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Ten guiding principles for a better customer experience

PK

Many businesses are working to foster a better experience for their customers. With customer experience being a new area of focus for many, we have found that businesses are ramping into the field very quickly and are sometimes missing some key base principles in the process. This is a set of ten guiding principles that act as a foundation in our CX practice.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 5-10-2021

ShepHyken

Each week I read a number of 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. 8 Ways to Win Customer Loyalty With Streamlined Customer Support by Samuel O’Brien. (CustomerThink) How do you, as a business owner, introduce processes and initiatives to streamline your customer support in order to win over your customers?

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Exceptional? Sales? ?People? ?Deserve? ?to? ?Sell? ?Outstanding? ?Products

TechSee

Here at TechSee, we are incredibly proud of what we’ve created and what it has to offer. In the span of only six years, we’ve established ourselves as the market leader in visual assistance, selling to more than 100 Tier-1 leading enterprises worldwide. Our patented Computer Vision technology uses AI and AR to install and fix technical devices like routers and appliances in the most straightforward and cost-effective way.

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Designing a fantastic customer journey from end-to-end

BirdEye

Delivering world-class experiences on a consistent basis isn’t easy — especially when you’re managing multiple locations. However, businesses that are able to go above and beyond customer expectations see higher loyalty , higher overall star rating, and higher revenue. To find out how multi-location businesses can delight customers consistently, we decided to sit down with Amberlee Maya , Director of Marketing at Rent King.

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3 Ways Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Can Improve Customer Experience

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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Kustomer Named a Winner in the 2021 Excellence in Customer Service Awards

Kustomer

Kustomer is honored to have been named a winner in the 2021 Excellence in Customer Service Awards presented by Business Intelligence Group. This annual business awards program recognizes those who are helping companies better communicate with their customers to provide a differentiated level of customer service. “The past year fundamentally changed the way companies do business and made customer service agents truly the front line for many organizations.

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3 Must-know Principles about Timing of Feedback Surveys

Feedbackly

Feedback surveys are important resources that help businesses assess the quality and success of their Customer Experience (CX) program. But, you cannot use all.

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What To Consider Before Hiring Virtual Assistant Philippines

Magellan Solutions

Hire a virtual assistant in the Philippines. As long as you are in the business, you will definitely need a virtual assistant. Hiring VA’s are being considered especially with the technology developments. Listed below are the general tasks they take up for you: Personal Tasks. You can hire a VA to help out with personal tasks such as: Organizing your personal to-do list and calendar.

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What Is the Value of Customer Service?

ViiBE Blog

Customer service is the direct interaction between the company and the customer. It entails various means of communication, be that support, client engagement, or company updates, and can be exercised both in-person and through the company’s media platforms. Nowadays, such multilateral and proactive cooperation with the customer is considered as one of the backbones of businesses and their performance.

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Workbooks Adds Enhanced Data Quality Capabilities to Its CRM Suite

CSM Magazine

Maintaining the quality of customer and prospect data inside a CRM platform can be a huge and time-consuming challenge for businesses. Workbooks , the cloud-based CRM vendor, today announces the launch of Workbooks DQ (Data Quality), a powerful and flexible tool to drive data quality for improved data trust, decision making and more efficient processes.

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Manual Call Reviews? There's a Better Way!

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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Captive Center vs. Outsourcing: How to Pick the Right One for your Customer Service Needs

Think Customers

There’s no overstating the importance of having high-quality contact centers. These centers are often where customers interact with a brand more directly, and their experiences can bring swift consequences: positive experiences can lead to sales and repeat business, while negative ones can turn customers off a brand for good. Research shows 70% of shopping experiences revolve around how a person feels they are treated.

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Why SMEs Should Follow Companies that Outsource to Philippines

Magellan Solutions

What Benefits Do Companies that Outsource to Philippines Enjoy? . History tells that outsourcing or offshoring favored established companies. Taking into account the prime example of General Motors and Ford Company. Who are both key players in the automotive industry when they incorporate outsourcing into their business strategy. . Even today, large companies and industry players fill up the list of top companies that outsource to Philippines.

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How To Use Matrix Questions In Your Online Surveys?

