Mon.Jul 22, 2019

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Ready to Tackle Customer Churn? Here’s How.

Wootric CX Blog

Is there a business that hasn’t lost a single customer? Doubtful. Customer churn is inevitable. For this reason, maintaining superior customer experience in a world of insurmountable choice and lagging brand loyalty is of utmost importance. Now I’m no mind reader, but since you’re still here, I’ll assume that you’re struggling with generating new demand for your business and keeping existing customers around at the same time.

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3 Customer Service Training Secrets You’ll Wish You’d Known 5 Years Ago

Ecrion

Every year, businesses lose over $75 billion in potential revenue thanks to one thing: poor customer service. And while studies show that about 1 out of every 26 customers complain about poor customer service, over 90% of those dissatisfied customers simply stop working with your business — and never come back. This means that, even if you think that your company’s current customer service policy and tactics are working, the harsh reality is that you may not know just how many of

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Five factors to simplify customer experience

Avaya

The Fourth Industrial Revolution has transformed customers into fickle buyers. Extensive digitization has indeed changed the way we live, work and play, and there are a plethora of positives, including that it has given us, the customers, significant power. To see this in action, we don’t need to look past the impact a single tweet can have on an organization’s customer experience (CX) strategy.

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[Infographic] How to Run a Voice of the Customer Program

GetFeedback

A Voice of the Customer (VoC) program captures, analyzes and reports on all customer feedback associated with your company. . It’s the heartbeat of any customer experience (CX) program. In fact, brands can’t meet or exceed expectations without having an established VoC program in place. That’s because, without customer feedback, you won’t know where to begin to improve your customer 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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5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of July 22, 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. 8 Tips for Improving Social Media Customer Service by Fara Haron. (Smart Customer Service) The quickly evolving social media landscape has forced companies to work harder to maintain a positive customer experience, as 83 percent of people have higher digital customer

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AI in Service Management Is Here to Make New Winners and Losers

Alliance by IFS

Artificial intelligence (AI) was once the stuff of science fiction. But today, AI in service management is making service delivery smarter and more efficient. Over the last four years, enterprise AI implementation grew 270%, according to Gartner’s 2019 CIO Survey. A majority of service leaders see AI as a central technological tool. Recent advancements in data analysis and expansion of connected “smart” devices have stirred new interest around AI within the service industry.

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Want to Improve the Patient Experience? Stop Sending Bad Surveys

InteractionMetrics

In the United States, healthcare is a $3.5 trillion a year market and employs 1 in 8 Americans. For a market with huge impact and under tremendous scrutiny, you would expect medical organizations to take an interested, data-driven approach to measuring the patient experience (PX). In other words, you would expect their patient surveys to be relevant, well-written, and to the point.

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Franchise SEO Checklist: How to Improve Your Rankings

ReviewTrackers

Franchises today are working on improving their SEO strategy to be found in local searches. Let’s say you own a franchise with 50 locations. You provide high-quality burgers at each location. You also make sure amazing service is provided at each location. But you’re having some trouble competing with the local restaurants within each franchise location’s local community.

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Want to Improve the Patient Experience? Stop Sending Bad Surveys

InteractionMetrics

In the United States, healthcare is a $3.5 trillion a year market and employs 1 in 8 Americans. For a market with huge impact and under tremendous scrutiny, you would expect medical organizations to take an interested, data-driven approach to measuring the patient experience (PX). In other words, you would expect their patient surveys to be relevant, well-written, and to the point.

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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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Memorable Customer Experiences are driven by Co-Created Stories

One Millimeter Mindset

When your goal is creating memorable customer experiences, you tend to pay more attention to your clients. Consequently, the stories they tell become more engaging to you both. On the other hand, if the goal is to close a sale, do you primarily listen for cues indicating you are nearing agreement on terms? Then again, if you are engineering a design, you focus on listening for project and product specifications.

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4 Types of Toxic Workplace Cultures

Andrew Mcfarland

What comes to mind when you hear the phrase “toxic culture?” Many people think of an abusive boss or co-worker where the abuse is emotional, physical, or worse. In fact, other types of toxic workplace cultures are just as bad.

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Top 3 Change Management Guidelines for Your CCM Migration

Quadient

Recently, I wrote about how Quadient’s new AI, ML and NLP-based technology can help in the RFP writing process by reading through thousands, or even millions of your customer communications to analyze how your applications can be best grouped as you create the customer communication portfolio of the future. Now that we have some rough architectural diagrams and a good feel for rules and content reassembly, let’s explore how that helps you get to the next phase of your journey.

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A User's Guide to the “Perfect” Segmentation

Chadwick Martin Bailey

A really good segmentation benefits many users. The product development team needs to design products and services for key target segments. The marketing team needs to develop targeted communications. The data scientists need to score the database for targeting current customers. The salesforce needs to develop personalized pitches. Last, but not least, the finance department uses segmentation to help allocate the resources of the firm.

