Sat.Jul 07, 2018 - Fri.Jul 13, 2018

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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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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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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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What is Employee Branding? And Why Does Your Company Need It?

ReviewTrackers

You’ve probably heard of employer branding. You may have even read about it on our blog, and followed the steps to building a strong employer brand. If you think of “employee branding” as how your company is perceived by current and potential employees — well, that’s a pretty good starting point. But What is Employee Branding? Like employer branding, employee branding also involves presenting the company in the best possible light in front of employees, job candidates, internal and external stak

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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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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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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 Franchise Marketing Strategies to Drive Revenue

ReviewTrackers

Franchise marketing in today’s digital world can be challenging and complex. Because of the nature of their business, franchise marketing executives have to deal with campaigns and efforts on the corporate level, while also having to support the marketing needs and opportunities of franchisees, who may have their own local issues and ideas and goals.

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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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How Can You Leverage GDPR to Improve Customer Experience?

Customer Bliss

As modern day consumers of digital media, you’ve probably already encountered numerous privacy policy updates through various alerts and newsletters. All of these updates are related to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that was passed in the European Union this May. But the GDPR now essentially serves as the world’s largest protection for digital privacy rights because of the borderless nature of the Internet.

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Introducing NPS2: The Next Generation NPS Methodology

Retently

With the advent of the Net Promoter Score ®, capturing relevant feedback has never been easier. However, since the market landscape evolved – shifting the focus from survey data towards a more complex customer satisfaction management approach – the more advanced NPS2 paved its way. In case you are not familiar with NPS2, we will further explore this next generation methodology, its main concepts and the factors that determined such Net Promoter Score evolution.

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Customer Experience: The Only Path to Brand Loyalty

Oracle

What kinds of companies come to mind when you think of the world’s most respected brands? How do you suppose those companies became the most respected brands? If you answered “marketing” or “advertising” you’re only partly correct. The complete answer is “customer experience.” A brand can be thought of as an “identity or image regarded as an asset.” In some cases, ‘brand’ now suggests the values and promises that a consumer

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When Employees Misuse Their Authority Over Customers

Customers That Stick

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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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5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of July 9, 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. How to Deliver Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Customer Experience by Deb Miller. (CMSWire) I ordered new products and services from my provider last month and in the bargain had to endure some terrible, horrible, no good, very bad customer experience.

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The Secret to Winning Customers’ Hearts with Artificial Intelligence: Add Human Intelligence (Infographic)

Answer Dash

Consumers are increasingly aware of and satisfied with AI-enabled experiences but expect the human presence. How consumers engage with businesses is evolving dramatically. Organizations are using this technology to achieve a range of business goals, such as: influencing sales, boosting operations, driving customer engagement, and generating insights.

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Work With Organizations That Can Scale With Your Growing Brand

Second to None

Growing brands are in a unique position in the marketplace because they are occupying a space between two poles. There is not a large enough audience to warrant certain investments, but this potential success requires attention. In virtually every industry, your brand will be required to team up with third-party organizations to complete various aspects of your infrastructure.

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How to Get Your Team to Deliver Consistent Customer Service

Customers That Stick

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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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Employee Engagement Requires an Authentic Contract with Leadership: Two standout cases in Energy and Insurance

CX University

Employees want to feel a sense of commitment to their work. And in return for that sense of real, authentic meaning, they will be willing to give more of themselves, aspire to higher productivity, spiraling innovation, and off-the-charts customer satisfaction. Of these three rewards, the highest correlation exists between employee engagement and customer satisfaction.

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Has Marketing lost its way or is it just changing? A perspective by Bernard Page

ijgolding

Where does Customer Experience (CX) ‘sit’ in an organisation? This is a question I am frequently asked. Some say the correct answer is ‘Customer Service’ Some say ‘with the CEO’ Some might say under the responsibility of a ‘Chief Customer Officer’, or a ‘Chief Experience Officer’ Others might say ‘Marketing’ The debate rages on globally – is there a right answer to the question?

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Return Customers Spend 3 Times More: Here Are 4 Ways to Retain Customers

ProProfs Chat

Data from Riskified show that return customers account for 1/3rd of all online shopping revenue and they tend to spend 3 times more than one-time shoppers. Yet 44% of companies have no focus on customer retention. Return customers might not be as loyal as your brand’s advocates but their previous satisfied experience with you provides a level of trust that you can’t find in your first-time customers.

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Why Don’t Customers Buy After They Say They Will?

Beyond Philosophy

Many organizations have called to tell us that their Customer Experience initiatives are not performing like they did. The results that were once skyrocketing have plateaued. They are surprised by this turn of events, but we are not. As global Customer Experience consultants, we know that Customer Experience is less of a destination than a journey. Where you are going with Customer Experience (i.e., what customers want) could change and the work you do on the route (i.e., the way you deliver a C

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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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Customer Experience: The Only Path to Brand Loyalty

Andrew Mcfarland

What kinds of companies come to mind when you think of the world’s most respected brands? How do you suppose those companies became the most respected brands? If you answered “marketing” or “advertising” you’re only partly correct. The complete answer.

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Is Your Customer Experience Aligned With Consumer Expectations?

Second to None

Consumer recommendations serve as one of the most powerful tools available to any brand. In the past two decades, the Net Promoter Score metric has served as a data point for these consumer recommendations , allowing your brand to easily understand its performance compared to industry competitors. The only real way to encourage a leading NPS is to align the way customers perceive your brand with the way employees implement your Customer Experience platform.

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How to unlock better automotive customer experiences

Thunderhead

(4 Minute Read). In 1913, Henry Ford introduced the moving assembly line to a burgeoning automotive industry, revolutionizing global manufacturing forever. Inspired by an overhead trolley used by Chicago beef packers, the integrated process simplified the assembly of the Model T’s 3,000 parts by creating just 84 discrete, connected steps. These were performed by small groups of workers, assisted by a single rope pulling each chassis along the line.

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Transform Cable Customer Experience with AI-based Analytics

Guavus

The New Battleground. WiFi at home has become the new battleground – literally. “Behind you, behind you! Build! Climb! Get outta there!” If you know kids anywhere from ages 8 to 18, this is sounding familiar. It’s a common occurrence in my house. I’ve got one teenager engaged in a Fortnite battle in the living room, another one completing the duo in the family room, a tween purchasing a new skin and younger son trying to stream Sponge Bob.

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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.