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5 Reasons You Need to Take Long-Term Social Customer Care Seriously

Russel Lolacher

74% of Millennials (18-34) and 58% of GenX (35-54) have a better opinion of organizations that provide social media customer care – Microsoft . Social customer care (using social media platforms as customer service experience tools) can be amazingly effective way to build relationships with the your customers and bring significant benefits to your organization.

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4 Ways the Experts Master Journey Mapping

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Customer journey mapping can be a powerful tool to help you truly understand your customers, innovate around new ways to serve them, and identify gaps in their journey. But, that’s only if the map is used as a tool and not an artifact. Many CX teams spend months on a journey map only to have a beautiful poster on the wall that only tells part of the story.

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Customer Feedback is a Gift Your Business Can’t Live Without

Steve DiGioia

If you’re having a bad experience in a restaurant and decide to never return, do you tell the manager? Or do you just leave and commit to never going back? If your clothes are seldom ready when promised by your dry cleaner, do you tell him why you’ve decided to go elsewhere? Or do you just find another cleaner? If the company you purchased a product from makes it difficult to return it without you jumping through hoops, do you make a complaint or vow to never buy from them again?

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The 5 Phases of Customer Feedback Failure

Genroe

Every day in companies around the world people sit down in meetings and decide today’s the day that they’re going to get serious about collecting customer feedback. Lots of earnest discussion follows, agreements are reached, actions allocated and heads nod in full agreement. Everyone leaves full of enthusiasm. Flash forward 18 months (sometimes less, sometimes more) and many of the […].

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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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Emotional Affinity, Customer Service, and Collecting

CX Accelerator

When I was 12 years old, I discovered basketball cards, I loved them so much I collected over 5,000 of them in one summer. I grew up watching Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, and Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Once I started collecting, I had to have their rookie cards and then a card for every year after. I loved basketball and memorized all the statistics of every player in the league.

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5 Steps Toward a Successful Self-Service Strategy

TechSee

Self-service is finally coming of age, with leading enterprises embracing the paradigm of customers helping themselves. In fact, Gartner predicts that by 2020, 10% of initial B2C interactions will be virtual, up from less than 1% in 2019. But it turns out that not all self-service options are created equal. Walmart axed its Mobile Express Scan & Go self-checkout experience due to negative feedback from customers.

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Five Tips for Building a Customer Success Team

Totango

In the customer-centered economy, your customer success (CS) team is invaluable. The team’s goal is to retain your hard-won customers and help them grow by deepening the customer relationship and ensuring they are realizing value with your product every step of the way. This leads to greater customer success, which reduces churn and increases renewals. .

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5 Factors to Consider When Choosing Your Customer Success Management (CSM) Technology

ClientSuccess

Regardless of your industry, the rate of technology adoption and competition is increasing substantially year over year, which can make it difficult to keep your customer retention rates high. Yet, reducing churn while keeping customer health scores high is critical for long-term company growth. . While you can’t control your company’s pricing or product features which are often cited as two of the top reasons accounts churn to a competitor, you do have the ultimate control of the experience you

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How to Communicate with Customers for Stellar CX

Topdown

There has been a continued focus on customer experience in the business world, and for good reason. Customer experience isn’t just a persistent buzzword, it has a real impact on your business. Like many concepts, customer experience (CX) is multifaceted.

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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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Innovative Lessons from the Miracle Mets of 1969

InMoment XI

How the Worst Team in Baseball History Innovated to Win the World Series 50 Years Ago Innovation Requires a Continuous Team Effort To innovate successfully, you can’t just rally the troops or hastily assemble a task force when upper management suddenly identifies a need. Innovation works best when a team is in place that is. View Article.

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Emotional Affinity, Customer Service, and Collecting

CX Accelerator

When I was 12 years old, I discovered basketball cards, I loved them so much I collected over 5,000 of them in one summer. I grew up watching Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, and Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Once I started collecting, I had to have their rookie cards and then a card for every year after. I loved basketball and memorized all the statistics of every player in the league.

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How to Define Customer Satisfaction and Measure it

GetFeedback

Defining customer satisfaction is not easy. On the surface, you think you know what it means to have a satisfied customer. However, if you dig a little deeper, it would be difficult to say, emphatically, what makes them satisfied. . Think about gyms. They may assume that if someone doesn’t cancel their membership that they’re satisfied, but we know that’s not the case.

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Things You Never Think About When Implementing a CX Program

CloudCherry

Considering Implementing a CX Program? Good decision! While you’re at it, it might be a good idea to consider the things that are often overlooked when it comes to this noble endeavor. And, on this week’s ‘ Sweets of CX ,’ we’ve got the one and only Nate Brown – Head of CX for UL EHS , Co-Founder of CX Accelerator , CloudCherry’s first ever CX Champion, and our honored guest- to lend his expertise.

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The State of Customer Onboarding 2024

Building lasting customer relationships has always been top-of-mind for businesses. However, in the last decade, organizations have recognized that the customer journey beyond the initial sale is as critical as the sale itself. Customer onboarding, or the customer’s first impression of you, is critical to forging lasting relationships and long-term success.

