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Struggling to Prove the ROI of Customer Experience? You Could Be Missing These 3 Keys to Success

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More than ever before, proving the ROI of customer experience is absolutely vital. Businesses are under pressure (amidst the Year of the Squeeze, declining employee retention, etc.) to look at cutting discretionary spending. And, unfortunately, customer experience programs may fall on the chopping block. In fact, research shows that 30% of businesses reported having budget related issues to their CX programs.

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New Report: How Customer Loyalty has Changed Post-Pandemic, and What You Should Do About It

TechSee

Growth and customer loyalty have historically been product-led. The company with the newest gadgets, with the best features, or the best price were often the market share winners of their industry. Customers who were happy with a company’s product were loyal for years, unwilling to try alternatives. Today, there is a shift in the role customer service quality plays on customer loyalty.

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Why a Strong Company Culture Is Your Secret Weapon

Alida

Now that customer-centricity is the top priority for the C-Suite, business leaders from all areas are faced with the imperative of transforming the customer experience. But, what does that entitle and how will it affect your business? Where to start?

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What Is Your Personality Type, and How Does This Affect Your Success?

Beyond Philosophy

In the book, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking , Susan Cain makes the case that the world values extroverts but that introverts also have strengths that people should not overlook. Furthermore, Cain thinks introverted personalities also have much to offer the world. Today, we discuss personality and try to correct imbalances placed on one type of personality over another.

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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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Shopping for Experiences, Not Products: A Primer on Retail Customer Experience in the Experience Economy

InMoment XI

Retail brands’ primary objective used to be providing a great product , but as competition heats up and consumer expectations grow more complex, retailers need to find new, bolder ways to stand out from the crowd. And that’s why the retail customer experience is more important than ever before. Consumers are no longer satisfied with “just” a product and are finding different, more fundamental means of identifying (and spending money) with brands.

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Five Best Customer Retention Software Solutions for Customer Success

Totango

Customer Retention Software Cuts Down Client Churn. Customer retention software has become essential for effective SaaS customer success strategies. A winning SaaS business model must prioritize retaining customers, which is far more cost-efficient than acquiring new clients to offset churn. Customer retention software automates best practices for maintaining clients, helping you deliver successful outcomes that inspire subscription renewals and repeat business.

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The 11 Key Customer Support KPIs You Need to Measure

Solvvy

Key performance indicators (KPIs) give businesses a way to measure and monitor progress toward business goals and ensure leaders are steering their companies toward a great track record with customer satisfaction and business growth. You can monitor KPIs for virtually every facet of your business. However, some of the most important metrics to track are customer support KPIs, which can provide crucial insights into your operation and the health of your business, from customer satisfaction and re

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Why contact centres must focus more in First Contact Resolution

Eptica

Date: Friday, August 19, 2022 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Why contact centres must focus more in First Contact Resolution. Published on: August 19, 2022. Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Customers want their queries answered accurately without having to make contact more than once. That makes achieving high First Contact Resolution (FCR) rates vital to the overall customer experience.

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3 Components of the Customer Experience You Should Know

Team Support

The concept of customer experience has become one of the main focuses of customer-facing teams, and for good reason. The customer experience is at the forefront of everything a company does for its customers, whether it's the products and services they provide or the simple, everyday interactions between them. Concepts like customer-centricity and being customer-first are now at the forefront of a pioneering spirit in customer support and related fields, yet many companies are still falling behi

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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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What Mixed Signals Do You Send Your Customers?

ShepHyken

Then I read Jan Carlzon’s book, Moments of Truth, many years ago. It was one of the most powerful customer service and experience books at the time, and the content aligned perfectly with my idea of creating Moments of Magic for our customers. Carlzon’s definition of the Moment of Truth was: . Anytime a customer comes into contact with a business, however remote, they have an opportunity to form an impression. .

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The Ultimate Client Onboarding Checklist for CS Teams

Totango

A Customer Onboarding Checklist for Successful CS Teams. A lot goes into crafting the ideal onboarding process for SaaS products. You need to clearly demonstrate the ins and outs of your software to ensure your customers know how to use it and how to employ it effectively in the pursuit of their enterprise’s unique needs and goals. At the same time, you need to minimize time-to-value (TTV) to ensure customers see the benefits of your product as soon as possible.

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Simulation Training Takes Hold in Customer Service Centers

CSM Magazine

Simulation training is one of the fastest-growing training approaches for customer service agents. The new approach helps prepare customer service agents to deliver superior customer experiences before live customer interactions confidently. Many of the leading contact centers in the world are leveraging simulation training to provide customer service agents with an automated role-play partner.

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6 local online marketing tips for local business

BirdEye

93% of customers find local businesses online. So it’s not just important that your business take advantage of online marketing strategies — it’s imperative. With a solid online marketing strategy, you’ll be better able to connect with potential customers in your area and generate more leads for your business , no matter its size. In this blog post, we’ll share some quick and easy ways to get started with local online marketing as well as the benefits your businesses can

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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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What is survey fatigue and how can you prevent it?

