January, 2023

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XI Café Podcast, Episode 3: A Deep Dive Into The Maturity of Voice of Customer Programs in New Zealand

InMoment XI

Welcome back to the XI Café Podcast! The XI Café Podcast was created so that CX program owners around the world could join the conversation and learn from global businesses and industry experts about the latest experience improvement innovations in technology and research services, industry and market expertise, and customer (CX) and employee (EX) engagement best practices.

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Top Ten Customer Service and Customer Experience Predictions for 2023

ShepHyken

Happy New Year! We have an exciting year ahead of us. So much has changed in just the past three years. And in the world of customer service and CX, there is much to be excited about. Last month I released my annual Top Ten Customer Experience Predictions in my weekly Forbes column. I don’t often repeat content, but I’m going to share those predictions and trends here, in a revised and shorter format.

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7 Contact Center Trends to Watch in 2023

Tricia Morris

Contact center leaders, your time is now. Customer service and customer experience analysts and thought leaders are suggesting that the contact center is “the next big tech frontier.” Investment in the contact center is increasingly—finally.

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5 Customer Experience Predictions for 2023  

Comm100

2023 looks to be a year of great change in customer experience (CX). With economic uncertainty ahead, some organizations are asking employees to make do with fewer resources, while others are increasing CX investment. This is all occurring against a backdrop of incredibly high CX expectations across industries and ever-developing technology. To help make sense of the year ahead and plan for the ever-shifting CX landscape, we’ve asked five experts in the field for their CX predictions for 2023. 1

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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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Survey Design – Best Practices

Lumoa

Surveys are one of the most useful tools out there for gathering quick feedback from customers, and understanding what motivates them. But with great power comes great responsibility – if you’re going to get the results you need to make critical business decisions, it’s important that your survey design is done well! Here we’ll discuss some best practices for designing effective surveys – everything from creating questions that elicit actionable responses, to logic-

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Why You Should Aspire to Drive Customer Lifetime Value—Not ‘Just’ Upsell Customers

InMoment XI

Cross-selling and upselling have formed the bedrock of brand aspirations for their existing customer base for a long time now. For several years, it was also one of four economic pillars (along with customer acquisition , customer retention, and lowering cost to serve) my colleagues and I used to frame customer experience (CX) programs for our clients.

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Upgrade Your Customer Service to a First-Class Experience

ShepHyken

Many years ago, a friend shared some advice with me: It doesn’t cost much more to enjoy a first-class experience. He was referring to spending just a little more in certain situations to get much more out of the experience. It could be a nicer hotel, a better seat in a theater, a better cut of meat at the grocery store, and more. He found that it often doesn’t cost much more to upgrade.

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A Guide to Measuring Product-Market Fit with PMF Surveys

Retently

Achieving the much-desirable product-market fit is the ultimate goal of any SaaS business. After all, it means that a company has identified its business niche, has found a profitable market, and has a product that is well-liked by customers – the true Promoters. They don’t have to worry about going bust because what they sell is what the market needs.

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How do I discover if my customer has decided to buy?

Beyond Philosophy

In sales, it can be tough to know when a customer is no longer deciding but already decided—unless, of course, they tell you that out loud. So, it is incumbent upon you to read the signs that a customer has decided to buy. For example, I like to make drawings with pen and paper during my sales presentations with a contact. Then, I position the pen toward them during the discussion as an invitation for them to pick up and draw a little bit, too.

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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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The Ultimate Guide: How to Build a Customer Experience Department

Lumoa

Understanding customers is a key step to success, and organizations do it best when they have a customer experience department in place. This department is tasked with analyzing customer feedback and data and disseminating its findings to improve the organization’s processes, products, and services. Furthermore, customers remember their good and bad experiences with brands.

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Customer CARE is the New Marketing

Bill Quiseng

Through social media, people are talking about you whether you know it or not, like it or not. Customers who are dissatisfied with your service rant about their no class experience to others. They’re not just talking about you to their friends on social media. They’re telling everyone, even complete strangers. If they’re not talking no class, then they’re just not talking about you at all.

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XI Café Podcast, Episode 2: How CSC Re-Launched its CX Program to Achieve Higher Customer Engagement and Positive Business Outcomes

InMoment XI

Welcome back to the XI Café Podcast! The XI Café Podcast was created so that CX program owners around the world could join the conversation and learn from global businesses and industry experts about the latest experience improvement innovations in technology and research services, industry and market expertise, and customer (CX) and employee (EX) engagement best practices.

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Three Ways to Create an Employee Experience that Creates a Better Customer Experience

ShepHyken

Most everyone in the business world is familiar with the idea of customer experience (CX). And as popular as CX is, there’s a somewhat new concept that has been coming on strong for the past five years, and that’s the employee experience (EX). With the employment issues of the past two years, EX is as important, maybe even more so, than CX. You can’t have a consistent and predictable CX without an EX to support it. .

