Fri.Oct 02, 2020

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Customer Retention During Economic Downturns: What’s Top of Mind for Your Customers?

Totango

The unpredictability of an economic downturn, such as the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, can introduce uncertainty into the relationship between you and your customer. Sudden and unexpected external forces beyond the control of either of you can also lead to unanticipated customer behavior. During difficult times, it is especially important to understand what is going on inside your customer’s mind, as well as what is going on inside their business.

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Key to profitability - how UK customer experience is changing over the long-term

Eptica

Date: Friday, October 2, 2020 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Key to profitability - how UK customer experience is changing over the long-term. Published on: October 02, 2020. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager While customer service and contact centres have been dramatically impacted by the pandemic, longer-term trends are also reshaping the industry based on changes in customer demand and how companies operate.

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What is Intelligent Routing? 6 Big Benefits It Offers Your Business

Bold360

Every customer expects fast and accurate service. But too often customers who contact a business are put in a queue where they must “wait for the next available agent.” If the customer’s issue can’t be resolved by the first available agent, the service team transfers the customer around like a hot potato until the “right” agent can be found to mercifully resolve the issue.

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Reputation marketing: 5 pillars to success

BirdEye

“Your brand name is only as good as your reputation.” – Richard Branson. Think about some of the great brands that you know and trust. Whether it’s Nike, Coca-Cola, or Apple, customers all over the world know that these companies have a reputation for quality. But you don’t need to spend millions of dollars on Super Bowl ads to get a great reputation and grow business.

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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 to Deliver on Consumer Expectations

Kustomer

Optimal customer service is a must for companies that want a stellar reputation that keeps business flowing. In fact, according to our own research , 79% of consumers say customer service is extremely important when deciding where to shop, so delivering on consumer expectations has never been more important. Retailers need to tailor the way they interact with consumers in a way that exceeds their expectations in an effort to not only maintain their business, but also to gain customer loyalty.

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BirdEye continues to lead in the CX space, winning 100+ G2 badges for the 11th time

BirdEye

Fall is back, and BirdEye is springing forward into more awards. For the 11th consecutive quarter, G2 Crowd recognized BirdEye as a leader in customer experience management with 120 awards in 10 categories. In the G2 Fall 2020 awards listing, we received praise as the overall leader in online reputation management, local SEO, enterprise feedback management, local listing management, live chat, local marketing, mobile marketing, and SMS marketing.

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Employee Experience Guide: Employee Surveys & Polls

SurveySparrow

If you are running a business, you already know the importance of employee experience. Of Course, your customers are also essential, but who keeps those customers happy and satisfied? Your employee, right? Therefore, you should invest time in satisfying your employee and engage them more into the organization. Only then you can enhance your organizational culture and growth. .

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Breakthrough CX made easy: BirdEye wins Martech Award again

BirdEye

It’s been a hallmark year here at BirdEye, winning multiple industry awards. Today, we add another to the list. We are proud to announce that– for the second time in a row –MarkTech Breakthrough has recognized BirdEye as the “ Best Overall Conversational Marketing Company. ”. How did we get here? By building a modern messaging platform that enables businesses of all sizes to create meaningful, positive experiences with their customers at scale.

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Should we be studying life journeys instead of customer journeys?

MyCustomer

Engagement Time to study life journeys not customer journeys?

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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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Brand Move Roundup – October 2, 2020

C Space

The Brand Move Roundup – October 2, 2020. We’re tracking the notable brand moves & highlighting the companies who are tackling this challenge successfully. Tweet. In early March we began reporting daily on how brands were dealing with Covid-19. But it’s become clear that the current climate is one of near-perpetual disruption, so we decided to keep on telling the stories of inspiring brand leadership and strategy amid the latest crises in an anxious world.

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5 Tip to Create a Valuable Q&A Community

Vanilla Forums

“How to unclog a kitchen sink”. “How to clean a gutter”. “How to do a Windsor knot”. Each and every one of us has a problem in our lives we need a solution for, and what better place to turn to than Google? Search engines provide us with instant fixes in the privacy of our own homes. It’s no wonder then, that the most popular search queries begin with those two magical words: “how to”.

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Hobbying Hard or Hardly Hobbying? Relatable Quarantine Fails From the ChurnZero Team

ChurnZero

A quick preamble to this article: Hi there, I’m Emily, the content marketing manager at ChurnZero. We’re taking a break from our usual blog content of Customer Success expertise to bring you a lighthearted read on the ChurnZero team’s shameless hobby fails during quarantine. Because who doesn’t enjoy bonding over the relatable downfall of others? By sharing our flops, flunks, and fumbles, we hope to give you a little bit of comfort and joy as we try our best to keep on keepin’ on together – and

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Watch: Flex or Strict Return Policy, Influencer Data, and CRM Analysis

Optimove

PostFunnel Insider is Optimove’s series of CRM know-how, tips, news, and analysis videos. This time, we got some new data on the influencer industry, and a head2head debate on the right type of return policy. All previous weekly shows All our videos on Optimove’s Youtube channel. B2C CRM NEWS Update: Influencers and Entrepreneurship. H2H DEBATE: Flexible vs.

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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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Time Management in Project Management

CSM Magazine

Imagine arriving late for the most crucial presentation of your career. It is not a good idea to start off on the wrong foot, right? Not only in this work scenario, but in all other walks of life, keeping track of your time adequately is extremely crucial. For teams, supervisors, and every other person, successful project time management is a crucial factor when it comes to the successful delivery of the task.

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Virtual Selling Assessment

Integrity Solutions

Most selling today is done virtually. Some sales teams have the right mindset and preparation tactics that set them up to execute well, while others are struggling to adapt. Virtual selling strategies and techniques are in some ways similar to F2F selling, and in other ways quite different. The sales teams that adapt their virtual selling skills – over Zoom and other platforms – are coming out on top.

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Adoption May Be a Luxury, But Respect Is Essential

Forrester's Customer Insights

Many sales leaders employ, tolerate, and enable high-maintenance sellers, because such reps yield a final product we value. But is this sustainable?

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Guest Post: 5 Unexpected Uses for Customer Data

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article from Anthony Kreychmar, founder and CEO of Fortuna Visual Group. Learn how to best prepare your contact center for the holiday season. The rise of technologies and deep penetration of automation in the business sectors has transformed the way brands interact with customers. What is more, all these have changed our everyday life.

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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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Why do Business Continuity Plans Fail?

CSM Magazine

Today’s world of business is full of threats and uncertainties. In order to survive in this hostile environment, companies have to be prepared for anything, flexible, and a hundred percent focused. Nowadays, even a tiny mistake can have disastrous consequences. That’s why, to help anticipate potential risks and prepare necessary defensive solutions, companies create business continuity plans (BCP).

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Media Digital Experience Index 2020-2021

PK

Building experiences beyond the streaming platform The Media Digital Experience (MDX) Index surveyed over 700 consumers, combining their responses with design audit scores to create a single index evaluating the performance of paid subscription video streaming services. The MDX Index ranks evaluated brands […]. The post Media Digital Experience Index 2020-2021 appeared first on PK.

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10 Must Have Product Marketing Tools

SurveySparrow

A product marketer belongs to a lot of departments; they cannot be responsible for just one area of business. They have to be in touch with designers, developers, marketers, etc. It is a discipline that has become popular of late, and there are compelling reasons to have a product marketer on your rolls because they bring communication, storytelling and technology together in a way that makes the target audience love the product.