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Top 4 Steps to Integrate Chatbots into Customer Service

Comm100

Customer service isn’t easy, but new technologies are making it easier. With artificial intelligence like chatbots, brands can serve more customers faster than ever before – all the while keeping a high level of service quality. Not only are chatbots convenient, but they’re also quickly becoming necessary thanks to their ability to provide customers with 24/7 service.

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CX in 2021 & Beyond: Delivering Next-Gen Customer Experiences at Scale

Uniphore

Vijai Shankar, Vice President, Uniphore, What are the key transformative initiatives that will shape tomorrow’s customer experiences? Research shows that enterprises are betting on automation and AI to lead the way. And those that have already implemented these key innovations are seeing big returns on their investments. From intelligent self-service to real-time agent assistance, many of the solutions available today are delivering next-gen results at scale—and the future looks even brighter.

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What Is the First Step in a Customer Experience Transformation Roadmap?

InMoment XI

Whether your program is just getting started or has stagnated over the years, this post is for you! Every brand—across industries and around the globe—has a unique opportunity to overhaul outdated ways of managing customer experiences, and move toward actually improving experiences for customers and employees. Achieving this is no small task, and often requires customer experience transformation.

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Data Without Context Is Just Noise: Uncover the Why Behind The What

Alida

Businesses today have become extremely proficient at collecting and gathering data. Afterall, it informs just about every business decision—from identifying gaps in the early stages of the buyer journey to uncovering the biggest pain points for high churn-risk customers. Whether through direct efforts, or as a byproduct of their ever-growing tech stack, there’s a wealth of operational and transactional data pouring into your business every second.

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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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Introduction to Customer Experience Design

Lumoa

The relationship between businesses and their customers is changing. As companies increasingly pivot towards providing online interactions, it’s essential for your business to keep the customer experience in mind. To do that, you’ll need to come up with a strategy for how you integrate multiple technologies to attract, retain, and delight your customers at every stage of your sales pipeline.

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What Is the First Step in a Customer Experience Transformation Roadmap?

InMoment XI

Whether your program is just getting started or has stagnated over the years, this post is for you! Every brand—across industries and around the globe—has a unique opportunity to overhaul outdated ways of managing customer experiences, and move toward actually improving experiences for customers and employees. Achieving this is no small task, and often requires customer experience transformation.

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Q&A WITH J.CREW: Using Voice Of Customer To Improve Experiences

Alida

We sat down for a virtual fireside chat with Jenny Yi, Sr. Community Insights Manager at J.Crew Group, Inc. to learn their secret to long-standing success in the retail space. In such a highly competitive industry, retailers can’t afford to miss the mark, but J.Crew has uncovered the key to navigate the retail landscape—by putting customers first. They’ve built a Voice of Customer program, powered by Alida’s TXM platform, that enables the organization to invest confidently into new product lines

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Take off the blinders! Your customers have already engaged with your business before engaging your contact center

NICE inContact

I bought a new "assemble-it-yourself" desk and chair last month to better accommodate my work-from-home lifestyle.

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CX Leader Roundtable wrap-up

GetFeedback

During the latest CX Leader Roundtable, we explored the connection between employee experience (EX) and customer experience (CX).

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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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Three Elements That Make Traditional Market Research Inadequate for Experience Improvement

InMoment XI

What do you think of when you hear the term “market research”? For many brands, it brings to mind putting together scorecards, reporting numbers, and a heavy emphasis on looking to the past. Those things are certainly important, but they’re insufficient for creating true Experience Improvement (XI) and getting your organization to the top of your market.

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Consumer Habits: How Petro-Convenience Stores Can Prepare for 2022

IntouchInsight

Since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic petro and convenience stores have demonstrated just how nimble they can be by rolling out new operational initiatives and last mile services. While lockdowns and travel restrictions meant we didn’t have to fill up our gas tanks as frequently, some changes in consumer priorities played directly to the strengths of convenience stores.

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“Satisfaction Guaranteed” Does Not Lead to Customers Guaranteed

Bill Quiseng

When you are working in customer service, you have been happy that your customers leave satisfied. You have sold them a product or service that meets their wants or needs. Or you solved their problem for them. You were happy because, in the end, they were satisfied. But their satisfaction does not guarantee their return. The good news is that your satisfied customers didn’t complain.

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Building the CX Tech Stack of the Future

Uniphore

Ravi Saraogi, Co-founder and President APAC, Uniphore and Loan Kiss, Sitdown Events. As enterprises plan for the post-pandemic future, new goals—and new ways to achieve them—shape the customer service landscape. Tasked with driving operational efficiency, productivity and growth, business leaders are turning to technology to bridge the gap between rising customer demands and limited human resources.

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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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Three Elements That Make Traditional Market Research Inadequate for Experience Improvement

InMoment XI

What do you think of when you hear the term “market research”? For many brands, it brings to mind putting together scorecards, reporting numbers, and a heavy emphasis on looking to the past. Those things are certainly important, but they’re insufficient for creating true Experience Improvement (XI) and getting your organization to the top of your market.

