Fri.Aug 02, 2019

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How to Drive Conversions from Trial to Paid Subscriptions

ChurnZero

Whether you’re shopping at C ostco or signing up for the latest streaming music subscription , everybody loves a free sample. In fact , among food retailer s free samples have been known to boost sales by nearly 2000%. While questions still surround proper sample etiquette , one thi ng is for sure: the power of ‘freebies’ is not to be doubted!

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4 Principles for a Great Customer Feedback Program

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The customer feedback-powered reputation marketing blueprint

delighted

Reputation marketing is becoming more and more prominent with the rise of review sites and consumer choice. Nearly every shopper ( 97%! ) today considers online customer reviews in their buying decisions. Clearly, increasing the number of positive reviews and decreasing negative reviews should be a priority for your business. But, how exactly do you achieve these objectives?

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5 Key Technologies for the Future of Digital Customer Service

NICE inContact

We talk a lot about “future-proofing” your business. It’s an important concept for any company considering digital customer service integration. You don’t simply want to plan for your current customer service needs. You’ll need a solution that can easily scale as business grows. Digital customer service is evolving quickly, and this change hopefully comes in tandem with important developments in your business — namely growth.

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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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How Haggar Overcame the Challenges of Wear Testing with Customer Insights

Alida

Wear testing, also commonly referred to as a home usage test (HUT) or in-home user test (IHUT), is a method many consumer goods and retail brands use to get direct feedback on their products. The brands ship their products to select consumers to use in their homes. The users then test the products and offer their feedback in a post-use survey or interview.

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Guest Blog: The Importance of First Impressions in Customer Service

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Ujebardha Bekolli who writes about the importance of the first impression. Whether on the phone or in person, it’s important to train your employees the right way to interact with your customers. The importance of first impressions. Customer service is one of the most important parts of doing business. The relationships you create with your customers reflect directly on the success of your business.

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5 Key Technologies for the Future of Digital Customer Service

NICE inContact

We talk a lot about “future-proofing” your business. It’s an important concept for any company considering digital customer service integration. You don’t simply want to plan for your current customer service needs. You’ll need a solution that can easily scale as business grows. Digital customer service is evolving quickly, and this change hopefully comes in tandem with important developments in your business — namely growth.

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Monitoring Niche Audiences with Social Listening

NetBase

. Understanding issues before they become “issues” is a super power – a sixth sense, of sorts. Social listening helps regular marketing mortals develop this ability. And monitoring niche audiences provides an exceptional access point for fine-tuning and implementing these skills. Social Listening in a Nut Shell. Tracking issues that businesses care about is always the top priority, but what if a business is unsure of what those issues are?

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3 Ways the Experience Economy is Fundamentally Changing CX

Oracle

In a new video interview by CxOTalk , Michael Krigsman, CxOTalk Industry Analyst, discusses with Rob Tarkoff, Executive Vice President and General Manager of the CX Cloud Group at Oracle , the unique challenges facing companies today, and why companies must change existing business strategies to address the demands of customer experience. As takeaways from this interview, here are 3 ways in which the experience economy is fundamentally changing CX.

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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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Call Experts Named as a Top Third-Party Verification Company by Clutch.co

Call Experts

At Call Experts, our approach to call center solutions is simple: Accountability. Customization. Growth. We believe this is the foundation of taking businesses to the next level. Through voice, live agent, and electronic communications, we offer everything from complete call management, automated services, call-out services, and beyond. As a result of working strenuously to provide cutting edge services, Clutch.co recently identified our company as one of the top Third-Party Verification Compani

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What are the Different Support Channels B2B Companies Should Offer?

Team Support

B2B (business-to-business) customers are becoming more demanding. After experiencing some of the more modern support methods in their everyday B2C (business-to-consumer) lives, they are increasingly expecting B2B companies to keep up. However, there is no one right answer for which channels a B2B company should offer for customer support. Below are the core customer support channels for the B2B industry, alongside specific reasons why companies offer them and why they choose not to.

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Australian Start Up Localz Opens Its Doors in Culver City

CSM Magazine

Localz , the software business helping large organizations transform the day of service, has chosen to join Amazon, Apple and Google and open its first US office in the rapidly expanding tech ecosystem of Culver City. Localz began operations in 2013 and the development team are headquartered in Melbourne. Its operational platform enables real-time tracking of the service technician, accurate ETAs and simple two-way communication.

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How to use diary studies to better understand customer behaviours, attitudes and emotions

MyCustomer

Voice of the Customer. How to use diary studies for customer insight.

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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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What Can a Basset Hound Teach You About Your Users?

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Dog Days of the Contact Center: 100% SLA – Caramel Advises You on How to Never Be Down

Talkdesk

Woof! . This is Caramel, and I am here to end your contact center dog days. I am back for my fourth and last post. Today, I will be advising you on how to never be down. As I saw, listened and wrote so many things about the contact center, I now can understand and use all the correct contact center terms. I hear the acronym SLA all the time here at Talkdesk.

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Consumer Marketers, Looking to Test New Data Categories? Try These

Gravy Analytics

We in the data marketing business love to test — at least, we should. And what we should test for is new data categories. Expanding the marketing universe — and stretching the marketing budget — depends on higher efficiency in our lists, offers, and creative. We should be eager to test new proofs of concepts and new categories of data sources as they enter the market … if only to know whether or not they produce incrementally or otherwise.

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The journey ends – Malvern Group travel company goes under

Helen Dewdney

What you need to know when a holiday company goes bust. It was announced today (2 August 2019) that the Malvern Group have ceased trading. The failed company encompasses a number of holiday brands, including Late Rooms, based in Manchester and Mini Holidays, also known as Super Break, based in York. Although relatively small compared to the big household travel names, it is thought that 53,000 customers have been or will be affected.

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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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Article on Customer Service Trends

Brad Cleveland Blog

Sam Del Rowe recently wrote an article for www.destinationcrm.com titled “The Top Customer Service Trends: Building Better Service Beyond Voice.” In the article, Mike de la Cruz of Directly and I provide insight into artificial intelligence (AI), omnichannel strategies, and agent involvement in the future.

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Requesting Your Help With A Survey On Smart Manufacturing

Forrester's Customer Insights

I’ve written a lot about the ways in which traditional product makers are being transformed by digital. In “From Grease To Code: Industrial Giants Must Bet Their Futures On Software,” for example, I explored ways in which industrial firms are having to reinvent themselves as they augment a hundred years of experience making physical products […].

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Article on Customer Service Trends

Brad Cleveland Blog

Sam Del Rowe recently wrote an article for www.destinationcrm.com titled “The Top Customer Service Trends: Building Better Service Beyond Voice.” In the article, Mike de la Cruz of Directly and I provide insight into artificial intelligence (AI), omnichannel strategies, and agent involvement in the future.

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How to Make Your Admins Into All-Stars With Gainsight PX

Gainsight

Every week, I remind myself that a customer is not a company—they’re individuals. We tend to view customers as teams and organizations, personas and segments, but a customer’s actions come from their personal, human experiences. A customer is a person. Usually, the only practical way to send messages to customers is through a 1-to-many communication.

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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.