Tue.May 17, 2022

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Customer Journey Mapping Examples

Heart of the Customer

I’m often asked for customer journey mapping examples – where are organizations using journey mapping that is truly driving change. Of course, the results vary significantly depending on the selected business problem, journey, and customer selected – three of our five questions. Two similar organizations can have very different outcomes based on how they answer […].

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2022 EX Trends: The Top 2 Things Employees Must Have in Their Next Job

InMoment XI

Even if you don’t work in the HR space, you’ve probably seen the term “The Great Resignation” cross your news feed at least once (or 100 times, more likely). At the very least, no matter what department you operate out of, you’ve seen the unprecedented level of churn the job market is experiencing right now. And that might leave you wondering: what employee must haves are convincing employees to leave their old jobs for new ones?

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Product News – May 2022

Lumoa

Lumoa Product News for May 2022 Integrations hub gets further improved! We have spoke before about how Lumoa can pull your web data through an API, with no fees to setup, and it takes just a few minutes! Now this process can be done on a more precise scale, allowing you to filter between apps within the same collection: Pull reviews from popular places like Facebook , Zendesk, Trustpilot, Amazon, and more!

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Want to Win the Great Retention? Prioritize Employee Mental Well-Being

The DiJulius Group

For a truly great organization, a leader’s first priority needs to be helping people lead great lives…we need to be the type of company that helps employees be their best selves and have a chance at building meaningful and constructive lives. If you want to build a world-class employee experience culture, make sure you don’t. Read Full Article.

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3 Ways Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Can Improve Customer Experience

Today’s digitally savvy customers have high expectations of retailers for convenience, responsiveness, and ease of doing business both in-store and online. Our recent survey of over 2,000 US consumers found that retailers that can drive a seamless, omnichannel customer experience (CX) – across physical and digital channels – have huge benefits for brand relevance, profitability, and customer loyalty.

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The biggest digital transformation trends in 2022 and beyond

Adrian Swinscoe

This is a guest post by Natasha Bougourd, a Senior Copywriter at Mediaworks. In the early months of the pandemic, businesses accelerated their adoption of digital […]. The post The biggest digital transformation trends in 2022 and beyond first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Five Best CRMs for B2B Sales in 2022

Totango

Wondering what is the best CRM for B2B sales? Well we’re here to help with our guide to the best CRMs for both small businesses and enterprises in 2022. We’ll walk you through what customer relationship management B2B software is, what its benefits are, and a list of the top CRM companies, including the outstanding features and best uses for each.

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Free Webinar: How to use automation throughout the customer journey to boost profits

Feedbackly

Join this CX Forum webinar to learn how to use marketing automation to turn your customer feedback into revenue throughout your entire customer journey.

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6 Tips to Help Improve Your Team's Customer Service Skills

Helpware

When strategizing to retain and acquire new customers, you may not consider upgrading your team's customer service skills. Not prioritizing this improvement can be a major mistake. Regardless of the quality of your product, customers are more likely to recall the interaction they experienced with your business. Every one of these interactions has the potential to either make or break a customer’s loyalty to you.

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Amazing Business Radio: Dan Cockerell

ShepHyken

Creating a Company Culture –. The Disney Way. Reinforcing Behaviors that Shape Your Organization’s Culture. Shep Hyken interviews Dan Cockerell , Walt Disney Company VP for 26 years and owner of Cockerell Consulting Group with his wife, Valerie. He is the author of How’s the Culture in Your Kingdom?: Lessons from a Disney Leadership Journey. He shares how a sustainable culture that inspires loyalty from employees and customers.

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Manual Call Reviews? There's a Better Way!

Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 If so, this webinar is for you! What was once a common practice in the call center is now a barrier to success. Manual call monitoring is no longer an option if you want to proactively coach your agents to ultimately improve the customer experience using data-driven insights. Join this webinar with Angie Kronlage and April Wiita of Working Solutions to discuss how you can modernize outdated, manual call review processes through the power of autom

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You’re going to need a better bot

My Customer

YThe verdict on bots is in: consumers like them. Seventy-four percent of them prefer chat bots when asking simple questions, 65% feel. 6th Jun 2022. By Dragoradknezi CEO and Co-founder.

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TheLoops Launches on Zendesk Marketplace

CSM Magazine

Predictive Analytics and Automations to Power Real-Time Support. TheLoops , an intelligent support operations data platform, is now available on Zendesk’s Marketplace – a one-stop-shop that enables organizations to find partners, apps, and integrations to increase agent productivity, streamline workflows, and drive customer satisfaction. TheLoops enables real-time support by contextualizing customer, product and usage data for agents all within Zendesk.

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Partnering With Customers For Digital Transformation

Blake Morgan

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?. Digital transformation is critical for all businesses today—but it isn’t something brands need to take on alone. . Especially in the B2B world, involving customers in the transformation and making them valuable partners can lead to long-term success for the company, its B2B clients and their end-user customers. .

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Product Analytics Trends in 2022

InnerTrends

The world of analytics took a turn for the best in the last years, and 2022 looks even more promising.

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What Does it REALLY Mean to Put CX First?

The 5 Essentials of a CX-First Platform Customer experience was once considered a soft metric, or a “nice to have.” But it is now a board-level priority for many brands. The experience you provide your customers is a defining way to differentiate your business from the competition. But how can you really make CX a priority when you have competing budget and resource constraints?

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How the metaverse will change customer experiences

My Customer

HFashion and retail brands are already taking impressive steps into the metaverse and creating genuinely exciting experiences for their fans. 6th Jun 2022. By Dave O'Flanagan.

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ChurnZero Builds Momentum with Industry Awards and Accolades in Q2 2022

ChurnZero

WASHINGTON , May 17, 2022 — ChurnZero , a leading Customer Success platform, has earned multiple accolades from business and SaaS industry groups for its product innovation and industry leadership. EY, TrustRadius, G2, SIIA CODiE, and APPEALIE have recognized ChurnZero’s platform, team, and customers in areas ranging from technological innovation and customer success services to the strategic vision of its senior leaders.

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Customer Service: 7 Pain Points For Call Centers

NobelBiz

Customer service is a critical aspect in ensuring a company’s and brand success. Naturally, the best approach to maintain an exceptional level of service is to serve customers through a contact center. Furthermore, being present for its clients and providing a rapid, immediate, and timely return remains a key lever to reinforce any company’s business goals.

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Financial Services Executive Poll—Q2 2022

West Monroe

In April, some of the world’s biggest banks reported lower profits for the first time in nearly two years—largely due to losses and precautionary measures stemming from inflation, the Russia-Ukraine war, and a historic labor shortage. In response, the Federal Reserve announced earlier this month that it would raise interest rates half a percentage point, the largest increase since 2000.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: David Nisbet, 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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Net Promoter Score (NPS) Benchmarks for Customer Success Professionals

ClientSuccess

Whether you are brand new to the customer success scene or have been a customer success professional for years, one metric of success has been on your radar since day one: Net Promoter Score. NPS is a great way to measure customer satisfaction, customer willingness to be part of marketing efforts, and growth potential. Recap: what is a Net Promoter Score?

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Energy & Utilities Executive Poll—Q2 2022

West Monroe

A transformative move to clean energy seemed right around the corner in 2021: utility-scale solar and battery storage set annual installation records , and the passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Acts (IIJA) allocated $73 billion toward building new power lines, rebuilding America's electric grids, and expanding clean energy access. But while the industry worked to make clean energy a priority last year, greenhouse gas emissions rebounded from a pandemic-fueled drop.

