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Building a Successful Customer Experience Strategy

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Companies frequently designate customer experience (CX) as the most exciting opportunity for their business, according to the Digital Marketing Trends Report. Successful customer experience strategies will lead to greater customer satisfaction, higher revenue, and diminished customer churn. Indeed, American Express research shows that a better experience is worth a higher cost for 60% of customers.

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Don’t Let Acquisition Be Your Only Customer Growth Metric

Customer Bliss

In my Daily Dose video series, I explore the topics that chief customer officers must grapple with on a daily basis. Join me as I discuss what I’ve learned over the course of my 35-year career, so that you can more effectively do the work that needs to be done. Today’s video is an excerpt from a keynote speech, The 5 Leadership Competencies of Beloved Companies , which I recently presented at Cult the Gathering. .

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How to Create the Best Customer Experience Solutions

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Customer experience solutions are readily available these days. There are robust platforms that promise a seamless journey for your customers. There are feedback tools to help you gather JUST the perfect, most meaningful insights. And there are data sets and analytics and pivot tables, oh my! The real challenge in any customer experience scenario is the cold, hard fact that your customers are…human.

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The Route to Fully Autonomous AI Self Service Starts at your Contact Center

TechSee

We still read periodic scare stories about the rise of self-aware machines that could suddenly decide to put an end to humanity. But a more pressing concern for many is being rendered obsolete by intelligent systems that can outperform us in our daily work. Human-AI interaction, for years held up as the final frontier, is now giving way to autonomous AI-powered customer self service becoming a part of our daily 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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Introducing SMS Invitations

GetFeedback

Collect real-time, quality feedback from on-the-go customers. Today we’re excited to announce the newest addition to our suite of survey distribution channels: SMS. This feature helps companies connect with modern customers on their favorite channel and collect even more customer experience data, giving them the insights they need to deliver great experiences and boost loyalty.

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How to Create the Best Customer Experience Solutions

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Customer experience solutions are readily available these days. There are robust platforms that promise a seamless journey for your customers. There are feedback tools to help you gather JUST the perfect, most meaningful insights. And there are data sets and analytics and pivot tables, oh my! The real challenge in any customer experience scenario is the cold, hard fact that your customers are…human.

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Amazing Business Radio Jon Ferrara

ShepHyken

A Social CRM. Growing Your Business by Growing Your Soul. Shep Hyken interviews Jon Ferrara. They discuss his company Nimble , the history of CRMs, customer service philosophies, and life. In Shep’s Opening Monologue… He considers the balance between the digital and the human experience in customer service. The Interview with Jon Ferrara: Jon Ferrara created GoldMine, the pioneer CRM program, by synthesizing existing technologies at the time.

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4 Metrics for Measuring Live Chat Success

GetFeedback

Customers want solutions, and they want them fast. It’s one of the main reasons why live chat customer service is in such high demand. Implementing a live chat feature is not easy, but definitely feasible. The real hard part is measuring your live chat’s success. How can you tell if it’s working? At GetFeedback, we use four metrics to measure the performance of our live chat support.

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5 things to look for in a customer experience tool

Centriam Customer Experience Lab

Managing customer experience has become increasingly difficult because an organization's experience is impacted by nearly every department. Plus, to get executive buy-in to invest in customer experience (CX), processes and technology are needed to track CX programs and quantify their impact on the bottom line.

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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 Do The Financial Times, ROI, and CX Have In Common?

Beyond Philosophy

My company, Beyond Philosophy was named as one of the Best Management Consultancy firms in the UK by the Financial Times. I was surprised and honored. Getting recognized from the outside feels fantastic. What’s more, this award was voted on by clients and peers. All the hard work by my team has paid off, and I couldn’t be prouder of them. When I started my global Customer Experience consultancy in 2002, I had not been a consultant.

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Five Ways to Say Thank You to Your Customers

ShepHyken

Valentine’s Day is tomorrow. This is the day where we send our spouses, partners, and loved ones a gift. Often it is out of obligation. I have plenty of friends who tell me if they don’t get their spouse some flowers and a card, they will pay for it. So we feel obligated to express our love and appreciation to those close to us. I’ve written several articles about this before, and my favorite one is called The Valentine Obligation.

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How to Use Net Promoter Score (NPS) to Drive Growth

GetFeedback

Interested in learning more about your customers so you can improve products, enhance customer experience , and ultimately drive growth? It’s time to implement a Net Promoter Score (NPS) program. Net Promoter Score is a trusted measure of customer loyalty. It can help companies understand their audiences by quantifying customer sentiment toward products and services.

