Wed.Nov 03, 2021

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[Podcast] Secrets of a True Customer Engagement Platform

Lithium

Having a community superpower is a great goal — but it’s not an endpoint. Creating a customer engagement platform that runs user groups, events, support, marketing, eLearning, and a community-driven by a growth mindset… that’s the real objective. In this episode, Scott K. Wilder ( ) , Head of Customer Engagement and Community at HubSpot , discusses evolving a community into a true customer engagement platform.

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When Your Customer Experience Hits a “Bump in the Road”

ShepHyken

One of our faithful subscribers sent in a question. While he’s in the hospitality industry, this could apply to any type of business. There have most likely been times that many of us have fallen short in taking care of our customers. It could be an isolated incident, which is easy to fix. But what happens when it becomes a trend? With that in mind, here’s his question, followed by my answer and comments.

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How a Knowledge Base Can Transform Your CX

Kustomer

In an era where information is generated, circulated, and shared at a dizzying rate, the need for businesses to find an exceptional way to manage and impart information has never been more important. As our world gets faster, the expectations of the customer climb higher. The need for swift, comprehensive yet personal attention is paramount to today’s culture of commerce.

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Will your clients elect you as their go-to professional resource?

One Millimeter Mindset

Clients have a voice and a choice regarding whom they do business with, initially and on an ongoing basis. Obviously, the goal is for clients to initially elect you as their go-to professional resource to serve their needs. However, will they subsequently re-elect you to serve them in the post-pandemic business ecosystem? First, the pandemic created opportunities for suppliers and consultants like you to step up and serve clients in non-traditional ways.

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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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Are we challenging CX?

Zeisler Consulting

One of the roles we, as CX professionals, play, is that of change agents. I realize that’s a term people toss out there when they want to seem important or progressive in business, but when you think about it, one of the core jobs we have is to challenge people to take a different perspective; that of the Customer. In fact, a Process Engineer who used to work for me would say all the time that we need to ‘take off our corporate hat and put on our Customer hat.

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9 Ways a Collaborative Culture Benefits Your Contact Center

Playvox

Teamwork, sharing knowledge and best practices feed company culture. According to a white paper from the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School , when collaboration permeates organizations, they experience huge bottom-line benefits, including engaged employees, attracting and retaining talent, increased velocity, and profitability. With widespread collaboration, employees are more likely engaged in their work, and embracing challenges that take them to the next level. .

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5 Free Customer Success Tools

ChurnZero

When you’re just getting started, or you’re still building your Customer Success team, sometimes you can use all the help you can get. It can be difficult in these situations for Customer Success Managers (CSMs) to find the time or the resources to dig for those crucial customer insights. Customer Success tools that help you stay up-to-date on recent company news, build connections with your customers, flesh out your ideal customer persona, and gather and organize customer feedback can make all

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Why car review sites matter for car buyers

BirdEye

You might forget what you had for breakfast or where you put your keys, but your first car is something you will likely never forget. The experience of buying a car, including the new car smell, is one that is ingrained in your mind forever, but the process has evolved. With a couple of clicks of a mouse, you can purchase groceries, flowers, clothing, and yes even a new car.

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How To Improve The Diversity Of Your Customer Service Team

CSM Magazine

Workplace diversity is great for any organization. It enables a workplace to acquire and keep top multifarious talents. Workplace diversity also allows a customer service business to acquire a broad understanding on the needs and motivations of their clients, customers, and employees. In 2019, a Harvard research found that gender diversity can make workplaces more productive.

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The 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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XaaS and subscription models build customer loyalty, increase engagement, boost revenue

West Monroe

Subscription services are here to stay. But it’s about more than pricing and valuation. Keep customer centricity and scalability top of mind.

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Why (Nearly) Every SaaS Company Should Have A Chief Customer Officer

Gainsight

SaaS is on fire. We all know that, but it strikes me every day. It used to be that you couldn’t name a SaaS company that I didn’t know. Now, I hear about ten new ones a day that I’ve never heard of. And companies and investors have realized that Net Retention – keeping and growing your existing clients – is the number one driver of shareholder value in SaaS businesses.

