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How to Measure Customer Delight and Prove Its Impact on Brand Loyalty

C3Centricity

As we all know, customer satisfaction is no longer enough to secure brand loyalty – if it ever was! Companies must strive to go beyond mere satisfaction and aim to delight their customers. Customer delight refers to exceeding customer expectations to create a positive emotional reaction, leading to stronger loyalty and advocacy. This post explores the importance of measuring customer delight, its impact on brand loyalty, and practical methods to achieve and assess it.

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Improving Agent Performance with Surveys: From Data to CX Delight

Zonka Feedback

Imagine this scenario: A frustrated customer calls your support line, seeking help with an urgent issue. Your agent, well-trained and confident, not only resolves the problem but leaves the customer feeling valued and understood. The result? A satisfied customer, likely to return and even recommend your brand. Now, picture the opposite—an agent who struggles, exacerbating the customer’s frustration.

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Smart Data Management Tips Can Improve Your Customer Service Efficiency

CSM Magazine

Customer service is essential for any modern company, and smart data management using a US proxy helps improve it. About 88 percent of clients say they’re more likely to use a company again if it has good customer support, while about 80 percent say good service is equally important as the products and services’ quality. As such, we look at how smart data management using proxies is an effective strategy for improving customer support.

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Customer Journey Analytics Tools: Best Features, Pros & Cons

SurveySensum

In this competitive market ensuring a positive and hyper-personalized customer experience is the key to winning your customers. In fact, for 73% of customers, a good and positive experience is key in influencing their brand loyalties. This makes analyzing and having an accurate understanding of every touchpoint of your customer journey more important than ever.

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The State of Digital Customer Experience Report 2024

This comprehensive report explores the evolving landscape of customer and business expectations, with five key trends that will help you understand your customers and stay ahead of the competition. Discover how your peers are implementing AI to improve customer experience with granular insights into their CX investments and specific AI use cases. For the first time, customers prefer digital channels when interacting with a business.

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CX Education for Employees: Why it Matters & How to Develop Your Program

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Why does Customer Experience Training Matter? Customer Experience (CX) is commonly misunderstood as reactive customer service, support, or even just ‘being nice to customers.’ CX is much more than these, though. I like to define Customer Experience as: A mindset A strategy A business discipline Customer experience is more than one area, product, service, or person.

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Being Different or Being Better … It’s Your Choice

ShepHyken

Do you want to be better or different? That’s the question that Sally Hogshead, an amazing professional speaker who specializes in being fascinating, shared in a recent speech I had the pleasure of experiencing. While most of her work is about how to be fascinating, this speech came from a different place. She talked about the power of being different versus better than others.

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The Opportunities & Pitfalls Of Fusing Human And AI-Powered Experiences

Beyond Philosophy

Learn more about Colin Shaw : Join over 85,000 people on our LinkedIn Newsletter list or visit our website for more great podcast episodes. Listen to the podcast: Artificial Intelligence (AI) has some excellent applications in Customer Experience , applications that can transform the processes in customer interactions. However, after all the sci-fi we have grown up watching, it is natural to wonder what the entrance of AI will mean for the humans involved.

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[Experience Action Podcast] Turning Negative Touchpoints into Positive Ones

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Can sending an invoice actually enhance your customer relationship? Hear how to transform routine tasks into positive touchpoints and memorable experiences. In this episode, Jeannie Walters tackles the often-overlooked touchpoints like invoicing, providing three actionable strategies to infuse positivity and alignment with your brand’s promise into these interactions.

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Get Ahead of the White House’s “Time Is Money” Mandate – Key Consumer Pain Points And How to Address Them Through Your CX Program

InMoment XI

Delivering exceptional customer experiences is a fundamental and necessary business practice that also can significantly impact your bottom line – but up until this point, it wasn’t a requirement. The recent “Time is Money” White House initiative, launched just last week, represents a significant escalation of onus on businesses to address subpar customer experiences and comply with these new directives.

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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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Optimove Insights: 2024–2025 Consumer Report on NFL Wagering Intentions

Optimove

Maximize Player Lifetime Value This NFL Season Unlock the full potential of your sportsbook with insights from the Optimove Insights 2024-2025 Consumer Report on NFL Wagering Intentions. Our comprehensive guide offers actionable recommendations to enhance live betting, optimize generosity programs, and tailor your messaging to keep bettors engaged.

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Who Owns Voice of the Customer (VOC)?

Thematic

The answer to the question of who “owns” the voice of the customer (VOC) isn’t as simple as this person or that team. To get the most value from customer feedback, VOC should be integrated and leveraged across your organization to improve customer experience. But that can be hard without the proper structures and technologies and if your research team is overwhelmed and under-resourced.

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Send Your Transactional Surveys Using Retently’s Zapier Integration

Retently

A great advantage of the Net Promoter System, aside from its simplicity and insightfulness, is that it works with any business models, such as B2C or B2B , and any business type and industry. Originally, the NPS surveys were sent at standard intervals, such as every quarter, once every six months and so on. This surveying model is known as Relationship NPS, which measures how your customers’ satisfaction changes over time.

