InMoment XI

JANUARY 4, 2023

Welcome back to the XI Café Podcast! The XI Café Podcast was created so that CX program owners around the world could join the conversation and learn from global businesses and industry experts about the latest experience improvement innovations in technology and research services, industry and market expertise, and customer (CX) and employee (EX) engagement best practices.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 4, 2023

Happy New Year! We have an exciting year ahead of us. So much has changed in just the past three years. And in the world of customer service and CX, there is much to be excited about. Last month I released my annual Top Ten Customer Experience Predictions in my weekly Forbes column. I don’t often repeat content, but I’m going to share those predictions and trends here, in a revised and shorter format.

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Zonka Feedback

JANUARY 4, 2023

With the emergence of new business technologies such as cloud, Augmented Reality (AR), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual Reality (VR), Machine Learning (ML), and a bunch of others, the expectations of today’s customers are constantly revamping. For industries, it is not enough to focus solely on developing software that increases client assistance rates.

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2020 Research

JANUARY 4, 2023

In times of economic uncertainty, every organization looks for places to tighten the purse strings. Market research is a tempting area to cut back on, but that could ultimately prove a critical mistake. Discover the top 6 reasons you should consider market research in times of recession and inflation. Improve your business decision-making with market research.

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Today’s digitally savvy customers have high expectations of retailers for convenience, responsiveness, and ease of doing business both in-store and online. Our recent survey of over 2,000 US consumers found that retailers that can drive a seamless, omnichannel customer experience (CX) – across physical and digital channels – have huge benefits for brand relevance, profitability, and customer loyalty.

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The DiJulius Group

JANUARY 4, 2023

We have been in a customer service recession since the start of the pandemic. The American Customer Satisfaction Index, which measured every industry this year, noted that we hit a 17-year low in customer satisfaction. Things have not been pretty in the world of customer experience. In this episode, we’re explaining the reason for all. Read Full Article.

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SurveyGizmo

JANUARY 4, 2023

By David Roberts, Alchemer CEO. Today we announce Alchemer’s acquisition of Apptentive to customers and employees. It’s an exciting time for us and for our industry. Our industry is incredibly important and yet not well defined. People call it customer experience (CX), employee experience (EX), voice of the customer (VoC), feedback management (EFM), survey software (SS), or experience management (XM).

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Brad Cleveland Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

Focusing on improvements at the process level is so powerful. I once did some work for a company that provides software packages for businesses, and I spent some time in their customer support area, the team that provides technical support to customers. A lot of things … Continue reading → The post Stories from the Field: Improving the Service Process appeared first on Brad Cleveland.

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Education Services Group

JANUARY 4, 2023

It’s no secret that 2022 was a little bumpy for business, yet we saw many Customer Success leaders meeting industry challenges head-on. While it’s hard to predict what will happen in 2023, we all still try to plan ahead as much as possible. For many of us, that means taking stock of our near and far-term goals and choosing New Year’s resolutions to help us hit the ground running in the new year.

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Hello Customer

JANUARY 4, 2023

A lot has been said and written about traditional retail in the past years. 2023 will undoubtedly bring more changes to the retail sector. But one thing is for sure, traditional retail is not dead. Even stronger, retail companies that manage to adapt themselves right in the coming years have a bright future ahead of them. How exactly? We asked our CEO Leslie for her view on the matter.

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Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 If so, this webinar is for you! What was once a common practice in the call center is now a barrier to success. Manual call monitoring is no longer an option if you want to proactively coach your agents to ultimately improve the customer experience using data-driven insights. Join this webinar with Angie Kronlage and April Wiita of Working Solutions to discuss how you can modernize outdated, manual call review processes through the power of autom

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MyCustomer

JANUARY 4, 2023

Engagement How CX leaders are restructuring their teams.

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Brad Cleveland Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

Focusing on improvements at the process level is so powerful. I once did some work for a company that provides software packages for businesses, and I spent some time in their customer support area, the team that provides technical support to customers. A lot of things … Continue reading → The post Stories from the Field: Improving the Service Process appeared first on Brad Cleveland.

