Wed.Feb 19, 2020

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3 Marketing Best Practices That Improve Customer Experience

Alida

Today, an organization's ability to competitively position and differentiate depends upon the experiences they create for their customers. Experiences that resonate change the way a company is perceived, forge customer trust, and improve financial performance. If the experience falls flat, companies face not only losing one customer but also others within the dissatisfied customer's network.

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The Value of an Optimized Customer Experience

Call Experts

Two key factors that directly correlate to the growth of your businesses: How well you utilize the latest technologies. How focussed are you on improving customer experience (CX). What is customer experience? CX is the sum of all the moments your customers share during their entire customer journey. Improving this experience is about developing an emotional connection to create a brand perception of your company.

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Measuring and analysing emotion in customer and agent interactions

MyCustomer

Download this Whitepaper. Lead goal. 100. TM Form. Not a TM Form. Internal or External. External. Disable T&Cs requirement. Email intro text. Thank you for downloading our resource.

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The Cult of Amazement

ShepHyken

In the updated and revised edition of The Cult of the Customer , I cover the concept of amazement. This may be old news to my followers, but it is worth repeating. Amazement does not come from a WOW or over-the-top experience. Those happen on occasion, especially when problems are handled well. But on a day to day basis, amazement happens when you deliver experiences that are consistently and predictably above average.

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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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How Customer Service Has Changed?

Customers That Stick

One question I’m often asked, particularly when doing media interviews, is how customer service has changed in recent years. Obviously, the changes have been immense, particularly if you go back 20 or 30 years. Many of the biggest changes in both customer service and customer experience have been around technology. Technology has increased our ability to speedily communicate with our customers and to provide goods and services in ways that we never could as recently as 10 years ago.

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Top 3 Reasons to Attend CXNext 2020: Engagement Redefined

Bold360

Given the competitive high stakes of how your customer experience (CX) can make or break your business, CX shouldn’t be a discipline – it should be an obsession. Join a growing community of leaders from CX, digital experience, and IT at our annual full-day summit, CXNext. This year, we’ll be reimagining customer engagement start to finish, from first touch through resolution.

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Confluence of Agent and Customer Experience

Playvox

The undeniable link between agent and customer experience is one that is often overlooked, if not forgotten, among customer service teams. Studies show satisfied agents perform at higher levels, and they also stay longer.

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5 Tools that Make Agent Life Easier

Bold360

Agent life ain’t easy. There’s never been a better time to be a customer…or a more challenging time to be a customer support agent. Today’s customers have more power and information than ever before, and they don’t have tolerance for being transferred up the chain to top-tier agents. According to our research, 43% of customers say getting a resolution from the first person they contact is what it takes to make them happy, but only 35% of customer support agents say this is possible.

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The Next Big Thing in Customer Experience: Frictionless Returns

Oracle

Allisyn Deyo had pre-ordered a book from Amazon so it would arrive on the day of release. While the hardcover arrived as expected, it had a sticky substance that stained the spine and a few of the pages. Allisyn, an Eden Prairie, Minnesota resident, requested a shipment of a new copy and a return of the damaged book. “The next morning, on the way back from the gym, I swung by Kohl’s, walked right up to the desk (no line at 11:00 a.m. on a Tuesday) and handed the book over with the QR

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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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Three Reasons to Use Visual Language in the Contact Center

NICE inContact

Imagination. Visualization. Insight. These words are part of our verbal language. But more importantly, they suggest just how much humans think in images. When you look at stats on the influence of visual language as a communication vehicle, you start to realize what kind of impact it can have on customer experience. Especially with the rise of digital interaction channels in the contact center.

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Short List for Customer Engagement Professional award

Customercount

The short list has been announced by the judges for the annual CustomerCount customer engagement award after a record number of entries. The post Short List for Customer Engagement Professional award appeared first on CustomerCount.

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Infographic: The Path out of the CX Slump

Confirmit

Has customer experience stalled? This infographic summarizes the latest research carried out by Confirmit, which shows a clear stagnation in the industry. But fear not! You should see this as a great opportunity to step up to the challenge and create a truly differentiated program that delivers: a holistic customer view. better business decisions throughout the organization. proven ROI to secure the long-term success of your program.

