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How Support Teams Can Improve Customer Retention

Help Scout

Great customer service delivers real business value. That’s a foundational belief at Help Scout, as outlined in our support-driven growth articles. Even so, it can be difficult for empathetic customer service staff to think about customers in terms of business revenue. It somehow feels more “fair” to treat every customer equally, being helpful and responsive without regard to the money involved.

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Best places for customer service certification & training

GetFeedback

Learn why earning a customer service certification will benefit your business and find organizations offering training and certifications.

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Uncover and Action Comprehensive Insights with Flexibility

Alida

Voice of the customer (VoC) and customer experience (CX) initiatives are becoming more important every day. As customer expectations skyrocket and buying behaviors turn on a dime, companies are tasked with keeping up—something nearly impossible to do without some level of insight into what customers want and are expecting.

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What’s Normal for Us Can Be Amazing to Others

ShepHyken

During my live presentations, there is a part of my speech where I talk about Moments of Magic. These are positive experiences we create for our customers, including our internal customers, also known as our fellow employees. (If you’ve been following my work, you already knew that.). In the speech, I’ll ask audience members to share an example of when they created that experience.

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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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Contribute Meaningfully: The Power of a Research Strategy

dscout People Nerds

Chris Geison walks us through the distinctions between “strategic research” and “research strategy” to unpack how the latter is the key to improving team bandwidth and securing a seat at the table.

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TSIA Interact Spring 2021: Key Takeaways

Education Services Group

TSIA’s conferences are always jam-packed with best practices, real-life examples, success stories, and lessons learned from some of technology’s biggest names. This spring’s virtual TSIA Interact was certainly no exception, with three days of sessions from TSIA researchers and industry-leading companies and experts. With so many impressive sessions and speakers, it was hard to choose which to attend each day!

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041: How do Apple, Starbucks, and Southwest Outperform the Rest of Their Industries Regardless of the Economy? Here’s How!

The DiJulius Group

Chief Revolution Officer John DiJulius of the DiJulius Group answers this question: Why do companies like Apple, American Express, Tesla, Chick-fil-A, Starbucks, Amazon, Southwest, and Zappos always outperform the rest of their industry regardless of the economy? It is the service, stupid! Today, discover how one company increased revenue to over $2 million a month.

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Top Three Characteristics of a Connected Enterprise

CSM Magazine

What does it mean to be a Connected Enterprise and does it really matter? Ross Daniels at Calabrio believes it’s a great aspiration for all modern organisations and presents a unique opportunity to elevate the status of the contact centre. Meeting rapidly changing customer expectations in the new world of remote work demands far higher levels of agility from organisations everywhere – and places an even greater focus on improving customer service.

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Have You Ever Had A Green Customer Churn? – Webinar Recap

Gainsight

Gainsight’s Chief Customer Officer, Kellie Capote, recently had a chance to join Amanda Schmidt, VP of Customer Success at PandaDoc, Customer Success Evangelist, Dan Steinman, and Bryan Plaster, Founder and CEO of CompleteCSM, for a candid conversation on how to handle the complex scenario of having a “green” customer churn. And best practices to help avoid it in the future.

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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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Forrester's Daunting CX Prediction and How CX leaders Can Overcome It

Lithium

"CX leaders who can’t prove their value to the business will find themselves on the street. Those who do keep their jobs will do so by ensuring that their metrics and measurements relate to what matters most: KPIs with a dollar sign in front of them.” - Harley Manning, Forrester Research. It’s no secret that those who have stepped foot in the newly chartered customer experience (CX) arena are feeling the pressure to show the proof in the CX pudding.

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Defining Digital Customer Success (and how it’s different from “traditional” CS)

inSided

Welcome to our new blog series – This is Digital Customer Success. In this series, we’ll talk about what Digital CS is, what’s required to build a Digital CS program, team structure and responsibilities, metrics, and so much more! This week, we’re starting at the very beginning: What the heck is Digital CS and how is it different from “traditional” CS?

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Trust Is Your Business Imperative

Forrester's Customer Insights

Our society is coping with unprecedented challenges. Your customers, employees, and partners are all facing growing uncertainties and concerns, such as: income inequality and job insecurity, social unrest, and misinformation and disinformation. Meanwhile, systemic risks like climate change, pandemics, and global recessions have wrought significant health, safety, and financial impacts.

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Marketing During a Pandemic: 3 Ways to Make It Multigenerational

Hallmark Business Connections

It might sound shocking, but many marketers have shut out or deprioritized up to 73 million potential customers. Who are these unicorn consumers who represent 70% of the total addressable market? Baby Boomers. And for many companies, they’ve been relegated to the back burner in favor of a younger demographic. Why? Perhaps because they’re known for being fiercely brand loyal and rather unmovable, which has made them tough nuts to crack — until now, that is.

