Mon.May 06, 2024

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Types of Outsourcing: Which Is Right for Your Business?

Magellan Solutions

As a business owner, you’re always looking for ways to streamline your operations and get more done with fewer resources. Did you know that 24% of small businesses outsource to improve efficiency ? You’re probably curious about the different types of outsourcing that can benefit your company. From boosting productivity to reducing expenses, outsourcing has become a popular tool for improving operations.

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Deliverability Indicators: Understanding Email Blocklists and What They Mean For Customer Engagement

Braze

As the industry continues to evolve, your ability to measure success is dependent on your ability to analyze and interpret your sending results. Join us as we take a deeper look at each of the signals that impact your deliverability.

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Blue ocean thinking

Customer Enthusiast

I was thinking about the widely-read business book Blue Ocean Strategy, which was published 20 years ago, and the application of its central premise to purpose-driven work today. In the book, red ocean strategies represent the way business is approached in most industries: competing for contested—and often shrinking—demand and market share.

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From Data to Delight: Interactions Success in Customer Service Beyond Numbers

Interactions

The customer service industry has long been exploring the potential of AI, with hundreds and thousands of providers already crowding the market and promising various benefits. Further, the recent boom of Generative AI has exponentially changed the landscape, and the rapid pace of development has left CX and customer service leaders grappling with a new set of challenges.

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2024 State of Customer Education Report

Customer education has become a key driver for growth, retention, and product adoption. Our latest 2024 State of Customer Education Report uncovers critical data and insights from a survey of over 200 industry leaders, offering a look at the evolving role of education in driving business success. Inside, you'll find data on key trends and strategies, including: Strategies for Scaling & Customization: Find out which investments in learning technology deliver the biggest ROI and scalability.

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Birdeye Command Central: Your agency’s gateway to driving growth, client success, and efficiency

BirdEye

Navigating client management in an agency often feels like swimming through a sea of tasks. From mastering various platforms to demonstrating your value and ensuring client satisfaction, it’s a constant juggling act. Traditionally, agencies have relied on a patchwork of tools to deliver their services. This entails switching between multiple dashboards, grappling with data consolidation, and encountering hurdles in proving value to clients.

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Custom Service in the Auto Transport Industry: Strategies to Improve Quality and Customer Satisfaction

CSM Magazine

Improving customer service in the auto transport industry involves offering custom solutions tailored to each client’s unique needs. From expedited shipping and enclosed transport for classic or luxury cars, to door-to-door delivery, these personalized services meet every customer’s specific request – making them happier and more loyal.

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5 Effective Strategies to Build a Strong Personal Brand in the Digital Age

SurveySensum

Personal branding refers to achieving a prominent identity for an individual. Having a strong personal brand is necessary if you want to be recognized as an authority in your field. Personal Branding Strategies What matters most in personal branding is connecting with your target audience and paying close attention to their feedback. Cultivating a warm and authentic relationship with all those connected to your personal offerings is key to earning trust and credibility.

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Crafting Capabilities of Online Popup Builders

CSM Magazine

Online popup builders have become effective tools for creating interesting and dynamic experiences that increase user engagement, conversions, and brand loyalty. In this article, we will examine the capabilities of online popup builders, highlighting their features and advantages and presenting examples of top platforms that help businesses design attractive popups.

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Real-Time Customer Surveys: A Proactive Approach to CX

CX University

Getting customer feedback is instrumental in determining if the customer experience is a positive one. Real-time feedback, which captures customer sentiment and insights immediately after an interaction, is a powerful tool in the CX arsenal. By leveraging real-time customer surveys, businesses can gather valuable insights and respond to customer needs in near real-time.

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Frost Radar: Voice of Customer Analytics, 2024

Understanding and improving your customer experience (CX) can have a massive impact on your bottom line. Choosing the right voice of customers (VoC) solution is a critical step to elevating CX. Frost & Sullivan researched more than 50 leading VoC vendors, analyzing both their “innovation index” and “growth index” to independently select the top 10 performers in each of these categories.

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Making Things Right: Examples of Customer Service Recovery

Help Scout

When something goes wrong, that’s not the end of the story. Learn how to turn a negative situation into a positive customer experience with a service recovery plan.

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Building a Business from Anywhere in 12 Easy Steps

CSM Magazine

In today’s digital age, the idea of starting a company remotely has become not just a possibility but a popular choice for many aspiring entrepreneurs. With the rise of technology and the increasing acceptance of remote work, the barriers to launching a business from anywhere in the world have significantly diminished. Whether you’re a digital nomad, a stay-at-home parent, or just prefer the flexibility of working from home, opening a company remotely offers many opportunities.

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How to Train GenAI to Work as Your Personal Research Assistant

dscout People Nerds

GenAI pulls from limited resources—and only knows as much as you tell it. These tips will help you improve its effectiveness for research purposes.

