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3 Customer Experience Ideas for 2022

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

It’s time to wrap up another year. 2021 was another strange, unpredictable, not-quite-back-to-normal trip. When it came to customer experience, leaders dealt with all sorts of changes and challenges. The introduction of vaccines led to some employees coming back to the office. And some swearing they’ll never return. Customers were able to pick out their produce again at the grocery store.

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3 Tips for Shaping Brand Experiences With New and Loyal Customers

Alida

What happens when a beloved business rebrands? Or when new product formats emerge that risk alienating some audiences while impressing others?

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Expert perspective: How to level up your voice of customer program

NICE inContact

Imagine having a gold mine in your yard and never venturing out to dig up some nuggets.

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InMoment’s Modern Market Research and Data Analytics Approach Ranks in Top 50

InMoment XI

In the latest 2021 Insights Association Top 50 Market Research and Data Analytics report, InMoment ranks in the top 20 established industry reports and market research or market experience (MX) brands, alongside other powerhouse brands such as JD Power, Gartner Research, and Forrester Research Services. About InMoment’s Market Research and Data Analytics Approach.

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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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The New Retail Customer Experience: How Humans + Machines Optimize the Conversation and Outcomes

Uniphore

Today’s retail customers have higher expectations than ever—particularly when it comes to digital customer experience. Shaped by the global pandemic, which forced billions to adopt new shopping behaviors, customers are notably less patient, more demanding and more proficient online. They also have more options at their fingertips. To remain competitive in this increasingly digital landscape, retailers must create an inviting and intuitive customer experience that works seamlessly from end to end

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Let Them Go, Really…Just Let Them Go! – Tip #36

Steve DiGioia

Being in the hospitality industry for 20+ years, and providing customer service for many more, I have learned that you win some and lose some. No customer interaction will be perfect for your business. A customer’s taste, perception, culture, expectations, etc. all boil down to “their” opinion of your product or service. What you offer is not what YOU think it is but what the CUSTOMER thinks it is.

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Employee Advocates: Their Role as Committed Company Assets, Active Communicators, and Key Contributors to Stakeholder Value

InMoment XI

T his article was originally published on CustomerThink. Whenever the subject of employee satisfaction and engagement arises, it is often difficult to differentiate between them. Just as customer satisfaction doesn’t equate to loyalty behavior, if you believe that “a satisfied employee IS an engaged employee”, it’s likely that you can’t articulate a distinction.

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Karen Hertzberg: Improving Customer Retention Through Great Customer Service

Bill Quiseng

Customer loyalty is not by offering discounts, upgrades, or subscriptions to repeat customers. Real customer loyalty is built on service so great that customers return again and again, raving to others along the way. This week guest blogger Karen Hertzberg offers three QUI strategies to improve your service to keep customers coming back. You can read more about Karen at the end of her post.

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How Can Payers Improve Member Experience and Efficiency at the Same Time?

Uniphore

The adoption of digital healthcare skyrocketed during the pandemic, exposing both persistent issues for payers as well as opportunities. The more healthcare consumers become comfortable with digital channels, the higher their expectations are for the same level of convenience, selection, and service they receive in other areas of their lives. This means that the more than 900 payers 1 in the current U.S. healthcare market must continue to transform how they interact with consumers if they want t

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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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2022 Trends: Imagine the Future of Call Centers

TechSee

In the last few years, the customer service industry has been upended by a combination of new pandemic-driven ways of working, the growing trend of digital transformation, and the continuously rising bar for positive customer service experiences. There are many new ideas, initiatives, and technologies flooding the market that aim to help the industry address its myriad challenges.

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Don’t Cut What Is Obvious to the Customer??

ShepHyken

Last week I covered the concept of skimpflation. In case you missed it, the short definition is that skimpflation is the result of a labor shortage, some say due to The Great Resignation , and higher business costs that come from inflation and supply and demand issues. This translates to the customer experiencing a lower level of service, and in some cases, quality.

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The Best Customer & Employee Experience Content of 2021

The DiJulius Group

The results are in! The DiJulius Group’s top customer service blogs, podcasts, and videos from 2020 are listed below. I recommend sharing this with your entire team. Our Top Blogs from 2021 Stop Calling it a Labor Shortage—It is a Turnover Crisis How to Train your Employees to Deal with Irrational Customer Rage The Great. Read Full Article. The post The Best Customer & Employee Experience Content of 2021 appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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Customer Contact Week 2022

Uniphore

Where. The Star Gold Coast. When. Feb 24th & 25th 2022. Who. Ravi Saraogi Co-founder and President APAC. Join Uniphore at the Customer Contact Week event on the Gold Coast this February! Where? The 2022 CCW will be hosted at The Star located at 1 Casino Dr. Broadbeach QLD 4218 Australia. Booking information and discounts can be viewed on the CCW website.

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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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Secrets Revealed: How to Be Distinctive from Your Competition and Win!