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Why I Moved From Customer Success to Product-led Growth

Gainsight

Last month, I quit my position as head of Customer Success at my company, RD Station. It was a dream job for a CS leader, if I may say so myself. In those six years leading the team, I’ve led its growth from one person to 180 people that are now spread across five different functional teams: Customer Success Manager (CSM), Partner Success Manager (PSM), Professional Services, Support, and CS Ops.

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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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Is Your Contact Center Training Missing These Things?

Integrity Solutions

The reality is, your contact center’s success still hinges on the quality of the conversations your agents have with your customers. By Bruce Wedderburn. The past few years have seen a dramatic increase in investments in AI, data analysis and other technologies designed to increase contact center efficiency. But in spite of all the technology that’s now available, the #1 factor contributing to whether or not your contact center achieves its objectives hasn’t changed.

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Guest Blog: 5 Ways Your POS Will Empower Your Staff

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Heather Hamilton who shares why investing in a point of sale (POS) system can empower your staff and improve the employee experience. – Shep Hyken. Investing in a point of sale (POS) system is a game changer for your retail business. From stock management to sales reports, customer loyalty, and much more, a POS system streamlines your efficiency in ways that pen and paper just can’t.

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How the South Dublin County Volunteer Centre Tripled Survey Response Rates and Measures Success

GetFeedback

The South Dublin County Volunteer Centre’s mission is to promote the value of volunteer work and increase its range and quality in Ireland. The volunteer centre’s role is to connect individuals with an organization that matches their job preferences. For example, if a volunteer is looking to work with animals, the centre will match that individual with an organization that handles animals.

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The One Word That Makes Customers Accept Your Word As Final

Myra Golden

If you say “because” when you’re telling a customer something, you’ll significantly increase the chance that they’ll accept your word as final. Here’s Why Saying “Because” Works. Research by psychologist Ellen Langer found that saying “because,” and then tossing out a reason as insignificant as a discarded rubber band, got people to agree.

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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 Customers Make Complex Decisions In A World of Constraints

Beyond Philosophy

We often discuss the Intuitive and Rational System and how they work together to help customers make decisions. The Intuitive System is automatic and emotional, and the Rational System is deliberate and logical. What we don’t usually share is that by academic standards, this concept is relatively new. An older theory also explains why we act the way we do as customers, and you need to know about it to promote customer success.

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5 Fascinating Cross-CX Sessions at Oracle Modern Customer Experience 2019

Oracle

Oracle Modern Customer Experience 2019 will take place March 19-21 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, with 100+ planned sessions focusing on the hottest topics in customer experience. Over 10 of these sessions will focus specifically on cross-cx trends and technologies. **Ready to register for Oracle Modern Customer Experience 2019?

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Building a Successful Customer Experience Strategy

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It's quite simple to create a successful customer experience strategy for your organization if you follow these seven steps. .

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The Art of Prioritization: How product teams avoid half-baked features, zombie products, and disengaged engineers

Wootric

It’s the nature of Product Dev to be weighed down with urgent requests, nice-to-haves, absurd asks, and bugs to fix – in addition to their regular workload. So, in many ways, the ability to prioritize correctly is the engine that runs a functional department. That’s where Bea comes in. “Prioritization is the art of saying no. Essentially, it’s the execution of the strategy,” says Beata Kovacs (Bea for short), a London-based trainer who works with product managers and their teams to make be

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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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10 common customer interactions and how to handle them

UJET

Customers reach out to your company for a number of different reasons. When your team can quickly evaluate the type of customer interaction they're having and are trained in company best practices to handle them effectively, it sets your team up to provide a better customer experience.

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Improving the experience with actionable customer intelligence

Eptica

Date: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 Author: Taoufik Massoussi - Product Manager & Head of AI Improving the experience with actionable customer intelligence. Published on: February 13, 2019. Author: Taoufik Massoussi - Product Manager & Head of AI One of the biggest challenges for Voice of the Customer (VoC) programs is ensuring that they deliver tangible ROI for a business.

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Building a Successful Customer Experience Strategy

GetFeedback

It's quite simple to create a successful customer experience strategy for your organization if you follow these seven steps. .

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CX Experts We Love

Wootric

Why do we love whom we love? It’s a question for the ages, unanswerable by poets, philosophers or songwriters. And yet, for some people, there are so many reasons why we love them. They make our lives better, share their expertise, uplift our spirits, and show profound generosity. This is a Valentine to those people, and more specifically those people who work in CX.

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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.