April, 2022

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11 Articles You Need to Read About Today’s Employee and EX Landscape

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In the midst of the fallout of a global pandemic and the Great Resignation, the employee experience (EX) is an incredibly hot topic. With such a complex EX landscape, what do brands need to do to retain their employees, inspire their commitment and advocacy, and attract new talent? If you’re looking for the answers to these questions, say no more—InMoment EX expert Michael Lowenstein is here to help with all the thought leadership you need.

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New job in customer experience? Do this on the first 90 days

GetFeedback

Expert guidance on how to tackle the first three months in your new CX leadership role, by Jeannie Walters.

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3 Ways to Improve your Customer Experience with Warm Transfers

TechSee

“Good morning, you’ve reached Alice at Quality Insurance; how can I help you today?” You explain that you are following up on your insurance claim for damage to your vehicle that you submitted online using the insurer’s portal. Your experience will depend on the agent’s next few words. What will her response be to your request? “Please provide me with your policy information, claim number, date of filing and description of the damage.”.”. or. “Thanks for following up, Mr.

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5 Tips for Being More Transparent with Your Customers

CX Accelerator

I can remember it well. I was in charge of a contact center a few jobs ago and we were having our second outage in as many days. After service had been restored, I got a call from a customer. It just so happened to be from a customer to whom I had issued a service credit just a day earlier in hopes of restoring his confidence in our company. Hearing of his disappointment for the second day in a row, I fumbled around in my managerial bag of tricks for the right words to say along with the appropr

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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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QUI QUOTE: Nobody raves about a company that meets customer expectations.

Bill Quiseng

QUI QUOTE: Nobody raves about a company that meets customer expectations. When you are working in customer service, you have been happy that your customers leave satisfied. You have sold them a product or service that meets their wants or needs. Or you solved their problem for them. You were happy because, in the end, you met their expectations and they were satisfied.

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Improve the Customer Journey

InMoment XI

If your products or services aren’t performing well, it might not be because of the product itself. Instead, there could be a problem with the customer journey. Your customers’ journey can drastically affect how your customers experience your company—and whether or not they eventually become loyal to your brand. And it’s because of this fact that improving your customer journey is vital to overall business success.

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The CX leader handbook

GetFeedback

Learn how to find the right customer experience job, thrive as a leader, and strategically plan for the future.

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The Day I Became a Customer Service Expert and Two Important Lessons?

ShepHyken

“Find a job you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life.” . This line has been credited to Confucius, Mark Twain, Mark Anthony and others. Anyone who finds what they love to do at work, either through a passion, hobby, interest, a random job they end up loving, or some defining moment is lucky. That makes me one of the lucky ones. Just out of college I started my career as a customer service expert.

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5 Case Studies to Improve Your Customer Service

Kayako

As more and more customer transactions occur virtually, the quality of online help desks and customer service support is becoming an essential differentiator for companies. An estimated 73% of consumers say a good experience is critical in influencing their brand loyalties. Customer satisfaction directly impacts the bottom line, too, as 84% of companies that work to improve their customer experience report an increase in their revenue.

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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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Customer Satisfaction is at 17 year low. These stats tell you why…

Beyond Philosophy

Organizations only pay lip service to CX, and now, we have the numbers to prove it. From Zendesk’s The Trends Report 2022 , you can see a clear dichotomy between what people say they will do and what they will actually do regarding CX. You should read the whole report, but for starters, here are some stats I was surprised to learn (or maybe not surprised as much as interested to see it in print): 73% of business leaders reported a direct link between customer service and business performan

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How are banks meeting changing customer service needs?

Eptica

Date: Monday, April 11, 2022 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager How are banks meeting changing customer service needs? Published on: April 11, 2022. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Delivering the right customer experience in financial services has never been more vital – or more difficult. Companies need to meet the requirements of multiple demographics and deliver reassurance across multiple channels.

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Quality, Not Quantity: Strategic Customer Listening for Experience Improvement

InMoment XI

For many years now, conventional wisdom has held that the best way to listen to as many customers as possible is to turn every customer listening post within your customer experience (CX) program on and simply capture all insights that come your way. This strategy makes a simple kind of sense on paper; if you’re listening to as many people as possible, you’re bound to hear something pertinent to your CX and organizational goals, right?

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A NEW CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE METRIC WHICH SHOULD BE EVERY COMPANY’S PRIMARY FOCUS

The DiJulius Group

The companies that don’t invest in CX have leaders who don’t understand the financial impact it can have. A customer satisfaction survey (which can include a biased sample of survey responses) or a customer loyalty program will not provide enough insight into this key metric. Rather than methods that can result in skewed “vanity statistics,” executives and.

