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Why You Should Build an Omnichannel Customer Experience

InMoment XI

It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that customer expectations are always changing, and you’ll never be able to keep up. However, all your customers want the same thing: to be able to interact with their brand on their terms. In order to do that, you need to work to create an omnichannel customer experience that allows customers to contact you when they want, how they want, and where they want.

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[Experience Action Podcast] Navigating Customer Expectations: Strategies to Weather the Storm and Excel in CX

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Ready to navigate the choppy waters of customer expectations? Take a seat with Jeannie Walters as we chart a course through the complex seas of customer experience management challenges. In this episode of Experience Action, we tackle the pressing issue of meeting and exceeding client expectations, even when industry woes like staff shortages and technology hiccups threaten to sink our ships.

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AI in CX Success: Finding Your Ideal Starting Point, Scaling Up

TechSee

Artificial intelligence (AI) can potentially revolutionize how businesses interact with their customers. However, many enterprise leaders struggle to balance the long-term transformative value of AI with the need to deliver practical first steps that will demonstrate real-world AI in CX success. This post will explore how enterprise leaders can find the optimal first initiative for using AI to augment or automate their customer experience or service.

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Ford Versus Ferrari: A Lesson in Customer Experience?

ShepHyken

Functionality versus customer experience: Do they belong together? Yes! And here’s a story to make the point:  Two guys are buying new cars. One buys a Ford EcoSport, and the other buys a Ferrari Roma. The Ford costs about $25,000. The Ferrari costs about $250,000 – 10 times more! Both guys live in the same neighborhood. They both drive downtown to work.

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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 to Upgrade to an Advanced Customer Experience Strategy

Lumoa

The internet has no shortage of platforms for consumers to share their unfiltered opinions about businesses. From social media posts to Google and Yelp reviews, every buyer can recount their customer experience with your company to a global audience. It is no wonder, then, that businesses have started paying much closer attention to their customer experience (CX) strategy.

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Why SaaS Leaders Should Outsource Their Customer Success Program

BlueOcean

When we are talking to organizations in the sales cycle, we will often hear from SaaS companies that the customer success role is too complex, too critical, too deeply embedded in their internal operations to ever be outsourced. We are here today to say, with respect, they’re wrong. It’s kind of ironic because many (most?) SaaS companies are no strangers to how an entire industry can be flipped on its head with a simple reframing of business models.

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The Human Touch in a Tech-Driven World

ShepHyken

This episode of  Amazing Business Radio with Shep Hyken  answers the following questions and more: How is artificial intelligence used to improve customer interactions in contact centers? What are the challenges in finding the right balance between technology and human support in customer experiences? What frustrations do customers face when dealing with customer service, and how can AI address them?

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State of online reviews 2024: Embracing automation for growth

BirdEye

In today’s world, where every online chatter can become a shout across the digital universe, understanding the current trend of online reviews is crucial for businesses aiming high. With an overwhelming 68% of consumers letting reviews guide their choices, enterprises must know the pulse of the market to craft a stellar reputation. Birdeye’s vast network, encompassing over 150,000 businesses and a treasure trove of millions of reviews, offers a rich data set to discern these trends.

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Integrated CX: The Complete Guide

InMoment XI

In the midst of today’s bustling and intricate business landscape, deciphering the ever-evolving wants and needs of customers can feel like navigating through a maze. However, creating an integrated CX program can make this easier than you might think. At InMoment, we are dedicated to delivering tangible business value and bolstering your bottom line through a comprehensive integrated CX approach.

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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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How to Create Unbreakable Brand Loyalty through Emotional Connection

Beyond Philosophy

Learn more about Colin Shaw : Join over 80,000 people on our LinkedIn Newsletter list or visit our website for more great podcast episodes. Listen to the podcast: Bob Black, one of our podcast listeners, loves our ideas about evoking specific customer emotions. However, he hasn’t the faintest idea of how to do it from a practical sense. As someone who appreciates the practical application of an excellent theory, Black’s pickle stood out as one I wanted to address here with you reader

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The Power of Service: How Two Customer Service Leaders Fueled Remarkable Financial Achievements

CSM Magazine

John Tschohl of the Service Quality Institute takes a look at the results of some of the leading customer-centric companies of 2023. Amazon I believe is the most customer-driven firm in the world. They are Relentless. Net sales increased 12% to $764.8 billion. A $60.8 billion increase in revenue. AWS sales increased 13% to $90.8 billion. Net income was $30.4 billion.

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Feedback Fuelled Success: The Dynamic Duo of Continuous Improvement and Customer Insights

C3Centricity

Last week I spoke about the importance of actioning customer feedback. I want to continue this topic focussing on using the information for continuous improvement of the brands and services you offer. The Custometrs’ Need for Continuous Improvement The only constant in business today is change! And customers expect businesses to be constantly adapting and preparing for their future needs.

