Sat.Jun 20, 2020 - Fri.Jun 26, 2020

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Customer expectations: 7 Types all exceptional researchers must understand

Qualtrics

Customer satisfaction reflects the expectations and experiences that the customer has with a product or service. Consumer expectations reflect both past and current product evaluation and user experiences. Think about any major purchases you've made recently. Did you research your purchase? Did you collect information from advertising, salespersons, friends, associates, or even test the product?

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How to Improve NPS: 6 Best Practices for Your CS Team

Totango

There has never been a more important time to understand what is going through your customers’ heads. The COVID-19 pandemic has created uncertainty across the market and enterprises of all kinds are looking for a solid understanding of their customer base as they prepare for recovery. Brand ambassadors have used the Net Promoter Score (NPS) to get those answers for almost a decade.

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The Central Role of AI in Multiexperience CX

TechSee

Customer experience (CX) is a space where innovative AI applications are being deployed at a rapid rate to deliver effortless, multi-sensory journeys across a range of voice, video and text modalities, apps, and other digital touchpoints. This emerging approach is known as multiexperience (MX). MX gives customers a greater degree of choice over how they interact with a brand.

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Everything You Need to Know to Succeed in Customer Experience

GetFeedback

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, 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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10 Ways to Immediately Improve Your Customer Centricity

C3Centricity

We all know that customer centricity is essential; even more so these days with the lockdown in most countries due to the pandemic. Now more than ever, businesses need to put their customers clearly at the heart of their organisation. But I know that many struggle, even in more normal times, to be customer centric. They just don’t know where to start.

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Changes in Consumer Habits | Implications for Convenience Stores and Gas Stations

IntouchInsight

As every industry is adapting to changes in consumer behaviour, we explore how COVID-19 has impacted convenience stores and gas stations. We look at three key takeaways from our recent survey results and discuss how businesses can best align with their consumers' needs and help people feel safe returning to in-store shopping.

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4 Experts Share Their Advice on Cultivating the Well-Being of Your Organization’s Stakeholders

Customer Bliss

During this time, I’ve been hosting weekly live conversations on LinkedIn , with C-Suite leaders, authors, and experts in their respective fields. They’ve included influential authors like Seth Godin and CEOs like Leslie Stretch. These conversations span across a range of industries but tend to have an overarching theme that comes back to the importance of leadership bravery.

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Guest Blog – 8 Things Customer Service Teams Should Avoid During Sensitive Times

Comm100

Nahla Davies is a software developer and tech writer. Before devoting her work full time to technical writing, she managed—among other intriguing things—to serve as a lead programmer at an Inc. 5,000 experiential branding organization whose clients include Samsung, Time Warner, Netflix, and Sony. You can find her on LinkedIn. We live in strange times, to say the least.

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There’s an Upset Customer. Now What? – Tip #4

Steve DiGioia

Regardless of your business, and no matter how hard you try to do the best for them, there will be situations where you have an upset customer who is dissatisfied with your product or service. Day in and day out, we must strive to provide the optimal experience for each customer interaction. But is this realistic? When things don’t go as planned, our customers become upset and we have failed in their eyes.

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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The 60 Best Customer Experience Quotes

Lumoa

Get inspired by these 60 customer experience quotes from well-known leaders and motivate your team to become more customer-focused.

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How to Include Machines in Your CX Program

GetFeedback

Design your CX program to include mobile devices, voice-command, and Internet of Things.

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Three Potential XM Roles for CIOs

Experience Matters

I recently hosted a webinar “Experience Management in Uncertain Times: Tips for the CIO.” We had a great panel discussion with Michael Golz, Chief Information Officer of SAP Americas along with Tim Greulich, Managing Director, XM Practice Leader and Kashif Rahamatullah, Principal from Deloitte. The discussion centered around how IT leaders can and should think about Experience Management (XM), especially given all of the recent COVID-driven changes to customers and employees.

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18 Ways to Stop Chasing Low Price Shoppers

Steve DiGioia

In my recent post, “ 3 Reasons Why We Let Businesses Take Us For Granted ”, I asked these questions, “Do we not value ourselves enough as a customer to expect the best or at least average service? But what about indifferent service? Why is it acceptable? In today’s post, I expand on one of those reasons: “low price shoppers”. Here’s my story…. While shopping, you see a brightly colored cell phone sticking out of the back pocket of an employee or your waiter has a pack of cigarettes in his front

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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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Contact Tracing – Empowering Your Call Center Agents Has Never Been More Important

NICE inContact

Most state a federal government agencies are struggling with exponential increases in call volumes as a result of the pandemic. One unnamed agency experienced an over 3000% jump in call volume. The scariest part of that data point is that agency had not yet begun executing contact tracing efforts.

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5 Surprising Rules to Live By When Managing Customer Memories

Beyond Philosophy

Customer Memories are a fascinating subject. In many ways, they are what your Customer Experience is, at least from the customers’ perspective, which we also discussed on a recent podcast. They are certainly the most critical element of your customer loyalty. However, these are big ideas about memory, and the purpose of my newsletter today is not to wax philosophical about how incredible and impactful memories are.

