2022

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How to Kickstart the Next Digital Experience Trend

InMoment XI

Digital experience trends are the new road maps of modern day business. Are you still using a paper map to direct you when you’re driving to work? Of course not, you’re using your smartphone that tells you where you are, when to turn, and if there is an accident up ahead. Think of digital experience trends being the new maps application in your business.

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Can Conversational AI Make Your CX More Human and Empathetic? | Creative Virtual

Customer Experience Update Submitted Articles

Often criticised for removing the human touch from customer experiences, conversational AI virtual agents can help employees be more human and empathetic

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5 Lessons from the 2022 CX “Global Gurus” on Future-Facing Customer Experience

Customer Bliss

As we head further into 2022, it’s apparent that companies are picking up steam and looking ahead to the future of their experience practices (customer experience, employee experience, and beyond). If you’re looking for resources to share with your team on experience leadership, I encourage you to take a look at the authors on this year’s Global Gurus list of customer experience leaders for inspiration (a sincere thank you to Global Gurus for including me in the list once agai

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Contact Center Location Strategy in a Remote World

BlueOcean

How do you continue to offer seamless customer service and experience in this new world of remote work? Blue Ocean offers some insights on how to create a contact center location strategy in a remote world.

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The State of Customer Experience 2023 Report: Part 2

JUST RELEASED! The Northridge Group’s State of CX 2023 Part II research report reveals that nearly half of consumers surveyed had knowingly spoken to a customer service associate working from home—and almost 75% of those respondents felt the associate's location did not impact the service or experience. So why do more than ⅓ of business leaders want contact center associates back in the office?

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CX Education for Employees: Why it Matters & How to Develop Your Program

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Why does Customer Experience Training Matter? It’s common for Customer Experience (CX) to be misunderstood as reactive customer service, support, or even ‘just being nice to customers.’ CX is much more than these, though. I like to define Customer Experience as: A mindset. A strategy. A business discipline. Customer experience is more than one area, product, service or person.

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Reshaping The Future Of Digital Customer Service: 22 Influential Leaders to Watch in 2022

TechSee

Customers expect better and faster pre and post purchase services. Whether they need help setting up a new device or to repair a damaged product, the way in which these interactions are handled are at the heart of customer satisfaction. As companies embrace the digitization of customer support, the new standard is much more than a phone conversation with a call center representative or a visit from a field agent.

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It’s time for a Customer Service Culture Transformation to Customer CARE

Bill Quiseng

Is customer service the frontline? Really? Are we called to duty on the frontline battling customers? Doctors and nurses don’t serve their ailing patients. They care. So shouldn’t customer service be customer care? Or even better …. We are the Customer CARE team. We CARE for each member of our team: We COMMUNICATE with each other. We listen to our team’s questions, concerns, and complaints with empathy and compassion.

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What Is a Journey Health Score?

Heart of the Customer

Visualize, monitor, and manage your journeys with a customized metric designed around your needs, your organization, and your customers.

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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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How Government Services Can Provide Better Citizen Satisfaction & Experience

Attention government agencies and BPO partners! CXperts is your go-to solution for improving citizen experience. Our omnichannel and digital contact center solutions are designed to supply superior CX, reducing costs and maximizing efficiency. Plus, we are a Minority Owned Business (MBE). With our certifications, we are the perfect partner to help government agencies meet their CX goals and fulfill federal deal requirements.

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Five Lessons On How To Personalize the Customer Experience

ShepHyken

I love to receive great examples of outstanding customer service. I’m always on the lookout for great stories, whether I personally experience them, or they are sent in by our followers. What I share with you today is a great example of personalized and proactive communication. While I provide the lessons, the example comes from one of our subscribers, Dawn Mushill, who shared a letter that BarkBox wrote to one of its customers.

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Digital Intercept: How to Collect Customer Feedback Without Ruining the Experience

InMoment XI

We’ve all been there. You’re shopping for something online and you start to compare options on different websites. You’re excited to explore a particular item, but as soon as you click into the brand’s website, a little window pops up asking you what you think of the website experience. “What experience?” you think. “I barely just entered the page!”.

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Protecting Valuable (Customer) Assets In M&A Field

Customer Experience Update Submitted Articles

A series of reports produced by various firms over the last 10 years show that the average success rate of M&A deals is 20% or less. Most of them talk about “shareholder value destruction”.

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How to Measure the Return On Investment (ROI) Of Your Contact Center Solution?

NobelBiz

NobelBiz | Blog. How to Measure the Return On Investment (ROI) Of Your Contact Center Solution?

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Retail Tech: Empower Associates, Optimize CX, and Boost Productivity

Speaker: Andrew Regan, Managing Partner at BlueSeed Retail Ltd.

Did you know that 70% of new retail technology fails to deliver expected benefits and can often decrease customer value, service, and experience? With that in mind, how can we empower our store associates to leverage new technology to optimize the customer experience and boost productivity? This exclusive webinar with Andrew Regan will dive into strategies to empower retail associates for success with new technology.

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How to Launch a Successful Outsourced Contact Center Implementation

BlueOcean

The launch of your outsourced contact center implementation may be a strenuous time – there's so much at stake for your business. That said, it shouldn’t be a headache.

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5 Things Great CEOs Understand About Customer Experience

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Your CEO understands how important customer experience is to the success of your organization. They invest in resources to provide great experiences because they understand the immense return they get on those investments, right? . If this describes your organization, I hope you know how fortunate you are. I talk to customer experience leaders every week who share how they might have heard talk about how important customer experience is for their organization, but they rarely see the action to b

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7 Customer Expectations and Why I Shouldn’t Have to Ask for a Napkin

Steve DiGioia

We all speak about expectations, customer expectations. They can be reasonable or extreme, and sometimes achievable or bizarre. But usually, they are appropriate. As a customer, I expect a basic minimum such as: The product or service should work as expected. The product or service should be reasonably priced and in line with similar products. The product or service should be safe to use.

