March, 2024

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The 7 Sins of Customer Experience

ECXO

The 7 Sins of Customer Experience If you fancy watching a quick video summary of this article, click the link below and enjoy: The 7 Sins of CX Are you ready to discover some awesome strategies that can help you take your customers’ experience to the next level? In the dynamic and ever-evolving world of customer experience, there are countless possibilities and challenges that businesses need to tackle.

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Why Customer Experience Success Requires A Great Employee Experience

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

There is an undeniable link between the customer experience (CX) and the employee experience (EX). But don’t just take my word for it: Engaged employees are proven to create better customer experiences. When organizations improve employee satisfaction, they also improve customer satisfaction. C-Suite leaders say employee experience is the top priority when thinking about customer experience.

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Do You Give Your Customers an Experience – Or Just a Transaction?

ShepHyken

In the past few months, I’ve been to several concerts. I’d say the entertainers were legends in the industry. Two of them were Bob Dylan and Ringo Starr (of the Beatles). Both are talented beyond words. They both have successful careers. They have both been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It’s important for you to know this, just in case you don’t know who they are.

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Retail Strategy: Experience, Experience, Experience

The DiJulius Group

The post Retail Strategy: Experience, Experience, Experience appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Pushing the Limits of Conversational AI for CX Automation

TechSee

Industry events and news coverage are full of companies offering Generative AI , Conversational AI, chatbots, and AI Agents. However, given the relative youth of this space, it can be difficult to distinguish between basic and advanced solutions providers. As a result, it can be very challenging to assess Conversational AI providers. In this post, we will provide some core concepts you will need to understand the Conversational AI landscape better and, ideally, find the right Conversational AI f

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Mastering the Maze of CX Metrics & Money with Lynn Hunsaker

ECXO

The European Customer Experience Organization (ECXO) is launching a series of short practical sessions, each up to 20 minutes, to clarify how to achieve CX ROI and growth effectively. The first part will delve into: Mastering the Maze of CX Metrics & Money with Lynn Hunsaker, the CCO of ClearAction Continuum , facilitated by Ricardo Saltz Gulko.

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The Advantages and Disadvantages of Live Chat Support

Comm100

The immediacy and convenience of live chat has catapulted the technology into a go-to support channel for consumers and an essential tool for businesses. Gone are the days when customers could only get slow and often frustrating support via email or phone. And far gone are the days when agents had little to no information about the customer they were speaking to and were restricted to serving one user at a time.

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25 Top “Thank You for Your Feedback” Responses for Improved Customer Relations

Retently

Acknowledging your customers with a “Thank you for your feedback” is more than good manners; it’s crucial for building lasting relationships. But how do you respond in a way that’s both genuine and impactful? Whether you receive enthusiastic praise or face critical remarks, we’ll give you relevant examples and know-how to make your every response count.

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Rocking Customer Experience with Jim Serger

ShepHyken

This episode of  Amazing Business Radio with Shep Hyken  answers the following questions and more: How can businesses create experiences that get repeat business and nurture brand loyalty? How can businesses think outside the box to create fan-like loyalty among their customer base? What lessons can companies learn from the legendary rock band, Van Halen, in creating loyal customer followings?

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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 New Strategic Growth Blueprint for Successfully Reimagining Market Research

C3Centricity

It is a well-known fact that when budgets get tight, marketing is usually one of the first departments to suffer cuts, and market research in particular! Why is this? I believe it is because their ROI is longer-term and often difficult to prove. They therefore make the perfect target for sweeping reductions. What they all need is a strategic growth blueprint.

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[Experience Action Podcast] Balancing Policy with Personalized Experiences

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Struggling to balance strict company policies with the need for out-of-the-ordinary customer experiences? Fear not! As your guide, Jeannie Walters lays out the roadmap for customer experience leaders to find that sweet spot. In this episode, we tackle a quandary presented by a CX leader looking for ways to empower her team to navigate the tricky terrain where unique customer needs clash with the rulebook.

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This Doesn’t Have to Keep You Up at Night: How to Seamlessly Transition Your Outsourced Customer Care Program

BlueOcean

Love them or hate them, in business, as in life, transitions are inevitable. On the Blue Ocean blog, we talk a lot about the process of sourcing a strategic partner for your outsourced customer care program. Usually, we focus on the buying cycle or key decision-making elements to consider, but the fact is, choosing your new strategic partner is just the first step in a long dance together.

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Chatbot Pros & Cons in Customer Service & Support

Comm100

Chatbots have become a ubiquitous part of customer service and support. As businesses strive to meet the ever-increasing expectations of their customers, the adoption of chatbots has emerged as an essential move to enhance service delivery and operational efficiency. This blog takes a closer look at how chatbots are transforming the customer service landscape, outlining the key chatbot pros for businesses and for customers.

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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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AI-Automated Fiber Customer Installation: A Seamless Self-Service Solution

TechSee

Over the last 12 months, our new AI-powered streamlined fiber customer installation solution has helped leading telecoms across North America automate millions of self-installs. boosting success rates while saving millions in call avoidance and dispatch costs. By popular demand, we are now offering this AI-automated guided flow as a packaged solution.

