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How to User-Proof Your Product Strategy

GetFeedback

The more we automate business processes, the more we lose sight of our customers. It’s a reality in SaaS and practically every industry in the world. Though technology has undoubtedly made our jobs easier and improved the overall customer experience , it’s also distanced us from the people we serve. This is especially true for product teams, who are increasingly separated from the end users they’re building for.

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Earning the Right to Customer Experience Transformation at a Telecommunications Company

Customer Bliss

Are you facing some challenges from your C-Suite regarding the implementation of a customer experience transformation? In today’s episode, I talk to Patricia Pedhom Nono , General Manager, Customer Service & Customer Experience at MTN Cameroon , one of the biggest telecommunications company in Africa. As the company’s first CCO, Patricia shares a detailed account of how she demonstrated the value of a customer-first strategy to a skeptical C-Suite.

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3 Popular Habits that Make You Unpopular with Customers

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

There are probably a million ways to improve customer experience in your organization, so where should you start? Before you do anything, think about this: Humans have a way of turning a nice idea into a complicated nightmare. Think of insurance – the idea of it is lovely. If we all chip in a little at a time, we’ll be there for each other next time something goes wrong for one of us.

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Awakening CX in the Service Center

CX Accelerator

Companies these days are fixated on Customer Experience. If you’re not, I hope you’ve worked up an S.O.S. because you’re going to need one! It’s true, our customers are looking for much more than the product – they want to feel valued and be part of something special, something bigger than themselves. Leaders scratching their heads wondering how they can provide an “experience”, are turning to their Customer Service Representatives (CSRs) and counting on them to make it happen.

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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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3 Marketing Surveys for Tuned-In Teams

GetFeedback

Collecting customer feedback is essential if you truly want to understand the needs and expectations of your target audience. But these days, no customer wants to waste 20 minutes filling out a questionnaire. That’s why quick, transactional surveys are gaining popularity. Instead of asking customers for input once a year, innovative brands are beginning to ask questions in the moment, right after customers interact with their brand.

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Achieve Your Goals By Helping Customers Achieve Theirs

Customer Bliss

Companies that would make your mom proud prove with their actions that they have their customers’ best interest in mind. This is at the heart of companies that grow most organically—earning ardent admirers who grow their business for them. They earn a bigger piece of the pie, because they improve customers’ lives. This is a simple idea to accept, but oh-so-hard to execute.

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Did You Know 45% of Banking Customers Interact Through Digital Channels Only?

InMoment XI

Have you ever wondered how important digital interactions are to the customer experience in financial services? According to PWC, more than 45 percent of banking customers say they only interact with their bank through digital channels. This means that for almost half of a bank’s customers, digital experience (DX) all but equals customer experience (CX).

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How B2B Brands Drive Online Reviews

GetFeedback

This is a guest post by Levi Olmstead, Community Manager for G2 Crowd. B2B transactions are complex, expensive, and require long-term investments. Buyers need plenty of reassurance that you’ve helped others in the past before deciding to do business with you. Online reviews are one of the most powerful tools in your toolbox to convince them. They can be more challenging to get than reviews of products or services designed for consumer use, but with the right strategies, you can get all the

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Too Big To Care? Why Mega-Mergers Threaten Us

Beyond Philosophy

How big does a company need to get before it is too big to care about Customer Experience? If this week’s news is any indication, telecom customers in the U.S. and grocery shoppers in the UK could find out. We all can see from surveys like this (#2), or this one (#6), Customer Experience has been a significant area of concern for many CEOs recently.

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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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Amazing Business Radio: Brad Birnbaum

ShepHyken

How to Eliminate Friction and Improve the Customer Support Experience. How can you provide a better experience for the customer and an even better one for the agents? Shep Hyken sits down with Brad Birnbaum, CEO and Co-Founder of Kustomer , to talk about how to understand and know everything about your customer. ?. Top Takeaways: A common problem is when the customer knows that the company has information about them, yet the customer support rep solving the problem doesn’t know anything about th

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Did You Know 45% of Banking Customers Interact Through Digital Channels Only?

InMoment XI

Have you ever wondered how important digital interactions are to the customer experience in financial services? According to PWC, more than 45 percent of banking customers say they only interact with their bank through digital channels. This means that for almost half of a bank’s customers, digital experience (DX) all but equals customer experience (CX).

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Why Customer Success Needs to Understand Sales

Amity

When one thinks of a Customer Success Manager, the ‘Happy To Help’ attitude is what usually comes to mind. That is what a CSM is; a multi-tasking, proactive individual who will always be more than willing to help a customer out , drive growth, add value to the company, all the while making the job look like a piece of cake. We look at Sales and Success as two different departments , where they ought to be cross-functional.

