October, 2019

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The Greatest Avenger of the CX Universe

CX Accelerator

Whether you know it or not, a battle rages in the universe between companies with incredible customer experiences and everyone else. Furthermore, so many companies are paying lip service to great customer experience but not walking the walk. You are looking to hire one Avenger from the Marvel Cinematic Universe who will build the best CX program in all of the universe.

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How Chat is Revolutionizing Customer Service

CloudCherry

Let’s Chat. About Chat, that is. On this week’s ‘ Sweets of CX ’ Podcast, CloudCherry’s James Gilbert got to sit down with a true millennial expert on how Chat is revolutionizing Customer Service. Kaye Chapman is the Learning & Development Manager at Comm100 , an internationally-experience writer and trainer, a Contact Centers Specialist, and this week’s honored guest.

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The Top 4 Customer Experience Challenges and How to Overcome Them

GetFeedback

The phrase Customer Experience (CX) didn’t become en vogue until 2008 when it surpassed Customer Satisfaction as the primary customer-focused keyword. . Rather than just satisfaction , customer experience refers to the whole ecosystem of the customer journey. From the first experience, customers have with your website, to the last time they pay you—it’s all encompassed under the large umbrella of experience. .

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The Future of CX: Five Customer Experience Trends for 2020 and Beyond

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

What Does the Future of CX Look Like? It’s crystal ball time! If you know how critical Customer Experience is to the happiness of your customers and your team (and if you’re reading this, I’m willing to bet you are,) you’re probably already trying to anticipate the next big trends in CX. What sort of predictions can we make to better prepare for the future of Customer Experience in 2020 and beyond?

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3 Ways Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Can Improve Customer Experience

Today’s digitally savvy customers have high expectations of retailers for convenience, responsiveness, and ease of doing business both in-store and online. Our recent survey of over 2,000 US consumers found that retailers that can drive a seamless, omnichannel customer experience (CX) – across physical and digital channels – have huge benefits for brand relevance, profitability, and customer loyalty.

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7 Tips and Resources for CCOs and C-Suite Customer Experience Leaders

Customer Bliss

Last year, Walmart added a chief customer officer role to better align its digital and brick-and-mortar business, especially as competition from Amazon continues to increase. Their goal is to keep the customer at the center of its operations. Mastercard, Neiman Marcus, and many others have added this high-level position to their C-suite as well, increasing their focus on customer growth and relationships.

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Welcome Aboard! 7 Tips for Building CX into New Employee Onboarding

CX Accelerator

The first days and weeks are so critical when it comes to employee engagement and helping the employees buy in to the mission of their new company. Imagine the employee that shows up to a new job, is ushered to an office where they sit alone for hours poring over paperwork, waits a week for IT to set them up with a computer, and goes hours without meaningful human interaction with colleagues.

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Relating CX to Everything and The Rockstar Orgin story

CloudCherry

Wanna be a Rockstar? Take it from Jerry Garcia himself, who said, “You shouldn’t be trying to be the best in the world at what you do. You should be trying to be the ONLY person in the world that does what you do.”. That’s precisely what this week’s ‘Sweets of CX’ guest chose to do, and it changed his life. We’re talking about the one and only Rockstar-turned-CX Rockstar, James Dodkins – International Key Note Speaker, top CX Influencer, Best-Selling Author, Host of Amazon Prime’s ‘This We

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Optimize Your Customer Experience Management Strategy

GetFeedback

Learn what is a successful customer experience management strategy and how to optimize CX across your company to boost customer loyalty over time.

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Sparq Fall ’19 Release Empowers Brands in Today’s Data Privacy Landscape

Alida

It’s hard not to notice what’s going on in the world of data privacy these days. From new regulations on the table in multiple jurisdictions globally to huge brands being fined millions of dollars in massive penalties due to data breaches and lack of compliance with existing regulations, the free-for-all consumer data collection practices are being left by the wayside for a more transparent customer experience.

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Manual Call Reviews? There's a Better Way!

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? 🤔 If so, this webinar is for you! What was once a common practice in the call center is now a barrier to success. Manual call monitoring is no longer an option if you want to proactively coach your agents to ultimately improve the customer experience using data-driven insights. Join this webinar with Angie Kronlage and April Wiita of Working Solutions to discuss how you can modernize outdated, manual call review processes through the power of autom

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Make Customer Experience Development as Important as Product Development

Customer Bliss

Today, leaders in just about every industry understand that improving customer experience is essential for ease of customer interactions, reputation management, business efficacy, and overall success. Customer experience is already a core focus for many retailers, but diverse organizations including governmental bureaus , grocery stores , and financial service institutions are implementing CX changes to better accommodate customer needs.

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7 Things to Remember on the Customer Experience Journey

Beyond Philosophy

I complain a lot about companies that get Customer Experience wrong. Today, I am going to take another angle and explore how one company has taken on the Customer Experience journey and gets it right. RICOH Canada has done some incredible work in improving Customer Experience. They increased their Net Promoter Score® (NPS) by 34 points over 30 months and enjoyed a ten percent increase in sales.