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How to ask for customer feedback if you’re an ecommerce brand

GetFeedback

How to ask and act strategically on customer feedback for your ecommerce business.

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Helping a community in need: Our outreach efforts in the Twin Cities

Calabrio

For our Calabrio employees, the recent events in Minneapolis have special significance. The Twin Cities is home to our U.S. headquarters, and we wanted to help out as our community dealt with changes. Below is a summary of Calabrio’s community outreach efforts in May and June 2020. We’re proud of every Calabrio member who pitched in to help donate and collect items!

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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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Hey boss! Can I please cut call center costs?

NICE inContact

It's important to be purposeful when cutting costs. Using benchmarks can help. Use internal benchmarks to make cuts relative to past performance. Use industry benchmarks to make cuts that will put you in line with other contact centers like yours. Using both sets of benchmarks in combination may yield the best results.

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When the Cloud Won’t Cut It: Deploying On-Premise Customer Engagement Software

Comm100

When considering any technology investment, security and privacy are non-negotiable. No matter which digital support channels your business offers, keeping your confidential customer data safe and secure is a (if not the ) top priority. For any company, striking a balance between absolute security and compliance while providing accessible, real-time customer support isn’t always an easy feat.

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How to Measure Customer Retention

ShepHyken

Get ready to do a little math. While not my typical lesson, this is very important. It’s about customer retention—which can lead to customer loyalty. Loyal customers are important to all businesses regardless of industry or size—large, small, B2B or B2C. Most businesses know their numbers, but do they know the right numbers? It’s easy to measure customer satisfaction at different levels.

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Create Outstanding Memorable Experiences That Drive Value

Beyond Philosophy

General Show Notes: Have you ever driven a long way to a vacation, perhaps with kids in the backseat, and heard the whining query, “are we there yet?” Have you ever wanted to ask that question yourself? It turns out there are good reasons for that. It’s called the Return Trip Effect, and we discuss it on this episode of The Intuitive Customer.

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Top 5 Ways to Optimize Your Loyalty Strategy

Speaker: Lauren Barash, Vice President, Brand Marketing

In an ever-evolving industry, building and retaining loyal customers is critical to the success of any restaurant business. Join Lauren Barash, VP of Brand Marketing at Full Course, as she delves into the world of restaurant loyalty programs, and reveals the top five essential strategies to optimize your approach! This webinar will explore: Loyalty trends and what you should be focusing on 📊 Actionable insights and ideas to help you develop the most powerful and effective loyalty program

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How to Claim a Facebook Business Page with Facebook Business Manager

ReviewTrackers

Learning how to claim a Facebook business Page is crucial for any business. A Page can make it easy for those already on Facebook to easily reach the business, learn more about its products or services, and read their Facebook reviews. Creating a Page also increases a business’ overall exposure. There are 2.23 billion monthly active users on Facebook , which makes it one of the most popular social media platforms on the planet.

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Cyara Included in the Forrester Wave: Continuous Functional Test Automation Suites Q2 2020

Cyara

I’m so excited to share that Cyara is included in the just published report: The Forrester Wave™: Continuous Functional Test Automation Suites, Q2 2020. As Diego Lo Giudice wrote in his blog on this Wave, “…being among the top 15 players in the market in a Forrester Wave™ evaluation is always a win. Why? Because the vendors are being compared with a peer group of test automation vendors that form, based on Forrester’s research, the top 15 performers among all.”.

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As You Re-open Are Your Employees Making Special Experiences?

Wired and Dangerous

the state allows retail stores or restaurants and businesses to reopen after coronavirus restrictions. man with face mask turning a sign on a door shop. economy starts running after being on lockdown. As businesses reopen their physical locations and customers adapt to the new normal of all kinds of virtual experiences it has become more important than ever before to deliver consistently great experiences.

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Ethos: 7 Guiding Values for These Times

Second to None

Today, we seek clarity, humanity, and equanimity more than ever. Through these challenging events, the power remains within us in choosing how we respond. By reflecting within ourselves, we can access uncovered insights which can help us navigate through these times. Reflecting through our past three decades of work, Second to None has unveiled a set of values which have shaped our mission — known as Ethos.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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What is Employee Branding? Why Does Your Company Need It?

ReviewTrackers

You’ve probably heard of employer branding. You may have even read about it on our blog, and followed the steps to building a strong employer brand. If you think of “employee branding” as how your company is perceived by current and potential employees — well, that’s a pretty good starting point. But What is Employee Branding? Like employer branding, employee branding also involves presenting the company in the best possible light in front of employees, job candidates, internal and external stak

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The Complete Glossary of Common Customer Service & Support Lingos

ProProfs Chat

It’s not just great communication skills that make a customer support operator great at their job. 62% of customers say that a representative’s knowledge and resourcefulness play a key role in creating a good experience. That means being consistent at learning and acquiring knowledge can help you shape a customer’s journey better. But, where to start?

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Boost productivity and reduce turnover for your contact center agents

Talkdesk

Now that you have successfully onboarded your agents and deployed an effective development strategy , it’s time to think about the final — and some would say the most important — step. You’ve invested time and resources turning your tenured agents into highly effective customer service professionals. You need to protect that investment by retaining them long term with the right strategy to keep them engaged, happy and highly productive.