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Build an Executive-Level CX Change Coalition

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Reviews Completed on Your Phone Are More Emotional

Beyond Philosophy

How we share information is affected by the medium that we use to communicate it. We can see this concept manifest in customer reviews and advertising response behavior. The technology through which customers write reviews and interact with your organization influences the content produced and information shared. . We discussed the findings of the interface of technology and human beings with Professor Shiri Melumad on a recent podcast.

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Engaging owners through feedback tools

Customercount

View or download the presentation by Lisa Kobek from CustomerCount® on why resorts should be focusing on owner engagement with feedback tools at this difficult time for the hospitality sector. The post Engaging owners through feedback tools appeared first on CustomerCount.

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Cultivating Trust in Times of Change: An Interview with Jeanne Bliss & Erin Fenn

IntouchInsight

Highlights from a recent interview with Jeanne Bliss of Customer Bliss and Erin Fenn of Intouch Insight on listening to hear, humanity, and how to grow your customer experience practices to earn trust.

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3 Ways Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Can Improve Customer Experience

Today’s digitally savvy customers have high expectations of retailers for convenience, responsiveness, and ease of doing business both in-store and online. Our recent survey of over 2,000 US consumers found that retailers that can drive a seamless, omnichannel customer experience (CX) – across physical and digital channels – have huge benefits for brand relevance, profitability, and customer loyalty.

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Rethinking the Outsourcer Selection Process in the New Normal

BlueOcean

Over the years, we’ve written many articles singing the praises of on-site visits with potential customer care outsourcers. We firmly believe that shaking hands with leadership and frontline agents, seeing capabilities in action, and experiencing the corporate culture first-hand are the intangible, immeasurable, yet essential final steps in evaluating and comparing potential partners.

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5 Things I Do to Stay On Top of Our 700+ Clients As CEO

Gainsight

I’ll admit it. I’m kind of obsessed. In my brain, I’m always thinking about our clients. How are they doing? Are we delivering on our promise to them? Has their experience been positive? Do we have the right relationships? I guess since I am the CEO of THE Customer Success company, that focus makes sense. But knowing 1000s of CEOs, I know many of you are the same.

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And the Customers Tweeted Happily Ever After

Storyminers

What makes a story stick around? Why do we enjoy hearing some stories again and again? More importantly, how do you turn your brand into a story? And how do you make your story tweetable, i.e., told in 140 characters or less? Let’s look at the ancient story of “David and Goliath.” It’s remarkably sticky. Having been around for more than 10,000 years, it continues to find its way into TV shows, movies, the news, and media ads.

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Mastering the Digital Customer Experience Trends of 2020 and Beyond

Ecrion

1. Bots in DX | 2. Personalization | 3. It’s (Still) All About CX | 4. Self-Service | 5. Thoughtfulness | 6. Transparency in CS |. 7. Employees | 8. Training | 9. Convenience. When it comes to trends that will take over in 2020, it’s all about enhancing the digital customer experience, but CX in the digital era is something that is continuously evolving.

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14 CX lessons from digital transformation leaders

MyCustomer

24th Aug 2020 Customer experience leaders are documented to have greater top- and bottom-line growth than those who haven’t made customer experience.14 CX lessons from digital transformation leaders. By Michael Hinshaw Managing Director.

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How to Optimize Call Monitoring: Automate QA and Elevate Customer Experience

Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 It's time for a change! The traditional method of manual call monitoring is no longer cutting it in today's fast-paced call center environment. Industry experts Angie Kronlage and April Wiita from Working Solutions are here to explore the power of automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!

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The Methodologies of Marketing Orchestration – Part III

Optimove

In the first two parts of this mini-series, we detailed the different methodologies available for marketers to orchestrate customer communications. The Methodologies of Marketing Orchestration – Part I. The Methodologies of Marketing Orchestration – Part II. In the final part of this series, we will focus on the benefits of using A.I, since your main goal as a marketer is to improve customer experience, maximize customer lifetime value (CLTV) and create brand awareness.

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The Times They Are a-Changing: Talent in the Contact Center Part 5: Playbook Writers

SaleMove

A sports team works from a playbook that provides strategies to create or respond to different circumstances on the playing field, and guides each team member in how to perform their part. Similarly, contact centers have playbooks to address customer issues and opportunities. With the expansion of self-service and the introduction of AI, the scope of the playbook needs to expand.

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Time to Take Action and Reset Yourself Professionally?

One Millimeter Mindset

Reset yourself professionally? What an idea! Yet… are you thinking the same thing? How is this pandemic redefining your professional trajectory? Because the skills you need to get to where you want to go have shifted. Changed. And the same professional tools and critical thinking skills that got you to where you are, today, may not “be enough” to move forward, tomorrow.

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Best Practices for Improving CSAT in your Contact Center

NICE inContact

Customer experience (CX) is the new tool for competitive differentiation and every company large and small is investing in creating better experiences for their customers. NICE inContact Global CX Benchmark study, 2019 shows that great service can build brand loyalty among 81% of customers and turn 87% of them into advocates. So, the case is built to show that there is true Customer Life Time Value (CLTV) in driving better CX.

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What Does it REALLY Mean to Put CX First?