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Live Session: Consumer Products Marketing Transformation - Driving Breakthrough Growth

SAP Customer Experience

Consumer Products Marketing Transformation: Driving Breakthrough Growth Learn how consumer goods firms are building the marketing capabilities they need to reach and exceed their objectives in the challenging years ahead. Register Tuesday, November 16, 2021 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM ((UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)) A revolution is underway.

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Choosing the best customer loyalty programme

LoyaltyPlus

In the US, consumers hold 3.8 billion memberships in customer loyalty programmes. Closer to home, the average number of loyalty programmes which South Africans belong to has increased to almost nine following the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Clearly, loyalty programmes provide a compelling value proposition, but how should consumers go about selecting ‘the right one’ for their needs?

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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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The Power of SAP Upscale Commerce Native Extensions (BETA)

SAP Customer Experience

Introduction Recently, SAP Upscale Commerce released Native Extensions functionality (in BETA) which allows you to embed Angular libraries directly into an SAP Upscale Commerce PWA application for more fine-grained control over the UI and background logic. so, what’s the difference between the Upscale Custom Components and Native Extensions (BETA)? By.

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Loyalty leaders, episode one: State of retail

PK

The world’s #1 CRM and loyalty services firm Salesforce and PK are joining forces for an exclusive video series on leading with loyalty. In episode one, we dive into the […]. The post Loyalty leaders, episode one: State of retail appeared first on PK.

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October SAP Commerce Cloud News - Product Updates

SAP Customer Experience

Updates Filtering Personalized Products by Category – Now Available for Intelligent Selling Services and Context-Driven Services With the category filtering feature, which is now available also for Personalized Products, you can narrow down the recommended personalized products to the consumer’s current page category. Read all about it in our newly.

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Customer Objectives Review meetings

CustomerSuccessBox

What is a Customer Objectives Review Meeting? This Customer Objective Review(COR) meeting is a redesigned version of a partnership strategic conversation. A COR meeting can be referred to as a conversation to keep in touch with the customer for a good discussion of the ongoing tasks and accomplishments. It can also give an idea of the satisfaction level of the customer and presents a chance to design policies with mutual understanding of the Customer Success team which is the vendor here and the

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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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October SAP Commerce Cloud News - Customer Events, Trainings, and Stories

SAP Customer Experience

Customer Community Sessions Italy | 09 November | Virtual | CX Solutions > DACH | 18 November | Virtual | Commerce Cloud > View Customer Community Page > Join us for the Virtual SAP TechEd This November Calling all IT practitioners, developers, and tech aficionados!

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CSUSB Partners With Kommunicate to Support their Students, Staff, and Faculty 24*7

kommunicate

“Unlike your traditional companies, where customer service agents know how to handle customer queries, an educational institution is entirely different. We are a university, and we wanted a solution to help out students, staff, and faculty access information on various areas,” said Michael Casadonte, Director of Digital Transformation at the California State University, San Bernardino [.].

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To Win Customer Loyalty, Make Customers Feel Valued, Appreciated, And Respected

Forrester's Customer Insights

Each year, we find that emotion has a bigger impact on customer loyalty than effectiveness or ease. This blog post discusses the emotions that have the biggest impact.

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The Ultimate Banking Playbook: Strategy, Digital, and Customer Loyalty

West Monroe

Banks battling through the pandemic must create a strategy to set up both themselves and their clients for long-term success.

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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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Zendesk’s Momentive Acquisition Paves The Road For A Customer Service-CX Data Highway

Forrester's Customer Insights

Customer service is a key driver of customer experience (CX), but technology silos often stand in the way of effective collaboration across CX and customer-facing teams. The recent announcement by Zendesk that it intends to acquire Momentive, parent of the well-known SurveyMonkey brand, has the potential to help users of both platforms break through this […].

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6 common pitfalls to avoid when upgrading your online banking platform

West Monroe

Improve customer experience and retention with online banking platform upgrades—but avoid these hazards while you plan

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The hard truth about your customers' moments of truth

MyCustomer

Loyalty The hard truth about moments of truth.

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Looking to build a subscription model? Do it with a digital mindset.

West Monroe

To keep customers renewing, you need data-driven insights and a frictionless customer experience

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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.