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4 Simple Ways to Reduce Response Times & Delight Customers

Kayako

It’s no surprise that customer expectations for service are at an all-time high. In fact, according to a recent survey, 88% of customers say the experience a company provides is as important as its products or services. And 76% of customers say it’s easier than ever to take their business elsewhere. 1 Very often, customer perceptions of their experience boils down to the little things like whether anyone responds timely when they reach out to a company.

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10 (Common) Challenges of a CX Cross-Functional Team

GetFeedback

The most prominent challenges of running a cross-functional CX team and how to overcome them.

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The CX Divide: How to Overcome the Gap between Lip Service and Action to Get Executive Buy-In for CX Investment

Alida

86% of buyers will pay more for a better customer experience. Customer Experience was ranked the most exciting business opportunity in Adobe’s Annual Digital Trends report. A Walker study found that by the end of 2020, customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator.

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Service Blueprinting and the Next Normal

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

How can leaders best prepare for the next normal? Service blueprinting may be the answer. What is the Next Normal? Organizations are planning for a phase of reopening including determining how customers can safely make purchases to how many employees can really come back to certain workplaces. It’s no small task and it’s really a new experience for everyone.

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Signal-Based Selling: How to Leverage 4 Key Buying Signals

As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.

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The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don’t Make Sense: Part 1

Beyond Philosophy

It seems logical to do what everyone else is doing successfully when you get into business. It makes no sense at all to do it differently, does it? It won’t be good for your career, your team, or your bottom line. So why is it that doing something different does create such success for specific brands? We discussed the surprising way that new ideas that seem crazy can do amazing things for your brand in a recent podcast.

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Professional Burnout acknowledges Your Signal to Noise Ratio

One Millimeter Mindset

Consider that you just may be wrestling with professional burnout, at this point. By now, you realize your “temporary” hiatus from the workplace does not represent anything close to a 14-day quarantine exercise. And your adrenaline-driven rush during March only represents the front end of the pandemic bell curve. Not the entire cycle. And, Memorial Day comes and goes.

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Selling Through Your Customer

Integrity Solutions

The only reason that a customer would or even should consider doing business with us is that somehow we enhance their ability to attract and serve their customers. By Derek Roberts. If you are in sales, you know that feeling of satisfaction (or even elation) you get from closing a sale. It’s motivating and rewarding. However, the allure of “getting the win” can also be a potential trap for some of us.

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How Field Service KPIs are Evolving in the New Normal

TechSee

The COVID-19 pandemic has touched every area of life and field service organizations continue to be at the sharp end. Essential services such as internet and utilities like water and electricity must be maintained and companies must work even harder to strike the right balance between ensuring customer satisfaction and adhering to government regulations that protect technicians and customers.

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Amazing Business Radio: Cameron Weeks

ShepHyken

Machine Learning in the Customer Experience. How to Utilize Technology to Create a Better Customer Experience. Shep Hyken interviews Cameron Weeks. They discuss strategies for improving both the employee experience and the customer experience using machine learning technology. Top Takeaways: Many customers believe that companies don’t care about customer service.

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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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The D2C Strategy Every Brand Needs for COVID-19 Recovery

NetBase

The rise in popularity of Direct to Consumer (D2C) sales is accelerating and brands seek to recover from COVID-19. And smart companies are hitching a ride on this fast-moving sales strategy to maximize their presence and connect directly to consumers. Appealing widely to the millennial consumer, selling D2C isn’t a new concept, think of the mail order catalogues of your youth.

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How Businesses Can Put Their Customers at Ease During Covid-19

Steve DiGioia

Great customer service is comprised of many things. Besides policies and procedures which lead to a satisfied customer, your smile, positive words, and open body language are just as important – and many say even more important. Here are a few ways businesses can put their customers at ease. Since most open businesses now require customers to wear a facemask – as well as all employees – it’s almost impossible for your customer to see your smile.

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An Essential Guide to Preventing One-Timers from Churning – Part I

Optimove

How to reduce the number of one-timers who are likely to churn? We got a few best-practices to share with you. You can read on to get to know one of these methods or click here to download all of them. Decided to continue reading here? Alright, perhaps that’s the right time to tell you that 59% of first-time purchasers (aka one-timers) will never make an additional order for most brands!

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How to Build Brand Loyalty by Improving the Customer Experience

ProProfs Chat

People think of loyalty as a customer for a lifetime, but it is really much simpler than that. It’s about the next time, every time. – Shep Hyken. No matter if you own a mom and pop shop at a street corner or run a multinational apparel brand, loyal customers are driving your business forward, one transaction at a time. . However, brand loyalty has become just another ‘buzz-phrase’.