Customer experience was once considered a soft metric, or a “nice to have.” But it is now a board-level priority for many brands. The experience you provide your customers is a defining way to differentiate your business from the competition. But how can you really make CX a priority when you have competing budget and resource constraints? With customer experience automation, organizations can leverage AI and automation to make it faster and cheaper to provide a superior customer experience acro

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A CMO’s guide to improving CX

Interactions

CX is the new marketing Strategy. Customer experience (CX) should be at the center of your marketing strategy. That seems like a novel idea, given that most marketing strategies are focused on customer acquisition or retention, releasing shiny new products, building a solid social presence, or focusing on brand consistency and equity. But the truth is, all of these strategies are directly tied to your brand’s approach to customer experience.

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CXpert Insights: How Process Documentation Can Add Value for Customer Service

Playvox

Any time a family member goes into the hospital for a medical condition it’s tough and concerning on the family to process all that is needed to take into account. Add to that, the one in the hospital develops complications like pneumonia and has to be placed on a respirator.

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CX Success starts in-house: the 2 levels of employee empowerment

Hello Customer

Empowered employees make you more money. That’s the starting point of the service-profit chain. The model, developed by James Heskett in 1994 links employee empowerment to customer satisfaction and, ultimately revenue growth. We have a whole e-book on it, which you can find here, but let’s get back to our point. Often when companies want to improve the customer experience they focus on external factors, namely the customer.

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Step-by-step Guide to Measuring Net Promoter Score®

Zonka Feedback

NPS has emerged as one of the most popularly used Customer Experience metrics for its simplicity and effectiveness in quantifying Customer Loyalty using a single question.

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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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Increasing Customer Lifetime Value (CLV): 10 Tips from Successful Startup Leaders

Wootric

There’s so much buzz these days about growth hacking that it’s easy to forget a fundamental truth about marketing—winning a new customer costs a lot more than keeping an existing one (anywhere from 5 to 25 times more, according to the Harvard Business Review ). Existing customers that spend more, come back more often, stay longer, and tell their friends are all contributing to higher CLV.

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The Times They Are a-Changing: Talent in the Contact Center Part 5: Playbook Writers

SaleMove

Check out the previous installment of this series: The Times They Are a-Changing: Talent in the Contact Center Part 4: The Research Team. A sports team works from a playbook that provides strategies to create or respond to different circumstances on the playing field, and guides each team member in how to perform their part. […]. The post The Times They Are a-Changing: Talent in the Contact Center Part 5: Playbook Writers appeared first on Glia Blog | Digital Customer Service Explained.

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Leveraging AI to Power Your Contact Center With Aarde Cosseboom and Vikas Bhambri

Kustomer

Listen and subscribe to our podcast: In this episode of Customer Service Secrets , Gabe is joined by Aarde Cosseboom and Vikas Bhambri to discuss how to use AI in contact centers. Aarde is the Senior Director of Technology and Product for Global Member Services for an E-Commerce company called Textile. He’s spent the last decade working in this industry and is the author of the book Enable Better Service.

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6 Important KPIs That Training Managers Should Track in 2020

SurveySparrow

When the world was plagued with a new disease called AIDS in the 1980s, it had no cure. It was said to be a fatal disease and people assumed that you could contract AIDS just by touching someone with the disease. Those who had the disease were shunned and were ostracised by the community. In 1987, Diana, Princess of Wales and a member of the British royal family, and more importantly, one of the most famous faces in the world at that time, opened the first unit in England which was dedicated to

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Customer Experience Myths Guidebook

A CX myth is something widely believed or implemented that is based on “how we’ve always done it” thinking, rather than delivering truly innovative customer experiences. What CX myths are holding organizations back from top-level customer experience performance? What can companies do to find solid ground and move forward successfully? In this guidebook, we answer those questions and more as we explore three key myths and two strategies that you can use to replace them.

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Chipotle Goods Committing to Sustainability Trend 

NetBase

Brands are rethinking ways to cross the threshold into sustainability, and savvy brands like Chipotle Goods are relying on consumer intelligence to drive a commitment to sustainability trends. Today it’s not enough to produce a great product. Consumers want emotional connection to brands and want to make a difference with their dollar. Brand extension into sustainability is vital and connecting with the emotional appeal of your audience through consumer and market intelligence has never been mor

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Everything You Need to Know About Finding the Best Cloud Contact Center Software

NICE inContact

Selecting contact center software is kind of like choosing a house to buy - you want to get it right because it's a big investment and you know you'll have to live with the decision for a while. Just like you don't want to move into your new house and be unpleasantly surprised, you don't want to implement your new software only to find it has some significant shortcomings.

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Marketplaces Make Their Mark In The Channel

Forrester's Customer Insights

Online marketplaces have been around in one form or another for decades. Accelerating the trend is a myriad of factors including changing buying behaviors and demographics, companies shifting to subscription and consumption models, and the rising importance of ecosystems. Put simply, the future business buyer will look more and more like a consumer.

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CX Success starts in-house: the 2 levels of employee empowerment

Hello Customer

Empowered employees make you more money. That’s the starting point of the service-profit chain. The model, developed by James Heskett in 1994 links employee empowerment to customer satisfaction and, ultimately revenue growth. We have a whole e-book on it, which you can find here, but let’s get back to our point. Often when companies want to improve the customer experience they focus on external factors, namely the customer.

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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,