Beyond Philosophy

Fernando has a problem that he wants our help solving. In his industry of branding and packaging fast-moving consumer goods, his clients often tell him to do whatever the competition is doing. However, Fernando knows that while imitation is the highest form of flattery, it’s a less than ideal customer strategy when you want to win customers from the competition.

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Distinguishing Your Brand In A Hyper-Competitive Marketplace

Doing CX Right

Scott McKain, Hall of Fame Speaker & "Iconic " author, reveals how to create distinction to attract & retain customers and employees too. The post Distinguishing Your Brand In A Hyper-Competitive Marketplace appeared first on Doing CX Right.

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Innovating to improve research integrity

Clarivate

How we’re expanding support for dealing with editorial expressions of concern and retractions. Research integrity is a key part of our mission at Clarivate to be a trusted, indispensable partner to innovators everywhere. Our research data, insights and analysis are used by the world’s top research institutions, by multiple governments and by national research agencies for global research assessment, which gives us a responsibility to monitor and act where we can to ensure the integrity of our da

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The Psychology of the Word “Because” to Get Customers to Accept Your Word As Final

Myra Golden

For help de-escalating with customers, check out my De-escalation Academy. Research at Harvard showed us the power of the word “Because.” The experiment had people ask to cut in a line of people waiting to use a copy machine. Researchers had the people use three different, specifically worded requests to cut in line: “Excuse me; I have five pages.

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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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Secrets Revealed: How to Be Distinctive from Your Competition and Win!

Beyond Philosophy

There is a saying that says, “Imitation is the highest form of flattery,” and it is. However, it is also a losing strategy when you are working at winning over customers from the competition. Finding a way to stand out is the secret to long-term customer strategy success. . Fernando deals with this problem in his business branding and packaging for fast-moving consumer goods and consumer packaged goods (CPG).

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Fast Food vs. Fine Dining in Customer Service

Help Scout

What can customer service professionals learn from Geraldine DeRuiter’s review, 'Bros., Lecce: We Eat at The Worst Michelin Starred Restaurant, Ever'?

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ChurnZero Establishes New European Headquarters to Support Global Growth

ChurnZero

Customer Success software provider, ChurnZero, announces plans to open a new office in the Netherlands to support global expansion efforts in 2022. ChurnZero, a leading Customer Success platform, today announced that it is establishing and investing in a new office in Amsterdam to help accelerate its global growth. The new office will support existing international clients, while also serving as a primary office for business development throughout Europe.

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Getting personalisation right will require marketers to do different things

Adrian Swinscoe

The lovely folk at Braze, a comprehensive customer engagement platform that powers relevant and memorable experiences between consumers and the brands they love., invited me along […]. The post Getting personalisation right will require marketers to do different things first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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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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Women fighting COVID-19 with science: Spotlight on Alex Li

Clarivate

Throughout 2021, we brought you stories of women scientific researchers at Clarivate delivering invaluable contributions to innovation and customer success. Over the past two years, these women have done essential work in addressing COVID-19 and in helping to create a more equitable STEM field post-pandemic. Learn more. These colleagues have earned recognition and awards for excellence in their achievements in many different and specialist fields of scientific research.

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CX Stories From the Frontlines: Streamlining the Agent Experience

Kustomer

We’re back again with some fresh CX stories from the frontlines. In case you missed it, check out our previous issue on the blog , recounting real life anecdotes on how businesses have solved their customer service challenges with the help of Kustomer. In this month’s edition, we discuss streamlining agent experiences by displaying relevant information, reducing manual email triage efforts and identifying appropriate contact times for customers in different timezones.

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The 3 Myths of Community KPIs

Vanilla Forums

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) , are always a hot topic in community circles. Community leaders want to know what, how, when, and why others are measuring anything. And frequently, it’s to learn ways others communicate value to their stakeholders. We also need to know (but often skip over) which metrics our colleagues care about and whether the data points required to calculate those metrics are even ethical for us to track.

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Blueshift Named a CDP and Marketing Automation Leader in G2 Winter 2022 Report

Blueshift

From exciting new omnichannel journey-building features to a new Blueshift Academy course and yet another Smart Guide, we at Blueshift have had a busy fall leveling up our customer data platform to ensure it's as effective and seamless as possible for our customers. The post Blueshift Named a CDP and Marketing Automation Leader in G2 Winter 2022 Report appeared first on Blueshift.

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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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What’s the True Cost of Your In-House Customer Service Program?

Advantage Communications

Organizations that want to offer a superior customer experience and first-class customer face a choice, they can either manage it in house or they can outsource their customer service program to a specialized contact center.

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32 Best NPS® Tools for 2022

Zonka Feedback

NPS Survey Tools enable you to create, distribute, manage quickly and analyze NPS Surveys. These tools are seamlessly integrated with your business tools and give you responses and reports in real-time.

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How Voice of Customer Software Improves Account Management Efficiency

Kapta Customer Success

Even when you have a team of all-star key account managers, you need replicable business processes that everyone on the team can understand and follow. This consistency doesn't just help your account managers have a framework for doing their job well. It also ensures that all of your clients have a similarly enjoyable experience that is geared toward their success.