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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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Facebook Shops Making eCommerce Waves

NetBase

No doubt about it, ecommerce has seen a meteoric rise in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Due to social distancing measures and the closure of many brick and mortar stores that were deemed non-essential, people have been quick to shift to online retailers to bridge the gap. And diving in to support this new world, we see Facebook shops making ecommerce waves.

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Why carry Team Dysfunction into Virtual Environments?

One Millimeter Mindset

In fact, why perpetuate yesterday’s team dysfunction into any collaborative environment? Virtual or otherwise. Regardless of whether you work entirely virtually or in a hybridized format, the playing field is flattened by the current scenario. Consider that the folks already were used to working remotely are at an advantage, moving forward. Because they optimize hybrid performance habits and deliverables.

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9 valuable tips to build rapport over the phone

Talkdesk

The relationships you build with customers comes down to how well you interact with them. To consistently deliver a better customer experience (CX) and forge meaningful relationships, it is imperative that call center agents like you are skilled in the art and science of rapport building. Below you’ll find a series of valuable tips that will help you build rapport with customers over the phone in no time. 1.

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Your Customer Experience in the New Normal

The DiJulius Group

1. Feature Article Your Customer Experience in the New Normal By Dave Murray, Senior Customer Experience Consultant In these uncertain and unprecedented times, organizations have to figure out how to walk the tightrope of managing cashflow and how to invest in key training that will allow them to pull away from their competition. At the. Read Full Article.

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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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Redefining your CX strategy: The COVID-19 Effect

Interactions

Coronavirus has economies around the world down to its knees. As governments plan a phased approach to open up businesses, consumers are both excited and cautious about their safety and welfare. A recent survey by Deloitte asked people whether they agree with the statement: “I feel safe going to the store right now.” In the US, only 34% of those surveyed responded with “agree” or “strongly agree.” .

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How to Implement a Post-Purchase Survey to Boost Ecommerce Sales

GetFeedback

The 8 steps to creating a successful post-purchase survey plan.

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6 Transformative Applications of AI in Business

Ecrion

Statistics state that 37% of businesses in the US now use AI. Additionally, recent reports are also stating that AI poses the potential to increases business profitability rates by 38% by 2035. AI in business opens up avenues for measurable process optimization and increased efficiency. Businesses that don’t invest in AI run the risk of falling behind the pack.

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Need a Presentation With Punch? Think Visually

Heart of the Customer

“All creativity should communicate in a nanosecond.” So says George Lois, the “original Mad Man of Madison Avenue,” in his book, Damn Good Advice (for people with talent). He’s talking about advertising, but his recommendation applies to any organizational communication – especially in customer experience. There’s no time to waste I’ve written about the […].

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Activating Intent Data for Sales and Marketing

Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The reason is clear: intent can provide you with massive amounts of data that reveal sales opportunities earlier than ever before.

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The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don?t Make Sense

Beyond Philosophy

The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don’t Make Sense Part 1. If you go into business, you probably have checked out what the competition is doing first. In many cases, you might be tempted to do the same thing. After all, it is working, at least to some extent. However, we think that taking a different tack, choosing a different road, or embracing that idea that doesn’t make sense, will be a way to create competitive differentiation that you would otherwise not have.

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Podcast: Two Things I Recite to Myself Daily

Michel Falcon Experience

On today’s episode, Sarah Smolej comes on and we chat about: Who taught me my most valuable leadership lessons. Why leadership matters to company culture. Two things that I recite to myself daily (one of them is in Spanish). Plus, more! Listen on Apple podcast or Buzzsprout (for Andriod users). The post Podcast: Two Things I Recite to Myself Daily appeared first on Customer Experience Customer Service Keynote Speaker.

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Customer Touchpoints 101: Identify and Leverage Your Touchpoints Efficiently

ProProfs Chat

What Is a Customer Touchpoint? A touchpoint is where interaction occurs between the brand and the customer. . Turn the clock back a few decades ago, and these interactions were limited and easy to track. However, the current scenario is not that simple in terms of interactions. Marketing, PR, third party sites, online reviews, etc. have scaled operations to such an extent that as marketers, a lot of times, you’re not even sure what your touchpoints are.

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Deliver on the Promise of Creating a Great Place to Work

SurveyGizmo

By Heather Rollins, VP of Human Resources at SurveyGizmo, and Vanessa Bagnato, Director of Enterprise Solutions at SurveyGizmo. As an HR leader, creating a great place to work by improving the employee experience is at the heart of everything we do. It keeps employees engaged, productive, and loyal. It boosts productivity and enhances customer relationships.

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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.