Tue.Oct 15, 2019

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Customer Experience Management (CXM): The Best-Practice Capabilities of CX Leaders

McorpCX

As ever-greater numbers of organizations embrace the age of the smart customer, you might expect Customer Experience Management, or CXM, to be a well-understood term. After all, like ‘customer experience,’ it’s used a lot. However — also like customer experience — it describes many things.

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8 Reasons Why Customer Service Will Never Be Perfect

Steve DiGioia

Stop, just stop it. You’re not perfect and neither are the people you have working for you. And don’t even get me started about how “perfect” your business is. So, you must realize that your customer service will never be perfect either. Agreed? Good, now we can move on and try to fix it. So, how perfect can we ever expect our service to get? Good question.

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Structure Customer Success on Delivering Strong Transformational Value

Strikedeck

Vincent Manlapaz, in an interview with Mary Poppen, Chief Customer Officer at Glint Inc, talks about the urgency and importance to building Customer Success in an organization right from the start.

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Customer retention rates depend on understanding these 3 personas

TechSee

Customer churn is a growing problem across many industries and managing it has become critically important to the maintaining profitability. With the global average value of a lost customer estimated to be $243 , focusing efforts on improving customer retention rates is critical to help companies control attrition, which is estimated to cause total losses of $1.6 trillion per year.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, 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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Breaking Bad News to Clients, Backed Up by Social Insight

NetBase

Social media has changed the world we operate in across the board. No clearer is this than when something goes ‘viral’ for the wrong reasons. Social analytics can help keep tabs on your client’s online reputation and if something does go ‘off rails’, breaking bad news to clients can be softened, when it’s backed up by social insight. The data is there and you can develop solutions to get back on track.

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What's a Multimodal Customer Experience?

Uniphore

How many times have you heard that sentence while trying to pay a bill, change a service plan, update the address on one of your accounts, or get through to a customer service agent? The answer for most of us? Too many. Gartner predicts that by 2020 a customer will manage 85% of the relationship with an enterprise without interacting with a human, so how do you think your customers feel when they are misunderstood by your company's automated voice recognition system?

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AI in Service Management Is Here to Make New Winners and Losers

Alliance by IFS

Artificial intelligence (AI) was once the stuff of science fiction. But today, AI in service management is making service delivery smarter and more efficient. Over the last four years, enterprise AI implementation grew 270%, according to Gartner’s 2019 CIO Survey. A majority of service leaders see AI as a central technology tool poised to transform the industry and create new revenue opportunities.

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8 Actionable Tips for Engaging Survey Subject Lines

Retently

When customers receive a survey by email, what’s the first thing they notice? The survey question? The response options? The branding? No, it’s actually the email subject line that determines whether or not they’ll find the message interesting or engaging, and open it in the first place. Taking into account the survey fatigue, coming up with efficient subject lines that will actually get the door open is quite a challenge.

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Research Reveals 3 Non-Negotiable Customer Service Expectations

Oracle

What works for one customer may fail for another. That’s one of the most prominent insights from the “ One Size Doesn’t Fit All ” research study completed by Oracle in partnership with Jeanne Bliss, which finds that the customer service journey isn’t universal. Yet, service departments shoulder the responsibility for providing answers, offering assistance, and fielding complaints from an array of consumers.

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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Developers and DevOps in the Contact Center

Cyara

As an increasing number of contact centers migrate to the cloud, another corresponding change is occurring. More and more enterprises have deployed dedicated developers to support their customer experience initiatives.

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Global Customer Self-Service Software Market Is Booming With an Annual Growth Rate of 18.4%

Answer Dash

The global customer self-service market is booming, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18.4%. In other words? Self-service is taking over and becoming a key player in the customer service market, and both companies and consumers should take notice. Here’s everything you need to know. The AI Self-Service Category is Growing Self-Service: The Basics First: what are we talking about when we discuss AI self-service?

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Customer Experience Management (CXM): The Best-Practice Capabilities of CX Leaders

McorpCX

As ever-greater numbers of organizations embrace the age of the smart customer, you might expect Customer Experience Management, or CXM, to be a well-understood term. After all, like ‘customer experience,’ it’s used a lot. However — also like customer experience — it describes many things.

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Breaking Bad News to Clients, Backed Up by Social Insight

NetBase

Social media has changed the world we operate in across the board. No clearer is this than when something goes ‘viral’ for the wrong reasons. Social analytics can help keep tabs on your client’s online reputation and if something does go ‘off rails’, breaking bad news to clients can be softened, when it’s backed up by social insight. The data is there and you can develop solutions to get back on track.

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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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How “3-Dimensional” Customer Personas Radically Improve CX Design

McorpCX

Customer experience design professionals have recognized the power of customer persona for years. Unlike customer or audience segments —used primarily for marketing, sales activities and data management—personas are fictional characters used to design things that real customers will actually use, and yes, even love.

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How Utilities Can Use Digital Communication to Fix a Fractured CX

CSM Magazine

For much of their history, utilities haven’t had to pay too much attention to customer experience (CX). The focus in many areas, has tended to be on technologies that supported infrastructure and reduced operational costs. But today’s customer expects much more. Thanks to their interactions with service providers in other industries, people expect their utilities to provide the same seamless experience they encounter elsewhere.

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How Visual Semiotics Reveals Your Customers’ Hidden Emotions

Maru Group

According to MIT, 90 percent of information transmitted to our brain is visual. In fact, the human brain processes images in just 13 milliseconds, which is 60,000 times faster than text. Since we are visual by nature, shouldn’t we be using this skill to understand emotion? The challenge. Rational brand and product attributes are easily copied and hard to defend, while emotional connections are unique and ownable – making them difficult to displace and replicate.

