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How to get your new boss to buy into your CX vision

MyCustomer

Engagement How to get your new boss to buy into CX.

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The Power List of the Top 200 Thought Leaders to follow in 2021

Storyminers

If you are curious and fascinated to know what the future of work has in store, if the year 2020 has got you wondering about the nuances and the dynamism of the modern workplace experience, then you can find all the answers that you seek in the leadersHum leadership series. As a growing community of professionals spread across the globe, our 200 most influential thought leaders have redefined the world of work and have brought us an abundance of rich perspectives.

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Strategies to Hire and Work from Anywhere

NICE inContact

Aside from the negative outcomes of the past year, there's one shining example of a positive consequence - the seismic shift towards a work from home model in the general workforce and more specifically among contact center agents and staff.

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Small Improvements in Customer Service Create Big Wins

ShepHyken

Little successes added together make for large success down the road. Small successes add up. To put it in baseball terms, you don’t need to hit a home run every time it’s your turn at bat. So, here’s the question to consider: What small change will enhance the experience for the customer, even if it is just by 1%? My friend and client, Jason Bradshaw of Volkswagen in Australia, was tasked with improving the customer experience for the VW dealerships.

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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 Truth About Moments of Truth

Heart of the Customer

After reviewing The Journey Mapping Playbook earlier this month, it struck me that one of the biggest misses in the book (outside of the flawed methodology) was its failure to touch on Moments of Truth. Those are the key interactions that have a disproportionate impact on a customer’s overall perception of the journey. Don’t make […]. The post The Truth About Moments of Truth appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Why Employees Want to Leave and How to Stop It

The DiJulius Group

4 Quick Tips to Help you Make Price Irrelevant 1) Customer Service Feature Story Why Employees Want to Leave and How to Stop It Every year, improving employee morale, turnover, and employee experience is a major objective for many organization’s leadership teams. Building a world-class experience encompasses both customer and employee. How can. Read Full Article.

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3 Key Customer Success Insights that Drive SaaS Growth

ChurnZero

This is a guest blog post by Justine Dennis, Manager, Customer Success & Support at Fusebill. . Mattias Putman and Ewout Meyns launched PieSync in 2014 with a goal in mind: keep customers satisfied. “Mattias and I are very aware that PieSync’s success depends on that of our customers. If you take care of your customers from day one, you create a kind of kick-start for new customers,” Meyns said on the business’s blog.

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The Ever-Evolving, Influential Customer Experience Trends in Utilities

Ecrion

1. Debt Collection Is Changing | 2. Customer Loyalty Gaining Ground | 3. Justified Price Increases |. 4. Revamped Customer Engagement | 5. Mobile Communication. To ensure that your company performs optimally, you’ll need to have a strong understanding of the trends going on in your industry. While this is important for every niche, it is especially true for businesses that operate in the utility sector.

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How to Run a Successful Customer Data Platform RFP: The 50 Essential Questions

Blueshift

For marketers and technology decision-makers, the Request for Proposal (RFP) process can be one of the most daunting and time-consuming tasks their job demands. With good reason too. Critical, long-term technology investments can make or break the success of a business, The post How to Run a Successful Customer Data Platform RFP: The 50 Essential Questions appeared first on Blueshift.

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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 Manage a Virtual Agent – Fate of the Bots | The Times They Are a-Changing: Talent in the Contact Center Part 7

SaleMove

In our previous blog in The Times They Are a-Changing: Talent in the Contact Center Series , we discussed how virtual agents, or bots, are transforming the contact center workplace, pushing live human agents to become strategic troubleshooting experts and managers to become agent coaches. While these changes are significant, they are largely beneficial to agents and managers alike, who are now more engaged in the business.

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C Space promotes Jessica DeVlieger to global CEO role

C Space

C Space promotes Jessica DeVlieger to global CEO role. C Space, the global customer agency today announced that Jessica DeVlieger will become its new Global Chief Executive Officer, effective February 1st, 2021. Tweet. BOSTON, January 21, 2021 – C Space, the global customer agency today announced that Jessica DeVlieger will become its new Global Chief Executive Officer, effective February 1 st, 2021.

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The 3 Silent Killers of Forum Membership and How to Prevent Them

Vanilla Forums

Are you making your forum members feel unwelcome without even knowing it? It’s a mental trap that appears in practically all aspects of our lives: we’re so prone to looking forward and outward that we rarely pause for self-reflection. And, as it may or may not surprise you to know, this counterproductive trend rears its ugly head in the world of forum creation too.

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Adding Copyright to your survey

SurveyGizmo

By Cameron Settle. Copyright Protection provides exclusive rights to authors in order to protect their work for a limited period of time and is often used by businesses whose work involves writing, pictures, art, and music. Creating a survey is another use case where copyright protection can help deter people from taking your hard work for their own.

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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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Part 2: B2B Customer Support Transformation Imperatives

Team Support

In Part 1 of this three-part series we introduced the new report by ServiceXRG and TeamSupport. The 2021 Customer Support Transformation report examines current trends in Support delivery and offers tangible guidance for Support and Service professionals to meet growing expectations of both customers and company executives. Part 1 explored the transition of support from a reactive transactional model to a more proactive and preventive approach.

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Online Reputation Management Trends for 2021

ReviewTrackers

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Results-driven Leadership. A case study by Marilyn Daley.

