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Elves Rule: Employees ‘Make’ The Customer Experience, and Should Be Recognized for It

InMoment XI

This article was originally published on CustomerThink. Santa Claus (with the help of Mrs. Claus) gets much of the credit for spreading Yule joy; but, isn’t it really the elves who are most responsible? Several years ago, business consultant Matthew T. Grant interviewed me for his blog site ([link] and the subject was how, through their employees, companies can move beyond satisfaction to create real customer loyalty behavior.

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Technology is not a Disruptor, but a Powerful Customer-First Strategy is!

C3Centricity

Technology is often seen by marketing as a disruptor of business as usual, but it isn’t. Technology is in fact an enabler, at least when used properly and appropriately. So what is disrupting business as usual? It’s the customer, especially in industries that are not customer-centric. It was Marco Pacheco , Executive Director at JP Morgan who first inspired me to talk more about this aspect of a customer-first strategy, when he shared the slide on the right on LinkedIn a few years

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6 Essential Messages for Customer Success Manager Automation

Totango

Building out customer success manager automation depends on the effective use of email and in-app messaging. Planning strategic emails at key milestones in your customer journey can help you deliver a smoother customer experience, yielding higher satisfaction and better retention rates. Here we’ll look at the concept of milestone messaging and how it applies to key stages in your customer lifecycle.

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3 Reasons Why Your B2B Business Needs Live Chat In 2022

Team Support

In today’s world, a proactive and communicative customer experience is a necessity. Companies can no longer afford to be aloof in the digital space. Live chat software connects businesses with their customers, drives revenue and growth, and provides a universally better experience that drives customer satisfaction. Given the continuous, digital transformation of the business world, the ongoing absence of live chat software only creates a void.

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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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The Employee & Customer Experience Improvement Framework You Need in 2022

InMoment XI

Every holiday season, we at team InMoment like to look back and reflect on what we’ve learned about employee and customer Experience Improvement, and then put those top learnings into a “cheat sheet” of sorts for our readers. And let’s be honest, that refresher is exactly what we all need after the holiday break. So, are you looking for some inspiration to start your experience mindset off on the right foot in 2022?

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5 Ways Automation Can Help Create a Consistent Customer Experience

Kustomer

image source: superoffice.com. It’s becoming clear that customers are more inclined to engage with businesses through multiple touchpoints within a single purchasing journey. They’re likely to peruse items and pursue purchases both online and in-store using a variety of methods. It’s not surprising that we’ve seen a jump from 20% to more than 80% in the number of companies investing in omnichannel experiences since 2012.

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One Simple Idea That Can Help You Retain Your Best Employees

ShepHyken

We had some great feedback on The Three N’s of Employee Fulfillment article and video. Plenty of great comments. Here’s a very short refresher in case you missed it. Leadership expert Tim Durkin shared with us that our employees want to be needed, noticed, and known. We welcome him back this week with a simple feedback technique connected to his Three N strategy that will help you motivate and keep your best employees. .

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Are Google reviews reliable?

BirdEye

When you think of a business, what comes to mind? For many people, the word reliable is at or near the top. In fact, a quick Google search on the specific term ‘reliable’ yields 11 billion results. This showcases how important it is when deciding who we do business with. But what about the other way around? When your customers take the time to evaluate your business, you trust they’ve been to your establishment, have used a product of yours, or experienced customer service on some level.

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Top 5 ChurnZero Webinars from 2021 to Watch and Share

ChurnZero

Over the last year we’ve created and shared a lot of new content with our Churn Fighting audience that we’re really proud of and have received positive feedback on, especially our thought leadership webinar content. But we know it’s not likely that you were able to catch it all as its been a whirlwind of a year. So instead of living with FOMO, we’re bringing you a recap of the top webinars you all enjoyed the most from us this year.

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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 get your Customer Success Tech Stack in Order

CSM Practice

“A team is only as strong as its weakest link”. This saying applies to your Customer Success Technology stack more than anything else. The tools in your stack must work together to provide an exceptional customer experience. . Well, it also means that technology itself doesn’t solve all problems. You need to layout your journey first. What, why, and how are you going to solve the problem at hand needs to be explained.

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Guest Post: How to Ensure PCI Compliance in Your Call Center?

ShepHyken

Tom Laird is the Founder and CEO of Expivia , a USA-based, 500+ seat omnichannel contact center located in Pennsylvania. He shares how call centers can safeguard critical customer data, giving customers peace of mind while reducing risk to your organization.?. Cyber security is important now more than ever with cyber-attacks becoming more and more common.

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When your numbers are more important than your Customers

Zeisler Consulting

I was flying home to Denver a few months back from a business trip. It was an evening flight, perhaps not the last flight on the route (it was hub-to-hub for the airline, so the route sees a lot of traffic), but close to it, and we were—of course—late getting in. It was a mechanical issue, not weather, so we were a flight that was alone in its circumstance.

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Five Warning Signs Your Customer Success Team is Burnt Out

Totango

In a recent poll, we asked customer success professionals to rank their top year-end challenge. Not surprisingly, the number one answer was burnout. Burnout is a common occurrence, especially at the end of the year and especially in customer-facing industries like CS. But add to that a lingering global pandemic and crushing labor and supply shortages, and you’ve got a recipe for disaster. .

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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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The MOST Important Customer Success Metrics

ClientSuccess

Any customer success leader worth his or her salt isn’t making strategic, department-wide decisions based on gut feelings. Instead, customer success leaders lean on hard numbers, insights, and data to help steer their team’s decision-making. These numbers are also shared with other departments, executives, and even board members to inform how the business is doing.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 12-20-2021

ShepHyken

Each week I read many 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. Talkdesk Research Reveals the Role of Customer Service in Driving Consumer Loyalty Will Expand Beyond Support. (Martech Series) Organizations have emerging opportunities – and threats – to consider as consumer loyalty increasingly takes into account broader relationships to

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Eliminating What Customers Hate For Scalable Growth

Doing CX Right

Nick Webb, author, and inventor with 40 US Patents explains how to attract & keep customers happy based on a lifetime of study and application. The post Eliminating What Customers Hate For Scalable Growth appeared first on Doing CX Right.

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Top Poll Apps for Webex

Zonka Feedback

Polls are an excellent way to know the opinions of other persons, especially when you have a large pool audience. When we talk about online meetings and web conferences, it becomes an even more effective way to establish good communication and engagement during online sessions.

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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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3 Tips To Move One Millimeter Forward Together

One Millimeter Mindset

As you and I enjoy the remaining days of 2021, I offer you these three tips to reflect on as we move one millimeter forward together into the new year. Cut yourself some slack. Do you realize your inner critic holds you back instead of allowing you to move one millimeter forward towards where you really need to go? Is that critic (still) telling you that you are not perfect?

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Amazing Business Radio: Dan Hill

ShepHyken

Customer Service Avoidance. How CX Avoidance Impacts Customers, Employees, and Brands. Shep Hyken interviews Dan Hill, founder of Sensory Logic, Inc. and a pioneer of using facial coding in business to capture and quantify consumer responses. He is the author of nine books including his latest, Blah, Blah, Blah: A Snarky Guide to Office Lingo. They discuss how to use technology and staff the customer service department to be effective throughout the entire customer journey.

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Consumer expectations are defined by the private sector. Here’s why that’s important to your agency

NICE inContact

Going digital requires an uplevel in agent skills. Download "New Agent Training Tips for Today’s Digital World" for useful information about preparing your agents for your digital transformation.

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3 Ways to Win the Technology Tug-of-War

CSM Magazine

In a digital-first era, how do organisations show customers they care? Ross Daniels at Calabrio has a simple but effective checklist to humanise the customer experience using the latest tech innovations. In our last blog, we revealed how customers crave speed, convenience and emotional empathy when interacting with their favourite brands, a paradox that threatens the status quo of today’s contact centre.

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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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4 CX Trends that Will Shape Customer Experiences in 2022

Cyara

Digital transformation is permanently changing customer experience. The past few years have ushered in rapid shifts in the world of customer experience. The pandemic brought sweeping changes to the way businesses interact with their customers and altered consumer expectations in dramatic ways. The wheels that have been set in motion aren’t likely to slow down anytime soon, either.

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Everything You Need To Know About User Adoption

CustomerSuccessBox

For B2B SaaS companies, user adoption is one of the most important elements of sustainable growth. The time to first value or core value of the product was found to be the most important metric for SaaS growth. Research suggested that a 25% better time to value increase MRR by 9.3% more than the same increase in acquisition and 3.3% more than the increase in retention.

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Top 5 ChurnZero Webinars from 2021 to Watch and Share

ChurnZero

Over the last year we’ve created and shared a lot of new content with our Churn Fighting audience that we’re really proud of and have received positive feedback on, especially our thought leadership webinar content. But we know it’s not likely that you were able to catch it all as its been a whirlwind of a year. So instead of living with FOMO, we’re bringing you a recap of the top webinars you all enjoyed the most from us this year.

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PCI Pal Provides Secure, Compliant Payments for Talkdesk Global Customers

CSM Magazine

Joint Talkdesk and PCI Pal customer relationships expand to include Air Business, Metabolic Living, Resideo, Scotts, Tucows, and Weekendesk. PCI Pal , the global provider of secure payment solutions, is working closely with Talkdesk , the global customer experience leader for customer-obsessed companies, to provide a growing list of customers with innovative customer service and security capabilities.

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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.