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Unleashing the Power of Integrated CX: Strongest Signals

InMoment XI

Understanding and responding to customer needs is paramount for business success, however, many businesses find themselves grappling with the challenge of harnessing the full spectrum of customer voices. Surprisingly, a staggering 85% of valuable customer data remains untapped, residing in various teams, systems, and silos. This fragmented approach to CX makes it difficult to track customer behaviour across different channels and identify crucial opportunities for improvement.

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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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From me to you, Happy Valentine’s Day!

Bill Quiseng

From me to you, from one customer service advocate to another, Happy Valentine’s Day. For having read my blog, I very much appreciate you. On this special day, I wish each of you the very best, but I already know you’re one of the very best. So, I wish you GREAT happiness, kindness, enthusiasm, and success. Today, let’s appreciate each other and show our love for all business professionals.

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How to Become One of the Top Customer Service Companies in the US

The DiJulius Group

Do Your Customers Love You? Forbes’ latest ranking, “Best Customer Service,” highlights the companies that, according to consumer feedback, stand out in delivering exceptional service in the United States. “Customer service is one of those areas that has historically been viewed as a cost, but our data shows that there’s an opportunity to view it.

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Identifying And Cultivating Top Talent In Your Contact Center

Playvox

In an economy that’s pitched more than a few curveballs over the last five years, retaining and growing a loyal customer base is consistently a winning business strategy. As a contact center leader, the top agents you hire, train, and manage are the clutch players. They are among your organization’s most valuable assets, and you depend on them to deliver loyalty-building customer experiences every day, with every interaction.

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Improving Customer Experience Through Stratified Sampling

InMoment XI

Market research and market segmentation is a crucial part of launching any campaign or product. One part of this process that is often overlooked is how market segments are developed. It is important to use proper sampling techniques to gain the most accurate market segmentation results. One of these techniques is stratified sampling. Stratified sampling provides businesses with a nuanced understanding of customer preferences and behaviors within each segment, allowing for the development of per

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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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My Hopes & Fears for a Future of Bots Powered by LLMs

Cyara

Imagine this: you’re sitting at your computer, trying to contact support for a technical issue and you’re met with a bot. You roll your eyes, here we go… let’s see if this bot understands my request… lets see if this bot can even connect me with an agent. But not only does this bot understand your request, it seems to understand you on a deeper level, you feel like you are talking with a human support agent, or even chatting with a friend.

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Lessons from Zappos: Elevating AI Integration for Next-Level Retail Customer Service

Doing CX Right

Explore AI's transformative power to elevate retail customer customer service. Learn how to effectively use AI and customer insights to design impactful experiences with Stacy Sherman and featured guest, Alex Genov from Zappos. The post Lessons from Zappos: Elevating AI Integration for Next-Level Retail Customer Service appeared first on Doing CX Right.

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Just Not That Into Your CDP? Swipe Right on Intelligent Customer Engagement

Blueshift

Love is in the air, but is your relationship with your current Customer Data Platform (CDP) feeling a bit lackluster? This Valentine’s Day, it might be time for a breakup – with your CDP, that is! Imagine your relationship with your current CDP as a bad rom-com: it started off with high hopes, promising grand adventures in the world of customer data.

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This is Digital, Episode 34: The Digital Stadium: How the New Fan Experience Can Drive Revenue

West Monroe

Listen to "The Digital Stadium: How the New Fan Experience Can Drive Revenue" on Spreaker. About the episode Explore the transformative power of AI and digital technology in the sports industry on our latest episode, which features Satisfi Labs CEO Don White. Fresh off the Super Bowl's digital showcase, dive into how these technologies are enhancing fan experiences by making sports more accessible and interactive than ever.

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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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Are Outbound Calls Reaching Your Customers? There’s a New Way to Be Sure!

Cyara

Today, we’re thrilled to announce a new, industry-first solution to this challenging situation for contact centers with outbound call line identification (CLIs) serving your customers around the world. Cyara Number Trust is the first purpose-built solution that offers organizations a streamlined and faster way to conduct full, end-to-end tests across every major global, mobile network, covering all of the main third-party spam filters.

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The US Is Opting For Healthcare Call Center Outsourcing Companies – Here’s Why

Magellan Solutions

In recent years, the US healthcare industry has significantly increased its reliance on healthcare call center outsourcing companies to enhance patient care and operational efficiency. With rising costs and complex regulations overwhelming healthcare providers, partnering with overseas business process outsourcing (BPO) companies has become a strategic necessity.

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of February 12, 2024

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 comments about each article and would like to hear what you think too. Thanks to Gen Z, Deeper Connections Will Become the Currency of the Future by AmberNechole Hart (Adweek) Empty ecommerce gets you to checkout fast but gives no reason to return.

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What it’s like to attend the Medallia Experience conference

Thematic

I finally got to attend a Medallia Experience conference, and just like with my write up of the Qualtrics X4 event last year , I’d like to share my experiences and learnings. First, it’s hard not to compare two events. Both companies compete head to head with each other for customers. But in this post, I’ll just say that Medallia Experience feels much more like a general CX conference, whereas Qualtrics X4 is a magnitude bigger and much more unusual in their approach.

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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.