CX Centric

This case study is an extract from The Customer Experience Playbook by Jonathan Daniels. The full book can be purchased here. Good exam results are the most sought-after achievement in almost all educational sectors in the world. However to achieve such good results, requires a lot of effort, willingness to commit, and innovation, not only from the teachers but also from the students at large thus the seesaw must balance for such an achievement to be possible.

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Is Ryan Reynolds the new George Clooney?

Maru Group

By Lisa Valade-DeMelo, Vice President, Research, Financial Services | January 20, 2021 When Ryan Reynolds bought into Aviation Gin in 2018 it made some people wonder if he was headed in the same direction George Clooney took with his Casamigos Tequila brand: turn a hobby into a business worth something to a company like Diageo. Despite early speculation and (full disclosure) with absolutely no knowledge of the intricacies of Aviation Gin’s brand strategy, Reynolds seems to be taking things sligh

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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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Results-driven Leadership. A case study by Marilyn Daley.

CX Centric

This case study is an extract from The Customer Experience Playbook by Jonathan Daniels. The full book can be purchased here. Good exam results are the most sought-after achievement in almost all educational sectors in the world. However to achieve such good results, requires a lot of effort, willingness to commit, and innovation, not only from the teachers but also from the students at large thus the seesaw must balance for such an achievement to be possible.

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How to Manage a Virtual Agent – Fate of the Bots | The Times They Are a-Changing: Talent in the Contact Center Part 7

SaleMove

In our previous blog in The Times They Are a-Changing: Talent in the Contact Center Series , we discussed how virtual agents, or bots, are transforming the contact center workplace, pushing live human agents to become strategic troubleshooting experts and managers to become agent coaches. While these changes are significant, they are largely beneficial to agents and managers alike, who are now more engaged in the business.

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Getting the most from Customer Journey Mapping. Featuring Yuri Vedenin’s

CX Centric

Yuri Vedenin This is an extract from The Customer Experience Playbook by Jonathan Daniels. The full book can be purchased here. Journey mapping is a very demanding and complex process that requires the most dedicated and well-informed about the subject to get to plan, implement and review the process. Journey mapping helps the organization to improve its customers’ experience hence a very important process for every organization which seeks to please and satisfy its customers.

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Interbrand Group Promotes Gonzalo Brujó to Global President role

C Space

Interbrand Group Promotes Gonzalo Brujó to Global President role. NEW YORK, January 28, 2021 – Interbrand Group, today announced the promotion of Gonzalo Brujó to Global President, effective February 1st, 2021. Currently the Global Chief Growth Officer of Omnicom Group’s (NYSE: OMC) Interbrand Group, Brujó steps into this newly created role with expansive leadership experience and will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of Interbrand Group around the world.

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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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Leveraging Customer Experience in the Retail Sector. Case study by John D Hudson

CX Centric

John. D. Hudson. This case study is an extract from The Customer Experience Playbook by Jonathan Daniels. The full book can be purchased here. With retailing, a lot goes under the basic definition of this subject which is the process of making a profit by selling consumer goods or services to customers through multiple channels of distribution. Excellent managerial skills which include being able to communicate effectively, learn, strategize as well as commitment are needed here for a business t

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My CCXP Journey: Five lessons from taking the CCXP exam (again).

CX University

I joined the CXPA in its second year. When I attended the first Members Insight Exchange, I was thrilled to meet so many like-minded people who had been toiling in the CX trenches for years. I had been working in CX Strategy (by many names) since 2000, building a network of my own over time. Now, I had found my broader tribe. When CXPA announced the CCXP certification, I was excited to see an opportunity to elevate the profession to a level where real expertise was recognized.

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Successfully introducing Customer Experience Functions in large businesses. A Case study by Ruth Crowley

CX Centric

Ruth Crowley. This case study is an extract from The Customer Experience Playbook by Jonathan Daniels. The full book can be purchased here. Many organisations involved in the retail industry are constantly faced with various challenges. According to Team Linchpin (2021), several major retail companies have filed for bankruptcy since 2017, and this trend is likely to continue for more years to come.

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Outthink the Competition by Outloving Them

The DiJulius Group

“Outlove the competition” is one of my favorite new phrases. Think about it. Nearly everything can be copied especially in this day and age. This includes products or services that you sell, your décor, website functionality, menu, and even prices. Your business needs to unleash new strategies to outthink the competition. Can You Really Outwork.

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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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The Importance of the Customer Greeting

Ann Michaels and Associates

How important is the customer greeting? When a customer walks into a place of business, how soon should they be acknowledged with a greeting? This is an area most businesses have struggled with for years. When we begin a mystery shopping program for a client this question is always front and center. When measuring the time it takes for the customer to be greeted upon entering the store, we must consider a variety of things.

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Behind the Scenes of Alchemer’s ISO 27001 Certification

SurveyGizmo

An Interview with Michael Kleck, Director of Compliance and Information Security at Alchemer. . Today we’re talking to Michael Kleck , Director of Compliance and Information Security at Alchemer about Alchemer’s recent ISO 27001 certification. What is ISO 27001 Certification and what does it mean? Michael : ISO 27001 certification demonstrates that an organization like Alchemer has invested in the people, processes, and technologies to protect their customers’ data.

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4 Technologies Improving Retail Operational Efficiency

CSM Magazine

Retail operations are closely connected to the business’s profitability and working on improving its efficiency is an ongoing task. The thing is, retailers operate on very thin profit margins that are based on the difference between supplier prices and sale prices (operating costs also need to be included). There is an additional strain on the margin with suppliers raising prices to ensure their own profit on one side, and customers demanding lower prices on the other.

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