Fri.Feb 28, 2020

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Guest Post: What a CX Professional Can Learn from a Top Salesperson

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Eric Melchor, founder of Elevate My CX. He shares a story about a salesperson who performed a technique that even surprised a renowned social psychologist. If you’re a Customer Experience specialist, you might think that salespeople are not the kind of role models to get customer care tips from. In fact, you’re probably telling yourself – “Salespeople?

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5 Benefits of Social Media in Customer Service

CSM Magazine

Social media has become a hot topic in the customer service sector, and for good reason. A recent survey by NM Incite found that nearly half of all users of social media channels, like Twitter or Facebook, have used these websites to reach out to companies for service. A majority of these users are also likely to recommend a company to others if they receive satisfactory service from that company.

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Why you need to give consumers channel choice to drive engagement

Eptica

Date: Friday, February 28, 2020 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Marketing Manager Why you need to give consumers channel choice to drive engagement. Published on: February 28, 2020. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Marketing Manager The number of channels available to consumers has skyrocketed. Stalwarts such as the telephone, email and the web have been joined by the likes of chat and social media, all putting pressure on brands and their resources to meet changing customer expectations.

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Create a Strong Customer Engagement Strategy

Totango

We all want to believe that we have a strong relationship with our customers. However, the truth is that we’re only as important to them as the value we offer their businesses. The digitization of business has created a customer-centric economy, and people switch services until they find the solution that suits them. So when you get the customer’s attention, you have to maximize every conversation and engagement to prove you are the right partner to nurture their long-term growth.

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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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The Virtual Assistant as Shopping Advisor

Interactions

When I titled my recent conference talk “Are you being served?” one of my colleagues on LinkedIn promptly responded, “Mr. Humphries, are you free?” This is, of course, because I’ve surrounded myself with people who “get” BBC references and who are familiar with the 70s-80s sitcom involving the staff of a department store. In between hijinks, the shop assistants connected with their customers for a specific purpose: to lead them toward an informed and personalized purchase, while providing excel

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How to Conduct Brand Awareness Surveys & What Are the Related Questions

ProProfs Chat

When you want to buy a new phone, you’ll go for Apple if you need a good camera, you’ll go for One+ for speed etc. This is what brand awareness does, it not only affects the decisions of the customers, but it also creeps into the lifestyle. . A majority of B2B marketers today focus on enhancing their marketing strategies on a daily basis. Yet, sometimes, marketers overestimate their marketing and branding efforts.

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Q&A: Digital Customer Success Strategies to Drive User Adoption

ChurnZero

Q&A: Digital Customer Success Strategies to Drive User Adoption. Accessing meaningful data points early in the customer journey can be difficult. You can easily miss opportunities to deeply understand your customers’ behavior when your insights depend on those data points. But, if you’re using digital communication, you have access to all sorts of “marketing” metrics to better understand your customers’ product and communication engagement.

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Spitch and Creative Virtual Partner to Bring Speech Recognition and Conversational AI Together

CSM Magazine

Spitch AG, the leading developer of enterprise speech solutions have announced a partnership with Creative Virtual, a world leader in customer and employee engagement solutions. . The collaboration will utilise the technologies of both companies to provide customers with self-service solutions capable of enhancing customer experience, sales and support services.

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Justworks boosts experience for both customer and employee with Talkdesk

Talkdesk

Justworks ’ mission is to make it easier to run a business by providing a simple and friendly platform, expert support from real people when it’s needed, and access to corporate-level bene?ts that ensure people feel secure and valued. Justworks handles the nitty-gritty of payroll, benefits, compliance and HR, so customers have more time to learn, grow and seek something worthwhile.

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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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Spitch AG and Creative Virtual Bring Speech Recognition and Conversational AI Together

CSM Magazine

Spitch AG, the leading developer of enterprise speech solutions, with headquarters in Switzerland and offices in London, Madrid and Milan, today announced a partnership with Creative Virtual, a world leader in customer and employee engagement solutions. . The collaboration will utilise the technologies of both companies to provide customers with self-service solutions capable of enhancing customer experience, sales and support services.

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Net Promoter Score: What Is It, Anyway?

Oracle

Gaining information from your customers about what’s working, and what’s not, is invaluable. Yet, gleaning customer insight for your business can be difficult. And worse, many methods of data collection are burdensome on consumers. Who has the time sit down and answer a lengthy questionnaire about their overall sales experience? Yet, organizations still rely on customer data to improve systems and create a better customer experience — so what are they to do if they don’t know h

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2020 Five Steps to Building a Successful Social Analytics Program

NetBase

Wondering why most social marketing campaigns fail to meet brand expectations? It’s because they’re long on expectations and short on insight – and it’s why having a strategic social analytics program is so essential. It serves as the foundation of industry leaders’ online efforts. Our latest report shares Five Steps to Building a Successful Social Analytics Program.

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Strategic Design Is Finally Recognized In Agile Frameworks

Forrester's Customer Insights

Designers joining Agile teams often complain about feeling like misfits. The importance of good design is mentioned in Agile principles, but designers are nowhere in the picture. The only individuals that Agile principles mention are business people and developers. How do you fit in, then, when you are a user experience, customer experience, service, or […].

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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 operationalize innovation

PK

You may think that digital transformation is driven by technology, but it’s actually all about people. Innovation is only valuable if it can be operationalized and made core to how your business works, and your people are your greatest asset in unlocking that value. Turning your digital ambitions into revenue requires putting the right people, motivators and organizational structure into place to leverage the power of new innovations.

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5 Signs Your Company Needs a New Insurance Provider

CSM Magazine

When it comes to dealing with the many challenges a busy industry provides, it can be easy to get caught up by how hectic things are, and neglect aspects that require your attention more than most. For most startups, insurance woes are some of the most common aspects that are neglected as companies they work toward their own brand of success. The result is a business that fails to live up to expectations and ends up tanking due to problems with insurance.

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NetBase

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What is Job Satisfaction?

Happy or Not

Employee retention should be one of the main priorities that any business tackles at any given time. When you provide a thriving company culture and work to ensure […]. The post What is Job Satisfaction? appeared first on HappyOrNot.

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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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In the next decade, travel will be as much about the journey as the destination

Happy or Not

In a guest post for Travolution, one of the UK’s leading industry travel trades, our founder and CEO Heikki Väänänen discusses the changing face of travel in the […]. The post In the next decade, travel will be as much about the journey as the destination appeared first on HappyOrNot.

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Hacking Habits: Tapping into Consumer Behavior and Routines

Conifer Research

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The Feature Our Happiest Customers Love Most

Brandwatch CX

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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.