July, 2023

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Unlock the power of customer feedback analysis in 2023

BirdEye

Barclays has shown that 85% of small and medium-sized businesses say online customer feedback has benefited them. Further, Barclay estimates that optimizing for the feedback economy could yield a $3.2 billion opportunity in the next decade in the UK alone. All these prove why businesses need to focus more on customer feedback analysis to unlock more opportunities.

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The Secret to Data-Driven Customer Support Success

Team Support

The data collected in your customer support department does not begin and end with customer support personnel. The benefits of the data collected here touches every other aspect of your business including hiring, product support, marketing strategy, and more. Your customer data is an incredibly rich source of information, particularly if your communication channels are optimized for customer use.

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Let Data Storytelling Boost the Impact of Your Research

Alida

Discover the power of storytelling in maximizing the business impact of customer insights. Learn how to craft compelling research debriefs.

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What is VOC Analytics and What Are its Benefits

Helpware

Listening to the voice of the customer is crucial. Detailed VOC analytics will improve customer experience and give you a leg up on the competition.

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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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Counting What Counts: Pitfalls of Service Metrics in Customer Service

Brad Cleveland Blog

In the 1960s, as mainframe computers were entering the business world and inspiring much awe, sociologist William Bruce Cameron observed that wouldn’t it be nice if everything could be represented in numbers and run through an IBM machine? But he warned, “Not everything that counts … Continue reading → The post Counting What Counts: Pitfalls of Service Metrics in Customer Service appeared first on Brad Cleveland.

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Championing the Championship: Outsourced Customer Care for a National Sports Association [A Case Study]

BlueOcean

Every year, this national sports association holds their annual pro championships. However, along with everything else in the world, the pandemic forced them to cancel the 2020 event. In 2021, the championship went forward but with many restrictions. By 2022, fans were starved for action. As a result, record numbers of attendees and, consequently, record-high inbound customer service volume were projected for the 2022 championships.

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How to Overcome Objections and Win Support for New Customer Experience (CX) Initiatives

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

How to Overcome Objections and Win Support for New Customer Experience (CX) Initiatives 9AM on Thursday, 7/13 Register Here In today’s uncertain business environment, some leaders are hesitant to invest in customer experience (CX) initiatives. But what if the decision-makers in your organization understood their top objections are actually reasons to support CX?

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How To Build A Customer Community And Improve CX

Alida

Community is a feedback collection method built on trust. There are four reasons you might consider building one: deeper access, stronger engagement, faster time to insights, and centralized customer experience.

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A customer complaint is a gift.

Bill Quiseng

QUI QUOTE: A customer complaint is a gift. Take the perspective that your customers complain because they want to help your business. Otherwise, they would say nothing and walk away, intent on never returning. A customer may not always be right. But they are always your customer. Do whatever it takes to make them feel right. Listen and allow the customer to vent.

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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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Is the Chief Experience Officer a Worthwhile Addition to the C-Suite?

Retently

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? The second approach definitely sounds more complex, expensive and demanding in terms of effort.

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Can You Count on ChatGPT Customer Experience Survey Questions?

InMoment XI

It seems like the internet is full of ChatGPT “hacks” these days. We are all inundated by articles and webinars that start with “How to Use ChatGPT to…” I have also had way too many conversations with my Gen-Z son and millennial colleagues about how they use the tool to make everyday tasks go by more quickly. And I wouldn’t be the true customer experience nerd that I am if I didn’t ask: “Could we customer experience (CX) professionals leverage ChatGPT customer experience survey questions?

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The Role of Human Interaction in a Digital-First World with Tom Martin

ShepHyken

Top Takeaways: In the age of advanced technology, it’s crucial for businesses to prioritize the overall customer experience. While chatbots and digital solutions are valuable, human-to-human interactions still plays a vital role, especially when technology falls short. Understanding and predicting customer needs are key to effective customer engagement.

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Reinvigorate Your Customer Experience Plan: A Mid-Year Review and Refocus for CX Professionals

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

In this webinar replay, you’ll discover: How to tell if your CX goals were reasonable and set up properly to achieve success 5 questions you can use to ensure that other leaders within your organization understand – and appreciate – what you’re trying to accomplish An easier way to ensure that everyone in your organization understands CX – and buys into their unique role in delivering excellence Whether you’re gathering the right feedback for the goals you’re trying to achieve

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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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How to Prevent This Catastrophic Error So Many Are Making With AI

Beyond Philosophy

Organizations are making a common mistake with AI. From a strategic standpoint, organizations are losing opportunities to improve their ability to enhance their Customer Experiences with this impressive and impactful technology and, well,…building them wrong. Changing the strategy could create a significant competitive advantage. For example, a large telecom company designed an AI system to identify customer churn.

