March, 2022

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How Targeted Surveys Help Improve Your Customer Experience (CX)

InMoment XI

One tool is practically synonymous with the customer experience (CX) industry: surveys. Since the inception of the industry, targeted surveys have been seen as a foundational listening and research tool that leverages strategic questions to collect data from a specific group of customers. Sending out a targeted survey is the first step to improving customer experiences, employee experiences, and even the bottom line.

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Engaging Younger Audiences: How to Reach Gen Z Customers

Alida

For the generation hailed as being constantly connected, it can be a struggle to effectively reach out to members of Gen Z (or Zoomers). With a spending power of over $140 billion , consumers born after 1996 are a force to be reckoned with and their influence on the economy will continue to grow.

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CX Moneyball: Running the Numbers to Cover Your Bases

BlueOcean

If you’ve been a reader of Blue Ocean’s blog for any length of time, you probably know we love sports and particularly baseball. The common thread between what workforce management experts and what the manager of a pro sports team might do when the game is on the line is pretty obvious once you think about: we both depend on both statistics and relentless practice to make informed decisions and react to changing dynamics.

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The Real Difference Between Customer Support and Customer Success

Retently

With new SaaS companies popping up every day and a customer-centric culture coming into play, there’s (understandably) some confusion about how to manage customer interactions. For many companies, the entire conversation takes place under the umbrella of Customer Support (or Technical Support). Some companies have separated these functions further and appointed specialized groups for Onboarding, Implementation, and Customer Education.

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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Never, Never, Never Be Late

ShepHyken

Never being late … that’s not realistic. It’s going to happen. It’s not a question of if. It’s when. . But you might say, “It’s not my fault!” And maybe it’s not. For example, you may be driving to a lunch meeting, and a car accident shuts down the highway making you. And it’s not just about arriving late to a commitment. It could be a delay in shipping a product.

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Optimizing Employee Insights from Structured and Unstructured Data

InMoment XI

Power from the People. Employee insights can come from a multitude of sources like unstructured data; and, with churn at record levels (estimated at 30% – 40% per year, and with Gen Z changing jobs at a rate 134% higher than in pre-pandemic 2019)—and the cultural, operational, and customer value discontinuity this can create—it’s essential for every company to have, and apply, every piece of relevant data. .

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Expert Tips to Effectively Generate and Utilize Actionable Customer Insights

Alida

In 2020, every person generated 1.7 megabytes per second. And a lot of that data could be used by businesses to create better products and provide a better overall customer experience for their audience.

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Customer Advisory Boards (CABs): Frequently Asked Questions

PeopleMetrics

Customer advisory boards (CABs) can be a powerful tool in your organization's arsenal. They can help you better guide your customer experience strategy , prepare for product launches, learn more about your audience—essentially any goal or initiative that would benefit from direct customer insight. But what are customer advisory boards? How do they work?

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The Three Leading Causes of Customer Churn

Retently

Churn. It’s that awful, nasty, revenue-crushing word that every SaaS company has to deal with at some point in their customer lifecycle. Some companies experience a massive churn rate and have to fight for every customer. Others have cracked the code and find their churn rate so low, they rarely have to think about it. There is also a third group of businesses that will continue to grow in spite of a high customer churn because of the impressive revenue generated by existing clients.

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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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Back to Class: Shep’s Law of Customer Service

ShepHyken

Let’s go back to physics class for just a moment. Isaac Newton’s third law of motion states, “For every action in nature, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” I admit to struggling in physics, but this was one principle I understood. The other day, a friend quoted Newton’s third law, and it hit me. Not only does this happen in physics, but it also happens in business, specifically when there is bad customer service or a bad customer experience (CX).

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Getting customer service right on Mother’s Day

Eptica

Date: Friday, March 18, 2022 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Getting customer service right on Mother’s Day. Published on: March 18, 2022. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Mother’s Day brings increased pressure for contact centres, as it falls on a Sunday and requires everything, from delivery to the present itself, to be perfect.

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How 3 CX Trends Compare from North America to Asia-Pacific in 2022

InMoment XI

Earlier this year, we released a customer experience (CX) (and employee experience) trends report for both the North America and Asia-Pacific (APAC) regions. These new CX trends were based on indirect and inferred data, as well as surveys across several industries. And surprisingly, there were some standout similarities that connected the two seemingly disparate customer bases.

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5 Steps to Building an Effective Customer Survey in 2022

Alida

Only one in 26 customers are likely to complain about the product or service issues they are facing on their own. The rest will gradually become unhappy and leave your company without you ever getting a chance to learn what went wrong or how you could address the issue.

