May, 2022

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The Importance of Employee Loyalty in the Workplace

InMoment XI

We all know that employee loyalty is important , but oftentimes we forget how employee loyalty is connected with customer loyalty and how loyal employees contribute to the success of the entire business. “Profit and growth are stimulated primarily by customer loyalty. Loyalty is a direct result of customer satisfaction. Satisfaction is largely influenced by the value of services provided to customers.

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68 Customer Support Email Address Name Ideas

CX Accelerator

Written by Jenny Dempsey, 5.25.2022 You don’t actually want to contact customer support. If you have to, this means you have a problem or an unanswered question. You can’t find the answer in the knowledge base on the company website, instruction book or the FAQs. When you do reach out, you want to know that you’re in good hands and that an answer or resolution to your issue is waiting at the end of that interaction.

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How Indigo Gets Rapid Customer Feedback to Test Product Concepts

Alida

Indigo is Canada’s leading book and lifestyle retailer, offering a curated assortment of books, gifts, baby, kids, wellness, and lifestyle products that support their customers every day and at key life stages by simplifying their journey to live life on purpose. Indigo believes in real books, in living life fully and generously, in being kind to each other, and that stories—big and little—connect us.

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How To Prioritize Customer Experience Efforts

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Customer Experience requires action… and action requires effort. Customer experience efforts lead to lists of action items. And those lists can get long! Creating a CX strategy means having a plan to execute that requires getting other leaders and teams on board with an aligned mission. Customer journey mapping efforts lead to areas to improve and challenges to overcome.

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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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Everyone Deserves a Compliment??

ShepHyken

I was on a flight to a city I can’t remember, but what I do remember was the wonderful flight attendant, Bailee from American Airlines, who enthusiastically greeted me with a smile and said, “I like that hat!” I was wearing a baseball cap with the St. Louis Blues Stanley Cup Championship logo. Of course, I thanked her and I found my seat, just a few rows from the front of the plane.

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Customer Journey Mapping Examples for Beginners

InMoment XI

A customer journey map is a diagram of all the places customers come into contact with your brand, online or off. Each of these touchpoints influences the customer, and by analyzing customer behavior, feelings, and motivations around each touchpoint, you can begin to identify opportunities to establish more positive relationships by giving customers what they need at any given stage of their journey.

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Customer Experience Strategy: Do You Conquer or Collaborate? | #Leadership #CX

Kate Nasser

Customer Experience Strategy Leaders: Your words need to say collaborate with customers not conquer them. Examples fr Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™ | #CX Leadership Teamwork Collaboration. The post Customer Experience Strategy: Do You Conquer or Collaborate? | #Leadership #CX appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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Be a Zero Risk Company with a Great Customer Loyalty Strategy: Screw Up First

The DiJulius Group

One of the key characteristics of the top customer experience brands in the world is that they are ‘Zero Risk’ to do business with. A Zero Risk business isn’t one that never makes mistakes; every excellent customer service company drops the ball from time to time. The secret to what makes these top brands Zero. Read Full Article. The post Be a Zero Risk Company with a Great Customer Loyalty Strategy: Screw Up First appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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When it comes to CX, Conversational AI is the only game in town

Interactions

Brands shouldn’t gamble when it comes to customer experience. Just one bad experience can affect customer loyalty and your bottom line. In fact, 1 in 3 customers will leave a brand they love after just one bad experience, while 92% would completely abandon a company after two or three negative interactions. So when it comes to technology that automates CX, you should place your bets on Conversational AI for the win.

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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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Guest Post: How to Boost Customer Support Employee Productivity for Better CX

ShepHyken

This week, we feature an article by Sowmya Juttukonda, content developer & digital media specialist at Knowmax , a knowledge management system to enhance customer service. She shares how organizations can create an environment that motivates employees to become more productive and improve customer experience. Talk of productivity, and we all have got something to share.

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The Importance of Customer Self Service Portal

Kayako

In recent years, the rise of social media put the customer in charge of the brand conversation. As e-commerce and demand for online help expands, companies have to meet and exceed new expectations to keep customers satisfied. Simply put, customer satisfaction measures whether your products and service meet or exceed your buyers’ expectations. Customer satisfaction affects the bottom line because it is a critical predictor of retention and repeat revenue.

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How to Eliminate Friction in Your Customer Journey

InMoment XI

What Is Friction in the Customer Journey? When most folks think of friction, they probably think of middle school science class. But if you’re a customer experience professional, “friction” is probably a term you’ve heard whenever your teammates talk about reducing customer churn. Within that context, friction refers to points in the brand experience that can have a long-term impact on customers’ relationship with a business.

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Understanding Call Center Occupancy in the Contact Center and How To Optimize It

TechSee

In today’s age of customer-centric service, call centers must deliver quick answers, short hold times, and the ability to speak to a live representative on demand. How can Management ensure their call centers are up to par? They can either staff up significantly or improve their call center occupancy. What is Occupancy in the Contact Center? Occupancy measures how much time call center representatives spend engaging with customers when they are at work as opposed to non-productive or idle time.

