November, 2022

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Cleaning a Toilet vs. Calling Customer Support: 3 Factors Impacting the Customer Experience

InMoment XI

Shep Hyken, a well-known customer service consultant, recently shared that 42% of people would rather clean a toilet than call customer support. This statistic actually didn’t surprise me given how often support experiences leave much to be desired. . This got me thinking: Why is that the case when none of us would claim to enjoy cleaning a toilet!?

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Building a Great CX Team

CX Accelerator

Collaboration with Ben Motteram and Nate Brown To transform an organization into one that is more customer centric is a complex task that requires many different skills. Customer experience is multi-disciplinary. Those who succeed in the profession do so because they possess a number of different skills or are part of a team comprised specialists in each skill.

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Five Ways to Make Customers Feel Special

ShepHyken

An important goal of a good customer experience is to make the customer feel special. That special feeling can come in many different forms. I was reading an article about customer retention, and it prompted me to start a list of ways to make customers feel special, want to come back, and even want to share their experience with friends, family, and colleagues.

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What is the role of customer experience in the telecoms industry entering 2023?

Lumoa

Recently, Lumoa held a webinar where customer experience (CX) experts talked about the role of customer experience in the telecoms industry entering 2023. In this live panel discussion, experts in the field discussed the challenges telcos are facing, the importance of integrating a CX Strategy into a business, and more. This blog will share some of the highlights of the webinar.

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Your Expert Guide to CX Orchestration & Enhancing Customer Journeys

Speaker: Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor at Medallia

Join Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor, in this new webinar that will focus on: Understanding CX Orchestration Fundamentals: Gain a solid understanding of what CX orchestration is, its significance in the customer experience landscape, and how it plays a crucial role in shaping customer journeys. This includes the key concepts, strategies, and best practices involved in CX orchestration. 🔑 Connection to Customer Journey Maps: How to effectively integrate customer journey mapping into the

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Gen Z Mobile Marketing: 7 Tips to Capture Interest and Drive Engagement

Optimove

Gen Z today comprises around one-third of the world’s population. Born between 1997 and 2012 and raised alongside Internet technology since the very beginning of their lives – they hold in their hands (literally, ninety-eight percent own a smartphone) an estimated annual purchasing power of $143 billion. As ever-increasing numbers of this generation complete higher education and take their first steps into the workforce, mobile marketers without a robust Gen Z-focused strategy won’t make it.

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Your Top 3 ROI Questions, Answered

InMoment XI

Imagine if you were still operating your business in the same way you were in 2019. Total nightmare, right? Your customer experience (CX) program, like your business, needs to be able to grow and evolve to prove a return on investment. If you’re like the majority of CX practitioners (CX Network’s “Global State of CX” report shows that it is the second highest concern for CX practitioners), you likely have quite a few ROI questions.

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The Basics of an HVAC Call Answering for Service Techs.

Call Experts

An HVAC call answering for your business is an excellent way to improve efficiency and reduce churn. Answering phone calls can save your employees’ time and stop them from providing services in the field, which can cost you real money. 70% of the customer’s journey is based on how the customer feels they are being treated. An answering service can handle customer calls right away, ensuring they are answered promptly and professionally, so your team can focus on responding to service

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Don’t Forget What Got You to the Dance?

ShepHyken

A restaurant took its most popular item off the menu. It had been on there a long time, and the owner decided it was time to make a change, even though it was his guests’ favorite dish. . A company changed its invoicing terms. It wanted to tighten its terms to get paid sooner, with larger penalties for late payment. . A retail store changed its return policy.

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Qualtrics Announces Consumer Trends That Will Shape 2023

CSM Magazine

Consumers are increasingly seeking a human connection in their interactions with brands, according to Qualtrics 2023 Global Consumer Trends Report. In fact, talking to a helpful, empathetic service agent matters more to customers than having a short wait time. Qualtrics XM Institute surveyed more than 33,000 consumers across 29 countries to understand what is driving the current consumer mindset as the economy pushes people to make tough decisions on where and how they spend their money.

