Sat.Jan 14, 2023 - Fri.Jan 20, 2023

article thumbnail

XI Café Podcast, Episode 3: A Deep Dive Into The Maturity of Voice of Customer Programs in New Zealand

InMoment XI

Welcome back to the XI Café Podcast! The XI Café Podcast was created so that CX program owners around the world could join the conversation and learn from global businesses and industry experts about the latest experience improvement innovations in technology and research services, industry and market expertise, and customer (CX) and employee (EX) engagement best practices.

article thumbnail

60 Customer Care RFP Questions for the Contact Center of Today

BlueOcean

2020 marked the workplace like no other year in recent history. For more than two years, everyone worked to settle into new patterns of working and communicating, and we’re finally seeing a return to “normal.” We rejoiced when our favorite coffee shops re-opened, and we got all dressed up again when the commute to work once again involved more than a walk down the hall … and yes, that RFP was finally back on your plate.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Follow these trends to become a 2023 customer experience innovator

Alida

In uncertain economic times, making the right choices for your business becomes that much more important. Even a slight misstep can have a drastic impact on a company's ability to compete in the market. While navigating a recession is undoubtedly difficult, spending the time to understand customer motivations and concerns can significantly reduce risk from decision-making and help create more value for both customers and the business.

2023 130
article thumbnail

A Guide to Measuring Product-Market Fit with PMF Surveys

Retently

Achieving the much-desirable product-market fit is the ultimate goal of any SaaS business. After all, it means that a company has identified its business niche, has found a profitable market, and has a product that is well-liked by customers – the true Promoters. They don’t have to worry about going bust because what they sell is what the market needs.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

The Ultimate Guide: How to Build a Customer Experience Department

Lumoa

Understanding customers is a key step to success, and organizations do it best when they have a customer experience department in place. This department is tasked with analyzing customer feedback and data and disseminating its findings to improve the organization’s processes, products, and services. Furthermore, customers remember their good and bad experiences with brands.

More Trending

article thumbnail

Social listening vs social monitoring: The key differences

BirdEye

Social listening and social monitoring are often used interchangeably, but there are some big differences between the two. By understanding these differences, companies can create highly effective marketing strategies and gain a better understanding of their social media presence. In this blog post, we’ll explore the key differences between social listening vs social monitoring so that you can make informed decisions when it comes to your business’s digital presence.

article thumbnail

Customer Service Secrets Podcast: Using Customer Experience Data Analytics to Personalize the Customer Journey With Steven Maskell

Kustomer

In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets podcast , Gabe Larsen is joined by Steven Maskell , Vice President of Customer Experience at Zones , to discuss how to use customer experience data analytics to create a personalized, data-driven customer experience. Learn how Steven does so by listening to the podcast below. Creating a Data-Driven Customer Experience Steven Maskell has successfully led service teams for nearly 30 years.

article thumbnail

Which Ideas And Values Give You Professional Pause?

One Millimeter Mindset

How many of you have encountered individuals, strategies, projects, goals, and KPIs which give you Professional Pause? These ideas and values, when read in a meeting agenda or spoken during the course of a live or digital meeting, make you suck in your breath. You immediately close your eyes. More importantly, your brain stops working. As a result, you do not read or hear any further than the words triggering your Professional Pause.

article thumbnail

Top CX Trends of 2023

Upstream Works

As we enter the new year, the climate for consumers will be different than the past few years. The robust economy of recent times has given way to inflation and interest rate spikes that haven’t been seen in years, if not decades. Everyone has been more cautious about spending, and many sectors are seeing wave after wave of layoffs. These may seem like unrelated events, but they all have a role to play in defining the state of customer service in 2023 and will have implications for contact

2023 78
article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

How Do I Know When a Customer Has Decided to Buy?

Beyond Philosophy

I love technology, but I can still be old-fashioned when working with clients. How? Meeting with clients, I like to put pen to paper and illustrate what I am saying with a handcrafted visual aid. My analog PowerPoint serves two purposes: These handmade creations will hang on a museum wall with a plaque because of the tremendous amount of raw talent exposed (ahem).

Fashion 78
article thumbnail

If you’re explaining, you’re losing

Zeisler Consulting

The late actor (who also did some other things) Ronald Reagan had a saying: “If you’re explaining, you’re losing.” Now, when it comes to popular politics, what he meant by that was that it’s important to keep your arguments simple: The more succinct you can make your point, the more likely people are to agree with you, and more quickly. If all it takes to come to your conclusion is along the lines of: ‘Well, here’s the fact, therefore, here’s the conclusion,’ you’re likely to win lots of pe

Brands 72
article thumbnail

How to achieve great employee engagement

Maru Group

By Glyn Luckett Maru/Matchbox | January 2023. Companies recognize that delivering a great Employee Experience (EX) that considers and puts its employees first is the key to unlocking better business outcomes. From higher productivity and improved ‘stickiness’ when attracting and retaining talented employees to the ultimate reward of an engaged workforce – higher customer satisfaction and loyalty; EX plays a critical role in your business’s success.

article thumbnail

Embracing red metrics: putting the focus on actionable analytics

Thematic

No one wants to present a negative report. It can feel intimidating. It’s much easier to focus on positive metrics, and present data that, at least on the surface, makes it look like ‘we’ are performing well. This is what I call watermelon syndrome - presenting a green scorecard to your stakeholders that falls apart under questioning, revealing the red metrics inside.

