InMoment XI

JANUARY 18, 2022

It’s never been more important to stay tuned into employee and customer experience trends. In the past few years, businesses have had to pivot countless times in order to adapt the experiences they provide customers, employees, and the greater market. But keeping up with quickly evolving employee and customer expectations is easier said than done. This is where InMoment’s newest report comes in.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 18, 2022

Why does Customer Experience Training Matter? It’s common for Customer Experience (CX) to be misunderstood as reactive customer service, support, or even ‘just being nice to customers.’ CX is much more than these, though. I like to define Customer Experience as: A mindset. A strategy. A business discipline. Customer experience is more than one area, product, service or person.

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Alida

JANUARY 18, 2022

Understanding what your customers want and expect is key to any business’s success, but uncovering those insights can take a lot of effort. You need to collect broad customer feedback, which means getting responses that are representative of your entire customer base.

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Heart of the Customer

JANUARY 20, 2022

In customer experience, we believe in the power of frontline workers. We build training and processes so that they can better engage our customers and improve outcomes for both those customers and our business. Also, as a whole, we’re an optimistic lot. We believe, with the right systems in place, that individual frontline workers can […]. The post A Journey of One: The Future of CX appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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InMoment XI

JANUARY 20, 2022

When it comes to collecting feedback, of course we want to hear what our actual customers have to say about their experience. But, what about those individuals who have yet to make a purchase? Without a transaction, these non-purchasers won’t receive an invitation to take a survey—but, their experience is just as important to listen to and understand.

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Customer Bliss

JANUARY 20, 2022

In today’s instant gratification age, customers expect service to be faster and more responsive than ever. So it may be surprising that a bank that started in the late 1980s is leading the way in the UK. But their holistic approach to being there for customers is a winning strategy, no matter the decade. First Direct Bank began in October 1989 (a tough time to start a bank, right?

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Eptica

JANUARY 16, 2022

Date: Monday, January 17, 2022 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager How data analytics can enhance customer service. Published on: January 17, 2022. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager With so much data being generated by around customer service and the customer experience, there’s an increasing role for data analytics to extract learnings and actionable insights.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 19, 2022

I love a surprise. Think about the last time you received a surprise from a friend or loved one. It doesn’t even have to be a big surprise. It could be something small – just something that proves the other person was thinking about you. . Has this ever happened to you in business? I receive surprise appreciation gifts from clients. I’m enjoying a box of chocolates a client sent as I create this post.

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Kate Nasser

JANUARY 16, 2022

Use this people skills technique from Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™, Author, Leading Morale, to use less bluntness & still be honest. Important in leadership, teamwork, sales, employee engagement, leading morale, and yes in your personal life too! The post People Skills Technique to Be Less Blunt Still Honest | #PeopleSkills #Bluntness appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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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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One Millimeter Mindset

JANUARY 19, 2022

Surprised to enter 2022 digging yourself out of a huge 2021 customer defection hole? It just could be you left your entire client retention strategy up to the virtual customer retention dog. What excuses do you make to your managers about your less-than-stellar rate of customer retention? Consider that customers who defect have an entirely different story to share.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 19, 2022

By now, you have probably heard of the metaverse. If you haven’t, Fortune.com describes the metaverse as a digital universe that users access through virtual reality (VR). This metaverse concept is poised to change everything, from how we interact online to how we buy things to the way brands market themselves. . We hosted an expert on a recent podcast to tell us how the metaverse will change brand marketing.

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ProProfs Chat

JANUARY 18, 2022

Even though there are endless ways to ask survey questions – rating scales have always been the most popular. But why? The best thing about Rating Scale Questionnaires is that they are recognizable and easy to understand. So people will not get frustrated when they see your surveys. . This question format is so popular that you must have answered a rating scale question yourself — think about the time when you had to rate your UBER driver or when you checked for “star ratings” before buyin

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Advantage Communications

JANUARY 20, 2022

With the rise of customer-centric business strategies, an increasing number of organizations are focusing on customer experience metrics to guide the way they do business.

