July, 2018

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How to Deliver a Great Customer Experience (VIDEO)

GetFeedback

Today, customers can interact with companies in more ways than ever, across unique channels, devices, and time zones. A customer might see a company’s ad, visit their website, browse their products, read customer reviews, and go on their way—all without speaking to a single human. While technology and automation have unquestionably improved our lives, they’ve also made the modern customer experience much noisier.

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The Value of Measuring Customer Delight

CloudCherry

Are your customers successful and happy with your products and services? Are they telling their friends and business partners to buy from you? If they have a concern, are you making meaningful change to address it? These are questions that all businesses need to ask themselves to ensure everything is being done to create customer delight. Happy customers are not only retained but they also help create more happy customers.

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The 3 Hottest Trends Impacting Outsourced Customer Care

BlueOcean

The only constant in the customer care world is change, and if you don’t keep up, you’ll be left behind. That’s why we’ve compiled these must-read articles to keep you updated and give you some food for thought as you think about the future of your outsourced customer care. Strategic Partnerships with Contact Centers. “ 60% of B2B clients are emotionally indifferent toward their suppliers. ”.

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The Unifying Force of Care: A Basic Human Need Customers Crave and Businesses Demand

Customer Bliss

It’s no secret – caring is a fundamental human need that triggers positive feelings. And a recent study reveals that patterns in human brain activity associated with empathy and caring are also associated with value and reward. Caring was found to inspire helpful behaviors, which seems logical — and foundational. The “Golden Rule” idea actually underscores our entire human experience.

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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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What is a Good Net Promoter Score? (2018 NPS Report Update)

Retently

One of the most frequently asked questions that we get is “What is a good Net Promoter Score®?” And even though we repeatedly tell our clients that the score itself is irrelevant , we do understand the idea that comparing performance to other companies can help them show a more accurate picture of where they are standing at in a competitive landscape.

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3 Tips on Maximizing Salesforce Survey Data

GetFeedback

Customer feedback makes Salesforce even more powerful. When survey results live on the customer record, you not only gain visibility into your customer experience, but you can use those insights to drive action across your business. Today, we’ll share a few simple tips on improving visibility and driving action with Salesforce survey data. 1. Create a Salesforce survey dashboard.

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How the best Customer Experience Brands balance Technology with Humanity: MIT Tech Review

CloudCherry

What better way is there to learn about delivering an amazing customer experience than examining how the best in the business do it? The MIT Technology Review: Getting To Iconic report is based on surveys conducted with over 550 business executives at global firms—including retail, IT, logistics, healthcare, IT, and more— in over 30 countries between May and July 2017.

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Why is shorter life cycle of insurance claims critical to the industry?

TechSee

Insurance companies face the dual challenge of competing in an extremely crowded marketplace, while being required to constantly up their game in order to meet ever-rising customer expectations for a shortened life cycle insurance claim. . A key factor in the successful operation of any insurance company is the efficient processing of customer claims, a process that is often measured by KPIs such as claim settlement cycle time, claims processed per claim employee and most importantly, cost per

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Tactics To Implement in Your First Six Months Leading CX in the Telecommunications Industry

Customer Bliss

Over the past two years, the CX leaders and CCOs that I’ve spoken with have shared great actionable advice and tactics to help you transform the culture of your organization to be customer-driven. In this episode, you’ll hear from two brilliant leaders who’ve led CX work in the telecommunications industry. Charlotte Dunsterville , Chief Customer Officer of Sure International Telecom, and Patricia Pedhom Nono , former general manager of customer service & customer experienc

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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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Net Promoter Score 101: A Comprehensive Guide for Beginners

Retently

Satisfied clients don’t just help your company generate more leads and acquire more business; they also enable you to increase the customer lifetime value , reduce your churn rate and finally bring in more revenue. How likely are your customers to recommend you to their friends, colleagues and work acquaintances? Wouldn’t it be convenient if there was a metric that you could use to assess that?

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Japan: The Land of Amazing Service Culture

CX Accelerator

My favorite story coming out of the FIFA World Cup thus far is how Japan, fresh off defeat to Belgium, left a wonderfully clean locker room and a "thank you" note. Full story here. How amazing is that? This picture of them bowing to their fans may give you goosebumps. Having recently visited Japan CX for myself, these wonderful moments come as no surprise at all.

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How to Create an Omni-Channel Customer Journey Map in Retail

GetFeedback

This is a guest post by Tom O’Brien, Director of Digital Marketing at TimeTrade. Retail is changing in 2018. What’s key? Creating an amazing customer experience through omni-channel customer journeys that engage your prospects where they are and help shuttle them through your sales funnel. In this post, we’ll explain how to create an omni-channel customer journey map for your retail business—and how you can use it to improve your customer experience.

