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The Value of Measuring Customer Delight

CloudCherry

Are your customers successful and happy with your products and services? Are they telling their friends and business partners to buy from you? If they have a concern, are you making meaningful change to address it? These are questions that all businesses need to ask themselves to ensure everything is being done to create customer delight. Happy customers are not only retained but they also help create more happy customers.

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Are You Tuning Out the Voice of the Customer?

GetFeedback

When you’re truly in sync with your customers, it shows. Communications are personalized and thoughtful. Customer support is frictionless. New products are consistently well received. And customers are happy to send new business your way. But that kind of synchronicity is pretty rare. Despite all the customer data and technology at our disposal, most companies don’t know their customers as well as they think they do.

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The 3 Hottest Trends Impacting Outsourced Customer Care

BlueOcean

The only constant in the customer care world is change, and if you don’t keep up, you’ll be left behind. That’s why we’ve compiled these must-read articles to keep you updated and give you some food for thought as you think about the future of your outsourced customer care. Strategic Partnerships with Contact Centers. “ 60% of B2B clients are emotionally indifferent toward their suppliers. ”.

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What is Employee Branding? And Why Does Your Company Need It?

ReviewTrackers

You’ve probably heard of employer branding. You may have even read about it on our blog, and followed the steps to building a strong employer brand. If you think of “employee branding” as how your company is perceived by current and potential employees — well, that’s a pretty good starting point. But What is Employee Branding? Like employer branding, employee branding also involves presenting the company in the best possible light in front of employees, job candidates, internal and external stak

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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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Japan: The Land of Amazing Service Culture

CX Accelerator

My favorite story coming out of the FIFA World Cup thus far is how Japan, fresh off defeat to Belgium, left a wonderfully clean locker room and a "thank you" note. Full story here. How amazing is that? This picture of them bowing to their fans may give you goosebumps. Having recently visited Japan CX for myself, these wonderful moments come as no surprise at all.

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How 4 industry-leading Canadian brands use insight to improve CX

Alida

The first CX and the City meetup in Toronto took place yesterday on a hot, sunny day, but we escaped the heat a bit at the cool Kasa Moto restaurant. More than 50 research, CX, product and marketing professionals were in attendance to network and enjoy food and refreshments. It was also a great night of learning. In a panel session moderated by our very own Karen Eisen, experts from Canadian Tire, Jamieson Laboratories, CIBC and Flipp shared how they are using customer insight to improve the cus

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Business Value and ROI of Customer Experience: The Step-by-step Guide 

Lumoa

Most business leaders believe that customer experience will be the key driver for their company’s competitiveness going forward. However, when it comes to the actual customer experience management, things get difficult. It is not too difficult to listen to the customer. Companies receive real time feedback in massive volumes, if they only start listening to their customers.

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5 Franchise Marketing Strategies to Drive Revenue

ReviewTrackers

Franchise marketing in today’s digital world can be challenging and complex. Because of the nature of their business, franchise marketing executives have to deal with campaigns and efforts on the corporate level, while also having to support the marketing needs and opportunities of franchisees, who may have their own local issues and ideas and goals.

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How Can You Leverage GDPR to Improve Customer Experience?

Customer Bliss

As modern day consumers of digital media, you’ve probably already encountered numerous privacy policy updates through various alerts and newsletters. All of these updates are related to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that was passed in the European Union this May. But the GDPR now essentially serves as the world’s largest protection for digital privacy rights because of the borderless nature of the Internet.

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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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Customer Experience: The Only Path to Brand Loyalty

Oracle

What kinds of companies come to mind when you think of the world’s most respected brands? How do you suppose those companies became the most respected brands? If you answered “marketing” or “advertising” you’re only partly correct. The complete answer is “customer experience.” A brand can be thought of as an “identity or image regarded as an asset.” In some cases, ‘brand’ now suggests the values and promises that a consumer

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When Employees Misuse Their Authority Over Customers

Customers That Stick

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Work With Organizations That Can Scale With Your Growing Brand

Second to None

Growing brands are in a unique position in the marketplace because they are occupying a space between two poles. There is not a large enough audience to warrant certain investments, but this potential success requires attention. In virtually every industry, your brand will be required to team up with third-party organizations to complete various aspects of your infrastructure.

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Employee Engagement Requires an Authentic Contract with Leadership: Two standout cases in Energy and Insurance

CX University

Employees want to feel a sense of commitment to their work. And in return for that sense of real, authentic meaning, they will be willing to give more of themselves, aspire to higher productivity, spiraling innovation, and off-the-charts customer satisfaction. Of these three rewards, the highest correlation exists between employee engagement and customer satisfaction.