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The Key to Great Innovation is to Explore

InMoment XI

How Apple, Lego, Netflix and Other Great Brands Explore the Market to Innovate This is the third article in the series on how to leverage the innovation process to improve the customer experience. In the first article I laid out my four simplified steps to innovation: Explore – understand customer needs, pain points and challenges. View Article.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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How to Increase Revenues with a Better Renewal Process

CSM Practice

A steady stream of recurring revenue is essential for any SaaS company. It forms the basis for the company’s profitability and valuation. Since customers prefer pay-as-you-use services, most businesses now use a subscription-based model to generate revenue. The risk, however, lies in the volatility of the customer’s preference for a service and their ability to churn rather than renew their subscription.

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Why Qualtrics – Amy Hendricks – Program Success Principal – Seattle, WA

Qualtrics

At Qualtrics we want to connect our people to careers that feed their purpose; jobs that motivate & inspire them. This is Amy’s “Why Qualtrics” story. I’ve focused my career on improving people’s lives – whether through direct service by improving operations, processes, and procedures; or through clarifying roles by coaching leaders and strategically modeling organizations to best serve business, customer, and employee needs.

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Guest Blog: Quadient Inspire Days 2019

Quadient

Three days of networking , education, with a little fun mixed in.

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How to Spot and Reduce Physician Burnout

ReviewTrackers

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Mapping Digital Transformation: Retail’s Strategic Shift

Speaker: Jennifer Wright, Michael Scholz, Jasmin Guthmann, and Scott Canney

Digital transformation in retail is so much more than new technology. You need to get your whole organization, from entry-level workers to executives, on board with the new tech, new skills, and culture changes that digital transformation brings. Leading this mindset shift can be a daunting task… but that’s where this webinar comes in! Join our panel of experts as they guide you through the challenges of digital transformation, preparing you to avoid common mistakes and make the most of incredib

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S&R Confessional — The Time I Almost Got Hacked

Forrester's Customer Insights

I’m continuing the trend my colleague Josh Zelonis started last year during Cybersecurity Awareness Month to share a few stories of the time I almost got hacked. It can — and does — happen to everyone, including folks that should know better. Blaming users for mistakes becomes a trap far too many of us fall […].

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The holiday survival toolkit: Deliver fantastic CX and get your employees through to January

Qualtrics

Whether you’re running a store, airport, restaurant, hotel or any other kind of destination business, the holidays are likely to be your busiest time. Here’s how your teams can deliver an excellent customer experience right through to January – and want to stick around afterwards, too. If there’s one key factor in delivering high-quality CX, it’s your staff.

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FORRward: A Weekly Read For Tech And Marketing Execs

Forrester's Customer Insights

The California Attorney General Just Published CCPA Rules, And They’re Clear As Mud Privacy wonks have been awaiting AG Becerra’s draft regulations for CCPA to provide guidance on the law. On Oct. 11th, our patience was rewarded with 24 pages of rules that often confuse more than clarify. For example: While CCPA states that covered […].

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Amazing Business Radio: Laurie Guest

ShepHyken

Small Change, Big Payoff with Laurie Guest. How Small Things Can Impact Customer Service in a Big Way. Shep Hyken interviews Laurie Guest. They discuss her recent book, The 10 ¢ Decision: How Small Change Pays Off Big , which focuses on small, simple things leaders and team members can do to enact big, positive changes in their customer service. The Interview with Laurie Guest: Business leaders don’t always need to spend a lot of time or energy to improve their customer experience.

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Your Expert Guide to CX Orchestration & Enhancing Customer Journeys

Speaker: Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor at Medallia

Join Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor, in this new webinar that will focus on: Understanding CX Orchestration Fundamentals: Gain a solid understanding of what CX orchestration is, its significance in the customer experience landscape, and how it plays a crucial role in shaping customer journeys. This includes the key concepts, strategies, and best practices involved in CX orchestration. 🔑 Connection to Customer Journey Maps: How to effectively integrate customer journey mapping into the

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Astea International Sponsors Aftermarket Business Platform 2019

Alliance by IFS

Astea helps service-driven manufacturers adopt smart data management practices and technologies such as IoT in order to enhance customer value. Nyköping, Sweden (October 15, 2019) — Astea International Inc., a leading global provider of field service management and mobility solutions , announced its sponsorship of the 13th edition of Aftermarket Business Platform taking place 16 October through 18 October in Nyköping, Sweden.

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AI IRL Podcast Episode 38: 3 Ways A.I. Is Making the World More Personal with Neil Sahota

Bold360

?. Subscribe via iTunes , Spotify and more. “There are more important things than money.”. We hear this all the time, and yet it feels as though when it comes to the conversation around A.I. most of it is focused on how it will help the bottom line. More A.I. means more money! And I think that’s absolutely true, or else I wouldn’t be spending so much energy to tell business leaders about how A.I. is changing the landscape of how businesses operate.

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Keeping Track of Your Business Expenses: A Guide

CSM Magazine

If you’re not careful, it’s easy to forget simple things when it comes to gathering your expenses once the tax month rolls around. The best way to keep track of your outgoings is to gather receipts for everything. If they’re not expenses, you can throw them away, but you can’t claim for expenses without a receipt. From entertainment to your travel , we have an easy guide on how to keep track of your money without any fuss.