Sat.Nov 03, 2018 - Fri.Nov 09, 2018

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Taking Customers Beyond the Honeymoon Phase

Bold360

Comparing customer acquisition to dating isn’t a huge leap – you bring someone in with attractive offers and witty repertoire, but are you thinking about how you keep them? Are you putting in the same level of effort after prospects become customers? It’s at the point of conversion that most companies turn their focus to their next objective: landing another customer.

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Four Ways to Increase Meaningful Interactions with Your Customers

CSM Magazine

Investing in overall brand experience for customers is one of the most important aspects of any business. By building a happy, loyal customer base that makes brand interaction easy and enjoyable, businesses can ensure that they have the edge over competitors. With the rise of challenger brands, this has become particularly important for the utilities industry over recent years.

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How to Use Your Customer Journey Map to Increase Business Productivity

GetFeedback

If the teams in your organization appear productive, but you’re still having a hard time pushing the needle, the problem might be with how you’re measuring business productivity. The Harvard Business Review did some digging and found that analyzing the productivity of departments and individuals is not a reliable measure for the productivity of an entire organization.

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6 Most Popular Customer Experience Metrics and KPIs Explained Simply

Lumoa

According to The State of the Customer Experience survey that we did earlier in 2018, all companies track customer experience using one or several of the 6 world-wide recognised KPIs: Net Promoter Score (NPS), Customer Satisfaction (CSAT), Churn rate, Retention rate, Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) or Customer Effort Score (CES). You can easily see that NPS is the most common CX metric: almost two thirds of companies follow it.

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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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How to Make Your Customer Experience Convenient

Beyond Philosophy

Convenience has a significant influence on the outcome of your Customer Experience. It is crucial you ensure you are making it as easy as possible for your customers to do business with you. Today, we are going to discuss some areas you can look at to do just that. I didn’t like shopping for years. I hated creating a bloody list and taking it up to the store because it wasn’t convenient.

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Five Powerful Employee Feedback Tips for Customer Experience Leaders

InMoment XI

Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on the MyCustomer blog. You can read it here. Companies often focus solely on customer experience, forgetting the actual driver for an excellent customer journey – their employees. According to the 2016 CXEvolution study by MaritzCX, “customer-centric companies are three times more successful at driving significant financial improvement and.

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3 Credit Unions with an NPS higher than Apple

CloudCherry

Credit Unions are generally well-liked by their members – but did you know that some credit unions have stronger member loyalty than Apple?! Apple is well known for having some of the most loyal fans. People stream their annual product announcements during their breaks at work and line up for days to purchase the latest iPhone. This loyalty translates to an insanely high Net Promoter Score (NPS).

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Augmented Reality Remote Assistance – The Complete Guide

TechSee

What is augmented reality remote assistance? Augmented reality remote assistance is an emerging technology that enables brand agents and product experts to visually guide and collaborate with customers and field technicians. . The original concept of remote assistance is based on a technician’s ability to use a remote connection to temporarily view or control a computer or a mobile device over a network or the Internet in order to help solve software issues.

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Best of the Podcast: Improve Your Customers’ Lives By Stepping into Their Shoes

Customer Bliss

Do you put the needs of your customers first and focus on the value you provide them? Today, we’re replaying an episode that many of you enjoyed, featuring Francis Cordon , the first Chief Customer Officer at Rigor , a SaaS company. In this conversation, Francis and I chat about the importance of putting yourself in your customers’ shows in order to earn your right to customer-driven growth. .

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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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Indiana Farmers Insurance Talks CX

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Best Practices Create Business Results Customer Experience Manager at Indiana Farmers Insurance, Jennifer Rulon, talks about how customers became core to their business through cultivation of their CX program with platform use and market research analysis. Hear how Indiana Farmers Insurance has responded directly to feedback in real time, grown their net promoter score.

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3 Revenue-Driving Benefits of Conversational AI

Interactions

NOVEMBER 7, 2018 When it comes to the customer experience, Read more » The post 3 Revenue-Driving Benefits of Conversational AI appeared first on Interactions Resource Center.

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Amazing Business Radio – Christa Heibel

ShepHyken

Creating A Customer Experience Initiative. Owning Your Customer Service Initiative From the Top Down. Shep Hyken sits down with Christa Heibel to discuss the role the c-suite level plays in creating a CX strategy, how to keep track of your omnichannel presence, and how to measure and improve your customer experience strategy. Top Takeaways: Christa says she has yet to find a successful customer service initiative that didn’t involve the C-suite level.

