April, 2024

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Financial Services Reputation Management: Secure Lifelong Customers

InMoment XI

Did you know that over half of financial services consumers say they have low trust in their provider? And, of those consumers, only 34% of them would recommend their brand to friends and family. Financial services providers are tasked with a unique challenge. Since finances are such a personal part of our lives, consumers in the industry are the most withholding of their trust.

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How to Triumph Over Budget Cuts and Prove Your Marketing ROI

C3Centricity

As we all know and, unfortunately, have probably also experienced, every dollar in our marketing expenditure must be justified, and we have to prove our marketing ROI or risk budget cuts! Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) face the dual challenges of managing budget constraints while also demonstrating the return on investment (ROI) of their marketing initiatives.

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How to Improve CSAT Score – 6 Step Strategy

Comm100

Customer satisfaction (CSAT) scores are a vital metric for any business trying to track and improve their customer service and support. The scores provide a snapshot of how satisfied your customers are with your products or services, indicating areas of success and those needing improvement. A higher CSAT score not only reflects happier customers but also drives loyalty, positive word-of-mouth, and increased revenue potential.

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Top 9 Questions: ESG & the Contact Center RFP

BlueOcean

The concept of ESG has had its place in the business world for a couple of decades, but it is only recently that it has become mainstream. One of the more complex aspects of upholding the standards a company values is ensuring its vendors are similarly committed. This holds especially true in the world of outsourced customer service, where your vendor is literally representing your brand and your values.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Grocery Store Customer Experience: A Brief Insight

IntouchInsight

As grocers fight for space in customers' pantries (and minds), letting someone hang alone in their store for five minutes without assistance is not an experience they want to provide. (Hint: we actually found this data.

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Unlocking the Power of Healthcare Contact Centers: Enhancing Patient Care in the Digital Age

InMoment XI

In the dynamic landscape of healthcare, where patient care is paramount, the role of healthcare contact centers has emerged as a vital component in ensuring seamless communication and efficient service delivery. From appointment scheduling to medical inquiries, these centers serve as the frontline of patient engagement, offering a myriad of benefits for both healthcare providers and patients alike.

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How to Power up Your B2C Marketing Strategies with Surprising B2B Secrets

C3Centricity

As has been claimed for decades, there are differences between B2C marketing strategies and those of business-to-business (B2B). However, as companies continue to evolve in an increasingly digital landscape, these disparities, while significant, share the underlying goal of establishing meaningful connections with the people who buy their products and services.

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Predictive Customer Service: AI’s Role in Anticipating Needs

Comm100

AI is reshaping countless industries and services, and customer service is one such area that is changing for the better. Its main benefit is in allowing organizations to provide predictive support to their clients, catering to their needs 24/7 to address their concerns proactively. In this article, we will discuss how the combination of AI and human intuition can be applied to a range of sectors to help solve problems preemptively.

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Blue Ocean Wins 2024 Silver Stevie® Award for Contact Center Provider of the Year

BlueOcean

Blue Ocean, a world-leader in customer care solutions, was awarded a Silver Stevie® Award in the “Contact Center Outsourcing Provider of the Year” category at the 18th annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. This is Blue Ocean’s fourth Stevie Award. The company received a Bronze Stevie in 2017, a Silver Stevie in 2019, and another Silver Stevie in 2020.

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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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Bill Quiseng - Untitled Article

Bill Quiseng

QUI QUOTE: Instead of giving incentives to your customers who fill out your surveys, offer rewards and recognition to your people who deliver service so GREAT customers rave about them on your surveys and social media. Customers pay for their experience, not your product or service. And it’s THEIR experience, not yours. Customers seek the best emotional value in their experience.

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[Experience Action Podcast] Customer-Facing Employees and CX Buy-In

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Unlock the full potential of your customer-facing team and watch your customer satisfaction soar! Let’s transform the frontline of your business into a powerhouse for customer loyalty. On this episode of the Experience Action Podcast, we’re tackling a golden question: How do we get our customer-facing employees just as invested in the customer experience as we are?

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The Power of Integrated CX Part 3: Smartest Actions

InMoment XI

True excellence in customer experience (CX) demands more than just understanding and insights; it requires actionable strategies that drive tangible results. InMoment’s Integrated CX offers a transformative pathway to success, encompassing Strongest Signals , Richer Insights , and Smartest Actions. In this blog post, we’ll explore how your organisation can take the smartest actions, the final piece of the puzzle of our Integrated CX approach.

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8 Questions to Ask When Selecting a Research Community Technology Partner

Alida

As a well-established technology company with over 20 years’ experience, we’ve seen all sorts of challenges over the years.

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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 to Improve Agent Productivity – Work Smarter, not Harder

Comm100

The productivity of your customer service agents directly impacts your company’s success. Enhanced agent productivity not only accelerates response times but also elevates the overall quality of service. This can directly lead to improved customer satisfaction, increased sales, and more repeat business. Given the importance of customer service productivity, this blog explores actionable strategies to improve agent productivity, enabling your team to work smarter, faster, and more effective

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Elevating the Ordinary: How Pride Transforms Your Work

ShepHyken

I love seeing amazement in action. I was at the airport last week with a friend who accidentally spilled his soda. Within moments, an airport employee came over with a bucket and mop to clean up the spill. My friend apologized for making a mess, and the woman’s response surprised both of us. She said, “My name is Laura, and it is my pleasure to clean up your spill.

