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3 Things You Can Do Right Now to Create More Inclusive Employee & Customer Experiences

InMoment XI

Diversity and inclusion initiatives have become front and center for many organizations in recent years. It’s important for brands to create diverse and inclusive customer experiences (CX) and employee experiences (EX)—not ‘just’ because being more inclusive is the right thing to do, but also because organizations have a lot to gain from accommodating greater diversity in every experience they create.

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New job in customer experience? Do this on the first 90 days

GetFeedback

Expert guidance on how to tackle the first three months in your new CX leadership role, by Jeannie Walters.

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Guest Post: Find Ways for Artificial Intelligence to Benefit Customers

ShepHyken

This week, we feature an article by David Meerman Scott adapted from the new 8th edition of The New Rules of Marketing and PR to be released on May 3, 2022. He shares how organizations can use data and AI-powered tools to benefit customers. As I write this, I’m using web-based artificial intelligence (AI) transcription software called Otter to help me turn recorded audio interviews into a text transcription.

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CAN STARBUCKS COME BACK?

The DiJulius Group

For the third time in coffee chain Starbucks’ illustrious history Howard Schultz is the Chief Executive Officer, following former CEO Kevin Johnson who stepped down after a five-year tenure including upgrades like mobile ordering/payment, environmentally friendly cups and other items, and a particularly difficult period in 2018. In a world of too many ugly and.

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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 Ways Market Research Supercharges Experience Programs

InMoment XI

Market research is seen by a lot of companies and organizations as a nice-to-have. The reality, though, is that it’s a necessity. Market research provides the mapping tools you can use to chart your business landscape, understand its various features, and more importantly, get to know the groups and audiences that populate it. . This goal is especially important within the context of experience programs, especially if you want to achieve real Experience Improvement (XI) for your customers, emplo

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Introducing Customer Experience (CX) Automation and Smart Workflow Feature

Zonka Feedback

66% of consumers who switched brands did so because of poor service. 85% of customer churn due to poor service was preventable. 67% of customer churn is preventable if the customer issue is resolved at the first engagement. 11% of churn can be prevented by a company by just reaching out to the customer. 65% of customer service experts say that using CX automation should be a norm.

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Improving Government CX – The Fundamental Building Blocks for Success

Comm100

There’s no way to sugarcoat this – government customer experience (CX) is miles behind the private sector. When calculating customer satisfaction across major industries in 6 countries, government is the bottom-performing industry in each country. There are many reasons for this, some of which excuse government underperformance. The public sector often has to battle limited resources, changing mandates, and flip-flopping service delivery measured outcomes.

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Customer Experience 101: Types of Surveys

InMoment XI

Surveys are a way to compile data from a group of people, but they can be more than that. Surveys are also direct insight into your customers and information about how they feel about your company, products, and services. How did your customers perceive your most recent product launch? How do they feel about your company’s social media presence? Surveys are a direct line to find out and glean valuable information about your customers and your company. .

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One Millimeter Mindset® 2022 Blog Post Review #1

One Millimeter Mindset

Today’s post compiles five ideas to catalyze you to think about the same things, differently. It is time for action. Yes, sail into uncharted waters so what is uncomfortable and unfamiliar today becomes your professional environment moving forward. Get to where you really need to go, together, one millimeter at a time. These five themes surface constantly as I research and speak with motivated colleagues and readers like you.

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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 Make Your CX Strategy Part of Every Team in Your Company

Kustomer

The modern customer is one that is informed. More so than ever before, consumers are invested in making conscious purchase decisions, thoroughly researching the product, and receiving above and beyond customer service. In fact, among surveyed consumers, Kustomer found that 79% believe customer service is extremely important in deciding where to shop.

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Mistakes to Avoid When Selecting a CS Platform: Not Being Able to Create Inspiring Journeys

Totango

Selecting the right customer success platform for your organization can be challenging. To help you navigate the process, we’ve developed a four-part blog series about the mistakes you should avoid when choosing a CS platform. In this article, we’ll look at the mistake of choosing a platform that doesn’t allow you to create inspiring customer journeys.

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SAP Premium Engagement Forum ‘Deep Transformation Insights’ (Virtual, May 18, 2022)

SAP Customer Experience

Virtual May 18, 2022 Agenda Dear Valued Customer, We are pleased to invite you to the SAP Premium Engagement Session focusing on “Deep Transformation Insights” taking place on May 18, 2022. Please find the current agenda here. Deep Transformation Insights (DTI) is a new SAP service to support business transformation.

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3 Essential Factors for Onboarding Contact Center Agents

Upstream Works

Technology is undeniably important for contact centers to deliver great customer experience (CX), but nothing matters more than your agents. Some forms of customer service are purely transactional, and chatbots are playing a growing role for that. But, it’s the person-to-person interactions that will have the greatest impact on CX and the success of your contact center.

