Tue.Jan 28, 2020

article thumbnail

5 Strategies to Improve Customer Retention With Social Media

GetFeedback

Although customer retention is cheaper than acquisition, it’s easier said than done. It takes a lot of commitment and dedication to get customers to stay loyal to your business. In this article, we are going to talk about how to use social media to attract and retain customers. Customers have multiple options at their disposal. Besides, the competition for customers is fierce these days than ever.

article thumbnail

How Do You Solve 2020’s Most Common CX Problems? Start Here.

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Forrester, Oracle, and others predict plenty of customer experience challenges for the near future. Anxiety is ramping up for senior leaders focused on customer experience, and it’s not difficult to understand why. Image credit: Forrester. According to Forrester’s 2020 Predictions , 1 in 4 customer experience professionals will lose their job this year.

2020 250
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

No Fault Found Returns: a Supermassive Black Hole for Retailers

TechSee

Black Friday is a day that retailers wait for all year, and 2019 was no different. Digital sales for the retail holiday increased nearly 20 percent last year, reaching $7.4 billion across the 4,500 retail websites tracked by Adobe Analytics. Consumers also found their way into brick-and-mortar locations much more often, with many having opted to buy online and pick up in-store (BOPIS).

Retail 136
article thumbnail

Amazing Business Radio: Bob Chapman

ShepHyken

Employees Matter. Care for Your Employees and They Will Care for Their Customers. Shep Hyken interviews Bob Chapman. They discuss his leadership philosophies and approach to creating a “truly human” culture of caring. Top Takeaways: You don’t need to have an out-of-the-ordinary or “exceptional” background to do exceptional things in business and your life.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Make Solid Strategic Business Sense with Connect the Dot Stories

One Millimeter Mindset

How much strategic business sense do your stories make? As I worked with one of my clients yesterday, he complained that decision makers were not taking action after his presentations. He just could not understand why. My question to him: “Do you tell connect the dot stories?” He looked back at me, puzzled. If you want decision makers to make a decision, then tell stories which make solid strategic business sense.

More Trending

article thumbnail

4 Ways to Prepare Your Customer Service Teams for AI Disruption

Customers That Stick

It’s no secret that artificial intelligence is already starting to impact customer service. This impact is certainly to grow immensely in size in the coming years. Employees in many customer service roles are beginning to wonder whether they will lose their job to a robot, whether or not their role will be replaced. There is a great deal of fear and uncertainty out there and it is incumbent on customer experience leaders to help guide their teams and try to allay these fears as much as pos

article thumbnail

NetBase and Quid are Merging!

NetBase

NetBase Quid will give businesses an unprecedented solution to understanding consumer and market data. NetBase, the industry leader in social media analytics, announced today it will merge with Quid, a leader in AI driven text analytics. The combined company is the next generation consumer and market intelligence platform. The platform will deliver contextual insights that reveal business trends from across all forms of structured and unstructured data.

article thumbnail

Trends in Customer Communication in 2020

Ecrion

The future of customer communication could mean the future of your business. As consumers adopt new technologies, their demands are increasing. If you fail to meet their expectations, they will go to your competitors. The way you communicate your customers has a direct impact on their experience and behavior. If you want to remain competitive, you need to keep up with the latest trends in communication and build lasting connections with your clientele.

article thumbnail

What is Customer Retention Management and Why Does it Matter?

Totango

As the economy grows increasingly customer-centric, customer retention becomes more vital to the success of enterprises. Repeat customers provide greater value at a lower cost than those who buy something once and leave. This means that good customer retention management is necessary for maximizing financial growth, minimizing wasted resources, and optimizing the customer experience.

article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

Cracking the Patient Experience Conundrum

InMoment XI

The Innovative Approach to Amplifying the Patient Experience Providing a patient experience that exceeds expectations has become increasingly important within the healthcare industry. Many patient experience programs struggle due to the inability to effectively measure the patient journey, the lack of flexibility in data collection and internal reporting, and inadequate action plans.

article thumbnail

What is Customer Retention Management and Why Does it Matter?

Totango

As the economy grows increasingly customer-centric, customer retention becomes more vital to the success of enterprises. Repeat customers provide greater value at a lower cost than those who buy something once and leave. This means that good customer retention management is necessary for maximizing financial growth, minimizing wasted resources, and optimizing the customer experience.

article thumbnail

Thematic Joins Nielsen Connect Partner Network

Thematic

New York, NY – Thematic today announced that it has joined the Nielsen Connect Partner Network. Enhanced by this partnership through Nielsen’s Global Connect business, Thematic’s proprietary approach, which combines AI and human input to rapidly and continuously surface insights that are more relevant and detailed than legacy text analytics approaches, will change the way clients–including LinkedIn and DoorDash–identify, prioritize and measure the impact of new product features and i

article thumbnail

Winning Customers in Today’s Competitive and Customer-Centric World

Strikedeck

Vincent Manlapaz, in an interview, Bharath Yadla, Vice President at Workato talks about the importance of delivering differentiated customer experiences and understanding each customer interaction.

article thumbnail

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,

article thumbnail

Don’t be an armchair CX Professional. Here's how to win the CX game

iPerceptions

What does a football team need to do to win the ultimate prize? Sure, a well-timed, rousing speech from the coach always helps. At least, it has in countless TV shows and movies in the past. However, having a playbook full of strategies that mix effective offense and unbreachable defense is what paves the path to winning. Designing a winning Customer Experience (CX) program is no different.

article thumbnail

How to Create Service Standards that Really Work

Up Your Service

Setting service standards is an approach commonly used to create consistent levels of service performance and enhance customer experience. Yet this practice is often disappointing, and at times even counter-productive. Why? Performance and process standards can be useful for compliance and short-term training, but they do not generate the understanding or appetite for long-term improvements in customer experience.