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Creating a framework for digital transformation

Eptica

Date: Friday, August 5, 2022 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Creating a framework for digital transformation. Published on: August 05, 2022. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager A lot has been said about the importance of digital transformation in business today, including in customer experience. But many transformations fail to deliver the benefits they promised.

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Improve Contact Center Outcomes with Key Insights

Contact center leaders are skilled at balancing competing day-to-day priorities. They help others make informed business decisions, all while working to keep agents and customers engaged in positive experiences. Rapid access to the most relevant and actionable information is critical to managing agents, supervisors, and communicating with executive leadership to improve efficiencies and business outcomes.

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QUI QUOTE: Nobody raves about a company that meets customer expectations.

Bill Quiseng

QUI QUOTE: Nobody raves about a company that meets customer expectations. 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, you met their expectations and they were satisfied.

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Survey Says: Close the Loop!

Heart of the Customer

Show business impact quickly by mplementing a closed loop feedback system. You probably already have the tools you need to get started!

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Why Your Measurement is Killing Your Customer Experience And What to Do About it

Beyond Philosophy

I am surprised daily about how many organizations can’t articulate how their improvement in various experience measures, like Net Promoter Score® , will benefit the organization. This connection is essential to understand to create a winning customer strategy. . The same is true for customer data. Too often, an organization is excellent at collecting data to measure the effects of their efforts but has no idea how they will use it.

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The Best Social Media Channels for Customer Service

ShepHyken

Social customer care may not be the most popular channel to deal with customer issues for most businesses, but that doesn’t mean it’s not important. More and more customers are turning to social media to get help. More on why in just a moment. For now, let’s address why companies aren’t using social channels. . When a company tells me they don’t want to participate in social media customer care, I ask why.

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The Hidden Costs of Poor Customer Onboarding

Churn starts within the first 30 days of customers purchasing a product. A lot of it comes down to the first impression customers get through the onboarding process. A poor experience can result in losing current and future customers, and unnecessary overhead. It’s important to know what a poor onboarding experience looks like, the associated hidden costs, and how to build a top-tier onboarding experience for your customers so you can avoid losing hard-earned revenue.

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Voice of Customer Examples to Inspire Your CX Strategy

InMoment XI

If your brand isn’t capturing customer feedback, unfortunately it won’t know how to improve—this is where the voice of customer (or “VoC”) comes in. This article is designed to give you InMoment’s take on what voice of customer examples look like. In the customer experience industry, we call capturing customer feedback a “voice of customer” program, and at InMoment—we know that it’s not enough to capture feedback, you need to capture it, understand it, take action, and make sure customers know t

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Maximising Value and ROI from Data

Customer Experience Update Submitted Articles

If you think about it, data is a lot like food. There’s a huge choice. Some of it is good and much of it is mediocre. Your enjoyment of it, and the value you assign to it, can be impacted by many factors – how well it has been sourced, the quality of the various elements, the care with which it is handled and prepared, the ultimate presentation to you and how it makes you feel after you’ve consumed it.

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Never Give a Bad Surprise in Public - The Second Commandment of CX Influence - Seaton CX

Seaton CX

The Second Commandment of CX Influence: Never Give a Bad Surprise in Public. Meg slammed her Sharpie down in the strategy meeting. Some blunderbuss in Product just unloaded a dumptruck of blame on her support team, and things were about to get western.

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The Top Social Media Monitoring Tools

Brandwatch CX

The key to making the most of social media is listening to what your audience has to say about you, your competitors, and the market in general. Once you have the data you can undertake analysis, and finally, reach social business intelligence ; using all these insights to know your customers better and improve your marketing strategy. If you are a social media rookie, this list of the top free social media monitoring tools might come in handy.

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The Ultimate CX Solution: Combining Software + Service

In today's competitive business landscape, customer experience (CX) has emerged as a critical differentiator. Companies are increasingly investing in CX services to optimize customer satisfaction, drive customer loyalty, and ultimately, enhance their bottom line. Traditionally, businesses have had to choose between a DIY (Do-It-Yourself) approach or a full-service model, where an agency handles the entire CX program.

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Connect Customer Service Success with Customer Experience Excellence

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Happy Customer Service Week and CX Day, 2022! Customer Service Week is all about Celebrating Service. And we’re celebrating customer experience (CX) on October 4th with CX Day’s theme: CX Drives Success. They go hand-in-hand to provide amazing experiences for customers that lead to better business results. Customer experience success, as we define it, is about living up to the promises made to customers AND delivering business results for your organization.

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Is It Really That Important That I’m Wearing a Name Tag?

Steve DiGioia

There’s always that one employee who refuses to follow directions. It seems that no matter how many times you talk to him, he continues to “forget” to do what he’s told or at worst, intentionally refuses to do it. So, what do you do with an employee like this? Sure, we can give him a kick in the rear and show him the door, but you never want to lose an otherwise half-decent employee if you can help it.

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Announcing changes to the 2023 Journal Citation Reports

Clarivate

Starting from the 2023 JCR release, Journal Impact Factors will be expanded to all Web of Science Core Collection journals including arts and humanities. Today we’re proud to announce that in the 2023 release of the Journal Citation Reports , all Web of Science Core Collection journals will receive a Journal Impact Factor (JIF). This means expanding the JIF from Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) to include journals from the Arts and Humanities Citati

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