CX Accelerator

JULY 1, 2020

Without a doubt, Covid-19 will leave an indelible impression on our planet, and it may even cause a paradigm shift for businesses and the way they meet their employees’ and customers’ expectations, especially regarding communication channels. Now: I order online through a delivery service or schedule a pick-up. Changing Expectations.

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Customer Bliss

AUGUST 18, 2020

This is a guest post from Niraj Ranjan, CEO & CO-founder of Hiver – a Gmail-centric customer service solution. At Hiver, Niraj is responsible for defining the vision and strategy of the business. With over 1500 customers across 30 countries. Identify Those With High EQ. Some might be angry. Some are frustrated.

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Customer Service Blog Customers Interaction 252

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Shaista Haque, writes about the millennial generation’s use of technology and how it is affecting their customer experience. The millennial consumer must be understood in order to deliver an Amazing customer service experience.

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Blog Social Media Mobile Customer Service Innovation 126

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

This week we feature an article by Brian Cantor who gives us a list of ways to achieve success and consistency when communicating with customers on any channel. – Shep Hyken. Making for a jointly admirable and problematic reality, the customer contact community often takes a lofty, wide-eyed approach to strategy and technology.

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BirdEye

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Knowing your customers is an integral part of your business’s success. It helps you define brand strategies , choose product development tools, and find the proper channels for your sales team to engage with your customers. You may also know them as customer, audience, or marketing personas.

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Insurance Social Media Multi-Channel Advertising 111

BlueOcean

MARCH 26, 2018

Say hello to the future: the robots are right here. In the customer support space, AI is changing the customer experience for better or for worse depending on the elegance of your deployment. This blog by Information Age is a great reminder of how artificial intelligence still hinges on human guidance.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Touchpoints within the customer journey help define a lot of moments, both good and not-so-good. Customer touchpoints in general are not often understood or appreciated from the customer’s perspective. Most organizations, when defining their customer touchpoints, list things like: Billboards.

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Touchpoint Customer Journey Mapping Social Media Customer Journey 302

GetFeedback

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Our best customers are the ones who stay with us. The proof is in the numbers: a 5% increase in customer retention can lead to a 25-95% increase in profits , according to a Harvard Business School study. Decreasing customer churn leads to more than repeat customers and referrals. The bad and the ugly of high churn.

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Net Promoter Score Customer Journey Mapping NPS Customer Journey 247

Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 25, 2022

Providing proactive experiences is part of the future I see for Customer Experience , a side effect of Customer Science. For those who read this newsletter, you know that Customer Science is where we have a convergence of artificial intelligence (AI), data, and behavioral sciences. Defining Proactive.

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CX Accelerator

OCTOBER 26, 2019

Clearly, I had what Rachelle Dever , a thought leader in customer experience, calls “emotional affinity” with basketball. I recently attended a seminar where Dever explained that customers who have emotional affinity with a product or brand consider that product or brand essential to their daily lives.

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CX Accelerator

OCTOBER 26, 2019

Clearly, I had what Rachelle Dever , a thought leader in customer experience, calls “emotional affinity” with basketball. I recently attended a seminar where Dever explained that customers who have emotional affinity with a product or brand consider that product or brand essential to their daily lives.

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Customer Service Seminar Travel Customers 182

Retently

JULY 28, 2023

How do you approach customer happiness in your company? Do you simply rely on the generic “the customer is always right” speech, or do you have a customer-centric culture in place that’s overseen by a professional who understands how customers think and feel, and who knows how to get that point of view across to other employees too?

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BirdEye

AUGUST 29, 2023

Happy customers build successful businesses. You can grow, scale, and develop your business if you understand your customers’ feelings about you. Great products, the best marketing campaigns, and the costliest ads are all playing second fiddle to the power of customer satisfaction. Why is customer satisfaction important?

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Customer Satisfaction Social Media Omnichannel Net Promoter Score 98

ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Customer Service versus Customer Experience: Master both! My Comment: I’ve written about the difference between customer service and customer experience in the past.

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Kustomer

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of business and customer support, staying ahead of the curve is essential. Customer expectations are rising, technology is advancing at an unprecedented pace, and the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and customer experience (CX) is where the future is being defined.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 11, 2019

This week we feature an article by Agi Marx who shares 3 ways to close the customer feedback loop to prevent churn and increase revenue. – Shep Hyken. What is the customer feedback loop? Customer feedback loop is the practice of responding to customers meaningfully when they leave feedback.

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Feedback Blog NPS Net Promoter Score 94

Customers That Stick

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Note: This blog post contains information related to and provide by a client of CTS Service Solutions. Agara is an autonomous voice engine powered by Real-time Voice AI designed to handle customer support calls without any human intervention. First, Sign Up for the Webinar: November 19, 2020. An Interview with Dawn Varghese.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 28, 2017

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Murph Krajewski, writes about the importance of a single customer view when it comes to serving your customers. This will help lead you to forming important relationship with your customer. – Shep Hyken. Customer service needs customer data.

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Blog Customer Service Contact Center Customers 91

ShepHyken

APRIL 13, 2018

This week we feature an article by Jaime Bailey who explains why your company is best served by considering every possible source of insight about customer behavior, goals, and expectations, and implementing the tools that most effectively serve your needs. – Shep Hyken. Is there a specific product or service that needs an update?

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

This week we feature an article by Doug Bell who writes about how leaders can optimize their company’s customer experience. It is important to have a plan in place for managing the customer experience and having a customer-focused culture. – Shep Hyken. A Simple Playbook for Managing Customer Experience.

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Lumoa

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

From social media posts to Google and Yelp reviews, every buyer can recount their customer experience with your company to a global audience. It is no wonder, then, that businesses have started paying much closer attention to their customer experience (CX) strategy.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

DECEMBER 15, 2014

For leaders to make smart decisions about who the best, most loyal and most profitable customers are, they need to understand the makeup of the customer population. This often means creating special loyalty programs , elite experiences, and special perks to maintain the top 1% of customers. Herein lies the rub.

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Loyalty Programs Airlines Social Media Loyalty 268

Magellan Solutions

AUGUST 23, 2023

AI marketing tools are shaping the future of marketing. Over time, machine learning algorithms allowed for more advanced customer segmentation and personalization. Over time, machine learning algorithms allowed for more advanced customer segmentation and personalization. It ensures the user experience is seamless.

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ClientSuccess

DECEMBER 27, 2022

At the heart of any successful customer relationship is a clear and well-defined path to customer success. Here are key strategies to consider when creating a Customer Success Journey Map: 1. Develop clear tasks, milestones and goals throughout the customer lifecycle. Road Map Vectors by Vecteezy.

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SurveySensum

JANUARY 30, 2024

A few months ago, I interviewed candidates for the Customer Experience Head position in our team. The role is crucial – CX professionals shape how customers perceive a company. Understanding the Company’s CX Vision “What does ‘customer experience’ mean to you, and how is it measured?

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Professor Simonson’s experiment about choice had one of his two classes pick their snack every week. He found that people making an Intertemporal Choice, a choice for some point in the future, had different preferences than people making a series of immediate decisions. We order ready-made meals from a company called All Plants.

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Books Loyalty Programs Presentation Customers 89

Win the Customer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In the dynamic world of startups, where every decision can make or break a company’s future, customer experience (CX) stands out as a critical factor for success. It’s not just about having a great product or service; it’s about how you make your customers feel when they interact with your brand.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. The 6 Top Customer Experience Trends in 2021 by Julien Rio. The pandemic is a watershed moment for digital transformation in customer service by Vala Afshar. Something to think about!)

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2020 Article Customer Service 2021 138

Beyond Philosophy

MAY 28, 2021

Business relationships are a lot like customer relationships. However, there are some differences between managing Customer Experience in business-to-business (B2B) relationships and business-to-consumer (B2C). Recognize that customer emotions apply. Manage different customers differently.

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Lumoa

APRIL 18, 2023

As the volume of data companies collect grows and as artificial intelligence (AI) gets better, analytics is set to become a key differentiator for customer experience management. Predictive modeling and real-time data analysis have created huge opportunities for companies to personalize the customer experience.

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BirdEye

JULY 7, 2023

Today’s customers expect answers in real time. That’s why a customer service chatbot is a necessary tool for a successful business. With this tool, you can quickly and accurately respond to customer service questions, even if it’s at midnight. Table of contents What is a chatbot for customer service?

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Technology, human behavior, Customer Experience are intersecting through the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and taking marketing in a new direction. We spoke to Messina on a recent podcast about this concept and how it applies to customer-driven growth. Messina says the experience made him feel different qualitatively.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Your SaaS customer journey map lays out optimized outcomes that lead to customer renewals, upsells, and referrals. Here, we’ll show you how to create your path to customer success. First, we’ll define what a SaaS customer journey is, break it down into stages, and explain why mapping it out is important.

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ViiBE Blog

AUGUST 25, 2021

ViiBE Blog. How can you measure customer satisfaction? CRM , Customer experience. Customer satisfaction measures the overall satisfaction the customer has with the business. How companies measure customer satisfaction. Here are the most common ways companies can measure customer satisfaction.

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Customer Satisfaction Measurement Net Promoter Score 2021 98

ViiBE Blog

AUGUST 17, 2021

ViiBE Blog. What is the purpose of customer experience management? Customer experience. This is why customer experience management, meaning a process of tracking customer expectations and undertaking relevant actions, has become one of the focus points of businesses across different industries.

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SurveySparrow

JUNE 15, 2023

Remember, the more specific the issue, the better your chances of designing a unique solution that customers will flock to. The Voyage of Discovery: Defining Your Customers Identifying your target customer is crucial in the business planning process. But crafting a stellar business plan ?

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Financial Social Media Omnichannel Feedback 52

Optimove

JUNE 1, 2023

We begin this three-part series with the basics – the intricacies of the modern customer journey – and shed light on its various stages and steps. We begin this three-part series with the basics – the intricacies of the modern customer journey – and shed light on its various stages and steps.

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