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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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Six Best Customer Engagement Platform Tools for Onboarding in 2022

Totango

Choosing the best customer engagement platform for your needs can make a massive difference in the success of your SaaS business. Knowing how your customers feel and what they’re thinking is essential for their satisfaction and your revenue growth. The best way to gain this information is through customer engagement. Onboarding is one of the first times your customer engages with your business.

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The Future of Contact Centers is Enriching Human Interactions. Are You Prepared?

Beyond Philosophy

The contact center at many organizations doesn’t get the strategic consideration it deserves. My former contact center team at British Telecom seemed to be viewed primarily as a cost center, a necessary expense. As a result, their team was always pressured to streamline staffing, coached to be as efficient as possible with multiple priorities, and designed to generate the least amount of cost.

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Amazing Business Radio: Devin Poole

ShepHyken

Customer Service and Issue Centricity. Empowering Customer Support Agents with Data. Shep Hyken interviews Devin Poole, Senior Director of CX Strategy at Dixa , the groundbreaking conversational customer service platform. They discuss connecting with customers using intelligence, empathy, and the right information. Top Takeaways: Issue Centricity is a focus on a customer’s specific situation.

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No More Data Silos: How Integrating Your CRM & CX Platforms Improves Agent and Customer Satisfaction

Kustomer

Your company’s customer relationship management (CRM) platform is a goldmine of information about your customers’ needs, interests, and buyer journey, but if your support agents can’t quickly access that information when they interact with your customers, what is that information worth? Even in the age of cloud software, many companies are still asking customer service agents to manually update customer records after every support interaction.

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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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5 Simple Steps Retailers Can Take to Build Stronger Relationships with Customers

InMoment XI

Customer loyalty has become more elusive in the past few years. As customers seem to shop solely based on the best deal, it can be difficult to build customer loyalty in retail, which leaves many brands wondering if customer loyalty is even worth the effort. However challenging it may be for retailers, developing a loyal customer base is essential to maintaining an active, healthy brand.

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All You Need to Know About CSAT To Drive A Better Customer Experience

TechSee

There’s more than one reason for customer dissatisfaction – but basically, it boils down to understanding and meeting customer expectations. Definitely something companies strive to avoid. Customer satisfaction is the great differentiator, and organizations have to constantly target the areas for improvement and monitor for response to changes.

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How to Measure CX Impact

Heart of the Customer

We CX folks love to discuss measurement. If you want to fill a room at a conference, just put the word “metric” in your session title, and you’re good to go. Mention “Net Promoter Score” or “Customer Effort Score,” and you’ll need to order more chairs. That’s because we spend so many of our waking […]. The post How to Measure CX Impact appeared first on Heart of the Customer.

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10 Smart Ways to Cater to Your Local Customers

Steve DiGioia

You may work for a giant worldwide conglomerate that maintains a core set of values, standards, and practices, but can each of these standards be maintained in every venue? Well, if you’re the Ritz Carlton or McDonald’s , you can. (NOTE: McDonald’s has regional variations in their menu to accommodate local tastes). But what if you work at a location that is having difficulty maintaining the corporate standards because your venue doesn’t conform to the design that the standards

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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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Answer the Question the Right Way?

ShepHyken

Sometimes a customer asks a question, and then either doesn’t understand or like the answer. And sometimes, it’s more than just a misunderstanding or a breakdown in communication. Maybe it’s because the employee doesn’t want to take the time to answer the question correctly. Or sometimes employees are asked the same question so many times that they get sick and tired of customers asking, and it shows in the way they respond and act.?

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The Role of Research on CX Operations & Customer Experience Best Practices

COPC

The COPC Customer Experience (CX) Standard is the most established and accepted performance management system. The latest updates, announced in August 2021, reflect the growing use of digital support technologies and consider the service journey as a whole. They also merit increasing employee engagement initiatives. *COPC CX Standard for Customer Operations and COPC CX Standard for Contact Centers, Release 7.0 are the latest updates.?.

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3 Tips for Insurance CX Programs Looking to Collect Valuable CX Data

InMoment XI

Insurance brands have a unique set of challenges to overcome in order to find the valuable customer experience (CX) data they need to improve experiences. Insurance customers are buying into a long-term relationship, which means building brand trust is extremely important to keep customer retention rates high. And for insurance CX programs, customer data is a key source of information that can help insurance companies cultivate a growing trust with their consumers.

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How to Develop and Implement a Customer Experience Strategy

Lumoa

Most people understand the importance of creating great customer experiences —nevertheless, many struggle with the complexity of working holistically and long-term with a Customer Experience strategy. Customer Experience (CX) is far more than traditional customer service and marketing. A holistic understanding of customer experiences can help close the gap, strengthen the brand and open up new opportunities for profitable growth.

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue.