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The Critical Differences: Qualitative vs. Quantitative Analysis

Genroe

It’s Tuesday afternoon and you’ve just been handed a stack of customer feedback forms with a wealth of information and data to analyse before Friday. You look at the forms; there are numbers, scales, and paragraphs upon paragraphs of commentary. You pause for a moment to breathe. Where do you begin? What can you even […] The post The Critical Differences: Qualitative vs.

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From “Text Analytics” to “Text and Document Mining and Analytics Platforms”

Forrester's Customer Insights

Text analytics is a peculiar software market segment. Vendors typically have a main offering that heavily relies on text mining and analytics, but they rarely position themselves explicitly as “text analytics platforms.

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How to Improve the Contact Center Experience in 5 Easy Steps

InMoment XI

A lot of customer experiences hinge on your contact center’s effectiveness, which is why it’s important to ensure it’s a resource your customers find helpful, professional, and expedient. However, building an effective, consistent contact center experiences can be overwhelming. That’s why we’ve taken everything we have learned by working with best-in-class brands and distilled those learnings into five simple steps you can follow to make sure you build a contact center that works for you, and wo

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How to Listen for Untold Feedback to Boost Your Business Results

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Your customers actively give clues about (or directly tell you!) how to improve their experience. But are you listening in the right ways? A lot of customer experience teams focus on collecting surveys. And they send the same surveys each quarter or year, like clockwork. Surveys can certainly help us see patterns around satisfaction, loyalty, and other key performance indicators—but customers are getting tired of them.

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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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Not Just Another Blog Post on How to Improve Customer Experience

InMoment XI

Today, there are a lot of customer feedback management (CFM) companies talking about integrated CX. Integrated CX isn’t a new concept by any means, and InMoment is not so bold as to say we invented the concept. But, we are confident in saying that the strategies we are developing that view the customer experience as the sum of integrated feedback, insights, and actions are going to distinguish us from our competitors in a significant way.

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The Customer Is NOT Always Right – Again!

ShepHyken

Whoever said “the customer is always right” didn’t hear this about this story. Fox News just posted an update to a 2021 story about a man arrested for pointing an AK-47 at an employee at a pizza shop in Knoxville, Tennessee. The short version of the story is this. A customer walked into a Little Caesars restaurant and became angry when he was told he would have to wait a few minutes for a pizza.

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Great Customer Service: The Rent Paid for Loyalty

TechSee

In the world of customer loyalty, service is the currency paid. It’s a fundamental truth backed by decades of research – when mistakes happen, customers expect service providers to step up and help them make the most of their offerings. The rare 30-year customer embodies this loyalty, having been part of the company’s successes and growing pains.

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[Experience Action Podcast] Updating CX Foundations

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Ever wondered about the optimal frequency to revisit your customer experience mission statement, success statement, and team charter? We’ve got you covered! This week, our host, Jeannie Walters, founder of Experience Investigators, answers this very question from one of our listeners. You’ll hear some insights and practical advice on why and when to refresh these important tools.

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How complexities prevent and improve employee and customer experience

eglobalis

How complexities prevent and improve employee and customer experience The post How complexities prevent and improve employee and customer experience appeared first on Eglobalis.

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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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Choosing the Right Contact Center for Your Business: Key Factors to Consider

Call Experts

Today, customer support plays a pivotal role in maintaining and growing a loyal customer base, enticing many companies to hire a contact center for their answering services. Ultimately, a well-managed contact center can be the lifeline of your customer service operations. It bridges your business and customers, handling inquiries, resolving issues, and building lasting relationships.

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Hugging your haters: A conversation with customer experience expert Jay Baer

BirdEye

What do you do when someone leaves a negative review of your business online? Ignore it and hope it goes away? Delete it and pretend it never happened? These kinds of reactions are only natural — no one enjoys receiving negative feedback. However, according to customer experience expert Jay Baer, these reactions will only backfire. During our digital conference, Birdeye View, our VP of Product Marketing, Rebecca Colwell, sat down with Baer to discuss strategies for constructively handling negati

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New 2023 Benchmark Data for Drive-Thru Operators

IntouchInsight

For over two decades, the Annual Drive-Thru Study has provided restaurant operators with benchmark data to track trends and compare their performance against key competitors.

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Turning Customer Support from a Cost Center into a Revenue Generator

ShepHyken

Top Takeaways: Outsourcing customer service and support functions can be an effective strategy for businesses, especially startups, to offload non-core tasks and focus on their core competencies. It can be beneficial as it allows companies to provide 24/7 support and access to properly trained professionals, even if they are not direct employees of the company.

