InMoment XI

JANUARY 18, 2023

Welcome back to the XI Café Podcast! The XI Café Podcast was created so that CX program owners around the world could join the conversation and learn from global businesses and industry experts about the latest experience improvement innovations in technology and research services, industry and market expertise, and customer (CX) and employee (EX) engagement best practices.

Voice of Customer 370

Voice of Customer Consulting Innovation Technology 370

Lumoa

JANUARY 31, 2023

Customer experience plays an important, if not the most important role in the success of any business. Nearly all companies (89%) believe that customer experience will be their primary basis for competition. How do you stand in that competition? Customer experience management brings discipline to this somewhat vague and soft area: by establishing a systematic process for collecting, analyzing, and acting on customer feedback, you’ll be able to improve customer experience altogether.

Customer Experience 165

Customer Experience NPS Touchpoint Customer Centricity 165

Retently

JANUARY 25, 2023

Gone are the days when you could drop-ship your way to success, customer experience and customer lifetime value becoming more immediate priorities. It’s still challenging to prove the value of that investment as opposed to customer acquisition; however, the game is clearly changing, prompting ecommerce brands to cherish their most valuable asset – customer loyalty.

Loyalty Programs 31

Loyalty Programs Advertising Loyalty Social Media 31

BlueOcean

JANUARY 31, 2023

Attrition seems like it should be an easy enough term to define, and determining which bidders’ attrition results best match your own requirements should be easy enough in a contact center RFP. In this article, we are making the case that it’s not always so straightforward. Not all attrition is created equal, and there are many ways to calculate attrition rates – so the way you frame your attrition questions in the RFP is essential to getting useful data that can inform your decision.

Contact Center 156

Contact Center Insurance Call Center Consumers 156

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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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ShepHyken

JANUARY 4, 2023

Happy New Year! We have an exciting year ahead of us. So much has changed in just the past three years. And in the world of customer service and CX, there is much to be excited about. Last month I released my annual Top Ten Customer Experience Predictions in my weekly Forbes column. I don’t often repeat content, but I’m going to share those predictions and trends here, in a revised and shorter format.

2023 147

2023 Customer Service Customer Experience B2C 147

InMoment XI

JANUARY 12, 2023

Cross-selling and upselling have formed the bedrock of brand aspirations for their existing customer base for a long time now. For several years, it was also one of four economic pillars (along with customer acquisition , customer retention, and lowering cost to serve) my colleagues and I used to frame customer experience (CX) programs for our clients.

Social Media 397

Social Media Customers Connections Customer Retention 397

Tricia Morris

JANUARY 26, 2023

Contact center leaders, your time is now. Customer service and customer experience analysts and thought leaders are suggesting that the contact center is “the next big tech frontier.” Investment in the contact center is increasingly—finally.

Contact Center 143

Contact Center 2023 Customer Service Customer Experience 143

Comm100

JANUARY 23, 2023

2023 looks to be a year of great change in customer experience (CX). With economic uncertainty ahead, some organizations are asking employees to make do with fewer resources, while others are increasing CX investment. This is all occurring against a backdrop of incredibly high CX expectations across industries and ever-developing technology. To help make sense of the year ahead and plan for the ever-shifting CX landscape, we’ve asked five experts in the field for their CX predictions for 2023. 1

2023 128

2023 Customer Experience E-support Customers 128

BlueOcean

JANUARY 20, 2023

2020 marked the workplace like no other year in recent history. For more than two years, everyone worked to settle into new patterns of working and communicating, and we’re finally seeing a return to “normal.” We rejoiced when our favorite coffee shops re-opened, and we got all dressed up again when the commute to work once again involved more than a walk down the hall … and yes, that RFP was finally back on your plate.

Contact Center 156

Contact Center Customer Care Culture Technology 156

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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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ShepHyken

JANUARY 31, 2023

Many years ago, a friend shared some advice with me: It doesn’t cost much more to enjoy a first-class experience. He was referring to spending just a little more in certain situations to get much more out of the experience. It could be a nicer hotel, a better seat in a theater, a better cut of meat at the grocery store, and more. He found that it often doesn’t cost much more to upgrade.

Customer Service 151

Customer Service Hotels Customer Service Training Reference 151

Alida

JANUARY 17, 2023

In uncertain economic times, making the right choices for your business becomes that much more important. Even a slight misstep can have a drastic impact on a company's ability to compete in the market. While navigating a recession is undoubtedly difficult, spending the time to understand customer motivations and concerns can significantly reduce risk from decision-making and help create more value for both customers and the business.

2023 130

2023 Innovation Customer Experience Customer Engagement 130

InMoment XI

JANUARY 23, 2023

You’re sitting down to carve out the newest survey in your customer experience (CX) program. You know what touchpoint you’re examining, what you’re hoping to learn, and what questions you’re going to ask. Now it’s time to settle on the survey rating scale you’ll use. Unsure of which scale to choose? I’m Kiri Burgess, a Senior CX Consultant at InMoment APAC.

