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Building a CX Dashboard

CX Accelerator

If you’re running a CX program, you need a way of communicating your progress to your superiors and the broader organisation. We are all guilty of not communicating enough on occasion.so what’s required is something that will break down the walls of the CX department allowing everyone in the business to see how the organisation is performing relative to customer expectations and its targets.

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You say you want a Revolution?

CloudCherry

Shep Hyken- acclaimed author, speaker, CX Expert, and this week’s ‘Sweets of CX’ guest- discusses his latest book, ‘The Convenience Revolution’. And- trust us- it’s a Revolution you want to be a part of. From Amazon to Uber, to the travel convenience of a guitar that folds in half (no, we’re not joking), companies and products that are truly making a mark know that convenience is king.

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Top 10 Things to Assess on Your Contact Center Vendor Site Visit

BlueOcean

Choosing a strategic partner to deliver an outsourced customer care solution is a significant business decision – maybe one of the most significant decisions you’ll make in your career. You’ll task your team with running a tight procurement process to assess potential contact center partners. Undoubtedly, that will involve a number of stakeholders on your side including the sourcing professionals who make their living running RFPs.

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Amazing Business Radio: John Rossman

ShepHyken

Think Like Amazon. Innovation from the World’s Leading Customer-Obsessed Company. Shep Hyken interviews John Rossman. They discuss John’s new book, Think Like Amazon , and how to utilize the key factors that drive Amazon’s success. The Interview with John Rossman: Innovation and success come from developing and committing to systems. Be deliberate in how you approach your work and have a “playbook” you can pull from for any situation.

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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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Building a CX Dashboard

CX Accelerator

If you’re running a CX program, you need a way of communicating your progress to your superiors and the broader organisation. We are all guilty of not communicating enough on occasion.so what’s required is something that will break down the walls of the CX department allowing everyone in the business to see how the organisation is performing relative to customer expectations and its targets.

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Are You Stepping Up to the Challenge? Prepare for Disruptions and Adapt to Consumer Behaviors

Customer Bliss

As a CX practitioner, I continue to see how technology ushers in disruptions across retail and other B2C service industries, but I want you to remember that customer behavior is the actual impetus for these disruptions. I thought this concept would be worth briefly discussing (and revisiting), especially as I came across NJ Goldston’s, 5 Strategies on How to Stay Ahead of Customer-Driven Disruption on Forbes.

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How Spark Aligned its Approach to Frontline Training, Recognition, and Rewards with Excellence in Customer Outcomes

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Creating a Measurable Training Initiative To drive a customer centric culture, Spark overhauled its approach to frontline training, recognition and rewards to align with excellence in customer outcomes. Launching a scalable, personalised development framework grounded in team sourced best practices has increased staff knowledge and engagement levels.

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Building a CX Dashboard

CX Accelerator

If you’re running a CX program, you need a way of communicating your progress to your superiors and the broader organisation. We are all guilty of not communicating enough on occasion.so what’s required is something that will break down the walls of the CX department allowing everyone in the business to see how the organisation is performing relative to customer expectations and its targets.

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Do you say you want a Revolution?

CloudCherry

Shep Hyken- acclaimed author, speaker, CX Expert, and this week’s ‘Sweets of CX’ guest- discusses his latest book, ‘The Convenience Revolution’. And- trust us- it’s a Revolution you want to be a part of. From Amazon to Uber, to the travel convenience of a guitar that folds in half (no, we’re not joking), companies and products that are truly making a mark know that convenience is king.

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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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The Secret of Creating Loyal Customers

Beyond Philosophy

I have a few things that drive me crazy in the business world. In this episode of The Intuitive Customer, we are going to talk about how organizations often define loyalty, and why I think they have it all wrong. It makes me upset when I think about it. Many, if not most, companies believe that when a customer gives you all their business, it means they are a loyal customer.

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How to Keep Members Engaged & Excited about Your Member Hub

Alida

Craig Troop, Deputy Director of Research, and Carol Powanda, Research Analyst at the Pennsylvania Lottery share these tips based on their experience leading the PA Lottery Insiders insight community. They involve their players early on in the product life cycle in an effort to optimize games and accelerate innovation.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of August 19, 2019

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. Which is Your CX Priority: Satisfied Customers or Profit? by Mary Drumond. (LinkedIn) What should your ultimate goal be when designing your customers’ experiences?

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Get Rid of Opportunistic Fees & Improve Customer Experience

Customer Bliss

In this week’s Daily Dose video, I share a short video inspired by the lessons of my most recent book, Would You Do That To Your Mother. . The following is a lightly edited transcript of the video below. A drink of water from a bottle in my hotel room just cost me about 42 cents. Most big box stores sell a 24-pack of bottles like these for about eight bucks or 33 cents a bottle?

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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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Unleashing the Power of NPS in the B2C World

ServiceDock

NPS has received some bad press lately from various bloggers, but when used properly Net Promoter Systems can be an effective engagement tool for customers and employees. We usually hear this in relation to business-to-business scenarios, but the principles and concepts for Net Promoter Systems hold true for classic business-to-consumer models, too.

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7 Hacks For Your Small Business to Ensure Strong Customer Service and Customer Satisfaction

Joe Rawlinson

The first step to providing strong customer service is taken by ensuring that all employees within your company have an extensive knowledge of the inner and outer workings of your product or service. If the customer suspects that the person they’re talking too isn’t well-informed on their issue, they’ll quickly begin to lose trust in your company, which is something you want to avoid at all costs.

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What Can You Do To Create a Better Experience For Your Customers?

ShepHyken

If you’ve ever seen one of my speaking presentations, you’ve most likely heard my story about my favorite cab driver. It is an example of excellent customer service. It’s universal—I don’t know of anyone that hasn’t been in a taxi. If for some reason they haven’t, I can’t imagine they don’t know what one is. In the story, I talk about the “amenities” the driver offered, which made me want to ride with him the next time I was in his city.

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The Bots are Coming!

Heart of the Customer

Actually, they’re already here. But are you aware of them? Today, I’m flying back from the CCW’s Executive Exchange. I not only enjoyed speaking at the event, but also the opportunity to attend its presentations. The audience was primarily made up of contact center leaders, each having a lot to say– and do –about the […]. The post The Bots are Coming!

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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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Customer Satisfaction Best Practices You Need To Know

Totango

When you meet a customer’s expectations, you make them happy. That’s the basic concept behind customer satisfaction. Sometimes, however, the potential value of your product or service outstrips customer expectations. Though the customer may be content, you can find ways to exceed expectations, thereby providing a service that truly provides the value a customer needs. .

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The What You Do Story is Key to Retaining Clients

One Millimeter Mindset

Developing a What You Do Story is critical to serving and retaining internal and external clients. When you connect the story of what you “do,” inside the organization, to what everyone else “does,” something interesting happens. First, you start to better serve one another. Because your own responsibility and accountability now extends beyond the confines of your functional and departmental role.

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Guest Blog: Omnichannel Customer Service – Why should you implement it in your business?

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Martin Frascaroli who talks about why it is important to meet your customer needs using omnichannel customer service. . Your potential customers want to buy quickly and comfortably through an integrated experience. They sign in from different devices and communicate through all available means. They are real-time users looking for a rewarding shopping experience, and they expect the best service.

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Why it is time to check your chat solution is meeting customer needs

Eptica

Date: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 Author: Steve Nattress - International Solutions Director Why it is time to check your chat solution is meeting customer needs. Published on: August 21, 2019. Author: Steve Nattress - International Solutions Director Chat is fast becoming a mainstream channel when it comes to customer service. For example, while 7% of UK companies offered chat in 2013, by 2019 Eptica research found that 44% advertised it on their websites.

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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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How to Measure User Adoption and Increase Your Rates

Totango

Metrics are a means to an end. They are not a goal in and of themselves. Their importance lies in their ability to reveal the customer experience of the product or service so you can add value to that experience and maximize the growth of both the customer and your own enterprise. That’s what customer success is: the use of close customer monitoring to connect the dots of customer data and turn the resulting insights into actions that deliver value. .

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Customer Experience Innovation Workshop with Dorel Juvenile

Strativity

Dorel Juvenile wanted to engage their global team in developing the next level customer experience for the company. We were thrilled to partner with them in this journey by bringing colleagues together from around the world for a two-day workshop designing Dorel’s future CX. Check out the highlight video from across the event, hosted in Munich, Germany, and read more on our insights below.

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Augmented Reality Study Shows Big Business Impact in Customer Experience

Oracle

Augmented reality (AR) has been hovering at the periphery of the corporate conversation for a number of years now, and it’s poised to make a major impact in the business world — especially in the realm of customer experience. What exactly are the ripples of the AR splash going to look like? Oracle, in partnership with ESG, asked over 400 senior customer experience executives for their opinions on where augmented reality is going to lead customer experience in the near future, based i

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Getting Started with Location Intelligence: Visitations

Gravy Analytics

When you know where people go in real life, you can learn a lot about their interests, lifestyles, and habits. Anonymous mobile location signals, when cleansed, aggregated, and enriched, give marketers new insight into consumer behavior. This data can be used to improve ad CTRs and ROI, for competitive intelligence, and to improve the customer experience.

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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.