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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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Has Marketing lost its way or is it just changing? A perspective by Bernard Page

ijgolding

Where does Customer Experience (CX) ‘sit’ in an organisation? This is a question I am frequently asked. Some say the correct answer is ‘Customer Service’ Some say ‘with the CEO’ Some might say under the responsibility of a ‘Chief Customer Officer’, or a ‘Chief Experience Officer’ Others might say ‘Marketing’ The debate rages on globally – is there a right answer to the question?

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How to Get Your Team to Deliver Consistent Customer Service

Customers That Stick

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Return Customers Spend 3 Times More: Here Are 4 Ways to Retain Customers

ProProfs Chat

Data from Riskified show that return customers account for 1/3rd of all online shopping revenue and they tend to spend 3 times more than one-time shoppers. Yet 44% of companies have no focus on customer retention. Return customers might not be as loyal as your brand’s advocates but their previous satisfied experience with you provides a level of trust that you can’t find in your first-time customers.

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Why Don’t Customers Buy After They Say They Will?

Beyond Philosophy

Many organizations have called to tell us that their Customer Experience initiatives are not performing like they did. The results that were once skyrocketing have plateaued. They are surprised by this turn of events, but we are not. As global Customer Experience consultants, we know that Customer Experience is less of a destination than a journey. Where you are going with Customer Experience (i.e., what customers want) could change and the work you do on the route (i.e., the way you deliver a C

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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 Experience: The Only Path to Brand Loyalty

Andrew Mcfarland

What kinds of companies come to mind when you think of the world’s most respected brands? How do you suppose those companies became the most respected brands? If you answered “marketing” or “advertising” you’re only partly correct. The complete answer.

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Is Your Customer Experience Aligned With Consumer Expectations?

Second to None

Consumer recommendations serve as one of the most powerful tools available to any brand. In the past two decades, the Net Promoter Score metric has served as a data point for these consumer recommendations , allowing your brand to easily understand its performance compared to industry competitors. The only real way to encourage a leading NPS is to align the way customers perceive your brand with the way employees implement your Customer Experience platform.

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What to Look For in Your Customer Feedback System

ReviewTrackers

Customer feedback systems and software products are quickly becoming a must-have for organizations of all sizes and across all industries. And for good reason: if you’re hoping to deliver customer experiences that delight in ways that make a positive impact on the bottom line, you must be able to effectively manage customer feedback. Defining customer feedback.

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Giving Customer Support A Seat At The Revenue Table

Solvvy

When companies think about customer growth, they immediately think about the sales and marketing teams, then product. But what about customer support? Many companies often overlook the role of customer support in driving revenue. It’s left out of the conversation and seen as an overhead cost rather than a revenue-generating function–and that can be problematic.

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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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Purposeful Leadership Lessons From Coach Brad Stevens

Experience Matters

In case you missed it, I’m a huge Boston sports fan. So it feels great to write a post that combines one of my favorite teams with one of our Four CX Core Competencies. I’m focusing on the leadership style of Brad Stevens, coach of the Boston Celtics. I’ve been a fan of Stevens since he was a coach at Butler University. He smart, confident, and seems to understand how to lead people.

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Lesson #1: Everyone Wants To Be Customer-Centric, But No One Knows What That Means

PeopleMetrics

The following is an excerpt from Listen Or Die by Sean McDade, PhD. Listen to any company in almost every industry, and you’ll undoubtedly hear phrases like customer-centric and customer-focused touted as top priorities. But what does that exactly mean? When leaders of a company fail to explain or provide specific examples of what it really means to be customer-centric, employees often see these words as little more than corporate platitudes.

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3 Tips to Improve Customer Service with Your Marketing Strategy

Oracle

Adapted advice from the Experience This! podcast with Joey Coleman and Dan Gingiss. In episode 26 of Experience This! , a customer experience podcast series, hosts and CX experts Joey Coleman and Dan Gingiss discuss the many ways businesses can learn how to improve customer service with small, and often unnoticed marketing moments, varying from a package’s copywriting to handling how an end user experiences simple website errors.

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Why Expert Panelists are so Important

QuestionPro Audience

How does a brand know their current offering isn’t working? Or that consumers will be interested in their newest product, before they sink the cost of going to market? This information comes from market research, and more specifically, panelists. Brands look to get feedback on current offerings and new products and services from pertinent panelists before they introduce them in the marketplace.

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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.