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Best Practices for Developing a Customer Experience (CX) Strategy

PeopleMetrics

A Voice of the Customer (VoC) program driven by thoughtful and thorough strategic planning will not only help you achieve your customer experience objectives -- it has the power to positively transform your business time and time again. In this session, customer experience experts walk you through a best practices framework for developing your customer experience strategy around shared goals, survey design, data accessibility and more.

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How to Make a Great Customer-Centric Web Design

C3Centricity

Web design is a variable that changes as fast, if not faster than we can get our latest creation published! In just the past twelve months, digital adoption has expanded five to ten times faster than was expected, thanks to the pandemic and lockdowns. This, together with the increased economic uncertainty and loss of predictability, has driven customers online in ever greater numbers.

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Marketing Can’t Save The Customer Experience

Omnicus

Customers don’t become loyal to your brand because your marketing is excellent. They become loyal because you take good care of them. Excellent customer service experiences drive a great customer experience. Make no mistake about it; marketing is essential. It drives customer awareness, helps build top of mind, influences our buying behavior, and significantly impacts brand recognition and brand reputation.

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The Power of Employee Experience

Alida

In an increasingly competitive market, homing in on the employee experience (EX) can differentiate your brand and result in a better end result for your customers.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with 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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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 6-28-2021

ShepHyken

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. America’s Best Customer Service Companies by Newsweek. (Newsweek) Newsweek has again partnered with respected global data research firm Statista to identify the stores that consistently provide the Best Customer Service 2021.

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What is a Freemium Strategy?

Totango

A f reemium strategy forms a foundation for SaaS marketing, but it’s often used without being understood. Here’s a closer look at the basics. We’ll define what a freemium strategy is. We’ll contrast it with the similar-sounding but distinct concept of a free trial strategy. And we’ll consider the role automation plays in deploying and optimizing freemium strategy.

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Give your customers the tools to secure buy-in

CustomerSuccessBox

As Customer Success Managers one of our many hats is to ensure our customer champions know how to get the most out of your product. We work closely with our customers to ensure they are well trained on the product. The customers are informed of new features and updates. They get answers to their questions and review their utilization to provide enhancement guidance.

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How Thematic finds insights in large datasets: Analyzing 130k bank app reviews

Thematic

Extracting key insights from large datasets sounds daunting but it doesn’t have to be. With access to the right feedback analysis software , you’re hours away from having valuable and actionable insights to power your CX interventions. The ticket to the game is finding a partner who can funnel large volumes of feedback from diverse sources. Once your data is in one place, the real job is to analyze it effectively.

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How Gainsight Redesigned the Customer Health Score for One of Its Products

Gainsight

At Gainsight, we value our customer’s success as our success. A key part of this strategy is to build and use customer health scores, a functionality Gainsight created in its own customer success platform for all its customers. In many B2B companies, the gross retention rate and net retention rate are the key performance indicators of the business, so most companies like to put other leading indicators or checks in place to track the customer’s health.

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The 2023 Verint Experience Index: Retail

Reports of the death of in-store shopping have been greatly exaggerated. This year’s retail survey found that more than 60 percent of consumers start and end their journey by visiting a store. Retail customers value price above everything, but the importance of other factors varies for different brands. In-store shopping is valued highly by grocery and home improvement customers Technology retail customers place less importance on in-store experiences – for them it only ranks sixth Digital exper

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The Cyber Insurance Roller Coaster: As Demand Speeds Up, Some Insurers Disembark

Forrester's Customer Insights

The first half of 2021 has been anything but quiet for cyberinsurance! Forrester has seen a steady flow of client inquiries on the topic, with questions coming in not just from the private but also the public sector. Some are trying to navigate acquiring a cyberinsurance policy for the first time, while others are struggling […].

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Agency Solutions: What Agencies Need to Know About Social Media and Reputation Management

ReviewTrackers

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The Salesforce Summer ’21 Release Top Updates

Forcivity Salesforce

As the organization works to maintain a loyal and satisfied customer base, Salesforce always delivers highly anticipated updates and increased service offerings. In this Summer ’21 release, Salesforce delivers once again. With updates and upgrades spanning from strengthened analytics solutions to field service templates, this release is sure to be a game-changer.

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Customer Centricity Panel Discussion

Peter Lavers

Customer centricity is a term that has been around for a number of years, but what does it mean in a business-to-business environment and how do we turn the words into a change in the way in which our businesses are run? Alan Thompson. Peter Lavers was delighted to participate in the Customer Attuned online panel discussion in June, which focused on customer centricity and continued their series on Providing Leadership in the New Normal.

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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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15 Reading Interest Survey Questions To Ask Students

SurveySparrow

So what was it? What was the book that made you fall in love with reading? Was it Jane Austen’s? Or Harry Potter? Or Dan Brown’s excellent thrillers? Not these? Well, we have to admit we’re not solid with our guessing game. But there’s one thing we’re damn good at, according to our clients. Surveys. That’s our thing. And if you’re an educator looking to build reading habits among students, you’ve come to the right place as we’ll discuss some reading interest survey questions, their massive impor

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When To Turn To Email Response Outsourcing

Magellan Solutions

When do you turn to email response outsourcing ? Do your customers email you often? Are you running an online business ? Many companies have trouble staying on top of customer emails, and missing a chance to respond to customers hurts your brand. Email queries need a rapid and accurate response. . If you’re a small business, have an online store, or receive many customer support emails, consider outsourcing email support.

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What Do We Mean by Employee Engagement and How Can It Help Your Customer Support Department?

CSM Magazine

You have probably heard the term employee engagement being coined by many business leaders since the start of the pandemic. A physical distance between companies and employees makes it increasingly difficult for organisations to create engagement, and, as one of the departments that relies on human interaction, customer support was one of the most affected ones.

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How To Extract Date And Time In Dialogflow?

kommunicate

In this blog, we can see how to extract the date and time in a Dialogflow and personalize the responses. Extracting the date, time, and personalize the responses are very much needed for the meeting booking bots to schedule events, restaurant bots, and reservation booking bots, etc. which would increase user engagement. Entities Dialogflow entities [.].

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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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[EP.1] Being Present on Social Media: It’s Harder than You Think

Lithium

It’s finally here, and we couldn’t be more excited. The Customer Engagement team is proud to present the first episode of Titans of Customer Engagement: A Customer Experience Podcast , Being Present on Social Media: It's Harder than You Think featuring Kerrie Robert , Social Media Manager of Customer Service at Experian. The Titans podcast features Khoros customers sharing best practices, insight on the evolution of customer and business demands, and what is or is not working when it comes to su

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Tips for Small Business to Develop Customer Service

CSM Magazine

The icing on the cake for your customers is good customer service, which is why according to the 2018 State of Global Customer Service Report, 95% of respondents indicated that customer service is important to their choice of brand. Quite often, front line support staff hold the key to customer success. It is especially true for people working with small businesses like Carpet Cleaning Canterbury.

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[EP.2] Socialize by Using Social: Engaging Customers for Exceptional CX

Lithium

Socialize by Using Social: Engaging Customers for Exceptional CX. The Customer Engagement team is back with the second episode of Titans of Customer Engagement: A Customer Experience Podcast. In this episode of Titans of Customer Engagement, we interviewed Lars Aaes ( ) , Social Media Team lead at TV 2 Marketing, about how TV networks create their social media strategies and what they're looking to achieve.

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Cloud vs. On-premise Contact Centers: 3 Critical Differences

Think Customers

There’s no denying the vital role contact centers play in brands’ ability to meet customer needs quickly and efficiently. When done well, centers offer seamless experiences by connecting customers with the information they need – whether it’s via an agent or through automated technology – when and how they need it. In the past, the term “ contact center ” has conjured up images of servers and staff sitting in a brick-and-mortar location.

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The Open CCaaS Advantage Report

Over the next 12 months, what do you think will have the biggest impact on your CX automation efforts? When asked the same question, only 10% of CX leaders surveyed by Verint chose telephony. It’s no longer the engagement channel leading CCaaS conversations. The customer engagement challenges facing organizations have changed – so a new approach is needed.

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Welcome to Integration Week – Your community tech stack just got better

inSided

Welcome to Integration Week! It’s about time we started talking more about our integrations and how they can help you get even more out of your customer community. Our integration stack helps your customers access the content they need and get faster 1-on-1 help, creating a more dynamic community environment. Plus, they make your day-to-day easier by improving workflows, automating repetitive tasks, and enriching data points – all in the name of creating a better customer experience.

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UK-Wide Rise in Virtual Work Experience Helps Business to Provide the Platform for Enhanced Customer Service

CSM Magazine

From early 2020, the onset of the pandemic took everyone by surprise and various sectors have suffered from the effects that still extend till now. Young people had to face the challenge of gaining school work experience in an era where social distancing and other lockdown rules pose obstacles. This article will draw points from research from Speakers for Schools , a charity organisation founded by Robert Peston, which analyses the trends in the job placements offered by companies in diverse sec

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Making the case for outsourcing payroll

XMplify

During May, I had the pleasure to moderate a series of virtual roundtables with a range of Heads of HR and Payroll. Supporting the roundtables were two experts in the field of payroll management and automation; Stephen K.

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Top Tips to Help You Find the Right Staff For Your Company

CSM Magazine

Hiring the right staff is a critical but essential process for any business. If you are a small business owner or someone with a well-established business, hiring new staff may seem like a tough task. It’s a decision on which the future of your company relies. There is a complete process that is needed to be followed. But sometimes still, after all the efforts you put into hiring staff, you might end up hiring a bad one.

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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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Top Customer Success Trends and Customer Success Budgeting for the year 2021

CustomerSuccessBox

There is no exception to the fact that this Covid pandemic has hit hard on a lot of businesses. But, the year 2020 has seen a boom in the Customer Success space, as a lot of SaaS businesses are now identifying Customer Success as a strong business imperative. The companies have realized the importance of customer success in an overall increase in revenue and profitability.

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What Should Be Your Goal in Your Virtual Assistant Cold Calling Service?

Magellan Solutions

What Outcome Should You Prioritize When You’re Doing a Virtual Assistant Cold Calling Service? Virtual assistant cold calling service has been an integral part in many companies that want to expand their marketability. It enables them to reach a wider range of prospects that may have an interest with their products or services. However, most cold callers have a tendency to force themselves when it comes to closing sales.

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Should CX leaders be aiming to make their role obsolete?

MyCustomer

Engagement Should CX leaders aspire to obsolescence?