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How Intent Data Helps Marketers Convert A-List Accounts

One of the biggest challenges for any B2B marketer is understanding your prospects’ next move — who is most likely to buy and when. Without these insights, marketing campaigns can feel more like guesswork, with high investment and little return. We’re here to tell you there’s a better way. By tracking buyers’ digital footprints and online activity, such as website visits, product reviews, and spikes in content consumption, you can engage prospects with a message that really resonates.

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How to Move from NPS to EVI®?

Feedbackly

Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a glorified metric in the field of customer experience. Sure enough, the simple question of how likely a customer is willing to recommend the business to others captures many aspects like satisfaction, loyalty, and retention rate. So, in many ways, NPS seems to appear as the only number that you need to grow. However, as we have pointed out in our previous blogs, NPS alone is not enough to gain a good overview of customer experience because it is a survey designed for

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Top 5 Customer Service Trends to Expect in 2023

Comm100

The customer service world continues to develop, and each new year can mean a sea change in changing consumer expectations. As new customer service trends arrive, service that was once considered exemplary might no longer meet the growing customer demand. To help you prepare for the year ahead, in this article we’ll look at the key customer service trends of 2023 and how you can deliver on your consumers’ support expectations. 1.

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CX 101: What Is a Cluster Analysis? 

InMoment XI

Math and numbers are the ultimate in ‘exact science.’ When we work within the confines of mathematics, we can expect absolute precision in our results. In data analysis terms, this can be a real advantage, giving us clear, definite numbers on which to base future decisions. Unfortunately, sometimes the real world being represented by the data is anything but exact.

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7 Tips to Improve Agent Performance

Zonka Feedback

Customer Service Agents are the face of a company when it comes to addressing customer concerns. The interactions between a customer and agent can be a defining moment in whether the business will be successful or not. When it comes to providing a great customer experience, your Customer Service agents need to put in that extra effort that can shape your customers' perspective towards building up loyalty.

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7th Annual CX Report by The Northridge Group Uncovers Priority Training Focus

JUST RELEASED! New research reveals 92% of business leaders would like to provide additional training to their customer service representatives. Soft skills training stands out as a priority area of investment and/or improvement. Check out The Northridge Group’s latest CX research report —the 7th annual CX survey of 1,000 customers and 250 business executives—to see additional statistics as well as insights that businesses can use to benchmark their customer service and improve the overall exper

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Amazing Business Radio: Tim Hughes

ShepHyken

Serve and Sell Your Customers with An Amazing Digital CX. Creating the Digital Experience That Builds Trust with Your Customers. Shep Hyken interviews Tim Hughes, co-Founder and CEO of DLA Ignite , and co-author of Social Selling: Techniques to Influence Buyers and Changemakers. He shares how organizations can establish a strong digital brand identity, share knowledge, and create lasting relationships with their customers through social media platforms.

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Capacity Planning Needs An Overhaul: 5 Tips For A Turnaround

Playvox

Long-term capacity planning needs a serious overhaul, and the best strategy for a turnaround is a radical one. If your full-time employee count (FTE) is consistently under or over your annual capacity plan, you need Radically Operationalized Capacity Planning. While this approach may require entirely new thinking for some contact centers, its potential benefits are significant— and worth the shift.

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What is Emotional Value Index®?

Feedbackly

Emotional Value Index (EVI®) is a CX KPI designed to measure emotional experience. It tries to capture customers’ emotional engagement with the brand as they go through different stages of the customer journey. In this regard, emotional experience is customer experience evaluated using emotions. A study by Harvard shows that 95% of purchase decisions are emotional.

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The Essential Chatbot Success Metrics

Comm100

Chatbots have steadily grown in popularity to become a key component of customer service today. With an AI chatbot in place, organizations can resolve as much as 91% of chats without involving a human agent. With a bot handling most chats, this means organizations can increase support capacity without growing team size, while also delivering 4/7 availability to their customers.

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When Customers Win, You Win: How to Deliver Value That Transforms Your Customer Experience

Speaker: Donna Weber - Customer Onboarding Expert

Customer onboarding is so much more than going live with your product and driving adoption. The truth is, onboarding is the most important part of the customer journey. When you set positive first impressions, establish trusting relationships, and quickly deliver meaningful outcomes, you create customers for life. Invest an hour with Donna Weber to learn why your customer onboarding is critical to your success.

