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5 Stakeholder Engagement Best Practices to Improve Customer Communication

Totango

Your communication with your customer is the force multiplier that can unlock the full potential of your product. The advice, lessons, and encouragement you provide can guide your customer to achieve maximum return on their investment and drive growth that benefits both of you. Engaging your stakeholders , whether they are high or low influence, can not only drive growth but also turn stakeholders into enthusiastic champions of your product.

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5 Proven Ways to Find Your Target Survey Respondents

ProProfs Chat

There lies an evident gap between junk data and quality feedback. In most cases, the right survey participants can bring the difference between a successful survey and a not-so-successful one. Now, modern entrepreneurs love to hunt for customer opinion. Great. But do customers really like to offer feedback? The truth is that most customers love sharing their input and naturally connect with a brand that values their opinions.

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Is the Future of Retail, Physical or Virtual?

C3Centricity

Denyse Drummond-Dunn · Is the future of retail in the stars? “Never miss an episode. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts to get new episodes as they become available.”. Will the future of retail be without physical outlets? I remember having a very interesting discussion with a new client a couple of years ago on exactly this topic. Like many CPG companies, they were considering online retailing.

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3 Employee Experience Touchpoints That Impact Customer Experience

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Employee Experience is Critical, and Smart Organizations are Taking Notice. Employee experience has been called “the new customer experience” and “the answer to customer experience” in more than one article. There is no doubt the experience employees have, how engaged they are, and how well prepared they are has a direct impact on customer 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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Aesthetics: Why This is A Vital Part of Your Experience

Beyond Philosophy

Do you still have the box your phone came in? Chances are if you own an iPhone, you probably do. It turns out, we like the look of Apple products’ boxes so much, many of us can’t bear to throw them out. It turns out that the use of color and package design, among other aesthetic elements, affects customer behavior more than you might think. .

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7 Tips On Call Center Customer Experience Improvement

Win the Customer

Like any other industry, there’s always room for improvement in call center customer experiences. Call centers must deliver the best customer experience from jump, or else risk dealing with an unsatisfied customer, and getting negative press. Whether you rely on Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software to use helpful customer information to get ahead of your competitors, it’s still important to make improvements to continue getting this helpful information.

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3 ways virtual agents can boost call center efficiency

Talkdesk

Self-service is a hot topic in the call center industry. From knowledge bases to virtual agents, the potential disruption that a solid set of self-service applications can bring to contact center efficiency and customer experience is unquestionable and justifies all the buzz. With artificial intelligence (AI), especially speech technologies, becoming more mature and commoditized, the scope and possibilities for self-service and conversational tools like virtual agents expand like never before.

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How to Give a Customer Bad News with Surprising Confidence (and without negative backlash)

Myra Golden

We have to give customers a lot of bad news these days. “No, we can’t cover your machine that is 12 years past warranty.” “We’ve temporarily closed a number of our call centers for the safety of our employees. As a result, we are no longer supporting customers over chat.” (True story). “I can’t let you board this bus without a mask.” “Due to our COVID-19 safety measures, we now have to push your service appointment out two weeks.”

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Amazing Business Radio: Geoff Webb

ShepHyken

Understanding Customers’ Values in a Digital Age. How AI and Human Partnership Can Create a Better Customer Experience. Shep Hyken interviews Geoff Webb , the Vice President of Products at PROS. They discuss how automation can eliminate friction and create a better buying and selling experience for customers in a new digital age. Top Takeaways: There must be a balance between artificial intelligence (AI) and human connection.

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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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Establishing Your Voice on Cross Functional Teams

One Millimeter Mindset

How do you establish your voice when working with cross functional teams? For some of you, this idea is completely daunting. Why? Because cross functional teams have lots of “those” people on them. You know. Professionals from the “other side” of your organization: the people whose professional behavior intimidates you the most. First, because you do not understand the professional terminology which dominates the voice they collectively carry into cross functional conversations.

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Is Your Professional Services in Alignment with Your Experience Management? Part I

eglobalis

Professional Services in Alignment with Your Experience Management , customer success. The post Is Your Professional Services in Alignment with Your Experience Management? Part I appeared first on Eglobalis.

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PSECU Brings Life to Virtual Assistants

SaleMove

When PSECU, Pennsylvania’s largest credit union, implemented Glia’s chat functionality back in 2016, they saw a large increase in chat volumes and knew they needed to find a way to continue to provide the same level of excellent service for their members. They quickly realized that the best way to handle the increase in engagements was by offering their members self service options for simple questions which freed up their agents to handle the more complex inquiries.

