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Why so Serious?

InMoment XI

Let’s be honest with ourselves. We take customer experience way too seriously sometimes. We get wrapped up with the stress of building and designing the perfect program in hopes to get straight A’s or a 4.0 from our customers. The constant quest for perfection has the potential to make CX a drag or hum-drum—just really. View Article.

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No Agent Is an Island: Why Collaboration Is Key to Great Customer Service

Kayako

Over the past few years, all hands support has been touted as the pinnacle of cross-company customer service collaboration. And yet, it’s still undervalued as a tool for minimizing barriers between businesses and their customers. But all hands support has its issues too. While the expected benefits of an all hands approach are many, the notion that everyone in a company should participate in answering customer service is idealistic and naive.

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The problem of real-time data in CX

Customer Bliss

There’s a new report out called “The Evolution To Real-Time Customer Experience,” which is a joint production of Forrester Research (consulting firm) and DataStax. There’s also a summary of the report here. What can we learn? Real-time data is a problem for customer experience. A whopping 95% of companies indicated they were “unable to make sense” of real-time customer insights.

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How Do Smart Leaders Create the Best Experiences?

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

In many ways, customer experience is still a new phenomenon. Ok that’s not really accurate, of course. Your customers have experiences with you, and judge their relationship with your brand based on how they feel about those experiences, whether you want them to or not. But the idea of investing in creating powerful, meaningful and delightful experiences is still a relatively new idea.

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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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The Customer-First Experience: Are Brands Really Prepared to Deliver?

Calabrio

It’s no secret that smart businesses are prioritizing customer needs above all else, and putting the customer first is imperative for them to compete. Consumers have high expectations for a great experience no matter where they interact with brands, therefore businesses are now forced to stop thinking about loyalty in terms of brand name and start thinking of it in terms of experience.

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Is Omnichannel and Personalization Mutually Exclusive

Uniphore

Omnichannel and personalization – and never the twain shall meet. Is the desire to deliver a true omnichannel contact center offering at odds with the idea of providing a truly personalized customer experience? Read More.

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Why so Serious?

InMoment XI

Let’s be honest with ourselves. We take customer experience way too seriously sometimes. We get wrapped up with the stress of building and designing the perfect program in hopes to get straight A’s or a 4.0 from our customers. The constant quest for perfection has the potential to make CX a drag or hum-drum—just really.

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The Customer-First Experience: Are Brands Really Prepared to Deliver?

Calabrio

It’s no secret that smart businesses are prioritizing customer needs above all else, and putting the customer first is imperative for them to compete. Consumers have high expectations for a great experience no matter where they interact with brands, therefore businesses are now forced to stop thinking about loyalty in terms of brand name and start thinking of it in terms of experience.

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CX & NPS® Trends for 2020 – Influencers Edition

CustomerGauge

Over the last half-decade the customer experience and Net Promoter Score® industry trends has changed as we know it. Customers have become increasingly empowered with technology and now demand a highly personalized and frictionless customer experience that meets their needs and expectations. In order to keep customer satisfaction and loyalty to a high standard, NPS® has […].

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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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The Customer-First Experience: Are Brands Really Prepared to Deliver?

Calabrio

It’s no secret that smart businesses are prioritizing customer needs above all else, and putting the customer first is imperative for them to compete. Consumers have high expectations for a great experience no matter where they interact with brands, therefore businesses are now forced to stop thinking about loyalty in terms of brand name and start thinking of it in terms of experience.

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Operationalizing a High Volume Onboarding Team

Amity

Operationalizing a High Volume Onboarding Team. How to do it scalably and efficiently while achieving near 100% Customer Satisfaction and lowering time to desired outcome. If you’ve spent any time in SAAS Customer Success, you’ll understand that one of the most important aspects of adopting a new software product is the onboarding and training period.

