Mon.Aug 15, 2022

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Shopping for Experiences, Not Products: A Primer on Retail Customer Experience in the Experience Economy

InMoment XI

Retail brands’ primary objective used to be providing a great product , but as competition heats up and consumer expectations grow more complex, retailers need to find new, bolder ways to stand out from the crowd. And that’s why the retail customer experience is more important than ever before. Consumers are no longer satisfied with “just” a product and are finding different, more fundamental means of identifying (and spending money) with brands.

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Simulation Training Takes Hold in Customer Service Centers

CSM Magazine

Simulation training is one of the fastest-growing training approaches for customer service agents. The new approach helps prepare customer service agents to deliver superior customer experiences before live customer interactions confidently. Many of the leading contact centers in the world are leveraging simulation training to provide customer service agents with an automated role-play partner.

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6 local online marketing tips for local business

BirdEye

93% of customers find local businesses online. So it’s not just important that your business take advantage of online marketing strategies — it’s imperative. With a solid online marketing strategy, you’ll be better able to connect with potential customers in your area and generate more leads for your business , no matter its size. In this blog post, we’ll share some quick and easy ways to get started with local online marketing as well as the benefits your businesses can

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MYC'D UP WITH CX LEADERS episode 8: Tabitha Dunn, Customer Experience Executive

MyCustomer

"CX pros must develop executive leadership skills" Rhys Fisher. Wednesday, August 17, 2022 - 08:28. Customer experience management. Customer journey mapping. Customer value. MYC'D UP WITH CX LEADERS episode 8: Tabitha Dunn, Customer Experience Executive.

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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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3 No-Fail Remote Workforce Training Techniques Top Contact Centers Use

Playvox

Contact centers succeed or fail on agent performance. Today’s top-performing contact center leaders know remote workforce training and agent engagement are the new imperatives for performance optimization. Whether your contact center is remote, hybrid, or moving back to the office full-time, getting agent performance right means unlocking the potential of every employee, every day.

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5 Ways to Add Convenience to the Customer Experience

Kustomer

Customer demands and competition from other brands are increasing every day. Because of the overwhelming number of alternatives available to them, modern customers are not shying away from demanding excellent customer service. A poor or inconvenient customer experience will have them taking their business elsewhere. Many brands have caught on, though, and are providing a generally positive experience to their customers — so what comes next?

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Creating a unified customer experience in middle-market banking

West Monroe

Middle-market banks have historically employed a fragmented digital strategy to improve back-office efficiency, focusing on sales enablement and client servicing. This was coupled with a variety of offerings that still relied on in-person interaction to achieve optimal experiences for customers. In order to stay competitive, these banks are now responding to changing customer needs by working to provide product-based digital solutions that are both are online and client-facing.

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Customer experience vs. customer relationship: What’s the difference? 

Method:CRM

Keeping customers happy is one of the most important things you can do. So, when it comes to the customer experience vs. customer relationship debate, the answer is both! The key to delivering a great customer experience (CX) is establishing solid relationships with your clientele. . There is crossover when it comes to customer experience vs. customer relationship, but there are some differences.

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Empathy Is Key To a Great Customer / Employee Experience

Natalie Petouhof

Original Article by By Stephen Leaden. The term empathy is key to engaging any kind of Customer Experience (CX), Member Experience (MX), Patient Experience (PX), and Employee Experience (EX) in any industry going forward in today’s climate. It is about putting yourself in the customer’s “shoes” and their state, thoughts, and feelings. It’s about running your organization as though you are the customer.

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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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How to reset your Universal ID password

SAP Customer Experience

Have you forgot your SAP Universal ID account password? Don’t worry, follow the below steps and everything will be sorted out. Let’s start… Go to SAP for Me: [link] Click ‘Sign In’ Enter the SAP Universal ID email address. Do NOT click the “Forgot password?” link on this screen (it.

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“Empathy in Action”? offers a modern playbook for delivering customer experience (CX)

Natalie Petouhof

Original Article by Mila D’Antonio. My path to a CX career started in 2001 at Peppers & Rogers Group. I joined the company seven years after founders Don Peppers and Martha Rogers PhD envisioned, evangelized, and popularized the concept of one-to-one relationships. Their first book The One-to-One-Future (1993) described the approach of businesses nurturing relationships with each customer by collaborating with them and differentiating them.

