Fri.Jun 21, 2019

article thumbnail

How to Build a Customer Retention Strategy

ProProfs Chat

Do you have a customer retention strategy? If not, your business may be at risk. Companies focus on customer acquisition strategies, since increasing your customer count is the lifeblood of your business. But, customer acquisition won’t help, if you are unable to retain customers. The cost to acquire customers can be very high, especially if your product or service is expensive.

article thumbnail

The Anatomy of a Successful Customer Survey

Solvvy

Customer surveys are a powerful tool. With just a few questions, you can gain deep insight into your audience and how you can continue to improve your business to meet their needs. But a poorly-designed survey can have negative unintended consequences. On one hand, customers may choose not to fill out the survey in the first place. Or worse, they could provide inaccurate or misleading responses.

Survey 48
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

10 videos all customer experience professionals should watch

Qualtrics

Whether you choose to learn from the wisdom of market legends, your own experience (and maybe a few mistakes along the way), requests from customers, or the successes of others, remember that there’s no one key to success in CX. Here’s our selection of the best videos out there where some of the leading innovators and thinkers present their lessons on the customer experience.

article thumbnail

The Evolution of Customer Advocacy at VMware, Inc.

Alida

Introducing the voice of the customer into every facet of VMware’s business is one of the most profound and exciting opportunities of my career. My team’s mission is to ignite systemic business improvements across VMware to maximize the customer (and partner, and employee) experience. In Customer Advocacy, we live by a “listen + act” philosophy: we deeply value customer input, we are always listening, and we drive real change based on what our customers tell us.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Customer Journey Mapping Using Behavioral Science

Beyond Philosophy

Customer Journey Mapping Using Behavioral Science. Journey mapping is how organizations look at the customer journey, or the steps a customer would take from the beginning to the end in their experience. However, we would say regarding journey mapping that it is not only vital to consider the customer journey from beginning to end but also to view it from the customers’ perspective.

More Trending

article thumbnail

When a Customers Asks For Your Manager, Here’s What You Say

Myra Golden

What Viewers of This Video Are Saying. Get More Ideas Like This. Now you can give your representatives even more great skills for delivering the best customer experience and for handling difficult customer situations. Sign up for my email list and learn specific tips, approaches, and phrases to help your employees help your customers.

article thumbnail

Driving Planned Expansion of AI Across Your Enterprise

Avaya

According to Vanson Bourne, 58% of organizations are currently in the implementation stage of artificial intelligence (AI) with plans for further expansion. It’s during this planned expansion that brands expect to see the greatest benefits of AI such as improved customer and agent experiences and higher annual revenue. What does this planned expansion of AI look like, and why are companies taking so long to get there?

article thumbnail

[Q&A] How to Keep the Revenue Your Company Worked So Hard to Earn

ChurnZero

[Q&A] How to Keep the Revenue Your Company Worked So Hard to Earn. . Companies work hard to attract and win their customers. They spend countless hours establishing key performance metrics and enforcing the appropriate disciplines so their marketing and sales teams can bring in leads and close deals to drive revenue and growth. Yet the amount of focus that leadership places on new business revenue is disproportionate to the amount of focus placed on existing customer revenue.

Company 73
article thumbnail

Proving the Value and ROI of a Customer Service System

Team Support

Creating a solid business case for customer service initiatives has been difficult in the past. There’s still a mindset in the workplace that customer service is a “necessary cost” and that’s it. You need customers to have a business, and they require customer service to stick around. That’s the way the relationship has been viewed for decades. But, over the last ten years, the dynamic has changed.

ROI 70
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Helpware Named Top Customer Service Provider of 2019

Helpware

We are thrilled to announce that Clutch has named Helpware their number one customer care service provider of 2019!

article thumbnail

What Brands Need to Know When Partnering with Athlete Influencers

NetBase

Athletes can be powerful and inspiring role models whose stories motivate your audience to embrace your brand – which is why they’re so often brought on as brand ambassadors and influencers. But what happens when your star influencer goes off the rails? Here’s what you need to know. Influencers Are People Too. Just like you, me, and all the people on social you hope to reach with your influencer campaigns , athletes are human beings.