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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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Working Journey Centric | From Mapping to Management with Jochem van der Veer

Kustomer

Listen and subscribe to our podcast: In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets Podcast, Gabe Larsen meets with Jochem van der Veer , the CEO of TheyDo , to learn more about what it means to be a journey-centric CX organization. When customers encounter too many pain points while interacting with your brand, chances are they won’t shop with you but will move on to a competitor.

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Top review sites in your industry you can’t ignore in 2022

BirdEye

There’s no doubt that Google is the king of online reviews. In fact, our studies found that 71% of all reviews in 2021 were written on Google , but that doesn’t mean you should ignore the other 29%. Niche sites are a regular place for customers to leave online reviews when they are not leaving them on Google. To stay ahead, you need to make a conscious effort to get more reviews on these sites and understand which sites are most important in your industry.

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Enterprise CS 501: Optimize and Scale the Impact of CS

Gainsight

Let me start with a statement that might seem far-fetched: enterprise customer success organizations looking to optimize and scale as they mature can learn a lot from the best practices of Grammy-award winning R&B supergroup Silk Sonic. . Before you laugh me out of the room, “leave the door open” for the possibility that there might be some parallels between customer success and musical superstardom!

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Are You Using Net Promoter Score® (NPS®) Survey The Right Way?

Zonka Feedback

NPS® or Net Promoter Score® is the most important metric to measure customer loyalty and overall satisfaction with the brand. Therefore, it is important to use NPS® surveys at different touchpoints throughout the customer journey. Moreover, it is advised to conduct NPS® surveys through different channels depending on where your customers choose to interact with your business.

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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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Q&A recap: Using RevOps to connect Customer Success to the bottom line

ChurnZero

Revenue Operations (RevOps) has gained massive traction in the last few years, with many hailing it as a new revolution. This may leave you as a Customer Success professional wondering what part and purpose you serve in this revenue movement. With RevOps becoming the go-to route to boost operational performance, Customer Success plays a starring role in optimizing the customer lifecycle to increase revenue potential.

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Training Solutions That Can Improve Your Customer Service Management Style

CSM Magazine

Managing a customer service team takes dedication, hard work, and the right skill set. If you want to further develop your customer service management style, there are training solutions out there that can improve your talents and create a better working environment. This article looks at some of the best training solutions in more detail. Mental Health Training.

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How to Integrate Surveys in Your LMS to Measure Training Impact

SurveyGizmo

Surveys are a critical piece of any Learning Management Software (LMS). Ideally, feedback is collected from learners and inputted directed into an LMS, but occasionally learning services professional fail to adequately communicate with the people taking their training programs. Instead, learning service professionals should ask questions both about the subject topic as well as collect subjective feedback about the course experience too.

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[Podcast] Diversifying Metrics and the Rise of the Conversation Curator

Lithium

Our guest today is none other than Legendary Khoros Titan, Claudius Henrichs ( ) , Head of Community at Dataiku. He brings a wealth of knowledge and experience as a passionate community member throughout the years. Claudius has been noticing more awareness around how closely related the learning experience, and the community experiences are. Businesses are realizing that the Community Manager establishes communication between many company departments to the customer/audience, making it an essent

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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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The Most Important Employee in Your Business

ShepHyken

Is the CEO or owner the most important employee of a business? They are the people who make the big decisions and determine the vision and strategy of the company. But if not for the company’s employees, that vision and strategy would mean nothing. . Here is where I’m going with this idea. Let’s say the owner of a restaurant is also the chef. This chef prepares the most amazing meals using the highest quality ingredients, and customers are willing to pay a premium to enjoy this epicurean exper

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Are You Letting Your Business Become Stereotyped? – Tip #39

Steve DiGioia

Stereotype: a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. Business stereotypes are preconceived notions that every customer has of your business. What do they expect when doing business with you? Are the expectations good or bad? What image or idea do you send to your customers? “The lines are always too long.” “The place is so outdated.” “Your salespeople only care about making the sale, whether the item is right

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Great Customer Experiences: The Key to Business Growth

Daniel Group

Great Customer Experiences: The Key to Business Growth. Did you know that providing consistently great customer experiences will grow your business? But, does your business have an outstanding customer experience? If not, you’re not alone. Many companies are unsure how to create a great customer experience. But creating a great customer experience can be challenging, especially when your business is just getting started.

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Maximizing Agent and Employee Engagement To Deliver Customer Excellence

Doing CX Right

Rob Stewart, Business Author, and Teacher shares how to maximize staff engagement & productivity while reducing costs (turnover, recruitment, training) for sustainable business growth. The post Maximizing Agent and Employee Engagement To Deliver Customer Excellence appeared first on Doing CX Right.

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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.