Sat.Jul 09, 2022 - Fri.Jul 15, 2022

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5 Ways to Leverage Net Promoter Score to Boost Customer Retention

InMoment XI

You don’t just want to appeal to new customers—you also want to keep your current ones coming back again and again. Not only do returning customers require less introduction to your products and services, but they also tend to spend more than first-time customers, too. One user engagement strategy you can use to boost your customer retention is to make use of the Net Promoter Score (NPS) system.

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How to Accelerate Your CX Project's Time to Value

Alida

You’re living the dream. You’re a high-flying CX manager, in charge of deploying a CX program in multiple countries, in multiple languages, and for several lines of business. Your vendor is first in its class and has produced an impeccable project plan. You’re working hand-in-hand with the vendor’s Professional Services team, blasting through critical paths and hitting every milestone.

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4 Fool-Proof Ways to Retain Customers and Build Loyalty

ClientSuccess

If one were to take an informal poll of CSMs asking what their number one goal with customers is, a majority would probably answer something along the lines of “keep my customers happy.” After all, what do happy customers mean? They mean long-term customers, and retention is at the root of any successful customer success strategy. . Looking at what customer retention requires at its very foundation, the answer could be summed up in one word: LOYALTY. .

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Virtual Mystery Shopping Do’s and Don’ts in 2022

IntouchInsight

Keeping experiences consistent, both in-person and online has never been more important. Over the past year, we’ve seen a significant acceleration in the adoption of e-commerce and other methods for interacting virtually with businesses. Now is the time for your virtual mystery shopping programs to shine! Mystery shoppers have never been better-equipped to stress test and measure digital properties from the safety of their homes, as well as the quality of virtual services rendered.

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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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How a Global Grocer Turns CX Feedback Into Realized Customer Spend Targets

InMoment XI

The Context. A global grocery retailer was facing the uncertainties of COVID-19 and through their struggle, they found a perspective that helped them focus on forwarding progression throughout the pandemic. The grocery chain is known for its simple and continuous efforts to always improve, and that consistent effort through the decades has helped to expand its market position.

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Participant Recruitment: What it is & Who to do it

QuestionPro Audience

Why is Participant Recruitment important in data collection and insight interpretation? Have you ever wondered where the planning of market research begins? What is the first step in this process? What aspect should you consider to guarantee a successful research project? Well, If you want your research to be of value, continue reading. . Participant Recruitment is not only an essential step in a research project but also a particularly complex process that needs to be planned, executed, and mon

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Drop the Cute Puppy and Let Your Stars Shine

Steve DiGioia

Every business has its underachievers. But today’s post is not about them. It’s about those precious, and few, overachievers. You know, that one or maybe two, star employees who always seem to find a way to prove their value and serve your customers better than anyone could have expected. A Star Employee Stands Out. The customers know them and want to be served by them.

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The Best Way to Identify (and Share) the Moments that Matter with Frontline Employees

InMoment XI

Metrics, metrics, metrics. It’s common for frontline employees like contact center agents to be inundated with them—schedule adherence, efficiency, handle time, and hopefully, amid all of that and more, customer experience (CX) metrics. Ostensibly, the goal with this information is to give contact center agents the guidance needed to create Experience Improvement (XI) for customers, but do they have the time and wherewithal to actually sort through comments and data?

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Customer Listening Posts: Ask These Questions to Boost Your VoC Program

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

What does building a Voice of The Customer (VoC) program from the ground up look like? Typically, it’ll start with a general plan on how an organization is going to gather customer feedback — a plan that typically includes Customer Listening Posts. What are Customer Listening Posts? Customer Listening Posts are specific tools, locations and mechanisms to gather customer feedback along specific touchpoints on the customer journey.

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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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How Sentiment Analysis Can Help Save Customer Satisfaction

Omnicus

Using customer satisfaction surveys is often a good indicator of how satisfied your customers are, but they are just an indicator. The measurements say very little because very few respond to such surveys. According to CustomerSure, only 15 percent of surveys are answered by customers. With such a small data set, you probably do not have a good representation of all customers' actual impressions of your company.

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How to Be Funny and Use Humor in Business to Your Advantage

Beyond Philosophy

When I was ten, the teacher wrote on my school report, “Colin is the clown of the class.” To this day, I am still proud of that report card. Humor matters and can provide business benefits. Today we will talk about how to be funny and use humor to your advantage. When we make people laugh, it’s disarming. People are often more willing to listen after someone makes them laugh, making way for us to be more persuasive.

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Survey Design 101

InMoment XI

When gathering accurate and useful data, how the data is collected is just as important as the results it yields. Reliable insights are discovered when the questions are fair, unbiased, and relevant to the participants. This is why the design of the survey can ultimately determine the survey’s success. What Is Survey Design? Survey design is the detailed process of creating surveys that optimize the potential results that can be collected from a well-made questionnaire.

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How SaaS Companies Can Project Their MRR Using NPS (6 Actionable Tips)

Retently

Monthly recurring revenue, or MRR, is the lifeblood of any SaaS business. If your company is charging the clients on a monthly basis, signing up new customers and keeping them onboard has an incredible impact on your revenue, growth rate and profits. The only problem is that calculating MRR accurately can be notoriously challenging. As customers join and cancel, projecting the monthly recurring revenue for two, three or six months into the future can be a serious issue, even for the most data-fo

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with 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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Guest Post: How to Create Massive Customer Surplus through Memorable Onboarding & Obsessive Service

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Michael Becker, founder of Abundance Accelerators , a growth agency for coaches. He shares how organizations can gain loyal customers by providing an experience that exceeds expectations. The stakes have effectively been raised, and they’ll continue to go up for product brands, service providers, and client-based companies alike. .

