Sat.Dec 04, 2021 - Fri.Dec 10, 2021

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Four Things to Consider When Leveraging a Customer Feedback Management Platform

InMoment XI

I may be dating myself here, but does anyone else remember sitting in a conference room surrounded by sets of data tables and analyses so you could then manually pull numbers, read through all the comments, and manually populate reports? And after all of that, you still had to manually tweak those reports for each audience! It took days to complete a report.

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Forrester and Alida Come Together to Improve CX With This Recipe

Alida

At Alida Activate 2021, industry leaders around the world gathered to share the latest and greatest in customer experience (CX) best practices, thought leadership, and more. One of the most impactful sessions was with Maxie Schmidt, VP and Principal Analyst at Forrester breaking down the best approach to implementing a successful CX program.

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Wow Your New Employees

Bill Quiseng

It is really disappointing to new employees that the first day of orientation is spent on defining the rules and restrictions, usually required by the legal department, that, if not followed, will result in termination. At the end of the day, someone is asking, “How was your first day at work?” You don’t want their answer to be, “Well, all I learned was what will get me fired.” While that information is important, consider the overall message you are giving new empl

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Here’s a New Word: Skimpflation

ShepHyken

The other day my friend asked me, “Is mediocrity the new customer experience?” He mentioned how he’s had to wait longer when he called customer support and that there weren’t enough cashiers at the grocery store. . I said, “You are a victim of skimpflation.” . The word skimpflation was introduced recently on NPR’s Planet Money podcast. I’ve already written several articles about this ugly word, and I thought it was time to introduce it here.

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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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5 Insights on the Future of Customer Service (Free Report)

Stella Connect

The future of customer service is here, and brands that prioritize collecting customer feedback to improve customer satisfaction and put winning strategies in place to deliver an excellent customer experience stand to strengthen existing customer loyalty, attract new customers through positive word of mouth, and gain an advantage over the competition. .

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Overcoming the Great Resignation with Lessons Learned from CX Best Practices

CSM Magazine

The Great Resignation is a topic receiving plenty of attention in 2021 and for good reason. According to one Gallup poll , nearly 50 percent of America’s working population was actively job searching or monitoring job opportunities this past summer. Employee engagement is even worse, as 34 percent of North American respondents in the poll said they were actively engaged in their current job.

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How to easily enable texting from your business landline

BirdEye

Back in 2003 Apple launched iTunes, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King became the highest-grossing film of the year, and according to the National Center for Health Statistics 95% of households had a landline. How times have changed. Today, according to Statistica, only 37% of American households are still using landline phones. The mobile phone is the communication device of choice, and texting has become people’s preferred mode of communication.

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Key Insights to Guide your CS Strategy in 2022

Totango

What 2021 Taught SaaS Businesses about Customer Success. As the business world adapted to the challenges of 2021, SaaS companies re-examined what customer success means in today’s digital-first environment. In this article, we’ll examine the top three takeaways we’ve gathered over the past year that companies should take to heart going into 2022. First, we’ll look at how the flywheel model has redefined our understanding of the customer journey.

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The Importance of Creating a Repeatable Voice of Customer Process

Kapta Customer Success

Net promoter score results aren't enough to gain a clear understanding of what your organization needs to do to build healthier and longer-lasting relationships with key clients. Instead, it's important to develop an interview and feedback system that integrates into overall account management so your KAM team has a strong relationship with each client that continues to develop over time.

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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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Seven CX Tips to Help Weather the 2021 Holiday Season ‘Everything Shortage’

CSM Magazine

Holiday season performance is ‘make it or break it’ for the entire year for most retailers, and Holiday 2021 is certainly no exception. Mike Myer, CEO and co-founder of Quiq looks at the challenges ahead. Now more than any other time of year, e-Commerce becomes a more dominant force in companies’ sales, and subsequently, online customer experience. Retailers are already feeling the effects of pandemic-related seasonal headwinds, putting pressure on consumer confidence, full-time and temporary st

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Bringing Digital Channels into the Contact Center and Beyond

Upstream Works

The contact center is currently being transformed in fundamental ways, driven mainly by the evolution of cloud-based technologies and the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) -driven applications. There is a lot of innovation that enables businesses and customers to engage more directly than ever before, allowing call centers to modernize their operations.

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Solve Post-Pandemic Complex Problems. Special Offer.

One Millimeter Mindset

Today is the day!! You are thinking about becoming a PMI-certified Complex / Wicked Problem Solver. Now you can! I am offering you an exclusive 21% course discount. As a PMI Affiliate, I am thrilled to offer this gift, and these savings, to you. What’s involved? 3 easy-peasy steps. Today, give yourself the gift that impacts how you serve and lead tomorrow and future-forward.