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MyCustomer

JANUARY 4, 2023

Loyalty The new skills customer success teams must acquire.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 4, 2023

Role: Director of Customer Success Location: Remote, United States Organization: Slync.io As a Director of Customer Success, you will plan, lead, organize and control multiple project initiatives in accordance with the approved scope and schedule. Engage Sales, Solutions, and Product/Engineering to validate new business scope as it pertains to customer contract documents, technical specifications, and data analytics to ensure correct technologies are selected to support customer requirements.

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The 5 Essentials of a CX-First Platform Customer experience was once considered a soft metric, or a “nice to have.” But it is now a board-level priority for many brands. The experience you provide your customers is a defining way to differentiate your business from the competition. But how can you really make CX a priority when you have competing budget and resource constraints?

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MyCustomer

JANUARY 4, 2023

Engagement A 4-day week is not the answer to staff engagement.

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Zonka Feedback

JANUARY 4, 2023

If you are into SaaS business, who can know better how challenging it is to take it towards heights of success. SaaS products solve a variety of problems for their users. But for every problem and task, there are a number of products available in the market which makes SaaS a competitive market. Ensuring customer satisfaction becomes even more necessary in such a market.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 4, 2023

Net promoter score (NPS) is one of those must-have metrics for customer experience. It shows the loyalty a customer feels for an organisation and how many customers think this way. In addition, a positive NPS is always a good indicator of organisational health –your business is growing, there is enough market goodwill, and retention rates are sufficiently high.

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dscout People Nerds

JANUARY 4, 2023

You don’t always need to have experience in a particular industry before pivoting into it. Here are some notes from someone who’s been there.

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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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Forrester's Customer Insights

JANUARY 4, 2023

Southwest Airline's 2022 holiday travel disaster happened because the airline became a victim of its own success. It failed to realize that the analysts, data and software requirements for maintaining its point-to-point network needed constant upgrading, preferring instead to return profits to shareholders via stock buy backs. The weather this winter caused a cascading series of small errors and failures that increased the load on their aging technology infrastructure, causing further failures.

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Magellan Solutions

JANUARY 4, 2023

6 Important Things to Know About Employee Retention Credit and The Role of BPOs. The Congress established the Employee Retention Credit (ERC) during 2020 to lessen the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. The ERC is for businesses who struggled to maintain their headcounts. With Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERTC), businesses can use a refundable credit as a tax deduction for some expenses.

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Zeisler Consulting

JANUARY 4, 2023

If you read much of what I write, you’re aware that one of the best sources of Customer insights and the one I most frequently recommend is Walking in the Customer’s Shoes. It’s one of the best—if not the best—way for you to understand what your Customers go through when they interact with your brand and your processes. It can be tricky sometimes to get out of your own head (you understand, from the back end, after all, how your systems work, so that perspective is hard to shed completely), bu

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Gainsight

JANUARY 4, 2023

Every year Gainsight loves to give our customers and community a roundup of our best resources, including events, webinars, articles, ebooks, and more. As the thought leader in the field of Customer Success (CS), we want you to have all the information and insights you need to stay current and take your CS practice to new heights. Despite the ups and downs of the economy, Customer Success continues to emerge as a clear priority because of its ability to drive efficient, durable growth.

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A CX myth is something widely believed or implemented that is based on “how we’ve always done it” thinking, rather than delivering truly innovative customer experiences. What CX myths are holding organizations back from top-level customer experience performance? What can companies do to find solid ground and move forward successfully? In this guidebook, we answer those questions and more as we explore three key myths and two strategies that you can use to replace them.

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SurveyGizmo

JANUARY 4, 2023

Acquisition expands Alchemer’s ability to help brands close the loop with their customers. LOUISVILLE, Colo. – January 4, 2023 – Alchemer – a global leader in experience management and enterprise feedback technology – announced today the acquisition of Apptentive, the industry leader in mobile feedback technology. This acquisition provides Alchemer customers with a more in-depth method of collecting feedback from mobile customers and gives Apptentive customers access to survey and workflow funct

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