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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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How to Write SEO-Friendly Blog Posts: A Step by Step Guide

DemandJump

If you're not properly optimizing your blog content for SEO, you're missing out on thousands of potential website visitors.

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What Makes The Best Dental Office Answering Service

Magellan Solutions

Outsourcing dental answering service and more for the healthcare industry. The healthcare industry matters the most in these times. And we, as a company serving the people, guarantee quality service for: Doctor’s Offices. Patient issues are not limited to a certain time frame. We are an extension of the medical industry. Because of this, we understand your mission.

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Ascribe expands EU operations with new data center in Germany

Ascribe

EU Clients can fully leverage Ascribe’s leading verbatim analytics platform through the new EU based data center, built with the highest standards of security and privacy. CINCINNATI, Ohio, May 12, 2021 Ascribe, a global verbatim analysis software and service company, announced that it has expanded operations in the European Union with the addition of a new.

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How fans of brands can improve your customer experience ROI

5CA

At 5CA we believe the CX that we offer is superior because it’s fan-made. We think it’s better for the customers of the businesses we partner with, but we also think it’s better for our clients’ own bottom line. And we can prove it. Let’s take a look at how fans of brands can make a difference to your ROI.

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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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Five Productivity Obstacles Sales Organizations Need To Overcome

Forrester's Customer Insights

Improving reps' productivity is one of the top objectives of our sales leader clients. The first step to achieving this is to truly understand the key productivity obstacles today’s sales teams face.

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What’s wrong with Amazon?

Helen Dewdney

This week I was on LBC talking about “Amazon remorse”, the feeling of buying on Amazon and then regretting it. In their hearts people want to support independent retailers. However, that isn’t the reality. Because although a certain percentage do feel remorse, they still buy from Amazon. During the Covid pandemic we have obviously seen a record number of people buying online.

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How fans of brands can improve your CX ROI

5CA

The post How fans of brands can improve your CX ROI appeared first on 5CA.

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Ascribe Expands EU Operations with New Data Center in Germany

Ascribe

EU Clients can fully leverage Ascribe’s leading verbatim analytics platform through the new EU based data center, built with the highest standards of security and privacy. CINCINNATI, Ohio, May 12, 2021. Ascribe, a global verbatim analysis software and service company, announced that it has expanded operations in the European Union with the addition of a new data center based in Germany.

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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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Cargo loyalty emerges to help aviation attract business

LoyaltyPlus

Anew concept, cargo loyalty, has emerged within retail and related marketing, and all evidence suggests it is already helping to lift the ailing aviation industry off its knees. Leading independent customer relationship management company, LoyaltyPlus, says aviation has taken a serious hammering from the global COVID-19 pandemic and is looking at various ways to encourage business.

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Five Productivity Obstacles Sales Organizations Need To Overcome

Forrester's Customer Insights

Improving reps' productivity is one of the top objectives of our sales leader clients. The first step to achieving this is to truly understand the key productivity obstacles today’s sales teams face.

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Global consumer trends: how the pandemic changed the world and what we’ve learned for the future

Qualtrics

The global pandemic changed the way we interact with each other – and with brands. Driven by emotional and transactional needs, consumers across the world have demonstrated their values – and indicated their plans for the future. Read on for top-level insights from our 2021 Global Consumer Trends Report. We spoke to nearly 18,000 people across the globe to understand not only what changed last year, but what we can expect for the future.

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The Trust Imperative

Forrester's Customer Insights

Everyone knows that trust is critical to success, and in the next decade, it will take on even more importance. Few companies view trust between their customers, employees, and partners as an asset they can deliberately build and enhance to maximize performance, however, and few are prepared for the new patterns of trust that are […].

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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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What is design research methodology?

Qualtrics

How can design research principles of being curious about your target market and learning what they need give you the ultimate edge in creating the best customer experiences? What is design research? Design research has become more important in business, as industries move towards designing high-quality customer experiences. How can companies create truly valuable products and services that focus on the customer and provide value that enhances their experience and lives?

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Digital Business, Part 3: Talent Management At Mars

Forrester's Customer Insights

In this episode of “Digital Business,” I continue my conversation with Sandeep Dadlani, global chief digital officer at Mars, as we explore how he thinks about accelerating digital business by embracing the employees already in the business in this 10-minute video. Key takeaways: While experienced digital talent remains scarce, leaders can improve the pool of […].

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What is experience design?

Qualtrics

How can you put people at the heart of your design decisions to elicit an emotional response about your products, services, brand, or workplace? Our guide to experience design will help you understand how an outside-in approach can help you get the perspectives you need to design the experiences people want next. What is experience design? Experience design is an approach to creating experiences for people that: Solve a problem.

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