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35 Website Survey Questions to Ask Your Customers in 2021

ProProfs Chat

Be it a startup or a multi-million dollar company; a website is the starting point of contact between your brand and customers. . Research suggests that it takes just about 50 milliseconds for users to judge your website and decide whether they want to stay or leave. . Multiple factors come into play while forming opinions about your website – its design, content, navigation, usability – the list is endless.

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5 Best Practices for Building Customer Relationships With Messaging Channels

Conversocial

I regularly research and write articles that eulogise about the importance of building customer relationships. If you follow the Conversocial blog there are recurring regular themes: it’s easier and more cost-effective to retain customers than acquire new ones, existing customers are more likely to buy from a brand again and messaging channels are the most effective way to keep these retained and loyal customers engaged.

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EVI vs. NPS – Which CX Metric is Better?

Feedbackly

If you have implemented a CX strategy for your business, you would know that CX metrics are an important aspect of it. They help.

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Why You Should Use Dashboards for Community & Market Research Programs

Alida

As a result of data overload, dashboards have long been a commonly used data visualization tool for business intelligence and data teams. However, we've identified a number of trends that are leading to insights professionals and researchers turning towards this visual and interactive method of displaying data and telling stories. So why is this happening?

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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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Digital Transformation in Customer Service – Why You Can’t Afford to Ignore it (Part 1 of 3)

Comm100

Digital transformation is by no means a recent trend. However, the past couple of years has seen its importance within customer service skyrocket as companies adopted new technologies to stay connected during the pandemic. With the benefits made clear for all to see, and customer expectations risen, customer service operations can no longer afford to ignore digital transformation.

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4 Benefits of integrating CRM for small companies with contact center software

NICE inContact

Small business leaders wear a lot of different hats and juggle multiple responsibilities.

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Would Customers Pay to Do Business with You?

ShepHyken

Think about this … what if you were to charge a customer just to talk to you about what you would sell them? Or, if you own a retail store, a fee to enter the store. What would you have to do for your customers to be willing to pay for the privilege of buying your products or services? I’m not suggesting that you should. This is just to get you thinking about how good you really are.

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The Ultimate Guide to Small Business Customer Service

Help Scout

With access to fewer resources and generally leaner teams, small businesses need to be more creative and tactful in their approach to customer service. That’s not to say they can’t provide a top-notch experience — they absolutely can. They just need to be a little more focused with their efforts. In this guide, we cover some common topics surrounding small business customer service and provide some insights gained from our years of working in support — as well as insights from small business lea

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CX Tech Top-ups for September- Three feature updates!

IntouchInsight

A new month means new product updates from Intouch Insight. We have introduced several new features across our platforms and can’t wait for you to try them out.

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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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Unleash the power of CX metrics with feedback analytics

Thematic

NPS, CSAT, CES.it doesn’t matter how many letters you throw out there or how many customer experience (CX) scores you get. If you don’t know what’s driving your CX metrics, it’s hard to replicate success, let alone find ways to improve. Through comments in customer feedback surveys, social media conversations, call center dialogue, etc., your customers are often telling you how they feel about specific features, customer service quality, user experience, and more.

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Amazing Business Radio: John Jantsch

ShepHyken

The Ultimate Marketing Engine. Creating Customers for Life. Shep Hyken interviews John Jantsch is a marketing consultant, speaker, and author of The Ultimate Marketing Engine. They discuss how to serve, understand, and create evangelists out of your ideal customers. Top Takeaways: A repeat customer keeps coming back but a loyal customer is someone who will do even more business with you once they come back.

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Why contact centres need to embrace omnichannel

Eptica

Date: Friday, September 17, 2021 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Why contact centres need to embrace omnichannel. Published on: September 17, 2021. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Customers are now more demanding – and want to be able to contact organisations across more and more channels. They expect to be able to swap between these channels as their needs change, meaning the contact centre has to become omnichannel.

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How to Celebrate Customer Service Week (3 Steps)

Myra Golden

Download agenda, themes, certificates and more here! Are you still trying to figure out how to celebrate Customer Service Week? After the year and a half your team has pulled your company through, don’t let National Customer Service Week pass without an epic celebration of your front line! Here are three steps to easy National Customer Service Week planning!

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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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Protected: As Covid continues, CX Approaches to Gathering Feedback Need to Expand

Daniel Group

This content is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: The post Protected: As Covid continues, CX Approaches to Gathering Feedback Need to Expand appeared first on The Daniel Group.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 9-13-2021

ShepHyken

Each week I read many 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. What Is Customer Loyalty and Retention (And 3 Tips for Improvement) by Scott Clark. (CMSWire) Although the terms “customer loyalty” and “customer retention” are often used interchangeably, they actually refer to two different things.