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Asking Scary Questions to Improve Your CX Program

InMoment XI

Today’s consumers are not afraid to switch things up, if a company’s service fails to live up to their expectations. With so many choices across the marketplace, customers will go wherever they feel their needs are best met. So how can we, as businesses and CX practitioners alike, attract and retain customers for life? A. View Article.

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Emotional Affinity, Customer Service, and Collecting

CX Accelerator

When I was 12 years old, I discovered basketball cards, I loved them so much I collected over 5,000 of them in one summer. I grew up watching Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, and Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Once I started collecting, I had to have their rookie cards and then a card for every year after. I loved basketball and memorized all the statistics of every player in the league.

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What I’ve Learned as a Female Leader in SaaS

Alida

Kelly Hall, Vision Critical Chief Customer Officer, was recently named one of the Top 50 Women Leaders in SaaS of 2019 by The Software Report. Here, Kelly shares some wisdom gleaned over her 17-year career in tech. She offers her perspective on the upsides and downsides of being an executive, the traits required to be a successful leader, and what she wishes she would have known when starting her career.

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How to Define Customer Satisfaction and Measure it

GetFeedback

In this article, we talk about just that: how you can define customer satisfaction and the methods to measure it.

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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 Cost of In-House vs Outsourced Contact Centers: An Infographic

BlueOcean

Maybe you’re a math person and love nothing more than a hefty Excel document to dig into for a few hours. Or maybe math isn’t your strong suit and you’re just looking for hard numbers to tell you what you need to know. Either way, we’ve put together this handy infographic to help you compare the cost of in-house vs outsourced contact centers. And hey, we’re also standing by to help you out with a cost analysis and custom quote for your outsourced contact center.

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Managing Real-time Changes to Customer and Operational Needs

NICE inContact

Access our webinar: Delivering True Operational Agility in Times of Crisis. In crisis and in calm, 211 LA County helps over 1.4 million people every year, and its 60 Community Resource Advisors respond to more than 500,000 contacts annually. It also provides support to other 211 operations across the country in times of disaster. In the webinar, Delivering True Operational Agility in Times of Crisi s , 211 LA County COO Amy Latzer describes how critical agility and scalability are to the organiz

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How VMware Partners with Customers to Design Products

Alida

With an open dialogue with customers, companies can accelerate and de-risk product innovation by gathering insights at every step of the product development cycle. With the Inner Circle, an online community of VMware customers and partners that facilitates rapid-cycle research, VMware product teams can improve product innovation while building customer satisfaction and loyalty along the way.

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Do You Actively Communicate with Customers During Times of Disruption?

Customer Bliss

In my Daily Dose video series, I explore the topics that chief customer officers must grapple with on a daily basis. Join me as I discuss what I’ve learned over the course of my 35-year career, so that you can more effectively do the work that needs to be done. The following is a lightly edited transcript of the video below. When customers need you, are you there?

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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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The Remarkable Power of Habit to Transform Customer Behavior

Beyond Philosophy

Some customer habits may be useful for your Customer Experience strategy, and some of them may not. Understanding how customers’ habits form and how to identify them is crucial for Customer Experience. We talked about how habits form and understanding your customers’ habits in a recent podcast. We discussed how one of the ways to view patterns is through this two-system lens, meaning the Intuitive and Rational Systems we use in our thinking. .

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Performance Management and the Power of Positive Psychology in the Contact Center

NICE inContact

For contact center agents, it sometimes feels like either the workday drags on or it flies by with a flash. But maybe there is a happy medium for your agents – like when you are playing your favorite game or sport and completely lose track of time. Some people refer to that phenomenon as “being in the zone.” In positive psychology it is known as “flow.

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5 Key Takeaways from Forrester CX SF 2019

Alida

We all want to improve our customer experience. We’ve created customer journey maps and tried to focus on improving the whole experience and the Forrester CX Index is telling us that across the board in all industries, the customer experience is not improving. What are we missing?

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How to Address the Underbelly Work as a Chief Experience Officer at a Nonprofit

Customer Bliss

As CCOs, a lot of our work involves understanding what drives the culture of the organization. It’s about how the organization views its customers/audience, and vice versa. This deep dive is what I often refer to as the underbelly work. It’s about getting into the nitty-gritty and involves restructuring and reexamining how things have been done before.

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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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Halloween Horrors: Monsters that Cause Call Center Attrition

TechSee

The nights are drawing in and there’s a chill in the air. Ancient folk memories of evil spirits start to surface. Magic and mischief reign. It’s Halloween. As you get into the spirit of the occasion, spare a thought for the humble contact center agent, huddled over his keyboard, staring into the abyss of another long shift of customer service hell. No trick or treating.

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CXone Contact Center Solutions Help Radisson Hotel Group Support Guest Experiences

NICE inContact

Radisson Hotel Group had emerged as a leading global hospitality company and one of the world’s largest hotel groups. But like many companies that transition their operation from call center to contact center as they grow, Radisson realized there was a definite disconnect: it was using an out-of-date, on-premises Avaya system to manage its global network of contact centers and BPOs.

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Embracing Change

Cyara

Change -- it is a word I hear everyday in my role here at Cyara as a customer success manager. Change excites me. It used to scare me, but I have learned that if you can’t embrace change in technology then your business will not survive. This is why I am so excited to be a part of Cyara -- we are led by an amazing change agent, our CEO Alok Kulkarni.