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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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Brand Loyalty? “Lol, Not Without Trust,” Consumers Say 

Optimove

Consumer trust is a crucial component of any successful marketing strategy. It’s more important than any promotion, feature, funny post on social, or brand color. As economic uncertainty persists, consumer financial confidence declines (see our recent Consumer Holiday Spending Survey ), and their willingness to spend drops. Naturally, with their limited budgets, consumers prioritize brands they know and trust over new ones they don’t know, or worse, brands they already know and don’t trust.

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Social listening vs social monitoring: The key differences

BirdEye

Social listening and social monitoring are often used interchangeably, but there are some big differences between the two. By understanding these differences, companies can create highly effective marketing strategies and gain a better understanding of their social media presence. In this blog post, we’ll explore the key differences between social listening vs social monitoring so that you can make informed decisions when it comes to your business’s digital presence.

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Improving Your Customer Service with a Comprehensive Customer Experience Audit Checklist

Lumoa

Civil rights activist Maya Angelou once said that people will forget what you said or did but will always remember how you made them feel. This is especially true when it comes to serving your customers. Customer service in the 21st century is not just the prerogative of one specific department but of every business process, role, and philosophy. This article looks at how customer service can be optimized for better results.

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2023 Trends in CX, Fintech & AI: Go bold or get left behind

Beyond the Arc

2022 started off like a typical rom-com; after a couple of life-changing adventures, we thought we were finally headed toward our happily-ever-after. But wait—as we begin the first chapter of 2023, there’s a looming plot twist. What customer experience (CX) challenges can we expect to see in 2023?Spotting emerging trends and helping clients take advantage [.].

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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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Customer Service Secrets Podcast: Using Customer Experience Data Analytics to Personalize the Customer Journey With Steven Maskell

Kustomer

In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets podcast , Gabe Larsen is joined by Steven Maskell , Vice President of Customer Experience at Zones , to discuss how to use customer experience data analytics to create a personalized, data-driven customer experience. Learn how Steven does so by listening to the podcast below. Creating a Data-Driven Customer Experience Steven Maskell has successfully led service teams for nearly 30 years.

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How Customer Service Chatbots Can Improve The Customer Experience

kommunicate

Last Updated on January 5, 2023 A customer service chatbot has become a requisite for achieving great customer satisfaction. 60% of millennials prefer chatbots to have their queries addressed! While chatbots make a route to savings on customer support costs and valuable time, their interaction with your customers can also be a game-changer in the [.].

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How To Retain “Fickle” Forex Traders

Optimove

We want to make retention marketing a priority. So where to start? Providing top-notch customer service is a must these days, to keep traders happy, engaged, and active, where traders have high expectations, low levels of patience and infinite options. Offering bonuses is all well and good, but we all know there are problematic traders who will take the bonus and run.

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Does your company need an online reputation manager?

BirdEye

With the rise of social media and customer reviews, an online reputation manager has become an essential role for organizations looking to maintain a positive online presence. Investing in this position can help you attract new customers and protect your brand’s online reputation. In this blog post, we’ll discuss what kind of skills are required for an online reputation manager and why online reputation management services are so important.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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Why Customer Health Scoring Matters

Team Support

Understanding and measuring customer sentiment and health is a critical aspect of running a successful business. It allows you to gauge how your customers feel about your brand, products, and services, and make adjustments as needed to improve the customer experience. By regularly tracking customer health, businesses can make informed decisions that lead to increased customer satisfaction, retention, and revenue.

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In hospitality, your people are NOT your most important assets.

Bill Quiseng

In hospitality, your people are NOT your most important assets. In the book Good to Great, Jim Collins writes that “People are not your most important asset. The right people are.” Stephen Covey, the author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, claims that success in any job is 20% knowledge and 80% interpersonal skills. Ultimately, success in hospitality is all about interpersonal skills.

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Which Ideas And Values Give You Professional Pause?

One Millimeter Mindset

How many of you have encountered individuals, strategies, projects, goals, and KPIs which give you Professional Pause? These ideas and values, when read in a meeting agenda or spoken during the course of a live or digital meeting, make you suck in your breath. You immediately close your eyes. More importantly, your brain stops working. As a result, you do not read or hear any further than the words triggering your Professional Pause.

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Phone Calls: How to Improve Your Customer Relationship Management?

CSM Magazine

Business managers and CEOs understand the importance of good customer satisfaction. Without proper customer relationship management, a company can attract lots of negative customer reviews. This guide covers some ways of improving customer relationship management with phone calls. Using Interactive Voice Response Systems. Interactive voice systems or IVRs are automated telephone systems that allow customers to interact with a company without being connected to an operator.

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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