Touchpoint 368

Touchpoint Consulting Insights Customer Experience 368

Retently

JANUARY 19, 2023

Achieving the much-desirable product-market fit is the ultimate goal of any SaaS business. After all, it means that a company has identified its business niche, has found a profitable market, and has a product that is well-liked by customers – the true Promoters. They don’t have to worry about going bust because what they sell is what the market needs.

Measurement 158

Measurement Marketing 2007 Competitive Advantage 158

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!

Customer Experience

MyCustomer

JANUARY 12, 2023

Engagement How CX leaders make CX a company-wide concern.

Customer Experience 117

Customer Experience Engagement Customers 117

Lumoa

JANUARY 3, 2023

Surveys are one of the most useful tools out there for gathering quick feedback from customers, and understanding what motivates them. But with great power comes great responsibility – if you’re going to get the results you need to make critical business decisions, it’s important that your survey design is done well! Here we’ll discuss some best practices for designing effective surveys – everything from creating questions that elicit actionable responses, to logic-

Metrics 147

Metrics NPS Touchpoint Effort Score 147

ShepHyken

JANUARY 11, 2023

Most everyone in the business world is familiar with the idea of customer experience (CX). And as popular as CX is, there’s a somewhat new concept that has been coming on strong for the past five years, and that’s the employee experience (EX). With the employment issues of the past two years, EX is as important, maybe even more so, than CX. You can’t have a consistent and predictable CX without an EX to support it. .

Employee Experience 137

Employee Experience Customer Experience Call Center Customer Service Training 137

TechSee

JANUARY 24, 2023

Visual engagement is a proven strategy to improve call center performance, especially as it relates to two key metrics: 1) First call resolution (FCR) : The percentage of customers that achieve resolution during their first contact, with no further action required and 2) Average handle time (AHT) : The amount of time it takes to resolve an issue from start to finish, including time on hold.

Engagement 109

Engagement Average Handle Time Call Center Connections 109

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.

Customer Insights

InMoment XI

JANUARY 4, 2023

Welcome back to the XI Café Podcast! The XI Café Podcast was created so that CX program owners around the world could join the conversation and learn from global businesses and industry experts about the latest experience improvement innovations in technology and research services, industry and market expertise, and customer (CX) and employee (EX) engagement best practices.

Engagement 329

Engagement Customer Engagement Innovation Technology 329

Optimove

JANUARY 26, 2023

Consumer trust is a crucial component of any successful marketing strategy. It’s more important than any promotion, feature, funny post on social, or brand color. As economic uncertainty persists, consumer financial confidence declines (see our recent Consumer Holiday Spending Survey ), and their willingness to spend drops. Naturally, with their limited budgets, consumers prioritize brands they know and trust over new ones they don’t know, or worse, brands they already know and don’t trust.

Consumers 105

Consumers Loyalty Brands Retail 105

Beyond the Arc

JANUARY 2, 2023

2022 started off like a typical rom-com; after a couple of life-changing adventures, we thought we were finally headed toward our happily-ever-after. But wait—as we begin the first chapter of 2023, there’s a looming plot twist. What customer experience (CX) challenges can we expect to see in 2023?Spotting emerging trends and helping clients take advantage [.].

2023 106

2023 2022 Customer Experience Social Media 106

kommunicate

JANUARY 5, 2023

Last Updated on January 5, 2023 A customer service chatbot has become a requisite for achieving great customer satisfaction. 60% of millennials prefer chatbots to have their queries addressed! While chatbots make a route to savings on customer support costs and valuable time, their interaction with your customers can also be a game-changer in the [.].

Customer Service 104

Customer Service Customer Experience 2023 Customer Satisfaction 104

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

Contact Center

ShepHyken

JANUARY 10, 2023

B2B or B2C…CX is CX . Putting the Human Experience First as a Business Strategy. Shep Hyken interviews Carla Guzzetti, Senior Vice President for Experience and Product Messaging at Extreme Networks. She shares how companies can design a better experience, in B2B and B2C industries, by focusing on the individual needs of their customers and employees.

B2C 24

B2C B2B Innovation Technology 24

BirdEye

JANUARY 31, 2023

Are you a business looking to increase your visibility in your local market? If the answer is yes, you’ll need an active and engaged presence on Nextdoor. This popular social media platform allows businesses to post updates, advertise special offers and deals, and generate Nextdoor reviews from local customers. However, getting the most out of Nextdoor for your company does require some understanding and research.

Social Media 98

Social Media Multi-Channel Advertising Management 98

InMoment XI

JANUARY 2, 2023

Increased competition in nearly every market is leading businesses of all types to search for ways to attract and retain their ideal customers. Customers have unprecedented access to information about products and services. And with a few clicks, they can compare your company with your competitor’s offering, and learn how others perceive you. As competition and buyer empowerment compounds, customer experience (CX), is proving to be the only truly durable competitive advantage.

Net Promoter Score 221

Net Promoter Score NPS Metrics Effort Score 221

Optimove

JANUARY 10, 2023

We want to make retention marketing a priority. So where to start? Providing top-notch customer service is a must these days, to keep traders happy, engaged, and active, where traders have high expectations, low levels of patience and infinite options. Offering bonuses is all well and good, but we all know there are problematic traders who will take the bonus and run.

Events 98

Events Loyalty Financial Marketing 98

Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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.

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