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5 Things That Can Sabotage Your VOC Program

CloudCherry

Companies with the best-in-class Voice of Customer (VoC) programs achieve 10 times higher YOY increase in revenue compared to other firms. Furthermore, they retain 55% more customers, experience an average drop of 23% in YOY customer service expenses, and boast employee engagement rates that are 292% higher. So, if your Voice of Customer isn’t delivering noteworthy results, then it’s time to take a hard look at what’s going wrong.

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Take These 3 Actions to Prevent Customer Experience Implosion

Customer Bliss

Customer Experience implementation within an organization is a major undertaking. It often involves multiple departments, and of course, the organization’s leaders and C-Suite. I always stress to my clients that CX work has to be done in bite-sized pieces, because it’s an initiative that becomes a part of the company’s long term strategy; therefore, you can’t try to tackle it all at once.

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Why Learning CX Will Make You Happy and Successful

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Research on everyone from millennials to senior citizens shows how learning is tied to happiness. So those who prioritize picking up new skills (shout out to those learning CX right now!) or just enjoy learning in general, tend to be happier, more satisfied people. Those who continue to focus on their own education also understand the world is changing at an incredibly rapid pace.

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Five Keys To Driving Voice of the Customer Success

CX Accelerator

We now live in the age of the customer, where customers expect consistent, high-value experiences. If customers don’t get immediate value, they will likely leave and go to a company who will deliver an experience that meets their expectations. To be able to know and understand what customers want, companies must listen to their customers. That’s why companies are implementing some type of voice of the customer (VoC) program.

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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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Powering Sentiment Analysis with Machine and Deep Learning

CloudCherry

“ When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion ” – Dale Carnegie. Emotion plays a critical role in our daily lives. Be it in shaping our relationships or day-to-day brand choices, we look for a connect at some level. And companies that tap into this emotion and get it right are usually the ones customers flock to.

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Improve Customer Experience by Introducing Friction

ServiceDock

It sounds like a contradiction in terms, doesn’t it? How can you optimise a journey with friction when for many it is considered the nemesis of growth and success? It is annihilated at every opportunity in the digital world for fear the customer might abandon a purchase or fail to sign up for a newsletter. This is not necessarily the case in physical locations like stores, restaurants and service centres.

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Wells Fargo: They Should Do This

Beyond Philosophy

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) meted out a $185 million fine that included a $100 million penalty to Wells Fargo in 2016 for their violation and abuse of consumer trust. The San Francisco-based bank, whose employees opened many fraudulent and unauthorized accounts in their customers’ name, now enjoys the dubious honor of shouldering the most substantial penalty the agency has issued since its formation in 2011.

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The Experience Margin: Only CX can save retail brands

Currency Alliance

Retail brands can be saved; but not by conventional retail strategy. In an economy where it’s no longer possible to profit off physical goods, the most successful businesses today are migrating their profit centers on to services and experiences. While some retailers are making progress on this front, most continue struggling to face this reality. Their increasing woes are a consequence of their fixation on product margins.

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Customer Feedback Is Never Just a Score.

Lumoa

There's a company X that collects customer feedback. Company X prefers the Net Promoter Score® ( what is NPS? ), yet it could be any other metric. They ask the very familiar NPS question: " How likely is it that you would recommend [brand] to a friend or colleague? (on a scale from 0 to 10) " after each customer purchase or interaction. But guess what?

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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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5 Customer Service Tech Trends to Explore at MWC 2018

TechSee

Mobile World Congress (MWC), the world’s largest gathering for the mobile industry, is being held in Barcelona from February 26 – March 1. This year’s MWC promises to be a huge event, with 2,300+ exhibitors presenting the latest and greatest in mobile technology to 108,000+ attendees from 208 countries. That’s quite a lot of new ideas, apps, presentations and giveaways to sift through.

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Be Passionate About Your Customers and They Will Never Leave – CX Lessons by Ms. Shweta Jha, Quality and Customer Experience Manager, Ferns N Petals

Customer Guru

At Customer Guru, we believe that Customer Experience (CX) should be the number one priority for all the Indian businesses so that they become more sustainable and successful globally. Thus, we are on a mission to spread this awareness, inspiring and guiding professionals to adopt and inculcate a customer-centric approach. We are certain that this is a first step to help organizations WOW their customers and create raving fans for themselves.

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Gainsight’s CEO On Why You Must Invest More In Customer Success

Influitive

Every company knows that keeping customers happy leads to higher retention rates and up-sell opportunities. Increasing customer loyalty often falls on the customer success team. However, many brands don’t realize the value this department has to build long-term growth. Creating an amazing experience often turns customers into advocates. These happy users will promote your product.