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For CX success, re-evaluate your purpose

Zeisler Consulting

May I offer a modest suggestion about CX? Here it is: The purpose of Customer Experience as an endeavor (a department, a practice, a field of study, etc.) is to improve the alignment between what your company says it’s all about (call it mission/vision, corporate values/principles, or simply Brand Promise) and the experience your Customers have when they interact with your brand.

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How to Enforce a Mask Mandate In Your Theater, Museum, Library or Store

Myra Golden

We thought we’d be done with COVID by now. Yet, here we are. I was supposed to be boarding a plane tomorrow to deliver the opening keynote for a large event in D.C. It’s now virtual. A workshop I’m facilitating in Tulsa in a few weeks is now online. My son’s school reinstated mask mandates this week. Speaking of masks, I’m doing a lot of digital de-escalation training for clients in museums, libraries, theaters, and medical offices.

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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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Advocating for People in a Profit-Driven World

dscout People Nerds

[dscout x HmntyCntrd] It starts with small acts of support, resistance, and introspection, at a daily level.

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Guest Post: 5 Tips to Enhance the Customer Experience

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Jeff Pedowitz, ForbesBooks author of F The Funnel: A New Way To Engage Customers & Grow Revenue, and President and CEO of The Pedowitz Group. He offers five tips for brands to enhance the customer experience and in the process build brand loyalty. Getting and keeping a customer’s attention can be a challenge for companies in today’s competitive marketplace.

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Impersonal Medical Care Creates These Problems | #Healthcare #PeopleSkills

Kate Nasser

Impersonal medical care undermines patient trust & follow-up. Real life examples fr Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™ Healthcare Medicine. The post Impersonal Medical Care Creates These Problems | #Healthcare #PeopleSkills appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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Guest post: 5 myths of Digital Customer Success

inSided

This month's guest post is brought to you by Condeco's arguably most customer-obsessed CSM – Erika Villarreal. She's about to bust five myths that all too often hold CS teams back when it comes to implementing and running digital-led customer success programs. Let's hear it! Digital customer success has been a hot topic lately. Let’s start by defining what digital customer success is, and for this, I’m going to quote Brian LaFaille ’s definition as I believe it is the most straightforward and si

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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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Traditional to digital: the evolution of digital marketing strategy

Perceptive

Marketing has changed—and we're the ones changing it. As consumers focus more and more on online purchases and, more recently, with Covid-19 causing a surge in the uptake of eCommerce, organisations are fast pivoting their traditional and digital marketing strategies to draw consumers to their business. Here at Perceptive, we've also discovered that marketers and market researchers who want to be successful in this new arena need to be able to marry the two disciplines together.

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Differences Between Key Account Management & Customer Success

Kapta Customer Success

The terms key account management and customer success are often used interchangeably within organizations. However, while the two strategies share a few common goals, they are completely different in their implementation.

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Small Business Customer Service Outsourcing: 4 Pitfalls to Avoid

Help Scout

These days it’s easier than ever to outsource customer support, even for small teams that prioritize customer experience and quality. A new crop of companies that specialize in brand-forward customer experience outsourcing for small teams has emerged in the past five years. Gone are the days that outsourcing was only accessible to companies that have 25 or 50 seats to fill.

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Centers of Excellence: The Next Big Thing for Community

Vanilla Forums

At the CMX Summit Rise I spoke to the concept of expanding community to be part of a center of excellence. What exactly did I mean? Community can no longer be an isolated island; it needs to belong in the center of all customer touch points. Community needs to be used as a space for customer success and we, as community builders need to prove the organizational impact it can truly have.

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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 deliver real-time data with event-driven architecture and APIs

PK

Consumers are demanding digital experiences that require access to real-time data. From more buy online/pickup in store transactions to a staggering increase in telehealth appointments, how can organizations design solutions […]. The post How to deliver real-time data with event-driven architecture and APIs appeared first on PK.

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How Many Strategic Value Dots Are You Really Connecting?

One Millimeter Mindset

Are you comfortably connecting strategic value dots across your organization? If you are really, really comfortable connecting those dots, you may not be providing the robust yet nimble business outcomes you target. Here’s why. There are three reasons why being too comfortable in your professional role is not the feeling you should seek. However, confidence in your professional role fuels professional growth and innovation.

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Remote Work: The Art of Keeping your Agents Engaged and Performing

NobelBiz

With the advent of cloud-based solutions, companies and contact centers have been able to swiftly restart their operational flow in the context of remote work. As a result, contact center managers and owners are faced with new problems, such as keeping staff engaged and providing the best possible customer experience. So, how can contact centers increase agent effectiveness in such a situation?