Wed.Sep 15, 2021

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How Many Strategic Value Dots Are You Really Connecting?

One Millimeter Mindset

Are you comfortably connecting strategic value dots across your organization? If you are really, really comfortable connecting those dots, you may not be providing the robust yet nimble business outcomes you target. Here’s why. There are three reasons why being too comfortable in your professional role is not the feeling you should seek. However, confidence in your professional role fuels professional growth and innovation.

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3 Reasons You Should Be Using Mobile Inspection Software

IntouchInsight

Regular operational audits and site inspection are invaluable methods to ensure your brand standards are being executed consistently across your business. But too many businesses are still executing their inspection process using now archaic paper forms.

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Would Customers Pay to Do Business with You?

ShepHyken

Think about this … what if you were to charge a customer just to talk to you about what you would sell them? Or, if you own a retail store, a fee to enter the store. What would you have to do for your customers to be willing to pay for the privilege of buying your products or services? I’m not suggesting that you should. This is just to get you thinking about how good you really are.

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CX Tech Top-ups for September- Three feature updates!

IntouchInsight

A new month means new product updates from Intouch Insight. We have introduced several new features across our platforms and can’t wait for you to try them out.

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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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For CX success, re-evaluate your purpose

Zeisler Consulting

May I offer a modest suggestion about CX? Here it is: The purpose of Customer Experience as an endeavor (a department, a practice, a field of study, etc.) is to improve the alignment between what your company says it’s all about (call it mission/vision, corporate values/principles, or simply Brand Promise) and the experience your Customers have when they interact with your brand.

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Traditional to digital: the evolution of digital marketing strategy

Perceptive

Marketing has changed—and we're the ones changing it. As consumers focus more and more on online purchases and, more recently, with Covid-19 causing a surge in the uptake of eCommerce, organisations are fast pivoting their traditional and digital marketing strategies to draw consumers to their business. Here at Perceptive, we've also discovered that marketers and market researchers who want to be successful in this new arena need to be able to marry the two disciplines together.

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Incident Creation Authorizations and How to get them

SAP Customer Experience

To create an incident on the SAP ONE Support Launchpad you require an S-user ID with specific Incident Management authorizations assigned to it. Authorizations can be assigned at different levels such as Global, CCoE (for CCC Groups), Customer, Installation, or User. What authorizations are required for Incident Management on the.

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Social Media – not the best way to complain

Helen Dewdney

I keep saying that social media isn’t always the best way to complain! This has been borne out in recent a survey of more than 5,000 people undertaken by the consumer organisation Which? Consumers who had complained about an online order from major technology, fashion, DIY and homewares retailers during the pandemic were surveyed to ask about their experiences.

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50% of Call Centers Cite Jump in Digital Channels During Pandemic

NobelBiz

Data keeps beaming in in confirmation of a fact: the digital contact center is here. Email, chat, social media, self-service: everything is going up. Voice is changing – average handle time is going up and calls are becoming more complex. Interesting, isn’t it? A new report from J.D. Power validates what we’ve said countless times: the contact center space is changing in favor of the experience center, based on custom-tailored interactions built on a foundation of CX , with the sole purpose t

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The State of Customer Onboarding 2024

Building lasting customer relationships has always been top-of-mind for businesses. However, in the last decade, organizations have recognized that the customer journey beyond the initial sale is as critical as the sale itself. Customer onboarding, or the customer’s first impression of you, is critical to forging lasting relationships and long-term success.

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Free Customer Trends That Drive Your Business Future

ThriveableBiz

Understanding ever-changing Customer Trends can shape your business future. Let's start with the biggest. Q. Which new customer segment is now worth $382 billion globally? A big number and a big question! Hint: it's to do with our future challenge beyond Covid-19, and an opportunity for any size business, in just about any category. And a great example of how a deeper understanding your customers’ WHY opens the gate to new opportunity & revenue paths.

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Loyal Customers Are Worth 22X More Than Average Customers According to New Retail Report

CSM Magazine

Upside launches ‘The Tipping Point of Loyalty’ report which also finds retail customers are now less loyal than they were before the pandemic. Today, intelligent marketing service Upside releases its first industry white paper on retail loyalty, which identifies that the value of one loyal customer is equal to that of twenty-two non-loyal customers.

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056: How to Capitalize on Revenge Spending

The DiJulius Group

Chief Revolution Officer John DiJulius of the DiJulius Group discusses the best way to capitalize on revenge spending. The last 18 months have built up a lot of demand and consumer savings are near record highs. However, customers are now pickier than ever about which companies they do business with. Learn how you can position. Read Full Article. The post 056: How to Capitalize on Revenge Spending appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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8 Cold Calling Tips To Help You Win Over More Customers

CSM Magazine

If you’ve previously been told that cold calling is now dead, you have to know that this notion is false. Cold calling is very much alive, and it’s, still, one of the most relevant and effective ways to market your business in today’s time. Despite the presence of other forms of marketing, cold calling still stands as effective, given its long-standing history of success.

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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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In B2B is it a good idea to outsource Customer Success?

CustomerSuccessBox

As the CEO of your company, there may come a situation where you need to implement customer success. You have two options- in-house customer success or outsourcing customer success. With customer success being a new function and companies not prepared for it, outsourcing might seem like a wise decision. But will it help in the long run? Let’s explore that in detail.