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What HR could learn from Customer Experience – a people insight and analytics approach

Customer Alignment

87% of organisations cite employee engagement as being one of their top priorities. However, in Gallup’s 2017 global study, they found that only 15% of employees are engaged at work and this figure is believed to be on the decline. One of the most tried and tested means employed by organisations to measure employee engagement is an employee survey. I have found different figures quoted by others as to the number of companies who run employee surveys.

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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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5 Customer Service Tech Trends to Explore at MWC 2018

TechSee

Mobile World Congress (MWC), the world’s largest gathering for the mobile industry, is being held in Barcelona from February 26 – March 1. This year’s MWC promises to be a huge event, with 2,300+ exhibitors presenting the latest and greatest in mobile technology to 108,000+ attendees from 208 countries. That’s quite a lot of new ideas, apps, presentations and giveaways to sift through.

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3 Ways To Increase Social Media Customer Engagement

Joe Rawlinson

The power of social media among today’s consumers is no secret. With over 2.8 billion global social media users , which equal roughly 37 percent market penetration, the opportunity for businesses to engage and connect with existing and new customers is vast and constantly growing. So what can you do to really use this tool and build your customer engagement?

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Guest Blog: Understanding the Impact of Competitive Benchmarking Programs

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Daniel Bakst who explains why competitive benchmarking is key to better serving your customer base. – Shep Hyken. Contextualizing your brand’s place amongst competitors in the industry you encompass is vital to creating a leading Customer Experience. Mystery shopping is a great way to capture an understanding of how your brand is performing in the eyes of your customer, but if your team does not have the ability to place this data alongside information from th

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4 Customer-Oriented CEOs and What We Can Learn from Them

transcosmos Information Systems

Modern-day CEOs are taking a more hands-on approach and becoming the frontrunner of their companies when it comes to providing excellent customer service. They’re channeling their customer persona when developing customer-friendly policies within their organization or establishing an up-close and personal relationship with customers. As a result, people trust and love their company and the values they represent.

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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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Third-Party Retail: The Value of Monitoring How Your Product Is Being Sold

Second to None

For many brands, the majority of their income is based around the ability to sell their product within another organization’s brick-and-mortar store. This is an extremely competitive field, because the third-party brands that stock these products are not going to do your brand any favors in terms of the shelving, displays and sales of your product, because they simply want ship out as many different products as possible.

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Making Your Customers Happy in 2018

UJET

In 2017, we saw some of today's biggest companies face major customer support challenges, most of which could have been avoided had they implemented the right technologies and processes. Not only does poor customer service lose organizations a massive amount of money (nearly $62 billion per year), it damages reputations, hurts customer retention, and affects the bottom line.

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Are You So Good Your Customers Would Pay You Double?

ShepHyken

What if your customers said they would be willing to pay you twice what you normally charge? All they want in return is an amazing customer service experience. Really? That’s it? That’s all they want? We already give great customer service. This will be a piece of cake! (Or, will it?). If someone is willing to spend more, they will surely expect to get more value, and that value should be in the form of a better customer experience.

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Building a Customer Loyalty Program That Drives Brand Love

Kayako

When was the last time you shopped for something that’s an everyday staple? Chances are, you found way more options than you needed and ended up choosing one at random. In today’s maturing marketplace, you aren’t the only one. In 2018, the vast majority of products on the market are pretty similar. They’re good quality and generally last a good while.

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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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Welcome to the Future of Customer Engagement; Introducing Bold360 ai

Bold360

When we launched Bold360 last year, we knew it was just the beginning of something great. We challenged the status quo and helped companies deliver the types of customer experiences that result in long-term loyalty and success. But we also knew we weren’t done there. With the acquisition of Nanorep, we brought in A.I. technology that could only be described as groundbreaking.

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Alcohol and Tobacco Compliance for C-Store Brands in 2018

Second to None

Brands that stock and sell alcohol and tobacco products have a responsibility to their community to ensure they remain compliant with federal and local regulations. The repercussions for failing to comply will fall on both the larger brand and the individual locations, meaning that both parties are responsible for maintaining this level of compliance.

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Amazing Business Radio: Skip Cohen

ShepHyken

Backing Your Upset Customer Off the Ledge. Shep Hyken Interviews Skip Cohen on How to Handle Angry Customers . How well do you deal with angry and complaining customers? . . ?. Shep Hyken talks with Skip Cohen about the best ways to solve problems and deal with unhappy customers. Top Takeaways: When you empathize with an unhappy customer, this immediately lets them know that you are there to help and they feel valued.

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What You Should Learn From a Breakup

Amity

We’ve all been there. Churn, cancellation, breaking up. Call it what you may, it hurts. As it is in life, it is also true in business – when you go through a breakup, you should take the time to reflect, learn, and adjust accordingly. I am sure that you have heard this saying before, but it is worth repeating: “those that do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it” (George Santayana).

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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.