Sat.Jul 04, 2020 - Fri.Jul 10, 2020

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Why Journey Map? 3 Problems They Can Solve

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Why Create Customer Journey Maps? Journey maps can be extraordinarily impactful upon how an organization approaches their products, services, and interactions. They are also often widely misunderstood. Stop for a moment and imagine a customer journey map in your mind. What do you see? If you see a poster on a wall, an outline in a company handbook, or any other sort of static document that gets created and then spends its time collecting dust… then you might think journey maps are a waste

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The 6 CX Fundamentals of Organizational and Human Adaptiveness

eglobalis

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How to Achieve Meaningful CX Measurement for CX-Based Compensation

inmoment

The Coronavirus pandemic has left no aspect of customer experience (CX) programs unchanged, especially compensation practices tied to CX results. COVID-19 has brought about uncertainty, but it also presents a unique opportunity to reevaluate—and redesign—CX-based compensation practices that companies have long held sacred. Let’s discuss how these practices are doing in the current age and how they might fare better during and after this pandemic.

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Interview With CX Ambassador Corrina Owens

GetFeedback

Interview with Corrina Owens, marketing and demand generation manager at SpendHQ—a leading SaaS spend analysis solution—about her career in the customer experience space.

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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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What’s Trending in Customer Service Right Now?

BlueOcean

Time kind of lost all meaning in the first half of 2020 so it’s especially hard to believe we’re in the middle of summer already. In the world of customer service, every industry has had their own unique challenges this year, and it’s clear that most companies have had to pivot in their approach. We were curious what industry influencers are talking about right now and wanted to share our findings here.

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The Secret of CX Success

Heart of the Customer

Swing for the fences! Shoot for the Moon! You got this! During my many years as a high school and collegiate lacrosse player and coach, I heard (and said) encouraging platitudes like these more times than I can possibly count. But I think many CX professionals – myself included – could benefit from a reminder of just how much confidence […].

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How to Bridge the Gap for CX Across the Organization

GetFeedback

Leverage key CX metrics to demonstrate the value of customer experience and build partnerships across departments.

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Amazing Business Radio: Patricia Fripp

ShepHyken

The Secret to Success is Good Customer Service. How to Use Customer Service Stories to Teach, Inspire and Reward. Shep Hyken interviews Patricia Fripp , CSP, CPAE, speech coach and customer service expert. They discuss her career history of using amazing customer experiences as a competitive differentiator, plus a few tips on speaking and presenting.

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Powerful New Way To Reveal How Customers Feel In The Pandemic

Beyond Philosophy

What A Face Mask Can Do for Customer Segmentation. Everyone has an opinion about face masks. Some think they help stop the spread of COVID-19; some think they are unnecessary and a nuisance; others fall somewhere in between. However, what you probably didn’t know about face masks is they can help you customize moments of your Customer Experience so that no matter what opinion your customer has, they feel like you understand them.

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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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Tips to Best Balance Your Customers’ Value

CSM Practice

Providing value to customers is tough in any industry. Companies, in whatever business they may be, must constantly aim to be better at understanding what their customers want and need to achieve customers’ value. They must keep engaging and communicating with their customers to satiate the promises they fostered to them. . For companies, targeting the customers is just the beginning which means effort should not stop there.

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Prove The ROI of Customer Experience (WITH ACTUAL MATH!)

GetFeedback

Simplified CX YouTube series episode on how to prove the ROI of your CX program.

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Would You Please Leave a Review About Your Experience?

ShepHyken

Getting customers to review their experience with you is powerful. Before they make a purchase, go to a restaurant, stay at a hotel and more, many customers do online research, which leads them to reviews that help form their opinion of products or services they want to buy—or even the company they want to buy it from. Nothing new there. How do you get reviews?

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Are Client Retention Folks the Best Salespeople in Your Company?

One Millimeter Mindset

It just could be that client retention folks are the best salespeople in your company. You know. Professionals involved in the post-sale care and feeding of newly-acquired customers. And the pros responsible for designing (and reworking) and implementing and maintaining what new and current clients ordered. Also, the people who directly answer client questions throughout that customer’s life cycle.