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Supercharge Your Service Experience with Visuals for Maximum Impact

TechSee

In the world of customer service and technical support, a significant challenge often goes unaddressed: the visual gap. This gap represents the disconnect between customers and service agents, where words fail to convey the full picture of an issue or solution. Without visual assistance, customers struggle to describe technical problems or product statuses, and agents are left to navigate these challenges “blind” without seeing the actual issue.

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Defining the Value of Customer Experience: A Guide for Creating CX ROI in A Constantly Changing World

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

The landscape of consumer expectations is constantly evolving, and understanding the value of customer experience has emerged as a cornerstone for businesses aiming to sustain growth and maintain a competitive advantage. CX leaders know customer experience (CX) is not just about transactional exchanges; it’s about building lasting relationships.

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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 secure approach to generative AI with AWS

AWS Machine Learning

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the customer experience in industries across the globe. Customers are building generative AI applications using large language models (LLMs) and other foundation models (FMs), which enhance customer experiences, transform operations, improve employee productivity, and create new revenue channels.

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Simplifying CX Design: How Leading Enterprise Tech Firms Overcome Complex Challenges

ECXO

gdcvte Simplifying CX Design: How Leading Enterprise Tech Firms Overcome Complex Challenges Part I The article was originally posted here: [link] Seamless customer experiences and clear interfaces are two key elements leveraged by successful tech enterprise to generate adoption, with design being the key to overcoming solution complexity. Intuitive, clear designs make it easier to generate adoption, decrease customer success costs, and help customers adopt the solutions easily with the right onb

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Redefining Member Engagement: 5 Benefits of a CDP for Credit Unions

Blueshift

With impending interest rate cuts later this year and beyond, the time is now for financial institutions to optimize their tech stack. History has shown that when interest rates drop, it sets off a chain reaction in the market. Consumers rush to secure mortgages, explore refinancing options, and seek alternative financial products. When the time comes, those who are digitally prepared will capitalize on the influx of consumers seeking new mortgages and refinancing deals.

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This Customer Could Ruin Your Business

ShepHyken

What if I told you that a satisfied customer could ruin your business? Most people think satisfied customers are happy and will come back. At least, it appears that way. Many years ago, I used to begin my customer service keynote speeches with a question: By a show of hands, how many of you believe it’s important to satisfy your customers? As you might imagine, just about everyone raised their hand.

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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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Personalization In Sales Leads To Increased Loyalty and Repeat Business

Integrity Solutions

Mastering the human side of selling is key to sales success, but what does phrase that mean exactly? At its essence, humanizing the sales experience is really about personalization. It’s about asking questions from a place of genuine curiosity, listening, fully absorbing what you’re hearing and then being willing and able to pivot in whatever direction the customer’s answers take us.

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Insider hot takes: CS & Sales synergize to unleash predictable growth

Totango

Is 2024 the year of customer success or sales? Our CS and sales experts say, “Neither.” Chris Dishman , SVP of Customer Success for Totango & Catalyst, hosted a roundtable discussion with industry leaders, including Rashmi Chari , Head of Global Customer Success for ThousandEyes, Kevin McIntyre , Chief Revenue Officer for Dealfront, and Madelyn DePrey , VP of Customer Success for Aircall.

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Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock now supports custom prompts for the RetrieveAndGenerate API and configuration of the maximum number of retrieved results

AWS Machine Learning

With Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock , you can securely connect foundation models (FMs) in Amazon Bedrock to your company data for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). Access to additional data helps the model generate more relevant, context-specific, and accurate responses without retraining the FMs. In this post, we discuss two new features of Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock specific to the RetrieveAndGenerate API: configuring the maximum number of results and creating custom prompts wi

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Delving into Digital Conversations for Business Survival or Irrelevance, featuring Paolo Fabrizio

ECXO

Delving into Digital Conversations for Business Survival or Irrelevance, featuring Paolo Fabrizio The European Customer Experience Organization (ECXO) is delighted to announce our upcoming session on AI digital conversations, a topic of utmost importance in today’s business landscape. Join us for “Delving into Digital Conversations for Business Survival or Irrelevance,” featuring Paolo Fabrizio , one of the leading authorities in Europe on this key subject.

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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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How to Craft Compelling Stories to Unlocking True Customer Engagement

Beyond Philosophy

“Did I tell you about the time I …” These seven words are one of many ways we signal one of our favorite things is coming next: a story. We can’t get enough of stories and look for them everywhere, from news to conversations to the commercials we can’t avoid on TV. Stories are an essential part of the human experience. In today’s world, storytelling is crucial in various aspects of business, including marketing.

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Why you should unlist, not delete, your YouTube videos

BirdEye

Ever looked back at your early YouTube videos and cringed? You’re not alone. As a content creator on YouTube, it’s natural to have moments where you consider deleting some of your older videos. Maybe the quality isn’t up to par, or the content no longer aligns with your channel’s current direction. However, before you rush to hit that delete button, there’s a better option to consider.

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Customer Experience Is Like Maintenance on Your Car

ShepHyken

I was talking to a friend the other day. He purchased an expensive new car just eight months ago. Unfortunately, the car turned out to be a “lemon,” and he has taken it back to the dealer multiple times for various problems. The car has spent more time at the repair center than in his garage. If it were me, I’d ask the dealer to replace the car. Apparently, he has more patience than I do and was giving the dealer another chance to fix the car.