Tue.Aug 29, 2023

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[Experience Action Podcast] Customer Service vs Customer Experience

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

”I love how you discuss the difference between customer service and customer experience. I work with people who really believe they understand customer service so there’s nothing to worry about. How do I get them to see that we should focus on customer experience, not just customer service?” We need both customer service and customer experience to have a successful business.

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The Difference Between What Customers Want and What They Need

ShepHyken

Many years ago, I walked into an Ace Hardware store to find a new hinge for a swinging door. When I showed the salesperson my broken hinge, he asked if I was open to a suggestion. He sold me a better hinge that was less expensive. Who could argue with that? I had no idea that years later, I would write about this example in one of my books, Amaze Every Customer Every Time.

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[Experience Action Podcast] Customer Service vs Customer Experience

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

❔"I love how you discuss the difference between customer service and customer experience. I work with people who really believe they understand customer service so there's nothing to worry about. How do I get them to see that we should focus on customer experience, not just customer service?"❔We.

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14 proven ways to improve customer satisfaction 

BirdEye

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. Satisfied customers grow brand loyalty, boost word-of-mouth recommendations, and significantly boost a business’s growth.

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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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Exploring the Powerful Intersection of Large Language Models and CX

Advantage Communications

With technological advancements and changing customer demands, it's crucial for businesses to stay up-to-date with the latest trends in customer experience.

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No Be There

Zeisler Consulting

Probably one of the worst shows streaming these days is Kobra Kai , but if you’re like me, you can’t look away. Naturally, being a Gentleman of a Particular Age™, the original Karate Kid movie was part of my growing up, so I was curious. In the modern iteration, the acting is atrocious, the dialog is forced and clumsy, and for that matter, even the plot lines are eye-rollingly bad with all the surprise loyalty shifts and team-jumping.

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Managing Performance in an SAP Commerce Cloud Project

SAP Customer Experience

Overview Managing Performance in an SAP Commerce Cloud Project Learn how to incorporate recommended performance testing practices into your SAP Commerce Cloud project right from the start. Start Early Performance tends to be a topic that is left for the later stages of a project, however early design decisions can.

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Unlocking Success: 6 Proven Strategies to Drive Customer Reviews

SurveySensum

According to Power Reviews, virtually every online shopper reads reviews. And why shouldn’t they? In the world of online shopping, where the touch and feel of a product are absent, customer opinions hold significant sway. This is something you can easily experience in a physical store, but the virtual realm requires a different approach. Interestingly, over 80% of millennials express skepticism towards traditional advertisements.

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Journey Biometric Authentication Capabilities Launch with Avaya Hybrid Cloud Services

CSM Magazine

Avaya customers can now leverage cloud-based passwordless authentication solutions for contact center agents, reducing fraud and unlocking significant efficiency gains. Journey.ai, Inc (DBA: Journey), a groundbreaking cybersecurity software business, is expanding its suite of capabilities with Avaya, a leading contact center company. Journey’s biometric authentication technology is now available with Avaya Hybrid Cloud Services (HCS), enabling Avaya premise-based contact centers to authe

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The Verint Experience Index: Retail

Reports of the death of in-store shopping have been greatly exaggerated. This year’s retail survey found that more than 60 percent of consumers start and end their journey by visiting a store. Retail customers value price above everything, but the importance of other factors varies for different brands. In-store shopping is valued highly by grocery and home improvement customers Technology retail customers place less importance on in-store experiences – for them it only ranks sixth Digital exper

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When to Collect Feedback from Your Customers

Cyara

Any contact center that is committed to enhancing their customer experience (CX) and product or service offering relies on voice of the customer ( VoC ) feedback as an essential input to identifying challenges and subsequently prioritizing future improvements.

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AI Adoption: Shift your focus from tools and technology to solving problems

West Monroe

Inside companies and boardrooms across the country, executives are fixated on the potential of generative AI. The focus is warranted: Investment is high, use cases are proliferating, and adoption is advancing before governance can catch up to manage risk. Executives are eager to harness the benefits of this technology — and avoid the pitfalls of implementing it too late.

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Social Media Violations in the Workplace

Ann Michaels and Associates

The privacy of your employees is important and employers have to be very careful. This includes social media accounts. Most employers know that they should not ask for login information of an employee. But what exactly does the law state regarding social media employee checks? It depends, in part, on the privacy laws of your state. It also depends on whether you’re conducting an inquiry on an existing employee or a new employee.

