InMoment XI

MARCH 4, 2022

One tool is practically synonymous with the customer experience (CX) industry: surveys. Since the inception of the industry, targeted surveys have been seen as a foundational listening and research tool that leverages strategic questions to collect data from a specific group of customers. Sending out a targeted survey is the first step to improving customer experiences, employee experiences, and even the bottom line.

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Alida

MARCH 3, 2022

In 2020, every person generated 1.7 megabytes per second. And a lot of that data could be used by businesses to create better products and provide a better overall customer experience for their audience.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 2, 2022

Never being late … that’s not realistic. It’s going to happen. It’s not a question of if. It’s when. . But you might say, “It’s not my fault!” And maybe it’s not. For example, you may be driving to a lunch meeting, and a car accident shuts down the highway making you. And it’s not just about arriving late to a commitment. It could be a delay in shipping a product.

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CSM Magazine

MARCH 1, 2022

The trading environment in the past year has been challenging for retailers and has also reinforced the opportunity for retailers to completely rethink their operations to deliver seamless customer experiences. Carmen Carey, CEO of Sorted , explains. What’s become clear is that customers hold the power. Brands need to be aligning to the preference of the consumer, not the other way round.

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InMoment XI

MARCH 3, 2022

Here’s a difficult truth you may be facing: “my customer experience (CX) program is just not moving the needle.” Whether it’s an inability to prove CX value or a lack of recognition for your improvement efforts, it’s a scary realization to have. At the same time, it’s also an opportunity for you to reassess and, more importantly, transform. The beginning of a true CX transformation journey starts with facing the reality that your old ways of approaching experiences might not be the best—and bein

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Totango

MARCH 4, 2022

B2B customer service is often confused with B2B customer success, but they are not the same. Despite their differences, however, they do share an intimate relationship – you need strong customer service to achieve customer success. In this article, we’ll take a look at the relationship between these two important ingredients for a successful SaaS business model.

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CSM Magazine

MARCH 3, 2022

A key to retaining your existing business, growing your brand, and attracting new business is keeping your customers happy. Brian Tuite of Zenarate reveals new technologies that will help improve customer service. HubSpot says 80 percent of customers reported that they have stopped doing business with a company due to a poor customer experience. Customer service agents are a company’s most important asset to keeping customers pleased.

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InMoment XI

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Whether you’re just getting started on your customer experience (CX) initiative or hitting pause to see how things are going, the term “ customer experience governance ” is probably something you hear your team bring up all the time. You probably also already know that customer experience governance refers to the system that sends insights to where they need to go and that holds certain team members accountable for different aspects of your initiative.

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Gainsight

MARCH 3, 2022

A single strand of rope can get the job done, but a triple-stranded rope is practically unbreakable. That is how you should think about complementary platforms and tools for your business. As stand-alone solutions, they are necessary. Together they can improve your processes, practices, gain insight into your customers, and scale your company. . Now consider this: what if each of those tools is also best in class?

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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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ChurnZero

MARCH 3, 2022

As Customer Success professionals you might find yourself building out something completely new at your organization, or just trying to break the status quo on what’s been done in order to help drive growth and expansion for your SaaS organization. All of these things are hard. That’s why its useful to look to others in the industry to provide advice and resources to guide you along the way.

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CSM Magazine

MARCH 4, 2022

Intelligent self-service (ISS) experts, 4 Roads , has partnered with the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) to transform its global membership network and knowledge sharing capabilities through a new online community platform built on Verint Community. The Institution of Engineering and Technology is a professional engineering institution which provides support and encourages the exchange of ideas between the global engineering community.

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InMoment XI

MARCH 2, 2022

This article was originally posted on CustomerThink.com. Why Is There An Urgent Need For Companies To Do This Now? Covid-influenced working conditions have contributed to employee disconnection from company culture, disaffection, and even emotional burnout, resulting in high prospective churn rates in many business sectors, i.e. “The Great Resignation”.

