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How the best Customer Experience Brands balance Technology with Humanity: MIT Tech Review

CloudCherry

What better way is there to learn about delivering an amazing customer experience than examining how the best in the business do it? The MIT Technology Review: Getting To Iconic report is based on surveys conducted with over 550 business executives at global firms—including retail, IT, logistics, healthcare, IT, and more— in over 30 countries between May and July 2017.

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Acing Omnichannel Support in SaaS

GetFeedback

Looking at customer experience (CX) and churn in the SaaS environment from a high level, there’s one theme that stands out from the mix: The fact that we live in what’s called a “switching economy.”. The term, coined by economists, describes a current trend impacting switching brands because of dissatisfaction with their experience. It can be a major driver of customer churn—and it’s already creating an incredible economic deficit in the US.

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The Unifying Force of Care: A Basic Human Need Customers Crave and Businesses Demand

Customer Bliss

It’s no secret – caring is a fundamental human need that triggers positive feelings. And a recent study reveals that patterns in human brain activity associated with empathy and caring are also associated with value and reward. Caring was found to inspire helpful behaviors, which seems logical — and foundational. The “Golden Rule” idea actually underscores our entire human experience.

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How Do You Keep Up With Customer Expectations?

Beyond Philosophy

Have you been to the Congo? If not, can you describe the weather? How about the vegetation? Now tell me why you thought that? Did you see a movie or read a book about the Congo? Did you travel to a nearby country and guess that the Congo was probably a similar experience? Did you or someone you know someone who went to the Congo? Now, to be clear, there isn’t a wrong answer here.

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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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How technology can drive a customer centric culture: 3 true stories

TechSee

Developing a customer centric culture in a large enterprise goes beyond addressing a customer by name in an automated email, or segmenting by interest; it is a holistic approach designed to focus on the consumer’s authentic needs. This approach enables the enterprise to engage him in a personal way, ensuring that his needs are met at every stage of the customer journey.

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How to Unite Silos Across Multiple Government Agencies to Streamline a CX Transformation

Customer Bliss

We know how difficult it can be to unite silos within your own organization; now imagine you had to unite silos across 17 different state agencies! That’s right, when your customers are the employees within a group of government agency partners, you’ve got a lot of work cut out for you. Today, we’ll hear from William Chumley , the Chief Customer Officer for the Governor’s Office of Information Technology for the state of Colorado.

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CX and EX (Customer Experience and Employee Experience)

ShepHyken

Customer service and customer experience (CX) have become as hot of topics as any in business. Owners of small businesses and leaders of the largest companies recognize the importance of CX. It’s what drives our business. It’s become a customer expectation. Don’t deliver on the CX and the customer will find someone – or some company – that does. And, not only do you have to deliver on the experience, you have to stand out and be different.

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5 Powerful Marketing Strategies That Maximize Customer Engagement

ProProfs Chat

Customer engagement happens to be a very popular buzzword among most marketing and customer success teams these days. Be a part of any planning and strategy making discussion, and it’s almost impossible not to find a mention of phrases like customer service , customer engagement and customer experience. And while customer service and customer experience are fairly simple to comprehend, what about customer engagement?

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15 Great Customer Experience Quotes and What They Can Teach You

Retently

Companies that provide poor customer service can lose up to $75 billion – all because their clients don’t get the satisfaction and experience they want, which is usually because no company department is assigned to manage this business aspect. Don’t worry, though – while customer experience management (CEM) can seem complex and tough to understand, we’ve got you covered with valuable insights from the experts themselves.

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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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3 Signs Your Business Needs a Dedicated Customer Support Team

Joe Rawlinson

While customer acquisition may be at the top of your list, customer retention should be as well. Your company may produce the best or only product of its type on the market, but without good customer support, your business will have a hard time holding on to customers. Your customers want quick and efficient support when they need it if they are not getting that they will go elsewhere.

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Amazing Business Radio: Craig McVoy

ShepHyken

The Holy Grail Of Customer Experience. How any sized business can create customer experience and loyalty. Shep Hyken sits down with Craig McVoy , founder and Chief Experience Officer at Beyond Brand. They discussed Craig’s new book Beyond Brand, the seven customer experience principles every business must follow and the questions you must ask if you want your brand to compete in 2018 and beyond. ?

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CX + EX (Employee Experience) = Great Experiences

Heart of the Customer

Customers will never love a company until the employees love it first. – Simon Simek This quote reflects one of the biggest disconnects in customer experience – focusing only on the customer experience. It makes sense. Heck, that’s our name! Why wouldn’t we? But focusing only on the customer without regard to the employee experience […].

