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3 Things You Can Do Right Now to Create More Inclusive Employee & Customer Experiences

InMoment XI

Diversity and inclusion initiatives have become front and center for many organizations in recent years. It’s important for brands to create diverse and inclusive customer experiences (CX) and employee experiences (EX)—not ‘just’ because being more inclusive is the right thing to do, but also because organizations have a lot to gain from accommodating greater diversity in every experience they create.

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New job in customer experience? Do this on the first 90 days

GetFeedback

Expert guidance on how to tackle the first three months in your new CX leadership role, by Jeannie Walters.

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A Breakthrough in Point Correspondence: Mitigating “Outliers”

TechSee

Ever wonder how the human brain can compute distance? How far away is the highway exit, when exactly to step off the escalator, the exact position of the lips you want to kiss? This essential capability is known as depth perception. When both eyes focus on an object, the difference between the visual images that each eye perceives due to its unique angle – known as retinal disparity – is the phenomenon that allows the human brain to compute depth perception.

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Guest Post: Find Ways for Artificial Intelligence to Benefit Customers

ShepHyken

This week, we feature an article by David Meerman Scott adapted from the new 8th edition of The New Rules of Marketing and PR to be released on May 3, 2022. He shares how organizations can use data and AI-powered tools to benefit customers. As I write this, I’m using web-based artificial intelligence (AI) transcription software called Otter to help me turn recorded audio interviews into a text transcription.

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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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3 Ways Market Research Supercharges Experience Programs

InMoment XI

Market research is seen by a lot of companies and organizations as a nice-to-have. The reality, though, is that it’s a necessity. Market research provides the mapping tools you can use to chart your business landscape, understand its various features, and more importantly, get to know the groups and audiences that populate it. . This goal is especially important within the context of experience programs, especially if you want to achieve real Experience Improvement (XI) for your customers, emplo

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Introducing Customer Experience (CX) Automation and Smart Workflow Feature

Zonka Feedback

66% of consumers who switched brands did so because of poor service. 85% of customer churn due to poor service was preventable. 67% of customer churn is preventable if the customer issue is resolved at the first engagement. 11% of churn can be prevented by a company by just reaching out to the customer. 65% of customer service experts say that using CX automation should be a norm.

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How to Make Your CX Strategy Part of Every Team in Your Company

Kustomer

The modern customer is one that is informed. More so than ever before, consumers are invested in making conscious purchase decisions, thoroughly researching the product, and receiving above and beyond customer service. In fact, among surveyed consumers, Kustomer found that 79% believe customer service is extremely important in deciding where to shop.

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Customer Experience 101: Types of Surveys

InMoment XI

Surveys are a way to compile data from a group of people, but they can be more than that. Surveys are also direct insight into your customers and information about how they feel about your company, products, and services. How did your customers perceive your most recent product launch? How do they feel about your company’s social media presence? Surveys are a direct line to find out and glean valuable information about your customers and your company. .

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One Millimeter Mindset® 2022 Blog Post Review #1

One Millimeter Mindset

Today’s post compiles five ideas to catalyze you to think about the same things, differently. It is time for action. Yes, sail into uncharted waters so what is uncomfortable and unfamiliar today becomes your professional environment moving forward. Get to where you really need to go, together, one millimeter at a time. These five themes surface constantly as I research and speak with motivated colleagues and readers like you.

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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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Mistakes to Avoid When Selecting a CS Platform: Not Being Able to Create Inspiring Journeys

Totango

Selecting the right customer success platform for your organization can be challenging. To help you navigate the process, we’ve developed a four-part blog series about the mistakes you should avoid when choosing a CS platform. In this article, we’ll look at the mistake of choosing a platform that doesn’t allow you to create inspiring customer journeys.

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SAP Premium Engagement Forum ‘Deep Transformation Insights’ (Virtual, May 18, 2022)

SAP Customer Experience

Virtual May 18, 2022 Agenda Dear Valued Customer, We are pleased to invite you to the SAP Premium Engagement Session focusing on “Deep Transformation Insights” taking place on May 18, 2022. Please find the current agenda here. Deep Transformation Insights (DTI) is a new SAP service to support business transformation.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 4-25-2022

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. Consumers Prefer Traffic Jams Over a Bad Customer Experience by Retail Customer Experience. (Retail Customer Experience) More than half, 60%, of consumers would rather sit in a traffic jam than have a poor customer experience, according to a Telus International survey.

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Top review sites in your industry you can’t ignore in 2022

BirdEye

There’s no doubt that Google is the king of online reviews. In fact, our studies found that 71% of all reviews in 2021 were written on Google , but that doesn’t mean you should ignore the other 29%. Niche sites are a regular place for customers to leave online reviews when they are not leaving them on Google. To stay ahead, you need to make a conscious effort to get more reviews on these sites and understand which sites are most important in your industry.

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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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Our Customers Are Always Complaining About Our Prices. What Do We Do?

Beyond Philosophy

On a recent podcast, one of our listeners contacted us with a Business Pickle with which he wanted our help. Peter Harvey is in a Business-to-Business (B2B) organization. Their offering does not have the lowest price, and they have no plans to lower it. However, their customers keep complaining. Peter wanted to know what we thought he should do. Since price is something that can seldom be low enough, I figured some of you face the same issues, and I would share our advice here with you.

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Maximizing Agent and Employee Engagement To Deliver Customer Excellence

Doing CX Right

Rob Stewart, Business Author, and Teacher shares how to maximize staff engagement & productivity while reducing costs (turnover, recruitment, training) for sustainable business growth. The post Maximizing Agent and Employee Engagement To Deliver Customer Excellence appeared first on Doing CX Right.

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The Most Important Employee in Your Business

ShepHyken

Is the CEO or owner the most important employee of a business? They are the people who make the big decisions and determine the vision and strategy of the company. But if not for the company’s employees, that vision and strategy would mean nothing. . Here is where I’m going with this idea. Let’s say the owner of a restaurant is also the chef. This chef prepares the most amazing meals using the highest quality ingredients, and customers are willing to pay a premium to enjoy this epicurean exper

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Are You Using Net Promoter Score® (NPS®) Survey The Right Way?

Zonka Feedback

NPS® or Net Promoter Score® is the most important metric to measure customer loyalty and overall satisfaction with the brand. Therefore, it is important to use NPS® surveys at different touchpoints throughout the customer journey. Moreover, it is advised to conduct NPS® surveys through different channels depending on where your customers choose to interact with your business.

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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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Training Solutions That Can Improve Your Customer Service Management Style

CSM Magazine

Managing a customer service team takes dedication, hard work, and the right skill set. If you want to further develop your customer service management style, there are training solutions out there that can improve your talents and create a better working environment. This article looks at some of the best training solutions in more detail. Mental Health Training.

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How to Integrate Surveys in Your LMS to Measure Training Impact

SurveyGizmo

Surveys are a critical piece of any Learning Management Software (LMS). Ideally, feedback is collected from learners and inputted directed into an LMS, but occasionally learning services professional fail to adequately communicate with the people taking their training programs. Instead, learning service professionals should ask questions both about the subject topic as well as collect subjective feedback about the course experience too.

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Amazing Business Radio: Daniel Coyle

ShepHyken

The Culture Playbook . How to Develop Workplace Culture Like a Skill. Shep Hyken interviews Daniel Coyle, New York Times bestselling author of The Culture Playbook: 60 Highly Effective Actions to Help Your Group Succeed. They discuss developing your team’s culture as a skill through consistent action, practice, and reflection. Top Takeaways: Culture is not about words.

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[Podcast] Diversifying Metrics and the Rise of the Conversation Curator

Lithium

Our guest today is none other than Legendary Khoros Titan, Claudius Henrichs ( ) , Head of Community at Dataiku. He brings a wealth of knowledge and experience as a passionate community member throughout the years. Claudius has been noticing more awareness around how closely related the learning experience, and the community experiences are. Businesses are realizing that the Community Manager establishes communication between many company departments to the customer/audience, making it an essent

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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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Great Customer Experiences: The Key to Business Growth

Daniel Group

Great Customer Experiences: The Key to Business Growth. Did you know that providing consistently great customer experiences will grow your business? But, does your business have an outstanding customer experience? If not, you’re not alone. Many companies are unsure how to create a great customer experience. But creating a great customer experience can be challenging, especially when your business is just getting started.

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The Customer Journey Mapping Process That Drives ROI

Heart of the Customer

Customer journey mapping lays a strong foundation for the success of your customer experience initiatives. But only if it’s done right. So having a research-backed customer journey mapping process is critical. Unfortunately, that’s where most journey mapping initiatives go wrong. Almost two-thirds fail to drive action. That’s not all that surprising, since most neglect to […].

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What values guide my actions and behaviors at work?

Customer Enthusiast

This is the second article in a 4-article series that explores each of the Four Questions leaders must ask to reveal the total job role to employees, connect daily work activities to organizational purpose, and inspire the collective pursuit of a common aspirational goal. The act of contemplating and responding to each of the Four … Continue reading "What values guide my actions and behaviors at work?".

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Are You Letting Your Business Become Stereotyped? – Tip #39

Steve DiGioia

Stereotype: a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. Business stereotypes are preconceived notions that every customer has of your business. What do they expect when doing business with you? Are the expectations good or bad? What image or idea do you send to your customers? “The lines are always too long.” “The place is so outdated.” “Your salespeople only care about making the sale, whether the item is right

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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.