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How to Make a Quality Customer Journey Map (Fast!)

Ecrion

Every business owner knows the value of getting into the minds of their target audience. What makes customers tick? What problem do they face and what solution can you offer? Beyond simply identifying your customer’s pain points, you need to understand the motivation behind the customer journey. Tracking, recording, and examining customer behavior provides valuable insight into how clients are interacting (or not interacting) with your brand.

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Checklist for Digital Transformation

Interactions

First off, let’s start by establishing that digital transformation for customer experience is truly a transformation. It’s not as simple as adding an additional channel such as a chatbot, but more about elevating the entire customer experience. This requires backend integration and process design across all (existing and new) channels and touchpoints to create a seamless and effortless digital experience. .

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Is IT the ‘It Factor’ for CCOs?

Heart of the Customer

Chief Customer Officers (CCOs) are popping up in boardrooms across Fortune 500 companies in ever increasing numbers. Those chosen for the position often come from Marketing or Customer Support, as those disciplines are thought of as having the most interaction with customers, making them seem like a natural fit. But are those departments really the […].

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Where AI Meets CX: Inventor of the Hashtag Shares Innovative Concepts Pt 2

Beyond Philosophy

We recently learned about the inventor of the hashtag Chris Messina’s concept of Conversational Commerce and how it has changed the way brands interact with their customer on social media platforms. Today we will learn about how this relationship will continue to evolve as we move into a new year and a new decade. . We spoke with Messina in a recent podcast about how a brand can humanize itself for its customers.

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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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HOW TO BALANCE SALES AND CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE & MORE FT. NICK DINARDO

Michel Falcon Experience

In this episode, I sit down with VP of Salesforce Sales Nick DiNardo. Here’s What You’ll Learn: How to Increase Employee Engagement Amongst Remote Teams Customer Experience and On-Boarding New Clients How To Balance Sales and Customer Experience. DON’T FORGET! I HAVE NOT BEEN PREPPED ON ANY OF THE QUESTIONS ON MY BREAKING IT DOWN EPISODES.

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Combining Historic & Realtime Data to Fix a Common Problem

Optimove

We all want to be able to send the right message, to the right player, at the right time, and through the right channel. At Optimove, we are making this an everyday reality for our clients. And if a challenge comes along that requires a bit of technical creativity, well, it just makes it all the more fun at the end – when the CRM team can show true uplift thanks to these efforts.

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3 Essential Ingredients to Digitally Transform Customer Service

NICE inContact

In this video, the next in our series on Transforming Customer Experiences, Vit Horky, Sr. Director, Digital Experience, talks about the fundamental changes taking place in the customer service market as the result of newly arriving technologies and changes in consumer behaviors.

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Social Listening & Market Intelligence Saving Retailers From eCommerce Crush

NetBase

It’s no surprise that new online stores are opening up faster than brick and mortar, but the fact that they’ve begun to displace in-person shopping is concerning. Retailers’ landscape is changing, and brands must get their social listening and market intelligence intel in order if they hope to avoid the ecommerce crush! Retailers Must Adapt or Die.

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Why You Can’t Uplevel Customer Satisfaction Without Agent Satisfaction

NICE inContact

You can’t move Customer Satisfaction without moving Agent Satisfaction — and the data explains just how direct the link is. According to a Gartner survey, 86% of CX executives believe Employee Experience (EX) is the most important factor in delivering Customer Experience (CX).

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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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Engage Work-At-Home Staff With These 5 Best-Kept Secrets

Playvox

Studies show that the work-at-home call center population is seeing a 25% annual growth. Although this is great news as work-at-home staff experiences up to 50% less attrition than regular contact center employees, managing a remote workforce presents a whole new set of challenges in terms of communication.

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Building a Proactive Data-Driven Customer Success Engagement

CSM Practice

At early startup stages , customer success teams and other customer-facing teams are usually familiar with their customer base. A handful number of customers at this level means that customer success teams can identify most customers by name, describe their expected business outcomes, and predict at-risk and successful customers. This relationship-driven engagement model becomes difficult as the customer base becomes larger and more diversified.

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4 Times When Marketing Really Nailed It: How Experiential Marketing Wins Big for Brands

CSM Magazine

The parameters of what constitutes a great marketing campaign have changed enormously over the decades, once upon a time it was sales figures alone that caused a stir amongst the internal management teams. Now we hold so much more stock in online sentiment, engagement and brand authority, all of which often have a knock-on effect to sales, but when times are tight, creating lasting brand awareness is what pays dividends.

