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5 Things We Learned from EMEA Customer Experience Experts at XI Forum Europe

InMoment XI

After nine EMEA customer experience experts, 200+ delegates, eight workshops, and hours of fun and networking at the colourful evening reception, it’s safe to say the XI Forum Europe was a success! We heard from award-winning CX speakers from some of Europe’s biggest brands—TRUMPF, ASOS, Brakes, Primark, Solus, BD Medical, NatWest and Euro Car Parts, as well as thought-provoking keynotes from InMoment Global Leader, CMO Kristi Knight, and Stan Swinford, CEO and Founder of NPSx by Bain & Comp

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Why Customer Experience Is Key to Scaling Revenue Growth

Lumoa

It’s no secret that customer experience is key to a company’s success. But what may be surprising is that as businesses compete more and more for customers, customer experience is becoming the new competitive battleground. . What does this mean for companies? It means that in order to stay ahead, they need to focus on delivering not just a good product or service, but a great customer experience as well.

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Amazing Business Radio: Susan Drumm

ShepHyken

The Leader’s Playlist. How Memories, Experiences, and Patterns Impact Leadership Style. Shep Hyken interviews Susan Drumm, CEO & Chief Empowerment Officer of Meritage Leadership Development and the author of The Leader’s Playlist: Unleash the Power of Music and Neuroscience to Transform Your Leadership and Your Life. She shares how to use music to improve your leadership style and make the changes that no longer serve you.

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Google My Business website – everything you need to know

BirdEye

As a business owner, you already know you need a website. It’s a great way to showcase your products and services and helps customers learn more about your company. But with so many different website builders and options, it can be tough to know where to start. Fortunately, Google has made building a website easy with a free service that lets businesses create and customize their own Google My Business website.

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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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5 Challenges Facing Your Customers and Brands, and What They Mean for Your CX Program

InMoment XI

A great deal of customers and the brands that serve them are facing unprecedented uncertainties; understanding them is key to organizational success, delivering Experience Improvement (XI), and ensuring that your customer experience (CX) program is operating optimally. All of these obstacles affect both customers and brands to some extent. Because half the Experience Improvement process is knowing what these challenges are, today’s conversation addresses five of the most prominent ones that I’ve

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[Podcast] How to Make Community Crucial, with Invoca’s Maria Ogneva

Lithium

Welcome back to Titans of Customer Engagement, A Customer Experience Podcast proudly presented by Khoros. This week we sit down with Maris Ogneva, Sr Director of Community & customer marketing at Invoca to break down how to build a wide-reaching and stable digital community. Hear first hand how to position your community to benefit both your customers and your colleagues.

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13 Customer Success Manager Skills to Look for When Hiring

Totango

Hiring team members with the right customer success manager skills is critical for the effectiveness of your CS team and strategy. Here we’ve identified the 13 most essential qualities to consider when hiring a CS manager. We’ll cover these below, along with five best practices to follow when bringing a new customer success manager aboard your team.

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The Echo

ShepHyken

There are many definitions of the term brand. One of my favorites is this: A brand is a promised delivered. . Is what you’re known for delivered consistently? Consider Ace Hardware, whose brand promise is The Helpful Hardware Place. When you visit an Ace Hardware store, do they keep their promise? Are they helpful? Based on all their awards and the comments from happy customers posted on social channels, they deliver. .

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The Customer Service Needs of Every Generation Aren’t as Different as You Think

SaleMove

From Zoomers checking their balance on their mobile phone to Boomers deciding to give chat a chance, Glia’s solution is changing the game. The post The Customer Service Needs of Every Generation Aren’t as Different as You Think appeared first on Glia Blog | Digital Customer Service Explained.

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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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The Importance of CX During Economic Instability

IntouchInsight

Rising inflation and concerns about economic instability have both brands and consumers concerned. But, after years of pandemic-related restrictions and guidelines, no one wants to give up their "new normal". This makes customer experience programs even more important than ever.

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How Can a Telemarketing Call Center Shape the Future of MSMEs?

Magellan Solutions

How Can Telemarketing Call Center Shape Help MSMEs? Have you ever wondered what is the importance of a telemarketing call center in the Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs)? . According to the Congressional Policy and Budget Research Department (CPBRD) , the MSMEs are considered as the backbone of the Philippine economy. The latest data (2019) presented by the Philippines Statistics Authority (PSA) noted that out of 1,000,506 business enterprises in the Philippines, 99.5% (995,745) are M

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Guest Post: Why Customer Experience Should Be at the Forefront of Your Marketing Strategies

ShepHyken

This week, we feature an article by Eleanor Hecks , editor-in-chief of Designerly Magazine. She’s also a web design consultant focusing on customer experience and user interface. She shares how customer experience is a valuable marketing strategy. If your business follows marketing best practices, you’re probably already implementing user research, collecting customer data, and targeting customers with personalized messaging.