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Gainsight

MARCH 4, 2022

In 2020, Gainsight’s Adam Joseph, Regional Vice President EMEA, recorded a series called The GameChanger Podcasts. Adam was joined by several guests from all over the world and all professions, from entry-level CS to CEOs. They discussed the fundamentals of customer success, from workflows and processes to startups and enterprise business. But as the COVID-19 pandemic entered the scene, Adam was moved to explore more diverse subject matters that were topical, such as mental health, family

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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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ChurnZero

MARCH 4, 2022

If you’ve clicked through to read this article, then you’re probably wondering, “what the heck is a force field analysis, anyway?” Though it sounds like the stuff of science fiction, we can assure you that a force field analysis has many practical applications that are firmly based in our current reality. So, while this article won’t tell you how to build a force field – sorry to disappoint, there’s a reason we’re in the SaaS business and not modern physics after all – it does share how Amy Mann

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Steve DiGioia

MARCH 3, 2022

Ladies and gentlemen don’t speak ill of their competition. That’s not how it was done years ago, and they refuse to do so today. Competition is a healthy part of business; it makes you better, stronger – just as with most other hardships. Have a Reason to Smile. When a customer comes into your business complaining about your competition, don’t get dragged into a finger-pointing festival.

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Playvox

MARCH 1, 2022

If your contact center doesn’t have effective eLearning capabilities, you’re missing an opportunity to optimize agent performance. One of the biggest training challenges contact centers face is keeping agents’ skills sharp following onboarding. New hire training is typically thorough enough to get agents up and running, but what about ongoing training that reinforces skills and keeps contact center agents aligned with business goals?

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ShepHyken

MARCH 4, 2022

This week we feature an article by Mike Macpherson, Director of Sales and Marketing for VBO Tickets , a global provider of a total ticketing engagement solution. He shares how organizations can deliver a total customer experience. What is the total customer experience? Customer obsessive, customer-focused, customer-centric, the idea is to take customer service to a higher level.

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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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Brandwatch CX

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

A few years ago our then-intern (and now Product Marketing Manager) Phill Agnew was let loose on our Brandwatch Twitter account. At the time we were promoting a guide on community management, and he took a rather interesting approach on the wording of the social post. We awoke the day after promoting the guide to a number of angry replies, accusing us of being rude and disparaging.

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kommunicate

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Last Updated on February 26, 2022 Customer service has always been important, but as the economy becomes more competitive, it is even more important that clients have a smooth interaction with your company. That’s the only way to retain customers and continue to grow in this economic climate. Making sure customers have an amazing interaction [.]. The post Chatbots vs.

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Doing CX Right

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Howard Tiersky, author of Winning Digital Customers, shares how to drive customer behaviors, earn their love and emotional commitment to maximize your competitiveness. The post Influencing Desirable Customer Behaviors Through Experience Management appeared first on Doing CX Right.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

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. It’s Time to Change How We Build Companies & Brands by Chris Malone. (Fidelum Partners) As the COVID-19 pandemic subsides, we need to change the way we think about and build companies, brands and customer relationships.

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Lithium

MARCH 1, 2022

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to watch my niece’s cheerleading championship. First, these are frightening to watch when someone you love is ‘in the game’. The tosses, flips, and catches keep you at the edge of your seat with ‘91’ punched into your cell phone. Second, you realize very quickly the power of having someone on your side, shouting out your name, and proudly sporting your colors.

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Gainsight

MARCH 2, 2022

One of the biggest—and most encouraging—trends we’ve seen over the past 18 months is that companies are no longer lavishing their customer success investments only on their highest-roller enterprise customers. . More and more businesses are realizing that taking care of all of their customers reaps huge dividends. But doing that at scale isn’t for the faint of heart.

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Blueshift

MARCH 2, 2022

Trigger-based marketing is kind of a big deal — which is why it was the focus of Blueshift’s benchmark report last year. As opposed to batch sends, triggered campaigns allow marketers to tailor communications to customers based on real-time data. The post Which Are Superior: Triggered Cross-Channel Campaigns or Single-Channel? appeared first on Blueshift.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 1, 2022

Does Your Frontline Team Believe in Your Brand? The Gap Between Your Marketing Message and Frontline Teams. Shep Hyken interviews Chris Wallace, Co-Founder and President of InnerView , a marketing consulting firm that helps companies align their brand and product stories with their customer-facing teams. They discuss the importance of a two-way dialogue between the marketing department and your frontline teams.

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