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Building a Customer Experience (CX) Strategy

CX Accelerator

More and more companies are realizing the importance of formalizing and strategizing the customer experience. However, many are unsure where to start, which leads to a common question, “How do you build a customer experience strategy?” This article will help you understand what a CX strategy is and how to build one by adapting the philosopher Vanilla Ice’s famous words, “.

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Game Changing Methods to Optimize Your Customer Experience

CloudCherry

Game Changers. We’re always on the lookout for the ones that will make the biggest impact. And, on this week’s “Sweets of CX ” podcast, we’ve got the expert. Lynn Hunsaker – Chief Customer Officer at ClearAction Continuum & co-founder of ClearAction Value Exchange, CustomerThink Hall of Fame Author, Professor, award-winning Performance momentum expert, and MORE- shares her wealth of knowledge.

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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 to Calculate the ROI of Customer Experience

GetFeedback

This guide will teach you how to quantify the value of your CX initiative through a step-by-step process of calculations.

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5 Key Takeaways from Forrester CX SF 2019

Alida

We all want to improve our customer experience. We’ve created customer journey maps and tried to focus on improving the whole experience and the Forrester CX Index is telling us that across the board in all industries, the customer experience is not improving. What are we missing?

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Why Good Customer Experience Starts With Your Internal Culture

Customer Bliss

How does the diversity of your team affect their output and synergy? In today’s episode, I chat with Leslie McNamara , who is the Chief Marketing Officer and Managing Director in workforce development at Citi Retail Services. In her role, Leslie merges workforce development with marketing, working directly with retailers. Leslie’s work involves partnering with stores that have chosen Citi as their private label and/or co-brand card provider.

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Guest Blog: How to Engage Customers with Your Brand

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Dwayne Charrington who writes about how to engage your customers in personalized, meaningful, and relevant ways. What is most important for any business today? Customers, employees, lead generation, or profit. Well, the best answer is customer engagement. No business can survive without engaging its customers. These are not only customers but brand loyals.

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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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7 Unexpected Tools that Will Help You Improve the Customer Experience

CX Accelerator

There aren’t many professional career paths more rewarding than Customer Experience (CX). Life as a CX professional is never dull, always changing, incredibly challenging, and so fulfilling. It takes blood, sweat, tears, and heck of a lot of time and dedication to drive meaningful CX improvements and to energize a team to keep the progress going. It’s one of the many reasons why CX Accelerator exists.

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The Effects of Bad Customer Service and Why it’s Costing Your Company MILLIONS!

Michel Falcon Experience

Sometime today or tomorrow you’re going to receive bad customer service from a company that you do business with. It could be a dry cleaner, auto mechanic, dentist, or any company. Immediately you will feel the effects of bad customer service. I’m not being cynical, it’s just the fact of the matter. After centuries of doing business, why is something as important as delivering great customer service to grow through referrals and repeat customers seem to get a short end of operating budgets?

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How to Run a Successful CX Program With Salesforce

GetFeedback

Learn how to seamlessly integrate GetFeedback’s powerful analytics with Salesforce to optimize your customer experience program.

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Regence Gets a 360 View to Improve Member Experience

Alida

The foundation of an excellent healthcare experience is the ability to repeatedly connect with consumers and their families. This connection needs to be transparent, consent-based , and ongoing to uncover insights that allow teams to validate ideas, develop programs, and continually iterate and improve.

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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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A practical guide to Customer decision making

Beyond Philosophy

A practical guide to Customer decision making. When the Nobel-prize winning economist professor Daniel Kahneman wrote his book Thinking Fast and Slow , he introduced the concept that we had two ways of thinking about things. He named them System 1 and System 2. The two systems work together to help us make decisions about things. When we applied these concepts to decision-making in Customer Experience for our book, The Intuitive Customer, we renamed them.

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Live Up to a Higher Standard of Service

ShepHyken

A friend of mine recently told me about their bad experience at a restaurant. The server was very nice and extremely apologetic about the problems that happened throughout the evening—but there were still problems. The food took a long time to get to the table. When it got there, it wasn’t prepared properly. On the next attempt, the food came out uncooked.

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Emotional Affinity, Customer Service, and Collecting

CX Accelerator

When I was 12 years old, I discovered basketball cards, I loved them so much I collected over 5,000 of them in one summer. I grew up watching Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, and Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Once I started collecting, I had to have their rookie cards and then a card for every year after. I loved basketball and memorized all the statistics of every player in the league.

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Coding Qualitative Data: How to Code Qualitative Research

Thematic

How many hours have you spent sitting in front of Excel spreadsheets trying to find new insights from customer feedback? You know that asking open-ended survey questions gives you more actionable insights than asking your customers for just a numerical Net Promoter Score (NPS). But when you ask open-ended, free-text questions, you end up with hundreds (or even thousands) of free-text responses.

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How Intent Data Helps Marketers Convert A-List Accounts

One of the biggest challenges for any B2B marketer is understanding your prospects’ next move — who is most likely to buy and when. Without these insights, marketing campaigns can feel more like guesswork, with high investment and little return. We’re here to tell you there’s a better way. By tracking buyers’ digital footprints and online activity, such as website visits, product reviews, and spikes in content consumption, you can engage prospects with a message that really resonates.