Sat.Sep 04, 2021 - Fri.Sep 10, 2021

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Guest Post: Customer Experience: Expectation vs. Reality

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Tanya Ahmed, a Digital Marketer of Vantage Circle , a cloud-based employee engagement platform. She writes about what customers expect from companies in 2021 and what they actually get. Consumers today expect speedier access to services than ever before. They count on meaningful interactions with service professionals who make them feel valued.

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Structuring your Customer Success team

inSided

We’re back! It’s time for another post in our series, This is Digital Customer Success , where we set out to get clarity on all things Digital CS. In our last post, we talked about the metrics that matter in your digital-led approach. This week, it’s time to talk more about the people behind those metrics – it’s time to talk about team structure. Because your digital-led team might just look a little different from your “traditional” team.

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How to Measure Customer Service Quality: Methods & Tools

Help Scout

Just because a customer clicked a smiley face in your post-service feedback survey does not mean you gave them high-quality service. They might love the product, and your service is just okay enough not to make a difference. Or they might be very happy with an answer, not knowing you’ve given them incomplete or out-of-date information.

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Repositioning CX Strategies

Hello Customer

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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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Must-Have Customer Experience Management Skills for CX Professionals

Lumoa

Customer Experience is evolving. The barrier to entry is lower than ever, and new competitors are entering the market every day. To keep pace and make sure your products deliver value, you need to be continually listening for customer input. Sharpening your customer experience skills will help you stay ahead of your competitors. The Next Generation of CEM Today, product and service changes are typically driven by interviewing key clients, running surveys, or hosting customer advisory meetings.

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Beyond Remote Support: 5 Ways Your Organization can use Visual Assistance

TechSee

When most service organizations consider implementing Visual Assistance, they mainly focus on how to use the technology to support remote teams in the field or contact center. However, Visual Assistance can deliver value to many other use cases, all of which can help your organization save time and money and improve both the employee and customer experience.

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Consumer Behavior & COVID Adjustments in Convenience Stores

IntouchInsight

After a rollercoaster of a year, Cameron Watt, President and CEO of Intouch Insight, was back and in person at the 2021 Outlook Leadership Conference in Los Angeles! In addition to crowning the winner of this year's Intouch Insight-CSP Magazine Customer Experience Award - spoiler alert, it was Lone Star Food Stores - Cameron shared insights from Intouch's bi-annual Changes in Consumer Habits reports as well as the evaluation of eleven convenience store chains considered for the award.

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You’re Terminated: Three Reasons Customers Will Stop Doing Business with You

ShepHyken

One of the favorite chapters I wrote in my recent book, I’ll Be Back: How to Get Customers to Come Back Again and Again , was about why customers would terminate their relationship with you. Yes, the word terminate ties into the movie Terminator , which somehow became a theme in the background of the book. So, why would a customer terminate his or her relationship with you?

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The mid-size and small business leader’s guide to contact center digital transformation

NICE inContact

I recently placed an online order for a new fishing line from a sporting goods store, whose previous point of contact consisted of just a voice line (and an online presence of a Facebook page with the occasional picture of the trophy bass).

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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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CX Trends: Shifts in Consumer Habits & Expectations

Alida

Over the last year, you probably heard the question “So how are you adapting to the new normal ?” quite a few times. It is a reflection on how the global pandemic has, in some cases, fundamentally changed our everyday lives. Working from home, not being able to do your grocery shopping, no nightlife, homeschooling, these are all things we suddenly had to adjust to.

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What’s Actually Happening in AI and How Uniphore Is Advancing Language Understanding

Uniphore

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a field that often attracts hyperbole and misinformation fueled by a general lack of understanding. Popular media hasn’t done much to help the public image of AI, with stories of machines capable of thinking for themselves, stealing people’s jobs and threatening humanity. In reality, AI isn’t close to having the cognitive capacity to surpass human intelligence.

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Moving to the cloud – 5 tips for a winning strategy

Eptica

Date: Monday, September 6, 2021 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Moving to the cloud – 5 tips for a winning strategy. Published on: September 06, 2021. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager More and more contact centres are recognising the benefits of adopting cloud technologies or moving their entire infrastructure into the cloud.

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How CS Ops Drives Market Valuation

Gainsight

Organizations create Customer Success teams to increase Net Revenue Retention, and we’ve recently published research showing that NRR drives valuation. But, then, organizations find that the baseline impact of simply having a CS team eventually plateaus–your NRR stagnates. Organizations create dedicated roles to continuously improve CS functions to improve NRR or reduce costs by scaling up your customer base with the same CS headcount.

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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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Customer Experience ROI: A Framework for Measuring CX Success

Alida

Honoring the principle “customers as assets” connects volume and value to customer experience ROI and growth.

