November, 2022

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Building a Great CX Team

CX Accelerator

Collaboration with Ben Motteram and Nate Brown To transform an organization into one that is more customer centric is a complex task that requires many different skills. Customer experience is multi-disciplinary. Those who succeed in the profession do so because they possess a number of different skills or are part of a team comprised specialists in each skill.

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CX 101: What Is a Cluster Analysis? 

InMoment XI

Math and numbers are the ultimate in ‘exact science.’ When we work within the confines of mathematics, we can expect absolute precision in our results. In data analysis terms, this can be a real advantage, giving us clear, definite numbers on which to base future decisions. Unfortunately, sometimes the real world being represented by the data is anything but exact.

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Customer Experience Management in The Metaverse

IntouchInsight

You’ve probably heard people talking about the metaverse over the past year. From Facebook rebranding as Meta to Taco Bell hosting a virtual reality wedding — there's been no shortage of news. Brands are already juggling a variety of in-person and digital channels so adding yet another one to the list may seem like a headache. But the metaverse presents more opportunities than obstacles.

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Customer Experience Management for Any Budget

IntouchInsight

If you’re reading this, we can assume you know the importance of customer experience in driving brand growth and revenue. But today, it's easy to suffer from opportunity overload when deciding how to improve your customer experience programs. When presented with a variety of products, services, and partners the only real limitations are time and budget.

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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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Holiday Customer Service and Why Sometimes the Best Gifts Cost Nothing

Call Experts

Investing in a holiday customer service plan is essential to growing your business. 52% of consumers say they have made an additional purchase from a company after a positive customer service experience. But, managing all of the moving parts of your business can feel overwhelming, especially with the onset of the winter season. Managing your customer demands with the needs of your workforce can be easy when you partner with an experienced team like Call Experts.

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Five Ways to Make Customers Feel Special

ShepHyken

An important goal of a good customer experience is to make the customer feel special. That special feeling can come in many different forms. I was reading an article about customer retention, and it prompted me to start a list of ways to make customers feel special, want to come back, and even want to share their experience with friends, family, and colleagues.

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Cleaning a Toilet vs. Calling Customer Support: 3 Factors Impacting the Customer Experience

InMoment XI

Shep Hyken, a well-known customer service consultant, recently shared that 42% of people would rather clean a toilet than call customer support. This statistic actually didn’t surprise me given how often support experiences leave much to be desired. . This got me thinking: Why is that the case when none of us would claim to enjoy cleaning a toilet!?

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10 top tips for a winning customer service knowledge management system

Eptica

Date: Friday, November 18, 2022 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager 10 top tips for a winning customer service knowledge management system. Published on: November 18, 2022. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Using knowledge effectively is key to driving excellence in customer service, particularly as queries become increasingly complex and information changes ever faster.

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Work-from-Anywhere (WFA) Is the New Reality; Investing in PCI Compliance in Your Contact-Center Is the Smartest Move of 2023

Interactions

Over the last three years, Covid has transformed the contact-center industry into a work-from-anywhere (WFA) world. Millions of agents now work outside the traditional walls of a care center. . It’s a win for business cost efficiencies and worker flexibility. But it opens a can of worms for meeting compliance requirements and it impacts millions of care agents supporting hundreds of thousands of businesses. .

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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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Stability AI builds foundation models on Amazon SageMaker

AWS Machine Learning

We’re thrilled to announce that Stability AI has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider to power its state-of-the-art AI models for image, language, audio, video, and 3D content generation. Stability AI is a community-driven, open-source artificial intelligence (AI) company developing breakthrough technologies. With Amazon SageMaker , Stability AI will build AI models on compute clusters with thousands of GPU or AWS Trainium chips, reducing training time and cost by 58%.

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Top 5 Customer Service Trends to Expect in 2023

Comm100

The customer service world continues to develop, and each new year can mean a sea change in changing consumer expectations. As new customer service trends arrive, service that was once considered exemplary might no longer meet the growing customer demand. To help you prepare for the year ahead, in this article we’ll look at the key customer service trends of 2023 and how you can deliver on your consumers’ support expectations. 1.

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Don’t Forget What Got You to the Dance?

ShepHyken

A restaurant took its most popular item off the menu. It had been on there a long time, and the owner decided it was time to make a change, even though it was his guests’ favorite dish. . A company changed its invoicing terms. It wanted to tighten its terms to get paid sooner, with larger penalties for late payment. . A retail store changed its return policy.

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Your Top 3 ROI Questions, Answered

InMoment XI

Imagine if you were still operating your business in the same way you were in 2019. Total nightmare, right? Your customer experience (CX) program, like your business, needs to be able to grow and evolve to prove a return on investment. If you’re like the majority of CX practitioners (CX Network’s “Global State of CX” report shows that it is the second highest concern for CX practitioners), you likely have quite a few ROI questions.

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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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Why contact centres are choosing the cloud for adding new functionality

Eptica

Date: Thursday, November 24, 2022 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Why contact centres are choosing the cloud for adding new functionality. Published on: November 24, 2022. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Increasingly contact centres are migrating to the cloud for the ability it gives them to deploy new technology, faster and with greater ease.

