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The Top 4 Customer Experience Challenges and How to Overcome Them

GetFeedback

The phrase Customer Experience (CX) didn’t become en vogue until 2008 when it surpassed Customer Satisfaction as the primary customer-focused keyword. . Rather than just satisfaction , customer experience refers to the whole ecosystem of the customer journey. From the first experience, customers have with your website, to the last time they pay you—it’s all encompassed under the large umbrella of experience. .

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Game Changing Methods to Optimize Your Customer Experience

CloudCherry

Game Changers. We’re always on the lookout for the ones that will make the biggest impact. And, on this week’s “Sweets of CX ” podcast, we’ve got the expert. Lynn Hunsaker – Chief Customer Officer at ClearAction Continuum & co-founder of ClearAction Value Exchange, CustomerThink Hall of Fame Author, Professor, award-winning Performance momentum expert, and MORE- shares her wealth of knowledge.

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Sparq Fall ’19 Release Empowers Brands in Today’s Data Privacy Landscape

Alida

It’s hard not to notice what’s going on in the world of data privacy these days. From new regulations on the table in multiple jurisdictions globally to huge brands being fined millions of dollars in massive penalties due to data breaches and lack of compliance with existing regulations, the free-for-all consumer data collection practices are being left by the wayside for a more transparent customer experience.

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How to Shortlist Potential Contact Center Partners

BlueOcean

Running an effective and efficient procurement process for a contact center partner is easier said than done – even for seasoned indirect sourcing professionals and folks in the C suite. It’s not unusual for the process to take 12 to 18 months from discovery to go-live with significant time and budget required along the way. And we have seen deals with the successful bidder derailed by details in the eleventh hour, setting the buyer back to square one after more than a year of effort.

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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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How to Run a Successful CX Program With Salesforce

GetFeedback

Learn how to seamlessly integrate GetFeedback’s powerful analytics with Salesforce to optimize your customer experience program.

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Active Consent Earns Organizations the Right to Direct Customer Data that Propels Brands Forward

Alida

For the last four weeks, we’ve been on tour. Over 500 insights, marketing, product, and customer experience (CX) professionals joined Vision Critical at our global Insights Day event series in New York City, London, Paris, and San Francisco to talk about the present and the future of the insights industry. We are at the precipice of a very pivotal time for the industry.

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Customer retention rates depend on understanding these 3 personas

TechSee

Customer churn is a growing problem across many industries and managing it has become critically important to the maintaining profitability. With the global average value of a lost customer estimated to be $243 , focusing efforts on improving customer retention rates is critical to help companies control attrition, which is estimated to cause total losses of $1.6 trillion per year.

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How to Run a Successful CX Program With Salesforce

GetFeedback

Learn how to seamlessly integrate GetFeedback’s powerful analytics with Salesforce to optimize your customer experience program.

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The Power of Empowerment!

InMoment XI

A growing concept in popularity these days, is that many organizations make the claim of being customer-centric. That essentially means they are claiming to have transformed a business from one that previously focused primarily on products and services, to one that now values customers and customer experience above all else. Without a lot of strategic.

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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 to Execute a 90-Day Plan to Improve Customer Experience in a B2B2C Retail Organization

Customer Bliss

In today’s episode, I chat with Curt Balara , Chief Customer Officer at Bel Brands about his role as a leader for a B2B2C company. Bel Brands is the world’s third-largest branded cheese company, and the leader in sing-serving cheese portions. You may be familiar with some of their brands, Babybel, The Laughing Cow, and Boursin. As CCO, Curt has a holistic leadership position over the sales and customer department, focusing on earning the right to organic, sustainable growth.

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Amazing Business Radio: Laurie Guest

ShepHyken

Small Change, Big Payoff with Laurie Guest. How Small Things Can Impact Customer Service in a Big Way. Shep Hyken interviews Laurie Guest. They discuss her recent book, The 10 ¢ Decision: How Small Change Pays Off Big , which focuses on small, simple things leaders and team members can do to enact big, positive changes in their customer service. The Interview with Laurie Guest: Business leaders don’t always need to spend a lot of time or energy to improve their customer experience.

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The Top 4 Customer Experience Challenges and How to Overcome Them

GetFeedback

Learn how to overcome the top four challenges that may be getting in the way of executing a successful customer experience (CX) program.

