Mon.Dec 16, 2019

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The Importance of Customer Feedback for the Food Industry

GetFeedback

Having a great restaurant and serving great food at competitive prices is no longer enough. Your customers want more, so you need to meet and exceed their expectations. Without that, you’ll struggle to earn their loyalty, deal with a bad reputation, and you’ll eventually lose them. But you already know what you need to do: collect customer feedback.

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Hark the Herald Agents Sing: It’s Holiday Season in the Contact Center!

BlueOcean

Heading out of the office this holiday to grab some eggnog and enjoy the lights? While so many of us are off celebrating the festive season for days at a time, there are scores of people on the frontlines working to keep everything running smoothly in industries ranging from health care, to transportation, to broadcasting to, yes, customer care. Before we sign off for the holiday break, we want to give shouts to all the frontline agents and coaches holding it down for clients and customers in co

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Do You Have a Strategy to Elevate Your Company for Decades to Come?

Customer Bliss

Can I be blunt? I mean, we’re friends, right? For longer than you can imagine, I’ve been on the front lines of corporate efforts to be more responsive to customers, which also implies to be more successful in the marketplace. Here’s the lesson I’ve learned: No amount of tactical improvements will elevate your company above all others. The only thing that will do this is to have a vision of how your company will be viewed 20 years or more from now.

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Is A 4.5-Star Rating Better Than 5 Stars?

ReviewTrackers

Does your organization really want five-star reviews across the board? It’s easy to dismiss the question as silly. Of course you want five-star reviews (!) — especially in the age of Yelp, Facebook, and TripAdvisor. If the kind of customer feedback posted publicly on online review sites and social media channels can indeed make or break your business, wouldn’t you rather everything be positive and perfect and full of praise?

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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 FIRE AN EMPLOYEE (WITH INTEGRITY)

Michel Falcon Experience

I didn’t finish post-secondary university to earn my business degree (BA) nor do I have an MBA. I don’t believe either teach you how to properly fire someone. Whether they do or not, many people I know leading companies and teams haven’t properly been taught how to either. When I read Bob Iger’s book he outlined his philosophy on how to fire someone. .

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How to Be a Better Retail Customer During the Holidays

Steve DiGioia

The “holidays” are everyone’s favorite time of year. Time to share a meal with great company, whether family, friends, or coworkers. It’s a happy, festive time for all. But, is it? Those working in the retail industry may have a different take on the holidays. For them, it’s a time for stress, a time to deal with frantic shoppers looking for the perfect gift, and a time to work long hours with little time for themselves.

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Customer-driven future: Indonesian Customer Experience Trends to watch for in 2020

SurveySensum

Indonesian Customer Experience Trends to watch for in 2020. A report by SurveySensum revealed preferences of 1000 consumers across 25 categories and 300+ brands in Indonesia. Today, customer experience is perhaps the most important aspect for any business to succeed. It was not too long ago when businesses claimed that the key to winning customers is in the product or service they deliver.

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3 Secrets to Managing CX Through an Acquisition

PeopleMetrics

Is your bank growing through acquisitions? If the answer yes, you know that mergers and acquisitions are never easy. Banks do their best to focus on systems, processes, employees and customers – ensuring alignment and smooth transition. But in our experience, customer experience typically takes a hit. If you are going through a merger or acquisition and measuring NPS, it's not unusual to see a 10 to 40-point dip in your scores.

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Christmas Advertising that Connects Emotionally Cuts-Through the Clutter

Maru Group

Amazon and Aldi crowned most effective UK Christmas ads of 2019. The UK Christmas advertising campaign is well under way, with big name retailers and grocers, including John Lewis, Amazon and Aldi, all buying for our attention and hard-earned cash. The lavish productions grow each year. It’s rumoured that John Lewis spent £8million last year on its ad featuring Elton John, while the industry as a whole was estimated to have spent a staggering £6.4billion on Christmas advertising efforts in

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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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Fully Utilize Start, Stop, Continue to Improve Your Customer Experience

Myra Golden

One of the tools I use to improve the customer experience with my clients immediately is Start, Stop, Continue. I gather a team together and ask them what we need to Start, Stop, and Continue to do with the customer experience. Sitting at my desk just now, I sketched out Start, Stop, and Continue for a restaurant that just ruined a chance for a significant catering event.

