Sat.Nov 28, 2020 - Fri.Dec 04, 2020

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Guest Post: How to Build Your Customer Experience Roadmap

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article from Liliana Petrova , founder of The Petrova Experience. She writes about preparing a productive and successful customer experience strategy and why it’s important to have one. This summer, The Petrova Experience conducted a Customer Experience Preparedness Survey. One of our questions assessed brand maturity in terms of customer experience strategy.

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Building a Customer Success Brand: From Service to Experience Focused

Strikedeck

Vincent Manlapaz, in an interview with Kyle Winward talks about how the evolution of consumer behavior has brought a new set of challenges for business leaders to stand out from competitors and why organizations should become an agent of experience than an agent of service.

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Customer Success ROI: How to Measure and Improve It

SmartKarrot

Any business function that you deploy towards your business goals must be measurable and generate returns. Before customer success was introduced, companies used to spend massive funds in acquiring the customers only to see them finally go. But as customer retention became a major goal for these companies, customer success ROI started paying off. Customers don’t leave your company until they stop getting value from your product.

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5 customer experience trends to watch for in 2021

GetFeedback

How to prepare for your customers' changing expectations in the New Year according to Forrester’s 2021 CX predictions.

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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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IBTM World Virtual 2020 goes live in a week

Storyminers

IBTM World Virtual is set for success with over 10,000 meetings due to take place over the three days of the event, which will this year take place completely online from the 8 th to the 10 th December. The virtual event will include three full days of meetings between the world’s largest and best-known destinations and suppliers with top calibre Hosted Buyers from some of the biggest global corporations, associations and agencies, as well as a comprehensive programme of education sessions.

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Are Smart Things Really Smart or is it Just Smart Marketing?

C3Centricity

Earlier this year I wrote about the impact of AI and ML on digital marketing. The article is called “ AI and ML are Taking Digital Marketing to the Next Level.” In it, I compared the positive and negative implications of technology for customers and companies alike. So this week I wanted to write about the impact of smart choices for business in general.

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4 ways to use rNPS to boost retention in 2021, from our CX leader roundtable

GetFeedback

Relational NPS is a great check in with customers. It’s also a valuable tool you can leverage to boost retention in 2021. Here's what we learned from our CX leader roundtable.

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Delivering the Service Customers Expect When the Unexpected Happens

NICE inContact

Agile software can make organizations more resilient and allow them to continue serving customers in the wake of disasters. Organizations need contact center software that supports multiple proactive customer service methods and makes digital channel implementation fast and simple. Providing customers with channel options, rather than restricting them to phone-only service, provides them with convenience and can ease stress.

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Fast Food. Fast Change.

Storyminers

Some brands are doing great at adapting to the massive amounts of change in our world. Overview. Chipotle impressed me this week with a new digital-only restaurant in New York (near West Point, home to nearly captive, heavy-exercising, and always-hungry cadets). Since nearly 50% of the chain’s orders are digital now, this new concept is designed from the ground up to be fast, efficient, cashless, COVID-friendly (is that an OK way to say ‘safe’?

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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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The Best Customer Service Phrases That Will Help in Any Tough Situation

Win the Customer

Being an exceptional customer service representative comes with specific requirements. One of them is understanding the effect of using service phrases. Your goal as a customer service employee is to hear problems and bring solutions. As long as you know how to solve the issues arising, you’re successful. However, communicating well 24/7 can be difficult.

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Complete guide to digital customer experience (DX)

GetFeedback

Everything you need to know about DX, including what a good program looks like and how to improve your existing one.

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What’s New in the 2020 Survey of Business: Global CX Transformation

NICE inContact

Major transformations in customer experience and the contact center are well underway and accelerating this year such that businesses risk increases for companies being left behind by more agile competitors. The results are in from the latest survey of global customer experience leaders in the 2020 NICE inContact CX Transformation Benchmark, Business Wave.

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Unlocking the Gift of Feedback: Ensuring eCommerce Success in 2020 and Beyond

Alida

What does the 2020 shopper look like? Despite our best predictions from 2019, understanding the modern shopper has become more of a journey than a destination. With customer preferences, priorities, and behaviours changing daily, what worked last month no longer works today. This presents a huge challenge for brands looking to drive growth in the current retail environment.

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The 2023 Verint Experience Index: Retail

Reports of the death of in-store shopping have been greatly exaggerated. This year’s retail survey found that more than 60 percent of consumers start and end their journey by visiting a store. Retail customers value price above everything, but the importance of other factors varies for different brands. In-store shopping is valued highly by grocery and home improvement customers Technology retail customers place less importance on in-store experiences – for them it only ranks sixth Digital exper

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Coffee Break Chat with Mike Wittenstein

Storyminers

The post Coffee Break Chat with Mike Wittenstein appeared first on StoryMiners.

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What is customer-centricity, and why is it important?

GetFeedback

Ensure that your company is creating incredible experiences for every customer by employing a customer-centric approach.