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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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3 Ways Work at Home Is Shifting Consumer Behavior

Oracle

One of the largest internet providers saw a 60% increase in internet usage in some areas of the US in the month of March. With so many more people at home working, studying, and finding entertainment across devices, the way consumers are behaving and interacting with brands is changing. Here are 3 key areas where consumer behavior is shifting, and how you can modify your strategy to accommodate. 1.

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Enhancing Remote Maintenance using Visual Technology

TechSee

Field service organizations have long been implementing measures to reduce their high operational costs. Technician dispatches, in particular, are a huge drain on resources, considering that each truck roll involves technician labor costs, and vehicle expenses such as fuel and insurance. Remote maintenance is therefore becoming a preferred solution for many field service organizations, as it enables technicians to monitor and maintain customer systems from afar using a range of tools and sensors

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Yelp Reviews Disappearing! Here’s Why, and How to Solve It

ReviewTrackers

The Problem: Your Yelp Reviews Have Disappeared. Yelp is one of today’s most popular and influential review sites. Reviews and ratings on your business page have the power to shape your brand reputation, influence consumer behavior, and even improve your search engine visibility. Sometimes, though, these reviews go missing from your Yelp business page.

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How Tech Uses CX Metrics to Find Bottlenecks to Product Led Growth

Wootric

We are all competing in the End User Era now. Investor Blake Bartlett coined the term “End User Era” to capture an important shift that is happening on an organizational level across industries: “Today, software just shows up in the workplace unannounced. End users are finding products on their own and telling their bosses which ones to buy.

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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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How Can Customer Support Work With Customer Success to Improve Retention

ChurnZero

This is a guest blog post by LiveAgent. . What makes a successful business? Most people would say a great product or an aggressive marketing and sales strategy. Even though this is partly true, the reality is that happy customers make successful businesses. The better the service, and the more customer-centric your business is, the more likely it is to succeed.

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How to Decide When Your Business Needs a Customer Engagement Platform

Ecrion

Your company’s relationship with its audience is one of the most important metrics to focus on. In fact, studies have shown that people are far more likely to interact with a brand that they trust than one they don’t. Interacting with your audience isn’t always optimized, though, which may result in you not getting as much out of your customer relationships as you could.

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From a Good to a Great Website: 9 Ways to Engage More Successfully

C3Centricity

Denyse Drummond-Dunn · What makes a great website? “Never miss an episode. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts to get new episodes as they become available.”. What makes a great website? What makes a website great for your customers? What makes a website great for your potential customers? The answers to these questions will help you to publish a successful website.

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Improving Customer and Employee Retention: Tips and Strategies

Joe Rawlinson

The retention of customers and employees is correlated to a point. A customer that has worked with a specific client manager or staff member will have a rapport with the employee. Constant turnover can make it difficult to build that rapport that is so important in customer retention. Boosting employee retention can require quite a few changes to company policies and hiring processes.

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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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Tips to Best Balance Your Customers’ Value

CSM Practice

Providing customers’ value is tough in any industry. Companies, in whatever business they may be, must constantly aim to be better at understanding what their customers want and need to achieve customers’ value. They must keep engaging and communicating with their customers to satiate the promises they fostered to them. . For companies, targeting the customers is just the beginning which means effort should not stop there.

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Live Agents and Virtual Assistants: Better Together

Interactions

Automated customer service has been identified as the number one use case for AI-enabled digital transformation by leading analysts like Tractica and IDC. More and more businesses are turning to Conversational AI applications, such as virtual assistants, that automate tasks while also bringing benefits like improved customer satisfaction, decreased costs, and increased revenue. .

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The Importance of Brand Perception 

NetBase

Brand strategy planning requires accurate and transparent consumer and market intelligence , or you’re starting at a deficit. With endless amounts of data available online, the trick is sorting through it quickly to extract meaningful, actionable insight. And we’re going to show you how! And our recent report on The Importance of Market Insight for Brand Strategy pairs well with our 2020 Report on How Social Analytics is Important to Brand Management for this purpose.

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Managing Churn in SaaS Business With A Focus On Customer Success

Gainsight

Churn (the amount of revenue lost from a company’s existing customer base each year) is a metric that rises to the top of most SaaS leaders’ minds; it is one of the most commonly tracked metrics in SaaS businesses. As a SaaS leader, some elements of churn are structural. However, there are also decisions you can make that affect churn. We recently interviewed ~50 leaders at mid-sized SaaS companies, to identify decisions they made that did or did not affect churn.

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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.