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Close the Loop on Customer Feedback with Solvvy Surveys

Solvvy

Just because your brand finishes interacting with a customer, doesn’t mean their experience has ended. Understanding this distinction is the key to driving customer loyalty and recurring revenue. Ultimately, collecting customer feedback is the best way to truly gauge the customer experience. Of course, accurately measuring customer satisfaction is never straightforward and needs to be adapted depending on a company’s business needs.

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Restaurant Group Obsession to Build a CX Culture Pays Off During Unprecedented Times

The DiJulius Group

Edley’s Restaurant Group is a growing hospitality industry company whose CX obsession has paid off during the COVID-19 pandemic. Located in the metro-Nashville, Tennessee area with seven locations and 400 team members, Edley’s is anticipating 50% growth in the next 12 months including franchising. Rapid growth, indeed. Consumer food services in general and the restaurant.

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How to avoid burnout at the workplace

Adrian Swinscoe

This is a guest post by Eleonora Hristova, a copywriter that writes on behalf of Dune London. Burnout because of stress in the workplace is now […]. The post How to avoid burnout at the workplace first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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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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Give Them Help Before They Yelp?

ShepHyken

Online reviews can work in two ways. For a company that provides a great customer experience, reviews can add credibility and bring in more business. But for companies that don’t provide an acceptable experience, online reviews can become the bane of their existence. And the world gets to watch how they handle the problems. . But what if you don’t have the type of business that gets Yelp or Google reviews?

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Customer Feedback Strategy: A Step-By-Step Approach

Zonka Feedback

Once you are done investing all the time, money, and effort into developing a groundbreaking product, you need an excellent customer feedback strategy that will guide you on the way forward. The research conducted by American Express, customers are always willing to spend 17% more on businesses that offer exceptional customer service. The process of developing a new product is closely compared to chess.

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How Exactly Will a CRM Power Omnichannel Customer Support In the Future?

Kustomer

The concept of omnichannel customer experience (CX) has been simplified over time. Many brands and customer support teams believe that omnichannel support is simply communicating with customers on every channel, but it’s much more than that. True omnichannel support ensures seamless transitions and consistent experiences from one channel to the next.

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Is it Time for a Martech Upgrade? 3 Steps to Understand the Path Forward

Merkle

Navigating the current marketing technology (martech) landscape can be overwhelming and difficult. Sifting through all of the different vendors and capabilities available could leave your organization thinking it’s time for a technology upgrade. New technology and implementations are often expensive and take valuable time and resources, so before making the decision to upgrade, it is important to evaluate your organization’s current martech stack to ensure the most effective and financially wise

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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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Amazing Business Radio: Julius Robinson

ShepHyken

Building Confidence with Your Customers. Empowering Your Team to Deliver a Great Customer Experience. Shep Hyken interviews Julius Robinson, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer at Marriott International. He shares what organizations can learn about customer service from the hospitality industry and how to equip employees to meet and exceed customer expectations.

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How Disengaged Employees Kill Your Retail Business and 5 Tips To Prevent It

Zonka Feedback

Disengaged employees are bad for any business, especially retail, where customer service and customer experience are crucial for success. The biggest reason for this is that disengaged employees are typically unproductive employees.

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Customer Service Automation 101

Solvvy

Your customers expect–and demand–prompt, personalized service. The Salesforce State of the Connected Consumer report states that 66% of customers expect businesses to understand their unique needs and expectations, and 68% expect companies to demonstrate empathy. Also, 62% of survey respondents say experience with one industry influences their expectations in others.

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How to improve the customer experience: Small business edition

Method:CRM

Great customer experience is key to fostering customer loyalty. If customers have a pleasant experience with your company, they’ll be more likely to come back for more business and recommend your goods or services to others. But how do you plan for and execute effective customer experience improvement? Read on to find everything you need to know on how to improve customer experience.

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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 employee engagement KPIs you should be tracking in 2022 (and why)

Perceptive

Workplaces and employees have undergone radical change in the last few years—from the pandemic to new ways of working, adapting to new digital transformation technologies and navigating the Big Quit. As a result, employee engagement has shot up the list of priorities for businesses—particularly when it comes to retaining staff.

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How to Risk-Proof Your Business with Totango

Totango

Detecting and protecting at-risk customers is important even in the best of times, but it is especially critical during times of economic instability when your current customer base is your greatest (and perhaps only) source of dependable revenue growth. . When the stock market is down and interest rates are climbing, businesses are often faced with some tough decisions.

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Customer loyalty: A guide to building and measuring positive experiences 

delighted

Can you name a brand that makes you feel special? A brand you’ve made repeat purchases from, you’re proud to wear their logo, and when you receive a compliment, you’re more than happy to share where you bought said item? If so, you’ve experienced customer loyalty. And likely, if something in your customer experience with the brand has gone awry in the past, e.g., your order didn’t ship when they said it would or the item that arrived did not look like the item you ordered, the brand was eager to

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