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Looking Back to Move Forward

GlowTouch

Significant events of 2006: Nintendo released the Wii gaming console NASA launches the New Horizons space probe Saddam Hussein goes on trial GlowTouch introduces NOC services Okay, one of those may be a little different from the others in that it has a daily impact on any organization with a network operations center. A NOC is akin to the central nervous system.

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Healthcare Executive Poll—Q2 2022

West Monroe

We’ve watched over the last two years as the pandemic accelerated the ongoing shift to personalized, value-based, and technology-driven healthcare—changes that helped push M&A and investment in the sector to record highs. Yet with the economic picture darkening, the first few months of 2022 have seen a dip in deal activity. Meanwhile, the labor shortage continues to hit healthcare and life sciences companies especially hard—burnout, increasing demand for workers, and wage p

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Customer Experience Myths Guidebook

A CX myth is something widely believed or implemented that is based on “how we’ve always done it” thinking, rather than delivering truly innovative customer experiences. What CX myths are holding organizations back from top-level customer experience performance? What can companies do to find solid ground and move forward successfully? In this guidebook, we answer those questions and more as we explore three key myths and two strategies that you can use to replace them.

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In-Real-Time: Why Your Business Should Prioritize Quick Reactions to Consumer Demands

CSM Magazine

Consumers have become more demanding in recent years, expecting businesses to respond to their concerns quickly or lose them as customers. A single study showed that the thing people want out of customer support is quicker response time, and it isn’t surprising. After all, the time it takes for an organization to acknowledge and address concerns is an indicator of professionalism and shows that it values its audience, leading to sales.

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High-Tech & Software Executive Poll—Q2 2022

West Monroe

While growth may be slowing after record expansion in 2021, plenty of opportunity remains for technology and software companies—even amid supply chain instability, a tight labor market, inflation, and heightened regulatory scrutiny. But what’s driving that expansion? And what do industry executives make of the increasingly beleaguered reputation in the public sphere?

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Three Tech Advancements That Have Had Huge Impacts on Customer Service

CSM Magazine

Technology is playing a big part in how we can communicate with companies on a day-to-day basis, with tech playing a big role in ensuring that communication is now as straightforward as ever. There have never been more ways to speak to customer support teams, and the advancements that have been made in tech have had a huge role in that. The growing number of ways to communicate has had an excellent impression on consumers, as it means that it is now easier than ever to get answers to questions;

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Financial Services Executive Poll—Q2 2022

West Monroe

In April, some of the world’s biggest banks reported lower profits for the first time in nearly two years—largely due to losses and precautionary measures stemming from inflation, the Russia-Ukraine war, and a historic labor shortage. In response, the Federal Reserve announced earlier this month that it would raise interest rates half a percentage point, the largest increase since 2000.

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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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Agility and Adaptability Strategies in the Contact Center

CSM Magazine

Contact centers, and contact center agents, are currently experiencing an unfortunate crunch on two fronts. Christian Wagner, CEO of VoiceFoundry, explains. Complications stemming from ongoing supply chain challenges have led more customers to reach out to contact centers with questions, concerns, and complaints. Meanwhile, contact centers, like many other businesses, continue to suffer the effects of the Great Resignation.

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Energy & Utilities Executive Poll—Q2 2022

West Monroe

A transformative move to clean energy seemed right around the corner in 2021: utility-scale solar and battery storage set annual installation records , and the passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Acts (IIJA) allocated $73 billion toward building new power lines, rebuilding America's electric grids, and expanding clean energy access. But while the industry worked to make clean energy a priority last year, greenhouse gas emissions rebounded from a pandemic-fueled drop.

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8 Effective Hacks to deal with Angry Customers.

CustomerSuccessBox

It’s quite common to be unsettled in situations when something doesn’t go as expected and the immediate reaction to it is being raged to the situation or the person responsible for it. A similar scenario occurs with the customers as well and is no different. So, how do you deal with angry customers? To deal with them, you first need to know what actually happened and the reasons why they’re angry. 4 main reasons that make customers angry. 1.

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