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AI Adoption: Shift your focus from tools and technology to solving problems

West Monroe

Inside companies and boardrooms across the country, executives are fixated on the potential of generative AI. The focus is warranted: Investment is high, use cases are proliferating, and adoption is advancing before governance can catch up to manage risk. Executives are eager to harness the benefits of this technology — and avoid the pitfalls of implementing it too late.

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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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Enriching Qualitative Analysis with Next Generation AI

Alida

As the value of customers’ qualitative feedback grows, next generation AI is demonstrating an uncanny ability to uncover new insights fast and at scale.

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Tom Doulos

2020 Research

Buckle up! For this installment of our Around the Globe series, we’re going to Toronto, Canada to meet Tom Doulos, Senior Vice President of Quantitative Operations in Healthcare. Get to know Tom and what he values at Sago in the following Q&A: Q: What is your most memorable experience at Sago? My most memorable moment at Sago was going to see my teammates in Bulgaria for the first time.

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The Right Approach to KPI Setting in the BPO Industry

Helpware

Many companies choose a business business process outsourcing (BPO) provider to save money. However, the only way to truly know the impact of outsourcing is to establish and track key performance indicators (KPIs).

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QualMobile Feature Highlight: Show & Tell

2020 Research

Are you looking to get a unique perspective on your participants’ lives and lifestyles? The QualMobile app’s Show & Tell style video is just what you need. Using the participant’s rear-facing camera, you can get a personalized tour of their daily routine and learn about what matters most to them. How Does Show & Tell Work? Here’s how it works: you ask participants to capture a “show & tell” video that showcases everything in their refrigerator, for

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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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Top 10 Challenges Facing Companies When They Adopt a Customer-First Strategy

C3Centricity

In an era where customer expectations are rapidly evolving, businesses have finally recognised the importance of adopting a customer-first strategy. However, despite […] The post Top 10 Challenges Facing Companies When They Adopt a Customer-First Strategy first appeared on c3centricity.

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Transforming customer-first marketing with AI Technology  

Optimove

So far so impressive … The thing is, it’s not just a simple case of plug-and-go when it comes to CDP/AI integration – or rather, it can be, but there’s a lot more to consider! From data management and activation to designing your CDP to take advantage of AI to reimagining your entire marketing operations, putting AI at the heart of your growth strategy needs careful planning.

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Three Red Flags You’re Using the Wrong Customer Success Platform

Gainsight

Customer Success (CS) has become a mission-critical discipline in SaaS and beyond, with 97% of the companies we surveyed this year reporting that they have a Customer Success function. The majority of organizations we surveyed hold CS responsible for Net Revenue Retention (NRR): the most important metric to thriving in this era of the SaaS economy. In other words, if you’re reading this, chances are you use a Customer Success management platform.

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15 Best Survey Apps for 2023 [Paid + Free]

Zonka Feedback

Explore the best survey apps that can level up the way you create, distribute, analyze, and act on survey responses for increased customer satisfaction and conversions.

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10 Questions to Ask Before Buying an LMS

Find your perfect LMS. Choosing the right Learning Management System (LMS) is crucial for your business's success. With so many options available in the market, how do you ensure you make the best choice? This guide is your key to finding the ideal enterprise learning platform for your business. Compiled by industry experts, these questions will help to clarify your needs, prioritize your most essential features, and guide you through the evaluation process.

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A Deep Dive Into The Forrester Wave™: Zero Trust Edge Solutions, Q3 2023

Forrester's Customer Insights

Looking back on some of the most ingenious partnerships in history, you’ll inevitably think of Laurel and Hardy, Beavis and Butthead, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, and, now, David Holmes and Andre Kindness.

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Protected: AI Insights: Anticipate your customers’ next action 

Optimove

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The Forrester Wave™: Commerce Search And Product Discovery, Q3 2023, Surfaces The Challenges Of AI Unchecked

Forrester's Customer Insights

Our just-published Forrester Wave™ delivers the first evaluation of the commerce search and product discovery market, featuring the 10 leading vendors in the space.

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Protected: AI Insights: Anticipate your customers’ next action 

Optimove

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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.