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The Guide To Reputation Management for Doctors

ReviewTrackers

Reputation management for doctors continues to be more important with every passing year. A 2018 PatientPop survey revealed that 80.3 percent of providers are aware of the importance of a strong online reputation, but most of them don’t know how to alter their online reputation in a positive way. This is a massive problem. Without the right tools and methods at your disposal, you are not using online review sites to their full advantage, which means you lose out on better online exposure a

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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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What the Holiday Season Reveals About the New Role of CX

Kustomer

2020 likely changed the CX industry for good, and there may be nothing more ill-advised than to ignore the lessons learned about holiday CX during that year. The twists and turns were endless, but the holiday season presented a whole new set of challenges. What was already a stressful time of year, became uncharted territory for many organizations. In an effort to understand more thoroughly how retail and e-commerce CX organizations were impacted during the 2020 holiday season , and how the cust

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Remote Work: The Dangerous Disconnect Between Contact Center Management and Agents

Playvox

There’s a storm brewing in customer service centers, and the aftermath could create some big challenges for contact center management. In our 2022 study of customer support agents and managers, 68% of agent respondents said they didn’t want to return to an office. But only 40% of support center managers we talked to said they were planning to continue remote work in 2022.

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7 Steps to Building a Successful NPS Campaign

Zonka Feedback

The Net Promoter Score is the most popular CX metric that businesses across the globe use to measure customers’ loyalty. It can be measured using an NPS survey that enables customers to rate their experiences and also share the reason for their scores.

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Cultivate a work environment where employees can thrive

Customer Enthusiast

A recent Gartner study revealed 52 percent of employees surveyed agreed or strongly agreed with the statement: “The pandemic has made me question the purpose of my day-to-day job.” According to Gartner, “The era of the employment contract, when a worker provided services purely in exchange for monetary compensation, is over… Monetary compensation is important … Continue reading "Cultivate a work environment where employees can thrive".

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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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Traditional Chatbots vs. Conversational AI

Solvvy

Automating customer interactions with conversational chatbots offers a range of benefits. Chatbots can increase employee productivity, enabling service to more customers in a shorter time window. Automated customer support solutions also decrease human error and provide consistent, accurate information to customers. Automating interactions can enhance customer experience (CX) with quicker first response time, average resolution time, and first contact resolution.

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Solving for the whole customer experience: Ant Marty from Instacart

Thematic

A fascination with human behaviour has served Instacart’s Ant Marty well, though not in the ways she initially expected. Ant presumed she would become a college professor after completing her psychology degree at William & Mary University in New York. Instead, the product operations team manager has immersed herself in practical rather than theoretical problem-solving.

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The Top Ten Takeaways from Calabrio Customer Connect (C3)

Calabrio

Our annual Calabrio Customer Connect (C3) event has wrapped, and we are still feeling the buzz of excitement. For us, C3 is not only a time to share our vision for the future, but to hear the business challenges our customers are trying to solve and which best practices they are using to get the insights they need. This year’s theme was “Power Up,” and little did we know how fitting this theme would be, after Hurricane Ian changed course.

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Effective Event Ticketing Strategy for a Conference

Joe Rawlinson

Conferences are essential to career development and business networking for all industries. Bringing together people from all over the world in the same industry to learn and share is crucial to innovation. And a dedicated event management integrated ticketing system helps you keep the event in sync throughout the process as a central hub that can control various aspects of the event and provide directions and everything needed in one place. .

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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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Incredible! Why So Many Organizations Are Missing This Massive Opportunity!

Beyond Philosophy

This newsletter issue is the second of a series based on a podcast we did with Beyond Philosophy’s own Zhecho Dobrev ( @ZhechoDobrev ), author of The Big Miss: How Organizations Overlook the Value of Emotions. We talked with him before on our podcast a month ago about how emotions drive customer behavior. This week, we dive a little deeper into this concept and explore how emotions affect the insights we get from Customer Science.

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Will Your Customer Service Strategy Survive Against the Competition?

West Monroe

It’s well understood that a customer’s experience drives their loyalty: 80% of customers say the experience is as important as the product or service itself. And in financial services, we know that loyal customers will bring increased wallet share. As customers are increasingly preferring contactless channels to interact with their banks, financial institutions in turn must be digitally innovative to support their customers.

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The 5 Books for Graduate Students Aspiring to Become Customer Experience Leaders

CSM Magazine

Many graduates are motivated to become successful professionals who are real customer experience leaders. In this case, customer experience books come in handy. They are manuals that show students how to make business transactions easy, enjoyable, and memorable for customers. They assist in studying, adding value for a target audience and gaining the clients’ loyalty.

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Community ROI: Embracing Humanity’s Desire to Help

Lithium

In today’s digital ecosystem, it’s a requirement to have a community page. No matter what industry you find your brand or company in, having a place for your customers to talk about your business, find support, or ask questions is necessary. Long before Khoros was Khoros, the founders deeply understood the importance of digital communities. It’s easy to hark about how much value you can pull from having an award-winning community.

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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.