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Visit Topdown at IASA 2017 to See INTOUCH

Topdown

We'll be exhibiting June 4-7 at the IASA 2017 Annual Educational Conference and Business Show in Orlando, Florida. Our focus will be on how INTOUCH ® , our new cloud-based Customer Communication Management (CCM) solution, improves both the customer experience and the employee experience in the insurance industry.

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5 Tips for Effective Leadership in Customer Service

Provide Support

5 Tips for Effective Leadership in Customer Service. Customer service team success is most significantly influenced by service-focused culture that starts at the top and works its way throughout the company. In today’s highly competitive marketplace, the most popular businesses attribute a large part of their success to having a customer service mindset that has the power to build a strong brand image and product differentiation.

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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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Fitness for Customer Experience

ReviewTrackers

Welcome to Customer Insights , a weekly digest of the most important stories about online reviews, customer feedback, and customer experience. This week: Hotels must find ways to make it easy for guests to stay active. Subscribe to receive these stories and more every week in your inbox. Email *. Email This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

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6 things to consider for better feedback forms

Enalyzer

As we all know, customer feedback is essential to improving your product and to understand your users. However, every day, organizations struggle to collect valuable feedback, that’s why we want to talk about feedback forms. Feedback forms, when done correctly, are an excellent tool to understand user experience. They’re easy to digest and fill in, which also makes them easy to build and design.

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Technology for 21st-Century, Experience-Driven Sports Fan Engagement

Avaya

Sensors in their jerseys, shoes, and helmets. Sensors in the turf, the goal box, race car, and golf club. Athletes of the future will be tracked at every moment so we can know how fast and focused they are, and when they’re “in the zone.” The sports experience has become a 21st-Century medley of sights, smells, and experiences. Undoubtedly, technology is shaping the modern fan experience.

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Why Intelligent Self-Service is So Much More than a Cost-Saving Solution

Bold360

High up on the list in every article about digital self-service is how much money it will save you as a business. Some say it will cut costs on hiring staff for low-level tasks, by streamlining and automating services. Others focus on around-the-clock hours for sales, or even reducing ticket inquiries altogether and improving customer retention and therefore profits.

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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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Choosing The Best Promoter Net Software

TrustFuel

If you have decided to utilize an NPS program to increase your customer loyalty and so far, encountered a lot of software service provides, and still don’t know which one to choose, don’t worry, we are going to help you find the best one. All of them will allow you to ask a straightforward question, “why you are the best solution for me,” but here all similarities end.

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New Talkdesk for Salesforce Feature: Omni-Channel Presence Sync

Talkdesk

For contact center teams, managing agent workloads can be challenging. It’s not productive to overwork reps, but at the same time, it’s wasteful to have too much idle time. Customer communications are typically received in real time, but across disparate systems, so supervisors lack visibility into agents’ current tasks. This makes it difficult to properly assign and prioritize incoming tasks.

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The Relevance Of Responsive Design In Ecommerce

LiveChat

Have you ever viewed a website on your mobile phone and thought, “Uh. This looks horrible,” before exiting it immediately? When we stumble on websites that don’t look “right”, it’s usually because the owners haven’t implemented something called responsive design. In other words, the site might look great on your desktop, but it looks positively horrendous on mobile devices.

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Verint Speakers: Listening to Your Customers in the Digital Age

Verint

CRMXchange QA & Analytics Virtual Conference. June 5-8; Online Webinar. Verint’s Kristyn Emenecker, global vice president, product strategy group, will present “Quality Is a Contact Sport: Human Intelligence in an Artificial Intelligence World” on June 5 at 2 p.m. ET. With all the talk about automation, robotics and artificial intelligence coming to the world of scoring and quality, it is not clear where the everyday quality assurance pro goes from here.

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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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Which Customer Journeys Should You Map?

Kerry Bodine

Where should you start your journey mapping efforts? If you don’t know the answer, you’re not alone. Many aspiring journey mappers feel overwhelmed because they believe that they need to map every single interaction that their customers could possibly have with their organization—a daunting task, indeed! I can’t say you should never map the full end-to-end journey (one that’s basically aligned with the complete customer lifecycle).