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The Science of Predictive Customer Experience Management

CloudCherry

Customer experience is becoming an increasingly popular topic, with many forward-thinking businesses thinking it can set them apart in today’s highly competitive landscape. And they’re right — a recent study by Forrester showed that organizations with a cross-team CX approach were nearly twice as likely to have exceeded their top 2017 business goals.

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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 Avoid Hidden Disasters in Customer Experience Design

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Ever have a sneaking suspicion something just isn’t right, but you don’t know how to fix it? Is that happening with your organization’s customer experience design for service delivery? Lately, I’m seeing a lot of good intentions gone awry with customer experience. And a lot of leaders and followers defending the INTENTIONS of the design, instead of dealing with the reality of the situation.

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How Do You Keep Up With Customer Expectations?

Beyond Philosophy

Have you been to the Congo? If not, can you describe the weather? How about the vegetation? Now tell me why you thought that? Did you see a movie or read a book about the Congo? Did you travel to a nearby country and guess that the Congo was probably a similar experience? Did you or someone you know someone who went to the Congo? Now, to be clear, there isn’t a wrong answer here.

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12 Great NPS Survey Question and Response Templates (That Actually Work)

Retently

There’s much more to an NPS® survey than just the quantitative rating customers give to your business. You can keep track of your score and its changes, but it’s the qualitative feedback that gives you the “why” behind it, bringing the voice of the customer to the front. Ask the right NPS question to get a constant pulse on your customer satisfaction and you will gain an accurate understanding of how your company, product or service is perceived.

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How to Lead CX Transformation in a Customer-Focused Tech Organization

Customer Bliss

“You can’t change Rome in a day. You need a plan and you need to take baby steps,” said Sue Martin Homes , Global VP of Customer Service at Newegg , the leading tech-focused e-retailer in North America. In today’s lively chat with Sue, we talk about her customer service experience and leadership that paved the way for her success in transforming the CX culture at Newegg, a multi-billion dollar company that has been customer-focused since its inception.

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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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Are You Tuning Out the Voice of the Customer?

GetFeedback

When you’re truly in sync with your customers, it shows. Communications are personalized and thoughtful. Customer support is frictionless. New products are consistently well received. And customers are happy to send new business your way. But that kind of synchronicity is pretty rare. Despite all the customer data and technology at our disposal, most companies don’t know their customers as well as they think they do.

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Is social media a boon or a curse for customer experience?

Customer Guru

What is customer experience? Customer experience (CX) can be defined as the sum of the interactions between a customer and a business over the period of their relationship. A positive customer experience creates repeat and loyal customers. Companies that invest in building positive customer experience tend to achieve higher customer satisfaction rates, reduced customer churn and, in turn, improved business revenues.

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Business Value and ROI of Customer Experience: The Step-by-step Guide 

Lumoa

Most business leaders believe that customer experience will be the key driver for their company’s competitiveness going forward. However, when it comes to the actual customer experience management, things get difficult. It is not too difficult to listen to the customer. Companies receive real time feedback in massive volumes, if they only start listening to their customers.

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5 Disastrous Mistakes when Dealing with Difficult Customers

Customers That Stick

Let’s just say it right here at the start — dealing with difficult customers stinks. Having provided customer service training to thousands upon thousands of people at all levels of organizations, I’ve learned that there is one thing every person who works with customers wants to know: how to successfully navigate difficult customer service situations and customers.

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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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Will Robots Take My Job? Finding the Balance Between Human and Automation

Oracle

75 million to 375 million people globally may need to switch occupations by 2030 due to automation, according to a McKinsey report. Is it time to ask ourselves, “Will robots take my job?” The answer may lie in rephrasing the question. What’s to gain by losing jobs to automation? “It’s inevitable that AI will and probably does replace some jobs,” says Nate Masterson, CXO of beauty product company Maple Holistics in an interview for this article. “But the

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Improving Customer Experience Management in a State Government Agency

Customer Bliss

How do you transform a bureaucracy that was generations in the making? In today’s episode, I speak with Greg Derwart , Managing Director, Administration & Customer Experience at Maryland Department of Commerce. We explore transforming customer and employee experience within a state government agency, and how this work is managed across multiple departments and agencies.

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Acing Omnichannel Support in SaaS

GetFeedback

Looking at customer experience (CX) and churn in the SaaS environment from a high level, there’s one theme that stands out from the mix: The fact that we live in what’s called a “switching economy.”. The term, coined by economists, describes a current trend impacting switching brands because of dissatisfaction with their experience. It can be a major driver of customer churn—and it’s already creating an incredible economic deficit in the US.

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26 Actionable Tips to Improve Your NPS Survey Response Rate

Retently

This article provides a list of actionable tips to improve your email survey response rates. Although it was written with Net Promoter Score© in mind, it is applicable to any customer satisfaction – CSAT, CES, regular multiple choice surveys, etc. Like every metric that depends on user-submitted data, NPS© gets more accurate as the audience size and survey response rate grows.

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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.