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Utilities and The State of the Consumer

Maru Group

Ten years ago, the Smart Energy Consumer Collaborative (SECC) was founded to understand the wants/needs of energy consumers in North America and share those learnings with industry stakeholders. The 2020 Symposium gathered members to reflect on the past decade and look to where consumer needs are heading into the next decade. The one-day symposium was held on January 27th, 2020 in San Antonio at DistribuTECH, the utility industry’s leading transmission & distribution conference.

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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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Webinar: The essential CX skills and tools for 2020

MyCustomer

Engagement Webinar: The essential CX skills & tools for 2020.

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Four Takeaways About Modern Design From Figma’s Config Conference

Forrester's Customer Insights

Recently, Gina Bhawalkar and I attended Figma’s Config customer conference. For those unfamiliar with Figma, it’s a design and prototyping tool known for supporting collaborative design processes. In this video we talk about major themes and big takeaways from the event: What is “open source design” and is it a new thing? Unexpected benefits of […].

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On-demand webinar: The essential CX skills and tools for 2020

MyCustomer

Engagement On-demand webinar: Essential CX skills for 2020.

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The difference between transactional surveys and relationship surveys

Lumoa

There are two types of surveys: relationship surveys and transactional surveys. Relationship surveys measure the overall health of your relationship with your customers. Transactional surveys are used when measuring something about a specific interaction with a customer.

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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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SuccessBLOCs – Now With More Usage Metrics

Totango

Hi, Today we have some exciting product updates, as well as an upcoming webinar you can join for more best practices. SuccessBLOC Scorecards, Now With User KPIs. We’ve added an enhancement to SuccessBLOC Scorecards which now allows you to create KPIs based on user metrics, as well as account metrics. Some example use cases of this would be for usage trends, active users, and more.

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Is Word-of-Mouth More Important than Advertising?

Gold Research

Is Word-of-Mouth More Important than Advertising? “Mad Men” popularized the glory days of advertising which dominated marketing 101 for decades. In the world of customer advocacy, digital marketing and social media, does advertising have the same clout as “Word-of-Mouth” marketing?

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How Reviews Can Build Your Online Presence and Grow Your Business

ReviewTrackers

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Top 20 Reasons to Change JDE MSPs in 2020

Circular Edge

Blog Credit: Andy Chase. This started in theory as Top 10, however once we collected inputs from our practice leaders & JDE customers it quickly grew to 20! Whether negotiating your next MSP renewal or exploring managed services for the first time, hopefully your company finds some value in this analysis as you look to realize a successful & innovative long-term MSP partnership.

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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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Six Ways an ACE Award Can Boost Your Business

Confirmit

The best thing about the ACE Awards ? Celebrating our clients’ success! And we’re very excited about the celebrations that the 15 th anniversary will bring. Of course, the most important thing is that our clients reap the benefits from the efforts they put into their award-winning submissions. With many clients entering the awards year after year, some might say the trophies (and celebratory cake) aren’t the only reason some winners get involved.

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Digital Transformation: The People You Need on Your Team

Bizagi

The secret to success in digital transformation isn’t just technology, it’s people. Successfully implementing a digital transformation project and instilling a new agile culture within the DNA of your organization is all about people. Even the best technology on the planet can’t solve your digital challenges without the right people on your team driving it forward.

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Retail Week Live UK | March 25-26

Happy or Not

With the twenty-seventh annual Retail Week Live in London is just around the corner, we are happy to announce that HappyOrNot has collaborated with the organisers to measure […]. The post Retail Week Live UK | March 25-26 appeared first on HappyOrNot.

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Future of Retail 2020 – Retail Industry CIOs Will Invest In Automation, Data, And Employees

Forrester's Customer Insights

To understand how Forrester’s predictions will unfold in the retail industry in 2020, my colleague, Madeline Cyr, and I interviewed experts within Forrester for our series: “Applying 2020 Predictions To Retail.” To understand the CIO predictions for the year we spoke with Bobby Cameron, a Forrester expert on CIO- targeted business technology research.

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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.