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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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SurveyGizmo

JANUARY 18, 2022

By Michael Cordeiro. How can collecting your audiences’ true feelings about your products or their experience with your brand become as easy as landing on your home page? The simplest way to gain insight into your audience and customers is to meet people where they use your products and services every day. Whether that’s within an application or a website, Alchemer makes it simple to survey your audience where they use you the most!

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Myra Golden

JANUARY 21, 2022

Did you miss my latest Live Q & A? You’re in luck. Here’s a replay of our conversation. 3:29 How do you deal with an angry customer because we won’t give in to their demands? 5:31 Do you have a list of negative priming words and positive priming alternatives? 6:41 What are some warning signs that a call will be escalated? 11:38 How do I make soft sales when my customers are angry over a billing issue?

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Stella Connect

JANUARY 20, 2022

Looking for ideas for how to create the best customer service training program for your contact center? Strengthening customer service team performance is a key priority for customer service leaders in 2022 , and anything you can do to help your people optimize the customer experience, improve first-call resolution rate, reduce customer effort, and decrease response times through coaching, incentives, and group training can have a major payoff when it comes to future sales, customer retention, a

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Steve DiGioia

JANUARY 17, 2022

There are 2 kinds of people. One never asks for directions. One always asks for directions (or at least is not hesitant to ask). In a past Tips on Thursday newsletter , I wrote about taking the initiative, finding your own course of action, and making a decision based on experience, availability, practicality, etc. This mindset seems to match those who never ask for directions because they can make their own decisions.

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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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Merkle

JANUARY 18, 2022

Marketing technology spending has been on the rise for years. The global pandemic has only accelerated that trend as brands race to deliver more sophisticated customer experiences fueled by digital transformation. With the stakes high and the landscape so complex, organizations must ensure they are making wise tech investments.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 18, 2022

The Four CX Pillars. Investing in Customer Experience and Success Teams. Shep Hyken interviews Adrian Brady-Cesana, author of The Four CX Pillars to Grow Your Business Now: The Customer Experience Manager Playbook , and host of The CXChronicles Podcast. They discuss the four CX pillars: team, tools, process, and feedback. Top Takeaways: Adrian Brady-Cesana shares what every customer experience manager needs to have in their playbook, the four CX pillars for business growth.

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Totango

JANUARY 19, 2022

Whether you’ve worked in the customer success industry for a while or you’ve recently decided that this is the career path for you, searching for Customer Success Manager jobs can be intimidating – especially if you don’t know where to start. In this article, we’ll take a look at some of the basic skills required to be successful as a CSM and break down three key areas to focus on to help you land that dream role.

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Cyara

JANUARY 20, 2022

Follow this Step-by-Step Process for Becoming More Agile. Now more than ever, companies in every industry are recognizing the importance of digital transformation (DX). Contact centers, in particular, have felt the urgency of this task in the last few years. As the pandemic brought remote customer service models to the forefront, it quickly became clear that digitally driven, cloud-based CX was no longer negotiable.

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The DiJulius Group

JANUARY 17, 2022

It is not too late to create your Customer Experience theme for 2022 that you can rally your entire organization around. Here are some excellent suggestions to get you started brainstorming: 1. CX Strong The companies that will dominate the next decade will be the ones obsessed with evolving the experience they provide to both. Read Full Article. The post 4 Potential CX Themes for 2022 Your Best Year Ever appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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SAP Customer Experience

JANUARY 21, 2022

If you’re still struggling to visualize your 2022 resolutions, maybe it’s time to take a different approach. Yes, another article about New Year’s resolutions when we’re already well into January. What makes this one (hopefully) worth waiting for? The creative mindset.

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Stella Connect

JANUARY 18, 2022

“Why do I think this bicycle looks cool?” . “Why do I love this cafe so much?”. “What annoys me about this website?”. In the early stages of my career I analyzed my interactions with brands, products or services, looking for common themes — a crazy-making activity that eventually led to my first book, The Ten Principles Behind Great Customer Experiences.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 17, 2022

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. 7 Customer Service Skills Every Business Needs by Renee Johnson. (The Tech Report) Much of the customer mindset will remain a mystery.

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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.

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