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5 Things We Learned from EMEA Customer Experience Experts at XI Forum Europe

InMoment XI

After nine EMEA customer experience experts, 200+ delegates, eight workshops, and hours of fun and networking at the colourful evening reception, it’s safe to say the XI Forum Europe was a success! We heard from award-winning CX speakers from some of Europe’s biggest brands—TRUMPF, ASOS, Brakes, Primark, Solus, BD Medical, NatWest and Euro Car Parts, as well as thought-provoking keynotes from InMoment Global Leader, CMO Kristi Knight, and Stan Swinford, CEO and Founder of NPSx by Bain & Comp

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Why Customer Experience Is Key to Scaling Revenue Growth

Lumoa

It’s no secret that customer experience is key to a company’s success. But what may be surprising is that as businesses compete more and more for customers, customer experience is becoming the new competitive battleground. . What does this mean for companies? It means that in order to stay ahead, they need to focus on delivering not just a good product or service, but a great customer experience as well.

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Amazing Business Radio: Susan Drumm

ShepHyken

The Leader’s Playlist. How Memories, Experiences, and Patterns Impact Leadership Style. Shep Hyken interviews Susan Drumm, CEO & Chief Empowerment Officer of Meritage Leadership Development and the author of The Leader’s Playlist: Unleash the Power of Music and Neuroscience to Transform Your Leadership and Your Life. She shares how to use music to improve your leadership style and make the changes that no longer serve you.

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How Amazon maintains an impressive NPS

Retently

From its humble beginnings as an online bookseller, Amazon has grown to become one of the world’s largest ecommerce businesses. But unlike many massive multi-national organizations, Amazon remains incredibly popular with its customers. In fact, so popular that Amazon accounts for 10.8% of total US retail turnover (nearly $218 billion in 2021) and 37.8 % of the US ecommerce market , becoming the leading online retailer in the country.

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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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5 Challenges Facing Your Customers and Brands, and What They Mean for Your CX Program

InMoment XI

A great deal of customers and the brands that serve them are facing unprecedented uncertainties; understanding them is key to organizational success, delivering Experience Improvement (XI), and ensuring that your customer experience (CX) program is operating optimally. All of these obstacles affect both customers and brands to some extent. Because half the Experience Improvement process is knowing what these challenges are, today’s conversation addresses five of the most prominent ones that I’ve

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Guest Blog: 10 Chatbot Features That Make Your Bot More Helpful to Customers

Comm100

Chatbots are quickly becoming a long-term solution for customer service across all industries. A good chatbot will deliver exceptional value to your customers during their buying journey. It boosts customer engagement because it’s quick, simple, and puts the user in the driver’s seat. But you can only deliver that positive value by making sure your chatbot features offer the best possible customer experience.

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13 Customer Success Manager Skills to Look for When Hiring

Totango

Hiring team members with the right customer success manager skills is critical for the effectiveness of your CS team and strategy. Here we’ve identified the 13 most essential qualities to consider when hiring a CS manager. We’ll cover these below, along with five best practices to follow when bringing a new customer success manager aboard your team.

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As Consumers Tighten Wallets, Marketers Can Tighten Customer Relationships

Optimove

With inflation continuing to run at 40-year high levels, consumers are more careful about getting the most out of their dwindling purchasing power. Any consumers with variable interest rate debt, such as a home equity line, have seen their monthly payments increase in line with the rising interest rates. This trend is expected to continue through the end of the year.

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Google My Business website – everything you need to know

BirdEye

As a business owner, you already know you need a website. It’s a great way to showcase your products and services and helps customers learn more about your company. But with so many different website builders and options, it can be tough to know where to start. Fortunately, Google has made building a website easy with a free service that lets businesses create and customize their own Google My Business website.

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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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Create Seamless Contact Center Experiences with AI Application Integrations

Upstream Works

When customers have great experiences with agents, they don’t have an inside view of the orchestration that takes place in the background to make it so seamless. To a large extent, this is due to various types of integrations that pull data from across the organization in support of each customer inquiry. Artificial intelligence (AI) application integrations also have a role to play, especially in extracting specific data points across massive data sets and doing so in real-time.

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[Podcast] How to Make Community Crucial, with Invoca’s Maria Ogneva

Lithium

Welcome back to Titans of Customer Engagement, A Customer Experience Podcast proudly presented by Khoros. This week we sit down with Maris Ogneva, Sr Director of Community & customer marketing at Invoca to break down how to build a wide-reaching and stable digital community. Hear first hand how to position your community to benefit both your customers and your colleagues.

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The Echo

ShepHyken

There are many definitions of the term brand. One of my favorites is this: A brand is a promised delivered. . Is what you’re known for delivered consistently? Consider Ace Hardware, whose brand promise is The Helpful Hardware Place. When you visit an Ace Hardware store, do they keep their promise? Are they helpful? Based on all their awards and the comments from happy customers posted on social channels, they deliver. .