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CX Design: What It Is, How It Works, and How It Creates Experience Improvement

InMoment XI

If you’ve ever heard the terms “ CX ” or “customer experience” before, you probably know that they and similar phrases refer to organizations’ attempts to scour every interaction for feedback and insights. You might also know that customer experience is generally considered to be a more specific subset of user experience ( UX ). But how do those organizations design CX programs?

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Complete Guide to Proactive Customer Support

Kustomer

Over the course of history, the typical support interaction has generally involved a customer reaching out to a business, typically by phone, and waiting in a support queue in the event of something going wrong. But in the world of customer service, timing is everything and proactive support can help. According to the Customer Service Barometer study fielded by American Express, 40% of customers agree that they would be pleased by customer service agents taking care of their needs faster.

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What Did We Learn to Improve CX? – The Daniel Group 2022 Client Conference

Daniel Group

What Did We Learn to Improve CX? – The Daniel Group 2022 Client Conference. Our annual conference theme, Dollars & Sense, suggests the two primary foci of our conference: 1.) how does better CX improve business outcomes and 2.) how to use CX metrics most effectively. First, we want to share some of what we learned to improve CX. Then, over the coming months, we will present more in-depth discussions of the significant conference components to help you improve your CX program.

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Important Agent Performance Metrics to Measure Success

Zonka Feedback

The success and failure of any organization can be defined by how well they take care of their customers and most importantly their concerns. Since Customer Service Agents are the front line of any business, measuring Agent Performance can be a crucial aspect of improving Customer Service Performance and driving success. But many businesses fail to understand that there is so much more to measuring agent performance than monitoring how many calls they take in a day, if they come to work or not,

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How Government Services Can Provide Better Citizen Satisfaction & Experience

Attention government agencies and BPO partners! CXperts is your go-to solution for improving citizen experience. Our omnichannel and digital contact center solutions are designed to supply superior CX, reducing costs and maximizing efficiency. Plus, we are a Minority Owned Business (MBE). With our certifications, we are the perfect partner to help government agencies meet their CX goals and fulfill federal deal requirements.

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Holiday Customer Service and Why Sometimes the Best Gifts Cost Nothing

Call Experts

Investing in a holiday customer service plan is essential to growing your business. 52% of consumers say they have made an additional purchase from a company after a positive customer service experience. But, managing all of the moving parts of your business can feel overwhelming, especially with the onset of the winter season. Managing your customer demands with the needs of your workforce can be easy when you partner with an experienced team like Call Experts.

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How to Improve Customer Service – A Complete Guide of Tools, Tech & Tips

Comm100

How to Improve Customer Service. A Complete Guide of Tools, Tech & Tips. We all know that customer service is important, but just how instrumental it is to success of a company might surprise you. A massive 91% of customers agree that a positive customer service experience makes them more likely to make another purchase. What’s more, 90% of Americans use customer service to decide whether or not to do business with a company.

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Why Self-Serve Support Is Only as Good as Content

Inbenta

At this point, there is no doubt that investing in some sort of self-service tool has its positive ROI. . In the past few years, practically all businesses have invested in chatbots or virtual assistants, made available help centers and FAQ sections , or used other kinds of assisted tools with the aim of helping customers search and find answers to their requests on their own. .

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Top Modern Customer Service Expectations You Need to Know

Kustomer

Customer trends are constantly shifting and growing based on the needs and wants of the modern buyer. Today’s customers choose to shop at specific companies because of affordability, luxury, believing in what the brand stands for, the quality of the product, etc. However, with 79% of consumers saying customer service is extremely important when deciding. where to shop, it should make us all ask the question: what exactly is it that customers are expecting from their customer service experience?

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The Ultimate CX Solution: Combining Software + Service

In today's competitive business landscape, customer experience (CX) has emerged as a critical differentiator. Companies are increasingly investing in CX services to optimize customer satisfaction, drive customer loyalty, and ultimately, enhance their bottom line. Traditionally, businesses have had to choose between a DIY (Do-It-Yourself) approach or a full-service model, where an agency handles the entire CX program.