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Customer Experience Management Defined: How is it Different From CX?

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Customer experience exists whether you are intentional about it or not. After all, your customer is experiencing the brand via every interaction, touchpoint, service call, and delivery. The customer walks away with a perception of what the brand is, and whether or not this brand lives up to its promises, with every step along their personal journey.

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The Best Customer Experience Needs the Best Agent Experience – Expert Commentary

Comm100

Ten years ago, it wouldn’t have been uncommon to see people switch off merely at the sound of ‘customer experience’ in conversation. Once considered an ephemeral buzzword that would fade away, these same organizations now boast of their CX-first culture that puts customer experience at the forefront of everything they do. The reason for such a rapid and overwhelming change of heart is simple and unsurprising.

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The 3 Principles of Brand Loyalty After COVID-19 Rocked Our World

BlueOcean

Brand loyalty is a reflection of a customer’s commitment to a relationship with a given retailer or service provider. But, of course, the pandemic changed everything about all our relationships. We quickly got used to holding everything and everyone at arm’s length – and for many customers, that included the brands they had once been loyal to. Read on to discover the three principles of brand loyalty after COVID-19 shifted our buying behaviors (and one interesting exception to the rule.).

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Amazing Business Radio: Ron Karr

ShepHyken

Applying the Velocity Mindset in Customer Service. How Empathy Accelerates Great Customer Experience. Shep Hyken interviews Ron Karr, CEO of Karr Associates, Inc. and author of The Velocity Mindset. They discuss the impact of empathy in delivering customer-focused service. . Top Takeaways: . Often in customer service, we tend to put self-imposed limitations that get in the way of delivering great experiences to our customers and slows down the process.

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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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Best places for customer service certification & training

GetFeedback

Learn why earning a customer service certification will benefit your business and find organizations offering training and certifications.

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Exceptional? Sales? ?People? ?Deserve? ?to? ?Sell? ?Outstanding? ?Products

TechSee

Here at TechSee, we are incredibly proud of what we’ve created and what it has to offer. In the span of only six years, we’ve established ourselves as the market leader in visual assistance, selling to more than 100 Tier-1 leading enterprises worldwide. Our patented Computer Vision technology uses AI and AR to install and fix technical devices like routers and appliances in the most straightforward and cost-effective way.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 5-10-2021

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. 8 Ways to Win Customer Loyalty With Streamlined Customer Support by Samuel O’Brien. (CustomerThink) How do you, as a business owner, introduce processes and initiatives to streamline your customer support in order to win over your customers?

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How Support Teams Can Improve Customer Retention

Help Scout

Great customer service delivers real business value. That’s a foundational belief at Help Scout, as outlined in our support-driven growth articles. Even so, it can be difficult for empathetic customer service staff to think about customers in terms of business revenue. It somehow feels more “fair” to treat every customer equally, being helpful and responsive without regard to the money involved.

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Top 3 Takeaways from Kerry Bodine’s Alida Activate Keynote

Alida

Last week at Alida Activate, a customer experience (CX) masterclass event, Kerry Bodine took to the virtual stage for an unforgettable keynote on Demystifying Customer Experience. Kerry provided meaningful insights into what it takes to deliver exceptional customer experiences, and how to champion CX transformation within your own organization. With such an information-packed session, it wasn’t easy, but we’ve narrowed down our top three takeaways from Kerry’s spectacular keynote presentation.

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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 Good A Liar Are You Really? Does Lying Affect Your Customer Experience?

Beyond Philosophy

This podcast is sponsored by Verint. Verint helps the world’s most iconic brands build enduring customer relationships by connecting work, data, and experiences across the enterprise. The Verint Customer Engagement Cloud Platform draws on the latest advancements in AI and analytics, an open cloud architecture, and The Science of Customer Engagement to meet ever-increasing, ever-shifting consumer interactions and demands.

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What’s Normal for Us Can Be Amazing to Others

ShepHyken

During my live presentations, there is a part of my speech where I talk about Moments of Magic. These are positive experiences we create for our customers, including our internal customers, also known as our fellow employees. (If you’ve been following my work, you already knew that.). In the speech, I’ll ask audience members to share an example of when they created that experience.

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Cha Ching! How Support and Success Join Forces to Drive Revenue

Team Support

“You’re not paying close enough attention to your customers.”. That’s how TeamSupport CEO Pete Khanna and ProfitSword VP of Sales and Marketing Paul Bennie began their speaking session at the recent TSIA Interact annual conference. This blog provides the highlights from their talk. It was a provocative statement to introduce the session. What did they mean ?

