July, 2022

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How a Global Grocer Turns CX Feedback Into Realized Customer Spend Targets

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The Context. A global grocery retailer was facing the uncertainties of COVID-19 and through their struggle, they found a perspective that helped them focus on forwarding progression throughout the pandemic. The grocery chain is known for its simple and continuous efforts to always improve, and that consistent effort through the decades has helped to expand its market position.

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How lululemon Co-Creates Experiences with and for Their Customers

Alida

lululemon is a Canadian athletic apparel retailer with massive global appeal that creates high-performance athletic apparel and accessories through a human-led design approach. This customer-centricity has led the brand to consistently look for new ways to ensure they are supporting their guests (customers) and their community. To support this approach, the lululemon brand team established the lululemon Feedback Forum built on the Alida platform.

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As Brick & Mortar Retail Bounces Back Where Does The Future Lie?

Beyond Philosophy

The Future of Brick and Mortar. One of the features of The Intuitive Customer podcast is “I’m in a Pickle,” where listeners come to us with business problems that they would like our advice on solving. We had a pickle about the future of brick-and-mortar after the pandemic that I thought I would share with you, too. Here’s what Bjorn had to say: Hello, Ryan and Colin, and thanks for a great show.

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How SaaS Companies Can Project Their MRR Using NPS (6 Actionable Tips)

Retently

Monthly recurring revenue, or MRR, is the lifeblood of any SaaS business. If your company is charging the clients on a monthly basis, signing up new customers and keeping them onboard has an incredible impact on your revenue, growth rate and profits. The only problem is that calculating MRR accurately can be notoriously challenging. As customers join and cancel, projecting the monthly recurring revenue for two, three or six months into the future can be a serious issue, even for the most data-fo

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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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Amazing Business Radio: Deon Nicholas

ShepHyken

Human-Centered AI. Using AI to Enable and Empower Customer Service Agents. Shep Hyken interviews Deon Nicholas, CEO and Co-Founder of Forethought , a company that builds human-centered AI to transform the customer service experience. He shares how companies can use AI and technology to help customer support agents and customers find the best resolution.

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5 Ways to Leverage Net Promoter Score to Boost Customer Retention

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You don’t just want to appeal to new customers—you also want to keep your current ones coming back again and again. Not only do returning customers require less introduction to your products and services, but they also tend to spend more than first-time customers, too. One user engagement strategy you can use to boost your customer retention is to make use of the Net Promoter Score (NPS) system.

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How to understand, engage and retain hard-to-reach hourly workers

Alida

Seasonal and hourly workers are notoriously hard-to-reach and harder still to retain. Learn how you can increase engagement, get more survey completes, and instill more loyalty.

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The cost of living crisis and increase response rates

Beyond Philosophy

We hope you enjoy today’s show. If you do, could vote for us in the People’s Choice Podcast Award? It doesn’t take long to cast your vote and it would really mean a lot to both Ryan and I. Thanks very much. Cheers! To vote, please click here. Usually, we have one pickle per podcast. However, today’s podcast has two pickles per podcast.

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How the Right CS Platform Can Help You Do More with Less

Totango

Protecting and growing your current customer base should be your top priority right now, but how do you do that when your marketing and sales budgets have been slashed and hiring has stopped? During periods of economic uncertainty, you need to do more with less. This means providing exceptional customer experiences and solutions become top priority, all the while continuing to find ways to increase the value you’re providing, as well.

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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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Different is Better Than Better

ShepHyken

I’m going to break just a bit from my typical customer service/customer experience ideas and share another lesson: Different is better than better. . This was my big takeaway as I listened to supermodel, talk show host, producer, writer, actress, and entrepreneur Tyra Banks share her life story at CCW (Contact Center Week), the industry’s largest conference and trade show of its kind.

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Customer Listening Posts: Ask These Questions to Boost Your VoC Program

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

What does building a Voice of The Customer (VoC) program from the ground up look like? Typically, it’ll start with a general plan on how an organization is going to gather customer feedback — a plan that typically includes Customer Listening Posts. What are Customer Listening Posts? Customer Listening Posts are specific tools, locations and mechanisms to gather customer feedback along specific touchpoints on the customer journey.

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9 Must-Read Articles on EX, Linking EX & CX, and Branded Experience

InMoment XI

Organizations around the world are actively evaluating—and seeking to better understand—the decision-making and behavioral influence of employee and customer trust, the drivers of emotional bonding with a brand or company, and what is required to create and sustain a more valuable branded experience. If these topics are on your company’s radar, you can get the answers you need here!

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Customer Perception: What It Is and How To Measure It

Kayako

The concept of customer perception seems obvious, it is basically the customer’s opinion of a company at any given point during their customer journey. What is not so simple is tracking and measuring all the different variables that influence customer perception. The good news is that one direct way to improve customer perception is to provide high-quality customer service.

