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What are the three limitations of customer-centricity - and which companies confirm them?

MyCustomer

Engagement. What are the 3 limitations of customer-centricity?

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Using customer feedback to manage business risk: 5 tips to turn customers into partners

Qualtrics

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Moral Marketing: Working Out When a Brand Should Take a Stance on a Controversial Issue

Brandwatch CX

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CX & Mystery Shopping: Great Questions to Consider

InMoment XI

Customer Experience Research is Common Sense In college, I grew up on watching Steven Wright’s comedy acts. In fact, one-time on a business trip I ran into him at my hotel in Atlanta – what a moment. His comedy angle is basically using common sense thinking and then wrapping a question or comment around that. View Article.

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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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Blue Ocean Wins 2019 Silver Stevie® Award in 13th Annual Stevie Awards for Customer Service

BlueOcean

Blue Ocean, a world-leader in customer care solutions, was awarded a Silver Stevie Award ® in the “Customer Service Team of the Year – Recovery Situation” category in the 13th annual Stevie Awards for Customer Service. This is Blue Ocean’s second Stevie Award. The company won a Bronze Stevie in the same category in 2017. The Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service are the world’s top honors for customer service, contact center, business development, and sales professionals.

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What is the Motivation for Companies to Adopt Self-Service?

Uniphore

Self-service is often the first step of the customer service journey. It is at this time that the solution can either enhance brand perception or hurt brand perception, so the importance of self-service cannot be over emphasized. Factors driving organizations to invest in self-service include: Read More.

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Simon Says You Should Read This to Improve Your CX

Beyond Philosophy

I talk a lot about how people are irrational and have presented evidence for it. Most people can get on board with the idea that we are not robots that are purely rational. Some people do push back on the idea that people are not rational. Typically, they are more rational-types. These non-believers throw up their hands and say, “Well, if we are all just mindless animals, are we going to treat people like dogs?”.

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Communicating that Customers Matter

Wired and Dangerous

In the last few months, we have visited several C level officers of client companies. Most executive offices today are smaller than in past years and have interiors that are no longer decorated to communicate importance and prestige. Most C level offices are supported by an administrative assistant that could have written the book on great hosting.

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10 Quotes About Artificial Intelligence from the Experts

Oracle

Artificial intelligence (AI) took off in some inspiring new directions over the past year, from c hatbots using conversational AI to algorithms that can identify abnormalities in patient x-rays. Here, retail executives, market analysts, and industry experts share some interesting quotes about artificial intelligence. Disruptive innovation. “Technology is going to disrupt the future of work, perhaps sooner than we thought.

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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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How to Respond to TripAdvisor Reviews (With Review Response Examples)

ReviewTrackers

TripAdvisor: Why Respond to Reviews? If you’re not responding to online reviews (negative and positive) of your business on TripAdvisor, you may be missing out on the opportunity to drive new business. After all, the site is home to over 730 million reviews and opinions covering “world’s largest selection of travel listings worldwide.”. According to industry research: TripAdvisor ranks ahead of personal recommendations, tourist board websites, and guidebooks as the most trusted source for travel

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5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of February 25, 2019

ShepHyken

Each week I read a number of 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. 3 Lessons From a Customer Service Failure by Jill Schiefelbein. (Entrepreneur) Every brand touchpoint is important. Every interaction is a chance for your employees to communicate the experience that your brand provides.

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The Impact of AI on Sales Meetings

Talkdesk

Opentalk18 , Talkdesk’s CX industry event, was filled to the brim with sales and customer experience leaders from nearly every industry. Thousands of attendees joined experts in the sales, service and CX tracks to learn how they can start creating magic moments with their customers. One of these experts was Roy Raanani , CEO at Chorus.ai, a conversation intelligence platform for sales teams.

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Mobility and Identify as a Service Can Transform Customer Experience

Avaya

As a recent Avaya blog highlighted , research indicates that 81% of US online adults use smartphones daily or more often, 57% are extremely heavy users of smartphones, and 40% of US online adults ages 55 to 64 are likely to get more mobile. That’s why this week’s Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona promises to be one of the most attended ever. Avaya will be there to discuss our groundbreaking Mobility strategy, so please come see us at Meeting Room 2K6Ex, Hall 2.

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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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Announcing The New 2019 Customer Success Summit Conference

Totango

We are excited to announce the new Customer Success Summit Conference for 2019, an evolution of our premier industry event for customer success thought leaders, practitioners and visionaries. Our past Customer Success Summits have drawn over 1,000 attendees from over 400 companies including ADP, Dimension Data, Google, Mulesoft, Oracle, SAP, ServiceNow, Slack, TSIA and Zoom among many others.

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3 Tips To Encourage Consumer Sharing

ERDM

Article by Ernan Roman Featured on CMO.com. People want to share. And they want to share their experiences with brands. It makes them feel good. They feel especially valued when you demonstrate that you care about their input. So, when’s the last time your company gave customers the opportunity to share? Findings from the last nine months of customer experience-focused voice-of-the-customer research conducted by our firm, ERDM, indicate that customers passionately want to be recognized, included

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3 Reporting Hacks for Your Next Competitive Analysis

NetBase

When it comes to competitive analyses, many brands are focused on predefined metrics, like comparing their widget sales to Y and Z competitors, but that’s not really where your focus should lie. Let’s explore what really matters online and why. The purpose of a solid competitive analysis should be obtaining an overview of your space and exploring what competitors are doing so you can learn from them.

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How to Succeed at Digital Transformation

Topdown

Digital transformation focuses on a process of preparing your company to stay competitive in the marketplace by building the right customer experience (CX) strategy for the future. By combining the right strategy with innovative technologies, your brand will be equipped to quickly adapt to changes in your industry. How can “strategy” best be defined?

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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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You don’t have to be a B Corp to have a purpose

Customer Enthusiast

In recent years, I’ve read a number of articles that attribute the rise in B Corps to organizations’ desire to be seen as interested in both shareholder and stakeholder success. A Benefit Corporation or B Corp is a type of for-profit corporate entity authorized by 33 U.S. states and the District of Columbia that includes … Continue reading "You don’t have to be a B Corp to have a purpose".

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How to complain about food in restaurants, deliveries, take aways, and hotels! (and from stores!)

Helen Dewdney

When you eat out, it can be really difficult to complain. But if the food or service isn’t up to scratch you can and really should. The following posts will help you with asserting your legal rights. How to complain about fast food. Tasty solutions for food delivery troubles all you need to know about complaining about your delivery of fast food, wrong orders, cold or late.

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AI IRL Podcast Episode 8: What to Consider When Designing a Virtual Assistant

Bold360

Subscribe via iTunes , Spotify and more. Creating chatbots is a frontier. Fortunately, my guest Qing Cao , in addition to being a certified Lean Six Sigma black belt, is the leader of the customer-facing, emerging technology product development team at UPS. On a recent episode of AI:IRL she joined me to unpack the different ways you can build a bot to fit your situation and defining your purpose and asking guiding questions for decision-making.

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3 Ways to Transform Your Financial Advisors Into Superstars

Integrity Solutions

Focus on these, and you’ll be able to build an engaged, high-performing team of financial advisors that will become your unstoppable competitive advantage. by Terri O’Halloran. You hire two, well-qualified advisors, give them training and expect that they’ll both be superstars. So you’re surprised then when one succeeds and the other fails miserably.

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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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Passenger Terminal Expo & Conference | 26.-28.3.2019 | London, UK

Happy or Not

We will be at the Passenger Terminal Expo in London, UK on March 26-28. Come and meet our HappyOrNot team at booth 8059! At the expo, we will […]. The post Passenger Terminal Expo & Conference | 26.-28.3.2019 | London, UK appeared first on HappyOrNot.

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5 Tactics To Improve Online Reputation Of Your Hotel

Survaider

A frequently asked question is ‘What are the ways to improve my hotel’s online reputation?’. Gladly, the internet has many answers, but how do you find what works and what doesn’t?

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This week in CX: Ikea, Nike and Samsung

MyCustomer

25th Feb 2019. T. Customer Experience Rockstar, James Dodkins, gives us his weekly round-up of the past seven day’s happenings in the wonderful world of. By. James Dodkins. Customer Experience Rockstar.

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3 Tips To Encourage Consumer Sharing

ERDM

Article by Ernan Roman Featured on CMO.com. People want to share. And they want to share their experiences with brands. It makes them feel good. They feel especially valued when you demonstrate that you care about their input. So, when’s the last time your company gave customers the opportunity to share? Findings from the last nine months of customer experience-focused voice-of-the-customer research conducted by our firm, ERDM, indicate that customers passionately want to be recognized, included

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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 to Turn Off a Support Channel Gracefully

Help Scout

With all the emphasis on omnichannel customer support, it might seem like every support team is adding more and more support channels to their repertoire. Bain & Company expect to see omnichannel platform adoption increase from 16% to 54% in the next three years. Everyone is jumping aboard the omnichannel train — the more channels, the better, right?

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5 Questions to Gauge Customer Adoption

Education Services Group

Think back to your first smartphone. Unless you’re one of the first people to buy an iPhone, way back in 2007, there was probably a time when you thought a smartphone was unnecessary. All those features were flashy, sure, but who needed it? You’ve got calls and texts on your current phone already. When you first got a smartphone, you may have thought it was nice, but not necessary.

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How to Enter the Confirmit ACE Awards

Confirmit

Ready to enter the ACE Awards but still have a few questions? You’ve come to the right place. Check the list below to find out about the process, a few changes we’ve made this year, and a couple of tips to ensure you impress the judges. Grab a cup of something and have a quick read. Which category should I enter? We recommend that you pick whichever of the six categories available will allow you to show off your program at its best.

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