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How Exemplis Commits to Company Culture and CX Improvement

Customer Bliss

“The caliber of the team here is remarkable, and I’ve never seen anything like it. So, that was the reason why I decided to join them. Now it’s been a little under two years, and I still feel the same way,” says Aurelia Pollet , the Vice President of Customer Experience at Exemplis. Exemplis is a B2B2C, which makes custom chairs and lounges for offices. .

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Maintaining Survey Integrity with Digital Fingerprinting

InMoment XI

Surveys are a great way for customers to candidly share the story of their experiences. When used correctly, surveys can provide insight on where certain improvements can be made in order to promote retention and loyalty. But what happens when these surveys are hijacked? Just as Batman and Robin must continually update their weapons arsenal. View Article.

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Net Promoter Score® (NPS®) Myths Debunked

GetFeedback

Four Net Promoter Score (NPS) myths debunked once and for all. NPS is a necessary customer experience metric, and this article will prove it.

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The Massive Importance of Memory in a Customer’s Experience

Beyond Philosophy

The Massive Importance of Memory in a Customer’s Experience. Customer loyalty is a function of customers’ memories. That is to say, customers don’t choose your experience over another; customers choose the memory of your experience over another. Therefore, we feel it is vital that you ensure your customers have an excellent memory of your Customer Experience.

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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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Amazing Business Radio: Nicolaj Sigglekow & Christian Terwiesch

ShepHyken

Connected Strategy. Predicting Your Customers’ Wants and Needs to Create an Exceptional Customer Experience (CX). Shep Hyken interviews Wharton School professors Nicolaj Siggelkow and Christian Terwiesch. They discuss their new book, Connected Strategy , and how any company can use the concept to improve their customer experience. The Interview with Nicolaj Sigglekow & Christian Terwiesch: Connected strategy is a concept that allows companies to connect to customers more holistically.

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8 Practices to Increase Customer Lifetime Value of Your Business

ProProfs Chat

As a business owner, it is important to think beyond elevating your brand amidst the increasing competition. You may have set the foundation of your eCommerce business on a riveting marketing strategy, a robust customer service team, and brand new ideas for products and services. However, it is high time to rise above the concept of establishing your brand name in the market.

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Fundamentals of a Customer First Strategy For Every Industry

C3Centricity

Every industry strives to improve their customers’ experience with their products and services. Adopting a customer first strategy is therefore in many company objectives. Unfortunately it rarely goes beyond the theory in many organisations, so I decided to help out with these six suggestions. Hospitality is perhaps one of the most visible industries where customer satisfaction, or lack of, is quickly shared with the world.

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The Customer Is Angry – And, It’s Not Your Fault

ShepHyken

Imagine this. The customer on the phone – or in person – is raging mad. You can hear it in their voice – or see it in their eyes. You brace yourself. You’re ready to take the lashing this customer is about to give you. You know you personally did nothing to offend and upset this customer. But somebody did something, or something happened, that made this customer want to lash out at you.

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Friction in CX: How To Avoid Getting Burned by Hidden Costs

Beyond Philosophy

I have been working as a global Customer Experience consultant for nearly twenty years. Never have I ever heard a customer say, “I just wish I could be hassled a little more.”. We don’t like it when things aren’t easy in a Customer Experience. It takes too much time and energy for us to respond to tricky or difficult challenges. Moreover, if we are at a state of cognitive depletion, where we are too tired to make good decisions or use rational thought to figure out a solution, we are likely to w

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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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The Top 4 Causes of Customer Churn and How to Address Them

Totango

In the customer-centric economy, retaining current customers is a top priority. Not only are new customers expensive to win over, but loyal customers are more valuable in the long run. They trust your brand and are more likely to spread word-of-mouth advertising or accept an upsell. Plus, retaining a following of customers gives you a good brand image, as it shows that your company is capable of inspiring loyalty.

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5 Features the Best Ecommerce Platform Should Have

Oracle

Shopping cart, wish list, gift card, coupon – these concepts have migrated online with the rise of ecommerce and are now primarily associated with nifty icons on a website rather than objects of the physical world. According to Statista , the ecommerce share of all retail sales worldwide amounted to nearly 12% ($2.8 trillion) in 2018. These numbers are growing year over year.

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Ecommerce Customer Experience: Why it’s crucial and tips for success

Lumoa

In this article, we cover why ecommerce customer experience is so critical and offer some tips on how to excel in an online environment.

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16 Best employee engagement software to boost your employee performance in 2019

SurveySparrow

Some businesses know that they have happy employees who adore their jobs. Some other companies find (to their dismay) that most of their employees barely tolerate working for them. Worst of all, many employers just do not know how their employees feel about them even. And really, I cannot think of a more toxic ignorance than that. The future of a company is hopelessly bleak should the employees hate their jobs and the management remain unaware of that.