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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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9 Best Customer Success Communities in 2022

Totango

Getting involved in the best customer success communities can give you access to the resources you need to take your CS team to new levels of performance. Here’s our guide to the top customer success communities in 2022 and what they have to offer. First, we’ll take a look at just what a customer success community is and what the benefits of being involved in one are.

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Remaining Competitive in Retail: How to Optimize Customer Experience

CSM Magazine

In retail, the customer is king. It is common knowledge that the retail industry thrives on positive customer interactions and feedback, so when reviewing the ways in which organizations can grow and remain competitive in their field, it is vital to craft plans that revolve around optimizing the customer experience. For retail business, the customer journey extends far beyond the initial sales engagement.

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A Fictional Press Release Can Be a Great Motivator

ShepHyken

I’ve been asked many times how to get the C-suite to invest in customer service. There are plenty of good answers. My go-to response has always been, “Show them the numbers.” The C-suite loves numbers. Prove that spending $100 will make the company $200, and you just may capture the attention of a decision-maker in the C-suite. . Now there is a new way to approach leadership with an idea, which is to write a Fictional Press Release. .

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Customer experience versus customer service: what’s the difference?

Interactions

There’s a lot of jargon thrown around in the contact center space. From customer experience and customer journey, to customer service and customer care, are they all talking about the same thing? Does it even matter what it’s called. Let’s take a step back. Looking at the big picture, we know that all these terms have something to do with the relationship between a business and their customers.

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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When CX Value Is Hard to Find: 3 Truths You Need to Hear if Your CX Program Isn’t Moving the Needle

InMoment XI

Here’s a difficult truth you may be facing: “my customer experience (CX) program is just not moving the needle.” Whether it’s an inability to prove CX value or a lack of recognition for your improvement efforts, it’s a scary realization to have. At the same time, it’s also an opportunity for you to reassess and, more importantly, transform. The beginning of a true CX transformation journey starts with facing the reality that your old ways of approaching experiences might not be the best—and bein

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4 Ways Customer Feedback Can Make or Break Your Company

Alida

As consumer behavior trends drastically shift and meaningful connections between customers and brands becomes increasingly vital for success, more and more brands are turning to customer feedback management. With the power of direct customer feedback, even your most unhappy customers can prove to be an integral opportunity for growth and improvement.

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Customers Give Feedback Every Day. Most Brands Just Aren’t Listening.

Heart of the Customer

After decades of steady improvement, coinciding with the emergence of customer experience (CX) as a discipline, the America Customer Satisfaction Index now reports that customer satisfaction has been on the decline since 2019, erasing years of gains. This despite organizations focusing on and investing more in CX than ever before. SuperOffice’s survey of 1,920 business […].

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EX = CX: How to create a thriving gigCX model

Think Customers

Gig customer experience (gigCX) workers—independent contractors, freelancers, and other temporary workers who provide customer support and other related services—are a natural fit in the contact center space. Individuals who are looking for a remote work environment with flexible hours are increasingly joining customer care, back office, growth services, data annotation, and content moderation teams.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Everything You Need to Know to Turn Customers Into Brand Ambassadors

Kustomer

In a crowded marketplace, where consumers are often bombarded with marketing claims made by brands, it can be difficult for them to know who to trust. In these situations, many turn to their peers for recommendations or advice. Recent research carried out by Kantar found friends and family to be the most trusted source of recommendations in all age groups.

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Chatbots and Automation: I Don’t Think We’re Quite There Yet

CSM Magazine

The rise of automation in customer service has become more prominent within many industries. But along with the positives and time saving tasks it can provide, it can also prove to be a deterrent for its users. How many times have you needed to contact a company and struggled to find the correct department or even just a central phone number? Did you try to go though a chatbot to quickly find an answer to your question only to be directed to the FAQs, articles, or a customer forum?

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3 Challenges Utilities Brands Face When Aligning Strategy, Ops, and Services to CX Needs

InMoment XI

Customer experience (CX) leaders from utilities brands are facing unprecedented challenges in 2022. Increased government regulation and new market entrants with unique service-based offerings are creating a disruptive wave of change that traditional utilities need to respond to. But here at InMoment, we don’t like to merely dwell on obstacles and complexities.

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How to identify and reduce customer friction points

ChurnZero

Nowadays, marketers are hyper-aware of the importance of the customer journey and creating an intuitive user experience. In most cases, however, there are still plenty of opportunities to streamline the process and reduce customer friction. . Customer friction points are any obstacles that stand between the customer and what they want — think clunky checkout processes, complicated phone menus, or any steps that feel extra and unnecessary.

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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