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Super Customer Experience: Feelings Aren’t Random

Kate Nasser

Super customer service experience is about positive feelings but leaders grouse that they can't build a business on the randomness of feelings. Well customer feelings are NOT random. Look behind the impact of the customer's request and you'll find the pain and then deliver the gain -- for them and for you. The post Super Customer Experience: Feelings Aren’t Random appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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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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Guest Blog: 3 Essential Stages of Cultivating a Winning Customer Experience

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Meyer Baron who writes about the essential stages of a winning customer experience. Smart companies promise a positive customer service experience, and they deliver. – Shep Hyken. “Customer experience” means different things to different people. The digital marketer may see the website as the key to producing a great customer experience, while the customer service pro may see training and culture as the keys to customer experience.

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Culture’s Impact on Customer Experience - Transforming the Customer Experience

Kristina Evey

Definition of Culture – The sum of attitudes, customs, and beliefs that distinguishes one group of people from another. . Corporate culture refers to the shared values, attitudes, standards, and beliefs that characterize members of an organization and define its nature. Corporate culture is rooted in an organization’s goals, strategies, structure, and approaches to labor, customers, investors, and the greater community.

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Starting Your Transition To Tech-Touch

Amity

To ensure that you continue to drive meaningful experiences through customer interactions, you need to identify the key customer touchpoints that provide the most value for your company. A customer touchpoint is any way that a consumer can interact with a business via company, staff, or product, including but not limited to CSM-customer meetings, 1: many communications, website interactions, and app feature usage.

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7 Ways to Achieve Harmony Between Bots & Humans

Bold360

We talk a lot about the importance of achieving harmony between chatbots and their human counterparts, but what does that really mean? In the world of AI, we see harmony as a place where chatbots and humans can work together to drive better customer outcomes. Humans and chatbots both have their strengths. By augmenting the customer journey with chatbots where appropriate and human agents when necessary, we are aiming to create a whole, consistent and delightful 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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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of April 30, 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. 16 Statistics Showing Data’s Influence on Customer Experience by Tricia Morriss. (Business2Community) A Customers 2020 report predicts that by 2020, customer experience will overtake both price and product as the key differentiator for brands.

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4 CX Automations That Give You Time Back in Your Day

Oracle

Whether you’re part of an enterprise organization or running a growing business, time is something nobody has enough of. It’s impossible to add more hours into our day, but it is possible to make the hours we have work harder for us, especially when it comes to executing customer experience (CX) strategies. To help them help themselves, I’ve been advising clients to incorporate more automation tools fueled by artificial intelligence (AI).

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Social Media Influencers and Your Customer Experience

Michelli Experience

Once upon a time, brands purchased advertisements which effectively influenced prospective buyers. In those days, consumers were at the mercy of advertising claims made across traditional outlets (e.g., network television, radio, newspapers, and magazines). Nowadays newspapers struggle to generate sufficient ad revenues to stay solvent, people TIVO past television commercials, and giants in radio like iHeartRadio recently filed for bankruptcy.

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Time to Team Up? How Partner Marketing Can Help Your Brand

QuestionPro Audience

Brands are learning that partner marketing is a smart way to broaden your audience and drive growth and sales. Partner marketing, which is creating mutually beneficial relationships between your brand and other businesses, is a fast-growing sector in the marketing world. As with any relationship, it is important to find the right partner for your brand: Can the partner drive sufficient traffic and sales to make it worth your investment?

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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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3 Psychological Triggers to Prevent in Telephone Customer Service

Customers That Stick

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3 Customer Relationship Management Tips From a CX Book Report

Oracle

Adapted advice from Experience This! podcast with Joey Coleman and Dan Gingiss. In episode 21 of Experience This!, a customer experience podcast series, hosts and CX experts Joey Coleman and Dan Gingiss share best practices for creating a solid CX strategy. In this episode, Joey and Dan dive into the insights and tactics of Blake Morgan’s book “More Is More,” talk about why you should make your work harder for your business rather than your customers, and explore a unique custo

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Driving Business Growth with Repeat Customers: #BusinessSecrets by Mr. Vivek Sridhar, Sr. Director – Global Learning Operations & Customer Success, Simplilearn

Customer Guru

At Customer Guru, we believe that Customer Experience (CX) should be the number one priority for all the Indian businesses so that they become more sustainable and successful globally. Thus, we are on a mission to spread this awareness, inspiring and guiding professionals to adopt and inculcate a customer-centric approach. We are certain that this is a first step to help organizations WOW their customers and create raving fans for themselves.

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We’re the Front Desk, Not the Shipping Department

ShepHyken

The short version of my story is this: At a recent conference, the client gave their speakers a gift – a backpack filled with swag that included fancy water bottles, fleece pull-overs and more. This wonderful gift was a little large to fit in my suitcase, so I decided to box it up and mail it to my office. As I was heading to the FedEx office, one of my fellow speaker-buddies told me he took his to the front desk of the hotel where they conveniently accommodated his request to ship the gift to h

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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.