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How to create and manage a Tripadvisor business listing

BirdEye

If you want your hospitality business to stand out online, you’ll need to establish a presence on both business listing and review sites. Creating business listings is a cost-effective way to bring attention to your business and build a strong online reputation, both of which will make it easier to convert potential leads into customers. Creating a business listing on Tripadvisor can help you build a stronger online presence for your brand.

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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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Why Pushing Client Boundaries Is Perceived As Butting Heads

One Millimeter Mindset

You are pushing client boundaries when you present and spearhead updated or new ideas, concepts, tools, and technologies. Often, your efforts do not result in accolades from that client. Far too frequently, clients view your efforts as contrarian. Why is that? First, your innovations move them one millimeter beyond what is known and comfortable. Next, adapting and adopting your offerings challenges them.

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The Customer Service Needs of Every Generation Aren’t as Different as You Think

SaleMove

From Zoomers checking their balance on their mobile phone to Boomers deciding to give chat a chance, Glia’s solution is changing the game. The post The Customer Service Needs of Every Generation Aren’t as Different as You Think appeared first on Glia Blog | Digital Customer Service Explained.

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The Importance of CX During Economic Instability

IntouchInsight

Rising inflation and concerns about economic instability have both brands and consumers concerned. But, after years of pandemic-related restrictions and guidelines, no one wants to give up their "new normal". This makes customer experience programs even more important than ever.

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Why Proactive Support Is the Future

Kustomer

Over the course of history, the typical support interaction has involved a customer reaching out to a business, typically by phone, and waiting in a support queue in the event of something going wrong. The reasons for reaching out could be a variety of things, including defective products, shipping delays, or needing more information to complete assembly.

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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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Guest Post: Why Customer Experience Should Be at the Forefront of Your Marketing Strategies

ShepHyken

This week, we feature an article by Eleanor Hecks , editor-in-chief of Designerly Magazine. She’s also a web design consultant focusing on customer experience and user interface. She shares how customer experience is a valuable marketing strategy. If your business follows marketing best practices, you’re probably already implementing user research, collecting customer data, and targeting customers with personalized messaging.

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How Can a Telemarketing Call Center Shape the Future of MSMEs?

Magellan Solutions

How Can Telemarketing Call Center Shape Help MSMEs? Have you ever wondered what is the importance of a telemarketing call center in the Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs)? . According to the Congressional Policy and Budget Research Department (CPBRD) , the MSMEs are considered as the backbone of the Philippine economy. The latest data (2019) presented by the Philippines Statistics Authority (PSA) noted that out of 1,000,506 business enterprises in the Philippines, 99.5% (995,745) are M

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The Guide To Reputation Management for Doctors

ReviewTrackers

Reputation management for doctors continues to be more important with every passing year. A 2018 PatientPop survey revealed that 80.3 percent of providers are aware of the importance of a strong online reputation, but most of them don’t know how to alter their online reputation in a positive way. This is a massive problem. Without the right tools and methods at your disposal, you are not using online review sites to their full advantage, which means you lose out on better online exposure a

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Our Relationship with Time Management at Work with Mike Vardy

Russel Lolacher

In this episode of Relationships at Work, Russel chats with productivity expert and author Mike Vardy on our relationship with time management in the workplace and how we can look at it differently. A few reasons why he is awesome – He’s a highly regarded productivity strategist and time management specialist, multi-time author with his most recent being the ebook The Productivityist Playbook , podcaster, speaker, repeatedly named a top productivity expert on too many lists to name and you

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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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Remote Work: The Dangerous Disconnect Between Contact Center Management and Agents

Playvox

There’s a storm brewing in customer service centers, and the aftermath could create some big challenges for contact center management. In our 2022 study of customer support agents and managers, 68% of agent respondents said they didn’t want to return to an office. But only 40% of support center managers we talked to said they were planning to continue remote work in 2022.

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7 Steps to Building a Successful NPS Campaign

Zonka Feedback

The Net Promoter Score is the most popular CX metric that businesses across the globe use to measure customers’ loyalty. It can be measured using an NPS survey that enables customers to rate their experiences and also share the reason for their scores.

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Cultivate a work environment where employees can thrive

Customer Enthusiast

A recent Gartner study revealed 52 percent of employees surveyed agreed or strongly agreed with the statement: “The pandemic has made me question the purpose of my day-to-day job.” According to Gartner, “The era of the employment contract, when a worker provided services purely in exchange for monetary compensation, is over… Monetary compensation is important … Continue reading "Cultivate a work environment where employees can thrive".

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Traditional Chatbots vs. Conversational AI

Solvvy

Automating customer interactions with conversational chatbots offers a range of benefits. Chatbots can increase employee productivity, enabling service to more customers in a shorter time window. Automated customer support solutions also decrease human error and provide consistent, accurate information to customers. Automating interactions can enhance customer experience (CX) with quicker first response time, average resolution time, and first contact resolution.

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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.