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Everything You Need to Know About Casino Customer Support

CSM Magazine

Customer support is a vital part of any online business, especially casinos! Here’s all you need to know about casino customer support. Customer support agents are the unsung heroes of the online world. If you were going to a physical restaurant, shopping for clothing at the mall, or gambling at a brick-and-mortar casino, there would be an agent hovering around or behind a desk somewhere with a big sign that said INFORMATION, and you could ask them all your questions.

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Understanding How CX Drives Good and Bad Profits

Natalie Petouhof

Original Article by Zeus Kerravala. Customer experience (CX) has become the overwhelming top initiative for business leaders. CX is now the top brand differentiator; those that deliver an excellent CX thrive, while those that do not eventually fail. It outweighs the price, product quality, and every other factor when customers choose a brand. Loyalty can be fleeting though.

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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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How to Manage Your Brand New Business

CSM Magazine

Planning, starting, running, and growing a business are all part of business management. Specific tasks will vary depending on the type of business. Marketing and sales will be the responsibility of a small business owner, while finance and human resources will be the responsibility of a large corporation owner. Fortunately, some fundamental principles apply to businesses of all kinds and sizes.

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Empathy in Action Empathy in Action – Book Review, an Analyst’s Perspective

Natalie Petouhof

Original Article by Jon Arnold. I’ve been reading an advance copy of Empathy in Action, and while I don’t write book reviews as a matter of course, I view this as a creative form of thought leadership about what customer service needs to look like in 2022. Just to be clear, in case the above title suggests a modern-day pulp romance novel, the full title should clear things up: “Empathy in Action – How to Deliver Great Customer Experiences at Scale.” This brand-new book was co-autho

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How do you prioritise your customer experience projects?

MyCustomer

Engagement How do you prioritise your CX projects?

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Why Listening is a Key to Empathy in Customer Experiences

Natalie Petouhof

Original Article by Ginger Conlon. “Listening” to customers and employees today can be complex. It involves capturing not just what people tell us, but also how they’re interacting with our customer experience channels and how they feel doing this. And it’s a critical step toward showing empathy in customer experiences. Ideally, listening uses advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to uncover issues and opportunities.

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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.

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What is a customer journey health score - and should you use it?

MyCustomer

Engagement What is a customer journey health score?

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Empathy in Action: A Primer on Effecting Change

Natalie Petouhof

Original Article by Jim Tincher. Change management is a critical skill when leading company growth and responding to digital disruption. As the processes, policies, technology, and culture needed to drive improved experiences shift, customer experience (CX) must shift, too. Utilizing and combining these elements effectively is what makes customers want to spend more with you, stay longer, and actively refer others.

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15 E-Commerce Trends You Need to Watch Out For In 2022 to 2023

Magellan Solutions

15 E-Commerce Trends You Need to Watch Out For In 2022 to 2023. The electronic commerce (e-commerce) industry is always evolving, and this year has been no exception. More than ever, business owners are developing and enhancing their online stores to better serve customers. Over the past three years, the e-commerce industry has experienced significant development.

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Leadership, Empathy, and Transforming the Customer Experience

Natalie Petouhof

Original Article by Valoir Incorporated. Valoir’s State of Digital Transformation study published in Fall 2021 found that the biggest challenges for successful digital transformation were not budgets or resources, but departmental politics and lack of executive leadership. Empathy in Action, Genesys Chairman and CEO Tony Bates’s new book, points out that transformation doesn’t happen without leadership.

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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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More Freedom, More Personalization: Mobile Marketing is a-changin’

Optimove

It might happen every year, but when Google and Apple take to their respective stages to announce their product roadmaps for the coming year, most marketers get the chills. How much revising, revamping and reimagining will their mobile marketing strategy require before the year-end, and how much harder, smarter and faster are they going to have to work to stay on the front foot?

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Do I Need a PBM Platform?

DemandJump

Pillar-Based Marketing platforms are a great choice when it comes to reaching marketing goals. Audiences are tired of reading boring, irrelevant content that doesn’t keep them engaged. And companies are losing out on business, simply because their content isn’t ranking on the first page of Google. With a PBM platform, you’ll have access to the latest content and pillar strategies with intensive keyword research to help you rank higher.

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Free Webinar: How to ensure the needed CX readiness of your organization

Feedbackly

Join CXforum webinar to find out how your oganization can push the CX program through and how to tackle all the problems troughout the.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 8-15-2022

ShepHyken

Each week I read many 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. We Listen to Our Customers. Really? by Melissa Henley. (CMSWire) Listening doesn’t just matter in your personal relationships — it’s vital to your professional ones, too.

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX