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The digital customer experience is changing. Is your brand on board?

NICE inContact

In the business world, customer experience has long been the focus of many efforts. From marketing to lead generation, business operation, and even customer retention, brands know all too well that the customer is the one part of the equation that can make or break their business at the drop of a hat.

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Three Steps to Proactive Customer Service

Bill Quiseng

Too often, businesses focus solely on the negative feedback from their customer surveys in CSI fashion, identifying the pain points and taking the steps to eliminate them. While this reactive analysis is critical, it is just as important to embrace a proactive approach, taking as much time examining the positive comments for clues in the experiences that customers raved about in their surveys.

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EX and CX: How to Optimize Both Using Employee Insights

Alida

Companies that implement voice-of-employee (VoE) programs are usually in it to improve the employee experience (EX).

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The Gig Economy is Paving the Way for Agile Customer Service

TechSee

The Gig Economy – Work On-Demand. In recent years, the world has been trending toward a gig-based economic format. A gig refers to when an independent worker is hired, often through a digital marketplace, to work on a short-term project or task on-demand, such as freelancers, independent contractors, and temporary hires. These gigs are often created to meet consumer demand via the real-time delivery of services.

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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Zero Cost! How to Use Behavioral Science to Improve Your Customer Experience

Beyond Philosophy

I recently received a letter from a listener on our podcast asking us to cover how a small business with limited resources can improve their Customer Experience using the behavioral sciences in their business. We took on this topic in a recent podcast by offering tips and tricks that are either free or not an additional expense for a fictional restaurant we created.

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Quick Player Insights: PA Lottery Insiders

Alida

In July 2017, the Pennsylvania Lottery launched the Pennsylvania Lottery Insiders online research community powered by Alida (formerly Vision Critical). The goal of the community, which started with a group of about 5,000 players, was to create an engaged community of player volunteers who wanted to share their opinions about all things lottery. The strategic aim of starting Insiders was to allow the Pennsylvania Lottery to gather quick, continuous feedback from engaged players about products, m

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Measuring Customer Experience: How to Collect the Right Data and Act on It

Totango

It is essential for a company to understand the behavior, opinions, and needs of their customers to provide the best service possible. A business’s relationship with its clientele is a foundational necessity, and just like any other relationship, if one side does not understand the other, the partnership is destined to fail. By measuring customer experience, companies can easily become more educated about customer behavior and opinions.

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How to Reduce Customer Service Response Time to Avoid Lost Leads

Inbenta

Most customers are willing to spend more with businesses that respond fast – but 62 % of companies don’t respond to customer service emails at all! It’s astonishing that so many organizations fail to realize the risks of ignoring their most valuable asset. While customers appreciate politeness, knowledge of the product, and the ability to resolve issues – a quick response is prized above all.

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CXDNA Ultimate Ecosystem

CRMI

CXDNA Ultimate Ecosystem? Triple Crown CXDNA Ultimate Ecosystem? NorthFace ScoreBoard Award? Triple Crown Defining Metrics for Creating World Class Excellence in: Customer Service Employee Soft-Skills CEMPRO Certifica.

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The 2023 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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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 5-3-2021

ShepHyken

Each week I read a number of 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. An online music gear retailer tackles customer experience with a ‘Sweetwater’ difference by Judy Mottl. (Retail Customer Experience) Sweetwater Sound Inc., an online retailer of music instruments and audio gear, is dedicated to investing in an “old s

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040: Starting Your Customer Service Revolution Journey

The DiJulius Group

Chief Revolution Officer John DiJulius of the DiJulius Group talks with Dave Murray, Senior Customer Experience Consultant for The DiJulius Group about how to start your customer service revolution journey. John and Dave talk about the building blocks that every great customer service organization has to have. You will learn: What the actual definition of.

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How Visual Integration Helps Agent Efforts with Wade Radcliffe

Kustomer

Listen and subscribe to our podcast: In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets Podcast , Gabe Larsen is joined by Wade Radcliffe and Vikas Bhambri to learn about visual integration to enhance the customer experience and how it boosts agent efforts. Listen to the full episode to learn more. A New Communication Channel. Wade Radcliffe was the Director of Business Development at Streem , a company that offers a visual layer to the world of CX, and understands the need to integrate multiple ch

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Birdeye awards: Here’s why we’re the #1 Experience Marketing platform on the market

BirdEye

There’s a reason why Birdeye is the #1 Experience Marketing platform on the market. We work hard to ensure that our platform enables businesses to deliver fantastic experiences at every touchpoint and allows their customers to share their experiences on review sites and social media. Whenever we receive awards , we know that it’s because we’ve taken the time to build a platform that’s both robust and easy-to-use, and gives all 60,000+ of our partner businesses everything they need to be found, b

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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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5 Ways to Develop a Winning Restaurant Marketing Strategy

ReviewTrackers

Americans eat almost one-third of their caloric intake at restaurants, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. That is almost twice the amount than the average intake in the 70’s, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The number of meals eaten out increases significantly during the winter holiday season, starting before Thanksgiving and continuing through New Year’s celebrations.

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Give Customers the Effortless Engagements They Deserve with Upstream Works for Amazon Connect

Upstream Works

What do customers want when they interact with your contact center? They want to have options in how they choose to contact you with seamless escalations to personalized service. They want proactive service with agents who can predict upcoming issues. Customers want resolutions on the first contact. Give your customers all that and more with Upstream Works for Amazon.

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Secondary Effects of Churn: Part 2 of 2

Education Services Group

In part one of this two-part series , I shared the five secondary effects of churn on your organization. I discussed the reality that churn impacts more than just your bottom line, including these very real potential consequences for your brand: 1. Perception of product becoming reality. 2. Negative publicity from churned users. 3. Employee anxiety. 4.

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6 Experience Marketing strategies for healthcare practices

BirdEye

Technological advances have enabled quick and seamless experiences for consumers across different industries. eCommerce sites offer 1-click shopping and same-day delivery. Ride-hailing apps allow users to find reliable transport with just the click of a button. It’s an age of quick and seamless experiences all around — with one exception: healthcare.

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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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What Will be Your Leadership Legacy?

Russel Lolacher

Legacy is a funny thing. It’s a term used more and more in organizations when executives or senior management are in their mid- to late career. Their bosses will ask, or they’ll ask themselves,… “What do you want your legacy to be?” But what does that even mean? As Merriam-Webster Dictionary states it: leg·?a·?cy | ?

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How to Retain More Clients: Benefits and Strategies

Totango

What is customer retention ? Why is it important? And how do you do it? Here we’ll provide answers to these key questions. We’ll discuss what customer retention means as a concept, as a strategy and as a metric. We’ll highlight its direct relevance to revenue and its other compelling benefits. And we’ll offer an eight-step path to increasing customer retention by following best practices and leveraging the power of automation.

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3 Ways Brands Can Use Agent Assist to Create Seamless CX

Conversocial

Bots have come a long way since their inception, but consumer trust still lags behind. In our State of CX Trends 2021 55% of consumers didn’t think bots could provide better CX and 54% have had a bad experience when interacting with a bot. The legacy of 2016’s ‘ Year of the Bot ’ was too many badly designed bots, mak ing “I’m sorry, I don’t understand” a far too regular occurrence.

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Customer Experience (Pensions) Fail at Aviva

Maz Iqbal

Customer Experience (Pensions) at MyAviva: The Way It Used To Be My customer experience online via MyAviva as an Aviva customer used to be great. I would have given it a 10/10. In fact, it was one of key factors in moving my pension over from Prudential. The other fact? By making the move I … Continue reading "Customer Experience (Pensions) Fail at Aviva".

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Why Has CX Become the Cornerstone of Customer’s Growth, Success, and Loyalty? In an Interview with Nate Brown, Chief Experience Officer at Officium Labs (Part1)

Strikedeck

Vincent Manlapaz, in an interview with Nate Brown discusses why CX has become the cornerstone of a customer's growth, success, and loyalty. The post Why Has CX Become the Cornerstone of Customer’s Growth, Success, and Loyalty? In an Interview with Nate Brown, Chief Experience Officer at Officium Labs (Part1) first appeared on Strikedeck | Customer Success Platform.

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3 Ways Humans and AI can Work Together

Interactions

Which is better: machines or humans? We’ve seen the debate for years. When it comes to customer service, there are strong opinions for each. . On one hand, automated systems can handle an unlimited number of customers at once, resulting in less time wasted and lower operational costs. On the other hand, humans can elevate customer satisfaction by bypassing business rules and emotionally supporting customers.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 5-2-2021

ShepHyken

Each week I read a number of 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. An online music gear retailer tackles customer experience with a ‘Sweetwater’ difference by Judy Mott. (Retail Customer Experience) Sweetwater Sound Inc., an online retailer of music instruments and audio gear, is dedicated to investing in an “old sc

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Want to move towards Great Problem Solving Acumen?

One Millimeter Mindset

Rate your problem solving acumen, on a 1-5 scale. Is it lousy, mediocre, meh, good, or great? For starters, are you satisfied, fulfilled, enthusiastic, and proud of how you solve problems? Next, how satisfied, fulfilled, enthusiastic, and proud is your team of your contributions to how they collectively solve problems? Finally, what do you clients feel about team process and deliverables?

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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.