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What’s On Your Customer Experience Governance Checklist? Three Must-Haves

InMoment XI

The term “ customer experience (CX) program ” refers to an immensely broad concept. But at the same time, a “customer experience program” encompasses countless daily actions and processes. How do you keep track of all your efforts? And what do you need to do to keep them going? That’s where a customer experience governance foundation comes in—and more specifically, where this governance checklist we put together for you becomes the most useful.

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How to Turn Customers into Storytellers

Alida

Customers always have stories to tell—but at first, they might not realize their feedback is a story that truly needs to be shared. To encourage them to share their thoughts, opinions, and unique perspectives, you need to turn them into storytellers.

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Don’t serve to satisfy customers. Serve to WOW them.

Bill Quiseng

Don’t serve to satisfy customers. Serve to WOW them. The customer does not “journey” sequentially over time, from start to finish. They journey emotionally with “ow” and “WOW moments” The more ow or WOW, the more emotional the moment, the more memorable the experience. The more ow, the more disgustingly memorable the experience, the more disloyal the customer.

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Why Your Measurement is Killing Your Customer Experience And What to Do About it

Beyond Philosophy

I am surprised daily about how many organizations can’t articulate how their improvement in various experience measures, like Net Promoter Score® , will benefit the organization. This connection is essential to understand to create a winning customer strategy. . The same is true for customer data. Too often, an organization is excellent at collecting data to measure the effects of their efforts but has no idea how they will use it.

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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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Three Considerations When Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Regulatory Compliance

InMoment XI

Companies are investing heavily in artificial intelligence (AI) to save money and time—especially those in industries who have to constantly deal with regulatory compliance documents. After all, who wants to sift through endless amounts of tables and lists? Those working in legal, medical, or financial sectors are often all too familiar with this infamous struggle.

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Three Steps to a Winning B2B Customer Experience Plan

Totango

Delivering a satisfying B2B customer experience is key to staying competitive in today’s SaaS market. Here, we’ll outline a strategic roadmap to developing a winning B2B customer experience strategy. First, we’ll take a look at what B2B customer experience is and why it’s an important priority. Then, we’ll walk you through three steps for creating a solid customer experience strategy.

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Is It Really That Important That I’m Wearing a Name Tag?

Steve DiGioia

There’s always that one employee who refuses to follow directions. It seems that no matter how many times you talk to him, he continues to “forget” to do what he’s told or at worst, intentionally refuses to do it. So, what do you do with an employee like this? Sure, we can give him a kick in the rear and show him the door, but you never want to lose an otherwise half-decent employee if you can help it.

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ChurnZero earns spot on G2’s 2022 Best Software Awards

ChurnZero

ChurnZero, a leading Customer Success software platform, today announced it has been named to G2’s 2022 Best Software Awards, placing #31 on the Project Management Products list and achieving the highest rating for Customer Success software. This award is earned by software products and companies that provide best-in-class customer service products and experiences for their customers.

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Cautionary tale—BNPL disrupts with faster, smarter, more personalized payment solutions

Maru Group

By Mallory Salerno, Vice-President, Business Development, Maru/Matchbox | February 7, 2022. The seamless experience of BNPL solutions has contributed to their exploding popularity. The global market continues to put extreme pressure on financial institutions to develop faster, smarter, more personalized payment solutions. However, traditional financial institutions and lenders continue to fall short by failing to provide a frictionless customer experience.

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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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Amazing Business Radio: Steve Peltzman

ShepHyken

An Evolutionary Moment for CX. Building a Reactive and Predictive Customer Experience. Shep Hyken interviews Steve Peltzman head of FeedbackNow , Forrester ’s AI-powered physical & digital solution.?They discuss how companies can sense, analyze, and react to issues that affect customer experience. Top Takeaways: Wherever customers go, something is different.

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Start Coloring Outside the Lines of Self-Imposed Boundaries

One Millimeter Mindset

Are you unintentionally creating self-imposed boundaries for your professional self? When do you create these? What stories do you tell yourself, denying the existence of these impediments? How do these limits make you feel secure, comfortable, and end up keeping you professionally static? Last week’s blog post focused on the importance of creating a habit of self-acknowledgment : inward affirmation.

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ContactBabel Report: The 2022 U.S. Contact Center Decision-Makers’ Guide

Playvox

As contact centers around the world grapple with the realities of hybrid work , the Great Resignation, heightened customer expectations, and supply chain woes, many are turning to industry research and data that can provide guidance, perspective, and clarity to help them maintain and grow their CSAT and NPS scores. Enter ContactBabel. As a leading analyst firm for the contact center and CX industry, ContactBabel publishes the Contact Center Decision-Makers’ Guide each year, giving the industry u

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Some words about Brand Promise

Zeisler Consulting

If you follow my ramblings, you’re aware that I approach CX differently. Rather than promising higher revenue, sales, and market share (at least, rather than promising it directly ), my philosophy about Customer Experience is that it should be founded explicitly on your Brand Promise, and its goal should be eliminating the gaps that exist between your Customers’ experiences and that Brand Promise.

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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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Use Relationship Data to Build Stronger Connections

ShepHyken

First, I hope the word “data” doesn’t scare you off. We’re not going to discuss the typical customer data that might bore most people, although I’ll admit that I get excited and geek out about the data, stats, and facts that show trends in business. Today we’re going to talk about relationship data. . First, understand that relationship data is information you have about a customer that you can’t get by looking at a spreadsheet that includes information about all your customers.

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Seemingly Small People Skills Errors That Create Big Trouble | #PeopleSkills

Kate Nasser

These seemingly small people skills errors create big trouble. Alternatives from Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™, Author Leading Morale. The post Seemingly Small People Skills Errors That Create Big Trouble | #PeopleSkills appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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Customer Experience Trends to Expect in 2022: Part Two

Merkle

Thank you to the thought leaders who contributed to this article: Evan Nicholson, Digital Experience Practice Director, Merkle. Jen Karlson, Commerce Strategist, Merkle. Michela Baxter, Sr. Director, Promotions & Loyalty Solutions Practice Development, Merkle. Mike Adamson, Sr. Manager Experience Strategy, Merkle. Timea Szell, Sr. Manager Digital Experience Strategy, Merkle. .

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Some words about Brand Promise

Zeisler Consulting

If you follow my ramblings, you’re aware that I approach CX differently. Rather than promising higher revenue, sales, and market share (at least, rather than promising it directly ), my philosophy about Customer Experience is that it should be founded explicitly on your Brand Promise, and its goal should be eliminating the gaps that exist between your Customers’ experiences and that Brand Promise.

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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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Five Contract Renewal Tools to Increase Customer Retention

Totango

The contract renewal stage of the customer lifecycle is a critical component of driving retention for SaaS products. Knowing how to use technology to optimize your contract renewal process can increase your retention rates and your revenue. In this article, we’ll discuss five essential technology tools you can use to automate your contract renewal procedures.

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Problem Solved: Software-Only MFA for Call Center PCI Compliance

CSM Magazine

In 2020 there were an estimated 2.83 million people working in call centers across the United States according to Statista.com. These facilities are the backbone of numerous industries’ customer service operations which rely upon these call centers and call center agents to ensure their customers are receiving the best experience possible. In an industry that employs millions and is also responsible for handling sensitive information for millions, security and efficiency are extremely impo

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Why Customer Service Efficiency Is More Important Than Ever

Kustomer

Even during the best of times, businesses strive to be more efficient. There are always things to improve upon, always more customers to service, always proactive outreach to do. But when circumstances shift rapidly, and businesses are asked to do more with less, it brings to light the importance of efficiency in customer service. Kustomer surveyed over 150 customer service professionals to better understand how they are being impacted by the pandemic, how their business is adjusting as a result

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Functional Roles of Customer Success

Gainsight

Customer success plays an integral role in the success of any organization. CS efforts impact customer acquisition, upsells, expansions, renewals, and customer advocacy. Almost every business goal outlined by your company can be improved by someone in a customer success role. Customer Success Roles. Because customer success impacts so many sections of your business, it requires a specific mix of CS professionals in order to be successful.

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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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Get involved and participate in the Customer Engagement Initiatives for SAP Enable Now

SAP Customer Experience

Now is your chance to influence and shape specific development topics for SAP Enable Now! The SAP Customer Engagement Initiative (CEI) enables you as an SAP customer or partner to get early insights into SAP’s product developments and directly work with the developers to define and shape future product directions.

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The HappyOrNot effect

Happy or Not

How to turn customer feedback into customer success? Customer experience counts, we all know that. In fact, it counts so much that when consumers have a very good CX they are willing to pay up to a 16% price premium on products and services. This is in addition to increased loyalty. How exactly do you know, and improve, how your customers perceive your service?

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Calabrio ONE Recognised as a Leader in G2 Contact Centre Workforce Report

CSM Magazine

Calabrio, the customer experience intelligence company, today announced that Calabrio ONE, the workforce engagement management suite, has been named a Leading product based on its high customer satisfaction scores, quality of support and “likeliness to recommend” ratings from real users on G2 , the world’s largest tech solutions review site. Calabrio ONE achieved high satisfaction ratings on the Report for Contact Centre Workforce by receiving positive reviews from verified users.

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The Upside of Nitty-Gritty CX Truths!

Heart of the Customer

Last week I wrote about three little-discussed, but somewhat frustrating, aspects of CX: Nobody really gets what you do; Everyone thinks they’re a customer experience person, too; and CX can be lonely. Then I heard from my good friend Lori Laflin, VP of Digital Experience at Compeer. She questioned my out-of-character negativity, saying: Jim, I […].

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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.