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How to Drive More Revenue With NPS, CSAT, and CES

GetFeedback

Customer feedback is critical for good business as it identifies strengths and blind spots in your customer experience. But, simply.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of January 6, 2020

ShepHyken

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. 8 CX Design & Strategy Trends You Need To Know: Looking Back On The 2019 Contact Center by Matt Wujciak. (CCW DIgital) This article shares 8 key findings on CX Design and Strategy, according to our 2019 market study.

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How to Turn Survey Results Into Awesome Presentations

GetFeedback

Learn how to take the data you've gathered via your online surveys, and turn that information into visually engaging presentations.

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Six Types Of Experience Data (X-Data)

Experience Matters

One of the key building blocks of Experience Management (XM) is X-data, which helps establish an understanding of how people think, feel, and behave. In almost all circumstances, organizations lack the X-data they truly need. So how should organizations go about instrumenting their operations to collect the right data? To identify the required X-data, it’s important to first understand how data flows from people’s experiences.

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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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What I See Coming For The Channel In 2020

Forrester's Customer Insights

Preparing for this years list of future channel trends has been an immersive experience to say the least. In 2019, I was able to talk to 497 companies one-on-one about their channel strategy and programs, including 130 of those face-to-face. I received 78 briefings from the technology companies who are inventing new ways to […].

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Best Customer Service Posts and Videos from Provide Support

Provide Support

In 2020 customers will become smarter as their expectations for service and customer experience are set by best brands. While interacting with a business, they compare their experience to the best one they received from anyone and anywhere. Thus the gap between expectations and reality may widen for some companies. As a result customers will walk away searching for better experience.

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Which 5 Traits Would You Choose to Build the Ideal Customer Service Agent?

Steve DiGioia

We scour resume after resume in search of the best candidate. But, as a service provider, we never truly know the applicant’s skill set until they’re hired and in contact with your precious customers. Sometimes we’re lucky and hire a gem who goes on to build customer relationships lasting years. This is a dream hire. But other times, we hire a dud who chases our clients away.

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How Commercial (B2B) Lawyers Can Improve Customer Service

CSM Magazine

All businesses need to offer a good level of customer service if they want to stay afloat. Of course, exceptional customer service can help you to stand out from the crowd and gain a bigger share of the market. However, law firms have traditionally shied away from introducing customer-led initiatives. As companies routinely require the services of commercial lawyers, many law firms assume their customer base is guaranteed.

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20/20 Vision: 9 Trends at the Heart of Tomorrow’s Healthcare

Team HGS

20/20 Vision: 9 Trends at the Heart of Tomorrow’s Healthcare. From an in-control consumer to digital experience and telemedicine, healthcare delivery continues to stretch the limits of what we thought possible. As health plans and health systems increasingly turn to outsourcing partners to compete and thrive in this ever-changing market, we’re here with HGS’s on-the-ground assessment of Healthcare 2020.

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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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The Times They Are a-Changing: Talent in the Contact Center Part 2: Players and Coaches

SaleMove

Check out the first installment of this series: The Times They Are a-Changing: Talent in the Contact Center Part 1: Setting the Stage In our second part of this blog series, we continue our examination of how to staff the contact center of tomorrow. Just as a sports team consists of players and coaches working […]. The post The Times They Are a-Changing: Talent in the Contact Center Part 2: Players and Coaches appeared first on Glia Blog | Digital Customer Service Explained.

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Pet Influencers’ Promotional Power

NetBase

Brands are always on the look-out for new influential partners, and pet influencers certainly fit the bill. They possess lots of promotional power online. But looking beyond the typical cute puppies populating Pinterest and other sites, we see lots of unusual pet influencers cashing in. And brands may want to take a moment to consider an unusual approach in this increasingly crowded global market.

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Use CX to Transform Your Business in 2020

Andrew Mcfarland

Companies invest billions to develop new products and expand market share but their biggest growth engine (customers) remains untapped. To transform your business in 2020, improve the customer experience.

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The Power of Moderation – A 2020 Perspective

Horizon CX

Here we are—January 2020—another new year just beginning—and an election year as well. Excitement abounds. And here I am, as you may well be, in a moderate reflection of the past year and moderately optimistic about the year ahead. I’m using the word “moderate” quite intentionally. I consider myself a very moderate person in my approach to life and business and especially within my current role as a customer experience consultant.

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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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Atlas Release Notes, December 2019

Lithium

Below are the new features and changes made to Atlas in December. Comment below if you have any questions or feedback! FIXES. Support board list overlapped the right rail. Menu no longer expanding. Case Portal descriptions hard to read on mobile. NEW. Added “My Bookmarks” component to homepage. UPDATES. Title changes in the event group. Changed all uses of “Subscribe” to “Follow”.

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Why Customer Service Matters in Belgium

CSM Magazine

Is 2020 the year you plan to open up your own business in Belgium? If so, there is no doubt that you have plenty on your plate in terms of preparing for this next big step. Clearly, you want your business to get a positive and robust start so that it can succeed, not just in the short-term but the long-term. Having a strong product or service that you will be offering to customers is only half the battle when it comes to building a successful business, and as any entrepreneur will tell, you ther

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The Times They Are a-Changing: Talent in the Contact Center Part 2: Players and Coaches

SaleMove

In our second part of this blog series, we continue our examination of how to staff the contact center of tomorrow. Just as a sports team consists of players and coaches working in concert, the contact center’s backbone is comprised of agents and supervisors. Let’s take a look at where those roles are headed. Human Touch – Role of the Agent. Today agents are the front line players in the contact center.

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Most Returned Christmas Gifts Revealed

CSM Magazine

Latest data by B-Stock, a leading online secondary marketplace, showed that toys, speciality kitchen items, tools and women’s trendy apparel are the most returned items. The number of products being sent back on National Returns Day (2nd January) were expected to be 72% higher than the average day in December according to the Royal Mail. This contributes massively to the yearly total of £60 billion worth of products being returned to UK retailers. “Every year, the number of truckload

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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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Trust is not a binary on/off switch

Peter Lavers

Why building, protecting and recovering Trust is a business imperative. In this blog co-written with Mark Holloake, Peter Lavers considers how trust is a hot topic, but that lot of commentary suggests it is binary – you can either trust an entity or not – an on/off switch in effect. They argue that if it’s a switch then it’s more like a dimmer switch – yes, there’s a definite ‘off’ and ‘fully on’, but there’s also a range in between!

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A Guide to Starting Podcasting for Business

CSM Magazine

If you have been keeping abreast of the latest business and business and marketing trends, then you are familiar with the current buzz around podcasts. Recent studies conducted by Ofcom indicate that podcasts are now a flourishing online platform, which is attracting an ever-expanding audience. It has been suggested that around six million adults tune each week.

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Is your customer experience being undermined by your AI strategy?

MyCustomer

Engagement Is your CX being undermined by your AI strategy?

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Keep on Rolling: The Humble Shopping Cart’s Marketplace Journey

Oracle

Few elements of the commerce world receive less love than the shopping cart, which is usually uttered in close proximity to the word “abandonment” As in, persistent online cart abandonment rates, which reflect the frequency at which potential buyers bail on purchases — which is around 70%. Such statistics frequently place the functionality in the cross-hairs of exasperated marketers, who regularly seek out potentially better ways forward.

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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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Values-Based Selling Will Help Retailers Win Consumers’ Spend

Forrester's Customer Insights

With Holiday peak just behind us, apply lessons from 2019 for wins in 2020 (… and not just during Holiday!). Shoppers are not just looking for a good deal, they want to appease their sense of social responsibility to feel like they’re doing some GOOD with their purchase – or at least, not making it […].

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Seven elements that will make or break your CX programme in 2020

MyCustomer

Loyalty 7 elements that will make or break your CX in 2020.

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Top 10 Tips for Gathering Event Attendee Feedback

GetFeedback

Event and conference surveys are a great way to capture attendee feedback after the big day is over. Here are 10 quick tips on sending post-event surveys.

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How the customer is killing the CEO

MyCustomer

Engagement How the customer is killing the CEO.

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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.