SurveySparrow

The more structure you add to your survey, the better responses are expected. A monotonous survey will have less or no answer. Hence, designing an engaging one is essential. Wondering how to create such engaging surveys?! Well, it is easy! SurveySparrow provides you with the right features and question types to make the most out of your survey. Yes!

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CX leaders share tried & tested ways to secure customer experience investment

MyCustomer

Engagement Tried and tested ways to justify CX investment.

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What Does it REALLY Mean to Put CX First?

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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Prioritise Your Customers’ Mental Wellbeing To Spur Pandemic Recovery

Forrester's Customer Insights

It’s impossible not to see how consumers have felt the pressure of the 2020 pandemic. People have faced job losses, extended furlough, or enforced remote work while also managing home schooling, and the social (and psychological) impact of lockdowns. Then, there were those on the front-lines; key workers struggling to do their jobs while COVID-19 […].

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Podcast: The Overnight Community Success Plan

inSided

In Episode 11 of The inSide Scoop on Customer Success , we tackle a very important topic: the Community Success Plan. Listen in as our VP of Customer Success and podcast hostess with the mostess, Anika Zubair, talks to Jeff Breunsbach, Director of Customer Experience at Higher Logic and founder of Gain Grow Retain. Communities take a lot of work and they're not an overnight success, but what does it take to build a successful community?

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Build A Culture Of Emotionally-Intelligent Employees To Boost Mental Health

Forrester's Customer Insights

Many companies get emotion wrong… Rather than designing experiences built on a broad spectrum of emotions, they equate emotion with delight. But real joy and real happiness can only exist in relation to all the emotions, they are a “boxed set.” We cannot just pick and choose our emotions. Anger isn’t joy, just as joy […].

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Coming to MyCustomer in June: The CX Leader Sessions

MyCustomer

Engagement Coming to MyC in June: The CX Leader Sessions.

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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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Should you Charge for Customer Success?!

CSM Practice

Should you charge for Customer Success?! In reality, startup companies are often puzzled about the most effective approach to charging for customer success without increasing the churn risk. In this blog we will share a step-by-step approach to charging for customer success without hurting your net retention rate. . While Customer Success is the key to customer satisfaction, account expansion, and advocacy.

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4 Reasons Your Company Needs an Intranet

CSM Magazine

Some might think corporate intranet is dead, but this is further from the truth. More business organizations are still using this technology to bring people together and promote an effective, efficient, and collaborative working environment. For newer or younger IT professionals, however, the intranet may appear to be a fragment from a bygone era characterized by mainframe computers and modem-based communication apparatus.

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Warning: Employee Engagement Is Higher Than You Think – Carefully Monitor The Burnout Factor

Forrester's Customer Insights

This week is European Mental Health Week. There are many different facets to mental health but no doubt our relationship to work is a key component of it, simply because we spend so much time working and because work (or the absence of it) also shapes our very own identities. The pandemic has drastically changed […].

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How Email Marketers Can Use Data to Combat Inbox Overload

Oracle

The average professional sends and receives 127 business emails per day. That’s a large chunk of time spent on one communication channel. But often, email marketers , specifically in retail, send large amounts of email because they may feel pressured by those who believe it drives revenue. More sends beget more money, theoretically. However, email marketers also recognize that email file health is critical.

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Customer Experience Myths Guidebook

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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Transactional NPS (tNPS)

GetFeedback

Learn why transactional NPS surveys are valuable for your business and when it’s appropriate to use them.

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WATCH NOW: MyCustomer introduces The CX Leader Sessions

MyCustomer

Engagement WATCH NOW: Introducing The CX Leader Sessions.

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The Future of College Sports: New Study Reveals How Athletic Directors and Administrators Can Enhance the College Football Experience

Qualtrics

The future of sports is facing an experience transformation. The events of 2020 forced leagues to think differently and create new ways to engage with fans and staff. Externally, the fan experience was forced out of stadiums, and into living rooms via computer, television, and mobile screens. Internally, leagues continue to struggle as they figure out how to keep fans and athletes healthy and safe while continuing operations.

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Coming to MyC in June: The CX Leader Sessions

MyCustomer

Engagement Coming to MyC in June: The CX Leader Sessions.

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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,