Brands 60
article thumbnail

Unifying Your Business through VoC: How a Holistic Approach Transforms CX Program Results

ForeSee

By Omer Minkara – Vice President and Principal Analyst, Aberdeen Do you need to keep track of evolving buyer needs, improve customer loyalty, grow client wallet share, design better products,

Loyalty 55
article thumbnail

Voice of the Customer (VoC): Customer feedback for a future-proof business

delighted

Whether you’re a B2B or B2C company, relevance and longevity in your industry depend on how well your products answer the needs of your customers. However, when the time comes for you to demonstrate that understanding — during a sales conversation, customer service interaction, or through the product itself — how do you think you measure up? According to the Future of Customer Experience Survey by PWC , companies are falling short: “Only 38% of U.S. consumers say the employees they interact with

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

What is Call Wrap Up Time? 5 Ways to Reduce It in Your Contact Center

Talkdesk

Reducing average wait time and average handle time in your contact can yield huge customer satisfaction increases for your business. One important way to reduce these important call center metrics is by reducing the amount of work it takes to wrap up previous customer interactions so that your agents are freed up to handle the next one. In this blog, we outline what call wrap up time is and actionable steps you can take to reduce it in your contact center.

article thumbnail

Navigate Forrester’s Data Economy Research

Forrester's Customer Insights

It’s not hard to see the signs that the data economy is heating up. Virtually all decision makers want to be insights-driven. They mine their own data, yet increasingly they want incremental insights that drive further differentiation and competitive advantage. External data hunting is on the rise: 56% of decision makers say their firms are […].

Data 51
article thumbnail

The key to successful scaling: Inside the minds of 30 CSM leaders

inSided

Over the past year we’ve talked to over 30 Customer Success Management (CSM) leaders in the B2B SaaS space. It has been eye-opening to talk to such a wealth of industry knowledge. We’ve gained firsthand insights into the most pressing pain points in Customer Success (CS), pinpointed the differences in Customer Success strategies and pondered the future landscape of this rapidly-evolving industry.

B2B 40
article thumbnail

MyCustomer launches the ultimate guide to customer journey mapping

MyCustomer

Engagement. The ultimate guide to customer journey mapping.

article thumbnail

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,

article thumbnail

Helpware Named Top Customer Service Provider of 2019

Helpware

We are thrilled to announce that Clutch has named Helpware their number one customer care service provider of 2019!

article thumbnail

CXone Is Right on the Money for Check Into Cash Collections Team

NICE inContact

Check Into Cash had both good news and bad news. The good news: The company’s main contact center had been successfully using CXone for five years. The bad news: The Check Into Cash retail collections team — 50 agents who collect past-due payments — were still using a legacy Genesys PBX dialer that had serious shortcomings, including no visibility into performance metrics and limited customization.

article thumbnail

12 Tips you cannot miss if you wish to offer an omnichannel customer experience

SurveySparrow

What is Omnichannel customer experience: Omnichannel customer experience integrates text, social media, email, IMs, etc, to provide a messaging that is not only aligned but also where customers can expect the same kind of service and experience across all channels. Omnichannel customer service gives you many ways to make meaningful interactions with your customers as well as helps you build your brand’s reputation. .

article thumbnail

Guest Post: Chatbot vs. Live Chat – Which delivers the best customer experience?

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Jonny Everett who discusses what businesses must do to be successful in the on-demand world in which we live. Liquid expectations and the on-demand world. We live in an on-demand world. Your customers are used to ordering a taxi, booking hotel rooms and getting their shirts dry-cleaned in a few taps of their phone screen or clicks of their mouse.

Chatbots 117
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Webinar: The Experience Economy – Customer Data, VoC and Closing the Feedback Loop

CSM Magazine

As experience overtakes price and product as a key brand differentiator, the race is on to understand your customers better and deliver the ultimate experience. What does your organization need to do now to stay competitive? Sign up for the free webinar “Welcome to the Experience Economy” to find out. (June 26th, 10:30 AM PDT, 12:30 PM CDT, 1:30 PM EDT 5:30 PM GMT).