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Highly Cited Researchers 2022: Using deeper qualitative analysis to help spot research misconduct

Clarivate

Today we reveal our annual list of Highly Cited Researchers. This year we recognize 6,938 scientists and social scientists who demonstrate significant and broad influence among their peers in their chosen field or fields of research. The exceptional individuals designated Highly Cited Researchers 2022 have published multiple highly cited papers, ranking in the top 1% by citations for field and year over the last decade.

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What Is Content Marketing in SaaS?

DemandJump

Absolutely essential. With a content-driven SaaS marketing strategy, you can start building relationships with more highly-qualified leads than with paid advertising alone. How? By creating contact points that your audience searches out on their own, rather than bombarding them with ads that may drive them away instead.

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How CCaaS Providers are Increasing Customer Value with Digital-First Partnerships

Comm100

There’s no doubt that telephone remains a stalwart customer service channel. Many consumers still prefer to call companies for support, particularly when the issue is complex or urgent. However, this number is ever decreasing, and CCaaS providers that are only offering phone support, even alongside email, are restricting their growth and profitability.

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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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Amazing Business Radio: Tim Hughes

ShepHyken

Serve and Sell Your Customers with An Amazing Digital CX. Creating the Digital Experience That Builds Trust with Your Customers. Shep Hyken interviews Tim Hughes, co-Founder and CEO of DLA Ignite , and co-author of Social Selling: Techniques to Influence Buyers and Changemakers. He shares how organizations can establish a strong digital brand identity, share knowledge, and create lasting relationships with their customers through social media platforms.

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What Did We Learn to Improve CX? – The Daniel Group 2022 Client Conference

Daniel Group

What Did We Learn to Improve CX? – The Daniel Group 2022 Client Conference. Our annual conference theme, Dollars & Sense, suggests the two primary foci of our conference: 1.) how does better CX improve business outcomes and 2.) how to use CX metrics most effectively. First, we want to share some of what we learned to improve CX. Then, over the coming months, we will present more in-depth discussions of the significant conference components to help you improve your CX program.

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Three lessons I’ve learned building a Customer Success team from different backgrounds

ChurnZero

This is a guest article by Michael Su , senior consultant of Customer Success, The Success League. Customer Success is still a young field and a new concept for many companies. When I ventured out to build my first Customer Success department at a tech software company, my leadership team thought I was nuts. At the time, I was a sales engineer, and my job was to close deals and move on to the next prospect.

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Creating Inclusive Experiences for People With Different Abilities

Doing CX Right

Is your organization unintentionally creating barriers to inclusivity for those that are differently abled? Learn what you can do to create better experiences from CX Professionals and from a woman who's endured 80+ surgeries. The post Creating Inclusive Experiences for People With Different Abilities appeared first on Doing CX Right.

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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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What Does SaaS Mean in Marketing?

DemandJump

SaaS is an acronym that stands for Software as a Service. As it applies to marketing, SaaS is just a term to describe the kind of product or service that's being marketed—in this case, a software solution. We can further break this down into two categories: business to consumer (B2C) and business to business (B2B) SaaS marketing.

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If more is not done to protect agents, customer service standards will fall

Adrian Swinscoe

The UK recently introduced some new legislation that has implications for customer service. Specifically, an amendment was included in the new Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts […]. The post If more is not done to protect agents, customer service standards will fall first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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13 Effective Marketing Tips To Boost Your Cyber Monday Sales

kommunicate

Last Updated on November 26, 2022 Cyber Monday is a time when the majority of all online sales take place. It is known to have the highest sales volume in the ecommerce space today. This has led to it being recognized as the busiest day for shopping in the U.S. What is certain is that [.]. The post 13 Effective Marketing Tips To Boost Your Cyber Monday Sales appeared first on Kommunicate Blog.

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Creating Connection to Improve Work Culture with Chris Hsiung

Russel Lolacher

In this episode of Relationships at Work, Russel chats with speaker and Police Chief of the Mountain View Police Department Chris Hsiung on how communication and creating connection within an organization can improve workplace culture. A few reasons why he is awesome – He’s a speaker and writer on engagement, and the Police Chief of the Mountain View Police Department, rising through their ranks over the last 20 years.

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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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2022 Customer Success Leadership Study Signals Industry at a Turning Point

Education Services Group

It’s back! And it’s bigger, badder, and packed with more thrilling drama than ever. No, I don’t mean the new season of White Lotus. I’m talking about the 2022 Customer Success Leadership Study (much more exciting, IMHO). For the third year in a row, we’re tracking all the twists and turns unfolding in the Customer Success industry. In collaboration with ChurnZero and sponsored by Higher Logic Vanilla and involve.ai , our mission is to support the Customer Success community with reliable be

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Important Agent Performance Metrics to Measure Success

Zonka Feedback

The success and failure of any organization can be defined by how well they take care of their customers and most importantly their concerns. Since Customer Service Agents are the front line of any business, measuring Agent Performance can be a crucial aspect of improving Customer Service Performance and driving success. But many businesses fail to understand that there is so much more to measuring agent performance than monitoring how many calls they take in a day, if they come to work or not,

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What Are Some Important Marketing Tactics That a B2B SaaS Company Should Consider Using to Grow Its Customer Base?

DemandJump

Developing a SaaS marketing strategy is a perfect opportunity for companies to reach their target audience online. Content is the key to making that strategy work. A strong B2B SaaS marketing strategy uses valuable content and search engine optimization (SEO) to drive organic traffic to your website. So what are the essential tactics you should use to create the best B2B marketing?

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