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Elevate Customer Support With Integrated Ticketing And Chat

Team Support

As a customer support leader, you know how important it is for your customers to be serviced in a timely manner. So, your company invests in the training needed to ensure your agents know the product and can help the customer use it. You train them on understanding customer needs and how to demonstrate empathy so customers leave the interaction feeling seen and heard.

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Top 8 types of messages to connect with customers 

BirdEye

Staying in touch with customers helps businesses strengthen their relationships and build a stronger customer base. The current digitally connected world makes that process very easy. There are multiple avenues for businesses to reach out to their customers and make sure they notice every word. This blog post covers the top 8 types of messages that customers can leverage to stay connected with their customers.

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Alternative for CES – Emotional Value Index®

Feedbackly

A hassle-free and low-effort experience is often one of the core expectations that customers have when dealing with a business. They prefer brands that are intuitive, ever-ready, and accessible. Exceeding such expectations help businesses stay at the forefront of the market with a strong and loyal customer base as their driving force. When measuring customer effort, CES has been a leading metric adopted by both startups and established businesses.

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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Will AI Make Us Dumb??

ShepHyken

I was just at an industry conference focusing on AI (Artificial Intelligence). Someone commented, “AI is going to make us stupid.” Elaborating on that statement, the commenter’s reasoning was that it takes thinking and problem-solving out of the process. We will be given the answer and won’t have to know anything else. I can see his point, but there is another way of looking at this.

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[Linkedin Learning] Customer Experience (CX) Foundations

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Certified Customer Experience Professional (CCXP) Jeannie Walters outlines foundational skills in key CX areas, like how to: identify your organization’s strategic vision for your customers; leverage tools, best practices, and techniques to deliver on your CX vision; achieve competitive advantage with superior customer experience. Disclosure: This item uses an affiliate link to Linkedin Learning.

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Driving Business Growth through AI in Outsourcing

Magellan Solutions

AI-powered outsourcing solutions have become crucial for driving growth and shaping traditional outsourcing processes. Utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) in outsourcing has become a game-changer for businesses as technology develops. It enables enterprises to improve efficiency, make data-driven decisions, and allocate resources. Companies can step up their game by adopting AI in outsourcing.

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Improving The Customer Support Agent Jira Experience

Team Support

Efficiently managing customer support workflows is vital for businesses aiming to deliver exceptional customer experiences. However, support teams often encounter difficulties when using Jira, the popular project management and issue tracking tool. Recognizing these struggles, we here at TeamSupport are proud to launch a groundbreaking enhancement to our Jira integration.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Growing online reputation with review aggregators 

BirdEye

Customers evaluate businesses across many channels before they make a decision. Most of these evaluations happen on the basis of existing customer reviews. Review aggregator sites are the most popular channels for your potential customers to read those reviews from your existing clientele. So it is very important for growing businesses to identify the top review aggregators for their industry, establish a presence, and manage the reviews.

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How Customer Emotions Drive Business Success

Feedbackly

Is there a greater joy than hearing your customers rave about your products and service? After all, there’s no better endorsement than positive client feedback to highlight the value of your business. Positive feedback primarily stems from positive emotions. Therefore, for businesses, understanding and influencing customer emotions is important, if not critical.

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‘It’s Out of My Control’ Is a Bad Excuse

ShepHyken

Last month I was in Las Vegas for a major convention. I stayed at a very nice hotel, and each night I tried to fall and stay asleep. I emphasize the word tried because, unfortunately, there was non-stop, 24-hour-a-day road construction outside the hotel, as the city of Las Vegas is preparing for the Formula One race later this year. All night, there was jackhammering and bulldozing on the streets where the cars will be racing.

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Future-Proofing Your Business with Unstoppable CX Leadership and Innovation

Doing CX Right

Victoria Pelletier, a corporate leader known as "the turnaround queen," and Stacy Sherman discuss practical strategies to elevate customer experiences, engage teams, and drive business growth through unstoppable CX leadership. The post Future-Proofing Your Business with Unstoppable CX Leadership and Innovation appeared first on Doing CX Right.

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7th Annual CX Report by The Northridge Group Uncovers Priority Training Focus

JUST RELEASED! New research reveals 92% of business leaders would like to provide additional training to their customer service representatives. Soft skills training stands out as a priority area of investment and/or improvement. Check out The Northridge Group’s latest CX research report —the 7th annual CX survey of 1,000 customers and 250 business executives—to see additional statistics as well as insights that businesses can use to benchmark their customer service and improve the overall exper