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Seven Key Strategic Questions Critical to CX That You Must Answer

Beyond Philosophy

I went to Bahrain for the first time recently. I was a keynote speaker there for a Customer Experience conference. I was fascinated by the country. There is a lot of Customer Experience activity happening there. Rami Sweis, the CEO of GolfCX invited me to speak at the conference. He explained on a recent podcast the reason improving Customer Experience is such a hot trend in the Middle East has been the liberalization of markets there.

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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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‘Tis The Season – Your Customers Might Need A Little Nudge

Forrester's Customer Insights

On November 5, in line with tradition, a huge array of sparkling displays took place across the UK to celebrate Guy Fawkes night (“Remember, remember, the fifth of November. ”). As days get shorter, Bonfire Night is also a friendly reminder that it’s that wonderful time of the year (again) when we […].

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6 Most Popular Customer Experience Metrics and KPIs Explained Simply

Lumoa

Find out how to work with the most popular Customer Experience metrics and KPIs. Understand if you should collect NPS, CSAT or CES (or maybe all?). Find out the value of customer retention and the threat of churn.

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Guest Blog: How Virtual Web Assistants Provide Productivity for Busy Companies

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Andy Steuer who shares valuable information about how to use virtual web assistants to optimize productivity in areas of customer service, customer support, CRM management and more. – Shep Hyken. Developing and maintaining a successful enterprise in today’s demanding business landscape is no easy task. It’s no surprise then that when organizations begin to contemplate their future success and the resources required to support it, uncertainty can

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Digitial Transformation – The Opportunities And Problems And How To Overcome Them

Beyond Philosophy

We all know the retail landscape is changing. But what should it be changing to? What are the opportunities and problems? Colin and Ryan interview Amit Sharma, CEO of Narvar, about how retailers can create emotional connections with shoppers in a technology-driven world. Colin will reveal how you can benchmark your organization performance against other companies to determine how you are doing in the new world of behavioral economics and customer experience.

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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 to Take Local Brands to Global Success: The 5 Rules to Fortune

C3Centricity

I remember reading an article in the Financial Times a couple of years ago, that challenged companies to search for a new style of marketer. They weren’t speaking about the current need for marketers to be both creative and comfortable with data. They were referring to the growing need for marketers to stand up to the challenge of taking local brands global.

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How NLP, ML and Deep Learning Can Transform Your CX Strategy

Chattermill

How NLP, ML and Deep Learning Can Transform Your CX Strategy. by Sam Frampton. on 5 Nov 2018. Deep Learning. Natural Language Processing. Machine Learning. Customer Experience. The post aims to give the reader a gentle overview of NLP, ML and Deep Learning and make the connection of how it can be applied in the context of customer experience and support.

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Be as Easy as Ordering a Pizza

ShepHyken

Back in my college days, I remember how easy it was at 11:00 at night, while studying for a test the next day, to order a pizza from Domino’s. I just picked up the phone and in less than thirty minutes, it was delivered. Today I do the same thing. I pick up the phone and order a pizza – but I don’t have to… pick up the phone. Technology has taken us to a new level of pizza ordering.

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How to Make Your Customer Experience Convenient

Beyond Philosophy

Convenience has a significant influence on the outcome of your Customer Experience. It is crucial you ensure you are making it as easy as possible for your customers to do business with you. Today, we are going to discuss some areas you can look at to do just that. I didn’t like shopping for years. I hated creating a bloody list and taking it up to the store because it wasn’t convenient.

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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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Advice From 18 of the Top CX Experts

The DiJulius Group

The DiJulius Group held our annual Customer Service Revolution October 24th and 25th in Cleveland, Ohio. It has grown into the #1 Customer Service conference with a community of 700 extremely passionate revolutionaries, from all over the world, looking to create brands customers cannot live without and make price irrelevant. This year was The DiJulius Group’s 10th conference with the highest ratings ever.

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Can Customer Retention succeed in Uncollaborative Company Cultures?

One Millimeter Mindset

Uncollaborative company cultures have long track records of retaining customers. Throughout our careers, you and I have worked for one, if not several, of these cultures. As long as sellers continue to crush quotas and bring new customers into the revenue stream, uncollaborative company cultures survive. And potentially thrive. In spite of employee and customer churn.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of November 5, 2018

ShepHyken

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. The Secret Sauce to Customer Experience is a Blend of Four Ingredients by Joseph Michelli. (The Michelli Experience) Recently, a new client of mine said, “Just like everyone else I want to differentiate my business through the customer experiences I provide, but quite

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Top 3 Ways to Turn Customer Feedback into Customer Advocacy

AskNicely

Positive word-of-mouth, customers and clients who advocate for your products and services, customers who stay for life and tell everyone they know about your company — this is what all businesses strive to achieve. It is also something companies struggle with day in and day out. In fact, we all want the magic bullet that drives the customer advocacy growth flywheel.

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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.