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Building a Customer Experience (CX) Strategy

VDS

More and more companies are realizing the importance of formalizing and strategizing the customer experience. However, many are unsure where to start, which leads to a common question, “How do you build a customer experience strategy?”. This article will help you understand what a CX strategy is and how to build one by adapting the philosopher Vanilla Ice’s famous words, “… Stop, Collaborate, and Listen.”.

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Six Ways Journey Mapping Can Drive ROI

Heart of the Customer

When doing customer journey mapping, it’s critical to start by identifying a business problem – one that you can solve through learning more about customer needs. This is the first question of our Five-Question Framework, which we’ll be discussing during our webinar on Wednesday, May 6 – we hope you’ll join us for that…or catch […]. The post Six Ways Journey Mapping Can Drive ROI appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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How to Build a Multi-Skilled CX Team

GetFeedback

The top 9 skill sets you need in your core customer experience team in order to succeed.

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Smart Speakers Give Companies a New Way to Collect Customer Feedback

InMoment XI

MaritzCX Continues to Focus on New Innovative Ways to Deliver Better CX A new method of Customer Experience data collection is emerging with Natural Voice. Everyone’s heard of Alexa, Siri, Google Home and Cortana, all Voice Recognition Software. But did you know that these same instruments have the ability to both give and collect Customer. View Article.

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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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Did You Hear That? The Importance of Listening during Uncertain Times

Alida

We’ve heard it said over and over again: these are unprecedented times. Every interaction—from the small-scale to the large-scale—is intrinsically different than it was prior to COVID-19. It is crucial for companies to prioritize people, both customers and employees.

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The State of B2B Customer Experience Report

GetFeedback

Our 2020 research reveals a new outlook on the CX space and how to thrive in it.

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Re-Launching a Legacy VoC Program

InMoment XI

It’s important to challenge your way of thinking when it comes down to managing the customer experience, because there are always opportunities to improve how customers can communicate their feedback. The Australian Government (CSC) decided to tackle this initiative, in order to reinvent and relaunch their Voice of the Customer program. The Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation.

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Don’t Let Your Customers Fall in the Expected Experiences Gap

ShepHyken

I’ve written about the concept of a “gap” a number of times over the years. Each time, the gap was different. The first time, I shared Dan Sullivan’s principle about the gap between the goal you wanted to achieve and your actual results, if you didn’t hit the goal. The difference was the gap. Another time I wrote about the competitive gap , which is about the gap or distance you put between you and your competition.

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Tips for Managing a Remote Customer Service Team

ProProfs Chat

The above screenshot comes from the Deloitte Millennial Survey of 2017 that shows the percentage of millennials reporting that their employers have adopted flexible arrangements. Of these flexible work arrangements, the flexibility of being able to work from anywhere takes the biggest priority. Why? To find an answer to this question let us shave a look at some of the stats.

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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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What You Should Learn From This Poor Practice

Beyond Philosophy

I hate my cable providers. That’s right, providers is plural. I have two different providers, one in the UK and one in Florida, and they both provide poor experiences. In many ways, I see cable companies as the perfect example of what not to do with your Customer Experience. This Episode of The Intuitive Customer takes a look at all the ways cable companies provide experiences that do not promote customer-driven growth.

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Three Phases For Heading Back To Business

Experience Matters

Organizations need to plan for three phases of recovery after the post-COVID shut down: 1) Explore, 2) Reorient, and 3) Normalize. This post explains each phase and how Experience Management (XM) can help. The post Three Phases For Heading Back To Business appeared first on Experience Matters.

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Salesforce FSM: 6 Tools that Drive Technician Enablement

TechSee

Modernizing field service management (FSM) has become a priority for many organizations in a sector largely defined by legacy systems and outmoded practices. Many seasoned field service technicians are old-school – having only begun using smartphones in the recent past – creating efficiency issues within FSM. According to an industry survey , 52% of companies still use manual methods for most of their field service tasks, such as scheduling and work planning.

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Making Customer Experience Fun! The Budapest Bank CX Crossword Puzzle

ijgolding

Before you start reading this post, I must make it clear that whilst the centrepiece of it is about a game, the real story is much, much more than that. This is a post about customer experience (CX) transformation – about the incredible work being done by a bank in Eastern Europe in their quest to become sustainably customer centric. It is a post that demonstrates how hard work, collaboration, resilience, innovation and fun, can combine to power the transformation journey.

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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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Tactical Fixes do not help Clients make Strategic Hard Calls

One Millimeter Mindset

Do you propose tactical fixes for your clients’ biggest strategic issues? Or, is your own need to close a contract overshadowing the real issues clients struggle with? Because you both need to put food on the table, maintain cash flow and prevent employee and client churn. While this dialectic existed pre-pandemic, well, the current and future business scenario puts this scenario on steroids.

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Podcast: How to Get Your Employees to Tell You The Truth

Michel Falcon Experience

On today’s podcast, I chat with Steven Weaver Founder, The Candle Lab. Some of the things we discuss include: – How he pivoted his business and is achieving 3x more sales than before. – Why he paid an employee’s drug debt. – How to get employees to tell you the truth about how they’re feeling. Click the links below to listen to the podcast on the platform of your choice.

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Are banks building trust through customer service excellence?

Eptica

Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2020 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Are banks building trust through customer service excellence? Published on: May 06, 2020. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager The coronavirus pandemic is actually accelerating digital transformation in many verticals, and banking is a prime example. People already wanted to be able to access their bank accounts 24x7 from home using the web and apps, but with many branches closed or operating reduce

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How Do You Engage Employees? Adopt The Five I’s

Experience Matters

One of the key goals of any Experience Management (XM) program needs to be employee engagement. This is not only a critical outcome for Employee Experience (EX) efforts, but it’s also a critical input to delivering great customer experience. Why? Because engaged employees are the trigger of a “virtuous cycle” of good customer experience and strong business results.

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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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Create a Flexible Client Retention Strategy as Clients Pivot

One Millimeter Mindset

Quite an adventure, isn’t it, sailing through the pandemic storm, together? Each week brings a new requirement on how to combine emotion, engagement, courage, and critical thinking skills. So we get to where we need to go, together. One millimeter at a time. Each week feels different, has its own theme, doesn’t it? As I coach clients and companies through being prepared for “what’s next?

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5 Steps to Getting Started with Restaurant Reputation Management

ReviewTrackers

Restaurant reputation management can mean the difference between a packed house or a slow Friday night with empty tables and no one on the waitlist. Cultivating a positive online reputation helps you stand out among local competitors. Research shows that 35 percent of all search traffic is local , and those consumers are looking at a business’s digital reputation and reviews before they decide to visit.

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You Need a SaaS Churn Analysis ASAP. Here’s Why.

Totango

A SaaS churn analysis is more than a quick calculation of your customer churn rate. It provides a window into the causes and effects that are affecting your churn rate, including your customers’ needs and whether they are being met. These insights will fuel your next steps and help you determine where resources are best invested and what improvements need to be made to ensure business continuity.

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AI Implementation: Choosing between a Quick Fix and a Sustainable Solution

Interactions

Recent disruptions in the workplace due to COVID-19 have left contact centers scrambling to fill the gaps created by limited or impacted workforce. Long wait times and unanswered calls increases customer dissatisfaction in an already frustrating situation. In a rush to resolve these issues companies are looking at solutions that will lead to instant improvement.

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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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How to Control and Reduce Churn using NPS?

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For most businesses, especially SaaS businesses , customer churn is a big problem. There are a lot of challenges in keeping the customers stay in business with you. There are options aplenty for your customers too which makes it all the more difficult to reduce churn. App churns impact the lifetime value of customers, impact user acquisition, impacts marketing spend, and more.

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Your Game Plan for Customer Retention During Uncertain Times

ChurnZero

As businesses are thrust into uncharted territory, figuring out how to navigate customer retention strategies to minimize churn will determine their survival. Fortunately, Customer Success teams are uniquely positioned to step up and provide business continuity—serving as a company’s compass to guide them through this treacherous terrain. At Sendoso’s Virtual Event The Show Must Go On : Integrated Ways to Power the Customer Lifecyle, Allison Tiscornia, Chief Customer Officer at Sendoso, and Abby

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Get Remote Customer Service Employees Off the Phones (at least) Once Weekly to Reboot

Myra Golden

My walking buddy told me about how a department lead kicked off a virtual staff meeting for her organization. He had a scavenger hunt. The manager posted a list of ten items on the team’s GroupMe app. Employees rushed around their homes to find everyday items: toothbrush, paperback novel, tv remote, candle, Airpods, olive oil, and so on. The activity took less than ten minutes, and it set the tone for a fun, upbeat virtual meeting.

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If You Open, Will They Come?

NetBase

In the U.S., people are becoming more anxious to see stores and businesses re-open. But when they do open, will people come? To answer this, we must view consumer readiness through the lens of COVID-19 – and against the backdrop of how this is progressing in Europe. Learnings from Europe. As Europe is in the beginning phases of opening safely, the U.S. is watching and taking notes, as it has followed the same COVID-19 trajectory.

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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.