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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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Get to the Heart of the Sales Mindset and Increase Questioning Confidence

Integrity Solutions

If your employees struggle with a willingness to ask the questions that will deliver more client value, you need focus on shifting their mindsets and building their confidence. One of the biggest issues on the minds of L&D professionals working in and with financial institutions today: What separates the most effective tellers, CSRs, loan officers and other bank and credit union employees from all the rest?

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4 Things Therapy Animals Can Teach Us About CX

Oracle

Dogs have long been touted as man’s best friend. Loyal, playful, and always eager to greet their owners when they return home, these animals are incredible sources of joy for people around the world — well, unless you’re a cat person. For people struggling with mental or physical health issues, therapy animals of any species take those comforting feelings a step further.

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Customer Success and Upsells: How to Make the Most of Opportunities

Totango

When your goal is to grow your customer’s business, upselling becomes a means, not an end. That’s the advantage of working within a customer-centric environment. Your success depends on your customer’s success, so expansion becomes a necessity for both parties. Upsells are the result of the growth a customer has enjoyed because of your commitment to delivering lifetime value.

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Why Toxic Professional Stories involve Another Story Too

One Millimeter Mindset

Leadership through storytelling takes another look at your toxic professional stories. You know, the ones you bury, because you associate these stories not only with personal and professional embarrassment and humiliation. But also, with toxic workplace environments. Often, you move on: from toxic colleagues, workplaces and stories. However, you remain good and stuck in these stories, spinning your professional wheels.

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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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In online chat, one size does not fit all

RapportBoost

Many of our clients describe a conundrum they face with their live chat team. While they want agents to represent the brand consistently and professionally, they recognize that these people must possess the latitude to show authenticity and go “off script” to build genuine connections. That means employing a “one-size-fits-all” approach for nearly any organization never works, most notably when brands treat prospective and existing customers the same way.

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Smarter Demos: Innovating the Automotive Experience with IoT and AR [VIDEO]

Oracle

SmarterCX presents the Smarter Demos series , a 2-minutes-or-less look at some of the most innovative CX technologies and how they work. In this 14th video in the Smarter Demos series, we take a look at some of the latest CX tech innovating the automotive experience. Yamaha, along with Shon Wedde, Senior Director, Product Management, Oracle , brings a new vision of customer service to life by integrating IoT, AR, and other mobile technologies for the consumer and dealer markets.

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7 Must-Hear Customer Experience Podcasts

iPerceptions

Whether you’re on your work commute, doing your everyday workout, or even just knocking out a project at work: listening to podcasts is becoming more and more part of our daily routines.

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3 Ways Conversational AI can help your Customers in an Urgent Travel Situation

Interactions

As the weather heats up this time of year, vacation is the top thing on my mind and I start to book my summer travels. Whether a domestic beach destination or an international adventure, I make a list of everything I have to do. Book flights? Check. Book a rental car? Check. Book a hotel? Check. With improved self-service, I find it easy to navigate through websites and channel options to get exactly what I want.

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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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Why sharing customer intelligence is vital to CX success

Eptica

Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2019 Author: Taoufik Massoussi - Product Manager & Head of AI Why sharing customer intelligence is vital to CX success. Published on: May 22, 2019. Author: Taoufik Massoussi - Product Manager & Head of AI In today’s ultra-competitive markets, delivering the experience that customers demand requires everyone in the organization to work together.

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Travel Customer Care Excellence, Informed by Social Listening

NetBase

When we talk about customer care, we now know we’re talking about the entire customer experience – not just isolated moments in-store, or when things go wrong. How does social listening impact customer care in one of the most experiential categories – i.e., Travel & Hospitality? Here are some ways! Immediacy Is Key. The longer consumers must wait for an answer – particularly when things are going wrong, but not only then – the more likely they will find another brand to do business with in t

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How to Move Customers Past Price

The DiJulius Group

This guest article is brought to you by Jeff Mowatt, speaker at the 2019 Customer Service Revolution. Do your team members ever give you this excuse when your company loses a customer, “Our competitors are hammering us on price. That’s why we’re losing business.” It’s a convenient excuse that puts the blame on those nasty. Read Full Article. The post How to Move Customers Past Price appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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Avoiding Biased Questions: 7 Examples of Bad Survey Questions

delighted

While customer surveys can yield amazing insights into what your customers want and need, they can also be a liability if the underlying survey questionnaire is flawed. One of the most common causes of unreliable survey feedback is the biased survey question. Customer feedback is not easy to come by, which makes every survey response all the more significant.

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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.