential.

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Maximizing Productivity in the Contact Center

In 2022, businesses recognized the value of optimizing their contact center operations to streamline processes, increase efficiency, and meet the rising expectations of their customers. However, only 10% of customers believe that experiences have significantly improved over the past year, making productivity a non-negotiable metric for success. To empower agents to do more with less, this report highlights the leading pain points that prevent efficiency and establish a framework for maximizing p

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The Sales Pro’s Guide to Sales Prospecting

Integrity Solutions

Sales prospecting is vital to the success of any sales organization. Simply learning how to find, approach and engage new customers is at the heart of being able to meet and exceed your sales goals. Why Is Sales Prospecting More Important Than Ever? Selling has become increasingly competitive. Only 60% of sales teams and reps hit their annual quotas in recent years, and 69% of sales professionals agree their job is harder now than it was in 2021.

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How to Evaluate Call Center Software Vendors for Customer Data Platform Solutions

NobelBiz

Are you looking to optimize your call center’s efficiency and streamline your business’s data management process? If so, it’s crucial to find the right call center software vendor that integrates with a customer data platform (CDP). But with so many options available, how do you choose the right one? In this article, we’ll explore how to evaluate call center software vendors for CDP solutions and the essential features to look for.

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Best HIPAA compliant scheduling software in 2023

BirdEye

According to research, approximately $150 billion in revenue is lost each year in the healthcare industry due to no-show appointments. To combat that, many medical practices are shifting to online scheduling software to help streamline their appointment process. However, regulators require that all medical software be HIPAA compliant in order to protect patient information.

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Deploy generative AI models from Amazon SageMaker JumpStart using the AWS CDK

AWS Machine Learning

The seeds of a machine learning (ML) paradigm shift have existed for decades, but with the ready availability of virtually infinite compute capacity, a massive proliferation of data, and the rapid advancement of ML technologies, customers across industries are rapidly adopting and using ML technologies to transform their businesses. Just recently, generative AI applications have captured everyone’s attention and imagination.

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3 Sizzling Ways to Warm up Cold Calls

Even in today’s data-driven sales world, cold calling remains a fact of life for many go-to-market professionals. Fortunately, today’s sales leaders have a crucial advantage over their predecessors: market intelligence and outreach platforms that can warm up virtually any introduction.

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How combining this behavioral checklist to your journey maps will dramatically improve them

Beyond Philosophy

Journey Mapping is an excellent tool in experience design efforts. However, I often complain that they do not include the emotional journey, which is essential to designing an experience that engages emotionally with customers in a way that promotes customer loyalty. So, today, we will look at how you can incorporate the concepts we often talk about in this newsletter into your Journey Mapping efforts.

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How Much Could Noncompliance Cost Your Contact Center?

MiaRec

Considering that 83% of companies have already experienced more than one data breach, it is more than likely that your contact center is next. In fact, cybercriminals often target contact centers first.

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Reduce no-shows and increase revenue with a scheduling app

BirdEye

Scheduling appointments can be tedious and time-consuming if you do it manually. Moreover, if you forget your scheduled meetings, you could lose clients or miss out on a great opportunity to generate new business. That’s why you need an easy-to-use scheduling app to stay on top of your schedules. While there are many appointment schedulers in the market, most might not suit your business needs.