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You Ask, We Tell: How Do I Increase Survey Response Rates? Should I Shorten My Survey?

InMoment XI

I’ve been looking back over my 20+ years of various research consulting roles and during that time, I’ve continuously fielded questions from clients and others within the industry. In this blog, I’m going to focus on one question that continues to come up in conversations with CX practitioners and data analysts and my answer may surprise you. How Do I Increase Survey Response Rates?

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5 Ways to Optimize Your Customer Feedback Program

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

A customer experience leader’s role is often tied to collecting, analyzing and acting upon customer feedback. Many leaders are tasked with developing customer feedback programs, including how and when to send surveys, where to insert feedback tools like kiosks or chatbots, and how to report on the feedback once it’s gathered. But there’s a serious challenge in many organizations.

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Great Service is Great Theater. An Encore.

Bill Quiseng

A while back, I wrote an article entitled “Great Service is Great Theater”. Today I want to offer another article about the very same subject, an encore performance so to say. So, here it is: There are some who say that they, as customer service professionals, have been trained to act the part to be happy to serve. They believe they are acting. They claim they can never “be the part” to be happy to serve.

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The New Hybrid Field Service Model: Does Visual Assistance Have A Part To Play?

TechSee

The pandemic has transformed how field service is delivered, with the industry focused on servicing customers in the most efficient way possible. On the one hand, 65% of customers report that they would avoid technician visits unless strictly necessary, a sentiment that has resulted in the explosion of remote service delivery. On the other hand, 62% of customers still expect their issues to be repaired as quickly as ever.

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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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What the Supply Chain Crisis Means for Your Customer Experience

InMoment XI

The ongoing global supply chain woes have created massive headaches for both customers and the brands that serve them. One of the many products of lingering COVID uncertainty, the supply chain crisis has resulted in steeper prices, logistics chaos, and a markedly lower supply of everything from video game consoles to garden furniture. Today’s discussion covers three factors brands should be aware of as they consider supply chain issues within the context of customer experience (CX). 3 Supply Cha

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“New-Style” Digital Versus “Old-Fashioned” Human Interactions

ShepHyken

Here’s a question, and I think I know the answer. Would you do business with an airline that didn’t offer the ability to book a ticket online, check-in online, and get your boarding pass online? . Assuming that every other airline has these self-service digital options, what if one didn’t? Would you be willing to call for a reservation, wait on hold, pull out your credit card to verbally give your payment information, and stand in line at the ticket counter to check in on the day of departure?

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3 Key Strategies for Engaging Your Customers

Blueshift

These days, marketers are overwhelmed, and for good reason. With customer expectations evolving and the market constantly shifting — such as the death of third-party cookies and the release of Apple’s iOS 15 updates — it’s becoming more and more necessary for marketers to adapt their strategies. The post 3 Key Strategies for Engaging Your Customers appeared first on Blueshift.

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Transforming the Customer Experience One Person at a Time with Randall King

Kustomer

Listen and subscribe to our podcast: In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets Podcast, Gabe Larsen meets with Randall King from Conduent to teach new CX leaders how to navigate large-scale transformation. Randall’s key to this is continuous learning and adjusting throughout the entire lifespan of the company. Tune in to the full podcast to learn more.

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Unlocking the meaning of stars in reviews

BirdEye

“If you want a similar look just boil a pot of water at home.” This was an actual 1-star review describing the geysers at Yellowstone National Park. While all industries strive for 5-star reviews, even the most well-known, and reputable businesses are prone to less than 5-star reviews. So why do people write reviews and what is the meaning of stars in reviews?

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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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How to Build Customer Rapport That Doesn’t Bore

ChurnZero

Every six months, I begrudgingly visit the dentist. I sit under the fluorescent lights in the waiting room ruminating over my neglected resolution to floss each night and the impending pain I will soon endure. And although we only see each other twice a year, through the poking and prodding, my dentist always peppers me with questions. She asks how my dog Lucy is doing after her scuffle with a fierce Chihuahua, or if I ended up trying that new Thai restaurant I mentioned at my last appointment.

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70+ Business Survey Questions You Should Include in Your Next Business Survey

ProProfs Chat

Entrepreneurs wishing to scale their business often fall prey to expensive consultants and time-consuming PR experts. The result? A few of them experience positive outcomes while others don’t. What if I tell you that you could achieve the same by sending out business surveys questions while spending negligible time and money. . Yes! You heard that right.

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Guest Post: Driving Value for Employees and for the Business Through Recognition Programs

Stella Connect

With almost 30 years in the customer experience profession, Annette Franz, CCXP is founder and CEO of CX Journey Inc. She is an internationally recognized customer experience thought leader, coach, keynote speaker, and author of Customer Understanding: Three Ways to Put the “Customer” in Customer Experience (and at the Heart of Your Business).