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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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Making The Smart City Safe And Secure

Forrester's Customer Insights

According to UN projections, 68% of the world’s population will live in urban areas by 2050. As cities grow, municipal governments are investing in infrastructure and applications to improve operations, services for constituents, and the overall urban experience. Composed of the internet of things, “smart cities,” aimed to optimize operations, present new security and privacy […].

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How Does an Effective Coaching Strategy Improve Revenue and ROI

Playvox

Thinking of investing in a coaching tool for your business? If so, you’re bound to have questions and concerns. How do you know this will actually pay off and bring in more money? Will you actually earn enough extra revenue to justify the expense?

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Want to Improve the Patient Experience? Stop Sending Bad Surveys

InteractionMetrics

In the United States, healthcare is a $3.5 trillion a year market and employs 1 in 8 Americans. For a market with huge impact and under tremendous scrutiny, you would expect medical organizations to take an interested, data-driven approach to measuring the patient experience (PX). In other words, you would expect their patient surveys to be relevant, well-written, and to the point.

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5 Can’t Miss AI Sessions at Oracle OpenWorld 2019

Oracle

Oracle OpenWorld 2019 will take place September 16-19 in San Francisco, with over 1,000 planned sessions on topics including transformational technologies, growth acceleration, intelligent cloud applications, and more. Here are 5 of the upcoming, can’t-miss AI-focused sessions. You can also view the full CX session catalog here. **Ready to register for Oracle OpenWorld today?

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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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Want to Improve the Patient Experience? Stop Sending Bad Surveys

InteractionMetrics

In the United States, healthcare is a $3.5 trillion a year market and employs 1 in 8 Americans. For a market with huge impact and under tremendous scrutiny, you would expect medical organizations to take an interested, data-driven approach to measuring the patient experience (PX). In other words, you would expect their patient surveys to be relevant, well-written, and to the point.

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Human Resources Adapts to a Changing CX Workforce

Think Customers

Anyone working in the contact center space knows that finding and engaging top-performing front-line employees is a challenge. Companies are hard pressed to attract and retain customer care workers in the midst of low unemployment rates, expanding competition, and changing expectations from potential staff about what they want in a workplace environment.

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ID R&D Simplifies Enterprise Integration and Cross-Channel Enrollment for Voice Biometrics with IDVoice v2.7

CSM Magazine

Newest version of ID R&D unifies enrollment across channels with a 10X increase in biometric matching speed. ID R&D , the award-winning biometric solutions provider offering AI-based voice, behavioral, and anti-spoofing user authentication capabilities, today announced the newest release of its voice biometric solution, IDVoiceTM version 2.7.

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CX SF 2019: The Way To Innovate

Forrester's Customer Insights

Companies commonly ask me these innovation questions: What emerging technology should I invest in this year? We’re piloting [new technology] — where do we start? How do we manage innovation when we’re busy with incremental improvements? What this shows is that many companies know that innovation is important — and they’re right. Innovation is crucial […].

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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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Good Business Decisions Are Based On Good Quality Data

Survicate

The post Good Business Decisions Are Based On Good Quality Data appeared first on Survicate.

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A Pragmatic Guide To Brand Value

Forrester's Customer Insights

The Value Of Brand Valuing a brand can be a deeply divisive exercise. To most marketers, there is an axiomatic simplicity to brand value. Questioning it, or attempting to validate it, can well be an exercise in futility and mathematical mumbo jumbo. Wally Olins (of Wolff Olins fame) once characterized the attempt to “chew [brand] […].

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The Most-Subscribed YouTubers and Channels

Brandwatch CX

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FORRward: A Weekly Read For Tech And Marketing Execs

Forrester's Customer Insights

What We Don’t Know About Facial Recognition Could Hurt Us This week, on the heels of the viral craze that is FaceApp, we got some disquieting news. It turns out the app developer is based in Russia, meaning that 150 million people’s facial data is now, for all intents and purposes, readily accessible to the […].

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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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Agile SEO Project Management and Digital Marketing Simplicity

Grade.us

Marcus Miller has been tackling tough digital marketing problems for nearly two decades. He's the owner of Bowler Hat , a UK agency devoted to helping small-to-medium sized businesses find success no matter where in the world they happen to be located. He's known for the way he makes the marketing experience run smoothly for the customer, his ability to carry out international campaigns with barely a hitch, and an ability to forecast the future of SEO.

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How VOC Analytics Improves Contact Center Performance

CX Accelerator

Contact centers are big on analytics. The main reason companies measure things like their call-handle time, first-call resolution, and internal quality management (QM) scores are to improve customer satisfaction. Although these metrics are valuable, they are internal to the organization, and they may or may not affect satisfaction. So, how do you know if customers are pleased with their level of service?

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How to Evaluate Social Media Analytics

NetBase

Updated July 2019. Social Media Analytics , powered by Next Generation AI , comprises several techniques and tools. When combined, they provide a thorough understanding of your place in the social landscape, as well as the audiences you most want to target. And lots more. Let’s explore the possibilities. Social Media Analytics Strategizing Starts Here.