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Customer Experiences for All

CX Accelerator

When you have a child on the Autism spectrum , you gain an unusual view of Customer Experience. By the time my youngest son was 6 years old, I (Sheri) understood barber shops, grocery stores, restaurants, doctors offices, dentists, and most recreational activities were not built for us. We created our own solutions. His older brothers learned how to cut his hair, eating out meant drive-thru meals, recreational activities consisted of visits to the local parks or the local YMCA until we were aske

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What Are Onstage and Backstage in Customer Experience?

Customers That Stick

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AOV vs. LTV: Why Customer Lifetime Value Matters

ProProfs Chat

Bundling? Free shipping? Suggested items? All of these eCommerce strategies work toward the same goal: getting customers to buy more on each visit, increasing the average order value. And they hold an important place in boosting revenue for your eCommerce brand. But what about increasing the lifetime value of your customers? Focusing on increasing order value is important to boosting revenue, but increasing the lifetime value of your customers is critical to long term success of your brand.

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5-Agile Best Practices from the MaritzCX Engineering Team

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MaritzCX “Agile” Workspace Promotes Employee & Business Success The overall goal of the agile method is to adapt to change and deliver working software as quickly as possible. And although quality paired with speed is the main goal, it is important to note that employees are humans and they have personal needs that must be. View Article.

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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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Actionable Insights: What they are, why they’re important, and how to get them

Lumoa

Actionable insights are data sets that prescribe any direct, meaningful actions you can take based on the analysis of raw data.

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Is Packaging Part of Product or Promotion? Should it be Both?

C3Centricity

Which did you answer subconsciously when you read the title? Do you consider your packaging to be a part of the product, protecting its contents and framing its on-shelf life? Or do you consider it to be an integral part of your connection with your customers at an important moment of truth, that of purchase and usage? If you answered both, then I believe that you are making maximum use of your packaging or at least you recognise its potential for communication.

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Avoid the Failure to Empathize: Take the Customer Seriously

Customer Bliss

In this week’s Daily Dose video, I share a short video inspired by the lessons of my most recent book, Would You Do That To Your Mother. . The following is a lightly edited transcript of the video below. Ever been looked at sideways at a car repair shop? You know what I mean. You’re explaining a problem to the car repair guy or your plumber and an issue you’re having repeatedly, in this one instant, just won’t repeat.

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The La-cross-e Between Coaching and CX

CloudCherry

I have been coaching high school lacrosse for 4 years now. I love the game of lacrosse and all that it can teach young athletes. I played the sport for 12 years and found that I love to coach just as much as I love to play. I value the relationships I build with my fellow coaches and my players. As a coach, I know that I can have a big influence on these young men as I interact with on a daily basis throughout the season.

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Designing Surveys: 4 Key Things to Consider

GetFeedback

Not many companies spend the necessary time to designing surveys that look good. Design is often overlooked, which is a shame because it’s an essential part of getting the best survey results. As a society, we’ve become more design conscious and even use design as a way to tell which companies deserve our business. According to a 2018 Adobe and Econsultancy study , organizations that describe themselves as design-driven, outperform their peers by a considerable margin, and 73% of the respo

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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 Happens to Customer Service When Unemployment Hits Historic Lows?

BlueOcean

A low unemployment rate is cause for celebration. It means people are working, paying taxes, and bringing home the bacon. That’s why most people see the current 3.6% US unemployment rate as fantastic news – it’s an astronomical improvement over the 10% unemployment rate after the 2008-09 Great Recession. But there’s a hitch for folks who are tasked with hiring, especially those hiring for contact center teams: when more people are working, there are fewer active job seekers.

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3 Ways to Streamline Digital Customer Service Integration

NICE inContact

Digital customer service and business both move at the speed of now. Agility and flexibility are key, and responsiveness needs to be non-stop. This is why digital customer service is such a good fit for business and why integration needs to be seamless. There’s simply no time for mistakes. The case for digital customer service integration is clear: Companies using digital channels for customer service can increase customer engagement and answer more customer queries without any additional resour

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Five Rules of Customer Observation for Greater Success

C3Centricity

One of the best ways to a deeper understanding of your customers is to watch and listen to them whenever you can. Customer observation is a powerful, but unfortunately too often an under-utilised tool of marketers. It is, therefore, understandable that so many companies run to conduct market research, usually a qualitative study, as a first step to improved customer understanding.

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How to Measure Net Promoter Score® (NPS®) With Salesforce

GetFeedback

Net Promoter Score is a fundamental customer loyalty metric. Learn how to integrate NPS with Salesforce to drive real results from customer feedback.

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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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Twitter's Top 10 Tips for Member Engagement

Alida

Twitter knows a thing or two about engagement. They launched Twitter Insiders , run on the Sparq customer insights platform, to uncover direct, consent-based feedback they could use to complement and augment traditional media metrics, behavioral and usage data to become experts in engaging new and receptive audiences for advertisers.