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The Key to Great Innovation is to Explore

InMoment XI

How Apple, Lego, Netflix and Other Great Brands Explore the Market to Innovate This is the third article in the series on how to leverage the innovation process to improve the customer experience. In the first article I laid out my four simplified steps to innovation: Explore – understand customer needs, pain points and challenges. View 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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Three Ways to Supercharge Your Sales Training for a Winning Customer Experience

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Customer experience, in all is complexity, really is about one thing to your customers: Expectations. Think about your own journeys as a customer. Have you ever been disappointed? Most likely, your story starts with a “They promised me.” and ends with a “They just refused!”. Consider the classic Jerry Seinfeld scene where he and Elaine show up to get a rental car and there’s no car there for them, even though they had reserved the car.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of October 21, 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. 6 Customer Service Tenets Used By Amazon To Create Effortless Experiences by Dan Gingiss. (Forbes) Amazon’s six “Customer Service Tenets” – posted throughout its offices — explain a lot about why Amazon is so easy and pleasurable to do business with, and can be used a

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Stacy Sherman: Yelp and SMS Turn Restaurant Experience from Mediocre to Great

Bill Quiseng

This week’s post is from Stacy Sherman , a results-oriented Customer Experience (CX) and Digital Marketing professional with a proven track record increasing brand awareness, sales, and loyalty at B2C & B2B companies of all sizes and budgets. She’s worked on both the client side and agency environments leading projects for well-known Telcom companies (AT&T and Verizon) along with other reputable brands (Martha Stewart Crafts, American Girl, Perler Beads).

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The CCO Career Path: How to Successfully Translate Your CX Skills Across Industries

Customer Bliss

In my Daily Dose video series, I explore the topics that chief customer officers must grapple with on a daily basis. Join me as I discuss what I’ve learned over the course of my 35-year career, so that you can more effectively do the work that needs to be done. The following is a lightly edited transcript of the video below. I was having a conversation with somebody the other day, who is what I call a “perennial customer experience officer.” Now what’s interesting about this is

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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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What is the Secret of Airbnb?

Beyond Philosophy

What is the Secret of Airbnb? I would never be an Airbnb host. Having a stranger staying in my house doesn’t fit with my personality. That said, there are a lot of people that would do it. Airbnb has over seven million listings in 100,000 cities worldwide and reported revenues of $1 Billion (with a b) in the second quarter of this year. They are so successful; they have plans to become publicly traded in 2020.

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The Survey Shouldn’t Be the Last Thing the Customer Remembers About You

ShepHyken

I’m all for getting customer feedback. There are different ways to go about it. Ask customers on the way out of a store, call them on a phone or send follow-up surveys via email. I wrote about surveys a few years ago. The gist of that article was about getting more customers to fill out those surveys. Two areas were covered: timing (when the survey was sent) and length (how long it takes customers to complete).

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8 Actionable Tips for Engaging Survey Subject Lines

Retently

When customers receive a survey by email, what’s the first thing they notice? The survey question? The response options? The branding? No, it’s actually the email subject line that determines whether or not they’ll find the message interesting or engaging, and open it in the first place. Taking into account the survey fatigue, coming up with efficient subject lines that will actually get the door open is quite a challenge.

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Celebrating the Successes and Achievements of Calabrio Customers

Calabrio

We’re all about our customers, and we judge ourselves by our ability to add tangible business value to their contact centers around the world, from easily managing soaring inbound volumes across multiple communication channels to leveraging new levels of customer experience intelligence to drive deeper engagement with customers. That’s why one of the great highlights of each year is the ONE Awards ceremony, which took place today at our annual customer conference, Calabrio Customer Connect.

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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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2 Systems That Are Essential For Successful CX

Beyond Philosophy

We talk a lot about the difference between the two ways our brains think about things to make decisions, e.g., the Intuitive System and the Rational System. These two systems work together and tradeoff tasks between them. We talked about the two systems in a recent podcast and how they interact in your customers’ minds when they are deciding to buy your product or service.

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Guest Blog: How to Turn Customer Service Mistakes Into Happiness

ShepHyken

This week we feature an article by Mark Sanborn who writes about how mistakes will be made but it’s how you handle them that matters. The experiences you create for a customer is important, but how they feel about that experience is critical. Welcome to the emotional economy. In my new book, The Intention Imperative , I explain how to design and deliver for positive emotions.

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Research Reveals 3 Non-Negotiable Customer Service Expectations

Oracle

What works for one customer may fail for another. That’s one of the most prominent insights from the “ One Size Doesn’t Fit All ” research study completed by Oracle in partnership with Jeanne Bliss, which finds that the customer service journey isn’t universal. Yet, service departments shoulder the responsibility for providing answers, offering assistance, and fielding complaints from an array of consumers.

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CX Consulting 101 – How to Align Your Organization to Activate Change

Strativity

Throughout Strativity’s 17+ years in CX consulting, we’ve developed fundamental principles to help our clients avoid roadblocks and accelerate success with their customer experience initiatives — and now we’re sharing what we’ve learned with CX leaders like you. With this first post in our “CX Consulting 101” series, we look at how to gain power from the past, intercept cynical voices, and build organizational alignment to kick off your customer experience transformation the right way.

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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.