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CX in the Insurance Industry: Humanizing the Digital Experience

Uniphore

Digital servicing has given CX teams the ability to conveniently and efficiently reach out to more customers, and COVID-19 has enabled many companies to adopt digital platforms at scale. But there’s an inherent danger with focusing completely on digital: losing the empathy of the human touch. Dipu KV , President & Head of Operations and Customer Service at Bajaj Allianz General , talks about how the focus in CX is on transitioning from digitizing the physical, to humanizing the digital.

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How emotional intelligence can help you cope with Christmas

Eptica

Date: Friday, September 10, 2021 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager How emotional intelligence can help you cope with Christmas. Published on: September 10, 2021. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager As we approach the peak Christmas season, agents need to be ready for the extra stress that higher demand, and potentially grumpier customers, bring.

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The Importance of Data Quality for AI Success in Customer Service

Kustomer

If you have ever been drawn to the words “ artificial intelligence ” in a sales pitch or wondered if machine learning could improve your business, you might have also questioned if your use case is even a good fit for what a machine learning model can do. A good way to approach answering this question is to consider the data you need to provide this artificially intelligent system in order for it to produce the promised result.

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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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Three Ways to Make Your Case

Heart of the Customer

“We’ve all seen those studies where it says a one-point increase of CSAT equals this revenue, but to a Commercial Officer, a CEO, or a CFO, this doesn’t sound real. So it doesn’t put CX in a credible position. We need to prove this based on our own data: ‘These are the scores for the […]. The post Three Ways to Make Your Case appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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The Hidden Messages That Are Killing Your Culture Without You Knowing

Beyond Philosophy

If you are like most companies, you probably think that you put the customer at the center of everything you do. But do you? There are some critical things that the most customer centric companies do differently than the average company. It requires a mindset that understands the essential nature of it and then a consistent approach to applying it in all the areas of the company, from how you recruit talent and empower employees to how you prioritize customers in your team meetings.

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Digital teams suffer from a perception gap that hinders customer experience improvement efforts

Adrian Swinscoe

Organizations are often fraught with gaps in perception, and many of these impact their ability to improve both the customer and employee experience. Bain is responsible […]. The post Digital teams suffer from a perception gap that hinders customer experience improvement efforts first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Magento Chatbot: How to Create and Add to Your Store.

kommunicate

Magento is an eCommerce platform built on open source technology that provides online merchants with a flexible shopping cart system and control over the look, content, and functionality of their online store. Magento offers powerful marketing, search engine optimization, and catalog-management tools. Advantages of Magento: Versatile content management Mobile-friendly configuration Advanced search engine optimization Powerful [.].

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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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Identifying Opportunities for Growth with Justin Robbins

Kustomer

Listen and subscribe to our podcast: In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets Podcast , Gabe Larsen is joined by CX expert, Justin Robbins. Justin’s the Chief Evangelist at CX Effect and has many years of experience working with customers, starting at an early age. Listen to the full podcast below to learn more about recognizing opportunities internally for customer success long-term.

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6 Free Keyword Research Tools: A Side-by-Side Comparison

DemandJump

When you’re starting out with a small or nonexistent SEO budget, you have to get creative. Free SEO keyword research is a tactic that digital media pros can use to guide their blogs, website content, and paid campaigns toward the right target.

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Reduce Churn: Craft Customer Success Compensation Plans That Attract Top Tier Talent

ChurnZero

There are several different models of compensation plans , but not all can be guaranteed to produce the same results for your organization. We’ve found that, when looking to build a strong team of Customer Success Managers (CSMs), an incentive compensation plan , otherwise called a variable compensation plan , produces the best results. Not only does it motivate employees, but it helps them learn how their work affects the company’s performance, understand how they impact profits, and usually in

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Top 10 trends shaping the future of Customer Success in 2021

CustomerSuccessBox

Change is the only constant in life. The pandemic has taught us to expect the unexpected and adapt to survive. In fact, we were not given any warning or time to adapt. Million of companies around the world were forced to go into perpetual ”expect the unexpected” but have adapted to the unprecedented change and how beautifully they’ve done. COVID coerced many of us into a myopic mindset- questioning ourselves and feeling depressed about setbacks.

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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 Rise of Self-Service: How Changing Consumer Demands Require New Options

Kustomer

Consumer demands are at an all time high. According to Kustomer’s latest research, a whopping 90% of respondents think contacting customer service should be easier, and 85% of respondents think customer service should be faster. Quick service also continues to outrank all other customer service qualities in terms of importance, no matter the demographic.

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5 Methods for Choosing Keywords for SEO Content

DemandJump

Choosing keywords for search engine optimization (SEO) or to inform organic search content creation starts with understanding what your audience is looking for when they use a search engine like Google.

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3 In-Person Conferences to Attend Before 2021 Ends

ChurnZero

A year has gone by since the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered doors to in-person conferences, and the industry responded accordingly by converting most live events into virtual experiences. Today, the industry is starting to meet face-to-face again as vaccines are being distributed across the country. In response, some organizations have slatted in-person events for the tail end of 2021. .