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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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Frightening Issues That Haunt Marketers: From Marketing to Mobile 

Optimove

As Halloween looms closer, there are some chilling challenges lurking that can send shivers down the spines of marketers — but fear not – there are solutions as well. Below are six of these “horrors.” Many were uncovered in our 2023 Marketer’s survey that are below. Respondents included 221 executives at companies, and included CEOs, CMOs, and SVPs of marketing.

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How To Identify Talent: 7 Key Traits That Set Emerging Leaders Apart

The DiJulius Group

By John DiJulius and Dave Murray “When your company says you want your employees to be leaders, what that really means is that you want their emotional commitment to your vision. A leader’s emotional commitment is about taking on the company success as a personal crusade.” – Stan Slap When entrepreneurs start a company, they. Read Full Article The post How To Identify Talent: 7 Key Traits That Set Emerging Leaders Apart appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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Prioritizing Customer Safety: Addressing Holiday Accident Claims

CSM Magazine

Did you know that holiday accident claims spike by 15% each year? As a business owner, you’re directly affected. You’ve got a responsibility to ensure customer safety, but you’re also caught in the crossfire of potential legal issues. This article will help you navigate these choppy waters with strategies for accident prevention, effective responses to claims, and understanding the legal implications.

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of October 2, 2023

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. Speed Doesn’t Equal Success: The Limitations of AHT as a KPI by Othmar Mueller Von Blumencron (VIPdesk Connect) While top-notch products and services remain vital, the spotlight in recent years has undeniably shifted to the customer experience as a pivotal factor distinguis

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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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The growing trend of adding ‘additional fees’, is this good or bad?

Beyond Philosophy

Sometimes it’s a “processing” fee. Sometimes it’s called an “admin” fee. We have even seen it labeled “convenience fee,” a refreshingly candid explanation for it. However, they are always additional fees, and if you have them in your pricing, they might have terrible implications for your customer experience.

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SAP Commerce Cloud’s Accelerated Innovation: The year in review and way forward

SAP Customer Experience

In November 2022, with Commerce Cloud 2211 release, we at SAP made a significant announcement regarding our commitment towards the accelerated innovation and modernization of SAP Commerce Cloud. As we approach the one-year anniversary since this announcement and release, I feel it is a fitting moment to share the results.

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How to Build a Next-Generation Loyalty Scheme

CSM Magazine

Loyalty schemes have been around a lot longer than you think, going back even further than the frequent flyer programmes that took off in the late 1970s. Hamish Sherlock of Applause , explains how to build a next-generation loyalty scheme. For centuries, merchants have been offering special tokens that repeat customers could redeem for goods. Today, stamps, vouchers and coupons have mostly been replaced by apps and digital methods of tracking customer engagement.

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Customer Feedback Management: Focus On Your Detractors

Cyara

We all know someone who loves a brand unconditionally – they simply can’t stop talking about their latest purchases and recommending that others buy from them as well. Over a decade ago, when Bain & Company started researching this behavior, they discovered a strong correlation with continued brand loyalty, and as a result today’s well-established Net Promoter Score (NPS) was developed.

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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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Strategic Placement: Where to Ask For In-App Feedback in Your App?

SurveySensum

A team of developers was enhancing a fitness app with new features but was uncertain about user responses. So, they decided to launch an in-app survey to gather insights and enhance user satisfaction. The challenge was finding the right time and place for these surveys. Initially, they triggered surveys right after users completed workouts, but it resulted in low response rates.

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SAP Commerce Cloud Q3 ’23 Release Highlights

SAP Customer Experience

As you may have heard, SAP was once again named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Commerce. Our unwavering dedication remains to deliver SAP Commerce Cloud as a cutting-edge composable commerce platform in the cloud. Continuing on the Intelligent CX themes we introduced in Q2 2023, we.

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House of Lords: How AI will Revolutionise Retail Customer Experience

CSM Magazine

(l to r) Sabio’s Joe O’Brien, Stuart Dorman and Craig Pumfrey at the House of Lords The retail sector is undergoing a seismic shift. Artificial intelligence will – and is – transforming customer experience and will help to turn shoppers into loyal brand enthusiasts. This was the key takeaway from a recent House of Lords thought leadership breakfast I attended, organised by ourselves at Sabio Group alongside Nutun CX, the Durban-based contact centre BPO, and the Retail Trust, the UK

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Delivering Excellence: Inbound Support Services Best Practices

Magellan Solutions

Heads up: Two-thirds of customers will IMMEDIATELY QUIT doing business with a brand if that brand provides POOR CUSTOMER service ! Consequently, this means decrease in loyal customers and eventually profit loss. The best way to stop this from happening? Prevention. You want to leave a good impression with your customers by satisfying them on every interaction point you have with them.

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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.