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Guest Post: The Power of Visualizing and Sharing Customer Service Feedback Data

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Elliott Sprecher, a marketing communications manager at JotForm. He writes about visualizing customer feedback in order to motivate your business to succeed. There are thousands of articles about the importance of customer service to your business’s success. You can read just as many articles about the importance of customer feedback in operating your business successfully.

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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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Popular Products Co-Created with Customers

Customers That Stick

Chip Bell innovates the world of customer service with the best practices of customer-centric organizations and provides powerful cutting-edge ideas and unique strategies that business leaders can immediately act on. Getting Inside Your Customer’s Imagination. Did you know that some of your favorite products today were ideas from customers? Customer co-creation has been around since the 20th century — minus the fancy name.

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Using Humor to Create the Unexpected Customer Experience

Daniel Group

In your personal buying, do you often experience humor in your interaction with providers? There are many reasons we do not experience humor. Humor in Customer Experience can be the bridge to making an emotional connection to your customers. It may seem like it might get in the way of providing efficient and effective Customer Experience. Sgt. Joe Friday.

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What is Live Chat? 5 Big Ways It Can Help Your Business

Bold360

Today’s customer expects quick responses across all channels, especially during an uncertain time of global pandemic and economic recession. Many customers justifiably don’t want to spend their valuable time waiting on the phone or writing an email that might not get a response for days. Live chat has become a popular engagement channel for time-strapped customers to get issues resolved.

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Explaining the Net Promoter Score (NPS) 

Customercount

Find out more about the Net Promoter Score, a simple metric which is used to determine the loyalty of customers based on whether they would recommend you to a friend or colleague. The post Explaining the Net Promoter Score (NPS) appeared first on CustomerCount.

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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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Two key themes that are driving UK customer experience post-pandemic

Eptica

Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Two key themes that are driving UK customer experience post-pandemic. Published on: September 16, 2020. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager 2020 has been a turbulent year for everyone – but what has been the impact on customer experience in general, and contact centres in particular?

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Are You Your Colleagues’ Internal Go-To Resource?

One Millimeter Mindset

Who is your internal go-to resource or resources? You know. The people who have the right answers when you or your team hit a snag. And the folks with an endless network of currently unknown colleagues who have the capabilities – and answers – you seek. Don’t know? Today is the perfect time to discover who they are. Because moving forward, you need each other more than ever.

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Aesthetics: Why this is a vital part of your experience today

Beyond Philosophy

I have the box my iPhone came in. So do many of you, I would guess. Many people keep their iPhone boxes. We keep them for various reasons, and most of them boil down to because we like how they look. It turns out, customers care a lot about how things look, and it influences their buying (and box-keeping) behavior. This episode of The Intuitive Customer explores the research of Claudia Townsend, associate professor of marketing at the University of Miami at the Miami Herbert Business School.

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Your free trial has expired: Improving streaming services engagement

PK

Fueled by Disney’s image and impressive content catalogue, Disney+ has made a huge debut. Within 6 months of launch, Disney+ reported 54.5 million subscribers. While the growth can be attributed […]. The post Your free trial has expired: Improving streaming services engagement appeared first on PK.

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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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How to Resist These Irresistible Customer Service Urges | #CX #CustServ

Kate Nasser

Resist these customer service urges that you will otherwise regret. Latest tips fr Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™ | Leadership Customer Experience. The post How to Resist These Irresistible Customer Service Urges | #CX #CustServ appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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5 More On the Fly Customer Experience Tips During a Period of Uncertainty

Oracle

Every week, Oracle CX Marketing features “On the Fly”—a video series with small, 2-minutes-or-less bites of marketing tips, advice, and training from marketing experts. Season 2 has seen customer experience tips offered from marketing pros during a time of uncertainty. Here are 5 more tips to help during the current disruption. To view the full video series, check out the YouTube playlist or the Modern Marketing Blog.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of September 14, 2020

ShepHyken

Each week I read a number of 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. 12 Ways to Celebrate Customer Service Week by Vanessa Brangwyn. (Achievers) vAbove all, Customer Service Week is an opportunity to stop and think about the interconnected well-being of all the people who make up your business: the ones who use your product or service

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Three Challenges Logistics Providers Face and How Conversational AI Can Help

Interactions

We live in a time where you can click purchase on an online shopping order one day, and expect to receive the item in the mail the next. Speed, quality, and service are expected at every stage of the customer journey, regardless of the responsible party. To meet this expectation, in the past few years t ransportation and logistics (T&L) providers have had to change the way they do business. .

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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.