Metrics 62
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Amazing Business Radio: Keith Meier

ShepHyken

Is Technology Taking Over Customer Service? How Customer Experience Drives Business Growth. Shep Hyken interviews Keith Meier, Chief Operating Officer at Assurant, Inc. , an organization that works with companies that manufacture, sell, or finance their customers’ major purchases. He shares how providing customers with a great experience in every support channel they use is crucial to business growth.

article thumbnail

Sharpen Your Listening Skills with These 6 Tips

ClientSuccess

Listening Vectors by Vecteezy. Providing exceptional customer success begins with listening to your customers. It’s essential to create an environment of trust and open communication, where customers feel heard, valued, and appreciated. As a customer service leader, it’s up to you to ensure that their valuable feedback is not only collected but acted upon.

article thumbnail

Alternative for CSAT – Emotional Value Index EVI®

Feedbackly

Customer satisfaction is a paramount factor for the success of a business. After all, you can only thrive in the market as long as you have a client base. So, keeping your customers happy is the secret to keeping the wheels moving. Businesses use different metrics to determine how customers feel during the buying journey. One of the common and oldest metrics is CSAT.

article thumbnail

How To Find Business Opportunities in Recession

ThriveableBiz

In this article Eriks Celmins summarises insights to help find opportunities to engage with customers in a recession, based on research and current marketing thinking. What’s our usual reaction to the dreaded recession? When we hear recession talk, we’re likely to go all doom and gloom. We shut our minds to starting or growing our small business because we think everyone’s going to stop spending.

2009 98
article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

Don’t Just Personalize the Customer’s Experience – Individualize it?

ShepHyken

Recently I wrote my annual Forbes article featuring customer service and CX predictions and trends for 2023. No. 4 on the list was Personalization Gets More Personal. The best marketers have realized that personalization is a way to get closer to the customer – or at least make it appear to be so. In our customer experience research (sponsored by Amazon), 74% of customers we surveyed said a personalized experience is important. .

2023 64
article thumbnail

How to Choose the Right Type of Customer Service for Your Business

Helpware

Chat support, phone support, email support, self-service … choosing the right types of customer service and the right communication methods for your business can seem like a daunting task.

article thumbnail

Glia Voices: Looking Ahead at the New Year

SaleMove

Glia once again finds itself looking towards a brand new year: Here’s what some Glianeers’ aspirations, goals, and hopes are for the year ahead. The post Glia Voices: Looking Ahead at the New Year appeared first on Glia Blog | Digital Customer Service Explained.

Blog 83
article thumbnail

Digital Customer Success Strategies That Drive Expansion and Renewal

Gainsight

Sabina Pons is Operating Partner at Growth Molecules and a 2022 Top 100 CS Strategist. We recently covered how Customer Success (CS) teams can create digital scale at moments of truth during the implementation and adoption phases of the customer lifecycle. Building upon that strong foundation, you can also add digital-led strategies to critical moments such as revenue expansion opportunities and contract renewal.

article thumbnail

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,

article thumbnail

Beware Skinny Sweet Shop Owners – Are Contact Centres Missing Out on Tasty Customer Data?

CSM Magazine

Contact centres are giant candy stores full of rich, tempting data but how do you choose and where do you begin? Jim Davies shares five delicious tips for mastering effective data collation and optimisation. I remember the good old days when sweet shops existed on every street. The walls were lined with shelves, filled with large plastic tubs of our favourites—rhubarb and custards, pear drops, lemon bonbons, kola cubes, flying saucers… Happy days.

article thumbnail

Conversation Starters For Businesses | Benefits & Free Template

SurveySparrow

Starting conversations is essential for any business seeking to gain insights into their customers, as it allows them to understand how they think, feel, and interact with the company. Conversations are vital in helping businesses identify customer needs and preferences, as well as tailor their offerings accordingly. Importance of conversation in business In the past, conversation starters were limited to face-to-face interactions that relied on intuition and conversation skills.

article thumbnail

5 Customer Success Newsletters to Subscribe To

ChurnZero

Customer Success newsletters are a great way to stay on top of industry trends and strategies, get tips and tricks to improve day-to-day operations, and even find networking opportunities and events, without having to do all the digging for information across the web to determine what information is valuable and what is not. We have curated a list of the top 5 customer success newsletters for you, so you can get high-quality content delivered directly to your inbox, starting today.

article thumbnail

Social Audio: The Key to Elevating Your Customer Service Strategy

Doing CX Right

Social audio like Clubhouse, Twitter Spaces, LinkedIn Live, Discord, and Wisdom are increasing in popularity. Learn why & how to use them to fuel customer loyalty. The post Social Audio: The Key to Elevating Your Customer Service Strategy appeared first on Doing CX Right.

article thumbnail

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.