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Career Pathways for Customer Experience Professionals

Oracle

If you work on a customer experience team — as an account manager or success rep — you may be wondering where your career will take you in the next 2, 5, or 10 years. It’s hard to see so far into the future given the evolution of automation and AI. The job that you have today might not exist in the future. Isn’t that a weird thought? That’s because your career path is yours to create.

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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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24 must-see tech sessions at X4 2020

Qualtrics

Get the inside track from innovators at the world’s largest and most disruptive tech, media and telecom brands, industry experts, and the world’s experience management leaders at X4 Summit 2020. You’ll find it all at X4 – stories from the brands using XM to deliver breakthrough results, thought leadership from the best in the business, and an inside look at the tech helping XM professionals reach new heights in employee experience.

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Do your corporate social responsibility plans meet customer expectations?

MyCustomer

Loyalty How do your social responsibility plans shape up?

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Morgan Stanley Grows Its Brokerage Business With E-TRADE Acquisition

Forrester's Customer Insights

Morgan Stanley announced today that it is acquiring discount broker E-TRADE for $13 billion, bringing 5.2 million new customer accounts and $360 billion in assets in the biggest takeover of a US bank since the financial crisis. The acquisition will transform Morgan Stanley from a bank that primarily relied on investment banking, trading and wealth […].

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Customer Access Strategy as Playbook

Brad Cleveland Blog

Does a customer access strategy sound like something that would be nice to have? Actually, it’s vital. Just ask anyone who’s part of the University of California’s Retirement Administration Service Center (UC RASC).

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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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Condé Nast’s 3 Steps to Building a Global Insight Engine

Alida

“We were flying blind. We didn’t have consistent data, we didn’t know much about our global audience, and it was very difficult to make decisions. Now, with one centralized platform, we’re infusing our deep customer knowledge into business decisions in every market around the world.”. — Chris Austin, Director of Data & Insights, Condé Nast.

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Customer Access Strategy as Playbook

Brad Cleveland Blog

Does a customer access strategy sound like something that would be nice to have? Actually, it’s vital. Just ask anyone who’s part of the University of California’s Retirement Administration Service Center (UC RASC). The University of California is the world’s … Continue reading → The post Customer Access Strategy as Playbook appeared first on Brad Cleveland.

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Self-service, AI Chatbots, Knowledge Management – How to Evaluate their ROI

Inbenta

Customer self-service ROI. When monitoring the performance of a self-service initiative, there are a variety of different KPIs to keep track of in order to allow ROI to be measured. One of the main indicators that can be taken into account is contact economy, which is based on the number of contacts avoided by phone or email. While figures vary depending on solution providers, it is commonly admitted that implementing a self-service tool allows businesses to reduce the number of incoming contact

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Customer Access Strategy as Playbook

Brad Cleveland Blog

Does a customer access strategy sound like something that would be nice to have? Actually, it’s vital. Just ask anyone who’s part of the University of California’s Retirement Administration Service Center (UC RASC).

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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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SurveyGizmo and PDRIB Power Ground-Breaking Research on Blindness

SurveyGizmo

By Tim Svensen, Software Engineering Manager, and Chris Cantrell, UX Designer. Our customers continually inspire us. They leverage the SurveyGizmo platform in ways we never imagined, using feedback to drive real impact throughout their organizations. Take Mary Ann Mendez. An accomplished researcher at the Professional Development and Research Institute on Blindness (PDRIB), she’s a real force of nature.

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Confirmit Studio

Confirmit

Confirmit Studio makes the complex simple, helping you to deliver personalized end user experiences across data analysis, exploration and taking action. Using Confirmit Studio you can easily add your preferred widgets onto a canvas to build out reports and dashboards tailored to the unique needs of your company’s users. The pages you create can provide at-a-glance data visualizations, reports, metrics and KPIs, as well as support tactical and strategic actions.

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RSA Conference 2020: My Shopping List

Forrester's Customer Insights

The leadup to RSAC2020 has been interesting to say the least. IBM made a decision to exempt its employees from the event due to concerns about the Covid19 pandemic, days later RSA was acquired by a private equity firm, and there’s only a few days left before the event as this goes live. First a […].

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Confirmit Studio

Confirmit

Confirmit Studio makes the complex simple, helping you to deliver personalized end user experiences across data analysis, exploration and taking action. Using Confirmit Studio you can easily add your preferred widgets onto a canvas to build out reports and dashboards tailored to the unique needs of your company’s users. The pages you create can provide at-a-glance data visualizations, reports, metrics and KPIs, as well as support tactical and strategic actions.

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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.