Hotels 52
article thumbnail

Exploring Customer Journey Mapping – An Interview with Jim Tincher

SurveySparrow

My goal was, and is, to show that there’s a better way. You’ll note that I said “better,” not “easier.” That’s probably been the biggest challenge we’ve faced: pushback from people who want or expect, it to be easy.”. SurveySparrow, the maker of widely celebrated online survey software , was recently fortunate enough to chat with Jim Tincher, one of the most respected voices in the Customer Experience (CX) industry as well as founder and Mapper-in-Chief at Heart of the Customer.

article thumbnail

CMAD: Career Advancement & Education Resources in Atlas

Lithium

Community management is a pretty fast-paced and ambiguous job. There are many topics to cover, and it isn’t exactly an established degree or even a certification program. In order to help all of our fellow Community Managers out there, from novices to experts, we put together a list of our favorite articles in Atlas. Getting started. Education. Starting Out on the Community Journey.

Webinar 52
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

A New Recipe for CX Success with Auntie Anne’s

inmoment

Not many of us can resist the enticing and familiar waft of a fresh batch of Auntie Anne’s pretzels. But no matter how phenomenal a product is, there’s always room for a business to take its customer experience (CX) to the next level—and that’s why InMoment stepped into Auntie Anne’s kitchen to cook up a new CX strategy. . Keep reading to learn how the partnership between InMoment and Auntie Anne’s drove some pretty sweet results for the business. .

article thumbnail

Top Metrics to Make Your Call Center a Success

CSM Magazine

Any type of large enterprise or organization knows the inherent value a virtual call center brings to their business. These centers work a myriad of magic on an hourly basis — everything from handling your customers’ urgent needs to offering direct interaction for a caller with a more complex query that might not be easily solved with an automated solution.

article thumbnail

CMAD: Career Advancement & Education Resources in Atlas

Lithium

Community management is a pretty fast-paced and ambiguous job. There are many topics to cover, and it isn’t exactly an established degree or even a certification program. In order to help all of our fellow Community Managers out there, from novices to experts, we put together a list of our favorite articles in Atlas. Getting started. Education. Starting Out on the Community Journey.

Webinar 52
article thumbnail

Surveys and Interaction Analytics: The Perfect Voice of the Customer Pair

NICE inContact

One of the most important and fundamental pieces of a voice of the customer program is implementing a solution for your customers to provide unbiased feedback through surveys. But, if you want to get a complete view on how to improve your customer experience, you need to combine direct and indirect customer feedback to see the full picture.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

If You Don’t Ask, The Answer is Always No

ChurnZero

If You Don’t Ask, the Answer is Always No. Author: Emily Nesterick. Too often you plateau before you ever peak due to the fear of hearing ‘no.’. This fear cripples your personal and professional potential. It holds you back from achieving your goals. It harbors you in the safe space of passive inaction. . And worst of all, it gives you an excuse for complacency.

Webinar 64
article thumbnail

When to send your NPS survey

delighted

When it comes to sending Net Promoter Score (NPS) surveys, timing is everything. Selecting the precise time to solicit feedback from your customers can have a huge impact on both the quality and quantity of the responses you receive. If you send your NPS survey too early, your customers may not have a full story to tell. If you survey too late, you could lose the raw emotion felt during the experience, as well as those critical details that tend to fade away over time.

NPS 44
article thumbnail

A New Recipe for CX Success with Auntie Anne’s

inmoment

Not many of us can resist the enticing and familiar waft of a fresh batch of Auntie Anne’s pretzels. But no matter how phenomenal a product is, there’s always room for a business to take its customer experience (CX) to the next level—and that’s why InMoment stepped into Auntie Anne’s kitchen to cook up a new CX strategy. . Keep reading to learn how the partnership between InMoment and Auntie Anne’s drove some pretty sweet results for the business. .

article thumbnail

SurveyGizmo Launches Activated NPS Solution

SurveyGizmo

Companies can now respond immediately and individually to customer feedback. January 29, 2020 07:00 AM Eastern Standard Time. BOULDER, Colo.– SurveyGizmo launched its Activated NPS Solution today, making it easy to respond to Net Promoter Score (NPS) feedback immediately and directly to drive higher customer engagement. The solution gives companies what they need to collect and act on feedback to close the loop with customers.

NPS 52
article thumbnail

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.