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Strengthen Your Customer Relationships with Service that Packs an Emotional Punch

NICE inContact

The right customer intelligence and quality management software provide a solid platform from which to launch customer engagement initiatives. Businesses that get this right will have loyal customers who are willing to buy more and refer friends and family.

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What Is Your Formula for Delivering Powerful Customer Experiences?

Wired and Dangerous

Customers have changed! Research shows their expectations for customer service have increased significantly in the last 12 months. Forbes reports that 73% of companies with above-average customer experience perform better financially than their competitors. For today’s wired and dangerous customer any encounter with indifferent service fosters a quick exit to a new provider.

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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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The Story Tells the Story

ShepHyken

What’s your story? What reasons compel your customers to do business with you? What gets them excited about doing business with you? Consider this. If you’re selling a trip to Hawaii, you probably try to paint a vision of a day on the beach, an amazing luau and a beautiful oceanfront balcony that includes a gorgeous sunset. The story you don’t tell—at least I hope you don’t—is the one that includes the technical specs of the engine on the plane that’s flying you to that exotic location, the type

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Everything You Need to Know About Customer Churn Rates

GetFeedback

This guide covers the basics of customer churn, including how it’s calculated.

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Refresh Your Quality Monitoring Program with these 15 Best Practices

NICE inContact

In today's experience economy, quality is more important than ever. Consumers are much less tolerant of low quality customer service experiences. On the flip side, they'll reward exceptional customer experiences (CX) with more purchases and referrals. Under these circumstances, contact centers can't afford to have agents who are indifferent about or resentful of quality improvement efforts.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Accessible User Research: Part 1 – Project Planning

dscout People Nerds

Researchers often want to include people with access needs in their studies but don’t know where to begin. This 3 part series covers the various considerations for adapting your practice to include people with disabilities.

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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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Slaying 6 Myths on Remote Visual Support

TechSee

Emerging technologies make bold promises. Whether they ultimately go mainstream or crash strongly depends on delivering the goods, but also on the buzz surrounding them. And when it comes to determining a technology’s potential, it’s essential to separate fact from fiction. Remote visual support is no different. Remote Visual Support Myths.

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CX Loses a Visionary

Heart of the Customer

As I’m sure many of you were, I was shocked to hear of Tony Hsieh’s untimely death this past weekend. In case the name doesn’t ring a bell, Tony is the recently-retired CEO of Zappos. In that role, he shepherded an online shoe seller with annual sales around $1 million (Zappos started as ShoeSite.com) into […]. The post CX Loses a Visionary appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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New Buyer’s Resource: Use Cases in Gartner 2020 Critical Capabilities Report

NICE inContact

Gartner recently published the 2020 Critical Capabilities for Contact Centers as a Service research report and NICE inContact received among the four highest scores in all use cases. We see this as a very useful resource and a real-world perspective on how NICE inContact CXone performs in key use cases for today’s contact centers including Customer Engagement Center and Agile Contact Center.

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Unnecessary escalations

Zeisler Consulting

This spring and summer have been rough on travel. My partner and I actually had a hotel cancel our reservation after the world ended. It was complicated by the fact that we’d used a combination of credit card points and cash to make the reservation for two different rooms, one for us and one for my partner’s mother. It was probably the somewhat complicated nature of the way we originally placed the reservation that made getting our refund such a mess.

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Mapping Digital Transformation: Retail’s Strategic Shift

Speaker: Jennifer Wright, Michael Scholz, Jasmin Guthmann, and Scott Canney

Digital transformation in retail is so much more than new technology. You need to get your whole organization, from entry-level workers to executives, on board with the new tech, new skills, and culture changes that digital transformation brings. Leading this mindset shift can be a daunting task… but that’s where this webinar comes in! Join our panel of experts as they guide you through the challenges of digital transformation, preparing you to avoid common mistakes and make the most of incredib

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Want to transform your customer service? Do this first. We lost a true Legend of CX

The DiJulius Group

4 Quick Tips to Help you Make the Pandemic Irrelevant 1. Customer Service Feature Story Want to transform your customer service? Do this first By Dave Murray, Senior Customer Service Consultant As a customer service consultant, I repeatedly get asked, “When wanting to substantially improve your company’s customer service, where is the best. Read Full Article.

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The 4 stages of contact center maturity and how to use them

Talkdesk

More than 60% of customers are extremely willing or very willing to switch brands to have a better customer service experience. Customer experience (CX) is critical to retaining and driving business and the mandate to improve it is constant. If your CX isn’t building brand love and loyalty, it’s time to transform your CX strategy to align with your company’s business goals and impact the bottom line.

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What are the Top Ten Benefits of Content Marketing?

DemandJump

Content marketing is often talked about and is easy to dismiss as the latest buzzword or trend. However, looking at the changing digital landscape, the old ways of marketing simply cannot keep up and businesses must adapt. Let’s look at the top ten benefits that you gain from utilizing content marketing.