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Instagram automation: What is allowed, and how to do it (+ top tools) 

BirdEye

Social media platforms like Instagram are no longer the fun, breezy, and creative part of a social media specialist’s day. They are now a critical component of a marketer’s strategy, with 60% of participants in a Birdeye study citing it to be mission critical. However, ever-changing algorithms and the precise science needed to drive success can be overwhelming.

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The Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Customer Learning

Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your organization’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

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Significant Increase in NFL Betting for 2024-2025 Season, a Super for Sportsbooks 

Optimove

See the difference control groups make in this guide Download Now Why it Matters: For sportsbooks, this report reveals trends that suggest increased revenue potential for operators who can effectively capture and retain customers. The report’s findings indicate a substantial increase in betting frequency and engagement, indicating a growing market with more active participants.

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The Power of Expertise: How Specialized Recruiters Elevate eCommerce Businesses

CSM Magazine

In the fast-paced world of eCommerce, the ability to attract and retain top talent can make or break a business. With the right team, companies can innovate, grow, and outperform their competitors. This is where the expertise of specialized recruiters becomes invaluable. Health tech recruiters , for instance, often possess the skills and network needed to identify top talent that can be crucial for eCommerce success.

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12 Best Strategies for Building Customer Loyalty

Helpware

As customers are expecting more than ever, the competition is getting tougher, whether you're running a physical store or an online business. Brands, therefore, need to pull out all the stops to find ways to improve customer loyalty and nurture each relationship.

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Comment de meilleures interactions avec les clients peuvent être bénéfiques pour votre entreprise

Inbenta

If you’re a business owner, you’ve probably experienced the exponential growth in the number of interactions you’re having with your customers — across all channels, from email to social media. While it means you have more opportunities to personalize your communications and delight your customers, it also means your customer service reps might be completely overwhelmed by the sheer volume of interactions they have to deal with.

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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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No, I don’t want to log in

Zeisler Consulting

I recently had a ridiculous interaction with one of our household service providers. I had a general question about one of their policies and went online to check out their FAQs to see if I could get an answer. A usual pet-peeve of mine, that endeavor was fruitless (whoever determines which questions are “frequently” asked clearly spends no time considering questions people may have ), but for another article altogether.

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How Behavioral Interviewing Improves Customer Support Hiring

CSM Magazine

Customer support representatives are vital resources for businesses focused on customer satisfaction because this role directly affects customer experiences, loyalty, and success. That’s why companies are increasingly using behavioral interviewing to select the best candidates. This technique assesses how candidates have handled past situations to predict future performance.

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AI for Customer Success Leaders: How to Get Started

Gainsight

AI for customer success (CS), as well as AI for customer service, customer education, and customer relationship management (CRM) is evolving at a remarkable pace. This evolution is not just a tech upgrade; it’s a paradigm shift that promises to redefine interactions between Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies and their customers. According to a 2024 Forbes Advisor survey , a staggering 64% of respondents in SaaS believe AI will enhance customer relations and productivity.

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L'avenir de l'IA dans le commerce électronique : Tendances pour 2025

Inbenta

Retailers are looking for ways to differentiate their online shopping experience from their competitors in a saturated market. After all, if customers can’t find what they’re looking for on your site or can’t get the support they need, they’ll simply look elsewhere. The impact of artificial intelligence on the retail industry continues to grow as new AI-based tools become more affordable and easier to use.

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3 Ways Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Can Improve Customer Experience

Today’s digitally savvy customers have high expectations of retailers for convenience, responsiveness, and ease of doing business both in-store and online. Our recent survey of over 2,000 US consumers found that retailers that can drive a seamless, omnichannel customer experience (CX) – across physical and digital channels – have huge benefits for brand relevance, profitability, and customer loyalty.

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Boost Your Customer’s Loyalty with NPS in Credit Union to Drive Business

SurveySensum

Measuring NPS in credit unions helps identify how satisfied and loyal members are. By focusing on these scores, you can enhance the member experience—because the more satisfied members are, the more likely they are to recommend your services, which in turn boosts your NPS. But it’s not always easy. Many credit unions struggle with balancing the need to protect members’ trust and data while also gathering honest feedback.

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Sabio Group Charts Course to Net-Zero and Sustainable Future

CSM Magazine

Sabio Group CEO Andy Roberts Sabio Group, the digital customer experience (CX) transformation services specialist, has today announced its ambitious commitment to achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The pledge, made by CEO Andy Roberts (pictured signing the agreement), has been formally accepted by both the Science Based Target Initiative (SBTi) and the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), marking a significant milestone in Sabio’s sustainability journey.

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5 Ways Gainsight and Staircase AI Come Together to Propel Customer Success Into the Future 

Gainsight

When it comes to new technology, there’s nothing more instantly (and widely) adopted than AI. According to Gartner , companies deploying AI as a business tool are projected to surpass 60% by the end of 2024. And it makes sense: AI is a paradigm shift, because it allows teams to do more with less. Customer success (CS) leaders can offer the same personalized customer experience, without growing Customer Success Manager (CSM) headcount or risking CSM burnout.

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Comment conserver ses assurés

Inbenta

Insurance policyholders today have more options than ever, so keeping them loyal is no small feat. The top five insurance companies have figured it out, with retention rates as high as 95%. How do they do it? The answer sounds simple: By offering exceptional customer experiences. But how do they do that? Managing policyholder expectations The largest insurance companies spend billions of dollars a year on advertising and brand-building.

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX