Fri.Feb 22, 2019

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The Components of Intelligent Agent-Engagement

Uniphore

While assisted service aptly describes the human-touch component, intelligent agent engagement more accurately describes the human-touch fueled with technology to drive improved operational efficiency. Read More.

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Evolving Analytics as Fast as Instagram

NetBase

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Why Engagement Strategies & Investment Are Important for Customer Retention

ProProfs Chat

A Forrester report highlights increasing customer retention by 5% can increase profits by up to 95%. Loyal customers spend about 30% more with brands than new customers. An investment to increase retention by 5% is surely a worthy business investment. For effective customer retention, a focused and dedicated approach needs to be kept in mind. And, a well-designed loyalty program can act as a profitable investment and reduce the likelihood of customers going to your competitors.

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How To Measure Authentic Customer Emotions In Real Time

Beyond Philosophy

There is a big challenge when measuring customer emotions as you are asking customers how they felt in an experience, as this is done retrospectively, a while after they had the experience. Many times, Customers don’t remember how they felt or, for several reasons, they don’t want to tell you. Using technology, you can now measure customer’s emotions in real time!

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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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Guest Blog: How One Experience Started My CX Passion

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Stacy Sherman who reminds us that brands must not compete on price alone and shares a great story to illustrate this point from Stacy’s Pita Chips. – Shep Hyken. My obsession for Customer Experience (CX) started when I received a package in the mail on a random afternoon. I was not anticipating the delivery of a large box with a label that said, “ To Stacy, From Stacy.

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The Hope That Fuels Pharma

Market Strategies International

The Emotional Investment Behind the Development of New TherapiesLike the old TV commercial, I sometimes joke, “I’m not a doctor but I play one on TV.

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Emotion Plays a Major Role in Customer Experience

Second to None

They key to success in customer experience understanding the customer and their behavioral patterns. The first step in this initiative is recognizing that an individual’s behavior is largely driven by their emotional responses. Emotions are innate drivers that exist to “appraise and summarize an experience and inform your actions”, demonstrating a large influence on people’s daily decisions [1].

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Critical Skills of the World’s Most Successful Customer Success Managers and Leaders

ClientSuccess

The role of a customer success manager (CSM) in the SaaS industry has become increasingly complex. As platforms themselves become more innovative and functional, and as customers become more well-versed in how these solutions impact their business, CSMs are faced with more questions and challenges than ever before. While working with customers takes a certain type of person with a certain temperament, there are also specific skills CSMs must work on and develop in order to be successful.

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Reputation Management for Dentists: How to Get Started

ReviewTrackers

Online Reputation Management for Dentists. Your online reputation affects your dentistry practice’s bottom line. More than ever, existing and potential patients are relying on the Internet to find more information about you. They’re visiting multiple online review websites and reading dentist reviews to help them decide whether they will pay you a visit or choose to go with someone else.

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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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Totango Welcomes Seasoned Industry Leaders to Executive Team

Totango

Last year, we experienced record business growth—we more than doubled our revenue and customer base, tripled our engineering and support staff, introduced Totango Spark , a next generation flagship customer success solution, and announced a go-to-market partnership with SAP among many other exciting milestones. Although we’re less than two months into 2019, we’re in full execution mode, working to capitalize on another year of significant business growth and see our vision of the Customer Center

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New Retail in China: Promise, Progress and Pitfalls

Prophet

New Retail — or business models that converge digital and offline experiences — has blossomed in China. The advances of Chinese companies compared to Amazon Go, a supermarket that basically offers “click and collect” convenience, are impressive. The country’s progress is driven by factors unique to China, ranging from its ability to harness data to […].

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It’s the Dawn of a New Day for Healthcare Payors

North Highland

With the momentum of value-based reimbursement, disruption is knocking at healthcare’s door, and particularly for payors. Disruption means that they will need to elevate their partnerships with providers to build networks that leverage reimbursement trends and models. At the same time, they will need to deliver the clinical and financial outcomes that sustain system viability and improve member experiences.

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Unforgettable Episode 24: The Secret to a Customer-Centric Organization: Communication

Oracle

Unforgettable is a customer experience education program, focused on delivering fresh content weekly to give business leaders what they need to succeed in a customer-driven, digitally-disrupted world. The program brings together the expert minds of Jay Baer , Shep Hyken , Jeanne Bliss , Ian Golding , and Blake Morgan to spotlight modern customer experience excellence.

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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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Building Ionic/Cordova Chatbot with Dialogflow (API.ai)

kommunicate

In the previous post, we presented you with simple and effective guides to integrating Dialogflow bot in a website, Android and iOS apps. In this article, we will be sharing steps to do the same in an Ionic/Cordova app. All you need to build a sample chatbot using Dialogflow and Kommunicate for an Ionic/Cordova app. Both [.]. The post Building Ionic/Cordova Chatbot with Dialogflow (API.ai) appeared first on Kommunicate Blog.

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Machines Are Great, but Humans Are Better

Talkdesk

The promised potential of machines, machine learning, bots and artificial intelligence has contact center and customer experience professionals discussing the possibilities with increasing interest. Machine learning and the illustrious idea of true artificial intelligence have some very powerful implications and capabilities. We are far from the days, however, where machines will replace humans in matters dealing with non-trivial situations.

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5-Step Guide to Reduce Customer Support Friction and Improve Your Organization’s CX

Advantage Communications

The constant evolution of digital technology and a growing customer base that wants seamless and instant results, mean it's now more important than ever for your company to go above and beyond when it comes to customer experience (CX). One of the most important ways to improve your organization’s CX is to make it easier for customers to do business with you, and to do that it’s essential to reduce the amount of friction in your customer support strategy.

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Shopping For AI Talent? Beware Of Unicorns

Forrester's Customer Insights

At the dawn of big data, data scientists were the unicorn of the hour. Talk to any one of these rarities, and they would say there were only about 100 of them in the world. When executives woke up to the potential of big data, it was also at the same time we were dealing […].

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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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Customer Anger is a Gift: Here’s How to Unwrap It

Daniel Group

Getting a call or email from an angry customer is a valuable opportunity for your business, though it may not feel that way at first. The key to getting the most out of the gift of customer anger is learning how to unwrap it properly. Anger. A Gift? Really? Yes, really, customer anger is valuable for several reasons: It’s a high-quality signal. Research suggests that customer anger is a more powerful predictor of defection than plain old dissatisfaction.

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Modern (B2B) Love: Deepen Customer Relationships With Post-Sale Engagement Marketing

Forrester's Customer Insights

Ah yes, anyone suffering from a chocolate hangover? Or an excess of corny romanticism? Let’s face it, we all love “love” — but with Valentine’s Day a week behind us, the last thing you probably want right now is more advice on relationships. Before you toss aside some of that abundant advice about personal relationships, […].

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Importance of Community

COPC

Despite the fact that virtually every organization in existence has an entire department dedicated to customer care, the global community of customer care leaders is a small and familiar group of folks. This community is well supported by a calendar jam-packed with conferences, summits and seminars. From massive spectacles (think Customer Contact Week) to cozy, hosted dinners, industry-specific gatherings have a lot to offer.

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Churn Monster: Cheater

ChurnZero

Churn Monster #9: Cheater Customer. It’s time to talk churn monsters again. This month’s customer churn risk is a cheater. A cheater is a customer who is actively being wooded by one (or maybe even more) of your competitors in attempts to steal their business. Of course, competition is always going to be a thing in any marketplace, but sometimes we can get so wrapped up in the bubble of the company we work for that we become naive and blind to the outside world and the competitive landscape.

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10 Questions to Ask Before Buying an LMS

Find your perfect LMS. Choosing the right Learning Management System (LMS) is crucial for your business's success. With so many options available in the market, how do you ensure you make the best choice? This guide is your key to finding the ideal enterprise learning platform for your business. Compiled by industry experts, these questions will help to clarify your needs, prioritize your most essential features, and guide you through the evaluation process.

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Unforgettable Episode 24: The Secret to Customer-Centric Organization: Communication

Oracle

Unforgettable is a customer experience education program, focused on delivering fresh content weekly to give business leaders what they need to succeed in a customer-driven, digitally-disrupted world. The program brings together the expert minds of Jay Baer , Shep Hyken , Jeanne Bliss , Ian Golding , and Blake Morgan to spotlight modern customer experience excellence.

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E-Commerce Customer Service Best Practices That The Household Goods Industry Should Follow

Magellan Solutions

What does it take for the household goods industry to succeed in the online world? Aside from creating powerful marketing messages, they should also devise effective and efficient e-commerce customer service best practices. Here are the reasons why. Because of its convenient features, nothing can seem to stop the growth of online shopping. It is like giving people the ability to access an entire shopping mall with their hands without going anywhere.

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Digital Out-Of-Home Advertising: Not Your Grandmother’s Roadside Billboards

Forrester's Customer Insights

(Dave Novitzky contributed to this blog) It’s January, snowy, unbearably cold, and to make matters worse, a Monday. You’re trying to make it to the weekend so you don’t need to go outside. until you see an empty lounge chair on a beautiful warm beach floating down the Hudson River. Yes, you […].

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Why Qualtrics – David Mathis – Senior Software Engineer – Provo, UT

Qualtrics

My name is David Mathis. I’ve been working at Qualtrics as a Software Engineer for over 6 years. I started as an intern when the company had only 30 engineers. I’ve enjoyed being a part of the company’s rapid growth. I am now a Senior Software Engineer and lead a team that develops back-end services in Qualtrics’ data platform. So tell us, what is your why?

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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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Embrace Specialist Tools To Drive Sustainable Innovation

Forrester's Customer Insights

Successful tools and tech support broad and fluctuating levels of participation in innovation, both inside and outside the organization.

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The 7 Customer Survey Types for a World-Class CX Program

delighted

Creating a great customer experience (CX) is important—but where do you start? At their core, customer experience programs uncover how customers interact with your brand, product, or service. The best CX programs ask the right questions in the right way at the right time to the right audience. Luckily, there are several tried and true methods of collecting and analyzing customer data.

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The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Customer Support

TeamSupport

We live in an era where technology is advancing so quickly that it’s hard to keep up. Think back to ten or even twenty years ago when you needed to get to a business meeting. You had to print out your plane ticket, rental car information, and sometimes even directions on where you needed to go. Now, all this information is stored in your pocket (via smartphone), and technology is changing in a different way.