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Christmas Advertising that Connects Emotionally and Cuts Through Advertising Clutter

Maru Group

Amazon and Aldi crowned most effective UK Christmas ads of 2019. The UK Christmas advertising campaign is well underway, with big-name retailers and grocers, including John Lewis, Amazon and Aldi, all buying for our attention and hard-earned cash. The lavish productions grow each year. It’s rumoured that John Lewis spent £8 million last year on its ad featuring Elton John, while the industry as a whole was estimated to have spent a staggering £6.4 billion on Christmas advertising efforts i

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9 Sales Pet Peeves That Hurt Your Deals in 2019

Oracle

In 2019, many advances were made in the field of customer experience. But as the old adage goes, the more things change, the more they seem to stay the same – especially when it comes to common sales mistakes. We asked CX professionals for their greatest pet peeves of 2019, and they let us in on classic mistakes that got under their skin both as salespeople and from the customer point-of-view.

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Prioritizing Customer Success Is Key In The Subscription Economy

Strikedeck

Sunil Mittal talks about the role Customer Success plays in a subscription economy and how it helps shape the overall customer experience.

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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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Artificial Intelligence in Customer Service: The Past, Present, and Future

Solvvy

Getting the customer experience right is a delicate balance. Sure, you might be able to check your bank account balance thanks to the friendly robot on the phone—but if you actually wanted to talk to a person about an issue with your account and you’re left on hold for five minutes while the recorded operator recites a menu without one opportunity to talk to a human, you might be ready to shift your paycheck elsewhere. . 97 percent of consumers said that a bad buying experience will

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Contact Centre Analytics – 3 Important Trends to Watch

NICE inContact

Are you looking for ways to boost agent performance and improve your customers experience in 2020? As you start to plan for the new year, keeping a pulse on technology innovations and understanding what your customers want will be critical to providing an exceptional experience and staying one step ahead of the competition.

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Using Social Analytics to Determine Channel Targeting

NetBase

. Knowing where to direct ad spend for promotions and other campaigns is super important. Wasting budget on a social site that your target segment doesn’t frequent is tragic, and easily avoided by using social analytics to determine channel targeting! Understanding the sources your social analytics tool is retrieving data from is step one. Because if it isn’t capturing the larger conversation web-wide, you’ll miss out on talking points and trends that are headed your way wherever you end up.

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CXNext Live: 3 CX Predictions for 2020

Bold360

It’s not just a new year. It’s a new decade. And in the fast-moving world of customer experience (CX), you can expect some meaningful changes and evolutions. To peer into what’s coming in 2020, we recently sat down with Nate Brown, co-founder of CX Accelerator, for Episode 9 of CXNext Live. Together, we came up with three main areas where CX is transforming and your biggest opportunities to differentiate your company in 2020. 1.

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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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The Right Way To Prioritize Customer Experience Projects

Forrester's Customer Insights

“Which CX improvement project should we do first?” Forrester’s CX research team gets that question a lot. The good news is that picking the right projects and doing them in the right order can be relatively easy – provided the customer experience team sets up their measurement program to populate a simple but effective prioritization […].

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The Importance of Customer Feedback for the Food Industry

GetFeedback

In this article we explore five reasons why you need to collect customer feedback if you work in the food industry.

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Customer Communities Are Buzzing, But Should Your Brand Invest In One?

Forrester's Customer Insights

This year, we’ve seen an uptick in client and industry interest in customer communities. Marketers want to build authentic and lasting relationships with customers who are more and more likely to experiment and less and less likely to trust traditional advertising. The concept of community management isn’t anything new — we’ve been writing about it […].

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Why we should talk about the Right Experience

Hello Customer

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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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FORRward: A Weekly Read For Tech And Marketing Execs

Forrester's Customer Insights

Product Security Takes Center Stage As Attackers Livestream Ring Devices Harassing Users. The astronomical success of Ring opt-in surveillance products took a dark turn over the last week when attackers began reusing credentials to gain access to the devices and harass families. The devices themselves were not compromised, instead attackers reused passwords from accounts without […].

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Moves to Modern Research: A New Maturity Model for User-Centric Organizations

dscout People Nerds

After years of conversations with leading researchers, we we’ve nailed down tangible stages orgs take as they adopt, expand, and grow user-centric practices.

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How to Add a Rich Message Button Response from Chatbot Using Dialogflow?

kommunicate

Rich messaging boosts customer conversations. The benefit of rich messaging is that it provides users with an easy, convenient and quick way to interact with your business. As a result, it plays a major role in bot-based conversations where bots are still learning to understand the Natural Language. If your bot is handling a conversation [.]. The post How to Add a Rich Message Button Response from Chatbot Using Dialogflow?

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Movin’ on up: The Hosted PBX’s Journey from the Closet to the Contact Center

NICE inContact

A Hosted PBX (private branch exchange) is a software application that resides in the cloud and routes incoming and outgoing VoIP (voice over IP) phone calls.

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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.