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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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How to Deal with Customer Complaints: The Perfect Thing to Say

ShepHyken

There are many ways to deal with complaints or angry customers. I’ve written a number of articles on the different ways to do so, and today I want to add an excellent technique. . The idea is to say something that lets the customer know you understand the problem, you’re in sync with their concerns, and you empathize with their frustration, anger or whatever emotion they’re exhibiting.

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Idea Velocity Moving Faster Than Clients Process Proposed Solutions?

One Millimeter Mindset

Does your idea velocity move faster than clients are able to process what you have to say? Clients need mental breathing room, especially when dealing with complex problems. Consider that moving forward, there really are no simple issues. Everything and everyone is interconnected to everything and everyone else. As a result, clients wrestle with the single idea that yesterday’s linear thinking will not catalyze today’s and tomorrow’s successes.

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Boosting Customer Experience by Understanding Your Audience: The Expert Guide

Alida

86% of customers are willing to pay more for a better customer experience. Given that, it's not surprising that two-thirds of businesses compete primarily on the customer experience they are able to provide.

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A Breakthrough in Point Correspondence: Mitigating “Outliers”

TechSee

Ever wonder how the human brain can compute distance? How far away is the highway exit, when exactly to step off the escalator, the exact position of the lips you want to kiss? This essential capability is known as depth perception. When both eyes focus on an object, the difference between the visual images that each eye perceives due to its unique angle – known as retinal disparity – is the phenomenon that allows the human brain to compute depth perception.

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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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3 Things You Can Do Right Now to Create More Inclusive Employee & Customer Experiences

InMoment XI

Diversity and inclusion initiatives have become front and center for many organizations in recent years. It’s important for brands to create diverse and inclusive customer experiences (CX) and employee experiences (EX)—not ‘just’ because being more inclusive is the right thing to do, but also because organizations have a lot to gain from accommodating greater diversity in every experience they create.

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CAN STARBUCKS COME BACK?

The DiJulius Group

For the third time in coffee chain Starbucks’ illustrious history Howard Schultz is the Chief Executive Officer, following former CEO Kevin Johnson who stepped down after a five-year tenure including upgrades like mobile ordering/payment, environmentally friendly cups and other items, and a particularly difficult period in 2018. In a world of too many ugly and.

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Guest Post: The Intersection of Engagement and Productivity

ShepHyken

This week, we feature an article by Luke Jamieson, Regional Director at Centrical , the next-gen employee engagement and performance platform. He writes about the importance of engagement and employee experience to an organization’s productivity to business success. According to Gallup, highly engaged teams are 21% more productive. What’s the connection between engagement and productivity and how do you achieve this nexus?

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The Daniel Group Announces the Launch of Customer Feedback Advanced Insights, Embedded

Daniel Group

CHARLOTTE, N.C., April 12, 2022 (Newswire.com) – Customer Feedback Advanced Insights, Embedded gives The Daniel Group clients access to a suite of customizable dashboards and deep analytics directly from its cloud-based platform, ExperienceConnect. This new option provides a seamless experience by managing and analyzing all customer feedback data through one platform.

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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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Introducing Customer Experience (CX) Automation and Smart Workflow Feature

Zonka Feedback

66% of consumers who switched brands did so because of poor service. 85% of customer churn due to poor service was preventable. 67% of customer churn is preventable if the customer issue is resolved at the first engagement. 11% of churn can be prevented by a company by just reaching out to the customer. 65% of customer service experts say that using CX automation should be a norm.

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The Best Way to Handle Business Phone Call Overflow and Surges

Call Experts

You juggle many responsibilities like call overflow if you’re a small business owner. While you may be able to handle all of your duties yourself at first, as your business grows and changes, it becomes more difficult to wear every hat. You may need to hire employees to handle some of the tasks that run your company. One significant role is customer service.

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3 Ways Market Research Supercharges Experience Programs

InMoment XI

Market research is seen by a lot of companies and organizations as a nice-to-have. The reality, though, is that it’s a necessity. Market research provides the mapping tools you can use to chart your business landscape, understand its various features, and more importantly, get to know the groups and audiences that populate it. . This goal is especially important within the context of experience programs, especially if you want to achieve real Experience Improvement (XI) for your customers, emplo

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Improving Government CX – The Fundamental Building Blocks for Success

Comm100

There’s no way to sugarcoat this – government customer experience (CX) is miles behind the private sector. When calculating customer satisfaction across major industries in 6 countries, government is the bottom-performing industry in each country. There are many reasons for this, some of which excuse government underperformance. The public sector often has to battle limited resources, changing mandates, and flip-flopping service delivery measured outcomes.

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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.