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CX Tech Top-ups for November- New Dashboard, Integrations, and More!

IntouchInsight

This month we have rolled out several new product features in the Intouch Platform and IntouchCheck™ that we are so excited for you to begin using.

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The 5 Rules to Dramatically Improve the Way You Deal with Customer Complaints

Beyond Philosophy

Lately, my Customer Experiences have been lousy. At the beginning of the pandemic, I was more understanding when Customer Experiences weren’t great. However, 18 months later, my patience has run out, and organizations should have sorted things out by now. So, since the state of things is such a mess at the moment, we did a podcast on the 5 Rules to Dramatically Improve the Way You Deal with Customer Complaints, and I thought I would share them here as well. .

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Banking on Great Conversations

Uniphore

For the finance industry, the global pandemic was a watershed moment. Customers unable to access their branch locations increasingly took to digital channels for their customer service needs. Faced with record-high contact center traffic, many organizations accelerated their digital transformations—and uncovered a wealth of untapped CX value. Today, conversational AI is helping businesses capitalize on every customer interaction across every channel.

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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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A Fast Answer or the Right Answer

ShepHyken

Recently I was talking to a customer support rep. She was amazing. She was personable, genuinely cared, and I felt that she understood my problem. That said, we were struggling to get the problem resolved. She said, “I know you want to get this resolved right away. I can give you a fast answer or I can give you the right answer.”. Next, she explained why.

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Top Tips to Craft the Best Mystery Shopping Program

IntouchInsight

Mystery shopping works. But, to reap the rewards, you need the right program, the right questions, and the right partner.

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Preparing for future customer service challenges

Eptica

Date: Friday, November 12, 2021 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Preparing for future customer service challenges. Published on: November 12, 2021. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager The past eighteen months have created enormous challenges for organisations in general, and customer service in particular. In our latest guest post, Jo Causon, CEO of The Institute of Customer Service, explains how customer service teams have gone above and beyond to deliver an

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Preparing for the Journey Ahead

Uniphore

Travel and hospitality were among the hardest hit industries during the pandemic. While today both are recovering, businesses are grappling with new realities on the ground—and in the air. Fewer business travelers, newer no-contact preferences and higher overall expectations are a few of the factors shaping the customer experience landscape. Conversational AI is helping travel and hospitality leaders weather the turbulence and welcome new customers with next-generation CX.

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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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What Are Keywords? Definition and How to Use for SEO

DemandJump

Keywords are individual words or phrases that help represent the content of a website. They are beneficial to both users and web page owners because they help organize a lot of information into manageable, searchable words and phrases that allow us to connect.

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VoC begets VoC

Zeisler Consulting

I’m always championing active use of your Voice of the Customer (VoC) insights. After all, I say, if you’re just collecting your Customers’ insights but not doing anything with them, that’s a huge waste of resources. Normally when I talk about that, I’m referring to the importance of having a robust and enterprise-wide Process Engineering (PE) function within your company: A group of process experts whose job it is to take those insights and put them to use improving and updating your procedu

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6 Ways to Remove Employee Roulette from your Brand’s Customer Experience

The DiJulius Group

Is the level of experience your customers receive is dependent on which employee they encounter? Are there certain employees on your team you hope your best clients interact with? If so, then you have what is known as employee roulette. Employee roulette is a problem most organizations have. There is good news: You can significantly. Read Full Article.

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Fulfilling Conversational AI’s Promise in Your Contact Center

Uniphore

Contact centers can deliver superior CX, save costs, and achieve better ROI with AI and automation. Over a year after the onset of the pandemic, contact centers have stepped up digital transformation plans at scale. To address common challenges, many organizations are turning to artificial intelligence and conversational service automation to deliver better customer experiences and employee efficiencies.

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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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5 Differences Between Omnichannel vs. Multichannel in Ecommerce

Blueshift

Though similar in perceived meaning, omnichannel vs. multichannel in ecommerce are two very different marketing avenues a brand can use to reach its target audience. Today, we’ll be discussing the five main differences between omnichannel marketing vs. multichannel marketing. The post 5 Differences Between Omnichannel vs. Multichannel in Ecommerce appeared first on Blueshift.

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The 5 Rules to Dramatically Improve The Way you Deal with Customer Complaints

Beyond Philosophy

The 5 Rules to Dramatically Improve The Way you Deal with Customer Complaints. A lot of the behavioral sciences can feel intimidating. However, it doesn’t have to be. The Five Rules Podcast Series is our attempt at giving you an easy entry point into the complex and messy world of Behavioral Science. Does your organization like to pretend that complaints never happen?

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The New Normal: Today’s Brand Must Elevate Customer Experience to Compete

Totango

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced brands to elevate customer experience to stay competitive. As more consumers turned to e-commerce, more companies had to step up their digital game, in turn forcing SaaS providers to deliver so brands could satisfy their buyers. This accelerated a digital-first customer success transformation that was already in motion before the pandemic.

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