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Breaking the Status Quo of CX — Part 1

CloudCherry

A sobering stat has been making the rounds in customer experience (CX) circles lately: 93 percent of organizations fail to differentiate on CX, according to CX thought leader Bob Thompson. And this comes at a time when 89 percent of organizations said they were expecting to compete on CX, per Gartner Research. What’s happening? Is CX at risk of becoming a fad?

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Two CX Leaders Share Frameworks to Improve Customer-Centricity in Their Organization

Customer Bliss

As we continue to revisit conversations with CX leaders who were previously on the show, today we’re going to explore strategies implemented by two CX leaders at global corporations: Scott Allison , CCO at DHL Supply Chain and Jon Herstein , CCO at Box. Both leaders share great tactics and strategies that they implemented when asked the question, “how did you first assess the work that needed to be done?

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The Critical Skills that All Customer-Facing Teams Must Have

Beyond Philosophy

When I created Beyond Philosophy, I chose the name for a reason. I believe it is crucial to do more than discuss your theories about Customer Experience strategy. Sure, you need to think about it, understand the philosophy behind it as well as the science, but after that, you should go beyond the philosophy and do something. In other words, theories are fascinating but falderal unless you implement them in your Customer Experience.

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5 Ways Successful Teams Close the Customer Experience Gap

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

It’s easy to underestimate the efforts it requires to become a truly customer-centric organization. Brave leaders do their best to lead customer experience initiatives that make an impact. But there are processes, protocols and even people who are obstacles to seeing results. What is the Customer Experience Gap? The customer experience gap is the difference between the experience an organization’s leaders believe it is delivering and the experience customers feel they’re gettin

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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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How Computer Vision Applications are Changing the World

TechSee

Computer Vision is the field of Artificial Intelligence that enables computers to understand and analyze the real world. Using Deep Learning models, machines can now accurately identify and classify objects from within digital images and then react to what they “see.” An increased need for automation and a growing demand for vision-guided robotics and other industry-specific systems are driving massive adoption of Computer Vision applications.

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The 5 Essential Practices for Your Customer Experience

Beyond Philosophy

Because we have frequent thunderstorms and power outages in my Florida home, I recently decided to buy an uninterruptible power supply for my electronics. I’ve had good experiences with Apple products so I first checked to see if Apple made that sort of thing. They didn’t, so I set about comparing and contrasting the models that were available. I quickly got lost in technical specifications, so I decided that I would choose based on how long the power supply would last.

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5 Key Technologies for the Future of Digital Customer Service

NICE inContact

We talk a lot about “future-proofing” your business. It’s an important concept for any company considering digital customer service integration. You don’t simply want to plan for your current customer service needs. You’ll need a solution that can easily scale as business grows. Digital customer service is evolving quickly, and this change hopefully comes in tandem with important developments in your business — namely growth.

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8 Practical Customer Feedback Workflow Automation Ideas

Retently

Almost any business process improvement can be stripped down to a pretty simple formula: achieve more with less time and effort. Whether it’s crunching data or integrating a bunch of analytics tools for understanding and boosting customer engagement, when you boil it down, people are just trying to do a better job and win some extra hours back into their days.

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Amazing Business Radio: Josh Ginsberg

ShepHyken

Crisis Management in the Customer Experience. How to Take Care of Your Customers When Things Go Wrong. Shep Hyken interviews Josh Ginsberg. They discuss crisis management and why brand integrity is important to customers. The Interview with Josh Ginsberg: When a problem or crisis occurs, it’s essential for customers to see the company take action. However, that action must come from a place of authenticity.

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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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The Significance of Office Politics on CX—and Your Career

Beyond Philosophy

I used to work in corporate life. I managed to get up to a senior position. When people asked what I did, I used to say, “I play chess.”. I was joking, of course. The truth is I spent my day on company politics. My guess is a lot of you do, too. Surprisingly, there are not training courses on company politics and how to deal with them. In light of this fact, we decided managing company politics would be an excellent subject of conversation for a recent podcast.

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Understanding the Different Types of Customer Engagement

Totango

The customer-centered economy has made it easier for customers to switch to a competitor if one company is not fully satisfying them. This has raised customer expectations; now, companies need to provide personalized services to stand out. If you don’t meet these expectations, customers can easily go elsewhere. To thrive in this environment, you must engage customers proactively and regularly.

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Monitoring Niche Audiences with Social Listening

NetBase

. Understanding issues before they become “issues” is a super power – a sixth sense, of sorts. Social listening helps regular marketing mortals develop this ability. And monitoring niche audiences provides an exceptional access point for fine-tuning and implementing these skills. Social Listening in a Nut Shell. Tracking issues that businesses care about is always the top priority, but what if a business is unsure of what those issues are?

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Guest Blog: The Importance of First Impressions in Customer Service

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Ujebardha Bekolli who writes about the importance of the first impression. Whether on the phone or in person, it’s important to train your employees the right way to interact with your customers. The importance of first impressions. Customer service is one of the most important parts of doing business. The relationships you create with your customers reflect directly on the success of your business.