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Automate Even More Conversations With Kustomer’s New Chatbot Features

Kustomer

The pandemic amplified the need for speed in customer service. According to Kustomer’s research , 85% of consumers expect customer service to be faster, and 90% expect it to be easier. According to Forrester, 69% of consumers say they shop more with businesses whose online and offline customer service is consistent. This means that brands must find fast, efficient, and scalable ways to deliver personalized support that mirrors in-store support experiences, while minimizing costs associated with

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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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Customer Education in SaaS: Growing User Competence, Confidence, and Capacity for Change

ChurnZero

Customer education is why I live in a jungle. I’ve never been a green thumb, and I wanted to change that. I started researching easy ways to keep my plants alive with as little maintenance as possible. I ended up learning (from the Tikitytok) about a plant medium called LECA (lightweight expanded clay aggregate). The clay pebbles absorb the water, and the plant roots essentially feed themselves when they’re thirsty.

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Time Does Not Wait and Neither Should Data

SurveyGizmo

Integrating Feedback into Slack for Immediate Notifications. By Michael Cordeiro. Time and tide wait for no one, but what about your data? When does it become valuable and actionable when making decisions? Really, it’s the moment it is collected, but how do we turn that value into operational gold? As stakeholders ramp up their data collection, it’s important to put that information to work rapidly, and with a heavy-hitting list of integrations for Alchemer, it’s as simple as ever!

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Are You Treating Customers Like They Are Disposable Clients?

One Millimeter Mindset

Are you continuing to do business with business owners who make you feel like disposable clients? Over the past month, I ceased doing business with three of my long-term vendors. Yes, I completely walked away from these relationships. There was no other choice to make. As a business strategist, I somehow felt responsible for not “fixing” what I found was deteriorating in their business, service quality, and operational models.

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Engaging Online Bingo Players

Optimove

Not since Bingo was invented in 1929 has the game been more popular than it is today. This is due to the explosion of online Bingo websites and mobile apps that allow players to experience the excitement of the game together with other Bingo lovers around the world, anywhere, anytime. It is estimated there are now more than 100 million online bingo players worldwide (!

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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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Guest Post: How to Level-Up Your Email & SMS CX This Holiday Season

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Devin Pickell, a Growth Marketer at Nextiva. He shares his quick tips for keeping your customers informed through email and SMS to level up their buying experience. . The holiday season is fast approaching, and you’re an online merchant expecting a large volume of orders to come through soon. That’s great news! But while you’re fulfilling orders, it’s imperative that you keep your customers in the loop on channels like email and SMS.

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Why Sweaty Betty Doesn’t Sweat Quality Management

Playvox

Born and bred in the heart of London, Sweaty Betty , the women’s activewear company, was forced to navigate COVID-19 restrictions on three different continents. Having expanded beyond the UK to New York and Hong Kong, the company had to quickly pivot with pandemic lockdowns in place from brick-and-mortar retail to mostly e-commerce. The company’s contact center team shifted to a remote workplace just as Sweaty Betty – and the entire athleisure industry – started to see significant market growth.

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How to Identify Which Call Center Incentives Are Right for Your Agents

Stella Connect

When it comes to setting priorities for the call center, it’s important to keep rewarding and recognizing your customer service agents top of mind. After all, call center incentives aren’t just a “nice to have.” . Research shows there’s a strong connection between agent engagement and agent performance , with engaged employees less likely to quit and more likely to be more productive, report overall wellbeing, and be active participants within the company.

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Excuses versus solutions

Zeisler Consulting

You’ve heard this before, right? “Due to current circumstances, we’re experiencing longer-than-usual wait times.” Those “circumstances” can vary. Over the past twenty months, of course, it has been Covid-19. Sometimes it’s the holidays. Sometimes brands stiff-arm you without even giving you the courtesy of telling you why. There’s even a brand that I call rarely …maybe once or twice a year…and they’ve been using the longer-than-usual wait times idiom as long as I can remember.

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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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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 11-15-2021

ShepHyken

Each week I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. Lego Customers Lose Millions of Pieces a Year. The Company’s 4-Word Response Is the Best I’ve Ever Seen by Jason Aten.

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Powered by insights, Equifruit’s savvy sustainability battle is winning ground in the banana wars

Maru Group

By Stephen Brockway, Chief Research Officer, Maru/Matchbox UK | November 18, 2021. Battle on the banana front Fair trade has had a lonely existence. For decades it struggled alone to bring better working conditions, higher pay, and hope to artisans and farmers battling poverty. It has a new life partner now, sustainability, and together, they are making progress.

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Black Friday Marketing: Here’s Why It’s Wrong To Prioritize New Customer Acquisition During the Holidays (at the expense of existing customers)

Optimove

Earlier this year, CommerceNext conducted a large-scale survey among retail marketing leaders. And while, as we mentioned a few weeks ago – many marketers like to talk about how important Retention, Customer Data Platforms, and Actionable Data are – when push comes to shove, most will revert to old-fashioned, perhaps even outdated, tactics. For example, “Retention/Loyalty Marketing” was named the area where CMOs are looking to increase their investment the most.

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Wondering how to improve customer experience in your contact center? Try these 10 best practices

NICE inContact

Watch our demo video to see CXone in action and then contact us to find out more about how CXone can help you improve your business results through more satisfying customer experiences.

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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.