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6 Innovations Redefining Business Communications in Construction

CSM Magazine

Construction sites once echoed with the clatter of tools and shouted updates. Now, they hum with digital efficiency. In an industry as foundational as construction, exchanging information swiftly and effectively isn’t just about keeping pace; it’s about building the future on a backbone of innovation. Advancements are redefining how we communicate on-site and in the boardroom, turning potential into progress.

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Unlock the Future of Learning Growth and Retention at Cognition24!

The annual Cognition virtual conference is back on October 16, and this year it’s FREE! You’ll enjoy: Inspiring Keynotes from top learning industry leaders, providing fresh perspectives to help you outperform the competition. Hands-on, Skill-Building Sessions to elevate your growth, retention, and product adoption strategies. Exclusive First Look at the latest innovations from Thought Industries, empowering you with tools to grow faster.

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Introducing the Delighted Android SDK

delighted

You can write the perfect survey questions, but the real key to capturing feedback is targeting the right customers at the right time. For years, the Delighted SDK has allowed you to do just that by displaying surveys within your iOS apps, but today, we’re taking it up a notch. Introducing: the Delighted Android SDK. Understand your mobile app users at all stages of the customer journey, whether it’s the first time they log in, after they make an in-app purchase, or every three months, just to c

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How a Secure, Open Platform Drives Customer Participation in the Future Grid

Uplight

With slated-to-retire fossil-fueled power plants staying online to address resource adequacy concerns, it can sometimes seem as though our progress toward decarbonization is moving in the wrong direction. But with power demand skyrocketing from electrification and digitization, it’s no wonder that the Department of Energy (DOE) predicts a 200 GW (or 25% of total expected Read More The post How a Secure, Open Platform Drives Customer Participation in the Future Grid appeared first on Uplight.

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Results of the Forrester Commerce Solutions for B2C Wave – digital leaders focus on extending the life of their commerce solution

Forrester's Customer Insights

Read Principal Analyst Emily Pfeiffer's insights on the shifts in the B2C Commerce market over the past two years.

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Why One-Size-Fits-All Booking Flows Don’t Work

Strativity

The post Why One-Size-Fits-All Booking Flows Don’t Work appeared first on Material.

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AI for Business Outcomes: Selecting the Right Tools to Drive Results

Customers expect to be able to interact with your organization whenever and however they want. They also expect your agents to have insights into their journeys so that they don’t have to repeat themselves as they move through various channels. And, if they’re not able to, they just might find one of your competitors who will offer the flexibility they are looking for.

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3 Innovative Ways Technology Is Transforming Meal Preparation

CSM Magazine

The average American’s daily calorie intake has increased drastically in the past several decades, which has led to an increase in the number of overweight people in the US. Part of the reason for this is the increase in food availability. American companies can produce huge amounts of unhealthy foods at low prices, so fattening food is easier to get.

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More Alliance: MACH Comes of Age With Coaching Focus

Forrester's Customer Insights

Now that The Forrester Wave™: Commerce Solutions for B2B, Q2 2024 is released, I can share an update of my perspective on The MACH Alliance.

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Want to Know What Your Customers Really Think? Simplify Your Satisfaction Survey!

Ascribe

By Rick Kieser, Ascribe CEO The customer satisfaction survey has become an epidemic. Whether you are buying a product, eating at a restaurant, or enjoying some other experience, it won’t be long before you receive an email asking you to complete a survey about the experience. As sociologist Anne Karpf writes in The Guardian , “So many organizations now want our feedback that if we acceded to them all, it would turn into a full-time job – unpaid, of course. … The result is that I̵

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50/50: Capital One, Discover, And Differentiation In Credit Cards

Forrester's Customer Insights

Welcome back to Forrester’s blog series “50/50,” where we showcase two sides of a B2C marketing issue. This time, we explore how consumers feel about Capital One’s bid to acquire Discover — and how differentiated credit card brands are in the eyes of customers.

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How to Optimize Call Monitoring: Automate QA and Elevate Customer Experience

Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 It's time for a change! The traditional method of manual call monitoring is no longer cutting it in today's fast-paced call center environment. Industry experts Angie Kronlage and April Wiita from Working Solutions are here to explore the power of innovative automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!

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Thanks to public clouds, vendors can better serve the long tail of B2B commerce

Forrester's Customer Insights

The Forrester Wave™: Commerce Solutions for B2B, Q2 2024 revealed that public clouds helped vendors re-focus on their markets by narrowing what used to be a chasm between being feature rich OR architected for today.

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Announcing The Forrester Wave™: Commerce Solutions for B2B, Q2 2024

Forrester's Customer Insights

The B2B commerce solutions market is no longer “A Tale of Two Cities” – stuck between choosing either cloud architecture or robust features. Collectively, the vendors have closed the chasm: the new school cloud-native vendors have invested in features – and the stalwarts have invested in modernized architecture.

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