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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 Customer Acquisition Stories also Customer Retention Stories?

One Millimeter Mindset

What do your customer retention stories sound like? Can you rely on the same stories you told to acquire new customers, to also retain them? As the saying goes, what got you to where you are today may not get you to where you need to go, tomorrow. Do you know the story of what happens to clients, after that new contract lands in-house, for post-sale execution?

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Call Experts Named as a Top Third-Party Verification Company by Clutch.co

Call Experts

At Call Experts, our approach to call center solutions is simple: Accountability. Customization. Growth. We believe this is the foundation of taking businesses to the next level. Through voice, live agent, and electronic communications, we offer everything from complete call management, automated services, call-out services, and beyond. As a result of working strenuously to provide cutting edge services, Clutch.co recently identified our company as one of the top Third-Party Verification Compani

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Boost Revenue in 8 Easy Steps

NICE inContact

What can you do when revenue targets keep increasing but your budget stays the same? It’s a challenge more and more companies are facing – and many of them are looking to their contact centers for solutions. Because progressive leaders understand a new CX strategy can transform corporate culture; turn customers into advocates; and boost revenue. Focus on current customers: It might not sound very radical, but companies that concentrate on existing customers and work on building their loyalty see

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5 Ways to Boost Marketing and Sales with Live Chat

Kayako

The past few years have seen live chat completely change the way online businesses carry out marketing and sales. Gone are the days prospects would email and wait several hours to receive a response to a sales-related query, or call an 800 number and be stuck in a cyclical loop of annoying prompts and call trees. With live chat customers can now get in touch and receive a response almost instantaneously. .

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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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3 Things I Know For Sure Motivate Customer Service Employees

Myra Golden

We all go through times when we’re not feeling the whole work thing. The mere thought of work brings on dread, we mop ourselves into the office later and later, and our eyes are rolled to the back of our head more often than not. These are all signs that we’re burned out or morale is very low. If you’re a supervisor or manager and you see signs of work exhaustion in your people, you need to act fast, or you might lose your people to burnout, or another job.

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The Times They Are a-Changing: Talent in the Contact Center Part 1: Setting the Stage

SaleMove

This is the first installment of a blog series that examines the trends driving the transformation, reviews how people work in today’s contact center, and explores what you should do now to staff the contact center of tomorrow. Start Swimming “You better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone.” If customer service is part […]. The post The Times They Are a-Changing: Talent in the Contact Center Part 1: Setting the Stage appeared first on Glia Blog | Digital Customer Service

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Cheat Sheet for Building the Best Chatbot

NICE inContact

The chatbot revolution is here, and having a bot that can talk to your customers online is key to your brand’s success and future growth. Chatbots scale quite easily and can handle hundreds of conversations at a time. This makes them the perfect candidates for tasks with a predictable and well-defined conversation flow. We’ve created a little cheat sheet with an essential checklist for you, so you don’t have to wonder where to start.

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CSM from the Trenches: Mentors – Ashley Correll, Chief Operating Officer, Beyond Insurance

ClientSuccess

Welcome to our blog series CSM from the Trenches, a community for frontline Customer Success Managers (CSMs) that discusses trends, best practices, and advice for the frontline. Being on the CSM frontline allows us to directly influence the success of our clients. I love that; as our clients are successful, we’re successful. Each day we learn from the trenches what it takes to make clients happy and successful.

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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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Google is Creepy

Heart of the Customer

My wife forwarded me an email from Google. It showed her everywhere she had visited in the last month, which creeped her out. So she removed all the tracking she could from her phone. It didn’t work – she received a similar email the following month. I received a similar email (see a part of […]. The post Google is Creepy appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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Top Reasons Your Customers Might Leave Your Business

Ecrion

The average business loses between 10-25% of their customers every year. While thriving and evolving companies are able to attract new leads to replace normal losses, few focus on understanding why customers leave in the first place. Plus, as it’s roughly five times more expensive to get a new customer than to keep an existing one, this constant cycle can seriously eat into your company’s profits.

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The Show Must Go On! Elevating Customer Experience with Conversational AI

NICE inContact

We’ve heard lots about how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is redefining customer service — and it really hit home for me last week while I was out enjoying dinner and a show with my mother. We’d just shuffled into the theatre, when I realized that my ATM card was missing. Maybe I left it in the restaurant? Never mind, the show was starting soon, so there was no time to run back.

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3 Ways the Experience Economy is Fundamentally Changing CX

Oracle

In a new video interview by CxOTalk , Michael Krigsman, CxOTalk Industry Analyst, discusses with Rob Tarkoff, Executive Vice President and General Manager of the CX Cloud Group at Oracle , the unique challenges facing companies today, and why companies must change existing business strategies to address the demands of customer experience. As takeaways from this interview, here are 3 ways in which the experience economy is fundamentally changing 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.