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Collage of 2018 Customer Experience Infographics (So Far)

Experience Matters

We’re always looking for ways to share interesting data and concepts, so we regularly publish parts of our content in infographics. In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a collage of the infographics that we’ve already published this year. Here are the individual infographics: Six Laws of Customer Experience Mastering Customer Experience Metrics Building A Strong Voice of The Customer Program Online Training For a Customer-Centric Organization Humanize Customer Experi

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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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4 Ways to Get More Out of Your NPS

AskNicely

Customer experience is one of the hottest trends in 2018 and NPS (Net Promoter Score) is a great way to measure CX. By now you’re either on the bandwagon or you’re lagging behind your competition. But if all you’re doing is sending out yearly surveys to your customer list, you’re missing out. Here are four ways to get more out of your NPS survey: 1.

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Dear Salesperson: It’s Not Me, It’s You

Oracle

Dear Salesperson, It’s not me, it’s you. I’m sitting here reading your 25th email and I have to say – I have just as little inclination to respond as with your first outreach. You, on the other hand, are probably thinking something along the lines of the following: “Why can’t he just answer me?” “He can at least tell me that he’s not interested, rather than ignoring me.” “Maybe if I keep reaching out he’ll respond eventually

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What More To Look For In Customer Feedback?

Customer Guru

Most often, companies are well aware of the issues their customers are facing. And at times that could be a deterrent to taking customer feedback seriously. In several of my early discussions with clients, when I ask them to read every customer comment and act on the feedback to improve customer experience, I am told “We already know what is ticking off our customers and we are working on solving those issues.

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Voice of the Customer: 5 Steps to Success

Confirmit

Creating a positive and consistent customer experience across multiple channels is one of the biggest challenges facing businesses today, and a solid Voice of the Customer program is core to meeting this challenge. Building such a program, however, is far from simple and failure to do it well will result in “just another customer survey” For dedicated CEM professionals, a VoC program is simply the “right thing to do” However, while some organizations just “get”

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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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How to Write a Compelling Customer Success Job Posting

Amity

In the growing field of customer success, it can be difficult to find the right people for the job, especially because some of them don’t even know that the job exists yet. This blog will teach you how to write an effective customer success job posting that will give you a pool of stellar candidates. You’ll learn what content to include, why, and how to structure it so applicants know exactly what you’re looking for in your customer success position.

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7 Social Media Marketing Strategies to Drive Results

ReviewTrackers

Your business probably has a Facebook Page and a Twitter account. And you have a LinkedIn company page where you’re growing a network of colleagues, employees, customers, partners, and business associates. And someone on your team is probably posting work-related photos on your company’s Instagram account. This is great! You have already planted your business flags on popular social media properties.

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How to detect and prevent workplace bullying

SurveyGizmo

From school bullying to workplace bullying, the level of unwanted and aggressive behavior is now a national conversation, placing pressure on state and local lawmakers to take legislative action.  With nearly 90 percent of organizations projected by Gartner to compete solely on the basis of experience by 2020, factors that negatively impact experience must remain a top business priority.

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The Customer Journey: How to Capitalize on Critical Moments

Bizagi

I rely heavily on the internet in my day-to-day life; don’t we all? When I moved house, I selected a broadband provider who could offer me a good deal and a high internet speed. But the onboarding processes was atrocious – I had to wait a whole month before I had access to the internet. This meant no Netflix or on-demand TV, I couldn’t use my laptop or tablet and had to do all my browsing on my mobile phone, so I used up all my data and had to pay extra on my phone bill that month.

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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 Create an Amazing Personalized Customer Experience

CSM Magazine

Shep Hyken is blown away by the customer service at the Crowne Plaza in Lansing, Michigan. This is what he learned from the experience. I’ve stayed at many Crowne Plazas in the past, and they are nice hotels, however, the experience at this one was quite unique. It was a personalized experience, and the way they went about it is an excellent lesson we all can learn from.

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What to Do When You Get Negative Reviews About Customer Service

ReviewTrackers

Nobody — not even the world’s top brands —is immune to negative reviews. We’re not saying it’s the norm, or that you shouldn’t strive for five stars, but do realize that the occasional one-star rating on Yelp or TripAdvisor or a few critical comments on your Google and Facebook pages are not out of the ordinary. Sometimes, bad reviews can even be good for business.

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Report: Employee Engagement Competency & Maturity, 2018

Experience Matters

We just published a Temkin Group report, Employee Engagement Competency & Maturity, 2018. Here’s the executive summary of this annual review of employee engagement activities, competencies, and maturity levels for large companies: To understand how companies are engaging their employees, we surveyed 178 large companies and compared their responses with similar studies we’ve conducted in previous years.

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Find a Vendor That Provides Insights On Top Of Data Collection

Second to None

Collecting data on a consistent basis is a key step of providing an excellent experience to your customers. However, this data will be rendered useless if there is not a streamlined system that allows your team members to easily access, analyze and act-on this information. Finding conclusive action priorities from the massive pile of data you have collected is a challenging and complex process, and ideally you are working with a vendor that possesses the knowledge to filter through this informat

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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.