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Unlocking Innovation: AWS and Anthropic push the boundaries of generative AI together

AWS Machine Learning

Amazon Bedrock is the best place to build and scale generative AI applications with large language models (LLM) and other foundation models (FMs). It enables customers to leverage a variety of high-performing FMs, such as the Claude family of models by Anthropic, to build custom generative AI applications. Looking back to 2021, when Anthropic first started building on AWS, no one could have envisioned how transformative the Claude family of models would be.

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The CMO’s 5-Step Guide to Boosting High-Quality Traffic and Customer Engagement

C3Centricity

What is the cornerstone of sustainable growth and competitive advantage today? The answer is that a business can benefit from technology in this digital age to attract high-quality traffic and engage customers effectively. This guide is for all executives who recognize the critical role that strategic, data-driven customer engagement plays in their company’s success.

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[Experience Action Podcast] CX Pulse Check – March 2024

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Unlock the future of customer experience as I, Jeannie Walters, team up with Greg Kihlström from the Agile brand to dissect the fascinating blend of strategy and technology that’s shaping how we interact with businesses today. Prepare to have your perspective radically shifted as we examine a bank’s strategy to merge in-person banking with digital tool education.

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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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A Comprehensive List of Resources for the Contact Center Sourcing Process

BlueOcean

Your organization is ready to find a new contact center outsourcer. What’s your next step? We’ve compiled a list of the most helpful outsourcing resources, in order from discovery to launch. We’re here to help! Read on! Is It Time to Outsource? 5 Questions to Ask Yourself Maybe your organization is so early in the discovery phase that you’re not sure if you’re actually going to outsource at all.

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How to Increase Trust in Government with Digital Communication

Comm100

In an era where public trust in government institutions is understandably sensitive, the need for robust and transparent communication strategies has never been more critical. When done right, digital communication offers governments and agencies the opportunity to build, maintain, and restore trust. Through this medium, they can engage with citizens in real-time, provide 24/7 assistance, and disseminate accurate and accessible information.

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Post-Event Survey Questions to Elevate Your Next Event

Retently

Are you curious about the genuine reactions of your attendees after they experience your event? Post-event surveys are crucial for this feedback, but the real challenge is knowing the right questions to ask. In this guide, you’ll find why they are important, areas to focus on, and 35 essential post-event survey questions crafted to draw out the insights you need.

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Celebrating Remarkable Women: ECXO’s Tribute on International Women’s Day

ECXO

Celebrating Remarkable Women: ECXO’s Tribute on International Women’s Day Last week, as the world celebrated International Women’s Day, the European Customer Experience Organization (ECXO) proudly honored and saluted remarkable women across the globe. We extend our heartfelt congratulations to all women for their invaluable contributions and achievements.

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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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How to Develop Good Rapport in Customer Service

CSM Magazine

Building strong rapport with customers is crucial for any business, as it promotes loyalty and satisfaction, and can be a differentiating factor in today’s competitive market. For customer service professionals, rapport is the bridge that connects empathetic communication with successful resolutions, fostering positive experiences that can last a lifetime.

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Automate the process to change image backgrounds using Amazon Bedrock and AWS Step Functions

AWS Machine Learning

Many customers, including those in creative advertising, media and entertainment, ecommerce, and fashion, often need to change the background in a large number of images. Typically, this involves manually editing each image with photo software. This can take a lot of effort, especially for large batches of images. However, Amazon Bedrock and AWS Step Functions make it straightforward to automate this process at scale.

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Blue Ocean Named as Finalist in 2024 Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service

BlueOcean

Blue Ocean, a world leader in customer care solutions, was named a Finalist today in the “Contact Center Outsourcing Provider of the Year” category in the 18 th annual Stevie ® Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Blue Ocean will ultimately be awarded a Gold, Silver, or Bronze Stevie Award during a gala banquet on Friday, April 12, at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Suncoast Credit Union’s Path to Data-Driven Personalization: 3 Key Takeaways

Blueshift

In an era defined by digital disruption and evolving consumer expectations, credit unions are presented with a remarkable opportunity to redefine member engagement and excel in a rapidly changing, digital world. Unlike most traditional banking institutions, credit unions boast a unique value proposition—a commitment to community-centric banking, personalized service, and member-driven initiatives.

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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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Community Banking Month: Spotlight on Horicon Bank

SaleMove

In the spirit of Community Banking Month, Horicon Bank shares some of the ways it supports its community. The post Community Banking Month: Spotlight on Horicon Bank appeared first on Glia Blog | Digital Customer Service Explained.

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Whatever your title or position, be a servant leader to all generations, especially Gen N.

Bill Quiseng

A veteran of over 40 years in hospitality leadership, I was, until several years ago, a customer service/customer experience speaker. Unfortunately, I suffered a stroke in April 2021. So, I have slightly slurred speech and a dead right side. Since my stroke, I’ve gone from Mr. “Let’s be GREAT out there!” as GM/Managing Director to Mr. Invisible, sequestered alone with my wife in my San Diego apartment.

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Feedbackly Helps Research the Influence of Music on Emotional Experiences of Shopping Center Visitors in Finland

Feedbackly

In the EU-funded EU Music 360 study, the effects of music on customer and employee experience in the retail sector in Finland are being investigated. The research began in February 2024 and will continue until the end of April. The study aims to determine how business is affected when a store environment plays a playlist tailored to the brand compared to a randomly selected playlist.

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