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Guest Post: The #1 Way to Drive Customer Service ROI in 2022

Stella Connect

Colin Shaw is an official LinkedIn Influencer where he has recognized as one of the ‘World’s Top 150 Business Influencers.’ Colin’s company, Beyond Philosophy LLC, has been selected by the Financial Times as one of the best management consultancies for the last two years. Colin has written seven bestselling books on Customer experience is the co-host of the highly successful Intuitive Customer podcast.

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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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Are You Winning on Purpose?—The Creator of the “Net Promoter” Tells Us How!

Beyond Philosophy

Back when I was working in corporate life, I went to a presentation in London. Sitting there amongst 1,000 people, I had an epiphany about what I wanted to do with the rest of my career. Soon after that, I founded my global Customer Experience consultancy, Beyond Philosophy. The Speaker was New York Times Best-Selling Author Fred Reichheld , inventor of the Net Promoter Score ® (NPS).

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Customer Journey Survey Strategy

ClientSuccess

Any CSM who has spent more than a few days in the SaaS industry working directly with customer contacts understands the incredible importance and value of customer feedback. Surveys serve a twofold purpose: they give your team a better sense of understanding when it comes to areas of opportunity and growth within your organization and make customers feel as though their input and opinion is greatly valued (which it should be!).

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It’s not your fault but it is your responsibility

Zeisler Consulting

I recently wrote about how important it is that brands not just be competent in delivering the products or services they provide to their Customers. From perusing your website, to making a selection there or in a physical location, to paying, to delivery, use, and re-purchase, Customers engage with your company along an entire journey filled with touchpoints not only directly related to what you build or do, but also in ways you might not even consider.

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Amazing Business Radio: Len Herstein

ShepHyken

Vigilant Customer Service. How to Avoid Complacency in Customer Interactions. Shep Hyken interviews Len Herstein, CEO and President of ManageCamp Inc. and author of Be Vigilant!: Strategies to Stop Complacency, Improve Performance. They discuss how businesses can be vigilant against complacency by safeguarding success and customer relationships. Top Takeaways: What breeds complacency in business?

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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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Product-led growth: A product manager’s insight into growth hacking with a better product

delighted

Guest post contribution by Samidha Visai, Product Manager at Secureframe. As success stories of tech companies and their industry-disrupting solutions flood our newsfeeds, the concept of “product-led growth” can be seen everywhere. And, while the concept of product-led growth seems self-explanatory, there is more to the strategy and benefits of product-led growth that are crucial for product teams – and all teams – to understand.

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5 Steps to Designing a Killer Gym Loyalty Program

Perkville

Learn what it takes to design and run a gym loyalty program that increases member engagement to improve retention and generate referrals.

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Get through your SAP Learning Holiday Checklist with OpenSAP Microlearning!

SAP Customer Experience

This time of year, there’s so much to do! If one of the items on your holiday checklist is to expand your SAP CX product knowledge, here’s an easy way to do it without taking time away from all your other year-end tasks. Most of our SAP CX products have.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 12-6-2021

ShepHyken

Each week I read many 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. 3 Ways to Move From Customer Service to Customer Care by Patrick McCullough. (Destination CRM) What’s the difference between customer service and customer care?

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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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6 new integrations for automating how you collect and act on customer feedback

delighted

Put your Delighted customer experience program on autopilot with 6 new integrations, all geared towards automating key aspects of the experience management process. These free integrations help you send surveys at just the right moment and get richer customer insights for your team, freeing you up to take action. SupporTrends: Unearth natural language themes in all customer conversations.

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I am so Frustrated! Customers’ Comments Don’t Reflect the Score They Give Me. Why?

Beyond Philosophy

On the podcast, we do something called “I’m in a Pickle.” The pickle is a business problem our listeners have that we try to address with the behavioral sciences. For example, we had one recently from a listener Janet, who said that despite getting good comments from customers, they do not give us the top Net Promoter Score (NPS) ®.

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Dealing With Abusive Customers

Help Scout

Why let your human customer service team be yelled at when you could hire a robot to take it all instead? Is AI the answer to customer service abuse, or is there another way?

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Everyday Ways To Live Your CX Mission

Doing CX Right

Jeannie Walters explains the importance of a customer experience mission and how to "Create Fewer Ruined Days for Customers.”. The post Everyday Ways To Live Your CX Mission appeared first on Doing CX Right.

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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.