Lumoa

“How likely would you recommend (insert business name) to someone?” – a never-ending question asked to a customer in multiple ways and various forms. Somehow, it feels like it’s a DeJa’Vu moment happening daily because as what every company tells its customers, “Your opinion matters” or “You are important to us”. I mean, we get it. engaging customers till the very end to keep customer loyalty and treating every customer journey with equal importance contributes to the bus

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Guest Post: Agents Are the Answer: Empower Your Workforce to Improve Customer Experience and Reduce Attrition

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Cassidy McDonnell, Creative Solutions Manager at Balto Software , a company that helps agents live on the call to analyze what’s working and scale best practices in real-time. She shares how organizations can improve employee engagement and customer satisfaction. It’s time to call the customer service line: you dial a number, click through the pre-recorded options, and find yourself humming along to the surprisingly pleasant hold music when, before you know it,

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6 B2B communication best practices to increase engagement

Beyond the Arc

There’s an old adage: People do business with people they like. That centers on how the business communicates. Effective communications help build trust and confidence about a company. Yet all too often, B2B content misses the mark, sounding more like it’s coming from a building, instead of people. To motivate leads, keep the conversation [.]. The post 6 B2B communication best practices to increase engagement appeared first on Beyond the Arc.

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MYC'D UP WITH CX LEADERS episode 8: Tabitha Dunn, Customer Experience Executive

MyCustomer

"CX pros must develop executive leadership skills" Rhys Fisher. Wednesday, August 17, 2022 - 08:28. Customer experience management. Customer journey mapping. Customer value. MYC'D UP WITH CX LEADERS episode 8: Tabitha Dunn, Customer Experience Executive.

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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 No-Fail Remote Workforce Training Techniques Top Contact Centers Use

Playvox

Contact centers succeed or fail on agent performance. Today’s top-performing contact center leaders know remote workforce training and agent engagement are the new imperatives for performance optimization. Whether your contact center is remote, hybrid, or moving back to the office full-time, getting agent performance right means unlocking the potential of every employee, every day.

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Context in Customer Service: Why Is It Important in Customer Experience

Kayako

Let’s say you are a teenager and want to borrow your aunt’s car. Do you ask her right after she just hung up from an annoying call? How about when she comes inside after mowing the lawn on a hot day – that same lawn you were supposed to mow yesterday? Most likely, you would choose a different time to ask for the car. Why? Because in those examples, the details surrounding her situation, also known as the context , are not favorable to you getting the keys to freedom anytime soon.

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What is your personality type, and how does this affect your success?

Beyond Philosophy

Is your idea of an ideal evening a nice meal at home and a book or a Netflix queue? Or would you rather be at a cocktail party with people from all walks of life exchanging stories or jumping up and down to a throbbing beat in the middle of a crowded dance floor? How you answer this question is one of many ways that you can explore your personality type.

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Amazing Business Radio: Seth Dobrin

ShepHyken

The Role of AI in Customer Care. Building Human-Centered AI in Customer Service and Experience . Shep Hyken interviews Seth Dobrin, IBM ‘s first Global Chief AI Officer, leading the company’s corporate AI strategy. He shares how businesses can take a human-centered approach when utilizing AI to help their customers. Top Takeaways: What do we mean when we talk about AI for business?

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Unlock the Future of Learning Growth and Retention at Cognition24!

The annual Cognition virtual conference is back on October 16, and this year it’s FREE! You’ll enjoy: Inspiring Keynotes from top learning industry leaders, providing fresh perspectives to help you outperform the competition. Hands-on, Skill-Building Sessions to elevate your growth, retention, and product adoption strategies. Exclusive First Look at the latest innovations from Thought Industries, empowering you with tools to grow faster.

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Introducing the Hub SDK Improvement for Messaging and Live Chat

Team Support

Living in the Digital Age, so much of our lives are saturated with data and information. But with so much information available, sometimes we can feel like Johnny Mnemonic, past cranial-storage capacity, where additional data doesn’t help us solve any problems, and instead makes it even more difficult to solve problems. We probably won’t suffer permanent psychological damage if we take on too much information like Johnny (phew), but information overload and analysis paralysis are quite real.

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How to Inject Humanity into B2B Marketing

Merkle

B2B buyers will be, and always have been humans with emotions. Despite this, B2B marketers have not always woven this information into their strategies. They use complex, feature-laden language which can make the buying process difficult. All of us have learned what makes a smart business purchase: ROI. ROI is serious. ROI isn’t fun, engaging, adventurous, or inspirational.

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What are Customer Insights - How to Take Them and Why?

Zonka Feedback

A renowned brand is never the result of just excellent products; it is the product of a two-way relationship between the brand and its customers. A successful brand knows what its customers prefer, what influences their decisions, and what would drive them away. And this helps them in creating fruitful customer experiences that reduce churn and increase conversions.

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Search Engine Marketing can reach more customers

BirdEye

When customers search for your products online, will they see you or your competitors first? If you aren’t ranking high enough in search results, you may be losing leads that are clicking on the links above yours. To make sure your business is the first one they see, you need to start focusing on Search Engine Marketing (SEM). SEM is an essential practice for businesses that want to be found as quickly as possible when potential customers search for products and services related to their industr

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AI for Business Outcomes: Selecting the Right Tools to Drive Results

Customers expect to be able to interact with your organization whenever and however they want. They also expect your agents to have insights into their journeys so that they don’t have to repeat themselves as they move through various channels. And, if they’re not able to, they just might find one of your competitors who will offer the flexibility they are looking for.