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5 Ways to Build Your Confidence as a Business Leader

CSM Magazine

Without confidence, leadership is almost impossible. Company owners, managers, and supervisors need to be sure of their decisions at every juncture. However, confidence has been in short supply during these uncertain times. Many businesses have been squarely reliant on external support , whether that’s direct funding or the easing of coronavirus-related restrictions.

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SMEs Guide to Account Receivable Services 2021

Magellan Solutions

Ever heard of Account Receivable Services before? Here are the things you ought to know. All businesses need payment to keep going, correct? However, most payments get stuck in the Account Receivable part of the business financial statement. Which really hampers the growth and the development of the organization, especially SMEs. Fortunately, BPOs have answers to these concerns and it comes in the form of accounts receivable outsourcing !

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Late Delivery Is the Number One Complaint Made by Customers to Couriers on Twitter

CSM Magazine

Poor delivery hugely impacts a customer’s overall online shopping experience, and new research finds that late delivery is the number one driver for customer complaints on Twitter. . Analysis of over 6,700 tweets to the UK’s top courier companies by delivery software company Circuit , highlights countless delivery-related issues – problems that are only likely to worsen due to the current driver deficit.

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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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User Research x Sales and Marketing: Building Shared Goals

dscout People Nerds

Developing a close relationship with these teams can allow user researchers to not only better understand the customer, but identify “super personas.”.

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Customers are talking - but are brands listening?

MyCustomer

CEvery business acknowledges the importance of customer experience (CX), and many will have a Voice of Customer (VoC) initiative to gather. 5th Oct 2021. By Shellie Vornhagen Chief Experience Officer at.

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Industrial IoT Platform Vendors Focus On Getting The Basics Right

Forrester's Customer Insights

In Forrester's 35-criterion evaluation of industrial internet-of-things (IoT) software platform providers, we identified the eight most significant — Bosch, Cisco, GE Digital, Hitachi, PTC, Samsung SDS, Siemens, and Software AG — and researched, analyzed, and scored them.

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How is Self-Service, for a Telecom Customer, Changing?

Knowmax

How is Self-Service, for a Telecom Customer, Changing?

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How Personalized Customer Experiences Drive Retail Growth and Revenue

Speaker: Shaunna Bruton - Associate Director of Product Strategy at Orium | Sam Panzer - Director of Industry Strategy at Talon.One | Frank Passantino - Director of Product Management at Bloomreach

More and more, customers are expecting a better personalized CX. But can retailers actually deliver? Data from McKinsey shows that companies that excel in personalization increase their revenue by 40%, but despite these numbers, retailers struggle to implement customer personalization strategies. So what are the potential solutions? Join us to gain a better understanding of the current retail landscape and learn what you can do to translate personalization strategies into practical implementatio

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Conférence Forrester Expérience Client — 30 Septembre/1er Octobre

Forrester's Customer Insights

L’expérience client est la priorité stratégique des dirigeants marketing. C’est moins vrai en France (45% des décideurs) qu’en moyenne dans les autres pays (61%). Les derniers résultats (Septembre 2021) de notre baromètre de l’expérience client (CX Index) montrent que -dans l’ensemble- la perception de la qualité de l’expérience client est inférieure en France par rapport […].

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How Milwaukee County is getting DEI data right

Qualtrics

After declaring racism a public health crisis, Milwaukee County turned to Qualtrics® to support racial equity training evaluations, community partner capacity assessments, and engagement with vulnerable communities. In 2019, Wisconsin’s Milwaukee County became one of the first governments in the United States to declare racism a public health crisis.

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CRM And DX Programs Are Set To Collide — Here’s What You Should Do About It

Forrester's Customer Insights

When it comes to your customer engagement strategy, digital experience (DX) and customer relationship management (CRM) teams are often viewed as different breeds with different priorities. DX initiatives have an outside-in view in supporting a customer’s digital journey. DX technologies include marketing, commerce, and content management technologies that are purchased by the CMO, CDO, or […].

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3 Building Blocks of Omnichannel Transformation

Upstream Works

Omnichannel is a foundational piece when it comes to modernizing the contact center and adopting the technologies needed to meet today’s customer expectations. The term “omnichannel” has been with us for several years, but the concept remains poorly understood, creating a holdback for adoption. The move to omnichannel can be transformative.

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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Conférence Forrester Expérience Client — 30 Septembre/1er Octobre

Forrester's Customer Insights

L’expérience client est la priorité stratégique des dirigeants marketing. C’est moins vrai en France (45% des décideurs) qu’en moyenne dans les autres pays (61%). Les derniers résultats (Septembre 2021) de notre baromètre de l’expérience client (CX Index) montrent que -dans l’ensemble- la perception de la qualité de l’expérience client est inférieure en France par rapport […].

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Customer Success Disasters and How to Avoid Them

SmartKarrot

As Julia Child once said, “Any disaster is a learning process.” Whether it’s a natural calamity or a corporate dysfunction, the disaster, and its aftermath, make us stronger and more prepared to face similar challenges that come our way. The recently conducted customer success webinars, specifically “CS Disasters and How to Avoid Them,” have been trending and impacting the CS industry more than ever.

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Sep 15 – Customer Success Jobs

SmartKarrot

Role: Director of Customer Success Location: Remote, United States Organization: Tessian As a Director of Customer Success, you will hire, lead and develop the US CSM team. Act as a key escalation point and exec sponsor for customers. Be responsible for building a predictable renewals engine in the US. Collaborate with GTM leadership to accelerate the growth as a business.