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BAYADA Home Health Care Reduces Call Abandon Rate 87%

NICE inContact

BAYADA Home Health Care provides clinical and personal care support services to patients at home, helping them stay independent and comfortable. With 360 offices in 23 states and five international offices, the company employs 28,000, mostly nurses and home health aides. While BAYADA has experienced robust growth in past years, its New Jersey contact center wasn’t so healthy.

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Co-Creation With Customers: 5 Ways to Drive Better Results

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

What does co-creation with customers really mean? Co-creation means letting your customers in on the ground floor of innovation and creating new products, services, and customer journeys in sometimes real time with them. Customers become partners and advisors, not just end users. And it isn’t limited to just customers. Organizations can also co-create with vendors, suppliers, resellers and specific groups of employees.

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Designing Surveys: 4 Key Things to Consider

GetFeedback

Not many companies spend the necessary time to designing surveys that look good. Design is often overlooked, which is a.

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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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3 Principles Underpinning Refinery29's Best-in-Class Insight Program

Alida

With a global audience in excess of 249 million, Refinery29 is largely regarded as the preeminent authority on young women. A business that started as a creative-focused city guide now influences everything from Sunday brunch to big business. Their most recent foray into the world of personal finances has earned them a reputation as “one to watch” in the financial industry as insurance companies, banks, and fin-tech services vie for the attention of their multi-billion dollar audience and drive

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Swedish Rail Unifies Contact Center Operations with Cloud

NICE inContact

Every day, 140,000 people depart from one of Swedish Rail’s 284 stations, traveling on one of its 1,200 daily routes between major cities in Sweden and the Scandinavian capitals of Stockholm, Copenhagen and Oslo. In the course of planning and traveling, customers contact Swedish Rail for a variety of reasons, from checking on delayed trains to disturbances on the tracks—volume that rises considerably during bad weather and vacations.

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Proactive Customer Support

ShepHyken

Just last week I wrote about the concept of predictive customer support. Now, we take a slightly different angle with the concept of proactive customer support. The concept is simple. The company reaches out to the customer before the customer has a chance to reach out to the company. More often than not, the customer may not even know they have a problem.

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Survey Reporting: How to Communicate Your Survey Results

GetFeedback

Survey reporting isn’t a prescribed formula. You need a way to present your findings in a meaningful way that caters.

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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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Customer Service Success Stories: Visual Assistance Saves the Day

TechSee

Customer service calls are usually pretty routine: customers can’t log in, something isn’t working, they need help setting up a device, or they need clarification on a bill. But sometimes, in the midst of the mundane, comes the mind-boggling: crazy, funny or hair-raising B2C customer service success stories that make your day and inspire you to deliver ever-better service.

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5 Reasons Customers Love Chatbots

NICE inContact

Chatbots are a kind of silver bullet to fulfill the needs of today’s demanding digital customers. Let’s take a closer look at 5 reasons customers love AI-driven chatbots. 1) Customers expect self-service options. While customers still like talking to human customer service agents when they have complicated issues that need real interaction, these days most customers also expect websites to provide self-service options.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of July 1, 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. Is Customer Service The Same As Customer Experience? I Debate Myself by Steve Olenski. (Media Post) Like many others, I’m sure, I talk to myself quite frequently.

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The Vital Art of Creating Memorable Messaging

Beyond Philosophy

The Vital Art of Creating Memorable Messaging. When we make buying decisions, we usually are choosing from a short list of options. Our memory assembles these options. So, from a Customer Experience perspective, it is vital that your product or service is one of these options recalled at the moment of the buying decision. In this episode of The Intuitive Customer podcast, we explore how our memories generate these choice sets for buying decisions.

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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What is Intelligent Process Automation (IPA)? ?

Bizagi

Intelligent Process Automation is one aspect of a broader shift in technology, that of Automation as a whole. From driverless cars to autonomous drones, automation is helping make seemingly space-age technologies available today by creating and leveraging new forms of intelligence. Whether it’s customer communications in the form of desktop assistants, or automated tasks across an enterprise, automation is transforming the way we live and work.

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Learning from Others – Highlights from Customer Contact Week

NICE inContact

I’ve just returned from Las Vegas where I attended my first visit ever to Customer Contact Week – it’s the world’s largest customer contact event, in its 20th year. For the uninitiated, CCW is like those popular comic book fan conventions – except, instead of comic books, the hero is THE customer. It’s all about customer service and customer experience (CX).

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Amazing Business Radio: Adrian Swinscoe

ShepHyken

Punk CX with Adrian Swinscoe. Painting Outside the Lines of Customer Service. Shep Hyken interviews Adrian Swinscoe. They discuss his new book, Punk CX , and talk about how to apply punk sensibility to the customer service world. The Interview with Adrian Swinscoe: The speed of change is unceasingly fast, but true progress can be impeded by too much to quickly.

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