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Uncover and Action Comprehensive Insights with Flexibility

Alida

Voice of the customer (VoC) and customer experience (CX) initiatives are becoming more important every day. As customer expectations skyrocket and buying behaviors turn on a dime, companies are tasked with keeping up—something nearly impossible to do without some level of insight into what customers want and are expecting.

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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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Ten guiding principles for a better customer experience

PK

Many businesses are working to foster a better experience for their customers. With customer experience being a new area of focus for many, we have found that businesses are ramping into the field very quickly and are sometimes missing some key base principles in the process. This is a set of ten guiding principles that act as a foundation in our CX practice.

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TSIA Interact Spring 2021: Key Takeaways

Education Services Group

TSIA’s conferences are always jam-packed with best practices, real-life examples, success stories, and lessons learned from some of technology’s biggest names. This spring’s virtual TSIA Interact was certainly no exception, with three days of sessions from TSIA researchers and industry-leading companies and experts. With so many impressive sessions and speakers, it was hard to choose which to attend each day!

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10 Selling Principles That Are the Foundation for Stronger Customer Relationships

Integrity Solutions

Just about everything in our world is changing, but there are still some fundamentals that remain constant. Now more than ever, the traits of a great salesperson come down to selling principles and behaviors rooted in ethics and integrity. What are the traits of a great salesperson in 2021? Many sales leaders are grappling with this question as they navigate today’s rapidly evolving selling landscape.

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Focus on Brain Cross Training To Vitalize Team Collaboration

One Millimeter Mindset

Brain cross training is a potent strategy for becoming more professionally visible, cross-functionally relevant, and strategically valuable. And this hybrid skill set is tailor-made for what is new and next in our workplaces. Sound daunting? It’s easier than you think. Just give yourself permission to move one millimeter beyond what is currently professionally comfortable.

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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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Optimize Stakeholder Engagement and Management With These Key Strategies

Totango

Stakeholder engagement and management is critical for customer retention. Here’s how to plan an effective stakeholder management strategy and track your performance. How Do You Optimize Stakeholder Engagement? A well-designed stakeholder engagement and management strategy includes two key components: An action plan for promoting stakeholder engagement.

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3 Strategies for Turning Your Customers Into Promoters

PeopleMetrics

Word-of-mouth marketing is the best way to drive customer loyalty and organically create enthusiastic brand advocates. In this session, we share 3 strategies to help you turn your customers into promoters, starting with Net Promoter Score (NPS) - a universal metric that helps you understand your relationship with customers and identify opportunities to turn passive customers into brand promoters.

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Customer loyalty: 5 strategies for creating lifelong fans of your brand

delighted

It’s a term that gets thrown around a lot these days, but “customer loyalty” has never been more important. If you want to build a business that’s sustainable – not just a flash-in-the-pan success – you have to prioritize the long-term loyalty of your customers. The significance of customer loyalty. It’s easy to get caught up in sales and onboarding new customers that you forget about the importance of retaining them.

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Yes but are you making the time to learn new stuff?

One Millimeter Mindset

When do you make the time to learn new stuff? OK. I already see your eyes rolling in your head as you think: “Sure Babette I don’t even have time to complete my work each day!”. I acknowledge you. Yes, we all get busy being busy “doing” stuff. However, in what manner does all this busy-ness: improve your expertise, innovation, collaboration, and leadership capabilities?

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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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Customer Success Operations: Top Takeaways from ChurnZero Virtual RYG

ChurnZero

How to Define, Measure, and Advocate for Customer Success Operations. Have you ever wondered: What’s the difference between Customer Success Management and Operations? When should I add Customer Success Operations and how do I advocate for the role? What goals, metrics, and tools does Customer Success Operations use? If so (like the rest of the Customer Success world), then this article is for you.

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Designing a fantastic customer journey from end-to-end

BirdEye

Delivering world-class experiences on a consistent basis isn’t easy — especially when you’re managing multiple locations. However, businesses that are able to go above and beyond customer expectations see higher loyalty , higher overall star rating, and higher revenue. To find out how multi-location businesses can delight customers consistently, we decided to sit down with Amberlee Maya , Director of Marketing at Rent King.

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Successfully embracing AI for customer service

Eptica

Date: Friday, May 14, 2021 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Successfully embracing AI for customer service. Published on: May 14, 2021. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager How can artificial intelligence help deliver a better customer experience and how far down the path to AI has the industry travelled? What will be the impact on agents and customers?

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Customer Story: Brain.fm

Help Scout

When you provide a tool that your customers rely on to achieve their daily goals, a common guiding value is a user-first mentality. But what does this actually mean? For Brain.fm, this means achieving as much visibility into and consistency of customer success as possible. Brain.fm was founded in 2003 by Adam Hewett with the goal of helping people focus, relax, and sleep by way of neuroscience-backed functional music.

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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.