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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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Close the Loop on Customer Feedback with Solvvy Surveys

Solvvy

Just because your brand finishes interacting with a customer, doesn’t mean their experience has ended. Understanding this distinction is the key to driving customer loyalty and recurring revenue. Ultimately, collecting customer feedback is the best way to truly gauge the customer experience. Of course, accurately measuring customer satisfaction is never straightforward and needs to be adapted depending on a company’s business needs.

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How Customer Loyalty Can Drive B2B SaaS Business Growth

Totango

Customer loyalty is a key to repeat business and referral generation for any business model. For B2B SaaS companies, customer loyalty drives subscription renewals and brand advocacy, making it a critical component of a profitable business model. This blog will look at why customer loyalty is vital for B2B SaaS businesses and how successful companies effectively cultivate it.

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Guest Post: How to Create Massive Customer Surplus through Memorable Onboarding & Obsessive Service

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Michael Becker, founder of Abundance Accelerators , a growth agency for coaches. He shares how organizations can gain loyal customers by providing an experience that exceeds expectations. The stakes have effectively been raised, and they’ll continue to go up for product brands, service providers, and client-based companies alike. .

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3 Reasons Customers Say They Don’t Trust Chatbots, and What You Can Do About It

TechSee

The evolution of chatbots in customer service has generated much fanfare over the years. Chatbots promise a better customer experience by reducing wait times, delivering the digital experiences customers want, and providing 24/7 service on-demand. Furthermore, chatbots are cost savers, with the cost of a self-service interaction at just $0.10 compared to about $8 per live contact. .

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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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How Quick Service Restaurant Brands Can Drive Profitable Guest Experience Programs

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Many restaurants, including quick service restaurants (QSRs) are overwhelmed by the impact of online reviews. As of last year, close to 214 million reviews have been posted to Yelp, and 45% of consumers say they’re likely to read a business’ reviews there before visiting. Meanwhile, nearly two-thirds (64%) of people now Google a business before visiting—and a whopping 94% say a negative review has caused them to avoid a business altogether.

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What are the key challenges impeding customer experience improvements?

MyCustomer

Engagement What are the challenges impeding CX improvements?

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CSAT vs. NPS: Understanding Customer Success Metrics

Solvvy

You may have heard, “You can’t manage what you can’t measure.” It certainly rings true when considering goals like improving efficiency or controlling labor costs. Quantitative metrics allow you to assign a number to the current state, compare it to the past, and track your company’s progress toward your goals. However, not everything is easy to measure.

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Reputation Unveils 2022 Property Management Report Findings and Rankings

CSM Magazine

Reputation , the global leader in reputation experience management (RXM), today announced findings from its 2022 Property Management Reputation Report , which analyzed nearly 600,000 reviews of over 80,000 multifamily residential properties. In it, we’ve seen review volume is up 7% compared to 2021, but sentiment is down 0.2 stars. In addition, reviews about rent specifically have increased by 3.5% year over year, with sentiment dropping by 0.12 stars.

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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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Amazing Business Radio: Megan Neale

ShepHyken

The Gig CX. Employing Brand Advocates to Improve Customer Experience. Shep Hyken interviews Megan Neale, Co-founder and COO of Limitless , a Gig CX platform that empowers people to earn money by providing brilliant customer service. She shares how brands can leverage brand advocacy and the knowledge of actual product users (customers) to improve customer experience.

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Open the Channels of Communication with Your Customers

Totango

When facing a struggling economy, it’s more important than ever to keep your customers engaged and reminded of why your products and services are critical to their success. You need to remain top-of-mind to ensure you stay relevant to your clients’ business and can continue to drive growth through retention and expansion. Leveraging customer success technology can help you implement the best practices that will enable you to efficiently engage and retain customers, as well as key stakeholders.

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How Quick Service Restaurants Can Leverage Customer Feedback in Every Department

InMoment XI

In our last blog about creating an excellent food service customer experience (CX), we talked about how vital customer reviews are to growing your business (and how your customer experience plays a pivotal role in making sure your reviews are positive). . It’s clear the customer experience is vital for any food services business, and in our decades of experience working with the world’s best brands, we’ve noticed a common challenge: food service customer experience data is often very siloed from

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The Next Generation of Service Automation: The Power of Computer Vision

TechSee

One year ago, we introduced the world’s first computer-vision powered self-service solution. Today, we are proud to share the next great leap forward, the Visual Intelligence Platform. With Visual Intelligence (or VI for short), we are bringing the latest computer vision AI technology out of the lab and into the real-world. This is practical AI , or to put it another way, AI for Real Business.

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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.