Wed.Mar 16, 2022

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How 3 CX Trends Compare from North America to Asia-Pacific in 2022

InMoment XI

Earlier this year, we released a customer experience (CX) (and employee experience) trends report for both the North America and Asia-Pacific (APAC) regions. These new CX trends were based on indirect and inferred data, as well as surveys across several industries. And surprisingly, there were some standout similarities that connected the two seemingly disparate customer bases.

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The Real Difference Between Customer Support and Customer Success

Retently

With new SaaS companies popping up every day and a customer-centric culture coming into play, there’s (understandably) some confusion about how to manage customer interactions. For many companies, the entire conversation takes place under the umbrella of Customer Support (or Technical Support). Some companies have separated these functions further and appointed specialized groups for Onboarding, Implementation, and Customer Education.

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Back to Class: Shep’s Law of Customer Service

ShepHyken

Let’s go back to physics class for just a moment. Isaac Newton’s third law of motion states, “For every action in nature, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” I admit to struggling in physics, but this was one principle I understood. The other day, a friend quoted Newton’s third law, and it hit me. Not only does this happen in physics, but it also happens in business, specifically when there is bad customer service or a bad customer experience (CX).

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How To Score Customer Health

Gainsight

Customer health scores play a critical role in the success of any company. When you have strong customer health scores, your business thrives. Adoption increases, upsell opportunities present themselves more consistently, and customers advocate on your behalf, even when you don’t ask them. On the other hand, a bad customer health score can indicate churn is on the horizon, as well as poor customer stories, or worse.

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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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A complete guide to improving customer service in government [with best practices & use cases]

Comm100

The gap between customer service in public and private sectors is vast. The top-performing private sector in the US boasts a customer satisfaction score of 8.3 out of 10. In US government, this score languishes at 4.5. The reasons for this gap are complicated and numerous. With checks and balances built into government systems, as well as necessary regulations, citizens are often forced to interact with many departments and people to accomplish what seems a simple and straightforward task.

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Customer Service In 2022: The Times They Are A-Changin’

Forrester's Customer Insights

It’s been two years (!) since the pandemic began, and customer service organizations have managed the impossible: moving thousands of agents home practically overnight and rapidly deploying new digital channels, all while supporting millions of COVID-19-stressed customers. Our world has changed, and customer expectations have changed with it. Customer service leaders must shake off decades […].

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10 Ways the Web Hosting Industry Can Improve Its Customer Service

CSM Magazine

Web hosting is a critical part of any business, yet the customer service experience for web hosting can often be less than stellar. In this article, we will discuss ten ways that the web hosting industry can improve its customer service and provide a better experience for its clients. 1. Improve communication with customers. Communication is key in any customer service interaction, and web hosting companies should make sure that they are clear and concise when communicating with their customers.

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077: Turn Upset Customers into Brand Evangelists

The DiJulius Group

The DiJulius Group’s Customer Experience Consultant and Dean of the Customer Experience Executive Academy, Jess Pischel, shares how companies can turn upset customers into brand evangelists. You will learn: How to anticipate your service defects and put protocols in place to make them right How to be prepared and equipped to respond to predictable customer.

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10 Ways to Optimize Your Mobile Marketing Strategy

CSM Magazine

As more and more people use their smartphones to access the internet, it is becoming increasingly important for businesses to have a mobile-friendly website. Not only that, but you also need to have a well-optimized marketing strategy to reach your target audience. In this article, we will discuss ten ways that you can optimize your mobile marketing strategy. 1.

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The 2023 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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Everything Worth Knowing About Insurance Chatbots

kommunicate

Last Updated on March 16, 2022 Artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed the insurance sector, including customer service. Forbes defines Chatbots as “software functionality that is meant to accept conversational input through the text or voice and then creates a response that is likewise in natural language,” which are among the most prevalent kinds of AI. [.].

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Restaurant Group Fridays UK Chooses PCI Pal to Secure Card Payments

CSM Magazine

PCI Pal , the global provider of cloud-based secure payment solutions – has supported restaurant group Fridays UK with the implementation of its PCI Pal Agent Assist solution, to ensure full PCI compliance when handling customers’ telephone-based card payments. With a changing operational model, Fridays’ traditional ‘walk-in’ service has been extended to include more booking-led ‘Click & Collect’ services, deliveries and a Fridays at Home range.

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[CX Tribe] 15 March 2022 – Surprising On-Line Reviews Research

Genroe

CX Tribe is the best Customer Experience insights, case studies and statistics. Human curated. Delivered weekly. Join more than 5,000 other CX Professionals and subscribe. The post [CX Tribe] 15 March 2022 – Surprising On-Line Reviews Research appeared first on B2B Marketing | Customer Feedback | Net Promoter Score | Genroe.

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Branch and Blueshift: Enabling Seamless Cross-Channel Personalization

Blueshift

With Blueshift’s data activation and Branch’s deep-linking capabilities, marketers can now deliver frictionless personalized experiences to their users across all channels. The post Branch and Blueshift: Enabling Seamless Cross-Channel Personalization appeared first on Blueshift.

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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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Let's Talk about the Taboo: Community & the Sales Cycle

SAP Customer Experience

Let’s talk about the taboo. The sales cycle. Over the years, the sales cycle has gone through some drastic changes. Gone are the days where going door to door or picking up the phone once or twice were enough to get the job done. Some flowers and a nice bottle.

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Build a Brand Advocate Pyramid

Brad Cleveland Blog

Customers are advocates for you when they positively promote your products and brand. Brand advocates, as they are often called, bring much value to your organization. As you think through the many possible alternatives for engaging with both passive and … Continue reading → The post Build a Brand Advocate Pyramid appeared first on Brad Cleveland.

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European Consumers Drive The Sustainability Demand

Forrester's Customer Insights

Guest blog post by Melissa Chaudet, senior research associate. It’s no secret that European consumers are increasingly concerned about the environmental impact of their consumption habits. We’ve recently conducted net-new data research to gain a snapshot of European consumers’ environmental expectations and attitudes. We found that they: Actively seek more environmentally friendly options when shopping. […].

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Build a Brand Advocate Pyramid

Brad Cleveland Blog

Customers are advocates for you when they positively promote your products and brand. Brand advocates, as they are often called, bring much value to your organization. As you think through the many possible alternatives for engaging with both passive and active advocates, I encourage you to develop what some refer to as a brand advocate pyramid. Begin with four levels … The post Build a Brand Advocate Pyramid first appeared on Brad Cleveland.

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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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Customers are paying for their experience, not your service.

Bill Quiseng

“ Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!” Tom Peters. Customers are paying for their experience. It’s ALL about them, NEVER about us. To them, perception is reality. Image is everything. Feelings are facts. And they buy with emotion and justify that decision with reason. .

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10 Inspiring Customer Delight Examples (And Ideas) For 2022

SmartKarrot

Customer delight is about meeting customer expectations and exceeding them. It goes above and beyond a good customer experience. The key to doing that is by making sure customers understand your value. Keeping customers engaged in the company and its offerings is tough. They need to be brand advocates who ship for you and drive long-term growth. Customer delight has become a requisite in the business world.

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The CSM’s Quick Start Guide to Successful Client Onboarding

ClientSuccess

While onboarding a new customer should be an exciting time for both customer and vendor teams, one wrong move can send things spiraling in the wrong direction. After the sales cycle, which can often be drawn-out, chaotic, and intense for both sides, onboarding is the first real chance a new vendor has to make an excellent first impression with a customer and set the stage for what the partnership will genuinely look like moving forward.

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Achieving High Customer Satisfaction at Jackson EMC with Marketplace

Uplight

Most utilities have a goal to improve customer satisfaction, and one important tool is through utility Marketplaces. Jackson Electric Membership Cooperative) or Jackson EMC, a cooperative located in Northeast Georgia. The utility launched Uplight’s Marketplace in 2017 to do just that–boost customer satisfaction. The Marketplace provides instant rebates on smart thermostats as well as Level Read More.

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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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You Say You Want A Revolution? Announcing Our Latest Security Awareness And Training Forrester Wave™

Forrester's Customer Insights

The security awareness and training (SA&T) market has been stagnant for so long, with the last major disruption as far as I can tell being the introduction of phishing simulations about a decade or so ago. Since then, the industry seems to have seen a slow and steady evolution from ticking boxes to meet a […].

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Mar 16 – Customer Success Jobs

SmartKarrot

Role: Senior Director, Customer Success Location: Remote, California, United States Organization: Acre As a Senior Director of Customer Success, you will direct and support a team to manage a portfolio of clients, actively working to ensure they are generating the maximum value from the Higg tools and services. Provide valuable strategic input across client challenges, working in close partnership with the Higg Sales, Partnership, and Product teams.

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Introducing Forrester’s Tech Insight and Econometric Research (TIER) Series

Forrester's Customer Insights

As a tech exec, how have you effectively navigated the current 40-year high growth in prices, the great resignation, and unstable supply chains? It takes nerves of steel to wade through the volatility of today’s markets. As technology continues to reduce industry, labor, and capital market barriers, it becomes vital to be increasingly adaptive as […].

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A CSM’s Guide to Fostering a Culture of Product Experimentation

SmartKarrot

Being a Customer Success Manager is not an easy task. The role demands you to stay on your toes to ensure that customers are continually getting the solution to their problems. SaaS products can have a variety of alternatives of solution and the plethora of options create confusion as to what solution will best suit the customers. To find the best match of customers’ problems and your solution you need just one thing – product experimentation!

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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.